Archive of entries posted on 3rd September 2014

Yet Somehow Still More Real Than a Reality TV Show

Posted by on


[Making a Case for Books] (Viewer #191,644)

I winced before I clicked “play” for the first time, because – as a general YouTube rule of thumb – nothing is interesting for 7 minutes.

I was wrong.

Although I suspect that part of my fascination was contemplating the idea that this man took time in the middle of his project to take all those pictures when he could’ve just spent the time building the shelves.

I’m kinda awe-struck by that thought, and grateful that he DID take that time.

From the YouTube description:

This is the fully animated story of making four bookcases. The four cases are made from two pieces of walnut veneer plywood with almost no waste. The base for the cases is made from solid walnut with mitered corners The bookcases are 33 inches tall and 47 inches wide. The finish is wipe on polyurethane. They fit under and within the spacing of the windows in the living room.

I shot approximately 11,700 frames for this animation and used roughly 6,400 of them. I worked on this project intermittently from the 5th of January to 1st of March, 2014.

Wisdom of the Day: Epi Baby Sketch Songs Alcoholic Skeptic Smiley Oxford

Posted by on

Random Thoughts: Book Reports, Selfies, and Video Games

Posted by on

I remember doing a lot of book reports as a kid but I’ve never done a single one as an adult. What was that all about?

Were book reports to scare kids away from books? “Remember: If you read a book, you have to do some painful, boring writing afterward.”

Anger makes you dumber, and, God bless us, none of us were that bright to begin with.

Secure nude selfie distribution is actually an interesting engineering problem.

Ideally, you’d want a nude selfie camera setting that would encrypt the image upon taking it. Password needed for any further viewing.

Being able to send the photo to a person with that person not being able to distribute would be biggest challenge. Nearly impossible, really.

So only send nude selfies to extremely trusted third parties. A nude selfie can’t be canceled like a credit card.

Apparently Apple’s cloud doesn’t count as an extremely trusted third party.

Does the presidential limo have an “I’d rather be golfing” bumper sticker? Because that would be funny.

So do gaming journalists basically have complete and utter contempt for gamers? #GamerGate

I enjoy video games and the patriarchy.

So Putin starts wearing a cape, he’s officially a supervillain, right?