Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2010
Vue Lighting Rigs
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Three years ago I ran a series of posts on my blog of different lighting rigs for use with Vue, mostly based on simple theatrical rigs. I’m in the process of updating them with new renders and creating pages in my site for them. The first one is now available Single Spot Overhead. I’m also […]
Why I Write Reviews
Monday, August 2nd, 2010Why do I write what I call reviews? The short answer: Because it helps me think about my own writing. The long answer: I used to write what I’ll call proper reviews, they’d appear in Valkyrie and Ragnarok. My review of 7th Sea produced at short notice got me the writing gig with Valkyrie so […]
Inception
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Normally I write these things I loosely describe as reviews the same night as seeing a film or TV show. Waiting any longer risks thinking too much about the subject or forgetting a detail. That’s why I didn’t write about Sherlock last week and why I almost didn’t write about Inception that I went to […]
Nicer Python Display: The Results are In
Friday, July 30th, 2010Thanks to everyone who voted on my Nicer Python Display poll. I’ll start looking at updating all of the python script pages on my site to use the new, improved formatting. [poll id=”3″ type=”result”]
But How Do You Check?
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010I’ve walked past this sign several times but the other day a thought popped into my head…
RED Trailer
Monday, July 26th, 2010Pick any one of Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman or John Malkovich and you’d have my attention for RED. Brian Cox or Ernest Borgnine would push this into my want to see list. Helen Mirren flower arranging is a bit a bit Calendar Girls. Helen Mirren with a machine gun? Helen Mirren with a Machine Gun! […]
Nicer Python Display
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010I’ve wanted to improve the display of the code for my Vue python scripts here for quite awhile but I was never entirely happy with the code highlighters I’d tried. I’ve installed and fiddled with a new one tonight and I think I like it but since its really for you (well at least if […]
Rotating Yates's Wine Lodge Building
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Richard Wilson art installation has turned the derelict (and architecturally boring) Yates’ Wine Lodge Building into an eye catching piece of artwork on a quiet road in Liverpool.
Unplanned impworks site Modifications
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010I didn’t intend to make site changes today. An unexpected interaction between a plug-in and an update of WordPress set me off trying to find a fix. I also spotted another tiny problem with one of my own plug-ins so I fixed that and then checking in IE noticed that MS Word html had crept […]
Wellington's Column Liverpool
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Wellington’s Column or the Waterloo Memorial on the corner of William Brown Street and Lime Street in Liverpool. Taken on a sunnier day than my previous photograph Wellington’s Head.