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Healthy Eating Pyramid

It can sometimes be hard to remember to eat the right foods or even eat at all when you are very busy with work and such - but it’s essential if you want to stay healthy. Eating the right food also gives you energy; with a good diet you wont feel the need to constantly need to nap and your concentration levels will also increase.

So I first want to start with the understanding. One of the reasons we don’t bother half the time is because we don’t fully understand what we should eat to stay healthy. And to gain correct understanding we shall use the healthy eating pyramid.

The Healthy Eating Pyramid

What is it? The healthy eating pyramid is a model for qualitative food choices (proportions of one food compared to another instead of actual serving sizes and amounts). The pyramid encourages variety, minimum fat, adequate fiber, limited salt and sufficient water by grouping together foods according to their energy content and what nutrients they can provide. It is a template in which you can create infinite possible recipes and ideas for great healthy food. Here is a healthy eating pyramid:

You should eat more foods from the bottom of the pyramid where its wider and not as much of the foods near the top of the pyramid where its narrower.

I believe that sticking to eating foods in these proportions will make you feel so much better. In fact I don’t have to believe, it’s proven fact.

So try it today!




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Photoshop tutorial - Blue skies

Another photoshop video tutorial, this time on how to replace a sky with something which looks a lot nicer. Also covers other interesting ways on how to make a photo look nicer.






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Photoshop tutorial - Abstract art

A while ago I made a photoshop tutorial on making abstract art. Here's both parts from youtube:











More to come...

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Ya wanna be uber at photoshop?

I was looking through some of my archives and I found a lot of my early photoshop work. It's funny to look back at how crap and n00bish my work used to be. From them hobby messing about days to the current pro graphic designer/matte painter/web designer days. Really surreal, but good to look back because I can see my progress.

So I thought I would show a rough timeline of work, starting from aaaaaaaaaaggggggggggeeeeeeessssss ago to present day work. I've been working with image editing further back than 2004, but I have no archives that date further back than that. (click on images for larger version)

2004


artleaf.jpg distantvisionart.jpg tourchedsouls.jpg visionart.jpg
basic eh?

2005
thereshopeyet.jpg hell.jpg heaven.jpg mr2zoom.jpg rx8 mod.jpg spacedragon.jpg artistic mr2.gif nikkiDragon.jpg

2006

andromeda_planetscene_1.jpg andromeda_nebular_2.jpg andromeda_nebular_1.jpg planetgalaxy.jpg torlea.jpg whitehole.jpg

2007 - mainly work stuff - these have all been published as brochures or newspaper/magazine adverts, these are just a cross sample of my advert work and logo design.

countrywide_logo3c.jpg newspaper_halfpage_ad_newyear.jpg swale_ad_02_LQ2.jpg Christmas Advert2.jpg

2008 - pro time with more work stuff too

countrywide_dawney_brochure_front02.jpg 13-06-08_ad_01.jpg abstract.png 16-9-bluesky.png

These following pro matte paintings are available to purchase as a framed piece of art here
achilles_land.jpg monolithic_proportions.png

Web Design Archive
Finally I have compiled all the web designs I could find together that I have made. This includes a complete catalog of ALL CCS templates that have existed! (www.CoolCrazyStuff.co.uk - its my website, has been for about 3 years, and before that it was CrazyStuff. All together thats been my website for about 5 years lol.)

Original CrazyStuff - 2003
CCSv1.jpg

Redesign moved to CoolCrazyStuff - 2004
CCSv2.jpg

I was like, naaaaaaaah this ones better - 2004
CCSv3.jpg

Then I was like: HAVE THIS! - 2006
CCSv4.jpg

Now I'm like, yeeeeeeaaaah this ones better. It's going to change soon though - 2007-2008
CCSv5.jpg


Other sites:
Alan Dawney Holidays
alandawney_design.jpg

MASO Designs - I decided to try start a website where I could sell my services.
maso_design.jpg

I'm not MASO Designs anymore. I am Director and Founder of DragonFang Productions.
DragonFang Productions is a Film production company which also provides Web Design and Graphic Design services at competitive rates. The website is in creation so check it regularly if your looking for that kinda stuff!

So that's a sample of some of my work and my god how much I've progressed and gotten better over the years!

I am professional now, if you are looking for graphic design/web design services and you like my work then don't hesitate to contact me. I design websites, adverts for newspapers and magazines, brochures, business cards, album covers, matte paintings, logos, anything.

I am CrazyFretz. I am Glenn.

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Confirmed water on mars!

"It is with great pride and a lot of joy that I announce today that we have found proof that this hard bright material is really water ice and not some other substance," said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson, during a Friday news briefing to announce the confirmation of water ice.

w00t w0000t! Who knows what else they'll find!

Linkage: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/06_20_pr.php

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Ice Ice Baby


The Phoenix Mars Mission has discovered what it believes to be ice (of the water kind) on mars. Can you imagine what this would mean if they're right?!

Linkage: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/06_19_pr.php

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Whilst on my rounds I came across this rather intriguing method of decoration. It's particularly good for temporary decor as it's easily removed, but it does add a nice touch to any room.

I might consider doing something similar with my plain old walls. Helps to make things more homely I guess!

Well here's the link to the Instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Vinyl-Wall-Art/

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