I’ve just finished working on a Print for Star Wars Fan Days II.  I will be attending the convention on Oct. 25-26th.  I am not selling these prints, but I will be offering a signature to fans for $5.00.

A tilt-shift camera lens can be used in a process of “Miniature faking”.  It involves selectively blurring a photo to simulate the narrow depth of field found in macro photography.  By creating a narrow depth of field, the image appear to be of a miniature model.

This is from Wikipedia; “On a regular camera, the image plane (containing the film or image sensor), lens plane, and object plane are parallel, and objects in sharp focus are all at the same distance from the camera. When the lens plane is tilted relative to the image plane, the PoF is at an angle to the image plane, and objects at different distances from the camera can all be sharply focused if they lie on a straight line.”
This is what it looks like on a video.

Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

I’m not sure why people do some things.  I remember as a young lad hearing the question”Why did the man climb the mountain?”  I was always a bit confused by the response, “Because it was there.”  I guess that some people just need to have a sense of accomplishment.

With that being said, I now introduce you to the lastest WORLD record holder for the tallest LEGO construction.  Measuring in at 96.73 feet and using nearly 460,000 bricks.  Click the image to see more pictures.

To prepare for this Friday’s episode of “Star Wars: Clone Wars” tv show, there has been a new comic released on the official Star Wars website.  You can see the comic here with art work provided by Grant Gould.

This week’s episode seems to be a continuation of last week.  Titled “Shadow of Malevolence” the episode centers around Anakin and his Padawan Ahsoka along with Jedi Master Plo Koon. They utilizes some untested long-range Y-wing bombers to lead a bold strike on General Grievous’ warship the Malevolence and its destructive weapon.  One of the interesting things to note is that these ARE the Y-wing fighters that we see in the original Star Wars movies with a slight difference.  In the original movies the rebel alliance was scrapping together any parts they could to assemble a fleet for the attack on the Death Star.  The ships that they had reflected that in the way that their engines were exposed.  These are the brand new model Y-wing fighters.