Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2010
Review: Salt
Saturday, August 21st, 2010Salt the Spoiler Free one line review: Salt is a good action film but slightly generic and not quite as good as I’d hoped for but certainly better than a lot I’ve seen. My spoiler filled longer thoughts on Salt follow this picture… Salt isn’t a bad action film and I don’t think it suffered […]
7th Sea Burning & Ravenloft Ablaze
Thursday, August 19th, 2010My 7th Sea feature review was my first article for Valkyrie. Its one of my favourite games of all time. At university I took a course on fire relating to building design. So when I was talking to a ‘zine (that I don’t think ever appeared) about 7th Sea articles and they were planning other […]
Liverpool's Ornamental Gate to Chinatown
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010The ornamental gate to Chinatown, Liverpool on Nelson Street. Unfortunately the dramatic sky doesn’t really show up as well as I’d hoped in the photograph but it does frame the top of the gate nicely. The arch is the largest of its kind outside of China.
Third Vue Theatrical Lighting Rig Updated
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010I’ve posted the third revised lighting tutorial tonight ~ Single Spot Slightly Behind.
One Page Can Make a Difference
Monday, August 16th, 2010The original Knight Rider used to end with the refrain of Wilton Knight’s last words to Michael… One man can make a difference Tonight I thought I’d share how one page (and a tiny bit of PHP code for WordPress) made a difference to my site. At least its made a difference for Google. I’ll […]
The A-Team
Saturday, August 14th, 2010The trailers and the Orange advert had built up my expectation for The A-Team. The reviews and past experience of remakes (I’m looking at you The Dukes of Hazard) had dampened my hopes. It starts out well – the origin story for the team is nice if a little light and sets up the characters […]
Sefton Park Palm House
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010Britain’s Park Story on BBC4 last week included the Palm House in Sefton Park. I took this photograph in April from the South East of the Palm House. It was packed with children on school holidays so I’ve still not been inside but I’m going to try to get over there one day when I’m […]
Second Lighting Rig Updated
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010I’ve updated the second of my old theatrical lighting rig tutorials tonight: Vue Lighting Rig: Single Spot Slightly to One Side with fresh renders and some small revisions to the text.
Leave out the (Steampunk) Kitchen Sink
Monday, August 9th, 2010Daneofwar asked a question on Twitter in the middle of Sherlock on Sunday night… Why are fantasy ideas of settings based on the 19th century always so unoriginal? Steampunk blah blah blah goggles blah blah blah. I didn’t have time for a long answer then (too busy watching Sherlock) but I think Brian has touched […]
Liverpool Resurgent
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Liverpool Resurgent is the statue, Sir Jacob Epstein, over the entrance to the former Lewis’s Department Store (not part of the John Lewis group). Known locally as Dickie Lewis the statue of a naked man completed in 1956.