Archive for June 19th, 2008

Did you miss breakfast? No problem, head over to Flakes!

Flakes - movie coverWe are a nation lacking sleep.  I would rather sleep that extra 15 minutes than eat breakfast.  Do you eat breakfast?  If your like me, then you probably miss the most important meal of the day, EVERY DAY!  (The whole sleep topic will be discussed in another post)  So why do we leave out this most important meal of our day to get our day started?  I don’t have an answer to that but I do have an answer for having breakfast.

I recently watched a movie called ‘Flakes’, it is a comedy love story trying to over come all odds.  Go rent it, its a pretty good movie.  I found the most interesting part of the movie was the business concept on a breakfast store serving ONLY cereal.  So simple yet how come there aren’t franchises yet?  This is the next business opportunity that could explode like what Starbucks did for coffee.  Coffee was something you could have prepared to drink at home, at the office or picked up at any mom & pop donut store.  Starbucks took coffee to the next level; offering multitude of choices and alternatives.  From cappuccinos, lattes, frappacinos to now even iced tea varieties.  The pure convenience of having coffee anytime of day to any where you live and marketing it as the trendy thing to do became a phenomenal money maker.  No more is coffee constrained for the morning or the typical sleep depraved coffee fanatic.  It is available to all!  Worse of all, coffee is not even supposed to be healthy for you.

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The subtle retouch can add a lot of character

Sometimes you find an image that needs little a work and I figured this would be a fun one because what can be done should be subtle. The girl in the image has great features and amazing eyes; but it is a bit dark. I tried to just clean it up a bit and add a bit more color to it.

The changes are minimal but the overall feel is considerably more vibrant. The little fixes made this quick snapshot photo of her almost professional. Take a look at the before and after photos and let me know what you think.

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Broken Sasha, need repair for the machine

Its been two days since the Los Angeles Lakers lost in the NBA finals.

My feelings are that the Lakers gave up.  They never had any sort of control in any of the games.  No rebounds, reactive defense and no effort.

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