A place for things I found…
These things are neat!
This is a nice story about a boy’s love of Morning Glories, and his mother’s love for him, which she spreads to the tsunami survivors through seeds from the flowers he grew just before he died, and which he never lived to see bloom.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/life_and_death/AJ2011092612223
This is an amazing short film, done by a handful of extremely talented guys. It’s not quite a parody, the scenes are played straight like in all the WWII movies you’ve seen, but the weapons are all made of cardboard! Continue reading “Incredible amateur movie, “Cardboard Warfare 2″…”
So, Queso the cat really likes wet cat food. Â Fair enough, but when his owners try to foist the dry stuff on him, he uses feline ingenuity to solve the problem:
Of course, some people will insist that dogs are smarter than cats. Â Bah.
You know, I’m not really a sports fan, but for some reason rugby is much more intriguing, now…
Laughter, from beginning to end…
I’ve never heard of this game, but then I’m not a gamer, but this is really neat traditional-style Japanese music, played with authentic instruments on a traditional stage.
Now that I found a good tutorial on it, this may work out better. Adjustment layer, clipping mask, gradient fill and gaussian blur for the win! I did this in 1/10th the time it took the previous version, and I think it works a little better.
Thought I’d try out my Photoshop “skills” (as if I had any!) to see if I could take a photo from my set of Otakon pics and try to simulate the “tilt-shift” effect. Â True tilt-shift involves a fancy $1000 lens, but since I’m not going to have one of those in the near (or even distant) future, this should be the next best (cheapest!) thing.
This should be a small image, clicking on it should bring up the full-sized one, if this works right.
