I didn’t really like the “tribal” design, but I do love playing around with calligraphy in Inkscape.
Here’s another possible design for OneTwenty paraphernalia:
I know it’s hard to read, but that’s kind of why I like it. If you don’t see it as a word, you regard it differently.
OneTwenty would like to have some shirts made up so that we can stand out at the MASSIVE. I put this together quickly, but it looks a bit too aggressive to me:
I don’t think it would suit a t-shirt or polo; It looks like it would be more at home embroidered down the front of an off-white cowboy shirt.
OneTwenty would like to have some shirts made up so that we can stand out at the MASSIVE. I put this together quickly, but it looks a bit too aggressive to me:
I don’t think it would suit a t-shirt or polo; It looks like it would be more at home embroidered down the front of an off-white cowboy shirt.
Update: Here’s what it might look like on a cowboy shirt:
Stupid pots with metal handles. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
I was using a silicon gripping thing too, but it wasn’t big enough to protect my entire hand. This is going to hurt in the shower tomorrow morning… dammit!
Update: Daily photos after the jump (may be pretty gross).
I love instructional videos! Frequent readers might remember how happy I was when I found out about VideoJug. More recently, I posted about Ramady’s Michael Jackson dance lessons. This morning I stumbled upon YouTube user Puissance‘s series of beatbox tutorials. He covers a number of fundamental and more advanced techniques in a fairly straightforward manner.
Here is his video tutorial on bass kick and snare while humming:
I’ve also embedded his tutorial for Rahzel‘s “If Your Mother Only Knew” after the jump. I always wondered how that “the beat and the chorus at the same time” thing works.
Continue reading “Pui City Basement beatbox tutorials”
I flew into Karratha on a Boeing 737. I was surprised as I thought that it was a fairly large plane to be flying to a community of only 10-12,000 people. The plane was rather empty; Heidi’s brother-in-law suggested that it would have been jam-packed going back to Perth (with mining workers returning for the weekend).
As I neared Karratha, the clouds looked amazing:
Read more about my trip (with photos!) after the jump.
This blog has been fairly quiet of late as I’ve spent the last four days in Karratha. (I’ll post a few images from my trip shortly).
NVIDIA have announced a new computing architecture which allows for direct access to GPUs. This is huge news for anyone in involved in HPC or games programming!
This should finally make the stream processing capabilities of GPUs available to a programmer without the need for them to refactor all processing into a computer graphics model. Current methods for stream processing on a GPU use image buffers to store data and process the data using fragment shaders, written in custom languages such as GLSL and Cg.
From the CUDA webpage (I italicised some key points):
Developing with CUDA
The CUDA software development kit (SDK) is a complete software development solution for programming CUDA-enabled GPUs. The SDK includes standard FFT and BLAS libraries, a C-compiler for the NVIDIA GPU and a runtime driver. The CUDA runtime driver is a separate standalone driver that interoperates with OpenGL and Microsoft® DirectX® drivers from NVIDIA. CUDA technology is equally supported on both the Linux and Microsoft® Windows® XP operating systems.
It’s great that they are using standard C. Hopefully it means that one can create libraries in C for use in higher level languages (like python or Ruby). I expect that the interaction with OpenGL will be through NVIDIA OpenGL extensions. This interaction alleviates one of my immediate concerns when I read heard about CUDA: that the GPU may have to be “locked into” GPGPU mode. Thankfully, it doesn’t look like this is that case!
Via Reg Hardware.
Pure Pwnage episode 12 is now available for download. They also have a new online episode viewer, but I expect that you will want to download it. There are no torrents listed on the website yet.
I’m downloading it now. Sweet!
Update: local download available from AusGamers.
The biggest social event on the Perth digital media calendar is fast approaching. You don’t want to miss out on MASSIVE 2006.
From the website:
MASSIVE is an end of year event held for all members of the Western Australian Digital Creative Industries. This one night brings together the WA Digital Community in order to celebrate another sucessful year. 2006 is the 5th year which MASSIVE has been held. Last year saw over 320 people attend so this year is set to be bigger than ever!
Details:
If you are interested in formally supporting this event (by providing prizes or financial support) check out the supporter packages available. It’s a great opportunity to engage digital media professionals in Perth.
This event is being organised by SIGGRAPH Perth Chapter (disclosure: I’m a board member). Please say thanks to the team when you see them at the event; Particular thanks should go to Minh for working so hard to find a venue. I don’t think that this event would be going ahead without all of her hard work.
I’ll post more details as the event approaches. Please feel free to ask any questions in the comments section, and I’ll try to answer them in subsequent posts.
I’m using planet to aggregate news headlines from various sites I think may be of interest to the OneTwenty crowd (and like-minded individuals). I use Liferea for my personal feed reading needs, but other OneTwenty members prefer to keep on top of news using their web browsers.
I quickly put something up just to see if it gets used. If so, I might work on it a bit more in future (adding categories and probably using AJAX to make the page update without requiring a manual refresh). Maybe even a login so that people can add your own feeds. No point getting ahead of myself here though!
Check it out here:
It’s fairly different to a standard planet website. I didn’t want to crowd the webpage with story details, so I went with a newspaper style 3 column layout. Rather than messing around with tables, I decided to use the CSS3 Columns extension which only seems to be supported by browsers using the Gecko rendering engine (eg. Mozilla, Firefox, and Epiphany amoung others).
Under other browsers, it all appears in a single column. You can see screenshots of the sites as viewed under other browser (Internet Explorer, Konqueror, Opera, and Safari) on browsershots.org (a very handy service!).
Please let me know if you find the new reader useful. Also feel free to suggest feeds (to be added or removed).