No idea why, just popped into my head. Perhaps the challenge of figuring out how to model the spout or perhaps, being English, the thought of tea is never far from my mind.
Anyway I thought it came out rather well...
Friday 23 September 2016
Photoshop CC 3D #101
I've been playing around in Photoshop CC's 3D features... and decided to create a teapot.
No idea why, just popped into my head. Perhaps the challenge of figuring out how to model the spout or perhaps, being English, the thought of tea is never far from my mind.
Anyway I thought it came out rather well...
No idea why, just popped into my head. Perhaps the challenge of figuring out how to model the spout or perhaps, being English, the thought of tea is never far from my mind.
Anyway I thought it came out rather well...
Tuesday 20 September 2016
Sunday 18 September 2016
Gaming, back up and running!
Now that my PC is finally fixed (through no fault but my own... see previous post) I am back up and running in Steam.
...and I've been messing around in Subnautica again:
...and I've been messing around in Subnautica again:
Saturday 17 September 2016
Finally!
Finally got my gaming PC back up and running... I say 'finally' because, dear reader, there were delays since it blew a gasket on me. These delays were not caused by additional problems found, or difficulties in acquiring new parts etc. no, the delay was that I simply couldn't be arsed.
Two weeks ago my PC went tits-up and I could have got it up and running two days after that when my new SSD arrived from Amazon. However I was going through a massive case of CBA's, so much so, that I was simply felt like doing nothing but crashing in front of the TV every day when I got home from work... add to that a hectic previous weekend of boozing away from home and it resulted in a two-week delay.
But, now, finally, it's back up... and boy does it boot fast!
I've installed a Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD 480gb, put Windows 10 back on it (kudos to Microsoft for making the procedure to download and create a Windows 10 USB installer so easy) and now, after adding all my peripherals (Corsair wireless headset, Razor mouse, Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse etc.), Steam is downloading and installing my games library, except it's doing it onto a 2TB secondary SATA HD rather than the SSD... I thought it better to do that for two reasons - to keep the write-to count down on the SSD and save space as it's only 480gb.
After installing the Sandisk SSD dashboard I discovered that it's only running at 3.0gb/s rather than it's top speed of 6.0gb/s, that's a shame but can't be help as clearly my motherboard only supports that speed... it's still very quick though!
Bring on the gaming!
Two weeks ago my PC went tits-up and I could have got it up and running two days after that when my new SSD arrived from Amazon. However I was going through a massive case of CBA's, so much so, that I was simply felt like doing nothing but crashing in front of the TV every day when I got home from work... add to that a hectic previous weekend of boozing away from home and it resulted in a two-week delay.
But, now, finally, it's back up... and boy does it boot fast!
I've installed a Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD 480gb, put Windows 10 back on it (kudos to Microsoft for making the procedure to download and create a Windows 10 USB installer so easy) and now, after adding all my peripherals (Corsair wireless headset, Razor mouse, Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse etc.), Steam is downloading and installing my games library, except it's doing it onto a 2TB secondary SATA HD rather than the SSD... I thought it better to do that for two reasons - to keep the write-to count down on the SSD and save space as it's only 480gb.
After installing the Sandisk SSD dashboard I discovered that it's only running at 3.0gb/s rather than it's top speed of 6.0gb/s, that's a shame but can't be help as clearly my motherboard only supports that speed... it's still very quick though!
Bring on the gaming!
Thursday 15 September 2016
Human Creativity and Nature as One!
The other day I arrived at work and, trudged into the studio, sat down and started to remove my walking footwear so I could put on my working pair, in the background Lenny Kravitz's song 'Fly Away' was playing... as I put my walking boots to one side I noticed that a Ladybird had settled on my leg. "Must've landed on me when I was outside" I thought.
So I placed my finger on my leg in front of the Ladybird so it could crawl onto it, which it did. I then carefully started to get up with the intention of going outside and depositing it onto the nearest plant leaf.
Just as Lenny was launching into his chorus: "I want to get away..." the Ladybird, clearly spooked by my movement, opened it's shell to reveal it's wings and flew off my finger at exactly the same moment as Lenny sang "I want to fly awaaaayyy..."!
