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A professional organizer's complete guide to getting—and staying—organized. As a child, Justin Klosky loved to count, analyze, and categorize everything in sight. Eventually diagnosed with OCD, he found ways to tap the benefits of his condition. Today, he's founded a successful firm, O.C.D. Experience, building on the principals of Organize, Create, Discipline to help high-end clients take control of their lives through time management skills, getting rid of clutter, simplifying their habits, and rethinking storage solutions. Carefully arranged into more than 300 A-to-Z categories, Organize & Create Discipline explains organization methods for everything from laundry to legal documents, shoes, toys, kitchen drawers, medicine cabinets, utility closets, overflowing email inboxes, and dozens of other sources of daily detritus. Klosky's unique advice yields peace of mind and radically improves productivity. With a clientele that includes Bryce Dallas Howard, Julie Chen, and Saks Fifth Avenue, Klosky now makes his unrivaled techniques to staying organized available to all. An Organization Realization While at NYU, I was studying to become an actor. So to further that goal, I took an internship at a prestigious New York talent agency (which translates to working in the mailroom). I made it my job to transform that poor excuse of a mailroom into something organized and beautiful. Everyone at the agency took notice and put me to work reorganizing their offices. My efforts even won me a job, as I jumped from mailroom to office manager and then eventually serving as the assistant to the president of the agency. The owner even offered me a position as an agent, but that wasn't the path I wanted to take. Before I knew it, I not only had representation as an actor and helped my friends get representation, but I earned massive respect from the entire agency for my organizational skills. I created a methodology for everything in the office: systems for incoming scripts, updating of résumés, client files, and ordering supplies, among other tasks. I also made sure to teach everyone how it all worked so it would be maintained when I was away on auditions or at class. I created manuals and one-?sheets for people to follow when I was at school and procedures for when the phone system or computers went down so there wouldn't be a panic. Several agents suggested that I do this for a living once they saw the results of my work. Without realizing it, my OCD was morphing into its new moniker, O.C.D.: Organize & Create Discipline. But I didn't have a chance to take their suggestions seriously because soon after graduating NYU, I landed a role on CBS 's daytime drama Guiding Light. Though my O.C.D. career was on hold before it ever began, I continued to help the people around me and I managed to tackle my most challenging transformation yet. While shooting Guiding Light, I was sharing an incredibly beautiful penthouse apartment near Wall Street with one of my best female friends. The only problem was that she had grown up with a mother who was a hoarder, and unfortunately, she had inherited some of those characteristics. But she was respectful enough to keep the mess to her room, behind closed doors. When I say "mess," I mean piles of stuff everywhere, five layers deep, with not a thing in order or an inch of floor visible. She called it organized chaos. I just called it chaos. Up to this point, I had only helped the average, disorganized person. But she was on a whole other level. When we finally organized her room, she broke down crying, not because her stuff was gone, but because by taking the mess she was hiding behind and organizing it, I made her face herself and her issues. We learned powerful things throughout the process together: never underestimate the power of a pile or getting rid of it. 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We like titanium. Who doesn't? Not only is it's flat metallic greyness dead sexy, it is also a useful material, good for rebuilding joints, holding broken bones together, or sticking a couple of wheels on and riding around.
It all began with the lucky requisition of the elusive Optimus Ti. I did manage to get a real ride in, an inspection loop on the VSSSC course in the rain on Saturday. Damn I wish my knee wasn't so messed up. It was my first ride on a titanium bike, and hey, it is my first titanium bike. Stoked! Riding one will make you believe.
Well, it is no secret that we picked up Moots over the winter. I felt that it would be a good addition to our catalog, rounding out our high end category. It is a hotly contested debate on exactly which bike was the first production 29er, but many (myself included) think that the Moots YBB is it. Moots has been making this soft tail 29er for 10 years now, and I feel it is rich with heritage.
If you are the type of rider that buys a bike every 5-10 years, this is your bike company. Moots offers several mountain models, hardtail, singlespeed, and even full suspension in both 26 and 29″. They also have a sweet selection of skinny tired bikes too.
So here are the details.
This bike is built up with a new wheelset I will be putting on the website shortly, DT 240 hubs, Super Comp spokes and the sexy new white Stan's Arch rim. It's light. It's white, and stiff enough for a lard ass like me.
It would be shameful to not put Moot's own Ti stem and seatpost on this bike.
The fork is a 100mm Reba Team. The rest is the usual boring mixture of XTR and SRAM X0, with Avid Juicy Ultimate brakes, King headset and BB, and I'm trying out a Truvative Noir handlebar for funsies. You just can't put XT on a bike like this. It weighs 23.95 with pedals.
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Sorry to be slightly flippant but you need to boot that fits your foot more than one that fits the binding. The binding adjustment should accommodate most if not all boots if you set it up right.
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Show a preference to Flow boots because they are designed to work best with Flow bindings. BUT, you need the boot that fits your foot best. Flow bindings depend on a good fitting boot first and foremost.
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With all the above said. I had Van Mantra's and they fit my feet great but were a little to bulky with my 2010 Flow NXT-ATSE's. They worked but again rubbed a bit.
