Pepsi Refresh Project
Pepsi is doing an amazing campaign! Nope! It’s more than just an AD campaign. It is very altruist. I am very very impressed with them. They just went up in points in my book.
EACH PEPSI REFRESHES THE WORLD!!!…
We All Read
I finished two books this weekend.
Not your typical reading material nowadays as the picture above would show.
Wave and Buzz’ Potential Over Facebook
Google will make sharing actually seem like sharing.
The problem with Facebook is for a social network that swears its business by the generosity of its members sharing things, Facebook is stingy. If you haven’t read my A Sad Decentralized…
CG or Non-CG?
Look at this picture. Look at all the little parts. Answer this question.
Do you think it is:
a) a real photo of a tornado
b) a real photo a volcano
c) traditional painting at it’s finest
d) digital…
Intelligent Running Calculator
I saw this calculator for runners in McMillanRunning. You start by inputting information: the distance you run on average, your best time, mileage, age and gender. Then it’ll make educated estimates on how you’ll probably fair running other distances.
It’ll…
Colored Animals
I stumbled upon this book called Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color (Glasner, Barbara; Schmidt, Petra (Eds.)). They talk about color. Nothing but color. To be honest I have yet to open the book. But I like what…
The Long Road Home
I just finished John Grogan’s second best-seller, The Longest Trip Home. It was no Marley and Me but the book had similar bio-rhythms. I read for 2 weeks, laughing most of the time, and only in the last two…
What’s Wrong With This Bear?
What is wrong with this picture? Is it too the number of motion capture markers on the bear? Is it the pose of the bear? Is it because the top mocap point that should have been an apple? Is…
Motion Capture
I discovered a wealth of motion capture data from Carnegie Mellon University’s website that is free to use (commercial or noncommercial), convert and redistribute with no need for permissions.
Wait a minute… Carnegie Mellon… Why does that sound so familiar?…
Russian Go All Heaty to Combat Colds
I was reading europeantrotter, a European travel blog and found something incredibly interesting. The Russian remedy to colds is something the Chinese (well at least in my understanding) would consider completely stupid. Now, I’m not trying to start a war…
VFX Students Batch 14
Another quarter in the life of a 3dsense lecturer. I’m advising another set of students who want to specialize in Visual Effects. I asked them to blog all their updates (a discipline I, myself, am trying to learn) and to…
Snickers For Energy
How’s that for a short 30 seconds!! This is soo cool!!! I’ll be running with snickers in my pockets next time!!!
Is it just me or does everybody notice the lack of shadows on the dust particles generated by…
A Dragon For Me
My good friend and colleague, Alvin, agreed to build a body for this dragon so that I would have a model to rig. I’ve been looking for a monster that I could rig and proffer up to the creative…
A Sad Decentralized Social Network
A guy named Loic le Meur wrote an article and drew a graph about the pros and cons of decentralized social maps and how we could reclaim everything. The drawing, albeit its simplicity, opened the eyes of a lot…
Thoughts On My Sister’s Dream
I love my sister’s dream. She has been my new confidant for the last couple of months. Her dream gives me new hope. It tells me there is strength and solidity behind the frailty of paper thin things. It is…
Confirmed! Apple Tablet
Confirmed!! Apple’s new Tablet Computer and here is a picture.
I couldn’t resist not doing this. I must apologize. It was a prank that I myself fell for from a digg’d page. But just so that you didn’t end up…
Ujin Lee’s Dust
I love these photos. They are so humbling. I don’t know why, something about the subject and the way the photo was taken. They are gorgeous. Especially the first one above with its Rose Vale/Cordovan sky.
Blogged with the…
Reach Out
I love this picture. It communicates how I feel right now. I sent two packages over to the Philippines and both of them got halted by the customs. These are two gifts. One of them was supposed to be…
Google Docs
I just love the way Google shows off their products. They came up with all these cool tools and gadget “as a hobby.” Their mainstay business is still their search engine; their main means of making money, ad placements.…
2010 The Year of The Flock
It is 2010. We all grow older and supposedly wiser. Often, we move in one direction not knowing parts of our bodies are left behind. Important relationships are disregarded. For some, there is no alternative. For others, there is no…
Managing Social Networks
Aaargh!! I’m not really sure what prompted me, but I found myself last week looking for ways to combine all my social network profiles into one single, easily managed, profile/app/website. If you ever find yourself in a similar predicament, I…
CGTextures.com: Texture Fetish!
