Petra

We've returned to our groovy tech-talk chill this week after the ruckus that was caused by inviting Russell Brown last week. And as promised, a winner from our martini hour visualization exercise will find his or her work featured as the lead graphic for this week's show. We'll start with Steve Newton because he paid the "I live across the Atlantic" tax and didn't get all the kitchy tradeshow castoffs that I sent to Gale solely because she lives in Canada.

Is anyone but me wondering if this picture is listing slightly? Meanwhile, here's the skinny on this week's installment of the world-famous Martini Hour. Read more » 

Well, Deke and I finally crawled out from under our respective Channels and Masks rocks to have a discusssion about who did the most creative work with that sublime medium, Deke's giant head. The fact is, the participants were so awesome, we had to discuss our long term strategies for "consolation prizes" for about an hour and a half. It's probably not legal to send everyone a Bombay Saphire martini, so we'll just be raising our glasses at the moment.  For now, the following shining lights of the dekOmmunity are our pics, each of whom wins a fabulous copy of Deke's Photoshop CS4 One-on-One.

(Since I'm writing this, I'm going to put my favorite of the three winners before the jump.) Dek-E is just so dang cute and true to Deke's sweet nature.

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