So I’ve gone and broken my Desktop, I don’t know how – it seemed to be slowly dying over a few weeks. As far as I can see I have burned out my PSU, as I attached one from another computer and gave my computer a spark of life, however the PSU I connected was too few watts, and the completly wrong size for my PC.

Godamn.

Okay, so Disney finally released the “trailer” to Tron: Legacy in HD recently.

I love the fact that they’ve got Flynn back, and there are rumours of the other original cast returning as well.
The comic-con Flynn’s arcade looked fucking sweet as well, with a light bike hidden behind a wall.
You can view that here

Overall I’m looking forward to this, I might even get tickets for opening night.

Pre Introduction: I realised that after promising to post this, I never did – I also checked my rating on google, and my blog post about this essay is rated highly when searching for “photo manipulation essay” So I thought I better put this up.

Introduction
Photo manipulation often goes unnoticed today. The ability to create and digitally alter an image has become an invaluable tool to the media, photographers and digital artists around the world. It allows the photographer access to tools that can be used on digital images, as counterparts for techniques in the darkroom.

The darkroom allowed photographers to create compositions of multiple negatives, by cutting them up. Another technique was to use ink or paint to draw in the missing elements, or remove the parts of the photo that was unneeded. One of the earliest recorded photo manipulations was by Matthew Brady. The image created was a composition of Abraham Lincoln’s head, with the body of a lesser politician, John Calhoun’s body in 1860. A few years after another of his images was edited to add a missing officer to a photo of all of General Sherman’s officers.
As time passed and digital photography gradually replaced traditional photography as the main media, new tools had to be developed to allow the same kind of techniques for photographers as those found in the darkroom.
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Last night for me and today for America, Google realieased a new set of search tools to allow you to find what you want more easily, without having to open a thousand tabs.
You can find the new tools on your search page.

The best feature I’ve found is the “Wonderwheel” I’ll let you watch Google’s video to find out how it works.

as people get more sophisticated at search they are coming to us to solve more complex problems.
Google Blog

As if the internet is getting smarter, jeeze.

Wolf Am I (And Shadow)- Kinetic Typography from Justin Lawes on Vimeo.

Completely, and shamelessly stolen from Tristanahoy via facebook, I thought I’d make a post about Kinetic Typography. The video above is possibly the only good example I’ve seen off the TV. Alot of the “projects” based on Kinetic Typography appear to follow this formula: “Take a quote or sample from a film and animate it so it looks really shit.”
I could link you to countless bad examples of Kinetic Typography, and that would be just from searching the words on youtube.

Hopefully I never encounter such a project.