Category: Miscellaneous

I just came across the collaborative art project, Pixelfest, in which random web surfers like yourself can contribute by changing one pixel per day. Pictured above was the status of the image when I added my own contribution this morning.

This is my newest vector drawing. See the rest of my vector art here.

Memry is a memory flash game that uses Flickr tags to choose images for the game.

More of my favorite blogs to check out for inspiration and edification.

• Patrick Morgan
• PORTFOLIO
• Protein
• Reddot Blog
• SHOT DOWN
• Snyde Remarks
• Stef’s Sketches
• Taco Spatula
• THE BIRD IN THE CAGE
• The Junk Trunk
• The Monkeyking
• The Ward-O-Matic
• thedalyblog
• tweedle S K E T C H
• UliMeyer
• Uloo’s Studio

The 1918 flu virus, that caused the Spanish Flu Pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza Pandemic, has been recently resurrected by scientists in an effort to understand how the virus works, and to potentially prevent a similar outbreak.

It was the culmination of work that began a decade ago and involved fishing tiny fragments of the 1918 virus from snippets of lung tissue from two soldiers and an Alaskan woman who died in the 1918 pandemic. The soldiers’ tissue had been saved in an Army pathology warehouse, and the woman had been buried in permanently frozen ground.

(via New York Times)

One of my roommates let me know that he is moving out at the end of the month. I will now need to find another roommate. If you or someone you know needs a place to live in Lethbridge let me know.

My parents have a rental property in Medicine Hat that they are also trying to rent – it’s a house in Southridge. The previous tenants did quite a number on the place and didn’t pay for their last couple months either. Eventually they had to be evicted, and now I think my folks have finally got the place ready for new tenants.

E-O of the art and animation related blogs that I like:

• Enrique Fernandez
• Good Deal
• Gur-B
• HaraldSiepermann
• John Nevarez
• Khoolsville
• Lambey’s Log
• MattJonezAnimation
• Monekyfeather
• MurrayMints
• OdderNod

I thought I finally figured out what the problem was. For the longest time the colours (or colors if you prefer) on Photoshop were not being displayed properly. What I was getting was a red that looked more like orange. It was red again after I saved, which made things pretty tricky because you never really knew how things were going to turn out until you saved your image.

I should have known better because we even talked about the differences between Mac and PC colours in one of my New Media classes. I just couldn’t remember how to change them, and now that I have changed them I realize it’s still not perfect. As you can see below the color swatch below is still not showing a true red.

What I did to sort of fix the problem was go under the View menu to Proof Setup. Apparently I had set it to Macintosh RGB instead of Monitor RGB. Fixing that made quite a bit of difference, but even though the image itself is right, the color swatches are still not back to the way it should be.

I’m so happy to have it fixed as much as it is. I have tried everything including uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop but it didn’t help. Hopefully someone will read this post and have another suggestion.

The number of animation blogs that have sprung up in the last couple months is amazing. Here is a list of some of the animation and art related blogs on my RSS Feed reader:

• …* Art and stuff by Alberto Mielgo
• art-attacks
• Boris Hiestand
• Bruno Werneck’s Blog !
• Captainyolk
• Cartoon Brew
• Crookie’s Blog
• danbobthompson
• Don Dixon’s Blog
• doodlin’
• Drawn! The Illustration Blog
• Drawnography

I don’t want my list becoming TOO huge in one post so I will add the rest over the next couple days.

I wish it was this easy.