Exploring Creativity
Posted in Other Media on Jul 18th, 2005
Common Desk (QuickTime) is a fantastic, and really long examination of creativity. Incorporates ads and various media from various sources. Really great. via
Monthly Archive for July, 2005
Writer’s Guide
Posted in Books on Jul 14th, 2005
Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer’s Shortcut to Stronger Writing by C.J. Cherryh: As a general rule … your viewpoint characters should have less, rather than more, description than anyone else: a reader of different skin or hair color ought to be able to sink into this persona without being continually jolted by contrary information. [...]
Chaos Theory
Posted in Fun on Jul 11th, 2005
Chaos Theory – 2 is a goofy little flash game. I’ve gotten up to 103 so far.
Holy Mother of Rush
Posted in Other Media on Jul 10th, 2005
I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of work that went into this, but Bobby Standridge actually created a CGI version of Neil Peart playing YYZ (Direct link to the 43 MB WMV File). First of all, I’ve always loved Rush, so mad props for having fantastic taste. Second of all, I never knew [...]
Crash the Trailer
Posted in Web on Jul 7th, 2005
OK, the movie, The Wedding Crashers, doesn’t look all that interesting to me, but I gotta say that the Crash the Trailer viral ad that they whipped up is Awesome! You upload pictures of yourself or whomever, and they superimpose the pictures onto the faces of the stars of the movie. Very clever, or at [...]
RSS For Contact Management
Posted in General on Jul 6th, 2005
I love the idea of something like RSSContact.com, but I don’t think anybody I know is geek enough to actually subscribe to whatever contact channel I might create. Hell, I’m not even geek enough to subscribe to somebody else’s channel. It’s like PGP for e-mail. I’d love to use it, but I can’t for reasons [...]
How to Photograph Fireworks
Posted in Photography (others) on Jul 3rd, 2005
I thought I’d posted an article about How to photograph fireworks with a digital camera before. I know I’ve read it before. It turns out that no, I hadn’t posted it, so here you go. Oh, and more links here.
Ooooh, Shiny!
Posted in Photography (others) on Jul 1st, 2005
After seeing a bit of the sparkler fun on Flickr, I’m thinking I need to pick up some sparklers for the fourth. Nice.
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.
Posted in Other Media on Jul 1st, 2005
OK, it’s not really The Princess Bride, but The Duel (QuickTime) is an amusing little animation of a couple of swashbucklers having themselves a good old-fashioned sword fight.