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dekePod Episode 018: Okay, I got good news and I got bad news. Good news first: dekePod has caught up with its younger sibling Martini Hour. For this brief moment in time, both are 18.

Also good, this new episode, it's a doozy. In this video, I show you how to turn any portrait shot--even a sweetly syrupy photo of two youngsters in real honest-to-gosh puppy love--into a credible Andy Warhol silkscreen effect. Complete with minimalist outlines, vivid fills, and lipstick that covers the teeth. Here's the official marketing description: Read more » 

dekePod Episode 017: If I were you, I wouldn't necessarily want to hear this story. There's an "ick" factor to it. Because it involves me in an airplane. Which is never all that fun. But, okay, that's not the icky part.

The icky part, it's about me in a bathroom. And I, then, well . . .

Okay, screw it, here goes: Read more » 

dekePod Episode 016: Hello, friend. Let's you and I get all collegiate and stuff and engage in some intellectually stimulating free-word association.

For example, I say High Renaissance. You say, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael. Very good!

But you're not done. You say, an unrivaled time of creative energy and unabashedly accurate representation of the human form. Ooh, I like that, keep it coming. The advent of secular humanism, say you, The rebirth of Classical Ideas! Read more » 

dekePod Episode 015: Imagine yourself on a once-in-a-lifetime underwater adventure. Adift in a world of wonder. Watch as if in a dream as you ignore the souvenir stand, bypass the lounge chair, even avoid the swim-up bar. Your only intention is to grab the gear, strap on the fins, and plunge into the astonishing azure alure.

Or more simply put: Mix with the fish.

Such destinations have names as to make the heart sigh: Fiji. Kealakekua Bay. Ningaloo. The Red Sea. Read more » 

dekePod Episode 014: At fourteen, dekePod is officially a teenager. So it's fitting that the topic of this episode takes us into the somewhat adult and potentially salacious territories of sovereignty and privacy. I'm not talking cookies or spyware. Your trusted commercial software--the stuff you pay hundreds of dollars for--may be tracking your every move.

It's like this: Despite the many warnings to the contrary, we tend to imagine that our computers acquiesce to our collective control. No software goes unchecked; no program reveals our misdeeds. And yet, these are exactly the sorts of treasonous acts that a certain group of programs--known as digital asset managers, or DAMs for short--are designed to perform on a daily basis. Read more »