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I took this approach, John. I bought Flow 'The One' boots (lace) because they're designed with heel cuts that better accommodate the high back without rubbing, and they're very stiff, great for use with the NXT-FR (which I still have, but don't think they make anymore). Mine were 2009, and I LOVED them. Super comfy, even with laces only had to tie 'em up once, rarely needed to readjust during the day. They had a one year warranty...halfway through my second season (out of warranty), the entire side seam on my back foot blew out. Separated about 4-5 inches. It was "hidden" inside the binding, so I was able to gorilla glue it closed, and the liner kept my foot warm. The repair would last for most of another day, then more glue. Sucks. I really liked them, but I just bought a new pair of Thirty Two Focus Boas...and haven't missed the flows at all since. The Focus is pretty low profile, but it still has a slightly more squared off heel, which doesn't fit the Flow bindings as well. I wish I could recommend the Flow boots, because they were awesome for one season. But $300 is a lot to spend just to throw them away after less than two seasons.
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Testimony From Utica, NY Mayor, David R. Roefaro July 26, 2011
Thank you for having me here today. I would like to begin by thanking the Chairman, Senator Schumer, and the Ranking Member, Senator Cornyn, for inviting me to speak before this committee today. I would also like to thank the members of this subcommittee for your hard work and commitment to fixing and reforming our nation's immigration policy. The work in front of this subcommittee has the potential to leave a lasting legacy for our country.
Many years ago, my family lived in Italy. They struggled for jobs and economic opportunity. Seeking a better life, they came to America, where the streets were paved with gold and there was a chicken in every pot.
When they came to our country, my family sought a community that would give them those opportunities. They chose the beautiful city of Utica, New York. After coming to Utica, they laid roots, raised a family, established a small business and became an active part of the city. They had the opportunity to live the American dream.
Today, that simple dream is threatened. The dream of so many to come to America and find the streets paved with gold has become vulnerable to fear. In times of economic downturn, like our country now faces, we begin to fear that which we do not know. And many choose to point the blame for our economic problems on immigrants. But to deny those who want to come to America and create a new life for themselves would be to deny our own history. Our country was built on the backs of immigrants. From the young Irishmen who built the Erie Canal across New York to Bosnian families seeking political refuge and starting small businesses in Utica today, immigrants have been the key to our past success and will serve as a catalyst to both Utica's and certainly our nation's future.
But, do not mistake my words: while immigration is crucial to the social and economic fabric of our country, we need to work harder to ensure it is done legally. We need to make sure our borders are secure. We need to keep our communities safe and keep criminals off our streets.
As the Mayor of Utica, I have spent the last four years trying to make life a little better for those who live in my city. One of my top priorities has been to help refugees assimilate, offer them a stake in our city and show them how they can assist us in growing our local economy and creating jobs- all things I have worked to accomplish.
Utica has benefited from recently welcomed immigrants from Bosnia, Belarus, Russia, Somalia, The Dominican Republic and Vietnam. Groups like this enjoy assistance from our local refugee center, a center that has helped transition so many. In my city, there are 42 languages spoken in our school district and centers like the Mohawk Valley Refugee Center help connect the dots for immigrants so no matter how you say it, 'We're in this together' is a motto everyone lives by.
Yes, our economic growth is tied directly to how we as nation utilize the talent of immigrants. And there are statistics to back those words up. Nationwide, cities with growing immigrant populations have the fastest economic growth. Immigrants, by making our economy more productive, contribute over 37 billion dollars to the wages and output of native-born Americans. Between 1995 and 2005, 25 percent of all high-tech startups were founded by immigrants. These new Americans paid over 162 billion in federal, state, and local taxes, proving their worth to our communities.
In Utica, economic success stories mirror national ones. Take Zaim Dedic for example. Zaim came to Utica at the age of 14 from Mrkonjic Grand, a small town in the Serb Republic. Today, at barely 30, he's built himself a business. He is the founder and owner of Multilingual Interpretation Services.
Moving forward, it is important we all work together to create an innovative solution to immigration reform. For those who are here in our country illegally, we must create a path for them to become citizens. Through a tough but fair process including security checks, payment of back taxes, and an educational requirement to learn English, we can begin to assimilate now-illegal immigrants into our country and cultivate their economic potential.
Moreover, my experience as a Mayor working on national issues has showed me how this issue, this debate, is likely one of the most important facing our nation. I proudly profess our immigrant populations have added to the vibrancy of the City of Utica. Their presence has been vital to our housing stock, our city culture, our regional economy and even our local agriculture- The refugee and immigrant community is actively involved with community gardens introducing and harvesting varieties of bountiful, fresh and healthy foods into my county. Certainly, their presence remains crucial to the development and growth in every part of Upstate New York. The national importance of this issue is why I am a proud member of the Partnership for a New American Economy -- joining over 300 other mayors and business leaders from across the country who know that smarter immigration will generate economic growth and create new American jobs.
As we go forward in this process and create a new immigration policy for our country, we need to remember our heritage- the reason we all sit here today. We are a nation of immigrants and we must preserve this legacy into our future. When my own family came to America, they came in search of a better tomorrow. It is my hope that we can ensure another generation of immigrants come to this country accepted, assisted and empowered to dream the never impossible dream.
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K-State graduation year: 2006
Degree: BS in agricultural education
Other degree received: MS in curriculum and instruction, Kansas State University, December 2010
Current employer: College of Agriculture, Kansas State University
Position: Events and projects coordinator
How many times did you change your major during college?
Describe the process of choosing your major:
I initially began in agricultural communications and journalism. I knew I wanted to stay in the College of Agriculture, but I wasn't sure what area to pursue. I took the Discover assessment at ACIC, and it reaffirmed my interests in education and working with people, so agricultural education seemed like a good fit.
What activities/organizations were you involved in while in college?