It was an incredible moment, quite poignant... it's as if at that exact moment, time stood still and everything in the universe seemed to slow down to a halt, then it quickly sped back up and everything was normal again.
It kind of makes you appreciate the symmetry of the nature sometimes, when certain events come into sync with each other through sheer coincidence.
To Lenny Kravitz - for a brief moment your song truly was at one with nature.
So I placed my finger on my leg in front of the Ladybird so it could crawl onto it, which it did. I then carefully started to get up with the intention of going outside and depositing it onto the nearest plant leaf.
Just as Lenny was launching into his chorus: "I want to get away..." the Ladybird, clearly spooked by my movement, opened it's shell to reveal it's wings and flew off my finger at exactly the same moment as Lenny sang "I want to fly awaaaayyy..."!
It was an incredible moment, quite poignant... it's as if at that exact moment, time stood still and everything in the universe seemed to slow down to a halt, then it quickly sped back up and everything was normal again.
It kind of makes you appreciate the symmetry of the nature sometimes, when certain events come into sync with each other through sheer coincidence.
To Lenny Kravitz - for a brief moment your song truly was at one with nature.
Saturday 10 September 2016
Saturday 3 September 2016
No Man's Sky Entry #002
I'm unable to go exploring the NMS universe at this time because my PC is being retarded... so I'm grounded until I fix it.
A productive Saturday?
I had a great day today [sarcasm mode engaged]
As the weekend approached I looked at the weather and was not surprised to see it change from hot beautiful sunny weather during the working week to foul wet shitty stuff for the weekend... and I wanted to do a long walk and get some productive Pokemon hunting done.
Early Saturday morning showed a beautiful blue sky so, hoping the forecast was wrong I leapt out of bed, showered, dressed and headed to the train station with the express intention of doing at least a 6k walk around the city. By the time the train arrived in the city it was spitting with rain... by the time I'd finished my walk (around 7km) it was pissing it down and I was soaked.
Fuck British weather.
Totally fed-up I decided to go home, get some groceries and do some gaming... I got the groceries but I've spent my entire afternoon and some of the evening troubleshooting some retarded problem with my PC's BIOS but it took me a couple of hours to narrow it down to the damned BIOS and even now I'm not confident it's fixed.
So I got soaked all because I tried to do the right thing by getting some exercise rather than lounging in front of the TV all day and when I DO decide to do the WRONG thing (most liberal cunts will tell you it's bad for people to be gaming) my PC is in bits all over my lounge floor and I CAN'T FUCKING PLAY ANY GAMES ANYWAY!
So it's back to my trusty XBox and PS3... oh and Netflix I suppose...
Anyway my point is that I've had a shitty last couple of weeks at work rounded off by a shitty weekend so far, mostly ruined by ass, shitty weather.
Fuck you life.
As the weekend approached I looked at the weather and was not surprised to see it change from hot beautiful sunny weather during the working week to foul wet shitty stuff for the weekend... and I wanted to do a long walk and get some productive Pokemon hunting done.
Early Saturday morning showed a beautiful blue sky so, hoping the forecast was wrong I leapt out of bed, showered, dressed and headed to the train station with the express intention of doing at least a 6k walk around the city. By the time the train arrived in the city it was spitting with rain... by the time I'd finished my walk (around 7km) it was pissing it down and I was soaked.
Fuck British weather.
Totally fed-up I decided to go home, get some groceries and do some gaming... I got the groceries but I've spent my entire afternoon and some of the evening troubleshooting some retarded problem with my PC's BIOS but it took me a couple of hours to narrow it down to the damned BIOS and even now I'm not confident it's fixed.
So I got soaked all because I tried to do the right thing by getting some exercise rather than lounging in front of the TV all day and when I DO decide to do the WRONG thing (most liberal cunts will tell you it's bad for people to be gaming) my PC is in bits all over my lounge floor and I CAN'T FUCKING PLAY ANY GAMES ANYWAY!
So it's back to my trusty XBox and PS3... oh and Netflix I suppose...
Anyway my point is that I've had a shitty last couple of weeks at work rounded off by a shitty weekend so far, mostly ruined by ass, shitty weather.
Fuck you life.
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