I wish I could draw » code http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog A (usually) visual blog to share my work and things that other artists create. Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:58:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 NBC UX #Fail http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2010/02/12/nbc-ux-fail/ http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2010/02/12/nbc-ux-fail/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:08:56 +0000 Spence http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/?p=313 Me: home from a long day.
Deb and the Girls™: sitting in the living room watching some crappy chick flick.
Me: I think I’ll watch some olympics video on the NBC site…
NBC: You don’t have the right version of Silverlight.
Silverlight: Do you wanna?
Mac: Hey!  Are you sure?
Silverlight: Well?  Do you wanna?
Silverlight: Where do you want it?
Silverlight: Are you sure?
Mac: Gimme the password.
Silverlight: Click this.
NBC: Still can’t play your video.
Me: Refresh.
NBC: Loading Video!
Video: <volume=”10x”> AD AD AD AD AD AD AD!!! </volume=”10x”>
Video: Crappy slideshow with telephone conversation and blurry B-Roll!!
NBC: Here’s three pop-behind ads for ya!
Me: …
How can they think that I’ll ever come back?

Me: home from a long day.
Deb and the Girls™: sitting in the living room watching some crappy chick flick.
Me: I think I’ll watch some olympics video on the NBC site…
NBC: You don’t have the right version of Silverlight.
Silverlight: Do you wanna?
Mac: Hey!  Are you sure?
Silverlight: Well?  Do you wanna?
Silverlight: Where do you want it?
Silverlight: Are you sure?
Mac: Gimme the password.
Silverlight: Click this.
NBC: Still can’t play your video.
Me: Refresh.
NBC: Loading Video!
Video: <volume=”10x”> AD AD AD AD AD AD AD!!! </volume=”10x”>
Video: Crappy slideshow with telephone conversation and blurry B-Roll!!
NBC: Here’s three pop-behind ads for ya!

Me: …

How can they think that I’ll ever come back?

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  1. Western Digital drives are preformatted with NTFS.  In order to install them on an Airport Extreme, you must first reformat them so they are writable by your mac clients.  Use Journaled (Extended).
    • A side note: Time Machine actually WILL work on the airport shared drive.
  2. In Autodesk Maya, if you want to load an image sequence, you need to insure that it’s naming convention follows this rule: [filename].####.[extension]
    • If you use a standard naming convention like [filename]_####.[extension], it will pretend to work but give errors like:
//"Warning: Texture file /Volumes/AQCC/video/act04Tiff/act04_00000.tif doesn't exist, node file1 //
    • This is arcane knowledge that took me hours to figure out.  Use it wisely.
    • An appropriate filename example would be: “act04.0003.tif“
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In other news, the Tumblr Blog now has comments.

What a boring post.  Sorry your RSS woke you up for this one..

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VISICHUNK

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Yes, that’s right.  All two of my ardent followers can now keep up to date via iPhone or other mobile browser.  How cool is that?

Nifty (free) plugin for Wordpress called WPTouch

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PTAM + AR on an iPhone 3G | quietube.

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I love that I get to post with titles like this..

This is an interesting application of Augmented Reality:  An animation / movie maker site with pre-composed animations on their own model.

AR is still kinda geeky (OK, a LOT geeky) and somewhat technical to set up but innovations like this are bringing it closer to mainstream.

I have the FLAR Toolkit and a teeny bit of coding experience.  What should I build?

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German automation company Festo AG has an amazing demo of their latest robotics experiments.  Flying and swimming penguins as well as some very cool modular robotics components.  It reminds me of Theo Jansen’s walking sculptures I posted about last year.

Check out the video here.

Update 16:13PST

More Festo robots. This one looks a little scary actually…


]]> http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2009/06/09/biomimicry-floating-penguins/feed/ 0 Oh. Right,… I’m a geek. http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2009/06/04/oh-right-im-a-geek/ http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2009/06/04/oh-right-im-a-geek/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:54:30 +0000 Spence http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/?p=56 Had a great day at E3 again yesterday – Tons of recordings and a few cool pics.  Cam and Leneb and i had a conversation over breakfast as to what the litmus test for one being a geek is.  I believe I’ve found at least one method of determination:

spenceisageek

This is an Augmented Reality game.  Not very fun but definitely makes you look like a moron.  A happy moron, but a moron nonetheless.

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Totally confused this morning as to how to add to the links on the left side of the page here without creating a new Wordpress page.  The “links” on the right are present in the admin page but don’t appear on the public-facing pages.

Wondering where the actual php page is in the Wordpress hierarchy… <sigh>

Update: Erik just checked in and got me deeper into this than I thought I was going to get – But I’m learning!  Hey buddy CHMOD you too!

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