Archive for July 2011
Trying To Raise The Debt Ceiling
July 22, 2011Opportunity Knocks (For an Animated Pearl!)
July 21, 2011More on the artistic side
July 20, 2011
On the artistic side (but maybe also a little creepy)
July 20, 2011
Listening for kindness
July 19, 2011
New Player Comes From the Bench for Japan
July 18, 2011
Kudos to Japanese Women!
Sick of/over News Corp.
July 17, 2011
As the arrests and resignations in the Rupert Murdoch/News Corp. scandal mount, one can’t help wondering (in the midst of one’s disgust) what it was all for. So far a lot of the hacking does not seem to have been conducted in search of true news stories, actual “scoops,” but to have amounted simply to the worst kind of voyeurism and manipulation–peeping tomism at funerals, eavesdropping in an abduction, collecting unfair gossip, and then too, blackmail. No search for a Pulitzer here; craven people making money out of others’ suffering or misfortune or celebrity.
The only political aim I can see is, perhaps, one of distraction. Maybe the goal is to divert people with enough sensation that they will lose the taste and patience for factual analysis.
Hopefully, the tactic has backfired.
How To Draw An Elephant (And Also Procrastinate)
July 16, 2011Some people will do just about anything to avoid cleaning their apartment. (I think, after spending several hours on trying to properly upload some version of the above cartoon, that perhaps I am one of them.)
Or perhaps I am just not cut out to become an online animator.
The drawing part is fun, and, in my rudimentary case, quick; the music is fun; putting them together is fun. But getting them from your digital device to Youtube can be a real pain in the you-know-what. Sound gets cut off, drawings get cut off. And unfortunately, some of us (the same people who delay cleaning the apartment, perhaps) get really impatient with online “answers” to technical questions on twitter forums.
So you have to keep on experimenting, uploading and uploading to get what you wanted or once had on your own little iPas, but somehow somehow cannot make come out in a bigger forum.
The good part is that, soon enough, cleaning the apartment doesn’t sound so bad.
Have a nice weekend.
Cantor Turning Blue?
July 14, 2011
First Animation (with Elephants)
July 14, 2011Yes, it’s silly and incredibly primitive and has, as yet, no audio. But I only got the idea of even trying such an endeavor this morning. (Being an aging perfectionist, I have to disclose my handicap right at the start.)
The app is called Animation Creation HD. (Cost for iPad is 1.99 , quite a bit of time with a little frustration thrown in.)
Warning–it’s really easy to delete (repeatedly) everything you have done. The “undo” button does not work on deleted frames. Other warning, you are supposed to “pad” for youtube which keeps last frame from being cut. I didn’t do that right. (Missing frame is more along the same lines. )
Even so, kind of cool what 1.99 can get you in these hard times. (Yes, I know, you need the basic computer/digital infrastructure, still it’s pretty amazing.)
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