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I was working on a project these days where I had to get a logo projected on a wall (3d illustration). Instead of asking the client to the logo I decided to try first looking on the internet, as the client/project name is quite famous it was easy to find something. So I had the logo in .SVG, cool! But I needed it on a big bitmap format. What was my surprise that Photoshop CS3 doesn't load .SVG files yet!

Oh well, then I remembered yomizmo talking very well of Inkscape. So, I downloaded it, installed it, no problems at all, and then did the easy task of loading an .SVG file and saving it again to .EPS, so I could load it with Photoshpo and create the big image. Everything worked really well. So, I'll keep it there, and see if I can avoid using Illustrator and using this opensource one instead :)

This is quality!
http://djhoffman.com/hoffandmod-breakinthecity.mp3

Track list
Noisa - Gutterpump : Passenger
Entity - Hell Below : Combat Wax
DJ Isy - No Limit (Hoffman Remix) : Tortured Breaks
Kulture - Right Now (Hoffman Remix) : iBreaks Bass
Grizzla - Conga Bounce : Unstable
Hoffman - Destiny : Unstable
Unknown - The Junglist : Dub Plate
ED209 vs Ken Mac - Wooyeah : Hardcore Beats
Unknown - Streetlife : Crisp Biscuit

I though that may be a nice touch to blog a bit about how's the demo progressing, but even more interesting to make it without spoiling anything, just talking abstract. Not because we think it's going to be the best demo ever, not at all, but because a couple of MSN contacts seem interested in how it's going. So, to save a couple of chatting sessions, here it goes...

We didn't started anything yet. Blackpawn has some effects in the works that may be cool to use here and develop a bit more. At least right now we have more or less decided the style of the prod. From my side I'm looking for a tune to use to fit with the style. I have a folder of tunes to use that the authors gave me the freedom of using them at some point.

There are tunes in that folder which are *really* old but I still want to do a demo with them... it's just lack of resources / time.

By the end of today I should have the tune selected and we should start producing something tomorrow (although I'm going out to a Border Community night today and may be wasted tomorrow...)

I like a couple of tunes for the style, one of them is a Neurokin's one, which would be cool to use as the demo that we used to enter in the competition was Tokyo which was a blackpawn/trace/neurokin prod. The other tunes, I won't say the author yet as the musics are released and won't like to spoil anything ;)  However, each one inspire me very different concepts. I may get a couple and start demos with them and then see which one got released at Intel / Euskal / Assembly ;)

I don't think I'll be able to do that many demos and also having some freelance work to do. Well, we'll see...

UPDATE: Oh! I just received the briefing for it. Deadline is July 1st. And there is some details that may change what we had in mind. Running time is 3 minutes, so this changes the music selection a bit now :P

http://intel-demoscene.de/

:S!

Now you know who will get the last position :P

It feels like eating sushi with fork and knife... but that's my only option, I'm still married to 3D Studio MAX and the Demoscene.

In the other hand, it may feel weird, but man, it's FAST!!! I'm talking about Windows XP tho, I still don't see any reason to move to Windows Vista.

The only feature from the hardware that isn't using properly yet is the keyboard retro-illumination. Apart from that, the OS time of reaction to my actions it's much faster than with MacOS.

This is what I call a nice techno show :)

"This current month you seem to have used about 210 GiB of bandwidth (total of your sites). The site using the most bandwidth seems to be mrdoob.com. Note that your hosting plan only allows for 25 GiB monthly."

Oh well, not only I had to reinstall Windows on my mbp this weekend (seems that when you get a genuine copy of windows parallels and bootcamp don't share the same license and some programs don't work anymore...)... Now I have to get hosting somewhere else...

Dreamhost maybe?

Because if you do it with an unsaved scene and you forgot to setup the UVmap you won't be able to cancel the process... the only solution will be to shutdown MAX, but, oh way, unsaved scene...

It's boring... why Autodesk why?!

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This will take forever....

The worst thing is that the loading bar doesn't show the progress... it's empty...
... uhm... yeah, make sure this doesn't happen to you, ... befor render to texture always do a low quality one so you see everything is in place (i'm talking to myself right now...  I say that to me every time but I never do it... )...


Anyone wants an oreo? I got some spare... a gum maybe? oh, those new orbit packages are really cool, posh as a tobacco packet! it even have a metalic-ish stripe in between gums :)

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I glad i have my tangle around :) Uhm... Thanks good I have those nice Alkama mixes that I can't tell you about ;) ... .... I better go have lunch while things nightmare ends...

Chicken Teriyaki anyone? nobody? ok, more for me... laters!

Their reasoning behind the shift was due to plans to continue to develop new software features and "entirely new applications" and incorporate them into the iPhone. "We want to provide many of these new features and applications at no additional charge to users."

Similarly, they stated that periodic updates and enhancements will be provided at no charge to Apple TV customers.

This sound like when Sony releases firmware updates for the PSP with new 'super cool' features so the people feel like updating the device. In the meantime, in each update they also try to patch the holes/hacks that the users find for running homebrew software or customise the device.

So, Apple: Yeah... right.... Hehehehe :)

This is the kind of games I like :)