History Projects
Read my lovely wife Leah on History Day, featuring Tyler and friends, and some generalizations about girls and boys and projects involving glue guns, styrofoam, and posterboard.
Sho’ ’nuff.
Whiteboards
There are two whiteboards in my living room.
One is full of notes for a project in development.
It rained like crazy today.
Lots of work being done, and lots of work to do.
Pondering artistic outlets today.
I’m thinking about my dish-doing as an indicator of the lack of resentment and passive-aggression, and I suppose I’m surprised to see how a change in outlook that seems small can have dramatic consequences — in a positive way — in my life.
This weekend Tyler and his buddies worked on a project for school. It was a blast going to Michael’s (local craft store) and watching them pick out styrofoam and fake trees.
It’s been a heckuva day, on a number of levels.
Every day is new, and this one was hard, and busy, and great.
Word of the Day: Ganzfeld
The ganzfeld (“total field”) experiment uses audio and visual sensory deprivation to test for extra-sensory perception (ESP).
There are claims that this experiment yields results that deviate significantly from randomness, and represent some of the strongest experimental evidence for psi phenomena to date. As with all purported psi phenomena, these claims are highly controversial within science in general and even within parapsychology. The debate is well-documented in parapsychology journals and in articles such as those referred to below.
On the writeboard up in the bedroom this morning
“This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it”
Which sounds a little bit like the sentiment here.
I like saying “Onward” — but I think my new thing to say is “Everything is new.”
Or maybe there’s lots of different things to say. Yeah, that sounds right.
Rock on.
Bauhaus 3D Model
I told you before I was taking a class in 3D graphics and animation. Here’s a render of my most elaborate model to date. I’m proud of it. I learned a great deal on it, trying to get some organic, elegant forms working.
The basis of the model was this:
Each member of the class had a different one to work with. The instructor dug mine.
I also made a very short animation featuring this character and you can download it from here.
Update: or you can view it right here:
Comments and critiques welcome.
V for Victory
So back in july I posted Steampunk Anglo Warrior, 1990, and I mentioned V for Vendetta, getting lots of press for being a rabble rousing movie. I was perusing my giant list-o-feeds from the San Diego Bloggers site which pointed me to this post and which in turn pointed me to this Interview with Alan Moore. It’s coming out tomorrow, and Monday is my birthday, so I think my birthday gift to myself is to see it this weekend.
I read this post by James Wolcott last month and it got me thinking the thing would be quiote good. I have high hopes for it.
Randomalia: Beautiful weather today. Boys won their basketball game last night in a very tense match. Tyler was *everywhere* on the court, and Tony was Mr. Rebound. And I was telling Leah and Dev about the USC/Berkeley Basketball Prank. Kind of an icky scenario. Speaking of Dev, I’m a bit worried about Devon, he’s not sleeping, as far as I can tell. Alex may be working with us soon, which will be cool. And Leah has a cold which occasionally produces lots of nasal drips. But dude, she’s so strong, she made great spaghetti last night anyway. And don’t tell the boys, the “meat” in the sauce was actually tofu ground-beef-a-like. Class is good, I have some pictures and a movie to post soon, but not just this second. I’m feeling pretty good. Made some contracts with myself to carry out before Monday. We’ll see how I do. Life is pretty good. Learning lots, paying attention. Avoiding Mr. Capricious, embracing Mr. Plus. And oh, got a haircut last Sunday. Real short. Apparently what I wanted was a #4 on the sides, and a #6 on top. What are these barber numbers? Hirstute argot.
Barkman Launch!
Hey, I forgot to mention that last week Crawberts launched a new site for Barkman! — it’s at http://www.workinrhythm.com/ . I think it’s a nice piece of work. And Barky even . Yup, we do that, we install blogs for people.
Media Mention of Me
In Kelly Abbott’s article on iMedia Connection: Maven-Mapping for Fun & Profits
Religions of Comic Book Characters
This geeky page merges two of my interests: religion and comics. There are indeed some Catholics in here:
Religion of Comic Book Characters
This page focuses on fictional comic book characters — mostly from Marvel and DC — who are adherents of real-world (not purely fictional) religions.We want this page to be as accurate as possible, backed up by objective, published information and not based on conjecture. We do not want this listing to be slanted toward any particular denominational or religious viewpoint. It is intended to accurately report the composition of comic book character religiosity.
