Archive for July, 2007

1. No comments Jul 31, 2007 “Worst Episode Ever!”; The Simpsons Movie Posted in Films, Reviews

   Ever heard of Gilgamesh? He is the hero of the world’s oldest epic. Gilgamesh becomes a hero on his journeys. That pretty much sums up the Simpsons movie I went to see with Lisa and about 50 other people yesterday. Sitting in the third row of the Royal English Cinema was a better idea thanks to the fairly big screen and the comfortable seats. A short report of our experience follows below. No spoilers, as usual.

   

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   Ever heard of Gilgamesh? He is the hero of the world's oldest epic. Gilgamesh becomes a hero on his journeys. That pretty much sums up the Simpsons movie I went to see with Lisa and about 50 other people yesterday. Sitting in the third row of the Royal English Cinema was a better idea ...

2. No comments Jul 29, 2007 David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE Posted in Films, Reviews

   If you want to see a pair of tits in a non pornographic context then take an arts class or watch art films. Lisa and I went to see David Lynch‘s (not so) newest film INLAND EMPIRE (all caps) in the Rechbauerkino in Graz today (actually yesterday). Because these little artsy theaters don’t sell popcorn or nachos we went to the Cineplexx first, that was swamped with rednecks from the peripherals of Graz and got us a hunk of nachos with cheese and salsa for a bunch of money. Funny thing was that we even made it back downtown in time and got seats in the second row ¹. And then INLAND EMPIRE started.

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   1. The Rechbauerkino theater is fairly small so sitting in the second row is like sitting in the middle of a big theater ↩

   If you want to see a pair of tits in a non pornographic context then take an arts class or watch art films. Lisa and I went to see David Lynch's (not so) newest film INLAND EMPIRE (all caps) in the Rechbauerkino in Graz today (actually yesterday). Because these little artsy theaters don't sell ...

3. No comments Jul 15, 2007 From Dusk Till Dawn: Moving Out Posted in Reports

   Last Wednesday afternoon I got a call from the Salzburg student home administration to move out by Friday 11am which meant more or less a catastrophe for me: My room was sooo cluttered and stuffed with electronics that it would be next to the impossible to get everything out by Friday. And to make things worse: Our rendering project Codename: Windshield that had started in December 2006 also needed to be finished by Friday.

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   Last Wednesday afternoon I got a call from the Salzburg student home administration to move out by Friday 11am which meant more or less a catastrophe for me: My room was sooo cluttered and stuffed with electronics that it would be next to the impossible to get everything out by Friday. And to make ...

4. No comments Jul 11, 2007 Maya chews my PNGs Posted in CGI & Rendering

   When working 9 to 14 hours a day with Autodesk Maya 8.0 you soon encounter the strangest problems. In my opinioin the most annoying problem is Maya eating up my PNG files and then produce a pnglib Error in an infinite loop while rendering. First I thought it happened because I use a SanDisk 4 GB USB-stick for working (!) but it even happened with an external USB diskdrive and even when saved local. And it doesn’t happen right away.

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   When working 9 to 14 hours a day with Autodesk Maya 8.0 you soon encounter the strangest problems. In my opinioin the most annoying problem is Maya eating up my PNG files and then produce a pnglib Error in an infinite loop while rendering. First I thought it happened because I use a SanDisk ...

5. No comments Jul 09, 2007 ♫ Angelo Posted in Music, Seph Carissa / texx sound

   I finally feel ready to blog some new audio piece by me and my alternate personality, texx sound who pushes me to produce music now and then. And sometimes, like last week, he comes from the depths of my subconscious he steps down into my ego, takes it over and won’t let me go to sleep until I finally make another musical piece that he’s satisfied with. So here it is, finished around 5:30am after an 19 hrs day and with 3 hours of sleep to come.

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   I finally feel ready to blog some new audio piece by me and my alternate personality, texx sound who pushes me to produce music now and then. And sometimes, like last week, he comes from the depths of my subconscious he steps down into my ego, takes it over and won't let me go ...

6. 1 comment Jul 08, 2007 My 1990′s, Pt. 1: PC Gaming Mags Posted in Games, Random Thoughts, Reports, Retro, Reviews

   My favorite PC gaming magazine, GameStar decided not to print cheats, tricks and hints for games anymore:

   The internet has established itself as source for cheats and hints; you will find more up to date and more accurate walk-throughs at www.gamestar.de and on many other sites than possible in the magazine. ¹

   That is another way of telling that printed media are sooner or later becoming extinct. That’s why I decided to take a look back into the wild and crazy 1990s and my personal experiences with PC-Gaming magazines.
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   1. Original: Das Internet hat sich als Quelle für Cheats und Tipps etabliert, auf www.gamestar.de und vielen anderen Seiten finden Sie aktuellere und ausführlichere Lösungen, als sie in einem Heft möglich sind. ↩

   My favorite PC gaming magazine, GameStar decided not to print cheats, tricks and hints for games anymore: The internet has established itself as source for cheats and hints; you will find more up to date and more accurate walk-throughs at www.gamestar.de and on many other sites than possible in the magazine. [1. Original: Das Internet ...

7. No comments Jul 04, 2007 Some days Posted in Random Thoughts

   Some days coming home feels like returning to a cluttered hotel room with a jet lag in the middle of the night after a long journey. In this hotel room something began to smell ugly but you don’t have the energy to investigate.
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   Some days coming home feels like returning to a cluttered hotel room with a jet lag in the middle of the night after a long journey. In this hotel room something began to smell ugly but you don't have the energy to investigate. Some days this hotel room closely resembles how the things in your ...

8. No comments Jul 01, 2007 Shrek, the Third Posted in CGI & Rendering, Films, Reports

   I went to see Shrek 3 with Lisa today (actually yesterday) at the Royal English Cinema in Graz. Actually that movie theater is not more “Royal” than any other theater, only they run the flicks in English rather than dubbed in German (and sometimes rather poorly). And especially Shrek 3 is one movie that you want to see with the original audio track.

   I won’t go through the movie in detail but provide you more or less with some things that caught my attention during the movie (without spoilers of course!).

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   I went to see Shrek 3 with Lisa today (actually yesterday) at the Royal English Cinema in Graz. Actually that movie theater is not more "Royal" than any other theater, only they run the flicks in English rather than dubbed in German (and sometimes rather poorly). And especially Shrek 3 is one movie that ...