Friday, April 29, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
PictureBox / Blogs / Garbageman 1:17 PM
PictureBox / Blogs / Garbageman: "I first used label maker in my graphic design work in the mid 70′s, when I was still a student. I used it on a poster for a student art exhibit. That poster was a great lesson for me, because everything I used on it was found in the garbage. It was my very first “garbage” poster. Even my label maker gun and tape were found in a trash can. You see, I used to be a garbage man before those college days and I found cool stuff I’m still using to this day. In fact, my very first business card I ever made for myself was label maker type. Man, it looked awful. It was perfect. perfectly awful. Delicious.
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big show demo reel 10:40 AM
Green screen, with scrim, stands and lights - $200
3 camera set up - using HD webcams - $100 to $150
Shotgun mic and boom mic stand - $200
3 camera set up - using HD webcams - $100 to $150
Shotgun mic and boom mic stand - $200
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
A Man to Remember 6:13 PM
The Dalton Trumbo script is told in flashbacks from the funeral of a small-town general practitioner, Dr. Abbott (Edward Ellis). Beginning in the World War I era, he selflessly tends the citizens of his town of Westport for decades, often accepting partial payments or sacks of potatoes and other goods in exchange for services. With precious little appreciation, he sacrifices career advancement and his own well-being for the welfare of his patients, fighting a deadly polio epidemic, adopting the baby of a mother who dies in childbirth and helping the town get a hospital. Meanwhile his son (Lee Bowman) is inspired to follow in his father's footsteps. In his final days, Dr. Abbott is at last recognized as a humanitarian and a genuine American hero.
Blossoms in the Dust 6:09 PM
Screenwriter Anita Loos (Red-Headed Woman (1932), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953) was not so well-schooled in social issue films and initially didn't see enough drama in Blossoms to make an interesting film. But after many tortured attempts to craft a storyline out of Edna Gladney's life story, the morning she planned to admit defeat, Loos says "I woke up to find that a complete story line had been worked out by my subconscious mind during sleep." (from Kiss Hollywood Goodbye by Anita Loos). Loos decided to pivot the story on Edna's belief that even a great orphanage was no match for the loving care of a real home. Loos created the character of a little crippled boy Tony (Pat Barker) who evokes a deep love in Edna, despite his inevitable adoption by another. The brilliance of the Loos screenplay is that it involves the audience on a deep emotional level with Edna's struggle to sponsor the boy without becoming too attached to him in the process.
Rocket Bomber - article - publishing - snark - I Hate Stu Levy 2:01 PM
Rocket Bomber - article - publishing - snark - I Hate Stu Levy: "No, really: WHY did Tokyopop close, when it could have just as easily been sold? I would like everyone who runs into Stu at any comics/book/anime/fandom related event to ask this very pertinent question: Stu, even if you were bored with books, why kill Tokyopop?
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education. 10:47 AM
Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education.: "Of course, if the problem Thiel sees with the higher education bubble is elitism, why were so many of the invitees Ivy League kids? Where were the smart inner-city kids let down by economic blight and a failing education system of a city like Detroit; the kids who need to be lifted up the most? Thiel notes it wasn’t all elites. Many of the applicants came from other countries, some from remote villages in emerging markets.
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Saturday, April 09, 2011
Friday, April 08, 2011
Adult Swim : Time to Waste Time - Interview with Animator Don Hertzfeldt 1:55 PM
Adult Swim : Time to Waste Time - Interview with Animator Don Hertzfeldt: "I think I mentioned before that animation is usually the last thing I ever really want to watch. I'm just weirdly not interested and burnt out on it most of the time. But Cat Soup is another one that's beyond description and my feeble words. It has no dialogue. It was recommended to me by a friend, and I heard some story that it was created by a woman who supposedly killed herself when the movie was completed, but I think that was just a weird rumor. A weird rumor that I just spread again.
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The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don't They Pay? - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice 12:48 PM
The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don't They Pay? - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice: "'Cartoonists never got paid much,' shrugs Feiffer, but back when he was coming up in the 1960s, 'nothing cost much, so they could live well. Now they still don't get paid much, and everything's very expensive.'
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Thursday, April 07, 2011
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
DVD Savant: PARALLAX VIEW: The Incredible Montage 11:01 PM
DVD Savant: PARALLAX VIEW: The Incredible Montage: "It's a bizarre moment that is remindful of a number of 'interactive' precedents. The rigged chairs for the 'Percepto' effect of William Castle's The Tingler come to mind. Also, on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood was a theater called The Preview House where each seat had buttons in the armrests to measure viewer responses to movies and commercials. Beatty's Guinea Pig situation might also remind us of the mindbending torture endured by agent Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File,, or the involuntary reprogramming undergone by Droog Alex in A Clockwork Orange."
Blender Video Sequence Editor? 9:55 AM
New tools to try out: Blender Video Sequence Editor
Jlipsync, I think I've tried Jlipsync before, but I really can't say. I'll give it a try.
I'm dumping all the Toon Boom loops to Quicktime and editing them together in MPEG Streamclip. Or maybe Avidemux? sigh. Crap. Neither seems to work.
Jlipsync, I think I've tried Jlipsync before, but I really can't say. I'll give it a try.
I'm dumping all the Toon Boom loops to Quicktime and editing them together in MPEG Streamclip. Or maybe Avidemux? sigh. Crap. Neither seems to work.
Monday, April 04, 2011
daily what and why 12:58 PM
I was thinking I could use the iriver to record some stuff to lip sync. It's not doing much right now, so why not?
Edit the file with Audacity, break it down with Papagayo, animate with Pencil. Or Toon Boom Studio.
To make this work I guess I need to build up a library of stock footage, backgrounds, character animations. Loops of all kinds.
Edit the file with Audacity, break it down with Papagayo, animate with Pencil. Or Toon Boom Studio.
To make this work I guess I need to build up a library of stock footage, backgrounds, character animations. Loops of all kinds.
|| Article // Free Press // Concrete TV's Ron Rocheleau || 12:14 PM
|| Article // Free Press // Concrete TV's Ron Rocheleau ||: "Funnily enough, I started Concrete TV when I was watching these Godzilla movies, which I think are really kooky, and I realized they were using the same scenes in multiple movies. Like, if there’s a group of people running down the street or an explosion, why do you have to re-shoot it? It doesn’t really affect the narrative and most people don’t really care so why bother? So I thought maybe I could make a whole movie without ever having to shoot a single thing myself. I tried to piece together something where one person from one movie would talk to another one from another movie. It doesn’t work.
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Saturday, April 02, 2011
wacom drivers me crazy 2:02 PM
Finally found the Wacom driver that worked on the tc4200. I thought I'd got the right one from hp, but apparently it's no longer supported. The machine isn't even that old, but there you go.
I was about to give up, to be honest. I've been picking away at turning the tc4200 into an animation station for months now. So, let's see what we can do with it.
I'll post some work later, I hope.
I was about to give up, to be honest. I've been picking away at turning the tc4200 into an animation station for months now. So, let's see what we can do with it.
I'll post some work later, I hope.
Friday, April 01, 2011
april is a punk rocker 12:58 PM
The problem with April 1st? You can't believe a damn thing. I know, that's how it should be all the time. Don't believe everything you read on the net, etc. But jeez, I can't even buy crap online today without finding it's a friggin' joke.
