Kung Fu Hustle is fun. The pacing is good, I liked the references and gags. I assume there were plenty that I missed, but didn’t feel like I had to get all of them for the scenes to be good.
I only made it part of the way through Shaolin Soccer so I was […]
A promising refinement of the $14 Steadicam device described in the first issue of MAKE Magazine. I subscribed to MAKE and loved the first issue.
The modified design adds a tripod head and makes changes to avoid needing to drill through steel — which should make it much easier to build. It’s a […]
Braaaaains.
Once dismissed as a simple collection of relay ganglia, the enteric nervous system is now recognized as a complex, integrative brain in its own right. Although we still are unable to relate complex behaviors such as gut motility and secretion to the activity of individual neurons, work in that area is proceeding briskly–and […]
SymmetryLab’s Machine is fun to play with. You can assemble spinners and elastics and pistons into machines. Nearly as fun to play with as that physics/machine Java applet from a while back.
Via MAKE: Blog I found Adobe Photoshop Tip: Comic Art Effect which describes a series of steps to approximate a “comic book” look from a photo in Photoshop.
While experimenting with it, I made a Photoshop actions file to automate some of the steps. The tutorial uses a displacement map made from a […]
I’ve been eyeing this lens for a while and finally bought one. I’ve wanted a better travel lens set up than having to haul the Sigma 17-35 and the 28-135 IS. I’ve never been very happy with the Sigma. It’s an OK lens optically but it just […]
A while back I posted about an error message I was getting from Firefox that had an obscure cause. My hope was to save someone the same woe I had when Google turned up no results for it. It worked. It required persistance to find since the result […]