College of Agriculture ambassadors
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St. Isidore's Catholic Student Center
Kansas FFA
Study abroad: I traveled to Germany, Austria, and Italy during my freshman year at K-State. I spent just over two weeks visiting different agricultural industries, touring, and staying with a host family.
Did you complete an internship or have related work experience prior to receiving your job?
Education majors are lucky to be able to "test drive" our potential teaching careers through a student teaching intern experience. I spent a semester at a small school in south central Kansas teaching full time with an experienced teacher.
I also worked at the Academic Career and Information Center and the College of Agriculture Academic Programs office, both of which gave me experience working in higher education in a student-focused area.
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After returning to K-State to pursue a master's degree, I was working as a graduate student for two different areas in the College of Agriculture when this interim position became available. I knew the college administration from previous employment and work experience, and decided to step into this role.
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Usually I am working on several events at any one time. I coordinate logistics, communicate with stakeholders, recruit attendees, consult faculty members, and design promotional materials, as well as update the college website.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
Throughout the year there are many different events going on; this allows me to constantly have a change of pace. I also really enjoy brainstorming how to improve or solve problems more effectively.
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Seek out opportunities to coordinate events and facilitate activities, both individually and as part of a group. Many volunteer organizations are looking for people willing to step up and take the lead. Take advantage of these!


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86 Crucial 128GB M4 2.5" SATA 6Gbps SSD for $110 + free shipping
Buy.com offers the Crucial 128GB M4 2.5" Internal SSD, model no. CT128M4SSD2, for $109.99 with free shipping ($0.86/GB). That's $10 under a deal from a week ago and the least expensive 128GB 6Gb/s SSD we've ever seen without rebate hassles. It's also a current price low by $15. It features read speeds of up to 415MB/s and write speeds of up to 175MB/s.
73 Refurbished BlackBerry PlayBook 16GB Tablet for $150 + free shipping
Best Buy offers the refurbished BlackBerry PlayBook model no. PRD-38548-001 for $149.99 with free shipping. That's $29 under a February refurb deal and tied as the all-time price low for a PlayBook. It's currently $46 under the lowest total price we could find for a new unit. Sales tax is added where applicable. This 0.4"-thick slate weighs 14.4oz and features a 7" 1024x600 touchscreen, a 1GHz dual-core processor, 16GB of storage, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a 3MP 1080p front camera and 5MP 1080p rear camera, GPS, an accelerometer, gyroscope, digital compass, and micro USB and HDMI ports. Note that this item is sold "as is"; while it's subject to Best Buy's return policy, there is no warranty.
Samsung 23" 1080p LED-Backlit LCD for $150 + free shipping
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Refurb Western Digital 3TB USB External Hard Drive for $115 + free shipping
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74 Unlocked Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone 7 for $250 + free shipping
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Sony 5.1 Home Theater Speaker System for $190 + free shipping
TigerDirect offers the Sony 5.1-Channel Home Theater Speaker System, model no. SA-VS310, for $249.99. Coupon code "TQU60439" cuts it to $189.99. With free shipping, that's $10 under last week's mention and the lowest total price we could find by $60. This system includes one center channel speaker, two front speakers, two rear speakers, 100-watt 10" powered subwoofer, two speaker stands, and more.
88 Ivy Bridge now widely available online
It's not exactly a tech deal, but since we don't plan to run a dedicated post on Ivy Bridge's availability, we figure it's worth mentioning it as a footnote here. Newegg offers six chips (with a seventh being out of stock) ranging from $200 to $320, including the Core i5-3450, i5-3450S, i5-3550, i5-3570K, i7-3770 and i7-3770S. If you've ignored the update until now, you can get up to speed with our coverage including overviews of Ivy Bridge and the 7-series Panther Point chipset, as well as hands-on reviews of both.
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I saw this Crucial deal this morning. And Newegg had the same product for + $80 more! Now just a couple hours later, Buy.com jacked up their price nearly +$30, while Newegg dropped their price to $125.... Doesn't that seem suspicious? I'm beginning to believe there is a price-fixing scandal amongst computer electronics dealers. Lower one price & raise the other = game theory
Better to go with the Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR120GB 120GB SATA III with an included adapter 3.5" adapter bracket at a price that has been consistent at $115 (Newegg). Sandforce controller, up to 550MB/s read, 515MB/s write, up to 90,000 IOPS, 2,000,000 MTBF vs. Crucial's Marvell controller, 500MB/s read, 175MB/s write, up to 45,000/35,000 read/write IOPS and 1,200,000 MTBF.
I ordered the m4 from Amazon for $125, and it's still not been shipped, so when I saw this I thought "if they take non-US credit cards maybe I'll cancel and order here", then saw that the price was already up.
I thought about getting the Mushkin, but I've seen so many people recommending the m4 and good reviews for it that I figured it's the better choice. The Mushkin went up recently at Amazon, so it's about the same price of the m4 + bracket.
Sandforce controllers have way more stability problems. So although on a spec sheet, the sandforce looks quicker, in real world applications the difference will not be noticeable. But freezing and lockups due to the Sandforce will be noticeable. All in all, the two best SSD's as far as speed, reliability, and price are concerned has got to be the Crucial M4 or the Samsung 830 series.
The Samsung is a nice drive that can now be found for $150 at BuyDig. The issues with the SandForce Controllers, from what I understand, aren't an issue anymore. Now the SanDisk Extreme is getting great reviews too at a little lower cost than Samsung and better MTBF (2.5M vs 1.5M) and write speeds. If the prices for the Samsung is $150, the Samsung is a great buy. If not, the SanDisk is my next choice with a budget under $150. If you are on a tighter budget and want 128GB, the Mushkin can be found at $115.
