tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19350617654153425542024-02-18T22:15:51.771-08:00Coherent LighthouseDicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.comBlogger196125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-62515102125702012052014-10-03T10:10:00.000-07:002014-10-03T10:10:37.317-07:00Shields and Spears Art Show Video Promo!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey, this is a thing!Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-84162346967377828242014-09-16T19:58:00.003-07:002015-06-18T19:30:18.927-07:00Shields and Spears: Art ShowSo it's been more than a year since I last updated this space. The last time was for a show. And this time?<br />
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A new show by <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/alaskanime" target="_blank">Raven Amos</a>, <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/cubelight" target="_blank">myself</a>, and Zach Miller! (To be honest, I update often enough elsewhere, so it seems sort of redundant to come here every time. But here I am.)<br />
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And so the details: First Friday is on the 3rd of October 2014, and we'll be there. But the show runs throughout the month, and I'll update this space with a few more photos after the hanging. Shields and Spears: the Ceratopsid Dinosaurs at the Yak and Yeti Café location (next to Title Wave in midtown Anchorage, Alaska). Pieces will be available for sale for the duration, and some extra stuff will be available at our table during First Friday.<br />
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Well, we're still painting for the show as of this writing, so I must be brief so I can get back to my work. There's a Facebook page for those who do such things, or if you want to scan one of those code thingies with your phone or tablet, go ahead:<br />
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One more thing: there are still some free postcards available for the receiving, if you'd care to own a piece of mailed ephemera:<br />
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Edit (19 September 2014): our show has been <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/09/18/elyard-amos-miller/" target="_blank">mentioned over at Symbiartic</a> (a Scientific American blog). Check it out!<br />
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Edit (3 October 2014): our show <a href="http://cyrillictypewriter.tumblr.com/post/99062689943/video-promotion-for-our-art-show-shields-and" target="_blank">now has a video promoting the event</a>!Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-18297145449583314752013-03-25T13:34:00.000-07:002013-03-25T13:34:00.605-07:00Archosaurs and Robots Show in Homer, AlaskaOut next show is set to go up in April, and we'll be present for the first Friday on the 5th of April, so if you're in town, you can see us there! We may even be <i>talkative</i>.<br />
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Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-49846161411925868572013-01-18T18:16:00.001-08:002013-01-18T18:18:38.242-08:00Errata at the @adndotcom:That is, the Anchorage Daily News: Modern Dwellers, is, in fact, located in Midtown, not downtown Anchorage.<br />
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Here's their website: http://www.moderndwellers.com/ —this may be another case of Google Maps simply not being accurate (this happens quite a lot, in my experience) and being used to fact-check.<br />
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And the name of Raven's piece is <i><a href="http://cawbox.blogspot.com/2012/12/ichthyovenator-laosensis-swamp-dragon.html" target="_blank">Swamp Dragon</a></i>.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-30292273119540603372013-01-04T17:42:00.002-08:002013-01-21T23:37:54.477-08:00First Friday at Modern Dwellers: the Live BlogFirst Friday is now on for our art show, #ArchosaursAndAutomata. The last minute rush covering previously missed details is over, and the show is completely hung up at <a href="http://www.moderndwellers.com/" target="_blank">Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge</a>!<br />
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Obviously, the entire internet is invited, but for those who can't make it, I'll be <strike>live blogging it as much as I can, which probably means uploading a few small movies and photographs of the exhibit, and then I'll be</strike> drawing and painting <i>analog-style</i> for the remainder of the evening. And possibly stuffing my face with sugary, chocolately stimulants.<br />
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Pieces include some of the work of <a href="http://cawbox.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Raven Amos</a> from 2012, who, I think, really raised the bar this time around. Check out her <a href="http://cawbox.blogspot.com/search/label/art%20show" target="_blank">work-in-progress for the show</a>. Seeing these in person is <i>impressive</i>, but don't take my word for it. Since the show runs through the end of January 2013, visit and see them for yourself if you can. Raven inspires me to do better, even while I'm pushing myself though incredible self-doubt.<br />
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Other pieces are a direct link to our show from <a href="http://coherentlight.blogspot.com/2011/08/dinosaurs-robots.html" target="_blank">October 2011, Dinosaurs and Robots</a>. I think I might be in the process of building a series with these pieces, and might actually plan the next one.<br />
