Archive for March, 2008
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Mar 29, 2008
Thinkers
Posted in Dear Diary, Random Thoughts, Reports
The past weeks I spent halfheartedly working on my online portfolio site philstrahl.com in order to spread some more applications for my summer job — hopefully in the field of digital visual effects and compositing. And today I did it: I sent my application to Digital Domain. -
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Mar 17, 2008
HD – what now?
Posted in Funny?, Video
Hehe, just something funny I stumbled across in the “cheapy-box” of a local bookstore. I just hope your pet isn’t affected by HD! But still click the link to know what’s behind this HD craze, and why it’s so serious to know about it… -
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Mar 15, 2008
To flickr or not to flickr?
Posted in Dear Diary, Photography
This is just a little test to see how my sytlesheet is working for flickr blog-posts. I am not sure whether I want to say good-bye to the great NextGEN Gallery plug-in for WordPress I have been using all those years now. Should I really switch to flickr? What do you think?
And by the way: You just witness a major design-wise relaunch of the Promenade Blog, after the years I got a little bored with the standard visual appearance of this WordPress blog, so I stared in August 2007 a major redesign. But today I finally finished it in a couple of hours for the next couple of years. Although everything seems okay on first glance, there might happen some strange layouts on some pages — to be resolved soon.
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Mar 15, 2008
Alex’s Party
Posted in Dear Diary, Funny?, People, Video
Usually I don’t post party pictures or crude cell-phone videos, but some people needed official proof that I really showed up there. So here’s a video of some people at the party. Sorry to all those nice people who are not in the video and sorry to all who are shown but whose names I don’t know (yet). The video is now working – at last – shame on you, Mr YouTube! -
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Mar 14, 2008
The max_result_rect error in After Effects
Posted in Computing, Rants, Vista Issues
Just wanted to let you know: After Effects CS3 is bitchy, unstable and has a bad performance: It crashes suddenly and with no reason, while it stays in RAM and on screen forever when you quit. And it produces errors with gray-scale and/or CMYK PNGs. -
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Mar 13, 2008
ShirtPress
Posted in CGI & Rendering, Reports, Tutorial
I am more of a satisfyzer (yes, just I made that word up) than a maximizer but I am not up for any compromises when it comes to t-shirts: If I have an idea about a certain print I want then I won’t settle for anything less than exactly that. Yes, I was looking for that perfect, one and only DeLorean-logo shirt! -
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Mar 09, 2008
Zipher, Revision 1
Posted in Fonts
Fonts usually never grow old, they just become classics. But an incomplete font only gets forgotten. And as a hobby font-creator myself I produced an incomplete font, Zipher and wasn’t even aware of the incompleteness. Luckily I got an email from Richard Smith who sent me his request, to add the missing P with filled counter, along with a Patron-sized donation which made him instantly the person who donated the most money for the Promenade Blog. Oh, about the font: You can download the new and improved version from the Zipher page.
