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I can’t help but feel like my iPhone cover tells a story about how I’m feeling at any given point in time. It’s like a window into my thoughts. With all the new Bane and Batman images from Dark Knight Rises making their way around the internets, I’ve got comics on the brain. Here’s a round up of some of the BEST comic book inspired iPhone covers out there.
I’ve got to start with artist Danny Haas’s collection of iPhone covers available on Society 6. His Wayne cover (left) is the right mix of dark and light and the way it’s laid out on the case has a great impact. He’s also got a Clark Kent, Tony Stark and Peter Parker case too. All of them retail for $35 each.
If you love Wonder Woman (I do!), then there’s a bevvy of options for you. For starters, Amazon has an amazing number of options. Coveroo’s Emblem case ($34.99) is one of my favorites, because it’s simple and would look pretty amazing on a black iPhone.
Don’t you wish you would have skipped that bumper case right about now?
Coveroo also creates a standard Wonder Woman logo case (left), which is a bit less expensive at $29.99 and also wonderfully simple.
Performance Designed Products is offering Marvel iPhone and iPod cases too. The vintage inspired designs cost $29.99 each and are a call-back to the early days of each series. Plus, they’re offering free shipping for a while so take advantage of that while you can.
If you like skins, then check out some of the creations by Etsy seller skunkwraps. They’ve got a few different geeky skins, but the Boom, Pow text option comes in a lot of different materials, including leather. It would definitely set your iPhone apart to have a leather skin. The best part? Skins are much less expensive… The ones from skunkwraps start at $9.95 each.
We’re not all carving Van Gogh’s - so how can we get a totally awesome pumpkin this Halloween without getting completely overwhelmed? Well, the answer is by sticking to iconic shapes.
As much as I would love to master anything that looked remotely close to these crazy detailed Star Wars pumpkins, I know my limits. Last year, I was fresh off a trip to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter when I made my “modern Potter” pumpkin for my front stoop. The idea was simple: stick to the two most common things associated with Harry - his lightning scar and his round spectacles.
This year, I hope to pull of a simple Mockingjay and will share my results with you, but this all got me thinking that it would be worth pointing out some simple, fun and nerdy pumpkin carvings that you could do in no time at all.
This one is so incredibly simple and cute, it would be a shame to pass it up. Take a pumpkin and carve out two eyes. Paint it black and use a piece of cardboard to cut out the winder for the back. Then, use some materials from around the house or a little painted styrofoam to embellish the top and the feet.
This awesome little guy is courtesy of smosh.com
Pumpkin Pi
I love dual meanings. Pi Pumpkin. Pumpkin Pi. Take your pick. Either way, this baby is a winner. It’s simple, funny and incredibly easy to pull off in 15 minutes or less.
This pumpkin inspiration is courtesy of GirlGoneGeekBlog.com, but go ahead and google it. I’m warning you now that if you’re hungry this is not a great idea. There, you’ve been warned. No go carve.
In Memory: Steve Jobs
This one is pretty self-explanatory and a little more difficult to execute. You almost need to be a pumpkin carving pro in my opinion to navigate all those little spaces around his eyes, but you could focus on JUST the apple and still get an iconic and memorable effect for your pumpkin.
For the brave souls who want to give this one a try, there’s a template available for download from Pink Ray Gun here.
It really sucks that Steve Jobs died. It’s been said millions of times in hundreds of languages in the last 16 hours, but I’ll say it again: he was a visionary.
His vision shouldn’t be lost on us though and there are things that we can glean from Mr. Jobs’s life that can inform our futures, in small and big ways.
Follow your instincts.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Everything else is secondary.
Don’t live worrying about dying.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Do what you love.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
All of these incredible pieces of insight are part of one inspirational speech. If you haven’t watched his 2005 Stanford Commencement speech yet, do it now.