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At left is <b>Trikeratos</b>, which <a href="http://cyrillictypewriter.tumblr.com/post/3174893438/triceratops-horridus-when-in-doubt-as-i-have" target="_blank">originated in a speed painting of a <i>Triceratops</i> skeleton for a day in February</a>. The background and lighting elements came much later, but I only spent a few weeks on this one. Perhaps <i>Tron</i> was a source of inspiration, but I tend to think of Christmas lights more than anything in particular.<br />
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These <i>Guidracos</i> in <b>A Gloom of Duralumin Dragons </b> (thank you both <a href="http://emilywilloughby.artworkfolio.com/" target="_blank">Emily Willoughby</a> and Brianne Lyons for the title) took a lot longer. Hundreds of hours of work, not including the studies I did. They are reasonaby accurate, thanks to the critiques by <a href="http://aeroevo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Michael Habib</a> and <a href="http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">David Hone</a>; but any errors in their reconstruction is my fault alone. <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/cubelight/works/9768935-duralumin-dragons-gloaming" target="_blank">I also took a wrong road on the background</a>, which wasn't bad, but seemed to me to be of the wrong sort of character for the piece. (I may be wrong again, but this is the look I wanted. Hindsight is 20/20, but perception can still be flawed, and I am far too close to the problem in this case to be objective.)<br />
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I might even have the animal I want to cover picked out already for the next in the series.<br />
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I also did the show's mascot, a Clockwork Carnivore, which we used on all of our promotional materials and made into postcards:<br />
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This left me two pieces into the show, compared to Raven's four. We discussed my doing something else, but sometimes, you just can't plan these things. I did <a href="http://cyrillictypewriter.tumblr.com/post/39171276312/gypsy-speedpainting-1-hr-40-min-from-a-model" target="_blank">two</a> different <a href="http://cyrillictypewriter.tumblr.com/post/39306810929/speedpainting-for-30-december-2012" target="_blank">speedpaintings</a>, and my final piece was born and finished within sight of the last half hour of the year's end:<br />
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Gypsy is a robot, after all, and qualifies as an automaton. In she goes!<br />
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And it's about that time. So off I go.<br />
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Edit: one final piece of graphic design made it in right at the last minute. It was accomplished in 2012, it does concern itself with robots, and <a href="http://cyrillictypewriter.tumblr.com/post/21063538969/some-product-history-of-takara-represented-as" target="_blank">it is the nerdiest piece I've ever done</a>. Which might be saying something.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-70023371783337863042013-01-02T06:30:00.000-08:002013-01-02T06:30:03.115-08:00The Last Painting of 2012And the last painting for the #ArchosaursAndRobots art show:<br />
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This image was made from two speedpaintings: <a href="http://cyrillictypewriter.tumblr.com/post/39171276312/gypsy-speedpainting-1-hr-40-min-from-a-model" target="_blank">this study</a> and <a href="http://cyrillictypewriter.tumblr.com/post/39306810929/speedpainting-for-30-december-2012" target="_blank">this other study</a>, and with the new background I probably put a total of about eight hours into it.<br />
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As I type this, Friday is just a few days away. If you're in the Anchorage area and headed to Modern Dwellers, I may see you in the evening. I'll be the one standing next to <a href="http://cawbox.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">his fiancée</a>, trying to look like I belong there.<br />
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Be seeing you.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-14758660081669204362012-12-18T07:00:00.000-08:002012-12-18T13:06:30.372-08:00My Previous Post on this Image Was "I'm Done."That turned out to be wrong. Very.<br />
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Three days later, I repainted the background, almost completely, and by the time I uploaded my file to be printed, I was utterly drained and exhausted. But here's the result, a piece more in character with its prequel, <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/cubelight/works/8509249-trikeratos" target="_blank">Trikeratos</a>:<br />
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But if there's any interest, I may offer the (slightly) older piece as a digital print. It was a lot of work just to come to realize where and how I'd gone awry:<br />
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Someday I'll relate the full tale of how I saved Xmas with this repaint. But not today. I've got a lot to do before the beginning of next month.</div>
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Possibly final! Finished, for sure, or possibly with a few minor revisions in time to print, and certainly not a complete rebrush of the entire sky, sea, and land.<br />
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UPDATE: Which has <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/cubelight/works/9747886-a-gloom-of-duralumin-dragons">happened</a>.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-46978529236427002012012-12-09T18:57:00.001-08:002012-12-09T19:05:25.708-08:00The New Filament of Coherent Lighthouse…This is something that's been in the works for a while—a new graphic suitably representative of us:<br />
