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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

http://www.wordle.net/

From: http://psd.tutsplus.com/freebies/brushes/smoke-brush-set/

21-smoke-brush.zip

and weathered wood brush http://psd.tutsplus.com/freebies/brushes/psdtuts-exclusive-freebie-15-weathered-wood-photoshop-brushes/

Like the other InDesign Trick, but knock out live text to reveal the background image.

1. create a text box, type something in it
2. set the opacity of the text box to zero
3. create another box for it to be knocked out of  (solid color is preferrable)
4.  Group the two objects together, and select ‘knock out group’ from the effects panel
5. the zero opacity text should now be transparent, allowing any background image to show through

via http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/gallery/4/2009/04/medium_3486361470_6a7703c35c_o.jpg

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/476742

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ78WHpGZ1o&eurl=http://boingboing.net/&feature=player_embedded

http://www.redfieldplugins.com/filterWaterRipples.htm

http://www.redfieldplugins.com/filterFractalius.htm

Zak Smith, Shawn Cheng, and Nicholas Di Genova take turns drawing monsters fighting each other… So this is how it works: Zak draws something. Shawn draws something that will fight it. Zak draws his thing fighting back. Shawn draws his thing fighting back and maybe tripping over a statue. Then maybe Zak’s thing kills Shawn’s with the statue’s head. Then Shawn draws a new thing. Zak’s surviving thing attacks it. And so on. Zak and Shawn got things started, and now Nick has joined the fray. Though not exactly an exquisite corpse, it will be exquisite, and there will be many corpses.

http://roadofknives.com/redux/01-10.shtml

http://images.google.com/hosted/life