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First of all is everyone just freakin perfect. It takes me awhile to finish a real sketch...so I am only posting sketches that I do in about 30 secs to 10 mins.
Heres what I like about your work, confidence, clarity, story, movement, creative push, expressive qualities and really good use of space.
Dumb question alert...what are you using to render your work?
I am just at the edge of the abyss...
Hey man, digging your designs/style. Espesially the dude with the aviators... gotta love those shades. 8)
"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history." ~ Terry Pratchett
hi Droid,
it was nice watching your sketchbook. I liked it a lott....
Really nice sigs, it's awesome to see all the design work. Very different from everything on the site. Sigs are so damn hard to make in my opinion and so is most design work so probs on you for doing that.
I really like the pencil,charcoal then painted drawings that you're doing. They look great, and it's especially nice to see you playing with the ideas. If you keep doing those you'll improve a lot. It would be super cool if some day you could make a sig out of one of your own paintings
Btw, whats SOTW? I know it's something of the week, signature of the week?
Take care and keep on rocking
First up, thank you all for the kind words, it really encourages me.
sombertwin: Do you mean rendering in the traditional sense, as in shading, or in the more modern sense, like in Photoshop? I don't tend to use renders for photoshop work, I either just make the rest of the stock into the final result, or I use ready-rendered stock.
lilnebo: SOTW is Signature Of The Week, yes. A few months back I was really into the whole Concept Artist appeal, with the Illustration sort of approach, but I was too impatient, and got frequently stressed and annoyed, so I've gone back to focusing on photomanipulation, which seems to come naturally. I like having a different style and way of working, that's what art is all about.
First full sized photomanipulation in a long time, hopefully the first of many. Started with the girl on a blank canvas.
Last edited by Choob; April 22nd, 2010 at 05:40 PM.
I like your photomanips, they are badass! But I really love your canvases! Keep it up!
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you remind me when I started doing this kind of stuff around 3 years ago haha, I realized that I actually wanted to make the render/pictures by myself instead of just cutting a pic keep it up!
Thanks for all the positive feedback guys.
What I don't understand is how everyone who comments seems to like my sketchbook, and yet the star rating is getting lower and lower.
I presume this means that those of you who dislike it merely give it a miniscule rating and then move on. This is not useful to me in any way whatsoever.
Please, if you spot something wrong, or something you don't like, then post a comment saying so. ALL criticisms are welcome.
Some new stuff, including a .gif animation to show you my progress for the archangel signature. As you can see I add some C4d armour to him to make him more interesting.
Progress .gif for the above signature:
You have some really great designs in here Droid. I'm looking forward to seeing that acrylic piece worked out. It has a good start. I haven't see a lot of photo manipulation so while I think yours looks amazing I can't really crit on it because of my lack of knowledge in that area. I would love to see more traditional work. Keep it coming
Thanks Ninjac.
More traditional stuff will be on the way, I've just got some new sketchbooks yesterday, top quality ones for really cheap, I got two A4 ones at £2.99 each, and one A3 one at £4.99. Made by Winsor & Newton.
I'm really looking forward to filling these up with studies and doodles and whatever else I want, but first I want to customise the boring black cover. Here's a photoshopped pic of a vector by Hydro74 on the cover which I think works well:
Just need to see if the acrylic paints will stick to the surface, and if not, whether I can make a sticker for it instead.
Will update with results soon.
UPDATE: Tried with acrylics, and even though they stick, the colour is dead because of the canvas being so dark. Will get a full size sticker sheet soon, and use a stanley knife to cut the individual components, and then stick that down.
Will post an update when I get the sticker sheets, until then, the inside of the sketchbook is gonna have to do.
Had this concept a while ago, finally got round to doing it. =]
Stuck the Nike logo on at the end to see what it'd look like as a poster/advert, and looks pretty sick.
DISCLAIMER: This was not comissioned, paid for, or in any way made by Nike, it is purely a mock-up poster by the artist.
Slogan is my own, following the philosophy that we are judged and therefore help captive by everything, including faces.
Did another version with "Droid" above the slogan, but I think it looks better without. Took a few hours to do, maybe 2 and a half, maybe more.
Comments appreciated.
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truly fantastic work here! wow. i loved the image in post 76! did you ever try to see what it'd look like if instead of a smooth face - you could have it be a splash of the flesh matching milky looking effects on his face? similar to the jacket but with more energy. the blur with the smokey type effect is cool, its not bad at all - i just thought the image may look even more wicked with that added to it. either way - your stuff is bad ass
Thanks. Yeah, I gave it a go with the splash on the face too, but it didn't work with the flow no matter which way I put it, so in the end I just warped it a bit round the head so it's not completely plain, but not too distracting from the focal.
Here's a video I did this week, just doing a quick walkthrough of this signature.
Plus a .gif animation, good practice making the text work well with the movement.
And some practice of making people disappear, making this guy's head invisible.
Last but not least, a photoshop quickie of making a photo of Edinburgh Castle look like a tiny scale model.
Also did a logo design and a t-shirt design, but I'm not allowed to post them until they say so. =/
wiiiicked designs!! I like what you do!
