It’s great when bands you love cover bands you love. You may remember that Nine Inch Nails also did a great cover of Dead Souls for the soundtrack to The Crow. A lounge, bossa nova cover of Joy Division. It’s great, really! Here’s an original live performance, for reference. Classic.
Here is an example of branding with Blender 3D for a fictional paint company in Portland called Alberta Hues. I am much better at designing cans of paint than I am coming up for names of paint as you can see. These were designed in Blender 3D using a technique that I’ve been using… [CONTINUE]
Check out my Blender 3D trumpet, broheim. I made this using a source image from Google in the background as a guide. It was actually quite easy to do. I did most of the tubing by extruding a circle continuously and then occasionally bending it with the Spin tool. I used subsurf modifiers to… [CONTINUE]
Spoilers ahead. Don’t read unless you’ve watched the show. Game of Thrones season 2 was a departure from the original in many respects, but it was still triumphant. Most of the changes were for the better, even though others fell short. We’d have viewing parties at the home of two friends and the running theme… [CONTINUE]
The Konami Code is a story I’ve told several times and the listeners have all deemed it somewhat of an entertaining story. One friend told me to blog about it, so I will. Let me take you to the Mexico of my childhood, if I may. I was born and raised in Los Angeles but like many Chicanos I… [CONTINUE]
Well, I’m not obviously. But my wife is. Yes, this was very much planned. The baby is due on Thanksgiving and we don’t know what she’s having quite yet, not for another month at least. How do I feel about this? Excited and anxious. There were points in my life when I thought that parenthood… [CONTINUE]
Well, you know that apparently, talking about your goals is one the best ways to not make them happen! Here’s a great TED talk about how talking about your goals can sabotage them. If you don’t feel like watching the video, the premise is simple: if you talk about your goals then you get atta-boys… [CONTINUE]
I realized a lifelong dream over Thanksgiving. I went to France. Strictly speaking, it was Paris and we were there for a week. This concluded our honeymoon, which was split into two parts. The first was a whirlwind tour of California’s wine country and the Oregon Coast and the second… well, Paris! My first Paris trip, definitely… [CONTINUE]