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NAVIGATION: Home Portfolio Biography Feature Project Past Features Articles Contact Info. Comments? Testimonials Photography	Welcome to Nathan Hood Imageworks. Is it December already? Unbelievable! HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE! Thanks to all my wonderful clients for making this a great year. This month's featured photographic re-touch project demonstrates some practical techniques, so don't miss it. This month's article is by my good friend, Russ Rupe. As always, thanks for stopping by, and remember to take time to give thanks this holiday season. -NH
	Who Am I, and What Do I Do? My name is Nathan Hood, and I have a graphics business. I was born up north during the Great Blizzard of '73 in a log cabin I built myself. That puts me in my late 20s or early 30s, depending on how good you are at math. After 12 years of walking up hill both ways to school and back everyday in four feet of snow, I decided to move south and get into the graphics business. This was the only career I could think of that would allow me to work all day from home in my underwear while listening to The Rolling Stones and eating peanut butter directly from the jar. So here I am in my studio in Oklahoma, overlooking the majestic Tulsa Mountains, doing just that. I get to design all sorts of stuff ranging from web sites & animations to book covers & product labels. There's never a dull moment around here, and I really enjoy what I do.	December Featured Project: Image Building Go see "Image Building" Look At Past Features

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Home Sweet Home
By Russ Rupe

I am the King of the Castle. I must be. I have a moat, or rather, had a moat. All day Labor Day, there was a stream flowing in front of my cookie cutter, suburban housing edition abode. The moat was only an inch deep, so it didn't provide much by way of protection from invaders or dragons or anything else. But, I'm pretty sure that all of the invaders, dragons, and anything elses have moved to the coast in search of smog, caffeine, fresh fish (I hate fresh fish) and good ethnic diners. Nevertheless, as of this writing, I no longer have a moat. Perhaps I've been deposed of my throne. Let me tell you how it all happened.

Bark! Rumble! Crash! At 2:30 AM this morning (i.e. the morning after Labor Day), I awoke to the sound of heavy equipment and a crashing sound in the street mingled with the barking of every dog in the neighborhood including my own in the living room. Bark! My wife got up to investigate. Rumble! "There's a backhoe digging up our mailbox." Crash!

"Really? I just painted the mailbox." Unbelieving, I went to the window to confirm the story. Rumble! To my elation, if that state is possible at 2:31 AM, the mailbox was intact. Beep! Beep! Beep! The backhoe was really...CONTINUED

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