O.o wow that is so cool! Really effective! Interesting SB you have here Droid - at first I was put off by the huge amount of 'sigs' as I wasn't sure how much work you were putting in ... but! on further looking through I came to see you have some serious skills with natural mediums and your photoshop work is more than just finding a nice looking pic and chucking some random effects on it - interesting seeing the detailed process pics.
As far as ratings going down I experience the same and sometimes right after I post some of what I view as my better work? go figure! Don't sweat it but you may want to include a piece or two of your inked natural art in your first post too - gives people a quick indication of your skill range
Keep rockin dude!
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Thanks for the kind feedback guys.
Yeah I should probably put more stuff in the first post instead of the first page being overwhelmingly full of not-very-good signatures. Thanks for the tip.
I might do a tutorial on the model making in photoshop, it's pretty straight forward.
Another thing I did today, first entry for SOTW (Signature Of The Week) in aaaaages, I got irritated at clients always being picky, and so decided to do something where I'm in charge, I decide when it's finished, and I do what I want.
Theme was black and white.
And it reflects my anger at clients purely unintentionally.
Updated first post with my more recent stuff before realising that some of them I haven't actually posted yet. Durrrrrr, numpty.
So here:
First is a quick freehand study of a vector-ish type illustration by Tomasz Miazga, the simplicity of it combined with the awesome pose made me really love it.
And the attachment is a sketch of an idea I had for a stencil, "Beauty is Mortal". The squares on the arm are inspired by the work of Grief.
More shizzlez to come soon, I'm a bit all over the place at the moment though, I'll be moving up to my Uni accomodation on saturday, so busy with other things obviously.
Leaving the proverbial nest at last eh?
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Update of more traditional work, plus the occasional digital.
Study of one of Randis' characters, loved the awesome texture of the face.
"Blueblood", self portrait I threw together for my advanced higher folio. Don't really like it, but hey, got a B overall, so it must not have brought down the rest by tooo much.
Ink study of one of Byroglyphic's portraits, done freehand and quickly, to try help loosen up more.
Unfinished photo of "Rage", another selfportrait for the mentioned folio. Quite like it, but only had time for colour wash background.
And a design for Mimobot's competition, thought a Royal Guard would look pretty cool. Someone then copied this idea, but neither of us won first prize anyway, so meh.
EDIT: Yet more from my elusive sketchbook, believe it or not. Started a new one in the holidays, since my old one got sent to the SQA, and my art teacher is now busy showing to all the students in the course now. =/
First page, trying out some different styles of character design.
Pretty much the same next, note the Da Vinci embryo study at bottom.
Quick sketch under the theme "Curiosity".
Doodles on the "Principles of animation", I find the storyboard, kind of "camera" work more interesting if you know what I mean. Choosing what shots to do, where to move the "camera" etc.
Next flickbook will be a jumping frog, throwing out some quick ideas of character.
Theme for this week was "Fall", which I associate with jumping, flying, parachuting, etc.
Really enjoyed working the rendering up, especially the trousers. Here's a cinematic close up shot, in awes-inspiring, LOW DEFINITION!
And another little sketchbook I had started, has great paper quality, moleskine I believe you guys would call it. Need to show you the cover actually, has awesome squares that looks kinda azteck-ish:
Look at the pretty faces. Just look at them. Studies of a couple of Wes Burt's characters, especially loved the hobo guy.
Bummin' around, see what I did there? I did a FUNNY. ^.^ Yeah, loved the contrast between the hair and the skin, the wrinkles and the smooth ( ) and the different materials. Must go draw more hobos at some point.
Last edited by Choob; October 10th, 2010 at 06:22 PM.
Cool work in here Droid. You manage to do a nice variety of things which is good and the photo manip sigs are awesome. Keep going man.
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Grah, not only is your stuff pretty darn awesome, it's also unique. I wish you all the best with all that talent you have!
*looks at own sketches, sighs* I need to practice. xD
Awesome job, both the banners and the sketches (:
First up, I have a brand spanking new blog, this one devoted purely to art, which will be updated daily with digital and traditional art, sketches, and inspiration.
See it here, and please follow: Ideas Are Bulletproof
Second of all, I've recently bought the book featured on the top of the site, Digital Painting Techniques | Volume 2, and I'm going to be trying the tutorials featured in that, so expect new kinds of work, including character, creature, environment, and vehicle design.
And lastly, I've recently re-discovered the delights of Alchemy, a free program you can download for free from here: Alchemy | Download.
It allows you to make awesome abstract shapes and has all different settings, including one that lets you do it through the microphone, so whistle and you have a shape.
Here's some of my stuff for it, plus a signature I forgot to add.
A cow's head. Purty.
A pair of sci-fi robot/mecha type arms, which I plan to make use of later.
A girl in a kimono.
And finally a samurai warrior. All turned out really quite well considering the lack of control you have over what the brush is doing. I might take the samurai into photoshop at some point, and do a full painting out of it.
And the simple signature:
Duuuuude, Alchemy is so easy to do silhouettes in. Really digging the style of some of other people's work I've seen in it too, one guy doing awesome comic book inks in it, just freestyling it out.
really nice to see some design stuff around here. refreshing!


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With the ability to shoot raw files plus a long zoom and a bright lens, this larger-than-average superzoom has a lot to offer.
It's positively brimming with controls, has a sharp eyepiece viewfinder to back up the 3-inch display, and if you're an ambitious photography enthusiast, it could be well enough specced to dissuade you from upgrading to a dSLR.
You can pick up the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 from around £470 online.
