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When the Unity goes down

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:56:44 -0400

renderplease:

How everyone else reacts:

How AEs react:

I remember those days…”So, I can go home, right?”

Angriest MacBook Pro, ever.

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:25:31 -0400

Angriest MacBook Pro, ever.

Photo

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:46:08 -0400

This sums up every post on my Facebook feed right now.

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:47:12 -0400

This sums up every post on my Facebook feed right now.

meagan-taylor: morgondagg: “Iceland” by Paul Kim I want to go...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:41:09 -0400

meagan-taylor:

morgondagg:

“Iceland” by Paul Kim

I want to go to there.

I remember trying to convince you we should go once I saw photos from Raz. Tickets aren’t very expensive, let’s do it!

wulcan: Local GameStop. What rubbish, that doesn’t even...

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:43:09 -0400

wulcan:

Local GameStop.

What rubbish, that doesn’t even begin with, “I wish!”

Learned two things today: 1) Dixie has a ridiculous new coffee...

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:09:00 -0400

Learned two things today: 1) Dixie has a ridiculous new coffee cup cover and 2) Animated GIFs take way too long to make.

Help me understand why this makes sense. Why you would advertise...

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:31:40 -0400

Help me understand why this makes sense. Why you would advertise in a game’s loading screen for the game that I paid for and that I am currently loading.

Louis CK did another semi-AMA on Reddit. He continues to be the...

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:07:36 -0400

Louis CK did another semi-AMA on Reddit. He continues to be the funniest man alive.

Demo Reel Blues.appleloop

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:59:50 -0400

Updating my demo reel is like going to the dentist’s office for a cleaning…It would really benefit me to do it every six months, but I really, really don’t want to. And sometimes it can be painful. Bleeding around the gums is to be expected.

If I had the cash, I would totally pay someone to do it. But then I probably wouldn’t need a reel if I had enough cash to pay someone to update mine…

Photo

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:56:10 -0400

Photo

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:03:15 -0400

Sure was!

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:24:45 -0400

Sure was!

uffish-thoughts: <3<3<3<3<3 I never thought...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:22:49 -0400

uffish-thoughts:

<3<3<3<3<3

I never thought about it, but practical lower-third titles are probably the coolest thing ever.

There’s a great thread today on Reddit that’s an AMA...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:13:55 -0400

There’s a great thread today on Reddit that’s an AMA from a woman about to turn 100 years old. It’s really fun to read, but something kept bothering me—many, many down votes. All Meag and I could conclude was something akin to this moment in Torchwood.

The Cost of Digital Living I was bored and wanted to visualize...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:41:36 -0400

The Cost of Digital Living

I was bored and wanted to visualize where the cost of my web services went to. I also wanted to play around with some new layer styles and UI glyphs I bought.

Face Recognition Software is Pure Entertainment

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:42:05 -0400

Picasa is a pretty awful piece of software, but it’s free. It also comes with some pretty fantastic Face Recognition software built-in. Here are a few things I’ve come across:

1. It’s so good, it even detects faces from drawings.

The resemblance is uncanny!

2. It will detect your facial structure throughout the years—this is me about two decades ago, and it still got it right.

What a goofy lookin’ kid.

3. It’ll creep you out by making undeniable comparisons with your family members.

Picasa thinks I’m my Mom. That’s pretty heavy, Doc.

This is the best thing I’ve ever made in my entire life....

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:20:47 -0400

This is the best thing I’ve ever made in my entire life. My cousin turned 30, and everyone did a .gif dance.

Face Recognition and Lightroom

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:15:00 -0400

Now that Lightroom 4 is out with support for HD video playback and GPS-enabled maps, the only feature from Aperture/iPhoto that I miss is Face Recognition. Lightroom 4 is fantastic, and still the best and most professional digital photo organizer and developer available, but I also use it for my personal photos (well technically they’re all personal, because I’m not professional, but you know what I mean—Artsy Fartsy vs. Grandma’s Birthday).

After keywording photos for two days, and only making a small dent in the 40,000 images, I started looking for an alternative. I found a nice write-up online about a work around for integrating Face Recognition in to Lightroom. Here’s the plan:

Using Picasa (which is free), you can start tagging faces with their Face Recognition software (which is really good, and really creepy—exactly what you would expect from Google) and then easily add keywords (or whatever metadata) to all those faces, which will be read by Lightroom. It’s a smart work around, and now I feel dumb for wasting that much time.

Note: there may be some IPTC issues, but I think it’ll still work just fine.

Update: So, all has worked fine for me, until I tried writing metadata to CR2 files…my raw canon-shot photos. Doesn’t seem like Picasa plays nicely. JPEGs and such work just fine though. I’m sure there’s some way to force it to work with Exiftool, some scripting knowledge, and a little time…

Update 2: Okay, got it working for raw files by using a Perl script. First, you need to install Exiftool (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/), and make sure you install the Perl version (not just the command line one, and make sure to ‘sudo’ if you get a permissions issue upon ‘make install’). Then download the Perl script and check out the read me (note that Mac users have to change “$contactsfile” to go to your user home folder, in the application support folder): https://github.com/gregersn/faceextract

It’s a little daunting, so if you aren’t used to using terminal commands, I’d say steer clear of this.

Source: http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/add-face-recognition-to-lightroom-with-picasa/

Oh I think I’m so funny…Did this during college....

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:36:21 -0400

Oh I think I’m so funny…Did this during college. Highly influenced by Matt Wassung’s satirical ‘We the Sheeple’ dialogs. Going through my 40,000-photos-deep Lightroom catalog is quite a trip down memory lane. And what a very, very embarrassing lane it is.