Slide over to Graphic Forums and see this pixel art character tutorial that pixelgal posted in July.
Graphic Forums : Pixel Art Character Tutorial
OK, it's not isometric, but still, it's a good tutorial.
After a little while of looking at this little jewel, and then of course the obligatory forgetting that it exists, and THEN coming back to realize what I had lost, I found myself adding the "Search Referral Zeitgeist" plugin into my Movable Type install.
Since I am hosting on Dreamhost, it was a very simple install to do. Almost too easy. I mean, I just followed the directions and it was done. No hacks, no cracks, no yaks (?) well, I ran out of rhymes.
Trust me, it was just easy...
Here is the final:
http://www.inthefaith.com/Zeitgeist.php
Most webloggers pay an inordinate amount of attention to their referer logs, the logs made by the web server that show the page from which a visitor linked to their site. A significant fraction of these inbound links come from Internet search engines such as google,yahoo, or excite, and the search terms people used to find your site can be as entertaining as they are informative. The German word zeitgeist means, literally, "time ghost," figuratively meaning the "spirit of the time," and search engine traffic can provide a peek at this.
[Gallery :: your photos on your website]
I have been perusing around the net again looking for some software that will help me display images from a digital camera that I am about to buy.
I noticed that Eliot's site uses the Gallery software from SourceForge, so I am going to give it a whirl as soon as I get the digital camera.
I have a digital camcorder, BUT the still photo mode makes terrible pictures.
This is my camera of choice (limited budget).
Just made a personal decision to remove the Bible Pathway Devotionals from the web log.
I am, however, looking into writing a Movable Type Plugin for pulling the devotional an adding it to the menu bar....
That will be really nice....
FAA: Merrill Field control tower and Kotzebue flight station were mistake-free.
One of my older brothers is mentioned in this article and to me, that's pretty cool. It's rough weather in Alaska, and going mistake free for the year 2002 is a great accomplishment.
The Merrill Field control tower in Anchorage and the Kotzebue Flight Service Station received top honors Friday for being mistake-free in 2002.It was the first time that the control tower and the air station received "Facility of the Year" national awards.
...
The Kotzebue station, which is 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle and oversees an area about the size of Colorado, is doing an outstanding job in extremely difficult conditions, he said.
"Kotzebue, what can you say? What a challenge," he said.
The flight service station is a hub for between 25 and 30 villages in Northwestern Alaska. In 2002, it provided 131,447 flight services, an average of 360 per day. Those services included pilot briefings, flight planning and weather reporting.
The Kotzebue facility, unlike Merrill Field's control tower, built in 1999, is more than a half-century old. It is about 30 feet from the Bering Sea, said Earl Valley, assistant manager for air traffic in Fairbanks.
"It is a 1940s building with black specks in the water, a sewer line that freezes in the winter, and they sit around in their Arctic gear and still talk to the airplanes," he said.
Conditions in Kotzebue are so harsh that staff members work 10-hour days on an eight-days on, six-days off schedule so they can live in Fairbanks.
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"They work in some very rough conditions," Valley said.
Alaska is the only state that continues to staff most of its air stations. Stations elsewhere have been computerized and automated.
Linda Couture, Merrill's air traffic manager from January to November 2002, said Merrill is very busy and has a challenging runway configuration, consisting of two east-west runways and two north-south runways. In addition, Merrill has a gravel runway for planes with skis and tundra tires.
More than 900 planes are based at Merrill Field, which also has five flight schools.
Between April and August, the tower averages 20,184 takeoffs and landings a month. During peak summer days, the tower typically handles about 1,300 takeoffs and landings. Controllers, unlike at the larger Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, do not rely on radar to track planes on the ground. They use their eyes.
"This is a look-out-the-window-and-see-what's-coming type of airport," Couture said.
[Full Story @ Ancorage Daily News]
Source: Ancorage Daily News
Brainstorms and Raves needs to be added to my reading list... Good stuff here.
All writers need to use this one, especially me...
BBC Training & Development > BBC News Styleguide - Online course details
Avoid clichés and improve your journalism with this PDF version of the BBC News Styleguide. The Guide gives practical suggestions on many aspects of journalism style, including abbreviations, clichés, reported speech - and how to avoid irritating your editor.
[VDaemon - PHP Form Validation Library]
An important aspect of creating Web Forms pages for user input is to be able to check that the information users enter is valid. VDaemon is a PHP library that grants an easy-to-use but powerful way to check for errors and, if necessary, display messages to the user. VDaemon provides several custom HTML tags (VDaemon tags) to allow developer define form validation rules and some PHP functions to define validation behavior. VDaemon is intended for web developers who have at least basic PHP experience.
[The Matrix Revolutions - Coming Soon! Film Database]
If you can view it, it is available...
I take it that web traffic must be horrible because of the strong cult following of this movie!
Trailer:
QuickTime, Hi-Res
QuickTime, Med-Res
QuickTime, Lo-Res
Source: MATRIX website, Coming Soon
Tutorials for Pixel Art from the Pixel—Zone Zoggle.co.uk (updated November 25, 2003).
This aims to demonstrate what an isometric view is, how it is displayed and how to create graphics in this view.
11.25.2003 Links updated from Indie.rpg.net to Zoggles.co.uk, thanks for the notification from JJ86
The above House and Cottage examples have been elevated to walkthroughs and a Prison walkthrough has been added.
Finally, a plethora of tutorials can be found here on Zoggle.co.uk
The Pixel—Zone Zoggle.co.uk - Isometric
[STUDENT MAKES PERFECT SCORE ON COLLEGE EXAMS]
A Pulaski Academy student has done the nearly impossible and no doubt will have his choice of scholarships for the taking. Han Kim made a perfect score on the SAT and ACT college exams.