It's not a small camera by any means, on account of the mammoth 24x zoom, which is equivalent to 25-600mm on a conventional 35mm camera. That's only half the story though. The zoom may explain the length of the body, front to back, but the width of that barrel is accounted for by the constant f/2.8 aperture throughout the range. The minimum aperture at any zoom level is f/8.
At the furthest end of the zoom, that's a pretty impressive achievement, and buying an equivalent lens for a conventional dSLR would cost several thousand pounds. You can't compare removable lenses directly with this model, but to give you some idea of what you'd pay for similar apertures or zooms when not fixed to the body, Canon's 400mm f/2.8 costs on average £7,000, while Sigma's 200-600mm f/2.8 costs in excess of £16,000.
The sensor sports a fairly conservative resolution of 12.1 megapixels. This exceeds the amount you'd need to print an A2 poster (commercial printers like Photobox recommend a 'preferred resolution' of 4 megapixels and above for printing at this size), so you can't criticise it on that front.
But with fewer pixels you have fewer options when it comes to cropping and recomposing your work in post-production. However, with a 24x zoom, that's unlikely to be an issue here. At 600mm, you could fill the frame with a house cat from 40 feet, as pictured above.
By squeezing fewer pixels onto the sensor, it's usually possible to improve low-light performance, and here the FZ200 does well, although its results aren't as sharp as those achieved by either the Nikon 1 J2 or the Sony Cyber-shot RX100.
Maximum sensitivity in regular use is ISO 3,200, a level at which colours remain accurate and true to the originals, but the level of noise within the image is heightened. It's not so detrimental that fine detail is lost when zoomed out to fit, but zooming to 100 per cent reveals artefacts within my test results.
Controls and build
It's got dual zoom rockers -- one on the side of the barrel and one surrounding the shutter release -- alongside a set of very well-thought-out physical controls. There's a button beside the barrel-mounted zoom that unlocks the focus point so you can move it around the frame using the regular four-way controller.
There's a multi-function wheel above the thumb mount on the back of the body. In regular use this alternates between setting exposure compensation (+/-3EV in 1/3 stop increments), and whatever the lead metric of the selected priority mode happens to be -- so, aperture or shutter speed.
It really comes into its own in manual mode, switching between shutter and aperture setting each time you press it, while you'll trim the lens with focus set to manual. It's a slow and tedious process adjusting the focus this way, particularly at the closer end of the scale, but the display magnifies the selected focal point to help out, so it's not difficult to get a sharp result.
Minimum focusing distance at wide angle is 30cm, but you can cut this to 1cm in macro mode. It stands at 2m at the furthest end of the zoom.
The lens is very sharp and does a great job of picking out fine detail, such as the tread on the tyres and the spines in the lens of the headlights of the car below.
However, in considerably more complex scenes, there is some fudging of particularly fine detail, such as the grass below, which showed comparable levels of detail in both the in-camera JPEG and a TIFF developed from the raw file in post-production.
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The shortest shutter speed is 1/4,000 second, and the longest sits at 60 seconds. Both of these are perfect for more demanding photography, freezing fast action at one end of the scale and allowing for longer exposures in low light without resorting to the built-in flash or an external unit on the hot shoe at the other end.
Full-frame burst mode can achieve 12 frames per second for a maximum of one second, although using auto-focus tracking, if your subject is moving towards or away from you rather than across the frame, will cut this to 5.5fps for 2 seconds. It can match the Nikon 1 J2 with a maximum burst rate of 60fps, but only at 2.5-megapixel resolution. If this is too poky, then the 5-megapixel option at 40fps might be a happy compromise.
It handles extremes of contrast incredibly well, retaining plenty of detail in shadow areas, which can be recovered in post-production -- particularly if you choose to shoot raw files. I shot raw and fine JPEGs side by side and performed my analysis with reference to the JPEGs. The camera was set to aperture priority throughout.
In the shot below, the window occupies the majority of the frame, and so is the source from which the camera metered for focus and exposure, which naturally means the surrounding shutters and walls are considerably darker. However, lifting the shadows in Adobe Lightroom reveals the existence of a radiator and further detail within the shutters.
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Video performance was very good, with the FZ200 putting in an excellent performance on the audio front. The cleanly recorded soundtrack had no evidence of mechanical noise when zooming through the lens' full range during filming.
HD recording is performed at 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution, progressive or interlaced, each at 50fps. You can knock it down to a lower resolution either for sharing your movie online or to increase the frame rate for slow-speed playback. At 1,280x720 and 640x480 pixels, the sensor output increases to 100fps and 200fps respectively.
Colours were bright and contrasts were sharp throughout my video tests, and compensation for changing light levels was very smoothly handled, characterised by controlled and measured transitions as the sensor gain increased or decreased.
The big draw here is the FZ200's long lens and, in particular, the maximum aperture of f/2.8 at everything between 25mm and 600mm equivalent focal lengths.
The physical build has clearly been very carefully thought out, so all of the key controls are in the most logical places and fall easily to your fingers. It's no problem to quickly affect a range of common settings to cater for changing conditions.
With a conservative resolution of 12.1 megapixels, I would have liked to have seen the FZ200 perform a little better in low light, as zooming in on the results revealed some dappling. But if you're looking for a more versatile superzoom than this, you'd have a tough job finding one.


