15.5.11 | Posted by
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Raf Simons Wide Leg Trousers
Quickly: which shot is of the front and which shot is of the back? Exactly.
CSI: Toronto
So a guy came into the subway with absurdly large shoes. So large in fact that I had to take a picture. Unfortunately the iPhone’s extremely wide angle lens skews the perspective of the picture considerably – although still large in the picture, the shoes were much larger in real life. Without the picture, there is no way for me to convey how hilariously massive this individual’s shoes were… or is there?
Adobe Technology Sneaks 2011: Warp Stabilizer for AE
Pretty awesome. Unmentioned seems to be some sort of Content-Aware technology for the edges in place of motion tiling/repeating edge pixels. That's huge! Not just for stabilization but for camera shake, camera moves, and I'm sure some other things too.
Mykita x Romain Kremer
Gulliver's Travels
From the studio that brought you Night at the Museum comes.. pretty much the same movie. Starring Jack Black as Jack Black playing Jack Black.
Devil, And Why Brown People Always Die First
One of the few movies with "devil" in the title that's actually about the Devil.
I chose to watch Devil over Buried. The decision seemed rational at the time. Buried is a one-word-title movie about some person stuck in a claustrophobic setting and features a Canadian guy. Devil is a one-word-title movie about some persons stuck in a claustrophobic setting, is written by a brown guy, and has a main character that looks like a brown guy. Dividing both sides by their common elements, I was left to decide whether 2(brown guys) + some other people > 1(Canadian guy). The answer was certainly yes. Unfortunately the first brown guy died, and the second was M. Night Shymalan.
The iPhone 4's Camera, And Why It's Underwhelming
Megapixels in photography is sort of like GHz in computing. They're both commonly referred to units when discussing their respective devices. They're often the first and last thing novices use to gauge a device's worth. And they're both very misleading. Just like you can get a Pentium 4 up to 4 GHz and get week-long render times, you can use a 5 MP camera and still get crappy pictures. Case in point: the iPhone 4's camera.
Steelcase Walking Desk
I found this while looking for a desk.. Needless to say, if I went to an office that had these desks I would leave immediately.
Mykita x Bernhard Willhelm
Mykita has yet to distribute to Canada. I sent an e-mail asking them if and when they plan on doing so - rather than answer my question, they signed me up to their newsletter. Normally I would be annoyed, but God do they make some nice sunglasses.
Daylight for Windowless Rooms?
Daniel Rybakken is designing lighting fixtures in the shapes of parallelograms, which give the impression of sunlight coming in through a window and reflecting off a surface. This light trickery, although totally artificial, might be just the thing to bring outdoor cheer into a gloomy indoor space.I know someone who could use this.
Mustang Worklog
What I actually did (AHHH!)
What the computer did for me (turbosmooth and materials)
I had a really detailed write up on Super Street Fighter IV, but due to some... unpleasantness.. surrounding my internet connection I was unable to post it before the game's release. Of course I could do what I did with my Oscar predictions and retroactively correct them, but instead I decided to create a worklog for a 1966 Mustang I'm trying to model.
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 came out in 2000, and quickly became known as one of the greatest fighters ever made.. for the 1% of people who knew how to play the damn thing. Everyone else (myself included) was like, "WTF?" Capcom recently announced MvC3 exactly ten years later. So what's the deal? Is Capcom just a bunch of idiots?
Pawn-tus 3DS Maximus
In regards to that terrible title, I had an amazing pawn-related pun that I thought of last night which I now can't remember, so I'm using that as a placeholder until it comes back to me (pawns on me?). Seriously it was really funny.
A Real K'naan-drum
Ignore that title. They're featuring K'naan's "Wavin' Flag" quite a bit recently - Haiti relief, the Olympics, the World Cup - and I honestly have no idea what the lyrics mean.
When I get older,
I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom,
Just like a waving flag
And then it goes back,
And then it goes back,
And then it goes back
And then what goes back? This is the greatest lyric-related mystery since the thing that Meatloaf won't do for love.
When I get older,
I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom,
Just like a waving flag
And then it goes back,
And then it goes back,
And then it goes back
And then what goes back? This is the greatest lyric-related mystery since the thing that Meatloaf won't do for love.
Leather UGGs?
Easier to wash off the salt stains, I guess.
Facebook, And Why I Don't Use It
Because it's a... and it has a..
I was recently informed that no fewer than two people have attempted to contact me through Facebook. Thankfully ignoring people is something I'm known for (it's probably there on my profile under "Activities") so no one's feelings were hurt.
I don't use Facebook anymore. Not for any specific reason - i dun want ma gurl seein' me wit udder gurls - but because it just doesn't appeal to me. I will briefly discuss why.
Love in Paris, And a Solution to Google-Induced Stupidity
A short story about a man falling in love with a girl, told through Google searches. What struck me was how plausible it was, by which I'm referring to someone getting their life information from a search engine, not falling in love - although I'm sure that happens too. This at once shows 1) how robust Google's search engine is, and more importantly, 2) how stupid it has made us.
The Curious Case of royknox7
This guy develops in reverse. Or not at all. Does anyone think this case was curious?
How to Backup Your iPod and Have a Civilised Music Folder
Having unorganised music is no better than owning this.
People ask me all the time how they can transfer their iPod's music to their computer and/or organise their unsightly music folder. Well no - actually I've only been asked that once but I thought it was a good question.
Blitz Loss
More nonsense from the land of blitz where questionable openings reign supreme. Well at least in blitz you lose quickly.
Four Queen Mate
Okay here's my game against chekorean but using ChessFlash instead of Chess Viewer Deluxe, the latter of which was unsizable and wouldn't stay on the page.
Google Maps Street View, And Why You No Longer Have an Excuse to Get Lost
Google Maps Street View has finally launched in Canada.
Morro, And Why It's Morro What You Want
Microsoft Security Essentials (or Morro, which it has been thankfully renamed from) has gone public as of today. I’ve been using the beta for some time now and I must say it’s pretty good for a free service.
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