Create retro-style text in illustrator.

For the logo that I needed for my 100 days project, I wanted a truly 80's vibe.  I love how easy it is to create an retro 80's chrome text effect with Illustrator. In fact, I loved it so much I thought that I'd share how you can go about making one of these yourself.   I hope you enjoy this walk-through.....

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Decided to do it... Again...

The 100 days project is back, in about 2 weeks time.  As I did in 2014 (given it didn't run in 2015) I've decided on yet another 80's themed challenge but this time leave it more open then a 3D image from an 80's 8-bit memory as was the case in 2014... I've entitled it the "80's days challenge".  We'll see how it goes - and I'll post up anything I do that I think may be of interest her...

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Fixing a sticky stick...

As you may have seen in a previous post on the blog, I bought an old Atari 2600 a while back. It came with two sticks.  One looked in better condition then the other, however while it may have looked better, it was actually a lot worse then it looked in terms of play-ability. After a few rounds of River Raid, I found having to push extremely heavily to get a reaction out of the game indicated that perhaps the contacts in the joystick had...

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