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Photo blog time.
Put a poland spring water in the freezer... just so it would cool down a bit more than in the fridge... it was perfect when it came out. Just enough liquid, just enough ice. It ended up with this sort of cup looking thing attached to the inside of the cap.
I wish I had a better camera - but there's something nice and lo-fi about the camera phone camera.
I call it "cup of dirt". Thanks Brian Regan for making me laugh more than I ever knew possible!
Well, I've been schooling myself on combustion by discreet using a fantastic book called The Focal Easy Guide to Discreet Combustion. I'm pretty pleased with this book. I mean, it's not always that a book manages to teach you how you can work with the application. Most books seem to be all about "this menu does that". That kind of teaching does me no good at all, frankly.
This one though... real nice. I'm understanding keying now much better than I used to.
Perhaps it helps that I've got a pretty solid understanding of Adobe's After Effects.
I'm a little bit amazed that Combustion seems to be laid out in a way that makes more sense to me. After 4 years of AE - I finally understand "stencil alpha" -- only because I get it in combustion! I like that palettes are available only when you need them, rather than constantly hanging out and getting in the way. Screens are too small anyways. Perhaps all the more reason for 2 monitors. Although with the laptop that can get annoying pretty quick.
If you need to learn combustion - I highly recommend this book.
It's amazing to me what some small things can do for a person. Good things make such a difference. Niceness... what more could you ask for?
Thank you Julia. I love your poem.
It means so much to me, and you mean the world to me.
well - time to get this thing back to life. Moved a hard-drive's image over to a new(er) computer - lost some prefs... got to get ecto back working again.
Something will happen soon. I can just feel it.
I'm hoping to spend more time being creative - and less time being frozen. I just picked up a fantastic book called Developing digital short films. It's been a great read so far - and in some ways has made me feel like I'm back in film school. I felt way more creative then. Perhaps it's just the advertising business that bums me out. No knocking JLH - I mean she's cute and all - and this was even fun to cut. But the politics involved... enough already. Shouldn't name names now should I?
So, for giggles I think I'll start posting some of my photoblogs. Starting today. Ouch, I say.
Well - now that's a post that can help get things kicked off now isn't it?
See you soon.