I’ve been playing with various photographic effects and grunging them up for the new jazzsequence.com design, particularly the headers and post thumbnails.  So, it was with those techniques at my fingertips and on my mind that I approached these two wood textures from an upcoming texture pack to create this month’s wallpaper.  And since we were having so much fun, we created two wallpapers this month. Each wallpaper comes in calendar, non-calendar, Twitter, iPad and iPhone variations in the following sizes: Widescreen 1920×1200 1680×1050 1440×900 Standard 1600×1200 1280×960 1152×864 iPad 768×1024 iPhone 320×480 Twitter 1920×1200 (optimized to <800k) Download August Deadwood 23.84MB downloaded 653 times Mirror site (customize.org)

meanwhile, in Japan…

Tiles: In the eyes of Children by *MacDoninri on deviantART

This is about a week old, but I’m just getting to last week’s Digg Digest now… Undercover Karaoke with Jewel from Jewel

This completely made my night.  Wish it was a real film. Hat tip to @allisonr via @SusanVLewis, but you can also read about it on @Mashable: “Jane Austen’s Fight Club” Fake Trailer Goes Viral [VIDEO]… It does raise an interesting question: the people who don’t think this is funny (or, alternately, bloody brilliant), are they unfamiliar with Fight […]

I had an idea the other night that has stuck and won’t go away.  It’s a concept for a role playing game called The Long Con. It’s based, in part, on the BBC TV series Hustle, which is about a team of grifters who practice “the long con.”  Unlike short cons, your standard street cons, […]

This Blogger template, Striking Resemblance, uses real cloth textures and objects to create a lovely backdrop to your blog. It’s a little bit antique, a little bit modern and completely full of charm. Striking Resemblance uses a rich palette of turqoise and fuschias to lend invitation to the luxurious knit and woven textures and uses… (read more) You might also be interested in these: Last Bit of Summer Stars n’ Stripes dear Audrey

Update 7/22/2010: Thesis adopts the GPL! Over the last few days, the WordPress community has exploded into debate over one thing: Thesis and it’s restrictive, non-GPL-compliant license.  If you’re already familiar with the particulars of what Thesis is and what the debate is, you can skip the summary (to be honest, I’m sick of reading… (read more) You might also be interested in these: Gee, there’s a thought… How to upgrade your Museum Theme to the most current version after you’ve made changes to the files 12 Free WordPress Themes I Like (and you should, too)

This is a texture pack of high-quality images of interesting nature textures.  This set continues where our last one left off, adding dirt, wood, vines and leaves to your arsenal. All our textures are released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attributio…

That’s one of the questions we’ll be asking at Utah WordCamp 2010, and to help us answer that question (or even figure out what it means), we’ve invited Tom Dickson.  (Yes, that guy.)  The question: Does WordPress blend? Excited? Intrigued?  Curious?  Completely baffled?  Find out if WordPress blends by grabbing your tickets right now! In […]

Middle Name: Danger is the brother to Baby SweetTooth.  It’s got the same magazine-style layout and multiple widgetized sidebars with optional video embed and FeedBurner integration.  In fact, everything cool about Baby SweetTooth is there in Middle Name: Danger, the only difference is the boy colors vs. the pink and brown in SweetTooth.  Whereas Baby… (read more) You might also be interested in these: Baby SweetTooth erin’s sketchbook Color Garden

Tickets are now available for Utah WordCamp 2010.  Register for WordCamp Utah for only 20 bucks (plus Eventbrite fees) and spend the day with other bloggers, developers, geniuses, newbies and fanatics and help support the awesome WordPress community. You can also follow us on Twitter for news and updates.  We can’t wait to see you […]