damn, hyperdither is amazing!
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hyperdither by Betatester.

this is underground
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pictures from an underground japanese system that prevents the city from flooding. no CGI here, all real.
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can you spell e-van-ge-lion?

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?

you’re not welcome
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if you search for RNC on flickr, you’ll find a lot of pictures of the protest. enjoy it, you won’t find that much on the mass media.

some links worth note
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• The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus [comic] in the same model of those silly xtian pamphlets, hilarious!
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• pornography, with pictures removed pornpix, with the bodies edited out. eerie! :)
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• John’s War [depoiment] from a “guy from the future”… i’m a sucker for those fringe depoiments… the concept of a new civil war in america fits like a glove on what i’ve been looking at… damn…
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• Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems [dictionary] from the principia cibernetica people (a bunch of serious transhumanists), to help you not to get lost in the buzzwords
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• Alice’s Adventures under Ground the original precursor of alice in wonderland, page by page
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• Fluidtime [concept] using cellphones to share & organize limited resources between members. that’s revolutionary

dear friends i left behind
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cecilia visited us for 2, 3 days. it was her first time in NYC, so she swallowed the more she could (not those fancy tourist traps, mind you, but in a soul-searching way).
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i didn’t comment about it earlier because I was busy finishing a project, and only now i figured it out how to drag the pictures out of my cell phone.

killer app
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a girl drops her cellphone on the subway track, jumps to catch it, and dies struck by the train.
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this makes me think of the people that used to answer the anchorman greetings from the tv news, or earlier, when people got amazed about how a whole opera could fit in a tiny box.
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and of course, a simple sync feature (how about, a cellphone takes pictures, voice, voicemail, messages, IM and such… but i can’t even backup the numbers i have) would help getting rid of thoughts like “i can’t afford to lose it, my life is all there!”