Business
Old Spice adds New Spice
ABC News and the media stole my thunder. I was planning on posting on the recent Old Spice commercials and how they add new spice TV commercial ads as well as their artistic creativity. But a funny and coincidental, thing happened along the way, Isaiah Mustafa, the actor who portrays the “Old Spice Guy,” was interviewed on Good Morning America last Thursday and then reported on again on ABC Nightly news on Friday, which stated that he was “hanging up the towel,” so to speak — and ending his gig with Old Spice. My guess is that he’s moving on to bigger and better things. After over 13 million hits…
Asking Price
Can murals increase the chance that you might receive the asking price sale on your expensive condo? Maybe so — at least for Rush Limbaugh. He bought his apartment for $5 million in 1994 and he received just below the asking price recently on his $12.95 million dollar Fifth Avenue, NYC condo. He had put it up for sale in February for $13.95 million and then lowered the price to $12.95. The contract was said to have been for $11 million but there will also be heavy closing and transfer taxes involved for both NYC and NY state. Limbaugh has moved to Florida to escape the high NY taxes. Florida…
Photopainting
I've been experimenting a lot with Photoshop lately as I purchased a Wacom pen tablet. This enables me to draw right into the program. It doesn't feel natural to me yet and doesn't quite give the look that I would like to achieve that I am used to from traditional painting but it does allow tremendous versatility and can separate the image into layers as it is created and these layers can be custom manipulated with color and just about anything else that produces multiple variations. It all takes practice and lots of it. As seen in these examples, for which I now have such a greater appreciation — knowing…