To give an idea of just how rare that is, only about .0004 percent of those who take the SAT score a perfect 1600. And only about .0001 percent of people who take the ACT score a perfect 36.
Source: KTHV.com
I could not resist posting this page that I located while search for "pixel art" on alltheweb.com.
Here is an hours and hours exercise placing dots. Isn't pixel addiction some new kind of embroidering?. What else could it be the effort of illustrating ideas, objects with little dots and limited number of colors?. Our grandmas and mothers used cotton, now we use lighting pixels on the screen. Well, wait the image to load and you will see what I'm talking about.
Microsoft will not do any more development work on the world's most popular email client.
Hmmm.... Who makes these decisions????
It might be the world's most widely distributed email client, but Microsoft has confirmed that it has no intention of further developing Outlook Express.
"[Outlook Express] just sits where it is," said Dan Leach, lead product manager for Microsoft's information worker product management group. "The technology doesn't go away, but no new work is being done. It is consumer email in an early iteration, and our investment in the consumer space is now focused around Hotmail and MSN. That's where we're putting the emphasis in terms of new investment and new development work."
While Outlook Express has always been most popular with individual consumers, many business users have also utilised it, in part because it is part of its default Windows install. Microsoft executives are hoping those users will now switch to the full-blown Outlook client (and pay for an Office licence in the process).
[ZDNet UK - News - Microsoft abandons Outlook Express]
Source: ZDNet.UK
I'd like a number one, super-sized, and the 24-hour Wi-Fi, to go, please...
Some really good photoshop tutorials that I found tonight, make sure you follow the navigation on the right side of the page to see the next and/or previous tutorial.
[Comics2Film - Adding Realistic Foliage to your Images by Ed Hopkins]
[Comics2Film -The Quick and Easy Way to Clean-Up Skin by dperceful]
[Comics2Film -More Quick and Easy Clean-Up Methods by dperceful]
Don't Give Me Jesus …
… if giving me Jesus means
telling me about your beliefs,
then walking away.
Don't give me Jesus,
if giving me Jesus means
judging me by appearance,
but never trying to see who I really am.
Don't give me Jesus,
if giving me Jesus means
you're right no matter what,
and I'm wrong no matter what.
Do Give Me Jesus …
… if giving me Jesus means
walking beside me just like
Jesus walked beside
lepers and losers.
Do give me Jesus,
if giving me Jesus means
listening more than talking.
Do give me Jesus,
if giving me Jesus means
laughing with me when I need to laugh,
and crying with me when I need to cry.
Do give me Jesus,
if giving me Jesus means
letting me know when
my actions are harmful or destructive.
Do give me Jesus,
if giving me Jesus means
being my friend.
If you give me Jesus
wrapped in your friendship,
I may be more ready to listen
to what you have to say.
—Anonymous
Found this article today while reading Christianity Today Magazine. Although the results from the poll are unscientific, the results and the comments are well worth the read.
This article discusses many of the issues that visitors find distracting or annoying on Christian websites. I must admit I have been annoyed by a number of these issues and it is good to see that I am not standing alone.
What is the purpose of a Christian-themed background any way? Did I somehow forget that I was on a christian website and I needed a gaudy background to remind me? Err.... sorry, I'll let the article speak for itself.
Here is a cool site with some excellect pixelists displaying their works. It's well worth a visit!
I have been greatly impressed by the work of some of these artists. Breath-taking detail!
[deviantART; Deviation Galleries]
I found this fan website for the Mel Gibson and Icon Production film, "PASSION." Seems to be quite a bit of interest brewing with this graphic depiction of the last 12 hours of Jesus Christ's life. Is this film Anti-Semitic or is it Biblically accurate?
[PASSION: TRAILER - Mel Gibson Film PASSION of Jesus]
The Story:
Sometime around the year A.D. 30, in the Roman province of Palestine, an obscure Jewish carpenter named Jesus of Nazareth began to teach publicly and to proclaim the coming of a 'Kingdom of God.' For centuries, the Jewish people had expected the appearance of a promised deliverer known as the Messiah --a figure who would restore their ancient dignity, and free their sacred homeland from all evil and despair. In the minds of many, Jesus appeared to be this Messiah. Surrounded by a core group of twelve disciples, Jesus began to attract a massive following from among the common people of Galilee and Judea, who eventually praised him as their Messiah and King. However, Jesus also had many enemies in Jerusalem. The Sanhedrin, a governing senate composed of the leading Jewish priests and Pharisees, conspired to put Jesus to death.
With the aid of Judas Iscariot, a member of Jesus' own inner circle, the Sanhedrin succeeded in arresting Jesus, handing him over to the Roman secular authorities on unsubstantiated charges of treason against Rome. Although Jesus consistently maintained that his Kingdom was a heavenly and spiritual one, the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate, faced with the possibility of a riot, ordered that Jesus be taken outside the city and crucified as a common criminal.
The Cast:
Jesus Christ: James Caviezel
Mary: Maia Morgenstern
Mary Magdalene: Monica Bellucci
Gesmas: Francesco Cabras
Satan: Rosalinda Celentano
Pilatus Wife: Claudia Gerini
Pilatus: Ivano Marescotti
Dismas: Sergio Rubini
Know here's a good use of technology. Take pictures of your assailant with your camera-enabled cell phone and take the photos to the police. It really does take some presence of mind to consider that your are armed with technology when you are being attacked. I applaud you, sir...