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by commieneko 14y ago
The joke back in the 80s was that what we really wanted was to buy 4x8 sheets of monitor at the store and cut and panel as needed. Then one day my brother said that he simply wanted a can of monitor paint ... For an interesting short anima
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2D Animation In The Digital Era: Interview with Japanese Director Makoto Shinkai(tested.com)
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So far I've been very happy with iOS 6 on my third generation iPad. I might very well feel different if I used maps very often, but in fact I've used the old Google Maps app on the iPad so seldom that I wouldn't be able to make a reasonabl
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by commieneko 14y ago
It has a name because it's been an issue in technology for thousands of years. I first heard the term back in the 1970s when I was in college. Popped up all the time in architecture, engineering, and art history classes. By the late 1970s I
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I was 9 years old when this happened. Watched it live on TV. It's hard to describe the feeling of what things were like then. The world stopped and looked, for just a moment. The Vietnam war was in full swing, the cold war kept cold, politi
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As someone who's in his fifties, I can say that while this is an entertaining concept, it doesn't really map correctly. At least not for me. The passing of time has always seemed to me to be more of a function of memory. When I was younger,
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by commieneko 14y ago
I spent about 10 minutes doing searches and couldn't find anything I was interested in. No Larry Niven, no James Michener, no William Gibson, no Max Brand, no several other authors. So I tried some current best seller type stuff. No Stephe
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by commieneko 14y ago
I grew up in the 1960s and we lived within about 30 miles of 10 Titan II silos. They showed us these films constantly in school. With commentary. I can remember taking a map and using a compass to draw out the overlapping blast circles for
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by commieneko 14y ago
Older industries often had specialty units for measurement. The Point unit was designed during the early days of printing, so the system is several hundred years old. It was by no means the only system, but it is the one that seems to have
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by commieneko 14y ago
Don't mistake the fact that normal users aren't interested in current tool chains and coding means that they aren't interested in being able to solve problems creatively. Kay mentions Hypercard in this interview, which had a long history
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My point is not that artists shouldn't learn about color and learn color theories. And I'm not saying that they shouldn't learn how human's see and process information. What I'm saying is that they already do that. But they are doing it wit
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by commieneko 14y ago
Artist's color mixing models aren't simple mechanical ratios. They use emergent properties of chemicals that just happen to be a particularly useful color. In fact, artist try to do as little color mixing as possible. Mixed pigments of
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I knew when I saw the title I was in trouble. I've got stuff to do tonight, and don't have time to write a real response. And a real response isn't even really necessary; there's nothing wrong with the all the various color theories and m
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by commieneko 14y ago
One of the themes of nearly all the Alien movies, at least the ones without Predators in them, is dysfunctional leadership and management. (I've not seen the A vs. P movies myself. So I can't comment on them.) I don't know anyway to go into
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by commieneko 14y ago
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
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The imagery is amazingly negative and oppressive. Especially considering the market they are trying to sell into. The most positive aspect (?) to it is maybe the sense of dominating as opposed to being dominated. Definitely doesn't make me
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What I got was mercury, dust/particulates, fractured minerals, and the sense of invasive magnetic fields. I think they were going for power and ... something. Instead I get toxicity, contamination, brittleness.
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by commieneko 14y ago
There are hierarchies in any kind of communal human activity. Art's not special in this sense. You can choose to participate or not. And it's certainly not a single hierarchy. Take your pick, if you feel so inclined. My reaction upon seei
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by commieneko 14y ago
Whether you like a work is a purely subjective experience. There's no Art Guy In The Sky handing out ribbons. It's up to each of us to decide what we like and don't like. Having said that, the best way to learn to appreciate visual art is
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I originally had it as a "print" but the Schama story had it as a post card. My post always pointed out the painting was in New York.
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I think that Guernica transcends it's medium and genre. It still affects me as a political and moral statement more than anything. (I actually like a lot of cubism, but then, I'm an animator.) My favorite story about Guernica , no id
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by commieneko 14y ago
Art is just like any other type of human creative activity. There are various genres of it and no one is going to like everything. Saying that you don't like something or don't understand something is cool. No one likes or understands ever
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by commieneko 14y ago
Apple invents "The Telescreen: for the rest of us." (I've already got a laptop with microphone and camera in my living room ... )
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by commieneko 14y ago
Hacker News used to have a job board for designers. They seem to have stopped that, more the pity. But I've run a couple of start ups in the past, and I've been involved with web design and web applications since the early '90s. So Hacker N
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by commieneko 14y ago
I'm a hacker and a coder from way back. When I first started created digital imagery, back in the late 1970s, there was barely any commercial hardware, in the modern sense, and essentially no commercial software. We dug out the math and phy
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The real world is noisy and messy. Our senses are evolved to deal with that. When we sense something not noisy or messy, it really stands out. When I first started working with digital imagery, back in the 1970s, it looked very alien and
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No, it actually was "legal" as in FCC regulations; and you could get fines for broadcasting signal out of spec. (Though I've never known of it happening.) I'm not sure what the situation is now with digital TV. My last years in the indus
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No blog. I've thought about doing that, though mostly in the context of covering technical aspects for artists and designers. I've often found it easier to teach designers to deal with technical issues than to teach technical people to dea
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Sure, what does YMMV mean? It's not just a matter of taste either. People have widely varying degrees of visual acuity. But emitted imagery is going to ring in areas of detail and high contrast. Reflective imagery, not so much. Sharpness i
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by commieneko 14y ago
I'm of the design philosophy that's best exemplified by this old vaudeville joke: Patient: Doctor, Doctor! It hurts when I do this! Doctor: Well don't do that! Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week ... Seriously ... With sampled image

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