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Finished A Christmas Carol today and ordered my proof copy through Lulu. I ended up completely redoing the crutches from scratch, since I'd learned a lot about Blender mesh modelling since I first made them, and I knew I could do much better. I also replaced the back ...
I was reading Helaman 14:20 this morning and came up with this idea:
Just a quick update. I finished setting the text of A Christmas Carol a few minutes ago, so all that's left now is the cover -- specifically the front image (the crutches) and deciding what to put on the back cover. It'd be nice to do a full ...
A few scattered thoughts:
1. To actively develop my photography skills, I'm going to choose a weekly theme (which will end up as a set in Flickr) and make an effort to find photo opps that fit. Things like "hope," "yellow," and "triangle," for example. This week the theme ...
For a while a false doctrine of art has hidden itself within my soul, and not until recently have I recognized it for what it is. I'm ferreting it out.
And what is it? The idea that great artists produce their art effortlessly, always ending up with their masterpieces ...
Most of my artistic output lately has been in photography, as you can see on my Flickr account. Haven't made the time to finish up either Phantastes or A Christmas Carol yet, but I plan to finish proofing Phantastes over Thanksgiving break, and hopefully I can finish A ...
[Cross-posted on Top of the Mountains.]
During breakfast today I watched Jehane Noujaim's presentation at TED. The first half, actually; I'll watch the rest of it after I finish writing this post. :) Jehane talks about taking pictures in a garbage dump village in or near Cairo ...
The other day I started work on the cover for A Christmas Carol, creating a 3D model of the crutches in Blender:
It's still very much a work-in-progress, but it's coming along well. And I'm still proofing Phantastes.
Other than that, I've upgraded to a ...
My presentation today on Received Pronunciation was received rather well. (Yes, pun intended. ~sigh~ ;)) I'm mostly proud of the uncluttered slide design -- rather than weigh the slides down with dozens of bullet points, I went clean and simple. I also used Photoshop for every slide ...
Because proofreading Phantastes is taking longer than I expected, I'm going to publish a Riverglen Press edition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in the meantime. It's shorter (~100 pages), which means I can finish it quickly and order a hardcover edition while I toil away at Phantastes. If ...
