Dark and Moody

Posted by John
on Wednesday, 06 August 2008

Joker

Michelle never fails to impress me, a more darker version of her freehand drawing of the Joker.

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Freehand drawing of 'The Joker'

Posted by John
on Tuesday, 29 July 2008

The Joker

She's just finished this one. Michelle tried to make him a lot more darker, unkempt and dishelved.

The signature's a nice touch, think Heath would be proud of the two drawings she's produced; great work, I'll get her entire portfolio online sometime soon.

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Freehand drawing of Heath Ledger

Posted by John
on Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Heath Ledger

Freehand drawing of Heath Ledger by my incredibly talented fiancee Michelle Clark, love her lots for doing this.

Drawn using her new Cintiq pad from Wacom, Corel Painter and Photoshop CS3; took two nights.

She's drawing him as The Joker now, looking pretty terrifying.

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Google Apps as your CDN

Posted by John
on Saturday, 19 July 2008

Setting up Goggle Apps as your own CDN

  • Install Python
  • Download Google Apps SDK
  • Signup for Google App Engine and create an application
  • Download CDN Example, nicely put together by Andreas Krohn of digitalistic.com
  • Extract archive and edit app.yaml, changing application:digitalisticcdn to application:
  • Put all the images you want to upload in the images directory, etc.
  • Download Digitalistic's batchfile uploader here. Edit it so it points to your Python install directory, your Google App Engine SDK and your digitalisticcdn / customapp directory.
  • Double-click on this newly edited batch file to run it, the first time it'll ask for your username & password afterwhich your files will then be uploaded (hopefully) to your newly created appengine cdn.

So after all that, you should be able to access your images via,

[application identifier].appspot.com/images/[myimage.gif]

Thanks go to Andreas Krohn of digitalistic.com for putting together the zip archive example, batch file and original tutorial.

In Firefox We Trust

Posted by John
on Tuesday, 17 June 2008

firefox 3

After many months of hard work on behalf of the Mozilla corporation, and lots of testing and fixes from so many smarties; Firefox 3 has finally and officially gone gold.

Better standards compliance, security, memory fixes, just tons and tons of new improvements (not to mention the new rendering engine), this one's a goodie.

Go download it now, Ghandi would be proud ;-)

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