If you live by the quote ‘the devil is into the details’ and yet still believe in shops like ‘forests and trees’ (goto their site or a blog about them to get an idea); if you like grunge textures, earthy…
Moon by Duncan Jones
I just saw Moon and I was surprised. I was waiting for some images to finish rendering before I could continue my work on a Saturday when I decided to look for something to watch. I’ve seen everything in the…
Windows Live Writer 2009
I am not a fan of Microsoft, especially not for their software. But occasionally they do produce mildly fascinating products. Sadly, almost instantly, someone else would soon be able to take over the idea and dominate it, in terms of…
Check Out Straits Times
I am on Straights Times. Do I feel bubbly. Don’t know. My belly still sags the same way when I am seated, so I guess it’s all the same to me. I had no chance to have a picture on the page cuz I was out with my darling the day the photographer came. But they called me and asked a couple of questions and viola. Cool to have a couple lines on paper on such a prestigious newspaper. The last time I was quoted by a paper I was quoted in such a bad light. It was for Video Games Live. I thought I said something smart. When I read the newspaper, I felt cheap. John Lui did an excellent job writing this. I actually believe what I said. LOL. Those two are students of mine. Francine and Gerald. They look cute in the picture smiling and all, but… but… but… in real life they are even better.
Panorama, It can be a small world
I was researching on easiest solutions for image-stitching. Fell in love with this collection from flickriver. They were using an open source app called Hugin.
Chordless USB Thumb Drive
Check my usb drive. Couple days ago I lost my fav usb pin drive. I was looking for a small simple usb replacement, when I remembered something I saw from the net that I’ve always wanted to have. At first glance, it looks like a torn usb chord. But when plugged, it registers 4 gigabytes of storage. To be honest it has higher chances of getting lost, but the idea of working on a pc with a torn usb showing is too irresistible, I had to work get myself one. I tried looking for it locally. Failed. Decided these God-given hands of mine can make me one just like it. Here it is.
About a Not-So-Organized Life
Right. Now that I have an iPhone. One of the first things I do is make sure it could help me organize my life. Cuz it should. To be organized was one of the gazzilion reasons I bought the device. So here’s what I did the soonest I had the chance. I went online on the iTunes store and had a app-downloading binge. Don’t worry!
There is always a first.
There is always a first for all things. This blog though is not my first. It might even be my fifth if my count is correct. The others ceased from existance because I did not have the time nor energy…
More On Walt Disney
Our so called term break, which was actually 3 days with no classes that we still spent in school doing assignments, began and ended last week. I have long planned to further detail my gratitude to the man holding the…
Deeds Rather Than Words
In these days of world tensions, when the faith of men is being tested as never before, I am personally thankful that my parents taught me at a very early age to have a strong personal belief and reliance in the power of prayer for Divine inspiration.
Ratatouille: Trips Back Memory Lane
I just saw Ratatouille last Sunday with my classmates. I know we are quite late but please don’t bash yet cuz we saw the movie during sneak peak. The rest of Singapore will have to wait til Aug 30. I spent the equivalent of 500 pesos for my ticket and popcorn, but the movie was well worth it.
Measure of a Man
The other day, I bought a Superman graphic novel. I read simply to fly off to another world but a part of the novel brought me back home, even closer than how I was to begin with. At some point,…
SMRT and Bags
The other day, I gave in. I went to Bonifacio High Street to check the laptop bags selling there. Here in the Philippines, I use a Samsonite knapsack to carry my laptop because I drive a car to go to…
Me, Marley and Me
A couple minutes ago I finished a book that made me think about a question we each need to ask in the course of our lives. The book I read is a true story reenacted in my mental cinema about…
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