Total Headshot Awesomeness.
Get a load of these pictures. Damn, what a decade. (via)
Some asshole rear-ended the Jeep last night on Beechwood Ave. and drove off, leaving a pile of headlight shards and a pool of coolant fluid behind. They didn’t leave a note. Now I can’t open the tailgate, because the bumper got pushed up over the lip of the hatch. The cops have filed a report (disinterestedly) and the insurance company has the claim on record.
People suck.
Double Bass Links. Someday, when i have a lot of money and some free time, I’m going to buy me an upright bass. Until then, this fellow has what could be called the largest pile of upright bass links on the internet.
A long-sleeved size large, if you please. This is also very cool. Additionally, it would be good to have, say, four of these.
Comments are now fixed. I forgot the </form> tag in the search field, so whenever someone tried to leave a comment, they got search results. Not that anybody left a comment to tell me or anything.
Last night I refocused some of my ADD into working with the images I scanned in New York. Because I scanned them at such a high resolution, I wanted to know if I need to reduce the image size or change the file format to work with the program I’ve got (iMovie 5.1). Doing a little reading, I found some advice online that scared me away from using iMovie to do the photo montage work altogether. Apparently when still images are exported to DVD from iMovie, the program throws out every other line of resolution so that the images show up onscreen without flicker. This obviously tosses half the image quality of the photo, which is less than optimal. I was also impressed but not excited about the photo manipulation tools in iMovie, so I followed some other advice and found two applications that look promising: Still Life and Photo to Movie.
Still Life is a nice little application, set up like a Quicktime window with a little timeline below. You can add “shots”, essentially keyframes for pans and zooms, and add in fades. It also allows for the layering of music tracks, although I haven’t fooled with this at all.
Photo To Movie is a step above Still Life; It opens up with a timeline view at the bottom and features adjustable panning and zooming, something iMovie and Still Life lack. It also has an adjustable background color, something I couldn’t find in Still Life—which makes using scanned photos much easier. Best of all, it took about 3 minutes to be up and running in this application. In a half-hour, I had four photos positioned, panned and scanned, titled (no small feat with multiple subjects in each picture) and ready to go. I’m most likely going to spend the $50 on the full featured version of this program after a DVD test later next week—I’m putting Photo To Movie up against iMovie in a head-to-head duel.
Make a super-simple light tent. I’ve wanted to make a huge one of these for about two years now, and this is exactly what I want without the complicated plan I’d developed myself. As a matter of fact, I happen to have two large empty boxes downstairs ready for this project.
Slate Roof Bible.
This is another purchase for the future; I may wind up doing some slae work myself, but most likely I’ll have a pro do it for us.
You may have noticed the boat up top is gone. And it’s a little less blue around here. While I had some time between projects, I decided to put a new look together for the site here that’s less oppressive, cluttered, and, well..blue. Obviously there are some things to be worked out with the templates, but overall it seems to be working pretty well.
Now, I have to wrestle with an install of Movabletype 3.2, which didn’t go so smoothly last time. Cross your fingers for me.
Oh, and the search function is wonky. Stay tuned.
Update: Looks like I broke something; the comments on this entry are busted. It doesn’t seem to actually be writing the individual HTML file…
Update update: I left a few small tags out when I rebuilt the templates. I put them back in, and I’m testing now… Yeah, that was it. One small tag at the top of each page, and MT wasn’t writing new pages for each entry (or updating current entries, for that matter.) If the following tag is left out:
<a href=”<$MTBlogURL$>” accesskey=”1″>
MT won’t write the various files correctly (or, at all, unless an entire site rebuild is performed.)
For those in the know, this is not a bad idea, nor is this, nor is this…
(link to main site-follow blue note link on left)