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<i>The 'bug', designed in July 2006.<br />Previous iterations ranged from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>clumsy to </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>gruesome.</i></span></i></td></tr>
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And it goes along with this:<br />
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So why a cube, or a box? Boxes are common motifs in logo design (and <a href="http://www.logodesignlove.com/next-logo-paul-rand" target="_blank">some</a> <a href="http://www.scottkim.com/graphicdesign/index.html" target="_blank">much better</a> than others). I find platonic solids interesting, but I could have gone with any of them. I didn't, because there's a personal reason for choosing it (beyond the obvious implications of a three-dimensional form rendered in two): in 1985, I went to Expo 85 in Tsukuba, Japan.<br />
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I never made it into the theater (the lines every time we went were far too long, and there was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_'85" target="_blank">a lot to see</a>). But the set up always impressed me.<br />
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I've run Coherent Lighthouse since 2004. I think of <a href="http://cubelight.us/" target="_blank">Cubelight</a> as its filament, something which lights our way.</div>
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For the #ArchosaursAndAutomata art show, still in progress.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-37176108680177157822012-10-27T23:50:00.000-07:002012-10-27T23:50:57.237-07:00We're One Third the Way There!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey, I managed to change the #ArchosaursAndAutomata thumbnail on YouTube! Maybe I should have started out with this, but I was pretty busy when I uploaded it.<br />
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Our <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/archosaurs-and-automata?a=1260289" target="_blank">crowdfunding campaign</a> has just passed the one third mark! There's still two weeks left to contribute to the printing and travel costs (because we live so far from the venue).<br />
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Right. <i>Back to painting now</i>.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-90016123762535800342012-10-01T00:26:00.002-07:002012-10-14T16:15:58.206-07:00An Artistic Exposition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thank goodness for <a href="http://marketplace.veer.com/font/Phaeton-UMT0000447" target="_blank">Phaeton</a>, the perfect typeface for this project.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-32054914960350544362012-09-18T06:30:00.000-07:002012-09-26T00:56:15.506-07:00Art Show Announcement: Archosaurs & Automata<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />It's a sequel of sorts, to our <a href="http://coherentlight.blogspot.com/2011/08/dinosaurs-robots.html" target="_blank">Dinosaurs and Robots</a> show, and it runs during January 2013. We'll be present for the first Friday on the fourth, so if you wanted to see us both, we'll be there.<br />
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Funding for the new show has been set into motion: <a href="http://cawbox.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Raven</a> and I started <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/archosaurs-and-automata">our first crowd sourcing initiative</a> to help fund our next art show, Archosaurs & Automata, to be held at <a href="http://www.moderndwellers.com/" target="_blank">Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge</a> in Anchorage, Alaska. Our goal is relatively modest, but if we make it, we can feature a bit more art at the show than we otherwise might, as well as offset some of the cost of time off work, travel to Anchorage from Homer, and the expense of printing.<br />
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We think it's very possible to accomplish this. Donations as of this writing have very nearly put us at one quarter of our funding goal, and it hasn't even been a full week yet.<br />
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The proprietors of Modern Dwellers told us our show was one of the most successful they'd had. We would like to build upon that success. <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/archosaurs-and-automata" target="_blank">Indiegogo has all the info for show donations</a>. And you can also follow <a href="http://twitter.com/alaskanime" target="_blank">Raven</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/coherent_light" target="_blank">myself (@coherent_light)</a> on Twitter for updates.<br />
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My Tumblr journal, <a href="http://cyrillictypewriter.tumblr.com/post/31475912931/operation-get-the-word-out-everywhere-getwoe" target="_blank">Cyrillic Typewriter</a>, also has details.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-16216268927049645022012-07-05T23:53:00.000-07:002012-07-05T23:53:35.775-07:00Crshshsh!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-77233348155118551582012-07-04T20:01:00.000-07:002012-07-04T20:01:10.722-07:00Why I do not rely exclusively on Google Image searches for Paleo-related research.Darren Naish ( <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/TetZoo" target="_blank">@TetZoo</a> ) has <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/07/03/world-must-ignore-reptileevolution-com/" target="_blank">a new post up on Tetropod Zoology</a> concerning artist Dave Peters' website, reptileevolution.com and his blog at Pterosaur Heresies. David Peters is known for paintings and detailed reconstructions of extinct animals and an unorthodox way at looking at fossils.<br />
