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filtering the music
A week or two back, I decided I wanted to shake up my music listening a little bit. Normally when I’m in the studio I keep iTunes in random-by-album mode, going through a smart playlist that constantly rebuilds itself to only include music I haven’t listened to in the past three weeks. But I found myself bouncing to an album that I’ve had in ( Read more... ) -
Wacom Mobile Studio: initial impressions
First off, the most important question: Does it work properly with Adobe Illustrator? Yes. Stylus response with the pencil tool is just as smooth and instantaneous as it is with an external Intuos on my Air.
So I get to decide how I feel about the other things:
* it’s big. Too wide for my favorite, very minimal bag - it’s as tall as a 13” laptop, ( Read more... ) -
the dream of the impossible printing error
I dreamed that my books had come in! The Rita omnibus was printed, huzzah!
But the body of the book was just big dark grey spaces. After a moment the images would slowly load in. Somehow I had sent the printers an InDesign file that linked to images on my website instead of having them embedded in the file, and somehow they had managed to print ( Read more... ) -
Bugs For The Bug God
I decided to turn the doodle I made to show how to do symmetry into something like a full drawing.
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Symmetry
Tonight’s Illustrator how-to: drawing symmetrically.
- Draw a big rectangle, centered where you want the center of rotation to be. Far bigger than you anticipate ever drawing in. Like ‘3x as wide as the entire canvas’ big. Give it no stroke and no fill; it’ll become invisible when it’s not selected.
- Layers panel: click on the dot to the right of the ( Read more... )
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my music taste is old
As I stood there lipsyncing to Oingo Boingo's “Fill The Void”, I realized I've been listening to this band for most of my life. I'm not burnt out on them like I am the Beatles - seriously I think the Beatles may have the highest skip count of any artist in my library, I started listening to them in single digit years and I've heard all their songs ( Read more... ) -
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that horrible moment when it strikes you
when you do the math
and realize that you are more than likely past the halfway point of your entire life
I am 45. My father died at 42. My mother at 71. My grandmothers both held on closer to their nineties. Depending on who you use as a benchmark, I have anywhere from -3 to 40ish years left.
I came to this ( Read more... ) -
the hoard grows
A week or so ago, I mentioned that ➊ my birthday was coming up soon, and ➋ that I planned to purchase some doubloons to add to the modest pile of them I’d gotten a while back.
My friend Lewis saw this, and sent me a package. It sat around for a few days; I finally opened it today.
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a good holiday
After getting those uploads started, I spent most of the day in the living room playing “Hell Yeah!”, a flawed French 2d platformer. Basically it’s a 2d Sonic tribute with guns and camera issues; you spend a lot of time shooting at aerial enemies somewhere off the edge of the screen because the camera always, always, always keeps your undead rabbit ( Read more... )
