BathYscaphe

InscritLeDansTonSlip...or...Goodbye

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:25:05 GMT

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Today I leave Bath, and hence, this is the last post in this blog.
Life is, perhaps more than at any time before, uncertain.
I'll let you know.
Maybe.

Here's a bunch of stuff to keep you occupied:

What's not to love about rapping swiss firemen? [via [[Nothing To Do With Arbroath|http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2007/09/swiss-firefighters-don-hot-pants-to-big.html]]]

[[Photos of beautiful libraries|http://www.curiousexpeditions.org/2007/09/librophiliac_love_letter_a_com.html#more]]

and finally, and awesome animation by Blu, who I've posted about before. [via[[Cartoon Brew|http://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/the-world-is-your-canvas]]]

oh, and some of you may not have seen the trailers for the film, here's one, the other is struggling to upload.

BloodFlavouredUpdate

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:23:00 GMT

Apparently, relieving the pressure is not the thing to do, even if you think it's stopped.

[img[ohDear2.jpg]]

MyStirFryWasBloodFlavoured

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:38:00 GMT

You know how they say a blunt knife's more dangerous than a sharp one, I'll tell you what's more dangerous, and that's a blunt one that's been sharpened while you weren't looking. And here's the proof:

[img[OhDear.jpg]]

For the past few days I've been hammering away at the ol' film... pretty much twenty four seven. I finished editing Friday, which was nice, and making the soundtrack today, which was also nice, I'm pretty happy with it, but we'll see how it goes. I'm mixing the audio now, something I'll readily admit I'm not particularly proficient at, I think I just don't have the ear for it. I'll give it a go though, keeping a keen eye on decibels. Here's another poster for you. Sorry to everyone I'm ignoring online at the moment.

[img[RequitalPoster4.jpg]]

DotDotDot

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:06:00 GMT

And then... so did everyone else.

PrincipiaMathematica

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:58:00 GMT

[[link|http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=umhistmath;cc=umhistmath;rgn=full%20text;idno=AAT3201.0001.001;didno=AAT3201.0001.001;view=pdf;seq=00000401]]

Today Carlita left.

InThisEternallyPrimitiveLand

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:11:00 GMT

[img[PureData01.jpg][noise/au/pariDancingThemeTace01.mp3]

OfEmptyHeart

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:40:00 GMT

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That's me performing the noble art of the transvestite prostitute in some toilets. Mama would be so proud.

Strange, isn't it, how when loads of stuff's going on, it's harder to write a blog entry. Or not. Anyway, loads of stuff's been going on. Most notably, Carla's film is 100% finished now, and even has a title: //Since You Left//. We (the cast and crew) were voting for //Absent Friends// but she's the man in charge so she gets to decide. And I finally finished filming mine (a ridiculous four months after I started) with the last of my interview scenes with [[Phil]] and [[Martin]], and here they are:

[img[requitalFrame03.jpg]]

A day in [[Bristol]] with Carla, where I managed an all too rare meet up with young [[Hannah]], fresh from her Marathon insanity, here are a couple of frames from that, [[Marcus]], and anyone who's seen my photos from [[his jaunt up here|Silent]], will recognise the location:

[img[requitalFrame02.jpg]]

[img[requitalFrame04.jpg]]

And finally a quick shoot up at the uni, beset with problems, with me as the aforementioned transvestite prostitute.
I'm finalising my edit now, ready to hack away at the music next week.

Inside (Update)

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:52:00 GMT

Finally!

Finally they've put a search box in [[Google Reader|http://www.google.com/reader/]]. Why oh why it wasn't there before I don't know, it is, after all, a Google product. And this enables me to fill in the missing links from two posts ago.

Photo-realistic vector art

[[1|http://www.dominiquefam.com/home.html]] and [[2|http://www.khulsey.com/masters_yukio_miyamoto.html]]

And no, I couldn't have found them by hand:

[img[timeWasting01.jpg]]

Yes, I do waste too much time on the internet.

ThatWideExpanse

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:54:00 GMT

Well why not...
Not sure if this is finished or not yet, maybe,

Citizen:

[img[Citizen01-s.jpg]]

Oil, Acrylic, Red Wine and Sulfuric Acid on Card + sheet - Digitally manipulated photograph and vectors in Inkscape.

Plus, the last Work in Progress, not sure what I think about this as a technique... obviously it's a beginners attempt, and to be honest, getting the levels right is really, really difficult... I kind of like the weird airbrushiness.

Carolin:

[img[Caro04f04-s.jpg]]

All in Inkscape.

Inside

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:09:00 GMT

Nothing much to add, having a fairly vacant few moments...
Here's an extension to the last work in progress:

[img[Caro04WIP02.jpg]]

I've been fairly envious for a while now of people who make photo-realistic vector art, although the actual results are often fairly unartistic (sorry, can't find any links right now)... anyway, this is kind of my first foray into doing something similar... it's turning out to look a bit weirdly airbrushed, though that may be inevitable, in any case... 'tis a challenge.

