(But I learned on my own) is the name of the site of artist Alex Noriega. He has some very funny work. Take a minuate to check it out. You can even buy some of Alex’s work. I know I will once the t-shirt section of the store is up.
Here is the site www.stuffnoonetoldme.blogspot.com
I was lucky enough to go out with this crew a few times this year. Something I never though I would do. So much fun though. Check the teaser it’s good.
Hello? Can you hear me out there? I’m reporting in to you from Mac OS X 10.6.
Installation went perfectly and I’m trying out the new features.
Stoked.
I was really excited when I found this movie still available on the Holden Outerwear website. I am not an impulse buyer by a long shot, but when I saw this I didn’t even think twice about ordering it. I have had a bootleg copy of the movie for years now but it has completely gone to shit and I am more then willing to purchase it. Hands down Burning Bridges is in my top 3 favorite movies along with Kingpin’s last release Back In Black, and Robot Food’s last release After Lame both of which I also own.
Buy the movie here
Watch the teaser here
I have never been a big fan of Photoshop. Never used the program for more then raw editing or putting together a few sequences. Needless to say I was really stoked once I learned about Lightroom, and just about totally abandoned Photoshop and Bridge from my workflow. With the arrival of lightroom 2 the need for Photoshop in my workflow has become even less important.
This was mainly because of the Localized Adjustment Tools that were added in the new release. What took multiple masks, layers, and editing in PS now takes 5-10 minutes in LR.
Here is a great example.
This is the raw photo straight out of camera.
Camera Raw
As you can see it needs a good amount of work. His body is on the verge of being blown out, and the wall, tree, and grass is quite flat. This photo should have been a throw away, but we will use it for this example.
Now here is the Photoshop edited version that took about 30-40 minutes to finish.
PS
With masks for his shirt, pants, and face, along with the wall, grass, and tree, it can start to take up a bit of time. Then there had to be levels, curves, and a few other tricks done before the image could be called complete. Even after the work is done, it still looks a little odd and over worked.
Now here is the LR edited version that took about 5 minutes of work with the Localized Adjustment Tools (that I barely know how to use.)
LR
This version has a much more natural feel, and is overall a much better edit in my option, it took less then 1/4th the time as the Photoshop version, was non-deconstructive to the photo, and was all done and saved in RAW.
When time is money, why take 30-40 min with PS when you can do about the same thing in LR for much less?
What looks better to you?
Some of the best punk bands, and the best used car commercial. Nothing is a good as SBTF if you don’t know what it is, slit your throat.
Bad Brains – Attitude
Dead Kennedys Insight
GBH Generals
Big Bill Hell’s Cars
So I have a real love hate relationship with computers. I really enjoy them, and how they let me edit and keep track of my photos, have the world at my fingertips, waste a whole day in bed and conduct my business, but I hate them in the fact they seem so weird for mankind to use. I feel this way about anything really created since the automobile.
Anyways, I was really excited when I found out when Sep. 9th was the date for the “Next Apple Event”. I have been following all the rumors and speculation about new MacBooks, MacBook Pros, iMacs, Cinema displays, touch tablets, and Steve Jobs death. So I was excited to see if they were finally updating a lot of their product in need of an overhaul and if Steve Jobs would be giving the presentation with his head in a jar like in Futurama. On the day of Sep 9th I was at work, so I was checking my favorite Mac sites to keep up with the info was being released.
As much as I really am enjoying the Genius feature in iTunes and as cool, and colorful the new iPods are, I was overall disappointed with the event. Don’t get me wrong I am really jealous of the new iPod Touch, and wish mine had the speakers and slimmer design, but this was all an appetizer to me.
I wanted some new meat from Apple. A total overhaul on outdated products or the announcement of new products would have satisfied my hunger. I guess we will have to wait until October to see if anything new is going to come out for the Christmas season. Until then I will make 100,000 playlist and watch the new Visualizer with my stoner friends.
Stumble Upon is a plug in for the Firefox Internet browser. You download the plug in, install it, select from long list of topics that you are interested in, and it will bring you to sites related to what you checked from the list. It is a great plug in for anyone who spends 8hrs+ a day on the computer and can only check MySpace, Facebook, and their favorite forums so many times before they realize there computer has lost its “FUN” appeal.
Below is a list of links I found today while “stumbling”
So on this blog I’m also going to highlight some of the products I purchase.
I recently dropped my 500GB external hard drive and thought it was broken. So I went to Newegg and with help from Jason Wager of plzthxbai I found a new 500GB drive and dual-bay external enclosure. To my pleasant surprise when I added in my old drive that had fallen to the floor it still worked, giving me access to a total of 1TB of backup, and saving me the money from buying a new drive. I set up one of the two drives as my Time Machine, to back up my computer and photos off one of the WD Passport drives I own, and the second of the two drives as a manual back up of photos again off the WD Passport and storage of music, movies, ext.
When both of the drives are in casing it weighs quite a bit (case empty is 4lbs). Enough that you could break some bones in your foot if you were to drop it. When it is plugged in, it’s almost completely silent and the fan is also undetectable when turned on. One negative is that it only comes in USB, and they make an eSATA/USB but it is listed as a RAID server, and quite a bit more expensive. A firewire 400 or 800 option on the model I bought would have been a nice choice.
All in all I am very happy with the purchase, and would recommend it to anyone who wants to do some simple backups or create a small RAID.
Here is a photo of the drive and my computer.
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The external drive and my Mac.
