Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Harnessing your creativity – the Eminem hypothesis
Do you ever find yourself staring into space when you’re conceptualizing a design or in the middle of writing an article? I’m sure that some of us get into some form of creative block every now and then. There are people who don’t, apparently their creative juices just keeps on flowing like a natural spring…
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27 FREE Assorted Textures for photoshop
Texture plays a big part of graphic *slash web design and sometimes even photography work, yes siree! From enhancing a background to becoming the background, textures takes on a very important role for some of our projects. That’s why aside from a library of stock images and photos most web and graphic designers and yes…
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Party balloon tutorial @photoshopmag.net
Latest Update: It was just another ordinary day at Prodigal Concepts but with an itsy, bitsy, teeny weeny little update. One of my articles just got published in www.photoshopmag.net Woohooo! Thanks guys. photoshopmag.net is web magazine from Poland that focuses on design and all things Photoshop. The article of note was the one I wrote…
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How to make money on the internet
I know that this topic has been completely covered on all major platforms and publications since the beginning of time (world wide web time that is). So I guess this article should have been properly titled as “How to earn money on the internet + through the eyes of a noob”. Yup I’m a newbie…
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Jim Faustino’s wonderful toy sculptures
No matter how old we get we never forget our love for toys, creative folks and especially young professionals can be seen inside their favorite toy shops on the weekends (or after work) to ogle at the new released action figure. And they’re not scouting the premises to buy that shiny new toy for their…
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Johann Bodin’s magic cards and illustrations
Anyone familiar with “Magic Cards” knows that a lot of talent goes into the design of a single card. And I’m not talking about those David Blaine or Criss Angel types of magic cards that disappear in front of your face. What we have is commonly known as Magic: The Gathering or just Magic and…
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ElectroLychee Studio | Manila
Last week we had some visually appetizing sets with Serial Cut Studio | Madrid a company who collaborates with the best of the best the industry has to offer from photography, design, motion-graphics and 3D. Today were hitting closer to home with the dynamic duo of ElectroLychee direct from the Philippines. Individually they are Marcushiro…
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Serial Cut | Image Makers since ’99
Since the conception of prodigalconcepts.com I have been regularly casting out my proverbial net far and wide for inspirational materials and resources to share with the community. We are so lucky to be in an industry where talent seems to be infinite; as a result inspiration is endless. You just have to know where to…
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Elpinoy Chester Ocampo’s Awesome Illustrations
I’ve featured a few articles on illustrators and their illustrations since I started prodigalconcepts.com. Graphic illustrations are manifestations of all the youthful imaginations we have as kids. Having them realized in print and digital form just makes it more enjoyable. Just like magic coming to life, it’s exciting. And with all the great artists out…
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LOST – the animated series by Michael Myers at Behance
I’m a big huge LOST (T.V. series) fan even from the very beginning, so when they aired the final episode last May 23, 2010 it was a bittersweet moment for me, just like losing a long time friend. I got to know the back-story for each of the main characters like Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke,…
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