| Sunday, July 5th, 2009 |
| 8:11 pm |
Blackspot - come see the film I worked on at the Embassy
The feature film I worked on is having a one-time-only New Zealand Premiere at the Embassy on 15th July, 2009 at 6:30pm. Come watch as I turn day to night and surprise you with amazing visual effects work! I literally worked my ass off on this film and haven't been the same since then. Come support local film making! For more details see the Blackspot web site. See you there? |
| Sunday, June 28th, 2009 |
| 8:58 am |
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009 |
| 9:43 am |
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| Friday, June 19th, 2009 |
| 7:58 am |
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 |
| 9:38 am |
The Tragedy of the Commons
One cannot discuss economics if one has not read Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons". A friend of mine has written a long paper on "What is Money", but is not familiar with this. I have skimmed the Hardin paper after having a quick verbal summary provided by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) trickofthedark and found it very informative and look forward to a more thoughtful read of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commonsThere are links off to the paper itself and the Garret Hardin society web site where there are a number of fascinating looking articles. |
| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 |
| 10:14 am |
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| Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 |
| 5:01 pm |
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| Thursday, May 21st, 2009 |
| 5:42 pm |
Ivory Anniversary
Not a very sustainable sort of gift idea... but it means that we've been married for 14 years. It has passed like a blur. My sweetie and I celebrated last night with roasted chicken, squash from our garden, double chocolate chip cookies and the proper version of Pride & Prejudice (that would be the one with Colin Firth). Bliss. |
| 1:58 pm |
Toyota MPG
The second Toyota spot is out now. Again - I did all the distant crowd generation work and the globe made of people. I was quite pleased with my particle creation script working to set which sprites to use based on a texture map so that blue-dressed dressed sprites appeared over the ocean and green ones where land is supposed to be. The most challenging shot was the extra-wide scene at 12 seconds - everything in that shot is synthetic and all of the people were generated using my system. An additional challenge was to make the clips for each sprite be offset in time so that as the car goes by they wave around to create a "wake" as the car moves along. |
| Saturday, May 16th, 2009 |
| 8:11 am |
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| Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 |
| 9:32 am |
Harmony Commercial on YouTube.
It looks much better here than on the WSJ link I posted earlier. I did nearly all of the distant people crowds using a particle system with cards of individual actors waving or changing from snow to grass. It was a lot of fun to work on and the guys in Auckland did an awesome job comping and bringing together all the effects work. |
| Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 |
| 10:09 am |
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| Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 |
| 9:04 am |
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| Thursday, April 30th, 2009 |
| 1:58 pm |
Kitchen Fail
My pie was starting to bubble over and I slid an aluminium baking sheet under it. Boom! Glass everywhere. |
| Sunday, April 26th, 2009 |
| 8:00 am |
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| Friday, April 24th, 2009 |
| 10:24 am |
Keep your eye on this: Pakistan
There seems to be little coverage of this in the US media at present. Hillary Clinton, has described the situation in Pakistan as " a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world". I do not believe a nuclear-capable Taliban in Pakistan will be tolerated and action of some kind would seem the likely outcome. This is huge and it would seem that action might occur within days on this. What will this mean locally? Today? Tomorrow? Next week? It depends on what action is taken and how neighbouring India and China react. It is well worth considering how this might impact your life where you are. Good luck and be well. |
| Monday, April 20th, 2009 |
| 10:12 am |
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| Saturday, April 18th, 2009 |
| 11:09 am |
Column A or B?
The title of the video is somewhat off-putting, but I think the argument is fundamentally sound. Choosing to do nothing and not making a decision are one and the same, in either case leading to an outcome with the results being far worse than trying and failing. It makes for interesting consideration and is probably worth ten minutes to sit through and watch. |
| Thursday, April 16th, 2009 |
| 8:02 pm |
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| Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 |
| 11:57 am |
This just in from Amazon Customer Service...
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Amazon.com.
This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection.
It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian themed titles - in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon's main product search.
Many books have now been fixed and we're in the process of fixing the remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures to make this kind of accident less likely to occur in the future.
Thanks for contacting us. We hope to see you again soon.
Sincerely,
Customer Service Department
Amazon.com
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