Dancing Goats Dec 9, 08, 8:27 a.m.

Just kinda need this right now. Post more if you got 'em.

Gonna be in L.A. Jan 6, 09, 7:22 a.m.

For a couple days next week for a work thing. Might have a little free time. Any reccomendations for anything interesting or god eats? My boss will want to do the glitzy bar thing where you see celebs, but that's not my thing really.

Any suggestions for:
food - hole in the wall local treasure type places
people watching
strange collecting and/or memorabilia type places

Bwahh!! Apr 28, 08, 2:39 p.m.

Actual IM between myself and co-worker from five minutes ago:

Me: Did you find those FLAs ok?

Her: actually, not yet... my ear just started gushing blood...

Me: omg r u ok??

*She disconnects*

o_O

RIP Freddie Hubbard Dec 30, 08, 5:37 a.m.

Another legend gone. :(

Awesomeness Dec 16, 08, 12:32 p.m.

This calls for some chemical equations. Bring them on.

Yahoo down? Dec 3, 08, 12:41 p.m.

Is it?

Actionscript training Dec 15, 08, 10:15 a.m.

So I'm doing a couple days of AS training, as it been a long time comin. Immersing my self in tutorials and the Lynda course and all that.

Question —
I assumed I'd just dive into AS3 as I work on CS3 and it only keeps moving forward. Should I back up and focus on AS2? Am I missing anything fundamental by starting training with AS3 and not having other background?

A Red Nosed Reindeer Dec 16, 08, 9:01 a.m.

DrBombay's other carol thread reminded me of my whole problem with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Been sticking in my craw.
....
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him,
you would even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph
join in any reindeer games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

Then all the reindeer loved him
as they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in history!

....

So at first the other reindeer laugh and call him names. They wouldn't let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games.

So Dasher and Dancer and all those guys are fucking cocks. We have that established.

But hold the fuck on. Santa comes in at the end, the big dick, and says "Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

THEN all the reindeer loved him. Then? THEN?? No they don't. Not one little bit. These are some callous fucking deer. I think we can see what's really going on here. At the deer shack it's all about kissing the bearded man's ass. Sucking up to Santa. God knows how that came about. There's one of two possibilities:

A. The deer shack is basically an episode of the Hills. Catty, manipulative deer are always battling out for Santa's favor and control of the herd.

B. Santa tortures reindeer. The reindeer live in fear of jolly ol St. Nick, and must appease him or else it's any number of unspeakable tortures, not to mention no food.

The only positive thing in the ending of the carol is that Rudolf now has the upper hand. If it's scenario A, Rudolf must grow a thick skin and get hip to the politics of North Pole reindeer if he's to maintain alpha status among the herd and remain Santa's number one boy.
If it's Scenario B., then let's hope our boy Rudolph figures that out too, and either keeps the fat man happy and lights the way for his annual wilding, or gets his ass out of there, possibly even liberating the other traumatized animals.

*insert endless screaming Jun 27, 08, 8:36 a.m.

Wtf??!!! Left overs??

http://www.wwtdd.com/post.phtml?…
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossi…

"Ever go to shake a guy's hand...and he doesn't have a whole hand?! And you gotta pretend that the handshake feels real good?"
-Sky Marshall Carlin

Um...I dunno May 8, 08, 9:27 a.m.

So this is Josh Brolin as George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's Bush biopic.
Is it weirding you out as much as it is me? I love Brolin, but um, I'm not sure.

I've always wanted to like Oliver Stone (I love "JFK"), but I think he's a bit of an asshat, frankly.
More here:
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/…

Cinema 4D texuring q Nov 3, 08, 7:26 a.m.

I have a vector logo to animate in 3D. Got the paths into C4D, and extruded nurbs, and all is well.

But, when I apply textures to it, using a bitmap image as texture (even if I change the nurbs to editable polygon object), the texture is only applied to the extruded sides of the logo, not the "caps" or front and back.
What's going on? thanks

After Effects conundrum Dec 17, 08, 2:08 p.m.

So I want to create this effect where a noodly stream of light particles flies around buildings and ultimately animates a logo. I'm going to cut between a few aerial shots showing the stages of animation.

For example, this kind of aerial shot:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detai…

All the particle stuff, no problem.
But I am stuck at which may be the best approach to matching the movement of the camera so it looks like all the good stuff is really in the shot. The options I have thought of are:
1. Eyeballing it and rotoscoping (probably not great looking)
2. A combination of motion tracking data sets
3. A fancy 3rd party match-move app like Boujou (which I do not have)

Any ideas? Am i missing something?

RIP Estelle Getty Jul 22, 08, 11:37 a.m.

"Mannequin's" true heroine has died.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/…

Do you do it? Apr 24, 08, 12:40 p.m.

http://www.dkgoodman.com/doita-f…

Iron Man Jul 31, 07, 7:53 a.m.

Wow, I am kinda psyched. Downey Jr. gets to be both funny and pretty bad assed.
http://www.gametrailers.com/play…

Albino Squirrel Heaven Jun 6, 08, 10:38 a.m.

Sam Sanfiliipo has created a taxidermied utopia to help keep the minds of the grieving occupied. His world of dioramas exists in the basement of an unassuming funeral home in Madison, WI. Enjoy this brief photo tour of some of the squirrel dioramas. The museum is also home to hundreds of other trophies including fish, raccoons, and at least a couple of badgers.

http://flickr.com/photos/extreme…

whoah

Jeff Healey, RIP Mar 3, 08, 8:38 a.m.

Died yesterday from cancer.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/0…

F**king Ben Affleck Feb 25, 08, 8:41 a.m.

Holy shi-ite. He really tops her.

It's real?! Jan 29, 08, 1:09 p.m.

I always thought the stolen kidney story was an urban myth.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video…

Transferring an internal drive Nov 5, 08, 8:22 a.m.

So my G5 of six years died last week, and I had to replace it. All my work work is on external drives, so that's all fine. But I have to get 80gb or so of stuff off the internal of the dead machine.

Someone at the Mac store said I have 2 options, either get a 'sled', or pop the internal drive into another machine and transfer. I'm going to try the latter.

Anyone ever do this before? Is it a big deal to do either?