Archive for the ‘Weirdness’ Category
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Note: For those of you with a low tolerance for long-winded arguments and poor off-the cuff writing, I’ve summarized this post here: http://cygielski.com/blog/2009/08/05/another-take-on-rothbard/. Please read that instead. I'm keeping this post only for the sake of chronological accuracy.
At the recommendation of my friend Steve I've been reading Murray Rothbard's "For ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Just when you thought you were safe:
[flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/frogmovie2.flv 480 360]
Audio done in Audacity (an open source audio recording/editing program) and synched in Blender's video sequencer. The drops are actually just me tapping my finger on my laptop's microphone. Sound FX to the max!Related posts:
And now for something completely different
The Gimpy Fly
Testing, ...
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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I thought I could do the whole thing with the Gimp Animation Plug-in (GAP), but the video encoder is buggy and I couldn't get it to make an AVI file. After several attempts, I put the single frames into Blender for final processing. Let me know what you ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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Animation frames in Pencil, compositing and sequencing in Blender.Related posts:
Testing, testing…
A few hours later…
Video editor
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
One of my favorite architectural blogs brings us news of serious concern over human rights abuses in Abu Dhabi, involving some of the world's leading "starchitects":
http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/darkening-dubai/
This only adds to my qualms about the whole idea of stardom in architecture - not only is crap often purveyed as art under the ...
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