iLife '09 - Buy It.

I just installed iLife '09 on our Macs and it is much better than expected. The top feature that is getting all the buzz is the facial recognition capabilities in iPhoto. It is amazing. Much better than the Apple hype. I had each of my kids spend about a half hour teaching iPhoto how to find their faces and my whole family photo library of about 25000 photos is now indexed. Because I am the only male in my family, iPhoto had the easiest time finding my face. I am surprised how well it works. I bought the family pack which includes 5 licenses for the latest OS X (so I could update my older G4  Macs), iWork (my wife loves Pages already), and iLife.

My Design/Animation Work on New Nitro Circus MTV Series

My creative work finally premiered on MTV tonight as part of the new Nitro Circus TV show. It was cool to see my name in the credits and to see my creative work on shuch a big stage. For the past few years I have worked with Godfrey Entertainment (creators of Nitro Circus) doing package design and menus for their DVDs, Posters, an award-winning nitrocircus.com website, and a newly redesigned nitrocircus.com website. They have always been a great client, letting me have 100% creative freedom. Six months or so ago they got noticed by MTV, who decided to produce a series. I had done some animations for one of Godfrey's DVDs which got noticed by MTV and they now have me doing short cartoon animations for each show. It's a blast. 

You can find all my design and creative work at mattmaxwelldesign.com. 

Here is the best part: my name in lights on MTV: