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victoria trip 2010

ross — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:04:33 +0000

Some friends and I took a quick trip to Buchart Gardens and Victoria. here are some pictures:

^ It was like this but with a breeze

Well, the break is almost over now-- back to school to finish off the final film… but, first, some cafe sketching.

abstracting organizations’ names

ross — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:44:12 +0000

Organizations love to turn their names into acronyms. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the FBI. International Business Machines Corporation is known as IBM. Kentucky Fried Chicken is KFC.

Some organizations go further. One example is the American Automobile Association which goes by “AAA.” It is then usually pronounced as “Triple A.”

So I thought I’d help the “Triple A” with abstracting their name even more (for future use). Here’s what I came up with:

American Automobile Association –> AAA –> triple A –> TA –> teacher assistant –> “the teach” –> TT –> double T

Of course the abstracting could be taken further.

new links

ross — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:33:08 +0000

I added some vfs friends to the links page. Check them out and let me know if I forgot anybody.

Here they are closer than the links page:

edit: added more peoples from VFS

spoetry

ross — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:08:45 +0000

what light through yonder window breaks? It is online pharmacy, and cheap prescription meds are the sun.

Here is my contribution to the canon of spoetry:

Wanna find a safe way to succeed?
At once and there is no need to wait!
Do not hesitate
Get the whole variety of meds you need

We have them all and more!
Doctors secretly recommend you this store!
We make it to be near
Don’t agree to stay a loser in new year!

a drawer that holds almost everything

ross — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:14:37 +0000

It might look complex, but it is just a normal drawer turned inside-out. Easy to make and practical.

A while ago I was talking with a friend about some preposterous idea that I was thinking about. He said that I would make a good engineer if all my ideas weren’t junk. I’d like to agree.

nice everything

ross — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:29:39 +0000

Check out these artists:

some animation!

ross — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:11:24 +0000

zoologic
an episode of Pic Pic ( Belgian )
another episode of Pic Pic

microsoft songsmith

ross — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:04:58 +0000

here and here and here

you can pick one, two, or three of the above!

This Songsmith thing is actually really impressive no matter what can be said about the quality of the music ( a fair bit).

a few sketches and amazing GE page

ross — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:41:38 +0000

a few character sketches that I did tonight

and also this: http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality

woah!

sketches and openCanvas

ross — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:26:52 +0000

a sketch/color study for my final film at VFS

Things are gearing up to start final film production here. It’s, of course, very exciting and also a bit frightening. The most interesting part from my perspective, I think, will be seeing how I feel about my film idea at the end of 3 months. I can’t imagine liking it at that point since it’s tough to like any single idea for that long… though, I still like the idea of running a lottery-- there are exceptions, thankfully.

In the “hey check this out!” arena-- you should check out this page, especially if you want to find a free version of openCanvas that allows you to collaborate over the Internet. I haven’t tried out the online collaboration aspect yet, but if anyone wants to… that would be amazing. “Awesome” is another good word.

Also, I finally got around to reading another Harry Potter book. It was good. I would give a detailed opinion but over 3,598 people already beat me to it. Anyways, there’s this: