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I will try to photo Steve with better lights tomorrow
Is easy to do here except you get further and further away from where you want to go as well, some kind of weird space/time distortion there :)
Steve looks real happy :)
steve walks warily down the street, his brim pulled way down low dun dun dun
interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro (English pronunciation: /kiˌɑːrəˈskjʊəroʊ/;Italian: [ˌkjaroˈskuːro]; Italian for light-dark) in art is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.
4 point lighting??!!
ahaa!
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/new_features/start
yep, where the ruddy red is coming from
and there are diffs between 4.8 and 4.9,
scares me cause i bought Merrick, he;s brand new, dunno if his skin stuff will work in 4.8
Dana
I've been to New Orleans exactly once. Encountered the one-way traffic traps but eventually found my way to the French Quarter. My other half was with me and knew the town so we visited a few of the colorful bars, then ran into a bartender friend of his in Lafitte's. I don't remember much after that but I do know we were unable to toddle back to our car. But that's OK because a Colt model picked us up and let us stay in his apartment across the street from Lafittes and I do remember that my other half and I woke up the next morning naked on one of his ornate wrought iron balconys. Interesting town.
I imagine those balconies have seen worse. :-)
I remember a long, long bridge somewhere near New Orleans. I remember really not liking that bridge, too.
Which is exactly why my husband took me across it.
Husbands -- never again. Both of mine purely tormented me.
Lighting backgrounds doesn't get you points :b Um doubt it about the scattering, is more you are painting with coloured lights, use teh matte white emissive and see what happens
in part from old school prints from drypoint etchings
When I was stationed in Germany, one of our Sergeants had his 1970-ish Cadillac Fleetwood shipped over. He could drive it off post and on the autobahn, but nowhere else. If he got to a town, he had to park it and walk in. Had it for about a month when he sold it to a German for about ten times what it was worth in the US. I had a 1980 Opel Admiral, which was a metric 1965 Chevy Nova with leather interior and power everything! It was a luxury car.
There's an old juke about a multi-million dollar machine that stopped working. None of the engineers or technicians could get it to work, so they finally brought in an outside consultant. He walked around the machine, took a small hammer out of his pocket, and gave it a light tap. The machine immediately began to run. When the plant manager got the bill -$50,000 - he called the consultant to complain. "All you did was tap it with a little hammer!"
"The tap was free," replied the consultant. "The $50,000 was for knowing where to tap!"
...the colloquial term for big American cars when I was there was Strassenkreutzer ("street crosser")
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..ahh, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
That story will take awhile to process.
It was a long, long bridge. Longest bridge I've ever been on. I thought we'd never get across. :-)
Anybody remember Billy Jack?
just in case anyone was losing sleep over Merrick for M7. the skin effects are on the texture map, doesn't appear to need diffuse layers
can't say i do. i remember Billy Joe, Tallahassee bridge?
the Chiaroscuro arts kewl stuff
I've heard that story in 6th or 7th grade (egads, almost 60 years ago) regarding the generators at the Niagara Falls power facility. I believe it was something actually said by Charles Steinmetz, the hunchback, dwarf, mathematician employed by General Electric. Supposedly he crawled around on the exposed coils of the big generators before making a mark on the coils identifying the place that needed fixing somehow. Or perhaps it was Nicola Tesla? Both had a hand in the first Niagara Falls generators. No, I think I remember the teacher talking about a hunchback, so it must have been Steinmetz.
Charles Steinmetz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
Nicola Tesla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
My father did that with a '67 Bonnaeville and '72 Grand Am... But in Italy... The guy who bought the Bonneville still had it in 82' (and kept in great condition) when I last visited my dad... We passed it on a local road and it was comically large compared to everything else... It actually seemed bigger than one of the local minibuses that the hotels liked to use to shuttle guests around to attractions.
Over there you could drive it down main streets, but some of the roads leading to places like the beaches or isolated sections of town were cut into the cliffs and so narrow that small cars would often have to back up into notches in the cliff, to allow another to pass... Most of the streets in town were insanely narrow too. There was one street I remember going down that was really no more than an alleyway, the handlebars of the motorcycle had maybe eight inches on either side and you felt like Luke Skywalker flying down the trench on the Death Star. Most of the other side "streets" we're not much better.
Bloom Filters ??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Jack
I remember Billy Joe and the Tallahatchee Bridge, too. :-) Another good song/movie.
Yes. There were a couple of movies at least. In fact, there were four movies.
Dana
I know who Billy Mack is... He's a detective down in Texas... You know, he knows exactly what the facts is... he ain't gonna let those two escape justice... And he makes his livin' off of the people's taxes.... Or so I'm told... But I think he was looking for Billy Joe and Bobby Sue... And they are still running today... Which is pretty sad because they are probably like 75 by now and Billy Mack retired like thirty years ago.
I think. :-) I didn't get to see all of them, but I remember the first one. I'd like to see it again.
I won't holler at you today.
I'm in too nice of a mood.
But I will say that old is interesting. History majors are weird like that.
Lost my audio chord and had to listen to new music on the way to town.
I did not realize today's music was so meaningless.
One of my daughters keeps abbreviating stuff when she talks... I get it, but I just had to point out that, FNAF is not much of a time saver over Five Nights At Freddie's... Maybe if you were referring to Salvador Scungillioetti's South Shore Biscuit Bakery, SSSSBB might be quicker, but then only if one could stay focused past the first three Ss and if you knew the aforementioned biscuit bakery to begin with... I probably should have waited until she wasn't drinking orange juice to have said "Salvador Scungillioetti's South Shore Biscuit Bakey"... Maybe it was my long pause, the thing I do with one eyebrow up when I'm puzzled or thinking or perhaps the fake whelk/conch-based last name for the biscuit bakery, but now there is orange juice all over the place. Well, not anymore...
Mmmmm... Scungilli alla marinara...
Unfortunately, good Scungilli is too expensive and bothersome to prepare and restaurant ones are just rubbery.
Now I want to go to Mamma Lombardi's... They don't do Scungilli, but they have a great chicken scarpariello... And pork chops... And pork braciola...
I should have eaten lunch.
Man I'm hungry now...