This means there are two pictures being displayed every second. I am providing this alternate videos since folks asked for them. Go into the post to see the video! Read the rest of this entry »

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This means there are four pictures being displayed every second. I am providing this alternate videos since folks asked for them. Go into the post to see the video! Read the rest of this entry »

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All you stay-at-home parents can probably relate – when Matt comes home at the end of the day, I have a sudden urge to talk his ear off and tell him everything that Ella (& I) did that day. Now, part of that is a desire to talk to an adult, but it’s really because I want him to stay connected to her everyday goings-on.

So, when a friend mentioned this idea to me recently, it struck a cord with me – and I thought some of you might want to give it a try, too. Read the rest of this entry »

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Love Double Bluff dog beach on Whidbey Island. We made a road trip up there one day with four dogs, and they sure had fun.

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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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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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