So I’ve been neglecting my usual hobbies — my web site, my Fugue and Jaunt projects, this log, and my various forum and gallery posts or comments — not without good reason, of course; I’ve just discovered contests. I’m fairly new at 3D art. I’ve been working with Poser 3 since November 2000 and Bryce 3D since March of 2001. If it weren’t for 3D World magazine, I wouldn’t even have those programs for my 3D doodling. My personal software…
Today is my birthday; I’m 28 years old, and counting. We celebrated it yesterday with lunch at my favorite Japanese seafood buffet, and afterwards we fed the ducks at the wildlife/wetlands preserve. Children were running all over the place, squawking at the pigeons and seagulls, and playing scarecrow to all the geese — which meant that I had to throw the bread as though I were a baseball pitcher, just to get it in range of the somewhat spooked and…
They’ve just made the rankings visible again over at Renderosity — meaning that I can now see how each individual scored me on my images. It’s quite an eye-opener. I’m not sure if I’m relieved or anxious about the situation, but I’ve definitely been educated. One of my images received about twelve 10’s before kaptenkattis gave it a 6 — a 6, and all he said was “nice”. No constructive criticism. No explanation for the low score (which, by the…
My activities have lately been like my car radio — mostly hibernating, while every now and then coming to life, intermittent as the desert rain. Sunday meant a long road trip, 140 miles to Burbank to attend a memorial for Stan Margulies at the Warner Bros. studio lot’s Stephen J. Ross Theatre (which, by the way, was a classy affair attended by Robert Wagner and Louis Gossett Jr., among many other people; oh, and I got to see the exterior…
He can’t stand that I doodle on lined notebook paper, or on old hotel stationery (in the corner, right on top of the logo, no less), or on bits and pieces of paper and napkins with torn edges and stains. He can’t stand that I doodle merely to keep my fidgety hands occupied, or to keep my usually short attention span focused on something for a change — sketches with no direction and meant to be thrown away. He can’t…