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February 26, 2013
In a bold move that will expand the boundaries of music education in public schools to include the business of music, sound production, recording technology, and the aesthetics of a well-crafted performance, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools
(MNPS) Director Jesse Register, and John Esposito, president/CEO of Warner Music Nashville, have announced the creation of a student-run record label to be a key component of Music Makes Us, the new music education initiative at MNPS. The project will be centered around a state-of-the-art recording studio at Nashville's
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that is designed, equipped and will be guided by the efforts of members of The Recording Academy®'s Producers & Engineers Wing®. Members of the Pearl-Cohn Subcommittee of the P&E Wing, including Subcommittee Chair Jeff Balding, Nashville P&E Wing Co-Chairs Chuck Ainlay and Justin Niebank, Steve Durr, Ben Fowler, Julian King, Nick Palladino, and Terry Palmer, all contributed their collective knowledge, wisdom and passion to the project, which will feature a 32-channel API 1608 console in the main control room and two post/editing suites equipped with SSL Nucleus DAW controllers. Additionally, the project will feature products from Audio-Technica, Fredenstein Professional Audio, the HARMAN® Professional brands (AKG® Acoustics, JBL® Professional and Lexicon®) and Shure. The recording studio is scheduled to open mid-April.
"When we were approached with this project, we were delighted," recalls Chuck Ainlay, GRAMMY® Award-winning producer/engineer for artists including Mark Knopfler, Miranda Lambert, George Strait, and Peter Frampton. "But we also realized that the recording studio aspect would need more than just equipment — it would need a solid acoustical design and a layout that would work well for students and teachers as well as for artists and engineers."
Ainlay says they turned to award-winning recording studio designer Steve Durr, also a Nashville resident, whose portfolio includes studios for Austin City Limits, the Black Keys, Mark Ronson, Lenny Kravitz, and Zac Brown. Durr laid out the acoustical and ergometric designs, which are being constructed at Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School.
"I tried to achieve a design that would allow students to experience recording music with both machines and people," Durr explains, citing the large control room that will allow several students and teachers to work comfortably using drum machines, digital samplers and synthesizers as well as the recording equipment, and the sizable tracking room where they will be able to capture great recordings of live musicians playing in ensemble. "What I hope this ultimately accomplishes is that kids will now be able to learn about making music in an environment that was designed around great sound. Kids who have been brought up on MP3s can experience what music can really sound like. That can change their lives."
Balding says the members of the P&E Wing pooled their relationships with major professional audio manufacturers to gain support for the project. In the process, they've discovered members of the Pearl-Cohn faculty who have worked in the music industry and are well acquainted with the technology of music recording.
"It's great to see the whole community come together over this — teachers, artists, engineers, producers," says Balding, who has multiple GRAMMY nominations and is currently working with Ronnie Dunn, Thompson Square and Don Henley. "I believe in pouring our experience into the generation coming after us. If we can take our ceiling and make that their floor, it will allow them to take our industry to a much higher level, and that's exciting to me."
Ainlay agrees, adding, "It's very satisfying to watch this all come together. I really do feel that in addition to introducing these kids to how music is recorded, we're also raising their expectations about the quality of music, and that can have tremendous implications for the music industry for years to come."
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Every new book, every new launch has its own personality, its own blessing and challenges. To start off this new column—which I am filing under "new blessing"—I am going to list five things I know now that I wish I had known when I launched my first book.
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Yes, this is a great article. Tayarie's first point is especially good advice.
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Now you should post one called "Five Things I Wish I'd Known Before Launching My Second Book."
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Neat: What Computer Malware Looks Like
This is what some of the more famous malware looks like in 3D (that particular picture is the PWSLineage trojan).
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Well neato, that's not what I thought they'd look like at all. I was expecting they'd look more along the lines of a dragon crossed with a millipede crossed with an octopus but with way more eyes, laser beams, and driving a tank. Or, I dunno, maybe just a wicked coldsore.
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4.15/5 rDev +7%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
12.7oz bottle, 2013 Vintage. Served at around 45F.
Pours hazy orange/gold with a huge rocky white head. The head is impressive, slowly receding and leaving caves and crevices behind, leaving not clumps but freakin' chunks of foam on the side of the glass.
Aroma is fruity and spicy. Tart lemon, pineapple, tropical fruits, kiwi, sour green apple, yeast, touch of vinegar, hint of funk. Brett is more in a fruity stage right now. Very good strength.
Flavor is quite fruity, sour apple, lemon, tropical fruits, melon, kiwi, spicy, yeasty, some sweetness in the middle, tiny touch tart on the finish, mild alcohol.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied with sharp carbonation.
This is really good, the aroma in particular is delightful. As far as how much it differs from their regular Devotion, I can't say, but stands up on its own as a great beer. Gonna have to grab one more to throw in the cellar and let the Brett do its thing.
Serving type: bottle
03-14-2013 02:53:15 | More by elgiacomo
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4/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: pours a deep orange with a finger of off white head that fades to a collar around the edge of the glass with minimal lacing
S: smells of barnyard, horseblanket and green apples.
T: slightly tart green apple to start with some pineapple mingling about, nice funk and horseblanket flavors toward the end. swallow tastes like band aids.
M: slightly thin in the mouth with soft carbonation and a neutral finish that leans toward refreshing
O: A very nice brett beer. It's everything Brux and NB Brett Beer should have been.
Serving type: bottle
03-14-2014 03:35:15 | More by SHODriver
4.06/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Decided it was finally time to crack this one open - bottling date is only listed as "2013." I think I purchased this, oh, maybe 6 or 7 months ago? Whatever the case, I felt this would lay down decently well over time. Poured out of a 375ml bottle into a teku glass.
