Archive for the 'Computers/Tech' Category

NAB 2008 Article on Blender Nation

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

An article I wrote on my experiences at this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas has been posted at Blender Nation. Go have a gander at all the cool stuff I got to see there (forgiving some of the blurry camera phone photos)!
Of course, the funny thing is that because I tried to keep […]

Greetings from NAB 2008

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Just dropping a quick note to let folks know that I’m currently at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. I’m a dolt and forgot my camera at home, so you’ll just have to deal with the tantalizing text that I write about all of the awesome things that I see (and perhaps a few […]

A Veritable Onslaught of Nerdery!

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Alright, this is an accumulation of a few of the awesome things I’ve stumbled on or been directed to across the interwebbernet… and because I’m finding this stuff out via Slashdot, BoingBoing, Digg, or Hand Turkey’s resident Belligerent Internet Nomad, Warren, it’s all nerd/geek-related stuff.
We’ll start this with a YouTube video featuring musical tesla coils […]

Blender Foundation Trainer Certification!

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Since the Blender Conference back in October, I’ve been working in earnest with Margreet Riphagen of the Blender Foundation to finally get a trainer certification program launched. Well, with a few months of hard work between us and the rest of the review board that was assembled, the Blender Foundation Trainer Certification (BFCT) program […]

Blender Conference, Day 1

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

So I’m in Amsterdam for the Blender Conference.  It’s currently the second day of the conference and this is the largest B-conf yet.  There were 150 registrants and the new venue is fantastic.  I believe that they are recording each of the presentations being made.  Hopefully the will be posted on blender.org or Blender Nation […]

FlowPlayer Gets a New Logo

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Recently, we (Hand Turkey, that is) finished creating a logo for the developer of FlowPlayer. FlowPlayer really is quite sweet. It’s a Flash video player that you can embed in your website to play FLV files (and high quality h.264 files once Adobe releases a new version of their Flash player). And […]

Fweeb in 3D World!

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Check it out! In the October issue of 3D World, they did a short little review on the Advanced Blender Fluids training DVD that Hand Turkey produced with CmiVFX. It got an 8 out of 10! And they spelled my name correctly. Woohoo! This deserves an exploding bathtub (seen to […]

I Love Living in The Future

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I’m in the process of clearing out some of the tabs in my browser that I’ve been saving for the last few weeks. Here are some incredible pieces of tech that will be [hopefully] in our hands in the relatively close future:
32GB on an SD card - Toshiba announced late last month that they […]

SIGGRAPH ‘07 Recap

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Alright, so it’s been a couple of weeks since I got back from this year’s SIGGRAPH conference and I’ve thusfar posted nothing about it. Well, get your readin’ glasses ready; here’s a massive recap of all the coolness that was had. Before starting, though, I have to say that San Diego is an […]

SIGGRAPH 2007: Wooha!

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Just dropping a quick note to gloat to everyone that I’m at SIGGRAPH in San Diego right now.  There are a lot of cool things planned and I have a presentation on Wednesday.  Hopefully, in the next few days, I’ll be making more posts.
Wheeeeee!