Before

After

It’s been a strange mix of emotions for me the past few weeks.  I’ve really enjoyed having the Bandit, and the new video is looking AWESOME, but in the end it’s just a car.  WHAT?!?!  JUST A CAR?!?!  It’s the BANDIT!  It’s a $100,000.00 prize that I WON by making a little video!  That’s HUGE!  but, it is just a car.  I’ve always been a fan of muscle cars, but I don’t know them forward a backward.  I’ve always wanted to work on my own restoration project, but with my limited knowlege I would be working for the better part of a Decade to get it done.  Every time I drive the car I worry that something will happen to it.  What it comes down to is that I can’t afford to enjoy the car as much as I want to.

I drove it up to Scottsdale and took it to the Auction.  I drove fast, but I wasn’t in a hurry.  I enjoyed going from 80 mph to 100 mph in seconds and passing people with ease, but I wasn’t aggressive.  It was a calm drive.  I look forward to spending the next few days talking with people about the car and then seeing how what it sells for.  If you have a moment pass on the information to help get the word out about the car.  thanks.

Dear Post Cereal,

I would like to point out a gross misrepresentation on the packaging of your cereal Honey Bunches of Oats.  There is a large red banner across the top of the box with the claim that the cereal is “Family Size”.  I haven’t really seen any other markings on the box to define the size of a family but I have to tell you, it doesn’t work for my family.  You see, my wife and I have SIX children, but we are also helping out with my wife’s sisters.  One sister has moved in with us from Indiana with her SIX children and the other has come from Utah with ONE child.  This brings our grand total to SEVENTEEN people in our FAMILY.  Our newborn won’t be eating any solid foods for a while but as you can see in the photo below, we’ve got lots of mouths to feed.

Please keep us in mind as you prepare your products that are created and designated as “Family Size”.  If you would like to contact us to test out any of these “Family Size” products we would be more than happy to give you a full survey of consumption and general level of satisfaction.

Thank you,

Spencer L. Brinkerhoff III and the B-17s

Here’s another video that uses the Tilt-shift technique to make that real world appear miniaturized.

Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

I am thankful for my friends and family, for my fellow artists and art lovers.  I am thankful for the blessing that it is to have the opportunity to dream and imagine.   I’m reminded of this blessing as I look through the Star Wars photos that Michael Heilemann has collected on his flickr page.  There has been so much care taken bring imagination and dreams to life.

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.