Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2007
Thursday Thirteen #2
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007Thirteen Things about Mark’s graphical workflow… 1. Vue 6 Infinite: for creating landscapes and producing 3d images. 2. Poser 7: to create characters that I use in Vue. 3. Paint Shop Pro 7: for post work and texture making. 4. Expression 3: for creating vector art, post processing and texture making. 5. Serif Page Plus […]
When Muses Go Bad
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007I cracked on past the 45k words of my Noir Fairy Tale last night. The hero had a chance encounter with a group of toga wearing, gun packing Greek Muses who had little sense of decorum. The nearest I can come to describing their attitude would be a fusion of a hen night with the […]
The Futures Orange; the Futures a Distopian Red Tape Filled Hell Hole
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007Well Orange it would appear don’t like losing customers. They don’t mind not providing a service. They have no problem with rubbish tech support. They don’t like letting go though. I’ve just tried, again, to cancel the broadband contract I had with them. The first time I couldn’t do it till I’d transferred my service. […]
New Vue 6 Hot Air Balloon Render
Monday, March 19th, 2007I thought I’d share a recent render I did in Vue 6 Infinite of a hot air balloon in front of a glorious spectral atmosphere. I set up the scene and then created an animation moving the camera vertically at a very small frame size to find the best camera position for the final picture. […]
Habbits
Monday, March 19th, 2007Until my broadband problems I was a habbitual blogger. I’m finding it hard to get back into the habbit of blogging every night. Each post may not have had a huge amount of value and sometimes the signal to noise here was probably a bit low but the habbit kept me focused on delivering things […]
Thursday Thirteen #1
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Thirteen Things random things about Mark Caldwell 1… I remember far too many useless facts for my own good but can’t remember a thing if I’m on a quiz team. 2… Being in high up places doesn’t bother me. My fear is unsteady high places I may fall off. 3… I’ve just joined the moderating […]
Back Online
Thursday, March 15th, 2007BT sorted out the problem Orange were determined to say was with my hardware today so I’m back online. All it took was a line test to confirm I didn’t have a problem at my end but Orange were strangley against performing the same test and wouldn’t explain why. After getting everything set up I’ve […]
I'll be Back
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Bad, Ugly Orange (there isn’t anything good about them at the moment) have had a week to try and fix whatever they’ve done to their service. Tech support has been a joke of doing the same set of tasks that assume I’ve got a fault and refusing to actually run a line check. Since I’m […]
Tim Berners-Lee v Congress
Friday, March 2nd, 2007I was checking some technical documents on the W3C web site and ran across this news report earlier " Tim Berners-Lee Speaks on Future of the Web to US Congress". The image reminded me of the footage of the House Un-American Activities Committee that was used so effectivelly in Good Night and Good Luck. So […]
Broadband SNAFU
Thursday, March 1st, 2007My broadband connection is varying from slower than a snail to completely unavailable. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Until then I’m offline so if I don’t reply to an e-mail or a post or a comment it’s nothing personal.