chriskelley

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by chriskelley 16y ago
Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And
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by chriskelley 16y ago
"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages." - Tennessee Williams
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by chriskelley 16y ago
I was interested and looked it up - here it is if others haven't seen it: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea...
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by chriskelley 16y ago
Wonder if there will be an upgrade for Coda to implement the new T4 engine?
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by chriskelley 16y ago
Making of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3HM1bQzubw&feature=playe...
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by chriskelley 17y ago
I know your last comment was in jest, but as someone from the US that travels a lot, I would like to mention that I think it is really important for educated/reasonable US Citizens to engage with locals and other travelers while abroad and
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Artists in our industry (I'm an animator) create reels of their past work - paid or unpaid - to act as a collection of their best stuff in order to get jobs, bookings, etc. We have a lot of freelancers in our industry, and so most people h
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by chriskelley 17y ago
These are personal animation showreels from animators and designers in the motion graphics and animation industry. Reel Roulette appears to arrange many of them in an easily viewable format all in one place, so people/peers/employers can ch
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by chriskelley 17y ago
There's an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to company name etymologies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologie... Neat stuff.
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by chriskelley 17y ago
1) Little over a year 2) Never applied 3) No, bootstrapped 4) http://mographstock.com
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by chriskelley 17y ago
>Every new version developers are just praying this time Adobe will give us a product they've gone back and fixed instead of just adding more stuff to it. I can't tell you how many times I have made this statement regarding After Effect
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Reminds me of the classic http://helmer.sfe.se/ Linux render cluster in an Ikea cabinet.
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by chriskelley 17y ago
I worked at a hockey rink growing up, and the ice machines lay down a sheet of hot water after the auger scrapes off the top layer of old ice. I was always told the reasoning was that it froze faster... hardly scientific, but that's the st
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by chriskelley 17y ago
In the third one down, on the "new" photo, you can distinctly see the cobblestone path that snakes through the city centre representing where the wall once stood.
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by chriskelley 17y ago
I do a lot of foreign travel as well - but that is the only time I ever send snail mail! People love getting email from other countries. I always send letters and postcards to not only family/friends, but all of my best clients as well.
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by chriskelley 17y ago
I don't know if I'd call it their opinion on good design, rather I think the gauche output from non-designers is a product of lacking the ability to make/recognize anything better. I'm not a sculptor, and if I attempted to create a marble b
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Would love to see links to "more info" on the software available directly in the "Pick your software" lineup. Some of those I've never heard of, and tried to click on them (multiple times... doh) to find out more.
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by chriskelley 17y ago
I'll be there
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Absolutely. It's certainly something that needs to be a dialogue, not at all "I know something you don't, here is why you are messing up." There are always circumstances that affect decisions that you may not know of. This is one of the
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Being vocal about imperfections in the development cycle and suggesting improvements that matter to the bottom line is not dissent. It's important to have open communication about this very topic - it improves the pipeline and keeps margins
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by chriskelley 17y ago
I work in the VFX industry, and can confirm this is how we have been doing things for years.
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Nah, that was somewhere near Balinasloe - was headed over to Galway. Scholar was recommended by a local, I'm from out of town - should be fun, hope to see you there!
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by chriskelley 17y ago
I'm in.
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by chriskelley 17y ago
I'm flying in from LA on Saturday, missing work on Monday. Seemed like a great excuse to get out of town for the weekend!
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Well, the bootcamp event starts at 9am - so I think there was some talk about an ~8:45am meetup outside Kresge right before hand, but this is more of an "eat some food, drink some spirits, talk about taking over the world" kind of gathering
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HN Meetup in Cambridge: Oct 11th @ 8pm
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Yes I did - thanks! I actually did the package for FOWA London 09 as well, which can be partially seen in the Kevin Rose vid. http://vimeo.com/album/132400
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Nice - do you know Alex Housley? I've done a little bit of work with him and the Rummble.tv folks.
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Well put. Gary V has 852,497 followers on Twitter - any time he launches a new product/book/cruise, whatever, that's an immediate 852,497 pairs of eyeballs on his product. Now that's a great head start.
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by chriskelley 17y ago
Gary Vaynerchuck has been trying to get that in the heads of anyone that will listen for the last few years.

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