pirates and emperors
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a cute animation about american external policy… at least a honest answer for the "why do they hate us so much" question.
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(roll the mouse over the image, it’s so sweet!)
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and talking about videos, how about another one showing some creepy teenagers’ reactions while playing doom 3?

promethea DVD
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I’m used to read comics on my computer (all I have to do is to turn my notebook to the side, and view the pages as a slideshow) and since I installed iDVD, i was dying to try it out.
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so, I decided to make a comics DVD, which means, a slideshow DVD with an entire comic collection. I wanted to make sure the navigation was the same or better than the paper version, so I decided for a comic I didn’t read it yet and I would surely love. alan moore’s promethea seemed like a good bet.
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below are some screenshots of my progress. sadly, I realized I had no more blank DVDs to spare, so I have to wait till I’ll buy a new batch.
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click on each image to view it bigger, with technical notes (another nice feature of flickr). then, roll the mouse over each square to read them.
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DVD cover menu: this one is default from iDVD. since you can’t use more than 12 chapters and I had 31 issues, I organized each 3 issues on one.
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chapter detail: iDVD shows the exact same folders and organization from iPhoto (pictures) and iTunes (music). it’s no good at refreshing, tho, so the best move is to organize all folders & pictures on iPhoto, and then start on iDVD.
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project map: iDVD has a limit of 99 images on each slideshow, so a manga has to be chopped down, for example. it worked fine with american comics, tho.
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disclaimer: I made it for my own consumption, and although I downloaded the entire collection from bittorrent (bad boy) I also own the editions. i guess I don’t have to bother about it, since ABC comics is a small company, and instead of think “ohmygod, those little rascals found another way to rip us off” they’ll probably think “hey, another source of revenue for our collections, and look: it’s cheaper to produce than our trade paperbacks!” (sadly, it only works good on dvd notebooks - you have to rotate the monitor to read it)
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update:sadly, ABC comics is a branch of wildstorm comics, which is an offshot of DC comics, owned by warner. shoud I wait the media conglomerate unleash its minion of ferocious lawyers upon my (literaly) poor soul, or is the plutocratic police state of amerika not done yet?

from woostercollective, a graffiti collective blog from the whole world.
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i’m amazed with flickr. cute interface, nice features, the right policy (releasing their API for free to any non-commercial project).
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i was getting worried about my picture collection growing impossibly big because of our new camera (it’s easy to get lost if you don’t index it wisely), but flickr is a good tool, both for image input (by web, mail, desktop app and bookmarklet) and output (groups, calendar, blog feature, this nice zeitgeist flash app on your left…).
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since brazilians are migrating from orkut to multiply, I’m preaching my fotolog friends to move to flickr.

fitting in the picture
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i missed one of my tarot cards. working with less than the 22 cards is not only bad mojo but unpractical. the deck keeps bleeping you with warnings, that at first you think it’s about the situation you asked, and then you recognize it’s a malfunction.
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i’m very chaotic myself, and i interpret the card wants to get some fresh air, so i must not use the tarot for a while.
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this time, the card i lost was the hanged man. sacrifices. the inversed. if sometimes you have to go backwards first to move forward, this card is the backward stuff. reversal of ethics, distrust in stablished institutions, karma. paying the price for the others. humiliation and burning of material things.
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so, i’m using a “joker” card, a spare one, introductory to the tarot. and everytime i face this imageless card, i picture the hanged man in front of me. or try to.
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i dreamed i was in a party with my rio friends, but they didn’t let me get in… humiliating me, even more because the host was a friend i helped a lot, and for free. i was feeling confused and betrayed.
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then, someone told me they wanted me to get into the mood of the hanged man, so i could be used to model it. it was a trap. damn inner me, they wanted to correct a flaw wiring me to the engines!
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damn creep!

zeno’s paradox
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and i finished jade dressler’s website.
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she’s the PR i’m working with. take a look at the website, in “about”, i’m there. :)
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it was kinda zeno’s paradox to finish it (image copyrights, list of clients) but we did it. the good thing, its all in sinchrony with her business card - made by me also. I’ll try to get a digital camera to show it… mine went kaput…