Mike Milo’s Journal

The Worlds Shortest Books
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THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY COUNTRY
by Jane Fonda & Cindy Sheehan.
Illustrated  by Michael Moore
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MY CHRISTIAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS &
HOW I HELPED AFTER  KATRINA
by Rev Jesse Jackson & Rev Al Sharpton
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THINGS I  LOVE ABOUT BILL
by Hillary Clinton
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Sequel:
THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HILLARY
By Bill  Clinton
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MY LITTLE BOOK OF PERSONAL HYGIENE
by Osama Bin Laden
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THINGS I  CANNOT AFFORD
by Bill Gates

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THINGS I  WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY
by Dennis Rodman
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THINGS WE KNOW TO BE TRUE
by Al Gore & John Kerry
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AMELIA EARHART’S GUIDE TO THE PACIFIC

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A COLLECTION of MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES
by Dr. J.. Kevorkian
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ALL THE MEN WE HAVE LOVED, BEFORE ….
by Ellen de Generes & Rosie O’Donnel
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GUIDE TO DATING ETIQUETTE
by Mike Tyson
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THE AMISH  PHONE DIRECTORY
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MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS
by O. J. Simpson
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HOW TO DRINK & DRIVE OVER BRIDGES
by Ted Kennedy
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MY BOOK OF MORALS
by Bill Clinton with introduction
by the Rev. Jesse Jackson
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AND, JUST ADDED:
Complete Knowledge of Military Strategy!
By Nancy  Pelosi

After being interviewed by the school administration, the prospective teacher said:
‘Let me see if I’ve got this right.
‘You want me to go into that room with all those kids, correct their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse, monitor their dress habits, censor their T-shirt messages, and instill in them a love for learning.
‘You want me to check their backpacks for weapons, wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and raise their sense of self esteem and personal pride.
‘You want me to teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and how to register to vote, balance a checkbook, and apply for a job.
‘You want me to check their heads for lice, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, and make sure that they all pass the final exams.
‘You also want me to provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicaps, and communicate regularly with their parents in English, Spanish or any other language, by letter, telephone, newsletter, and report card.
‘You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, a bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a starting salary that qualifies me for food stamps.
‘You want me to do all this and then you tell me. . . I CAN’T PRAY!!!”

Yeah it’s been a while since I added a real post of any substance other than jokes and mostly it’s because I’ve been really busy trying to stay afloat with full time freelance instead of the typical 9-5 animation job since I finished at Cartoon Network back in May. I’ve had a number of small jobs but the coolest was for a sweet shop in Greece. Unfortunately I’m not allowed to show the art for it until I get approval. Also I have done a fair amount of design work for Fox21 which is a subdivision of Fox catering to the college set.

Below is some work from that show…

Rough designs ideas:

Final Designs

Over the years I have had many instances where I have created vector art in Adobe Flash simply because I hate Illustrator’s interface. Unfortunately  if the art is for print media, eventually I will have to export the art out as either an .ai or an .eps file.

Herein typically lies the trouble.

The internet is littered with posts from people (even on the Adobe site itself) complaining of this well known problem.

The workflow is as follows:

• You draw something in Flash.
• You want to export that thing out to Illustrator as a vector file
• You go to Export>Image>Export as Ai> export as AI v6
• You scream and cry because when you open your exported file it’s been converted to CMYK colors instead of RGB!
• Nothing will convert it to RGB despite many attempts to change the Document Color mode or changing the Color Management. There are no color export settings for Flash.
• You hang your head and cry.

Ah, but there is a solution! It takes a few steps to do but it’s worth it!

The workflow is as follows:

• Draw the Mona Lisa in Flash
• export as an EPS
• What’s that you say? There is a pixel shift in your exported file creating horizontal white lines across your character or art?
• No worries, there’s a fix for that too!
• Select all of you art and then select the Live Paint bucket.
• Click on your art and Illustrator will convert the file to a Live Paint object.
• Now you will notice that your white lines have disappeared!
• rejoice that you have foundeth this here blog!

Shame on you Adobe… you can easily fix this and yet each version that comes out you ignore it. What happened to your great company? you’ve become as fat and bloated as Microsoft witht eh right hand not knowing (or caring) what the left hand is doing!

Shame! Shame! Shame!