Archive for the ‘Weirdness’ Category

Another take on Rothbard

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

As I read over my arguments against Murray Rothbard’s “For a New Liberty”, I started feeling uneasy about the rambling, unfocused writing. So here is a shorter and hopefully somewhat clearer explanation of what I meant: First, something that may not have been really clear in the original post: I’m all ...

Rothbard’s folly

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 ...

A world of sound

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, ...

The Gimpy Fly

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

[flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fly.flv 480 360] 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 ...

And now for something completely different

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

[flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/frogmovie.flv 480 360] Animation frames in Pencil, compositing and sequencing in Blender.Related posts: Testing, testing… A few hours later… Video editor