January 23rd, 2010 by Scott
This Wednesday Apple is releasing a “new creation.” Will this be the fabled Tablet? I think so. In fact, I really like one specific name for the device that is floating around: the Apple Canvas.
Whatever they call it, I decided to do a digital caricature of the man himself, Steve Jobs.
This digital caricature painting was created in Corel Painter using nothing else but a Mac!
January 12th, 2010 by Scott
Using Corel Painter 11 on my Wacom tablet and my Macbook Pro, I took a break from my iPhone programming to knock this out.
As you can see, it’s a feeble attempt at Glenn Beck. I drew it while watching his show this evening and finding a few reference photos online. Don’t be too offended, as I punched this out in about 2 hours. Cheers!
January 9th, 2010 by Scott
While many are waiting to see what good bit of new sexy Apple is going to release in two weeks, some companies like Microsoft and Google rush their announcements out this week at CES. Microsoft’s “new” tablet was wholly unremarkable.
I think this has got to be one of the best encapsulations of Microsoft’s current strategic direction:
Microsoft’s tablet “strategy” is like an Escher painting, full of staircases leading in every direction that all ultimately just go round in circles. The company so badly wants to be Prometheus, bringing fire to the mortals. Instead it’s like some drunk dude flicking matches at us. (Source: The Macalope)
January 4th, 2010 by Scott
Over the past year I have been learning how to program in Objective-C. Mostly, I’m doing this to develop iPhone Apps, but also for other future products that might be released by Apple. (Maybe a tablet? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
I’m very excited to say that my first app was approved just over a week ago. It’s an app for my wife, Angie, for her caricature business.
This is just a head’s up that you’ll be seeing much more in the way of iPhone programming, XCode, and Objective-C, as I write more code and develop more apps. In the meantime, here’s a video I did for her app:
You can read more about that app and see some of the marketing I’m doing around it at my company’s site: http://digitalblacksmiths.com/apps
November 23rd, 2009 by Scott
Looks like the cat’s out of the bag now. As most already have heard by now, these thousands of scientists’ emails being released is pretty big for some, unsurprising for others.
All I can say is that it’s pretty obvious that these ‘global warming’ scientists got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, then tried to hide the facts.
Nice to see the truth being revealed and we can keep this ‘global warming’ junk science stuff behind us and move on to real science.
October 29th, 2009 by Scott
Research in Motion recently announced they have acquired Torch Mobile:
Torch Mobile is excited to announce that our company has been acquired by Research In Motion (RIM), one of the most renowned mobile technology companies in the world. Our team of developers will join RIM’s global organization and will now be focused on utilizing our WebKit-based mobile browser expertise to contribute to the ongoing enhancement of the BlackBerry® platform. (Source: Torch Mobile)
Torch Mobile specializes in development of their own Webkit based browser. What is important is that RIM has apparently acknowledged the general consensus of their current browser and have decided to go with the Open Source Webkit.
Webkit is becoming the de facto framework for mobile device browsers. The iPhone has used Webkit since it’s introduction several years ago. More recently, Android (from Google) is using it, and Apple’s Safari desktop browser uses it.
This is important for several reasons. First, is that it hopefully will make developing web pages easier since Webkit is becoming the standard.
But the more significant reason, in my opinion, is that Webkit’s framework is very robust, small, and standards-compliant. It’s what has made the iPhone’s browser so successful for the past several years and why Palm’s Pre was introduced with it earlier this year.
When future versions of the Blackberry begin to show up with Webkit based browsers, we’ll start to see what has already happened on the iPhone. People will be using their phones for more and more powerful tasks.
July 28th, 2009 by Scott
This is looking to the south from our house. Last night a severe thunderstorm came through our area.
This shot is looking over the lake (you can make out the reflections of the lights near the bottom). Amazingly, the stars are visible above the storm.
This shot was a 30 second exposure set at f4.5 and iso1600 on my D70.
July 4th, 2009 by Scott
I’ve started sketching recently and wanted to take this great day, the birth of our nation to post a caricature I sketched of Abraham Lincoln, probably the best United States president and the first Republican president.
I’ve been reading a very good biography of Lincoln and decided between that and being so close to Philadelphia, our nation’s first capital (at least until 1800), this was the best day to draw him.
Hope you like! I know it’s not the greatest, but it’s my first humble attempt at caricatures.
“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
June 30th, 2009 by Scott
Everything seemed to click for this picture, from the beautiful greens to the rainbow. When I was standing along the trail further downriver, the rainbow looked like it was coming out of the mist of the falls. I’ll post that one soon. But this was my favorite.
Taken on a D70 with my 18mm lens, and as I said, stitched in PS. You can see this photo and the rest of the photos in this series on my Flickr page.
June 29th, 2009 by Scott
Yes, that good ‘ol “global warming” is getting attention again. This time the silly Democratic congressmen raced a bill through the House faster a speeding bullet. In fact, much of it hadn’t even been written.
Why?
A growing number of scientists are coming out and publicly denouncing the theory of “global warming.”
In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country’s new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country’s weeks-old cap-and-trade program.
The collapse of the “consensus” has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth’s temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.
(Source: Wall Street Journal)
As I’ve reported often here, “global warming” is not about saving the environment. It’s about imposing taxes and restrictions on free-trade.
Now that the facts are becoming so loud that it’s impossible to ignore, Obama want’s to ram this legislation through before too many people realize that all this “global warming” is nonsense.