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Peters has used photos of many pterosaur taxa, traced a bunch of stuff in Photoshop and then based his ideas and reconstructions on these tracings.<br />
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Pareidolia may be best explanation for what Peters sees in these photos; other researchers seem unable to replicate his observations. And these tracings are just about the only evidence Peters has for the novel structures and reconstructions he now offers; he has not examined the specimens in person. While I don't think this is a necessary step to creating a reconstruction, it is certainly something which needs to be done if you're going to posit the existence of anatomy that people who <i>have</i> seen the original fossils don't see or publish anything about.<br />
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The problem is, anyone looking to do research on pterosaurs is going to find Peters' sites really easily—they are among the first images that pop up in any Google image search for "pterosaur," (and not just pterosaurs either) and most of what you find on Peters' sites is misleading, unsupported by any independent standards of evidence, or just wrong. I like the idea of being able to search a worldwide network of information from the convenience of a location which is rural and far far removed from libraries which carry subscriptions to periodicals like PNAS, Nature, or JVP, but not when I have to plow through a ton of rubbish to find useful information.<br />
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Peters' views are actually fairly interesting if considered from the standpoint of animals rooted exclusively in fantasy (or perhaps alt-evolution), but these ideas aren't worthy of consideration or of interest when I need to know what the <i>current scientific consensus is</i> when it comes to reconstructing animals like pterosaurs. As it is, his presence is pervasive on the web; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huehuecuetzpalli" target="_blank">Wikipedia includes frequent mentions and links to his work for even the more obscure animals</a>.<br />
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Naish has presented some much-needed criticism of Peters' work, while bending over backwards to avoid damaging Peters' reputation or attacking him personally.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-14250246228770618102012-04-15T15:36:00.002-07:002012-09-12T20:21:54.607-07:00Snow on the ground in April in Alaska?<a href="http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/glacier-growing-my-backyard-musings-global-warming-skeptic?page=full">This is awkward in ways that only a man who has too little knowledge but far too much confidence can be.</a><br />
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Being a skeptic doesn't mean we will ignore evidence for the sake of taking a contrary position. Doing so doesn't make anyone a skeptic, it makes them uninformed, and quite possibly <i>uninformable</i>.<br />
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Cf. <a href="http://realclimate.org/">Real Climate</a> or, if you are, like me, less "trained as a scientist" and more "likes to watch videos" (not un-mutual conditions, please note), there's <a href="http://climatecrocks.com/">some very accessible critiques on blogs and YouTube which cover this exact subject</a>. and is occasionally covered by the <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/tag/climate-change/">Bad Astronomy blog</a>.<br />
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Granted, it's difficult to understand subjects as complex as this as a whole unless one is very well-read (and it's obvious from Medred's writing that in spite of his "science training" he just <i>isn't</i>). It's very easy to find denialist talking points like these everywhere on the web (this doesn't grant them any merit). So this so-called "skepticism" is ubiquitous. And, like creationist talking points they have been refuted in some cases for decades.<br />
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And so I find articles of this sort frustrating.<br />
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When Craig wants us to be real and accept that his statistical and climatological illiteracy gifts him with an ability to represent reality, I don't see any reason to take him seriously.<br />
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(Yes, I updated. I'm still really busy, but, as ever, I'm a little more actively blogging over at <a href="http://cyrillictypewriter.tumblr.com/">Cyrillic Typewriter</a>.)Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-73604884773808793402011-09-27T21:28:00.000-07:002011-09-27T21:30:33.625-07:00Reflection tests which should have taken me a lot less time than it did. Ah well.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-47483400914517727742011-07-24T01:37:00.000-07:002011-07-24T01:37:35.831-07:00Where Eagles Fish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Got back from Seward 20 July. Working on stuff like this (in addition to a new resume):</div>
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So, a bit busy. Enjoy.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-84461677514077318702011-07-12T14:22:00.000-07:002011-09-29T20:20:02.997-07:00Pachyrhinosaurus: An Experiment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I did this in two days, and it is now available as a photo print directly from the artist (me) for $75 and shipping:</div>