In all honesty, this is a beautiful saison - golden amber in color, cloudy, with a frothy white head that rises to the top and layers itself at the center like a scoop of ice cream, with big soapy looking bubbles distributing themselves around it. Leaves behind some good lacing, but each sip does reduce the initially beautiful head quite drastically. Each swirl brings it back, but it fizzles out for the most part. It's still a great initial pour in spite of its lack of strong head retention.
Ahh, the beautiful things that happen to a farmhouse beer when the Brett reaches its peak soft spot - this one in particular displays a variety of tropical fruits, barnyard goodness, and some spiciness at the finish. Some light funk is up front (definitely leathery, and resembling some sort of wet hay), but otherwise there's some really bright notes of peaches, kiwi, lychee, and some faint pineapple. Citrusy and grassy, although nothing too extreme. White pepper, lavender, and some sort of bell pepper as well. Finishes with notes of toffee, cane sugar, and a light baking spice finish. Really refreshing and crisp, and very pleasant throughout.
The flavor reveals a little bit more of a rustic, sharp edge to the beer, as well as far more predominant notes of the Brett strain. There's an immediate fruit blast of peaches, orange, and pineapple at the front, with a finish that is grainy and dry, with peppery notes and a big grassy bitterness. Finishes with more leather, light tobacco, and some of the barnyard aromas I was picking up in the aroma. The finish is yeasty and funky, with brief fruit notes alongside toffee and a creamy, light lactic feel. Lightly smoky at the finish, with more funk, but it overall is pretty mild at the back and the whole palate feels cleansed when all is said and done. It could strive for more complexity at the flavor, but it is a nice, refreshing beer to sip on.
This is a very solid offering from the Lost Abbey, and for the price ($5.50), probably their best bargain if you're patient enough to lay it down for quite some time. I do think the Brett could produce an even more flavorful beer than this one here (as indicated by the wonderful aroma), but it's overall a tasty and good clean take on the style.
Serving type: bottle
03-07-2014 02:55:18 | More by magictacosinus
4.18/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Not sure where I got this. But yah, 2012 vintage, 5/30/12 to be exact. 750mL bottle.
A - Poured into my Duvel tulip a very nice crystal clear golden hue with a thick almost 3 finger head that faded to leave rocky side lacign and a very nice one finger blanket. Very, very appealing.
S - Aromas of green apples, light citrus, barnyard funk, wonderful brett. Very aromatic and inviting.
T - Taste is similar to the nose. Not quite as much brett as the nose, but there is great green apples, light citrus, barnyard funk. Very grassy hops, Tasty.
M - Mouthfeel is nice and dry and light/refreshing. Just awesome.
O - Overall, this was a very well executed beer. Think this is right around its peak, as I've had older brett saisons from Lost Abbey and after 2 years things begin to fall off fast.
Serving type: bottle
02-06-2014 19:32:01 | More by rudzud
3.58/5 rDev -7.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
A- light gold with tiny carbonated bubbles. Chill haze apparent.
S- Estery, definite brett character , green apples, jasmine, orange bitters.
T- Dry as hell, finishes bready and acidic. Slight spicy hop character and a medium, yet balanced, bitter finish.
M- Medium light body
O- Nice brett saison/ belgian pale. I could go for more esters on my saisons, but this one is certainly a quality brew.
Serving type: bottle
01-22-2014 07:07:05 | More by BeerAficionadoMCMXC
3.96/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Served chilled into a flute.
Surprised at the range of color descriptions for this one. Mine poured a clear, sparkling blonde. 3+ inches of airy white head, even with a very gentle pour, that recedes very slowly leaving moderate to heavy lacing and surface layer.
Sweet and tart aroma of grape must, reminiscent of champagne.
More complex flavor than the aroma would indicate. Grape must, clove, banana, hint of bubblegum and that brett funk.
Light to medium bodied with a sweet but crisp finish from the high level of carbonation. Lingering but not unpleasant aftertaste.
Another nice selection from The Lost Abbey. Definitely worth a try.
Serving type: bottle
01-18-2014 23:40:11 | More by srhoadsy
3.76/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
A: Pours a cloudy amber with a fair amount of bubbly light white head. A solid layer retains, leaving ample lacing.
S: Sweet, yeasty, and a bit funky. Nice blend overall, not too intimidating.
T: Medium sweetness becoming funkier and with more grassy citrusy hop notes through the finish.
M: Medium body, medium carbonation, long lasting finish.
Overall, a nice and slightly funky beer. Probably priced a bit higher than it's worth, but otherwise worth a try.
Serving type: bottle
01-18-2014 01:09:20 | More by seand
3.65/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
375 picked up at Bier Thirty in Bown right around Christmas. Finally getting down to opening it tonight. 3 finger foamy white head... great retention... the bubbles gradually form big bubbles that stick around forever... crusty lacing... the brew is pretty clear golden... very bubbly.
Brett, floral perfume, and tons of citrus zest... something that I am having a hard time identifying, almost tropical with a sharp minty/grassy element.
Flavor is much better integrated... lite pale maltiness with approachable brett... again a bit of floral notes move into cut hay/grass... much more drinkable than the aroma let on.
Light/medium body with a pretty good carbonation.... The aroma is pretty sharp, but the flavor makes this one pretty drinkable.
Serving type: bottle
01-14-2014 06:33:29 | More by JohnGalt1
Saint's Devotion from The Lost Abbey
out of 100
based on 321 ratings.