ToWallow

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:30:00 GMT

yesterday, amidst some serious editing, making the curd, msn conversations, shopping, and drawing, I read //[[Blood, Sweat and Tea|http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Sweat-Tea-Adventures-Inner-city/dp/1905548230/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-6961814-7097432?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188427622&sr=8-1]]//, my first foray into reading something published by [[a blogger|http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog]] I (vaguely) follow. I'm pretty intensely dubious, because writing an interesting blog ain't the same as novelising, and it's true this ain't no work of literature, but still, it was engaging enough to read in a day. It's not a blog transfered well into a book, because pretty much it's just a linear series of blog posts (complete with original titles) with the occasional addendum, and in that sense you may as well just trawl through the blog. But then again, there is something separate about publishing as a book (If you feel like ignoring the whole capitalist aspect of it, which, to be fair, sent him on a fairly extravagant holiday which he probably thoroughly deserved (not, it appears, that he enjoyed it that much)) and it does stand apart, as a testament to a fairly horrendous, but rewarding, job, and to all that humanity stuff that could be banged on about.

AndThenHeLeft

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:24:00 GMT

Today I made lemon curd... according to dear mama's recipe of course, and it went ok... tastes delicious anyway... bit lumpy though, I think I cooked it too hot.
We've had two days of filming on [[Carla]]'s film, which went ok I think, and now, in theory, we've wrapped... which is a big relief. I've also had two very successful editing days... So I've got about ten minutes of rough cut now, and the whole thing is really shaping itself as I worried it wouldn't, I should finish filming the last couple of bits next week with any luck.

Another work in progress:

[img[Caro04WIP01.jpg]]

YouHaveTwoCows

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:37:00 GMT

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Above is an animation of the Greek fires that I constructed from NASA satellite imagery covering the last six days up to yesterday. Pretty horrible. You can access the original images (including very high res ones) [[here|http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_FORTH_CRETE/]]. And you can click on the above image for a larger version (1Meg).

I'm moderately addicted at the moment to the site [[TorresMadrid|http://torresmadrid.com/blog/]] which basically just posts timelapse videos of skyscrapers being built in Madrid. The video's themselves are pretty mesmerising and, I guess, profound. Here's a recent compilation of sorts:

Hideous(AndKnowsIt)

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:57:00 GMT

The previous worKs in progress have been for a set of portraits [[Carolin]] asKed me to do, and here they are finished:

[img[Caro01b.png]]

[img[Caro02b.png]]

[img[Caro03d.jpg]]

Made mainly with [[inKscape|http://www.inkscape.org/]] (the last one has a tiny bit of photoshop in, to get the blur right).
Seriously, this 'K' issue is really bugging me.

WeHadACommunistInTheFamily

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:44:00 GMT

Another work in progress:

[img[Caro03WIP01.jpg]]

also today I did some painting, and the k key broke on my keyboard (how am I writing this then you may ask, well I copy-pasted every k in this post from the word "Vicky" over there on the left)... this leaves me in something of a quandary, because of course I could get my laptop repaired (it's under warranty) but I absolutely can't do without it until (at least) the end of September... looks like I'll be doing a lot of copy-pasting... at least it's a minor letter.

JustInCaseOfValediction

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:34:00 GMT

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I've got the house to myself at the moment, which is nice... because it means I can sit and work (or not) in rooms like this one.

More work in progress:

[img[Caro02WIP01.jpg]]

IfINeededCleanAir

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:19:00 GMT

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A glorious day it were today and I went and had cream tea with [[Carla]] and the Greeks.

Plus, working on some pictures,
Work in progress:

[img[Caro01WIP01b.jpg]]

Lima

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:54:00 GMT

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RelacionesConFechaDeCaducidad

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:48:00 GMT

I mentioned last week the gloriousness of Skype, despite its recent problems... last night I had my first Spanish lesson with [[Elisa]] en [[Lima]]... four hours of it... although frankly, I ran out of Spanish about half way through... sometime technology kicks booty.

We filmed more of [[Carla]]'s film last week (promotional still below), three important scenes - which means the majority is done now.. there's one biggish scene to do, and a few little ones... hopefully we'll finish next week. Although I promised myself I'd have a serious editing week, I haven't really managed to.. still... gonna crack on this afternoon me thinks.

quotation of the day is:
> this awful city, it screams like an abattoir full of retarded children.
[[Philip]]'s making me read picture books, or as some like to call them, 'graphic novels' (this is //[[Watchmen|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen]]// by the way).

scary link of the day: [[Bullet Proof Baby|http://www.bulletproofbaby.net/]] (watch the embedded video... you've got to love the "one more time guys"... and seriously... whole site concept... blows. me. away).

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Herne Bay

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:51:00 GMT

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