The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator
This website has a program on it takes an image you upload and "rasterizes" it so you can make posters and murals on your printer. It takes the brightness (and optionally color) information from your image and makes a large image made up of round dots. This image is then broken up into the number of pages needed by the output size that you set. It then makes a .pdf and sends it to you.
There also is a stand alone application that you can download.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Monday, August 14, 2006
Ligers are real and big!
Apparently, sometimes (rarely) a male lion and female tiger will mate in captivity. Their offspring can be really, really big.
http://www.sierrasafarizoo.com/animals/liger.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/liger.asp
Google search
Google image search
If a male tiger mates with a female lion, the offspring is called a tigon. They might look like ligers, but aren't as big.
http://www.sierrasafarizoo.com/animals/liger.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/liger.asp
Google search
Google image search
If a male tiger mates with a female lion, the offspring is called a tigon. They might look like ligers, but aren't as big.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
My week (boring)
I am midway through my second week being self-employed. I haven't settled into any kind of schedule yet.
Monday morning I read the first 5 or 6 chapters of the Maya Fundamentals training book we have. I spend a few hours in the afternoon at Blair media. After that I went to my old place (which is now Pilgrim's Progess the Movie Headquarters) and loaded up most of my computer equipment that was left there. I brought that home, unloaded it. Hung out for a while and then went back to the old place and waited around for Tim to get back so I could use his pickup truck to bring my table, desk and chair home.
Tuesday morning I hooked up my computer (the main workstation). Most of the day I worked on Pilgrim's Progess test shots. Even though it won't be used for anything, it feels good and useful to get my brain back into this kind of work.
Wednesday was taken up almost entirely by attending an auction at the University of Virginia. We were there from 10am till 2pm. We got a desk/table for Rebecca and a bunch of wall cabinets for various places in the house. We paid $57.75 for both of them. I might spend almost that much getting them down here. I didn't get the chair I wanted. After we left the auction, my wife and I ate a late lunch at Red Robin. Then we went to Old Navy so she could pick up a few things. After that we hooked up with one of my friends and sometime client who gave us a tour of the new basketball arena at UVA. I did a lot of 3D work on that building before it was built/finished so it was interesting actually be inside it. It's pretty cool, and I think, the largest facility of its kind in the state of Virginia.
This morning (Thursday), I'm installing the Maya personal learning edition so I can ... umm... learn it. I may work on the Apollyon scene animatic. This afternoon I'll be at Blair for a few more hours. After that, more PP stuff.
Tomorrow (Friday) morning I'll be picking the stuff up that I bought at the auction. I don't have any plans for the afternoon yet. Maybe we'll go to a baseball game in the evening. Some friends are going. We've been invited.
Monday morning I read the first 5 or 6 chapters of the Maya Fundamentals training book we have. I spend a few hours in the afternoon at Blair media. After that I went to my old place (which is now Pilgrim's Progess the Movie Headquarters) and loaded up most of my computer equipment that was left there. I brought that home, unloaded it. Hung out for a while and then went back to the old place and waited around for Tim to get back so I could use his pickup truck to bring my table, desk and chair home.
Tuesday morning I hooked up my computer (the main workstation). Most of the day I worked on Pilgrim's Progess test shots. Even though it won't be used for anything, it feels good and useful to get my brain back into this kind of work.
Wednesday was taken up almost entirely by attending an auction at the University of Virginia. We were there from 10am till 2pm. We got a desk/table for Rebecca and a bunch of wall cabinets for various places in the house. We paid $57.75 for both of them. I might spend almost that much getting them down here. I didn't get the chair I wanted. After we left the auction, my wife and I ate a late lunch at Red Robin. Then we went to Old Navy so she could pick up a few things. After that we hooked up with one of my friends and sometime client who gave us a tour of the new basketball arena at UVA. I did a lot of 3D work on that building before it was built/finished so it was interesting actually be inside it. It's pretty cool, and I think, the largest facility of its kind in the state of Virginia.
This morning (Thursday), I'm installing the Maya personal learning edition so I can ... umm... learn it. I may work on the Apollyon scene animatic. This afternoon I'll be at Blair for a few more hours. After that, more PP stuff.
Tomorrow (Friday) morning I'll be picking the stuff up that I bought at the auction. I don't have any plans for the afternoon yet. Maybe we'll go to a baseball game in the evening. Some friends are going. We've been invited.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
A New Beginning
Well, Friday was my last day as a full time employee of Liberty University. Things are looking up for me, income wise... even after health insurance and taxes take their toll.
I'll mainly be working for DRC Films (My old room mate) in making a modern movie adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress. It should be fun and full of new (hopefully not scary) experiences.
I'm grateful for the opportunities that have reared their heads at this stage of my life.
I'll mainly be working for DRC Films (My old room mate) in making a modern movie adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress. It should be fun and full of new (hopefully not scary) experiences.
I'm grateful for the opportunities that have reared their heads at this stage of my life.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
castrati [cringe]
Weirdness.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060712/sc_nm/arts_farinelli_remains_dc_2
excerpts from the story
"ROME (Reuters) - Historians and scientists have exhumed the remains of legendary castrato Farinelli in Italy to study the anatomical effects of castration carried out on young boys to turn them into high-pitched stars of the opera.
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Castrati played heroic male leads in Italian opera from the mid-17th to late 18th century when the bel canto was the rage in Europe. Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi in 1705, was the most famous of them all, in a stage career lasting from 1720 to 1737."
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The last surviving castrato, Sistine Chapel chorist Alessandro Moreschi, lived long enough to make recordings in 1902 and 1904, though on the dated gramophone records his voice sound like what Clapton described as "Pavarotti on helium."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060712/sc_nm/arts_farinelli_remains_dc_2
excerpts from the story
"ROME (Reuters) - Historians and scientists have exhumed the remains of legendary castrato Farinelli in Italy to study the anatomical effects of castration carried out on young boys to turn them into high-pitched stars of the opera.
ADVERTISEMENT
Castrati played heroic male leads in Italian opera from the mid-17th to late 18th century when the bel canto was the rage in Europe. Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi in 1705, was the most famous of them all, in a stage career lasting from 1720 to 1737."
...
"
The last surviving castrato, Sistine Chapel chorist Alessandro Moreschi, lived long enough to make recordings in 1902 and 1904, though on the dated gramophone records his voice sound like what Clapton described as "Pavarotti on helium."
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Sale at Eddie Bauer
The sad thing is that it's $20 off and it's still $20 more than I want to spend on a shirt. I just don't like spending money on clothes... Of course, it shows but I'm okay with that.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Copyright Comic
A discussion of copyright law and fair use issues in comic book form. It's a bit interesting but I'm still confused.
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/zoomcomic.html
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/zoomcomic.html
Friday, June 30, 2006
Friday, June 16, 2006
Vision issues
I had an eye exam today. Both eyes got a bit worse since last year. Of course, my eyes are really bad now because my they are dilated. I have to use the zoom function on my ibook so I can see enough to type this... and it's still very blurry. I could get new glasses, but I'd like to keep my old frames. I just have to find them. I guess I'm supposed to wear them more often now so my eyes don't wear themselves out trying to compensate for each other.
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