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Chalk animation

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For the last couple of months I have been involved in a really cool project on Koper primary school. My job is to teach kids various types of media (drawing, photography, movie, digital media...) and finally to produce our own multi-media "thing". At the end we decided to make an animatoin about our trip around Koper (and climbing onto the bell tower of Koper's main church) on a regular chalk board. Yesterday we tried it for the first time and what was done now serves as a trailer for the real movie that we'll do in the next month or two :wink:

Enjoy it! It is 720p HDTV! :D

Not really an important post

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Not much to say; the latest my.opera upgrade messed up my costum css designs. I hope that guys will solve this soon. I kinda like this one.
I added a new poll to the the sidebar. I want to know how much television do you watch now. Did internet change your watching habits? It did for me. I voted for the last option :wink:

And yes... spring is knocking on the door! Finally! :yes:

What a difference!

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It's been more than a month since my switch to iMac and I am more than well adjusted to the new working environment now. And what a difference that is! Now I see what computers should really be like.

Of course, each of us will see and count his own hits and misses. And each of us will see his own reasons to it. I for one like to think that designers and architects, not solely programers, were included into process of software making in case of Mac. When a designer has to design a new kitchen (s)he will most likely make a research which parts and kitchen apparatus are more often used than the other (and how are they used). Then he will apply this findings to make the kitchen more useful and handy. Parts that are needed daily will be placed differetnly than that China tea set which is saved only for special occasions. The "designing" part, where it is determined how will stuff look like comes at the very end. That kind of thinking is really the core of designing process and I believe professional designers are good at it simply because they practice it every day.

When you open some infamous PC software it is clear that this process wasn't applied to it. You are being bombared with tons of different icons, buttons, menues (etc), placed with no hierarchy and logic whatsoever. The icons that you use non-stop are the same size as the ones you use only once a month and they are often placed right next to eachother (I could go on with this). That might be the main reason why beginners are so frustrated when they enter PC environment for the first time. "I just don't know where to click" because "everything looks so messy," they complain. Well, guess what: it doesn't look messy - it is messy!

Going back to PC? You must be kidding. :hat:

iMac and how about you?

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Well, I've been shopping :wink:
No, seriously - I was already buying the new iMac aluminum 20'', but I had a really bad feeling about that glossy display. I just don't like them; contrasts are too heavy and lights from the room are always disturbing. So I went in search and guess what I ghave found on sale: an "old" verson of iMac with nearelly the same characteristics (Core 2 duo 2GHz, 1GB ram, Super drive,...etc) for only 850 euro (i don' know where is the euro symbol on mac yet) with a nice mat 17'' display. Well, yes, it is "only" 17'', but I guess I'll survive. It is not that small after all.
The main reason for my purchase is that I need a stable and fast machine to edit photos. I plan to move on digital (and buy EOS 5d) till march next year and this is the first logical step. I need my photos safe!

Blending

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I'm thrilled over the fascinating options of using OpenSource software. My dream is that every software could be OpenSource. Right now I'm in the middle of learning the complex program for 3d modelling called Blender. The program it self it is extremly powerful, but my "built-in windows paradigm" isn't just ready yet to use something more intuitive.
This is one of my very first renderings... I't is not something special, just something you make in the process of learing new tools. I don't even expect you to like it :D

TEDTalks

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I just found out about this, and i was quickly addicted to this small 22-minutes videos of the most remarkable people speaking about future and new ways of thinking. I strongly suggest you see them. This one is just an example:




And there are many more here: http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/

i(wanna)Mac

Today i participated in a smaller presentation of new (or newer) Apple products. The event was organised by the company that works in the same building as ours. It was really something to see. Here are some pics.

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