Musicals
Posted by Jake | Filed under Cool Stuff
Shock-horror, the fantastic Filled With Chocolate Pudding! has increased the musicals-I-want-to-see list to two. Not that I actually have time to watch movies at the moment, with exactly three weeks until the end of my bachelor degree..
Romance & Cigarettes
& The American Astronaut
Neglect
Posted by Jake | Filed under Blog
I’ve been neglecting this site a bit recently, I’ll get it back on track as soon as Uni is a little less hectic, my hand is healed and I’ve finished house-sitting..
In the People we Trust..
Posted by Jake | Filed under Cool Stuff
This little beauty, an ‘08 WeThePeople Trust bmx arrives tomorrow (Friday), and will be put to some seriously good use in the coming months I’m sure. Although I’ve still lost out a fair chunk on losing my old one, this one is stronger, has better parts, its 7 pounds lighter, and way cooler! And I can’t wait..
MLG Toronto
Posted by Jake | Filed under Misc
Just FYI, if you’re into gaming at all you may want to check out the live stream of the MLG Championship round in Toronto on this weekend. It’s an emerging thing (sport?) and I rather enjoy watching just how phenomenally good these dudes are.. You can watch Halo 3 and Gears of War, and at some events Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 and World of Warcraft. I pretty much stick to Halo, just because its sooo good.
There’s also some old crappy photomanipulations in the gallery.
Rasterbations
Posted by Jake | Filed under Cool Stuff
So I rasterbated for the first time the other day; a couple of mates and I created this masterpiece of our building science instruments rebelling against the university, and hung it in the 2nd and 3rd year building science room. The whole thing is comprised of 72 A3 sheets, making it 1.8 high by 4.8 metres wide. More info on what rasterbating is and you you too can rasterbate visit the home of rasterbation.
I’ve also managed to finally get my BBSc341 work displayed in the campus atrium along with the rest of the the classes models. They tried to make the two of us that made digital models display our work on TV’s made 10 years ago, but we fought for 3 days to get a proper screen. It really makes me wonder about where the motivations are of the university technicians.. Something I may bring up when I next meet with the head of the school. I’m so proactive..
And while I’m at it, here’s some other image-related cool stuff that has been brought to my attention, the first of which could have major impact on rendered animations. If you’re really keen make sure you check out the other Vimeo videos by these guys. The second is just plain awesome.
Go on, go rasterbate!
WetaNZ Halo 3 figures & more
Posted by Jake | Filed under Blog, Cool Stuff
First and foremost, if anyone were to get me one of these awesome things I would seriously be forever in your service.. More details at the WetaNZ site..
Also, my latest BBSc341 work is up in the Architectural Visualisation gallery. It’s not as good as I would have liked, but it was done in 2 days so I can’t complain. There was quite a bit of controversy over this project; firstly it being a design project and not really a building science one, and also the hand-in date being moved without an OK from the class, as is required by university rules. All of this led up to a group of BBSc 3rd years laying a complaint with the head of the Faculty, and myself being made class rep.. We shall see how this all turns out, hopefully something is done in the next 8 weeks, when I finish my degree. If not, at least for the students to come in the future.
The site is also now running on the Wordpress 2.61 platform, and there have a few other backend changes that probably won’t really be noticed..
Countdown To Boycott
Posted by Jake | Filed under Current Events
In two days, three hours and forty-five minutes, I’ll begin to not watch the Olympics as I feel no-one has done anything near enough to pressure China towards improved human rights. Everyone seems so scared of stepping on toes for that elusive free-trade agreement or whatever countries are after these days..
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I mean, I’ve made it clear I’m no fan of religious people, but come on, did those monks really deserve that?
Have You Seen This Bike?
Posted by Jake | Filed under Misc
From a good week to a bad one. I’ll be drowning my 2nd semester blues with icecream, and my third-year blues with an addiction to LEDs..
If you see anyone on a bike like this (minus the stickers), tackle first, ask questions later..
*tear*
A Week of LOLs
Posted by Jake | Filed under Misc
Ahhh what a week..
First, those destiny yahoos surprised me yet again with their false hope,
Then, the lemur knocked my off of my chair:
And then I get this in my inbox, as an apology letter of all things (That’s one of my lecturers as the south pole):
Thanks Piet and Mina, true friends..
Also, there are now some sweet visuals in the Animation, Design and Architectural Visualisation galleries, with some new design projects and stencils also coming very soon.
World Indoctrination Day
Posted by Jake | Filed under Blog, Current Events, Gallery, Religion
From Stuff.co.nz:
Ms Masson, not especially devout, decided to come to World Youth Day as a cheap way of getting to Australia, although it still involved lots of cake stalls and fund-raising.
She confessed that at home she spent considerable energy working out how to avoid going to church, but in the company of pilgrims, with all the conversation and worship, she was opening more to the idea of faith.
So two days ago was world youth day 2008 in Sydney Australia.. How kind of the Catholics to imply that world youth day be a religious holiday, which seemed to be more about a certain old man rather than the youth of the world. What really gets me is how gullible the general public seems to be, despite there being so much information out there. How people still feel the need to jump on board with the group in a commercialised world where even the commercials are telling us to be individual and to not accept the ordinary I just don’t know. I guess though that if everyone was doing their own thing, there would be no “general public”..
The news (in this country at least) lately is all complaining about rising prices, mostly due to oil. My understanding is that oil prices are high due in most part to world conflict, especially in the middle east. Conflict that, although it may not be now, was certainly begun with religion as the chief catalyst.
I’ve been thinking lately that now is a fantastic time to not own anything. Have nothing, have nothing to lose..
I also watched the recent TV3 Inside New Zealand documentary on bishop (read: bastard) Brian Tamaki, leader of the Destiny church. I must say it was decisively mediocre, and avoided most of the major questions. I just wish people would cut the ‘you can’t talk about religion like that’ crap, especially when religions are promoting themselves as valid scientific theories. Theories are made to be CRITICIZED, so why is there a taboo of criticizing religion?
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On a happier note, the Stencil gallery is up, and has most of my stencils so far, like this one:
Also, it has now passed my 10-year mark in NZ, which also means that nearly half of my life has been spent here. This begs the question;
Am I a Canadian, or a Kiwi?
I am both.
