Twitter!
Posted on September 27, 2009
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I am not so much of a Twitter user but integrated to Wordpress I think it could be really useful for quick sharing of mood, ideas, thoughts, or interesting links I find on the net.
You can now find my Tweets and a link to my Tweet page on the right side of the blog.
Mental Ray for visualisation new book
Posted on June 24, 2009
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After the phenomenal success of his first book, my friend Jamie Cardoso is about to release a second book about “Realistic Architectural Visualisation with 3dsmax and mental ray”. If you are into visualisation this should be your next buy!
Sorry for the mess
Posted on April 24, 2009
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This website has been “in construction” for years so I have decided it was time for some structural but also cosmetic changes before carpet bombing every forum with my new Game showreel.
I am hoping to get this finished before the end of next week.
Randomness
Posted on April 23, 2009
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“Making faces: Jim Rimmer” A trailer for a documentary on Cutting Metal Type
Just to test a new Wordpress plugin and because I always had a fascination for Fonts and Typography
And an other link because I am a sucker for Graphic design in motion. Pay attention to the funny accent. (Argentinian?)
It is all about the bike!
Posted on October 12, 2008
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I have absolute no interest in watching cycling on TV and especially the “Tour de France” but like I said few weeks ago, I just bought a racing bike to commute to work. Here is that beauty!
I just bought the rest of the equipment last week end and will give it a try today. I am really worried about having my feet stuck to the pedals but I guess it shouldn’t take too long to get used to that.
More Xbox avatar
Posted on October 9, 2008
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Tokyo Game show just started and Microsoft revealed a bit more about the Xbox Avatars. Kotaku posted a new video today. That’s really sweet and I am really proud of the work that we are doing here.
MACAFRAMA trailer
Posted on September 13, 2008
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The Single speed/track/fixed gear bike craze was supposedly triggered by the Mash video:
I haven’t seen the Mash video yet but I have seen the trailer and clips from the new San Fransisco based video, Macaframa, directed by Colby Elrick and Colin Arlen. Have a look at the trailer and their Vimeo page. The footage is beautifully edited, cinematographed and color graded. Sweeeet
MACAFRAMA Trailer from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.
Bizarre yet fun japanese skateboarding video
Posted on September 13, 2008
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man I wish I never discovered http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com
Bikes
Posted on September 13, 2008
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This week I bought a beautifull red Felt F90 racing bike from my coworker Matt. It has aerodynamic spokes and the kind of gears you find on sports cars. Really fancy. It is obviously ultra light and I am intending to use it to go to work. I have been told by my coworkers that it would take me from 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on my level of fitness. I am fit so it will take me 30 minutes….. well we will see ;-) it is a really long distance, 10 miles (16 kms) according to googlemaps.
I am a bit tired of car pooling, I don’t want to buy a car, the fancy Vespa I always wanted to buy since I moved to UK wouldn’t last 2 days outside my house so this looks like the only option. Also it was a good price … for that kind of bike ;-) and Matt did very well at numerous competitions riding this bike.
Now this bring me to my second point. Single speed bikes.
If you live outside a big city you have probably not heard about the craze about single speed bikes. They are sleek, sexy, ultralight and really low maintenance since they don’t require high tech components like racing bikes. I saw some guys playing Bike Polo few years ago in Bethnal Green and thought that was really cool. I have never tried one but if it weren’t for the vandal that bend your wheels when you leave your bike unattended I would have probably bought one myself in my London days. The reason why I wanted to mention them today is that I found some videos of guys doing tricks on their single-speed bikes. Riding them in town is rad but riding them in town while doing tricks is even radder.
I created a Youtube Playlist with some really cool videos related to single speed bikes and messengers
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9463403E4136AC6F. PUMA commissionned a great documentary on messengers called “NYC Messengers” but I can’t find it anymore.
Stupidest ad analysis ever
Posted on September 7, 2008
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The most useless ad analysis ever on TheStreet.com by Gary Krakow and his sidekick. Come on Gary, just stick with your “Iphone killers” videos instead. At least I can easily filter what is junk and what is gold on TheStreet.
What were you expecting? A copycat of the Apple campaign? A technical demonstration of why Microsoft is so great? This has been done in the past and didn’t work. Remember the previous Wow campaign?
