This is just something to post in the meantime that should have been posted forever ago. I’ve been so damn busy lately but I am transitioning to stop taking on work and studying more/maintenance on my blog etc. Stay tuned for a new look on the blog too!
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I started using sticky notes with color codes for task management, and after my first week I have to say its awesome! I think I overdid it though lol, but I feel my overall efficiency is so much better!
A week of stickies lol
stickies in action on my desk
Click the image above to view it in full size! Then Print it out as large as possible! It makes a little desktop sized Billy May’s Cube Model.
So I’ve been working on my 3d skills lately. Ever since school got out I have been focusing on some summer projects and have been setting some goals. The first one is get better at High Poly Character Modeling/Rendering, and the second is learn PHP. Here’s myself in 3d, its very detailed and extremely high poly. I created materials for my glasses, but I am going to texture it when I get some spare time, add hair and probably animate it as well. Click the image above to see a larger version, and Stay Tuned for more!
I am going to change some of the content I put onto my blog. Now that I am taking on some work, I will be posting updates from my current work as well as tutorials. I’ll keep it light, and only put it up if its interesting 
So anyway, I’ve always been intrigued with HDR photography. I remember seeing my first HDR photo on digg (of course) and being amazed at the sheer quality of it! Ever since then I’ve been practicing more and more HDR photography, but the more I do it the more I learn that its a never ending process that truly is an art to master. Also I used to want to be a photographer, yes I know.. kinda weird..while I might have moved on… the passion is still burning! Check these out!
So I’ve been working on my site for a long time. I mean a LONG TIME. Its really been a couple of months, but realistically a month straight of pure unattended non-stop work because of other distractions like school/work/etc weren’t so crazy! So anyway here it is(a low bandwidth site is coming soon too)!!! here are some light and very nerdy specs on it! But the whole site is in beta, so expect a lot more content! As soon as the remaining renders in 3ds max are done I’ll add the remaining content, however in the meantime I’ll blog some more and keep you guys posted!
-Flash CS4
-I’m proud to say that the whole site is Actionscript 3.0
1. Full O.O.P – via the document data class! (drools)
2. Notable custom classes include Papervision GreatWhite2.0, Tweenmax, and TweenLight.
3. One of my main focuses was strict garbage collection! So the site runs really really fast!
-3ds Max for all 3d elements
1.V-ray plugins
2.Brazil engine
-Post Production Adobe After Fx
-Flash Media Encoder – extensive work/research to create small vid sizes for optimal playback
-Photoshop CS4 – what else?
-Dreamweaver – another what else?
-Fireworks
-Adobe sound booth
-Swf Object Install
-Papervision great white 2.0 used!
-Full screen mode!
-Liquid GUI – TRY Resizing the browser!
-dynamic content via XML!!!
-RSS feeds hooked up to my blog!
-Once again Its only in beta – so more content coming as soon as the renders in 3ds max are done!!
Ok, so imagine you want to send your friend a video in chat, post a cool video, etc, and its like 10 mins long and you only want to show 1 part of the video?! Well recently youtube added comment time feature, but it doesn’t show up in the URL. SO HERES HOW TO DO IT!!!!
1.Say you have this vid you would like to send to someone and the really funny part is at 2:13
2. First grab the url of the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbGpacRp1-c
3. Take this Code #t=_m__s, and then fill in your times in the __ (blank) spots. Lets take it apart
Full Code #t=_m__s
Time (not used) #t=
Minutes _m
Second __s
4. So if the time I wanted to start is 2 minutes and 32 seconds. It would look like this
1. GO FROM THIS —#t=_m__s
2. TO THIS ———#t=2m32s
3. Easy Right?
3. Then take this simple code and slap into onto the end of your videos, as shown in red!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbGpacRp1-c#t=0m39s
#t=_m__s
Alright so Peerguardian (if you don’t know), is an open source IP blocking program that is updated daily with huge lists of Government agencies, anti p2p, even advertisement ip addresses. What does that mean? Well say you are downloading something (I’ll keep it legal and you are downloading Ubuntu via torrent) and you are worried about who’s “snooping” or looking at your computer…Well say an agency like the RIAA who is looking for people downloading suspicious items, peerguardian completely blocks them from ever accessing your pc. It means safety, security, peace of mind, and for you pirates out there… not getting caught easily.
If you have ever tried it on Vista, then this message comes up… Which basically means its not working because of some silly driver issue with Vista. After looking around and nobody seemed to have a real answer… Don’t count the registry edit hack ie. “DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS” Lets keep it simple!
1. Alright first Restart your computer
2.Wait for the Bios to begin! Immediately begin PRESSING F8
3.On Your screen you will see “Advanced Boot Options” (see pic below)
4.Click on “Disable Driver Signature Enforcement.
5.Now Log into your Computer, and start peerguardian!!! It should work now!!
6.NOTE: Disabling Driver Enforcement can be risky, so try the above steps once and if no other problems occur you should be fine, but still be careful (I myself have had no problems on 3 of my computers doing this)!
7.Surf in complete, non slowed down, anonymity!
Hey so my server went down…:( lol and it really screwed everything up. My traffic was great and now… its so low now because when I look at my analytics for where the blog is linked, its all screwed up and going to the wrong places unfortunately! But hey, no sweat! I’m gonna make the best of the situation and this post is to inform you that the blog is going to get some little aesthetic updates(got some great ideas I want to put together), and after the success of my first video tutorial….(drumroll please lol)I’m launching a mini video series on my blog! What is it? I’m going to give a full comprehensive tutorial on how to learn photoshop to… lets say an intermediate level. Maybe I’ll then do another series on…. hmmm 3ds max, possibly the basics of afterFX, or dreamweaver? not sure though.. I guess it all depends on how much work I take on and when my site launches(which is a whole other ordeal lol). I would like to note though, I think that all these randoms posts I do are interesting so I will continue to do them at the same time as the tutorial vids! So stay tuned as I gather my thoughts and put this series together – My Goal is to make it as easy as possible to understand while remaining full of technical info, but go over it in a way that isn’t dead pan boring like all of those other crappy vids out there (yes I said that lol)!
Happy New Year! I am Sorry If I haven’t been posting as often as I usually do 
I have good news HOWEVER!!! I have great things in mind and finally got my audio set up at my computer so I can finally (after a couple of setbacks) put out some video blogs on some more interesting and complex topics! But I ran into a couple cool things over the winter break and figured I’d throw them up on my blog because they were so helpful!
Anyway – Well I saw this and was astonished by the quality of some of these brushes… Some of those deviantart.com people literally just make this stuff all day with little to no thanks in return lol. But anyway I figured why not share them with some good friends?! Take a look at the link and try em’ out, I used them on the image above for this post lol with great success…MANY OF THEM ARE HIGH RES. I’m sure you’ll have a great time with them!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
