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Saturday, 09:30 pm, 10 January 2004 A comedy of errors and injury has stopped recent log updates. The modem stopped working on Thursday night. But diversion was already apparent as my wife had injured her foot. News to update? IEEE Article A few months ago I wrote an article for IEEE Computer Graphics. I have actually forgotten what I wrote - so should refresh my memory this weekend - in any case, the are doing the final edit over the next couple of weeks. Made contact. It will be good to have it done. The Noble Ape Simulation has changed quite a bit since I wrote the article. The new land format has changed the visuals no-end. So I am going to have to generate new 'figures' for the article. More Naked Orcs I spent a large part of this morning paint stripping more of the Orc army. There is a baseless Orc Shaman with a wolf head-dress. I think he would look stunning on the old wolf chariot. Although out of character - goblins on wolf chariots - I think it would really work. The fellow is a really nutty character and I am sure Fred will have fun with the assembly and painting. The final numbers are looking like roughly 60 models from 75 which is really good odds. I was worried there would be a lot of useless figures or at least damaged ones. But in general I am very pleased with what has come out of the Nitro Mos toxic slime. The Fred's OS Project Although, Fred hasn't left the UK yet, I have been receiving initial communications from the three painters that are doing minor paint jobs while Fred is away. All different styles. All interesting. Chris Blair is - I missed in my last related log entry - the UK Slayer Sword winner for 2001. I should try to find a photo or two of Chris and his work in the public domain. He is unquestionably one of the most acclaimed miniature painters of current times. Willi Winter is an acentric genius too. I am looking forward to seeing his work. Of the three he is getting the most per figure - but it is a huge Dragon's Rune Orc leader. It is an Ogre sized figure. Phil Rosenberg is good too. I feel I am tutoring him a little. I don't mind that actually. I think figure painting is something that requires continual critical review. It is really an art in terms of it being a combination of technique and insight. Cleaning up old CDROMs I was looking through some CDROMs I burned in 2002. Some cool tracks I have forgotten about. What is happening to my mind? I copied them to the hard disk. I think, irrespective of the possible Butta Beats/WeFunk collaboration, I should record a couple of tracks this year anyway. I need to get my music up to date. This has been a flagging promise for a number of years and it needs to change. Good night. Wednesday, 09:35 pm, 07 January 2004 US Orcs - Remain Naked Whilst Fred Travels to the US I ran home from work this evening to paint strip 14 orcs and 12 goblins for Fred Reed. It was foolhardy, dear reader. There is no time between getting them to him and him leaving for the US. So for possibly the first time in record over the past six months, Fred will not have a backlog of my figures when he heads to the US. Actually there are still some LOTR figures my wife passed on, and a handful of others still outstanding. But a good balance. Away from Sourceforge The paint stripper has addled my brain. I don't know what more to add. Emails from Mridul P today about how the code of the Simulation should be distributed away from Sourceforge CVS. The movement against Sourceforge seems to be building momentum even without my active contribution. Strange to observe. A natural progression anyway. WeFunk Anthems Rule My Life I have been on a buzz all day having listened to WeFunk Show 169. Half way through - roughly half way through - there is a mix from Ohio Players 'Funky Worm' into Method Man's 'PLO Style'. Stunning. The Ohio Players, I never knew was Ohio Players. The Method Man sounds like they are sampling some dark Beck who in turn is sampling someone. Probably the original sampler. Classic sound. I have been listening to that interlude in rotation for most of the day. One Large Professor track and then into Rage Against the Machine remixed by Premier. This is masterful. Absolutely brilliant. Good night. Monday, 10:44 pm, 05 January 2004 I don't know what happened to my evening. I came upstairs to check email and I got about fifteen emails in a row. I responded to each and more came. There is momentum building with Noble Warfare which is great - I am putting in quite a bit of work currently. The networking code is getting nailed down and I also wrote the basic renderer last night. Mirror Blues So much stuff going on. Emails from Prof Groove on the WeFunk mirror. I have been mirroring WeFunk for about three months now. Mirroring shows. And all my bandwidth is sucked up by the forth or fifth day every month. I never get new shows up and it seems a little hollow. I am all in favour of selling CDROMs for donations to WeFunk. This removes traffic or at least it get some of the traffic off the net and onto CDROMs. Fred's Working Holiday Promotes Guest Painters Fred Reed is heading to the US for a week + to build terrain. Good on him! Although I have never met the guy, I am a huge fan and patron of his work. Over the week he is away, I am getting some guest commission work from Chris Blair of White Dwarf fame. Chris is a regular in White Dwarf now. Just two figures with Chris. Equivalent to the entire Noble Warfare image lot in price. But it should be interesting. Fred is an excellent painter. Amazing quality and relatively good value. I'm interested in seeing Chris' work. Willi Winter too - the Austria dark NMM guru - I am hoping to get a single figure from him too in the next month or so. Willi's real skill is in detailed freehand painting as well as NMM. The figure I have sent him doesn't really lend itself to freehand work. I should rectify this with a figure following this one. One other fellow to fill the Fred Reed vacation gap - Phil Rosenberg. Phil is a Phd student whose work I purchased on eBay recently. He is a work-in-progress. It makes me appreciate how lucky I am to get things painted by Fred. Fred's style is so mature - it is very predictable which figures he will paint mindblowingly well. Orcs/Orks - always stunning! Terminators - always good. Phil scores 7.5-8 on CoolMini. He charges slightly more than Fred Reed. There is potential with Phil. His style needs to mature a bit. Time will do that. Back to the Apple Open Transport documentation, before my wife gets home. Good night. Saturday, 03:16 pm, 03 January 2004 My text editor - in all its wisdom - corrupted the header log file. Ignore this nerdism and check out the next entry! Saturday, 03:09 pm, 03 January 2004 As promised, my response to iPod's Dirty Little Secret. I present for you;  Click on the image about for the roughly 450k Quicktime file to load and play. Good afternoon. [ Previous Log ]
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