August 2010
36 posts
RT @rodneykiwi: this is really significant thanks @mobiledivide 5DtoRGB check it http://tinyurl.com/3xkdkr7 [Curious about the conversion]
I sure am glad I bought this Angry Birds phone.
RT @aetuts 33 Books To Reference On Your VFX and Mograph Journey http://bit.ly/av63oX
Conduit Suite 2.0 (Mac) - GPU-powered, nodal capture tool for live, real-time keying/compositing. 90-day free trial. http://bit.ly/9T1U30
RT @PhilipBloom: Canon 60d official…. http://bit.ly/bYdfHm #fb
RT @Filmbot: the way to get cam info from C4D to Nuke is to use Chan files . Nuke doesnt like the FBX from C4D#vfx
Sesame Street with The Boy: Guest Sarah Jessica Parker, wearing a very tight shirt, is explaining how 2 matching things make a pair. Ahem.
The Boy: Can I watch a movie?
-You just said you’re tired.
No, my butt is tired.
-What does that mean?
That means my butt wants to sit down.
RT @edgarwright: This is funny. Scott Pilgrim Vs The Matrix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RsZErYEXz8&feature=player_embedded Both sho …
Fire Core, the company that sells aTV Flash for hacking the AppleTV is pushing a “lifetime license” for 60% off. Nervous much?
Arm-wrestling PTGui with some 50+ megapixel HDR pano stitches. Getting multiple lighting setups to stitch identically is failing…
RT @AngryPaulRand: You are a designer. If a client just wants someone who can push a mouse around, they can get a fucking cat.
I would love to see the market for this explode (in a good way). http://www.inkling.com/
Someday I’ll have to break it to The Boy that Rock Sugar songs aren’t the originals. Think I’ll wait until after we have the Santa talk.
RT @alba: RT @ronsussman: here it is Nikon fans. 1080p 24fps H.264 http://www.dpreview.com/previews/Nikond3100/ #cinematography #photog …
Eating grilled food out on the deck. Wine, candlelight, listening to trains and cicadas. Mosquitos are on their way…
Playing with some 7D footage in Colorista II. Powerful yet intuitive, and what a difference. Thanks @5tu. http://twitpic.com/2fzw33
Been to work 8 out of the last 9 days. Ending the streak with midterm grading. Who signed up for this real job b.s.? #notme
RT @nicoleyeary: “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” Dr. Seuss
hurlblog: Canon 5D MK II & The Video Village Challenge http://bit.ly/9F2gyA
Proud of my students, who were on their A-game for all 9.5 hours of our shoot. They probably would’ve done 5 more if we didn’t get booted.
The Boy, practicing his smack-talking while sword fighting on the Wii, shouts at the TV, “I’M NO MATCH FOR YOU!”
#subject_predicate_whatever
The Boy is such a fanboy.
“Daddy, did you know that Captain Hammer is selfish? Penny is the real hero.”
That said, I have been known to fire off my mouth about certain business practices…
Chapter 1: Stop it
Chapter 2: I Don’t Like People
Chapter 3: You’re Doing It Wrong
…
Ouch. http://huff.to/9i1kRD
I (& many of my coworkers) strive to provide a far better education than we got at our respective state schools.
My advanced students have started a game: Pull quotes from my lectures & make them chapter names in my nonexistent book.
The Girl started crying when I handed her back to The Wife.
Me: Don’t like your mommy?
The Boy: Then you better go live with another family.
Landed the historic Coronado Theater in Rockford for a student project shoot next week. 7D’s, slider, jib, Merlin, pano head, 360•HDR’s…
I feel guilty accepting money from a publisher that I wrote a review for, considering how negative the review was.
Okay, I’m over it.
Top 10 Mistakes in HDR Processing?
#1: Referring to “tone mapping” as “HDR”
Importing 4 years’ worth of NEF’s as DNG’s in Lightroom. Hope it’s done before I have to go to work tomorrow. :/
I was sitting out this term at @fxphd. Yesterday I got paid for side gigs, today I listened to the fxphdDOD podcast, tomorrow I’m signing up
Finally saw a film *before* hearing it discussed on the @vfxshow podcast. #impatient #Inception
The Wife: We need to go to Yellowstone before it explodes. The Boy: Why don’t we wait until it’s done?
RT @jasondiamond: Apparently ‘INCEPTION’ came from a Scrooge McDuck comic from 2002. http://bit.ly/93tVBf :)
