Custom 800 Numbers Provide Clear Channel Outdoor Reps With Lead-Generation and Call Analytics For Their Clients.
With industry experts reporting that outdoor advertising is the second growing advertising medium, the world’s largest outdoor advertising company Clear Channel Outdoor recently partnered with 800response (which provides high quality inventory of custom 800 numbers) to offer effective direct-response tools to out-of-home advertisers.

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Michael Orwick and daughter Elena.

Artist Michael Orwick Combines Pictorial Storytelling With A Hauntingly Familiar World. “There is a reason we are drawn toward beauty, it is the language of God and nature. To me there is nothing more provocative than beauty, it inspires deep reflection and motivates me to create,” says Oregon artist Michael Orwick. “I mix from a primary color palette, painting wet into wet and with layers, to both reveal and hide what lies behind; in this way I entice you into the painting. I love it when people share the feeling and stories my paintings evoked.”

Michael Orwick is an award-winning artist who utilizes strong lights and darks, along with a simple color pallette, to create unique tales where the viewer infers distinctive yet universal stories. Continue reading >>

Award-winning mixed-media artist Artist McKenzie, who is known for her efforts to raise awareness and funds for causes close to her heart, is hoping to raise funds to help the family of Huntsville, Alabama police officer William Freeman who was shot and killed by a drunk driver on December 14.

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January 28, 2008

Marketing Industry’s Award For Small & Mid-Size Agencies Seeks To Honor Most Creative Works Found Worldwide.

Entries are now being accepted for the 2008 Summit Creative Award competition, announced the Summit International Awards. Open exclusively to small and mid-size advertising and public relations agencies, advertisers, video, graphic and multimedia companies as well as other creative firms with annual billings of less than $30 million, the Summit Creative Award will be given in 21 categories. Deadline for entries is January 28.

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This was sent to me on my MySpace page. Thanks Wendy.

A new social networking website created for artists and art enthusiasts has gone online earlier this month. Created by three entrepreneurs from Minneapolis, Aenvia.com was launched built on an idea for an online art venue with a simple goal in mind: to create a web-based art gallery oriented toward artists.

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A very simple Photoshop tutorial showing you how to make a reflective text effect.

For this tutorial we will be starting a new file. Set up the new file with a size of 200 x 200 pixels and a resolution of 300 dpi. Now fill the background layer with “black.”

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Production company’s logo shown at end of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show tells people that they are “Number One.”
If you watched the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show last week and stuck around until the end, you would have also seen the logo for the production company responsible for the telecast. The logo flashed on the screen for only a few seconds, and its appearance was similar to a very famous American gestured icon.

I actually missed the show itself, completely forgetting it was on. However, while I was channel flipping I stopped on CBS just in time to see the logo. I would put up a link to the logo which would make this easier to describe what I saw, I just can’t find it. I believe the production company was known as Dunn and Dusted. However, when I saw the logo I flipped and just saw the name very briefly.

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In this tutorial, we will discuss creating a stylized torn page effect in Adobe Photoshop. In this tutorial we will assume that you know the basics of Photoshop. 

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Claudia Roberts of Commerce, TX realized that quitting her job to become a work at home mom (WAHM) was not going to be as easy as she originally thought. Working together with other WAHMs, Roberts developed an idea to help solve this same problem that so many work at home mothers were facing. Her idea flourished into a giant directory of websites belonging to mom owned businesses. The directory can be found at Haleyna.com.

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