This idea is certainly not new…custom t-shirts with iron-on letters have been around for a few decades. But you can do so much more, so easily, with digital images!

CafePress.com is probably the most popular site around for these kind of projects, and having just set up a store myself I can tell you it’s really easy to do. If you’re only ordering your own design (there’s no minimum order), and not offering it for sale, it’s even easier. There are tons of sites out there that offer this service (just search for ‘custom t-shirts’ to check) – if you know of some good ones, please let us know about them! Read the rest of this entry »

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Since we posted the video on digg.com and video.google.com, it’s been noticed and written about by blogs around the globe. We’ve gone international, baby! Check out some screenshots we saved to remember our global fame.

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…or 30 seconds anyway . It turns out we will NOT be on Inside Edition on Friday 8/25 – the piece has been delayed and should be on sometime next week. Check back here for details as soon as we have them.  Update:  We have no idea when it will air…just checked Inside Edition’s web site and there is no mention of it for this week August 28th…

We are currently the second link on the PI’s site http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ and our story lives at this URL:

 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/282607_webpregnancy26.html

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I’ve made fun of bloggers for years saying things like “Oh, I’m going to put that up on my blog” (where the “that” is some mundane minitute you find in life) but now that I have embraced blogging, it’s cool to do so don’t let the stigma of pocket-protecting, high-waisted-pants-wearing, living-in-their-parents’-basement, allegeric-to-light, four-eyed bloggers, keep you from joining the fun (btw, I’ve met two of those criteria in my life).

Blogging is a fun and easy way to keep folks up to date on what is going on with you or your family. I’ve maintained a personal family website since 1997 with photogalleries so that my mom (who lives an ocean away) and other friends and family can see what projects we’ve tackled, what crazy new hairstyle I’m sporting, whether I have a black eye or not, and basically keep them involved in our lives. Read the rest of this entry »

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Here’s a great site for creating a photo book (better than having all your digital photos sitting around on the computer where no one can see them.)

http://www.mypublisher.com/default.php

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The video | Behind the scenes | Carlin’s take | Learn more

Anyway, after we started get major traffic from digg.com and video.google.com (third most popular video on google on 8/9/2006), my good buddy, Drew Angeloff, convinced me I should make a little “The Making of” for folks that wanted a little more info.

I’m not sure when I first came up with the idea to take a sequence of photos to show the change the expectant mother’s body would go through during pregnancy, but I thought it would be cool to see something that normally happens relatively slowly in a compressed time frame…Maybe it was all the Wizard of Speed and Time videos my mom and dad used to play for me when I was kid. I know I had been thinking about it for a couple of years before Carlin got pregnant, though. Once the baby was on the way it was time to get cracking! Read the rest of this entry »

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The video | Behind the scenes | Carlin’s take | Learn more

‘My stretching belly is really the 3rd most popular video on Google?!’

I mean, really, who ever thinks that their little home-movie project will be something that people really want to see, not just be subjected to when they’re over for dinner? When Matt showed me the many comments on digg.com, I just thought it was fun and cool. I certainly never expected that it would rise nearly to the top of Google Video, or that Inside Edition would be interested in airing a story about us!

After the fact was a little late to consider that so many people would be seeing the video, but luckily I’m not really bothered by my belly’s exposure. It’s so interesting to see what really happened to me over those 9 months, and to imagine a little baby getting bigger and bigger as those images go by. Hope you all enjoy it!

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