Archive for January 3rd, 2006
If you haven’t seen this video that makes fun of the Black Eyed Peas song “My Humps”, you probably should. They kinda deserve to be made fun of 
And here’s my lil poke at them!
Black Eyed Peas - “My Humps”
What you gon’ do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps. (Check it out)
January 3rd, 2006
Which would you choose? - I’m not sure, it’s a tough choice since they’re all so cute! Check out the 1st Ave site - they have a few real nice CG vids. I wonder how long it will take for robots to have such a common public presence in our society? I bet that in Japan it is more likely to happen - the only exposure the US has to robots is a giant hockey puck that cleans your floor. Big whoop. Gimmie Qrio anyday!
January 3rd, 2006
OMGAR! This is the funniest blonde joke I have heard in a long time!
January 3rd, 2006
Mucho reblogging + Feed Icon = Reblog Symbol. I figured I’d give the icon a quick attempt - here’s what I came up with. Hybrid of the recycle symbol and the Feed Icon. I prefer the left version better.
January 3rd, 2006
Product placement has been around forever, but sly ad agencies are always dreaming up new ways to brainwash the consumer. A new wave of product placements center around the concept of editing in virtual products in post-production - similar to how football games have virtual ‘down’ lines. Why not just put a box of crackers on a coffee table during the show? For flexiblity and the option to keep reaping dollars out of both the consumer and merchant. The idea goes that the TV virtual product might be different than the DVD release product, which might be different than the special edition release. Look people - we don’t wanna buy your crap, virtual or not! Read the whole New York Times article.
January 3rd, 2006
If you’ve ever worried about fecal matter on your toothbrush, then maybe you should consider buying the lengthyly named Million-Germ-Eliminating Toothbrush Sanitizer. This puppy will clean your toothbrush and turn your bathroom into a UV radiating room of doom. I bet once you have a Million-Germ-Eliminating Toothbrush Sanitizer you won’t need to use your Urine-Gone in your bathroom. They should a larger version that you can dip your hands into for ultra-cleanliness.
January 3rd, 2006
After seeing this funny blog post about a self-referential sign, I was reminded of a joke I’d made to a coworker when working on a calendar. We had a generic calendar hanging in the background of a photo we took for one of the months, and I said we should edit in the calendar we were working on into the photo to make the calendar recursive. Here is the self-referential result.
January 3rd, 2006
As an aspiring (sometimes perspiring!) photographer, I try to learn as many tricks as I can. One bit of research lately about how to take photos in snow really opened my eyes as to how built-in camera exposure meters work. Have you ever had your photo of a black subject turn out more gray than black? Does your snow look like ash? Well, the reason is most likely the 18% gray problem. Built-in meters assume that the subject of your photos is 18% gray - this is because most scenes are on average this tone. While this won’t cause problems with your average shot, it incorrectly assumes your snowy landscape is 18% grey and underexposes it to adjust. The trick is to give white subjects a stop more exposure, and true black subjects a stop less, give or take. Of course, the best guide I to learn through experimentation and learn how to shoot by manually adjusting for your given scene. Get a much more in-depth look here
January 3rd, 2006
“This procedure will help you construct a simple vacuforming device. With it, you’ll be able to fabricate plastic parts or make copies of of objects in plastic. Vacuum forming is a popular industrial process for manufacturing hollow, thin walled, plastic parts. In industrial units, a sheet of plastic is heated, usually by infrared lamps. This homemade vacuformer is made by using a piece of perforated circuit board as the platform, and a project box as the vacuum chamber. A heat gun is enough to melt most thing plastics, and a shop vac provides plenty of ’suck’.”
How many times have a wanted to vacuform something when working on some weird project or other! Well, this DIY vacuformer should do the trick for small projects. I wonder how far you can scale up this concept before the vacuum cleaner no longer provides enough suction. A good alternative for pre-drilled PCB board is that fiberboard stuff with holes in it… Here is a larger scale version DIY vacuformer by George Gassaway.
January 3rd, 2006
If you haven’t seen this video that makes fun of the Black Eyed Peas song “My Humps”, you probably should. They kinda deserve to be made fun of 
