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About Stephen

Stephen Bolen is a 32 year old User Experience Designer and Website Developer from St. Louis, Missouri. Feel free to read more about Stephen, or Hire Stephen. He won't bite.

Adobe Creative Suite 6 Splash Screens

I just installed Adobe Creative Suite (CS) 6 Design Premium on my work iMac. The Splash screens – unlike the application icons – are beautiful.

Here they are:
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Splash Screen

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Splash Screen

Adobe Fireworks CS6 Splash Screen

Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 Splash Screen

Adobe

President Obama supports same-sex marriage

Fantastic, Mr. President. Bravo.

Read all about it in the New York Times:

“President Obama’s words today will be celebrated by generations to come,” said Chad Griffin, the incoming president of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay advocacy group. “For the millions of young gay and lesbian Americans across this nation, President Obama’s words provide genuine hope that they will be the first generation to grow up with the freedom to fully pursue the American dream. Marriage — the promise of love, companionship, and family — is basic to the pursuit of that dream.”

Spotify for iPad

FINALLY.

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Epix HD Suggestion Fail

So, having just created an account, I wonder what kind of movies they have on EpixHD? Oh! Look! Suggestions — Star Trek, Crank, an Eddie Murphy flick, PRISON GIRLS (WTF?), Black Water and STILETTO JUSTICE. Oh, my.

Epix HD Fail

Dirty Projectors – The Gun Has No Trigger

I’m not 100% sure what rules are in play for crowning album of the year – espeically when the only thing that’s been released from said album is a single. BUT, if I may, even without hearing the other tracks on the album, just go ahead and say that it’ll be damn hard to top the July release of the Dirty Projectors’ Swing Lo Magellan.

Now, I’m basing this off of two main factors:

  • First, my undying love of 2009′s Bitte Orca. I swear, if it was a cassette tape, I would have worn out two copies by now, easy.
  • This track (below) ripped my face off.

With the Dirty Projectors/David Longstreth, there’s really no gray area: you either love them, or you just don’t get them. I happen to fall in the former, and can’t wait to pick up this album when it drops in the U.S. on July 10.

Devin – Masochist

Frenchkiss Records always has the best jams. I’m sure this track will be making the cut on a lot of summer playlists…

Busdriver live on KDHX

I was an instant fan of Busdriver when I heard the track Nagging Nimbus on the album Cosmic Cleavage. This was further solidified with subsequent releases from Busdriver – Temporary Forever, RoadKill Overcoat, Jhelli Beam, et cetera. It’s truly one of those things that you just have to hear to believe – amazing flow, quick verses, amazingly literate wordplay… in short, it’s just, well, fun.

So, imagine my surprise when I found out that Busdriver was leaving SoCal to tour in support of his new album, Beaus$Euros, and one of the stops was in St. Louis… but, sadly, the show fell during a period of heavy freelance work. With deadlines, I couldn’t make it out. Oh, well. Shit happens, right?

Well, ENTER KDHX. They managed to bring Busdriver in studio for a live performance and pumped the jams on KDHX.org.

Enjoy!

Some nights you win the World Series video

What an awesome video. They played this at Opening Day this year on the Jumbotron. :)

Some nights you win the World Series… from Matt Shead on Vimeo.

Where do I find this food truck?

Seriously. Greek food truck. In St. Louis.

Sign me up!

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Bottles

I missed World Whiskey Day. Oh, well. Still plenty of time to knock these guys back…

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