Heheheh!  My photoshop skills have made it to the front page of StarWars.com!  

I just can’t stop laughing at the Domo-bacca photoshop picture that I made!  Bonnie over at the official Star Wars blog wrote up a bit about it here.

I thought that Domo-bacca was a good idea.  How about we put a big furry wookie-like creature wearing a faux furry t-shirt of a wookie. 

My friend Jess and I were talking about Domo.  She had just bought Domo as Dracula and suggested that he be turned into Chewbacca.  I thought it was a great idea!  The funny thing is that in Japanese, Domo means “thanks” and Baka means “fool” or “idiot”.  I feel like it’s similar to saying, “thanks jerk!” 

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.

A friend of mine sent me this image this morning and I couldn’t stop laughing.  I looked online to find the original photos and came across some other ones that I thought I would work a little photoshop magic on.

I saw these images on Gizmodo and went around looking for more photos.  I would REALLY like to go and see these.  Just looking at them kicks my imagination into overdrive.  Here’s a brief description.

“This is an abandoned army base on the sea coastline near the Murmansk city. It looks like it stays abandoned for quite a while and was built back in 1946 to protect Russian Northern coastline from somebody who might come without peace. ”

These cannons look like they belong with this photo of the robot from Laputa; Castle in Sky at the Ghibli Museum in Japan.

I’m sure that we’ve can all understand the sound reasoning behind the phrase “Measure Twice, Cut Once”.  I mean, it makes perfect sense!  You can only cut a piece of wood to the correct length one time.  So I am thankful and grateful for the forgiving nature of dirt.  The Trampoline was sitting where we wanted the hole.  So I moved I marked the area that the trampoline covered, moved it out of the way and started digging.  We decided that we wanted to have a block retaining wall in the hole.  So we turned the trampoline upside down, put it over the hole, and then put some block around it to make sure the hole was big enough.  It wasn’t so I dug it a bit more.

We were able to get some block from my brother-in-law and it all got moved in.  The Block didn’t come all the way up to the ground level, so when it started raining, we had some errosion.  Not a huge problem compaired to the fact that the block that we got was bigger than the block we used to measure the hole with. :S

So, it’s time to dig some more.  I’m glad that it only gets to be about 100 degrees these days.  I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that digging holes for a trampoline in not my specialty….BUT IT WILL BE!! 

My 2 year old son wanted to play with some of the new Galactic Heroes sets.  We had some old ones in there too, but I really didn’t want him to lose Darth Vader’s helmet (not to mention that the box clearly states the this toy has a choking hazard and is meat for ages 3+).  So I took the helmet aside and put it with our little R4-P17 that came to us with two left feet (AND it can’t dance!).  I was looking for someplace to put the helmet down and found the perfect spot.

And thus was born R4-V8r (pronounced ARE-Four VADER).

I have a friend who’s a Police Detective.  He had shown my video to all of his co-workers and was really excited to see the Bandit.  I drove it into the office so that I could go and meet them after work.  I figure that with a car like that, it wouldn’t hurt to have lots of friends at the Police Station. 

As I’ve been looking for a new job, I’ve made some connections with some old friends.  Leanne and I worked at KnowlegeNet together about 8 years ago.  She’s working at Rainbow Studios making video games and their offices are very close to my work.  I invited her and some of her co-workers to come over and see that Bandit.  They all seemed pretty interested in the car.

IN FACT!  I took the car back to the studio yesterday to  audition the car to have it recorded to be one of the car sounds in an upcoming game!  The audition seemed to go well, I just have to find out when the recording session will be. 

Here are some photos from first time I met the Rainbow Studio crew.