Well the summer vacation cold be described as over now that the school is starting again. This summer I have not got to do all the things I had planned, so some of those things will have to be done whenever i get the time to do them.
My new headset: Koss Ur/29 Mix Jockey, my last headset lasted for 4 years (Pro-Luxe OA-580)
As promised I will show one of the things i have been working on this summer, for the D&D role-play sessions I have made my own Dungeon-Master Screen, the screen were made using hobby-cardboard A3 screens that were cut in two and then fitted together. I then used a pocked page from Ultra-pro to fit 6 pockets on the leftmost side of the screen, the other 3 sides were fitted using selected pages from the 3.5 screen found here. The other side of the screen is yet to be fitted, but I will probably use some tables that are well-used by the players of my games and probable one A4 plastic pocket for exchangeable maps and info from the game.
Some parts for an life sized Gundam were sold for 4001000 JP¥ (46 867 US$ | 292 252 NOK) at an auction.
This project was to find ways to change and directly have the user/visitor change the visual experience of an website as well s to set up means to if lucky gather some funding for any of my projects. (I have no hopes of actually get any large funding this way, but if it should go the right way I would be thrilled)
Currently reading: Generation A by Douglas Coupland
Project: The Color Donation Page
The idea behind the site was to make the donated money directly change the css code stating the colors used on the 4 different fields on the frontpage so that if someone donated 9 dollars to help funding my graphical novel (read: comic-series) then the code for the red field on the color donation site would have 9 added to the RGB code and then also making it slightly different.
As an followup on yesterdays Grimsmyra miniatures, I found this picture taken from Baneheia overlooking Nybyen (“Newcity”?) in Kristiansand. The players are schoolmates from Noroff and one of our teachers Jørund. I did this over at least 10 times before i were anything near happy about the result, so i ended up with something that works as an “how it can look” picture to show the effect.
My teacher Jørund is photoblogging at repost.no check it out.
A few days ago I went together with my friend JC and my brother up the stone-stairs of the side of Ravnedalen, kind of steep steps and a good 15-20 minutes to climb for the top, but the result is a nice view overlooking Grim with Kvadraturen and Odderøya in the back.
Ravnedalen was built in the years 1874–1878 by military soldiers under Colonel Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland’s command.
Anyway, i didn@t go there just to look at the view myself, i also went to shoot some photos from the climb and the top. Here you got one of the shots faked to resemble miniature (using the quickmask-gradient-lensblur method)
The view from the top of the stairs in Ravnedalen.
I am in the start of the summer vacation and had an as good ending of the second semester as it were possible, scoring an A at the semester exams and also scored A or 100% on all other assignments this semester. For the exams I had to design an new website for the company FatCow Games AS, however I cant really show you anything since I have yet to install the design to their site.
I just finished reading Watchmen last night, well it was Raymond at the local comicbook-shop that got me to read it. It was worth every minute of reading and i got inspiration that i will need when writing the script for my own comic series. (Got an mail from the artist, she is working on it now and it seems like the first chapters will be ready for web-publishing soon.) Alan Moore is a huge inspiration.
When working on web-pages i have found the the little paperback-book CSS Pocket Reference has become irreplaceable and are already beginning to look like it.
CSS – Cascading Style Sheet – A style sheet format for HTML documents endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium.
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service is an weird following the different deliveries of the named company, they find, talk to and then delivers the corpses to wherever the corpses wants to be delivered. The characters are really well brought together with their kinks and faults giving them fascinating personalities.
Wired Magazine… i have just got my first magazine of the UK version mailed to me after i started subscribing, already even when i have only fast puzzled through it without reading any of the dept articles yet, i have found it full of interesting fun-faqs, diagrams, gadget tests and the best of all… the “one page summary/diagram of all Lost seasons” got me cracking…
Hungry, going to cook myself some grilled-sausages…
Well after being stuck to my desktop computer for many years i decided to finally get myself an laptop so i could start to be productive even without sitting at my desktop all the time, and even perhaps start to use my second desk. (that i actually got to use for sketching, drawing and other non computer work.) Actually i am also in the start of this semesters exams now, my exam will be to make new web-pages (layout/design) for an small “indie” game-developer company. Will get back to that as soon as i have the boring layout coding done.
I got myself an MacBook Pro 15″ and upgraded the hard-drive to 7200 rpm to avoid the Hd to be the bottleneck under work.
Total cost in Norway: 17 494 NOK | 2 231 EU€ | 1 918 UK£ | 2 834 US$ | 261 904 JP¥
For the project i have also bought an license for Artisteer, i hope this will make the hard-coding of the layout in php easier since it is actually rather good and clearly how the php and html code is presented after making an template with this program…
I have also started the work with an D&D3.5 DM screen, will post pictures and perhaps even make the prints available later :)
D&D3.5 was released in 2003 as the 9th revision/version since the original D&D came in 1974
This is the picture I have made for the Noroff creative contest.
It would help me a lot if everyone would click 5 stars on my picture at this site: LINK
