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Bonsai Tree in Contemporary Home
A.D. Cook

Pruning The Bonsai

Sometimes, when chatting with my fellow web designers about developing and growing a website, I reference the process to a bonsai tree. Before I get too far into my story, I must confess that I have never owned a bonsai tree, but I’ve built plenty of websites.

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Resource Links for Artists and Designers
A.D. Cook

Resources For All

We’re not magicians, but what artists and designers create is magic, but there are no secrets to accessing knowledge and growing our creative bag of tricks.

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Search Engine Optimization
A.D. Cook

Search Me

With the new Advanced Search feature, it’s easier than ever to search the ADCook.com website.

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Pinterest Community Standards Violation 09/06/22
A.D. Cook

Dist By Pinterest

“When it comes to a great idea, you know it when you see it.”
That is Pinterest’s tagline. But, of course, I would not have even known that unless I visited Pinterest as I did this morning when they declared that violation of our Community Guidelines on adult content.

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Nirvana by A.D. Cook
A.D. Cook

2012 Flashback

Twenty-twelve was a prolific year for me. Over that year, I created a stainless steel metal wall art (Ascension) and painted four canvas life-size and more giant fine art nudes, including; Truth, Ascendant, Jubilee, Premier, and Nirvana, and wrapped it up with a series of abstract artworks. Please read my

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Elvis Presley '68 Comeback Tour mural by A.D. Cook for Hollywood Video
A.D. Cook

Viva Las Vegas!

Do you remember where you were 45 years ago today? I do. I was a young teenager working as a carry-out boy at a local Thriftway grocery store in Oregon City, Oregon, on August 16, 1977, That was the day Elvis Presley died and I remember it like it was

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