A faster Paint Bucket in Inkscape means that I make my comics faster, which means I can finish “Candynomics” before I turn 30. The first version of Paint Bucket was pretty much just a proof-of-concept, and was very slow (but faster than the alternative of coloring using the Pen tool, which drove me batty). The [...]
(this post is part of the Linux Video Production Experience series, which chronicles my experiences with creating a high-quality home movie almost entirely in open source software.)
For my past movie-making adventures, I used mencoder or ffmpeg to encode my noisy, low-motion, un-color corrected video for DVD, which it happily did. There were never any [...]
(this post is part of the Linux Video Production Experience series, which chronicles my experiences with creating a high-quality home movie almost entirely in open source software.)
To be honest, I’ve always had no end of trouble getting my final audio and video to come out of Cinelerra. I’ve tried rendering DV files, MPEG files, [...]
OK, here’s a dumb one I just ran across: In Flash 8, If you’re reading the Stage.height property in your ActionScript code, and you’re previewing with Bandwidth Profiling enabled, Stage.height is computed incorrectly. Sheesh…
Tags: flash, actionscript
I just finished putting the finishing touches on Planet DC Conspiracy, an aggregation of DC Conspiracy member blogs, the artdc.org forum, and the DC Conspiracy home page. It’s updated once every four hours. Check it out!
Tags: planet, dc conspiracy, comics
As with the recent Inkscape release, I’m probably the only one on Planet Inkscape that hasn’t posted about the current campaign to raise enough funds to get Libre Graphics Meeting 3 off of the ground. They were kind enough to pay my way to the meeting in Montreal last year, and since I can’t make [...]
So I just spent the weekend in Philadelphia for the first time as an official CouchSurfer. It was quite an experience! I had to sit through some horrible traffic getting into the city because the Phillies, 76ers, and Flyers all had home games that night. I made it to my host Andrew’s apartment sometime [...]
First Twitter, now Flock…what’s next? (no, not a MySpace account, thank-you-very-much…)
Tags: twitter, flock
(this post is part of the Linux Video Production Experience series, which chronicles my experiences with creating a high-quality home movie almost entirely in open source software.)
I often augment my video productions with still imagery, since I always manage to take a lot of neat shots on both cameras while I’m on vacation. When I [...]
Well, I finally joined the Web 2.0 Social Networking Revolution and got a Twitter account.  Now you can follow me throughout the day and watch the status change from “programming” to “beer” to “comics” to “bed” (not necessarily in that order).  Yay!