Hey there readers! Hope you all had a great weekend. This past week was very exciting for GrandmasterB as I finally managed to get not one, but two of my tutorials published on Pixel2Life. I was beginning to wonder if it was ever going to happen, but it finally did and the results were amazing! I spent a great deal of time last week busting my hump at the office working on a new advertisement that will be appearing in the August issue of ACCESS DIRECTV. The ad was approved late last week and is already off to the publisher. Once I have a copy of the magazine in my hot little hands I will publish some pictures and let you all know where it appears.

Aside from all of the hullabaloo at the office, I spent some more quality time with the new MrPappagiorgio.com theme and I think that I have finally nailed down a solid look that is sure to impress. If time permits, I should be done within the next two weeks…that is if I don’t get carried away this Fourth of July weekend with the festivities. I’m also in the process of putting together a new tutorial to be published soon along with some Grunge RSS Feed Icons. Other than that it has been business as usual at GrandmasterB HQ. With all of the upcoming news out of the way…onto the review.

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I had the pleasure of taking my two boys to see WALL•E yesterday, and I must say I was thoroughly impressed. I’ve never been disappointed by a Pixar film, and WALL•E was no different. The movie’s main character is a robot that is put to the task of cleaning up the Earth while all of the humans have fled the planet aboard what could be described as a huge space cruise ship. While the planet is being cleaned up the humans have spent the past 700 years waiting for signs of plant life to return along with becoming extremely obese.

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I am usually not too big on picking up graphic design magazines, because a lot of times they’re really not worth the price you pay. Another reason is that for some reason American magazine publishers don’t seem to put many out, that are very helpful. After seeing that one of my favorite design houses, GoMedia was being featured in the latest issue of Advanced Photoshop Magazine I figured I would check it out.

I went over to the local Borders bookstore and after walking around the store for ten minutes (it’s a new store and it’s huge), I finally found the magazine rack. My first impression of the magazine was that it’s designed well and definitely gets the readers attention with the bright cover art. The other thing that caught my attention was the sticker price. Each issue of the magazine runs £6.00, but with the markup and the exchange rate it was $15.50 USD. I immediately thought “this magazine is going back on the rack for the next sucker”, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to give it a free browse in store.

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I apologize to all of my readers for the site being down earlier this morning. Apparently, the MySQL server took a dump due to someone having far too many connections. The activity caused the server to take a dump and dropped service to the blog. I am hoping that the offending party has or will be reprimanded and dealt with swiftly.

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GrandmasterB has finally made the front page of Pixel2Life! After publishing the Killer Metallic Text Tutorial, I decided to submit it to Pixel2Life and to Tutorialized. After weeks of playing the waiting game, I was finally emailed this morning notifying me that the tutorial had been accepted. If you’d like to check out the placement you can see it on the front page or go under Photoshop > Text Effects.

After receiving the news this morning I decided to submit the Custom RSS Feed Icons tutorial. I’m sure they get bombarded daily with tutorials, but hopefully we’ll see it get approved by mid-July. Thanks Pixel2Life!

~ GrandmasterB

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