Please TheStreet, more Altrucher, less Krakow
Mars Blackmon to Michael Jordan: “Is it the shoes?”
Posted on August 28, 2008
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Ah those were the days. Spike Lee and Michael Jordan in the early 90’s Nike commercials. Gosh I am old!
Taekwondo
Posted on August 23, 2008
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I haven’t been following much the olympic games those days but the few footage of TKD I found on the net were pretty boring especially since most official website only show the last round of each match so the opponent are usually really tired from the previous rounds.
I am currently practicing Thai Boxing but I still love Taekwondo very much and just to show that TKD can really be brutal sometimes, here is a video of the fastest KO I just found on Youtube. To me, since hands and fist are hardly ever used, TKD is more an acrobatic sport than a martial art, but sometimes the ending of a match can be really quick and lethal.
You can find a guide to TKD, here, on the BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/taekwondo/7301041.stm
Great Photoshop links
Posted on July 29, 2008
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Here are 2 great tutorial blogs and other graphic design links I just found.
some textures Designreviver.com
some fonts
I also used to visit the following websites back in the days I was into graphic design. I haven’t checked them for a while, I am not sure if they are still being updated.
Kaliber10000
designiskinky.com
surfstation.lu
If you know some interesting photoshop or graphic design related websites, please add them in the comments
The art of Disney Animation blog
Posted on July 26, 2008
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excellent blog here
The Art of Disney Animation Blog
Paul Ekman
Posted on July 23, 2008
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Ed Hooks and Andrew Gordon kept referring to Paul Ekman and his concept of micro expressions, here are few video as an introduction:
and something a bit more entertaining, “Why we lie”:
Lines and colours
Posted on July 23, 2008
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For the past few years, I have noticed a shift in my interests. In the past, I used to spend a lot of time reading technical books or browsing websites dealing with the technics behind digital art but for the past few years I have shifted my interest from CG to the real stuff.
“Lines and colors” is one of those websites I discovered lately. As the author puts it: “lines and colors is a blog about drawing, sketching, painting, comics, (…) and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it’s fair game.”
What I like about this blog is that you can easily select your favourite mediums in the category section on the right and browse hundreds of post about pastel, ink, watercolours…
Happy reading!
Upgraded to Wordpress 2.6
Posted on July 22, 2008
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After few days of struggle with Media Temple, I finally managed to update my blog to Wordpress 2.6.
For the past few month my blog suffered from invisible HTML injections advertising Viagra and other stuff and I couldn't upload any pictures anymore.
The update went fairly smoothly. My category names were gone but luckily they were still existent with an invisible name in the database. I had an old page still open and I could give update the names.
I am not too excited about the way the pictures are handled and I haven't been able to upload any so far.
Anyway everything seems to be find and I should be able to embed videos now.
going offline
Posted on May 6, 2008
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Sorry for the lack of posts those days. I am still alive but I have decided to dedicate all my free time to my short film for the next 7 weeks. Kevin is a great mentor and it would be a shame to screw up this term again and not make the most of his dedication to help us make great short films.
You can still catch me in London this Week End or Annecy next month.
Olive
Leaving home
Posted on March 21, 2008
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Here is a funny clip a friend found on Youtube. I remember an AM student using it for his class 4 assignment and I am a bit disapointed as the acting was very similar. This is why I would recommend people to get audio clips where the acting can be interpreted in different ways
my toys
Posted on March 8, 2008
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a lot of people at work have toys on their desks here is a pictures of mine! Carla has probably the best ones but I don’t have a picture yet. Mine are all sorts of toys collected over the years. They all keep me inspired for different reasons.
The Pixar pot is a freebie from the Annecy festival last year, there is an african sculpture at the back which comes …. from Africa ;-) The muppet show and Aardman characters are coming from Forbidden Planet in London, Shadow is a designer toy from Nathan Jurevinius’s “Scary girl”, it comes from Playground in Soho, the Zombie robot is from a comics shop in Annecy, the Smurfs are a new addition I just bought in a comic shop in Bayonne. I just got Wario from a collegue at work who has an online shop (I can’t remember the url…) and there are few more toys which I bought from Forbidden Planet just for the proportions, or because the anatomy is well defined or the way they have sculputed the hair or the creases on the clothing.
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