Took the day off, Anita and I went to the de Young Museum to see “Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Beyond.” A day well spent. Not everyday you get to hang out with the likes of Van Gogh. Never been a big fan of Post-Impressionist, but you have to take the opportunity to see these works of art in real life. Sad thing is that the exhibit ends today. We also had time to see the other works of art in the permanent collection. Going to galleries is something I need to do more often. Just get those creative juices flowing.

Took a little point and shoot camera with us. Even though you couldn’t take pictures of the special exhibit, there is always something in San Francisco to snap a photo or two. Here is an image I took right at the entrance to the museum. Little photoshop to add film grain and convert to black and white. This image just begged to be played with. I did two thing to manipulate the image: I mirrored the original photo in one example, and pasted the image on top of itself and slid it to the right in the other example.

It was nice to have a week off during the holidays. Did a little work on my design website, Izzomac.com. The site evolves. It’s my playground, a place I try new ideas. Hopefully, the new year will bring lots of exciting changes. The web never stands still.

Happy New Year!

I really like using jQuery. So far I’ve found some really nice solutions for sliding feature items. I’m using the Beautiful Slider example I found at dreamcss.com on most of my online design portfolio pages. I wanted to change the pace a little on a couple sections so I implemented the jQuery 3D Cloud Carousel plugin with image lightbox. See below: