<releases squeaky fart>
edit:
<floored for 30 seconds rofl'ing about the aformentioned flatulence>
601 2012-05-12 04:36:56
Re: Is comedy completely subjective? (12 replies, posted in Off Topic)
602 2012-05-12 04:33:13
Re: Where were you when it all went down? (11 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Yeah, I was taking German language classes at that time. Both of my instructors, Die Frauen Mast und Schmidt had their share of stories of sheiss that had gone down back in their respective days. One had survived Dresdens' firebombing by leaping into the Danube(?), the other had walked from the Polish/German territories with her family to get into Allied territory before the Russians took control. '89 meant a whole lot to them.
603 2012-05-11 20:46:55
Re: Where were you when it all went down? (11 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Two sides to every story, and now we know who the real hero was.
Hat tip to C-Spin in the chatbox for perfect google fu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8
604 2012-05-11 20:15:42
Re: Where were you when it all went down? (11 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Brilliant!!
Adminstrative judo, subverting their intentions, thinking for yourself under a conformist regime!!
605 2012-05-11 20:00:02
Topic: Where were you when it all went down? (11 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Group of my mates and I were at Rockstock, one of those local radio sponsored music festivals, 1998-ish. Soundgarden, Rage against the Machine and such acts. Very neo-hippy stoner crowd, stadium sized, sloped-lawn seating.
We notice a hubbub as the security team pursues a skinny skater-type individual along the back fence at the crest of the slope. He's shouting about how they want to narc his stash, or whatever. As he makes his way behand and past us-- by now the whole lawn is paying attention to the chase-- my buddy stands up and shouts, "REVOLUTION!!" with no particular plan other than to entertain.
But there's a silent beat among the crowd and then everyone jumps to their feet shouting, and maybe one in ten of them starts running toward the action. The net effect being that the fugitive found himself in friendly cover and the security guys had no hope of making the guy again.
It was not televised, just as that man on the TV had predicted.
Where were you?
606 2012-05-08 17:40:26
Re: Suggest an Intermission! (198 replies, posted in Episodes)
Dave, I had the same subborn feeling, but I think it ultimately came from: http://downinfront.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=656
607 2012-05-02 17:02:51
Re: Ebert's greatest films of all time. (24 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I like Megan Fox.
(We've got 'im where we want him now, boys...)
608 2012-05-02 01:45:54
Re: 3ds Max and Particle Flow (11 replies, posted in Off Topic)
My self study method has always been to make up my own projects and then figure out how to do them. Maya has the built-in help system and tutorials, and then you're only a google away from plenty of you-tube tuts as well. Autodesk has a forum called "The Area" for peer-to-peer help, and I could probably put you in touch with at least one relative expert on Maya (<-not me at all, Maya's inteface has completely beaten me, I don't go there anymore) if you ever get truly stuck on something.
609 2012-05-01 19:14:40
Re: 3ds Max and Particle Flow (11 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Max user and old-school DW watcher (if not 'fan') here.
I had the same thought as Teague a week or two back when (I think) you mentioned this project in an off-hand comment in another thread...Cards with a feathered edge around a central hole, and I think that could be done in After Effects with a bit of scripting to organize your cards as 3D layers along a nurbsy-spline path.
In Max-- and thinking more about how they've done it for the show-- there's got to be a cloud/fog simulation running that you couldn't really expect static textures to mimic. I've only ever used partivolume fogs, so I can't immediately suggest The Best way to get the photoreal cloud look. One that occurs to me is to produce a few cubes or spheres full of animated volume fog, export them as Mental Ray proxy objects, and then use those as particles in a much lighter pFlow system.
There may also be a way to create a cloud-ish Mental Ray material with sub-surface scattering that would react to light the way the real effect does, and then you simply build the partcle system with blobby shapes of that material.
edit2
Third idea: create a texture mapped material and a 2-D animated, wispy, highly transparent texture for it. Then apply the material to your tunnel mesh, using face-mapping (so every mesh- face shows the wispy texture map) and copy the mesh several times, each time growing the tube diameter a bit.
610 2012-04-29 04:03:29
Re: DIF Community Project: DIF Road Trip! (569 replies, posted in Creations)
We had a great time filming this stuff in the city Yesterday. First we drove around getting through-the window-stuff and otherwise screwing around, to the tune of 10 gigs/30minutes. My takes add up to 4.3 gigs, and we had to quit because-- like the dumbass I am-- I forgot to grab the spare batteries for the borrowed T3i. Then we hit base camp and grabbed iJim's Panasonic rig to shoot his takes...I have no idea how much data he's got from that, but I handheld a little Sony handicam for BTS material, over 25 minutes and 3 gigs.
Most amazing note on the day:
Neither one of us ever farted in the car, in spite of the Qdoba luncheon.
PS Teague, not sure I can improve on my parts but it could be reshot...I was just starting to flow when the battery died.
PPS Jim is a helluva director...I can't say enough nice things. That's why I had to kill him...
611 2012-04-26 19:34:00
Re: DIF Community Project: DIF Road Trip! (569 replies, posted in Creations)
I haven't even mentioned this thing to my wife. I'm quietly taking a day off tomorrow to film, and she never has to know...shhhhhhhhhh!!!!!11
612 2012-04-24 23:33:31
Re: #28 - Film vs Digital (62 replies, posted in Episodes)
paulou wrote:
Or could have been that it was poorly designed and just terrible to use. There are a lot of design compromises that have to be made to get that form factor in a 35mm camera, cost benefit/quality/ease of use probably just wasn't there.
Digital backs are standard in medium format cameras, but their design affords the bulky back end and display needed to make it work, rather than fitting the entire package in the space of two 35mm spools.
Oh, I'm sure you're right about that! Design being as important as it is in cameras, the prototypes probably looked like hell, and even the state of the art imaging hardware of today would be hard pressed to fit comfortably inside an existing 35mm film bay.
613 2012-04-24 00:53:50
Re: Hey Brian,... SPACE SHUTTLE! (16 replies, posted in Off Topic)
^That's the fascinating in-air copulatory behavior of the nearly extinct Alumatit. The only known specimens are now in museums.
614 2012-04-21 19:51:44
Re: Are Video Games Art? (219 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Joss is supposed to be on Ira's show this weekend.
edit, sorry, it's a re-run.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-a … -the-crime
edited edity edit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM3Hme36g0s
615 2012-04-20 20:31:03
Re: DIF Community Project: DIF Road Trip! (569 replies, posted in Creations)
That's it!
Now I'm putting the finishing touches on that Vidina voo-doo doll I started the other day...
616 2012-04-20 02:35:03
Re: DIF Community Project: DIF Road Trip! (569 replies, posted in Creations)
PM'ed,
but I also got to thinking it might help if each of the colors could chat amongst ourselves about our delivery, appearance, shades of shirt color, hats, glasses, additional props, etc. But for that we'd need to know who we all are...so is that info verboten? or can we see a partial cast list somehow?
617 2012-04-19 20:26:16
Re: DIF Community Project: DIF Road Trip! (569 replies, posted in Creations)
Are we there yet?
Any leeway on the lines, or do we need to be slavishly accurate to the script? e.g. punching it up with cursing, or choosing synonyms and euphemisms?
618 2012-04-19 15:54:42
Re: #28 - Film vs Digital (62 replies, posted in Episodes)
fcw wrote:
drewjmore wrote:I've had the same idea Sqig, incredible that noone's done that yet.
Someone tried more than a decade ago.
Holy shit! That must've happened while I was in the bunker with all that tinfoil on my head!
The fraudulent aspects of that company also fascinate me. Could that be related to why such a thing never materialized as a real product; concern that any new venture would be painted with the same brush?
619 2012-04-16 13:57:12
Re: #28 - Film vs Digital (62 replies, posted in Episodes)
I've had the same idea Sqig, incredible that noone's done that yet.
620 2012-04-14 20:21:33
Re: Oh humanity, seriously, fuck you. (16 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Ow! Pricey lesson in cynicism. Happens all the time around me, a van will pull up next to you at a stop-light and offer you whatever stolen/worthless goods they have to fence. Legitimate businessmen don't operate out of their vehicles, however flashy.
621 2012-04-14 13:36:03
Re: DIF in China (5 replies, posted in Off Topic)
...and how can anyone ever possibly hope to understand you?
622 2012-04-13 03:43:32
Re: Does the chat annoy you? (19 replies, posted in Off Topic)
It could still mean that anyway. Just saying.
623 2012-04-13 00:42:14
Re: Does the chat annoy you? (19 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I like that my typing and "thoughts" will evaporate eventually. That makes me pro-chat.
624 2012-04-08 01:08:30
Re: DIF Community Project: DIF Road Trip! (569 replies, posted in Creations)
paulou wrote:
6. Dead Man (!!)
Jarmusch Five!
625 2012-04-07 02:36:21
Re: DIF Community Project: DIF Road Trip! (569 replies, posted in Creations)
In. I'd be comfortable hamming it up, or all the way down the continuum to just staring blankly.
(pimping my past work:
http://youtu.be/uHKyUZnETaQ <---also shows my car
http://youtu.be/FEQo3gpVuVU
)
1. I'm naturally fast and loud, but I can control it with chemicals.
2. Midwestern, but I do can a bad french or australian, sometimes in the same breath.
3. Putty in your hands
4. I've got a crossover style Saturn Vue, I could be tied to the roofrack or TJ Hookering from the hood.
5. There's never efuckingnough of it.
6. 12 Monkeys and the Grail were the first two that came to mind, and then The Fisher King. But I've never seen Brazil, so I can't really be called a Gilliam fan.