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And I did this as an experiment. I've been trying to get <i>faster</i> at some of the turnaround on my work. Now, the subject <i>is</i> pretty familiar (one of my favorite subjects, in fact), I had a few models on hand already (I didn't really have to design from utter scratch), aimed for a less rendered style, preferring something more graphic, and I've even lots of experience with even the most painful aspect of the picture (the horsetails, of which I've painted <i>godzillions</i> at this stage).<br />
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But the idea that I can compose, choose a color palette, design, block and fill a drawing/painting in less than two days is now feasible to me. I still need to get faster, I feel, as well as better, but this is a solid start.<br />
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(Note: this isn't a promise that every project I undertake can be completed this quickly, merely a step in my education as I look towards altering my workflow and develop a production environment.)Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-13719468770883398632011-07-06T17:32:00.000-07:002011-07-06T19:13:59.805-07:00An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Dawkins,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">So </span><a href="http://skepchick.org/2011/07/the-privilege-delusion/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">this happened</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">, and as of this writing, you haven't offered any apology. I don't know what will happen, but Rebecca Watson has been nothing but perfectly reasonable throughout this.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">You are, at times, an effective speaker, an eloquent writer, and this is why many people are, I think, so surprised by your reaction to Watson's original issue.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">So I hope you'll apologize and mean it, and not do this again, and perhaps think about what you write a little more before writing it. But if you're thinking you're not actually deeply in the wrong here, and do </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">not</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> intend to apologize, or actually intend to entrench into the posture you've assumed for yourself, you should know something.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">You've often defended feminism against religion's more odious transgressions, but you are now well on your way to not only </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">diminishing</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> what you've done, but undoing it completely. People don't like being told their problems are tiny compared to the problems of the world. Relatively speaking, every problem, big and small, is tiny when compared to something larger.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When you deflect the concerns of someone who has had their tea poisoned by ironically suggesting that this is as large or larger an issue than a thousand people dying of drought, it raises legitimate doubts about your previous work.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And you need to understand this, in order to be effective and trustworthy on this matter in the future.</span><br />
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<blockquote>Luke 16:10-12<i>, KJV</i>: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span>He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.</blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: calibri;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: calibri;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span>If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?</blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><blockquote style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">12</span>And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?"</blockquote><br />
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<i><div style="display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">(And here's the </span>New Living Translation<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">:</span> <i></i></div><i><div style="display: inline !important;"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NLT-25598" style="vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span></sup> <span class="woj"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">“If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities.</span></span> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NLT-25599" style="vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span></sup> <span class="woj"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven?</span></span> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NLT-25600" style="vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">12</span></sup> <span class="woj"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">And if you are not faithful with other people’s things, why should you be trusted with things of your own?")</span></span></div></i></i><i></i></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Yours in all sincerity, S.E.</span></span></span></i></span>Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-44043335824311991422011-07-05T19:07:00.000-07:002011-07-05T19:07:22.864-07:00Comment moderation<a href="http://coherentlight.blogspot.com/2001/07/moderation-and-comment-policy.html">Now in place</a>.Dicing with Dragonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1935061765415342554.post-80713541435404410812011-06-29T10:45:00.000-07:002011-06-29T10:46:04.193-07:00My #10oclockart for Twitter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Screenshot off the tablet:</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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