Chiyogami: A highly decorative type of Washi paper (和紙, Washi or Wagami? literally, “Japanese paper”) printed paper used for craft purposes. It was originally printed with wood blocks but now other printing methods such as silk screening are used. Many of the traditional designs can be traced back to the Edo period.

Here are 21 gorgeous and colorful backgrounds free for personal use taken from Flickr. Most of them are from the Chiyogami Monday group. For download and information on license and attribution, please click on the thumbnails.

Beauty is a Photoshop product. Now days you can’t see a photograph, without wonder if it has been “photoshoped” or not. Some end results are really plausible other not that much.

Here are 6 before and after extreme makeover videos using Photoshop.

Foto by Retinafunk



“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” –H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

Think out of the box! It’s a buzzword we continuously hear, but not always meditate on its the practical meaning.

What does that really means?

Thinking inside the box means take for granted the status quo

status quo: The existing state of things; leaving things as they are without modification or alteration. “Things” can be anything from visitation arrangements to property rights. www.brandeslaw.com/Legal_dictionary/legal.htm

For example, the opening quote of this article. At that time (1927) silent film was the way the world watched cinema. It may sound ridiculous now how somebody could say something like that. But we could have just about the same reaction in 1990 if someone told us that in the future we would buy merchandise on virtual place named after a South American rain forest using an international computer network.