Sexy retro goodness. Just got done drooling over dpreview’s review of the Leica M8 digital rangefinder camera. This thing is sweet sexyness in a German kind of way. Built like a tank, functional no nonsense design. Also demands that you know what you’re doing, no AIAF ass detection megazone AE stabilization technology. Damn I want one. Damn I don’t have $6000 lying around to throw around. Been tantalized with the possibility of actually getting to physcially play with one sometime in future. We’ll see!
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Turned the two pieces in to Justine at the Academy today. Go by the art sale on 11 August 2007 if you’re interested. Images are up on the gallery if you know where to look.
Yay! It’s done!
Hope someone buys them.
Finished the artwork for the Honolulu Academy of Arts Showcase 2007 this morning around 04:00. This weekend was mostly doing all the digital photo-based backgrounds and effects. I’m reasonably satisfied with the outcomes on the two pieces – we’ll see how good they look on Fujicolor paper from Long’s this afternoon. I’ll go ahead and upload the images for printing now. I was going to put them up on the gallery, but I neglected to reduce them to web resolution at home, and Windows Photo Mangler here won’t open the files because they’re “too big”.
After having killed 2 secondary drives in my Sony Vaio PCV-RX6##, I decided to add a fan to cool the hard drives. Sony thoughtfully made the HDD carriage small enough that the drives sit about 6mm apart, thereby preventing any convective airflow between them. The boot drive sits close enough to the intakes on the front of the cabinet that the airflow from the power supply drawing air in keeps it relatively cool, but the inner secondary drive gets cooking hot, as 2 failed WD Caviars will attest.
I built a fan plenum from some HDPE sheet and heat formed it to shape. A Taiwan 60mm fan with an inline power adaptor sucks air through it. The shape of the plenum draws air from the space between the drives. I had to offset the plenum toward the left (door side) of the cabinet to clear the IDE ribbon sockets on the MB, but other than that, there were few space restrictions other than the power trunk from the PS to the MB. Everything runs significantly cooler now. We’ll see how cool it stays when I put in an SATA drive later…
Now I can finish up the Showcase 2007 stuff without worry.
I’ve been missing out on most of the bike rides for the past few weeks in an attempt to finish the artwork for HAA’s Showcase 2007. Over the weekend, I pulled two days of before-noon-to-after-midnight marathon sessions, so now the digital “cel color” finishing is done. Just have to do the backgrounds and some effects stuff. My sciatic already was hurting from changing the shocks on the FJ80, but sitting in front of the PC for days probably made it worse. I should really see Mitch, but his new office is geographically undesirable.
Hopefully I can finish up by this coming weekend and get the printing and framing done. Whistler MTB is coming up, so I have to turn in the artwork before then. I’m pretty happy with how the two pieces are coming out. I’ll have to do a little content editing on one so I don’t get my ass banned from the Academy. Don’t worry – there will be the “Showcase ’07 version” and the “uncensored version”.
As I write this, I am uploading pictures to the SNM gallery from the show opening party. Check it out here: Rockabilly Surf Show
Finished my pieces for the Rockabilly Surf Show this weekend. Had a battle with brain-fart trying to get properly sized frames… bought 16×20, thought they were too big since the working areas of the 12×16 sheets was 8×12, took them back and got the next size down which was 11×14, got them home and discovered those were too small, and went back to re-get the 16×20’s – that was $15 in gasoline I didn’t need to spend! Dropped them off with Eric at the gallery this morning on the way to get my morning ITM at Lion’s cafe.
Three watercolors – two “pin-up girls” and one “monster hot-rod”. Originally was going to make two of each, but the second “monster” image, a turbodiesel chopper, didn’t resolve in time. Had to crank out the pieces in less than 2 weeks, but if I had advanced notice, I’d probably have procrastinated until the last moment anyway (like the upcoming Showcase 2007 at the HAA…)! I’ll put the images up on the gallery after the show opens.
Show opening and reception is Thursday, 31 May 2007 from 18:00 to 20:00 at the Chinatown Boardroom, 1160 Nuuanu Avenue (one door makai of the Pegge Hopper Gallery). Scat, Tracy (not Stacy), and Kris Higa will also have works at the show. I was a last-minute addition through Scats’ influence (thanks, Scat!), so my name isn’t on the manifest.