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Merch Squad has launched Hope Positive’s Official Online Store. Hope Positive is an AIDS documentary by Crossroads International. Crossroads International brought Hydra Studio aboard to provide brand identity, DVD packaging, website design, and marketing consulting. The web store features a tee shirt and a couple of hand illustrated posters we designed. Pick up some Hope Positive merchandise and help spread AIDS awareness!

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This is just a taste of the music that has driven us this week here at Hydra. These albums have all been in heavy rotation, and they include:

DJ Dara [Future Perfect]

Mice Parade [True Meaning of Boodleybaye]

Run Kid Run [This Is Who We Are]

Corinne Bailey Rae [Corinne Bailey Rae]

Brand New [The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me]

TV On The Radio [Return To Cookie Mountain]

Hellogoodbye [Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!]

Underoath [Define The Great Line]

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The morning of the launch, NASA gave STS-116 a 30% chance to launch. Considering the weather was similar to Thursday, when the launch was scrubbed, we did not have high hopes for seeing the shuttle go off. We still made the trip to Cape Canaveral, hoping to catch NASA’s first night launch in four years.

At 5:30 PM, we boarded a bus to take us a mere two miles from the launch pad. They warned us on the ride over of the hydrochloric acid that spews from the external rockets and some of the other dangers that accompany watching the shuttle from such a short proximity.

Sure enough, at 8:47 we saw an amazing site. The light from the engines completely illuminated the night sky. Close to the end of the video, you will see how beautiful the shuttle was as it pierced the clouds and shot towards the heavens. It was an amazing site that I needed to share.

Click here to watch the Launch. Enjoy.

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In the process of design, choosing colors can be difficult. Before you drive the color scheme guy crazy, check out colorblender.com. The site makes the job of picking colors a little easier. The concept is quite simple. It only consists of dragging RGB levels left to right. So for anyone who has problems choosing paint, or a scheme for your website or magazine, colorblender.com just might be the way for you.

Enjoy!!!

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Every now and then we get a little crazy around Hydra. This is the result of being trapped in a room with six other guys and looking at nothing but code all day. I give you Mike Gee!!!

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