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[16 Jun 2008|03:40am] |
So it looks like we'll have genetically modified E. coli eating up our agricultural wastes and spitting out crude oil.
1). That's pretty amazing, and
2). When the bacteria escapes from the lab and starts growing on anything it can convert into sugar, all the forests will be oozing with oil goop.
What a strange world we live in.
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[02 Jan 2008|04:07am] |
Oh.
I prefer YES.
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[30 Dec 2007|12:46am] |
I like this:
"Jews have the concept of pe'ah, the marginal parts that are the transition between the self and G-d - the hair that some Jews leave uncut, the margins of the field we are commanded to leave for the poor to glean - all derive from this same root concept, that the edgee of ourselves are not solely our own, and our own interests are not always paramount there."
-Casaubon's Book
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| PANDASQUID omg |
[27 Dec 2007|03:57am] |
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I'm in San Diego until the 3rd of January. My temporary number here is: seven six oh, five one nine, nine two five five.
Mathpanda has asked me to design some album art, so I'm populating an illustration with variations on this creature. This is algorithmically generated using Context Free, which I highly recommend if you're into this whole math==art thing.
Also, there's been some good stuff on my Flickr page recently, in case you don't see it often:
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| Guiliani: Freedom is about authority |
[23 Aug 2007|01:36am] |
Rudolph Giuliani said in 1994:
"Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."
He's leading the GOP primary polls right now.
(via this boingboing post)
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[23 Aug 2007|01:36am] |
I've been playing with simulated hatching recently:
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| The basic trouble is: |
[23 Jul 2007|01:36am] |
The green section of the pie goes towards this.
from techcrunch
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| Some believed |
[14 Jul 2007|03:13pm] |
Some believed in 1969 that the Campanile was a landing beacon for the galactic mothership.
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| Summer in the City |
[13 Jul 2007|01:52am] |
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city.
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| BANANA 2.0 BETA |
[13 Jul 2007|01:43am] |
This is museum-game related. Made in 40 minutes.
(quicktime movie)
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| I am a hub of activity. |
[13 Jul 2007|01:42am] |
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I suddenly understand the value of networking. I'm:
* Having my elephant & octopus short shown at SIGGRAPH as part of PDI's Educators Showcase. (Connection: a professor.)
* Teaching a summer-school class in computer graphics. (Connection: a different professor.)
* Designing a logo for a music website. (Connection: friend of a friend.)
* Doing album art for a hip-hop band in Washington DC. (Connection: friend.)
* Possibly going to be working with a new-media artist to create a 3d game for a science museum. (Connection: friend of a professor.)
* A magazine put a photo of me on the cover to represent the modern hippie movement. (Connection: my co-op.)
Whew.
Thanks, universe, for dropping all this in my lap.
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[07 Jul 2007|01:36am] |
* Jane Doe removed "God" from her interests. 8:38pm
Oh, Facebook.
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| Phones, rats, and studies |
[23 Jun 2007|01:36am] |
1. I have a new phone number: 510 - 395 - 2432
2. Ratatouille? It's fantastic. Go see it. Watch for the clouds in the Wall-E trailer that precedes it; I think they're mine.
3. I'm teaching a summer school class at UC Berkeley, starting on Monday: Art 172, CGI Animation Studies. It's essentially an Intro to Maya class. There's still room if you'd like to join.
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| I won the cover contest! |
[12 Jun 2007|12:23am] |
(click => big)
Here's my almost-final cover for the USCA Member Handbook and Calendar. I re-purposed my Westco conference poster design from March 2006. I was planning on printing this in color, but it turned out to be a fun challenge to convert to duotone. The open space on the left side is for a spiral binding.
Any comments before I send this to the printers tomorrow? Is my signature too big?
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[08 Jun 2007|01:36am] |
Summer saved my life. I was so tired of this thing telling me what to do.
So! The octopus movie has been "done" for a while now, and we'll soon begin work on the final touches. Poke me until it's done, please.
I've got a bunch of other projects in the works, too: the cover art for the USCA's member handbook, some art for my friend's band mathpanda, a hardcover book of my photos of Lothlorien, a fancy new website/wiki/etc for Loth, and an indentation in the foyer couch.
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| Grreaergh |
[23 Apr 2007|01:36am] |
Check out this great snippet of animation that was posted on John K's* blog earlier this week. Make sure your sound is on.
Watch Clip
The rest of his blog post discusses how to write scripts for grunting characters.
* John K is the creator of Ren & Stimpy.
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| It's alive! |
[23 Apr 2007|01:36am] |
Here's the latest work-in-progress from the octopus movie:
This was a test to see which elements I could do in compositing instead of in Renderman. The more I learn about compositing, the more fun it gets. I still need to add skin and eye details and improve the blue ripple-lights on the octo.
( original drawing and Shake network )
We've got to finalize everything in two weeks so we have time to render, and we still don't have a good title yet. (Suggestions welcome!)
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