http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerpig/ - Awesome!
Hoofylicious.
Indistinguishable From Magic: A Pose is Worth a Thousand Bio Pages
Poses are actually more important in comics than any other visual media, as the image never changes. Every drawing you place down has to be as efficient as possible at conveying your intentions; you can’t fall back on motion to get your point across.
Body language does more than convey…
The author of Dresden Codak has a tumblog now, slowly filling with all sorts of wonderful information and explanations of the artwork within and without his comics.
I’ve been playing with Anaglyph 3D since my glasses arrived yesterday! It’s heaps of fun! I made this one in Acorn by adding a Multiplication layer above the right eye image, filling it with cyan (#00FFFF), then grouping those two above the red, setting group to ‘screen’ layer mode, and adding another multiplication below the right eye group, above the left eye image, with just red (#FF0000).
It seems to work really well, but the images lack an appearance of a red channel when viewed with glasses, so I wonder if there’s any better way to process these things where some red may be able to be seen in the image without stuffing up the depth illusion. My glasses allow a slight amount of red through the cyan filter in the Anachrome style. Anyone know?
Mmmmm. Hacker Bats. They’re so cool, they don’t even NEED sunglasses. The sunnies are built in! And you know which bats are the cutest bats? That’s right. The herbivorous bats. Will I ever stop pushing my vegan agenda on this tumblog? Nope! :D
Go fruit bats go!
Freshly grown book
With 96 pages inside!
I made some little books with NomiChos on tuesday, and while the prototype was alright, it was kinda dull. Pictured is my second attempt. It is tiny! Pages are 4x3cm, with coptic binding. They are oh so nifty and oh so tiny and also functional if you can write things tinily enough! If you want one, poke me or NomiChos (via twitter, or a@creativepony.com on the email/msn/jabber).
We’re pondering possibility of having custom pages printed in to them, so you could provide a bunch of images, text, or a pdf, and have it bound in to a tiny keepsake book which could be on a necklace or keyring or what have you. The one pictured has blank fairly smooth arty sort of paper in it. :)
Doodled Impbox in Adobe Ideas (free) on Glompbot’s iPad to see what finger doodling on an iPad is like. It was surprisingly good! Unlike the iPhone, there’s plenty of space to work and I didn’t find my finger got in the way too much, but I expect it would have been even better if I’d had the use of my Pogo Sketch Stylus.
It’s making me really want an iPad. Must wait for second generation! Must resist the vortex of appley dooooom! DOOOOM!
In other words, exactly what the U.S. Government wanted to happen in order to destroy WikiLeaks has happened here: news reports that a key WikiLeaks source has been identified and arrested, followed by announcements from anonymous government officials that there is now a worldwide “manhunt” for its Editor-in-Chief. Even though WikiLeaks did absolutely nothing (either in this case or ever) to compromise the identity of its source, isn’t it easy to see how these screeching media reports — WikiLeaks source arrested; worldwide manhunt for WikiLeaks; major national security threat — would cause a prospective leaker to WikiLeaks to think twice, at least: exactly as the Pentagon Report sought to achieve? And that Pentagon Report was from 2008, before the Apache Video was released; imagine how intensified is the Pentagon’s desire to destroy WikiLeaks now. Combine that with what both the NYT and Newsweek recently realized is the Obama administration’s unprecedented war on whistle-blowers, and one can’t overstate the caution that’s merited here before assuming one knows what happened.
A better pic of new hair. :)
