I don’t have to tell you what’s clogging up the young adult fiction section at Barnes & Nobles these days. Everywhere you turn, there is another display with overloaded stacks of books of teen vampire and werewolf stories. Apparently, they’re selling, and all the publishing houses want in on the profits. Culturally centered media outlets are saying all sorts of things about how this reflects on American youth. It’s assumed the vampire craze is a trend that is repeated every time monsters stories — especially vampire related ones — rise to the forefront of pop culture (as they have in the past with the introduction of classic monster stories like Dracula). Continue reading
Monthly Archives for October 2009
The New E-book Reader: Nook
I haven’t seriously considered e-readers for personal use until now. In this growing market, something that has been lacking is significant competition with the all-too-well-known Amazon Kindle. Now that B&N has joined the market with their new Nook, I think that the power play for market share will seriously increase — and thus improve the over-all quality of the devices to grab the investment of potential e-reader customers. Continue reading
Organic Apple Logo Illustration
I was doodling in Photoshop to see what it would look like if Apple (the computer company, obviously) made their logo organic. I deliberately played down any shine on the texture so they would not look like they were coated in wax. What you see is raw apple skin.
It’s totally inconsequential, but interesting.
