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[2004-06-15 21:03:01 +0000 UTC]
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# Statistics
Favourites: 1871; Deviations: 794; Watchers: 40
Watching: 122; Pageviews: 45740; Comments Made: 7680; Friends: 122
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: M. C. EscherFavorite movies: Fantasia
Favorite bands / musical artists: composers: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, J. S. Bach, to name only a very few
Favorite writers: Ayn Rand, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Asimov, Henry David Thoreau
Favorite games: chess, Go
Favorite gaming platform: PS3
Tools of the Trade: Python, Prolog, Blender, Inkscape, GIMP, LSL, Lisp, etc, etc, etc
Other Interests: everything from cosmology to watercolor
# About me
I claim to be a professional artist, because I have actually sold a few paintings, though none recently.Favourite genre of music: anything but rock or grand opera. By "rock" I mean any of various contemporary genres, including rap, heavy metal, techno etc, characterized by raucous monotony. I don't include jazz.
Favourite photographer: Ansel Adams
Favourite style of art: abstract (algorithmic or mathematical), not "abstract"
Operating System: Linux, Ubuntu distribution
MP3 player of choice: vlc
Shell of choice: bash (Bourne Again Shell), Python
Wallpaper of choice: Supernova 1994D in Galaxy NGC 4526 (see webcam)
Favourite cartoon character: Calvin (& Hobbes)
# Comments
Comments: 491
One fan said he enjoyed Shakespeare's plays, but found the dialogue tiresome in that it contained so many old cliches! The explanation, of course, is that those cliches originated with Shakespeare, and they became cliches because they are so pithy and quotable.
In some quarters it is fashionable to invent a name for one's personal philosophy. Asked how I see things, I once answered that I would call myself a Methodist, except that the term is already in use and means something other than what I would mean by it. Indeed, I said that I consider myself to BE a method. Hence the importance to me of the quotation in my signature line.
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Thanks for the critique and +watch! I really appreciate it!
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welcome to the Stone Sorceress gallery
please enjoy your visits
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Do you think that this illustration about procrastination is correct?
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Sorry I didn't reply sooner -- I don't check the Comments column very often.
I don't understand the cartoon. It looks like part of it has been cut off.
It reminds me of the "homunculus", the idea that our thought processes can be accounted for by a "little man" inside of us. Brings up the "fallacy of the homunculus," that the little man's thought processes must themselves be explained, so the homunculus leads to an infinite regress, thus explains nothing.
Before I learned to talk, I wondered what was inside my head that made me think and act, so like anyone else I imagined a little man inside my head. I knew that had to be wrong. As yet I had no words to say that, but I knew it was wrong. I was embarrassed to be told, in a college course on introductory psychology, about the fallacy of the homunculus, as if I hadn't known it all my life. As an infant, then, I imagined a collection of simple processors -- now I know those simple processors are neurons, but still nobody knows much more than that.
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LOL this late reply is not an instance of procrastination. Really. I just don't often read my front page, I usually go straight to the Messages menu.
I don't understand the illustration, maybe because part of it is cut off.
The mechanism of procrastination in my case is usually the "But first --" ploy. I set out to do what I know is important, but first there is this other little thing, which ends up taking all the time I have to spare that day. It may go several levels deep, thus: X1 butfirst(X2 butfirst(X3 butfirst(X4 butfirst( ... ))))
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fav.me/d5v40yn note to myself -- line-art to be colored sometime...
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Project abandoned. Lineart looks good to the human eye, but to software implementing a "flood-fill" operation, the regions are leaky.
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thanks for the fav golem.
i'm currently working on a color cycle version which i hope to upload over the next day or two.
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Womblesmack seems to be no more. So sorry...
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Oh cool. You like Calvin and Hobbes. Same here!
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Thanks for the watch! Ive also added you. Lots of interesting modelling here too... Fantastic!
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Well, my friend, another year is about to start. (I kind of go by the Solstices and Equinoxes, so I suppose the New Year has already started). Guid Scottish Weather tonight: Gale Force Winds (10 is not even close), Santa's off course and running late, but never mind! For 2014; "Lang May Yer Lum Reek".
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Sorry I missed your comment, I do that a lot.
I can't do better than to quote Robert Burns, a song that is traditionally sung at New Year's over here:
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?
for auld lang syne,
we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
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We used to go to the 'Steeple' when we were young for the 'Bells' to chime. It was fun and cheery, people spoke to each other, people who had never met before. There were hundreds there of all ages (even underage for alcohol).
Then it started to get a bit rowdy and violent. I spoke to somebody that went to the Steeple after being at a play.
She said that there was hardly anyone there and just stood in small groups and did not mix.
A sad change.
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Sad indeed.
Over here, I suppose everyone knows about the celebration in Times Square in New York City, because it's always broadcast on television. The conspicuous feature is the huge crowds in the Square (not really a square, it's just an intersection where (I think) five streets come together). The irony is that those crowds are only a miniscule fraction of the population of the nation. What everyone else does, I have no idea. Myself, I don't even stay up till midnight as a rule. I feel sorry for anyone in those crowds who finds himself in need of a bathroom break. Surely there is some provision for that. The last time I paid any attention was when everyone celebrated the new Millenium a year too early, at the beginning of 2000 instead of 2001.
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I also said that they had got the 'date' wrong and was met by blank stares.
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I didn't get blank stares, perhaps only because I mentioned it only in email. But I gathered that nobody got the point. I am very disappointed in the general level of education/intelligence. I thought surely almost everyone understood why the movie "2001" was not "2000", but no.
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Almost. From a very similar one a little way down the coast.
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I first did a HB pencil sketch on water colour paper. Did an Negative on software, then texturuised the end result. I'm still trying to build up skills and techniques before trying 'real'chalk.
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I find that real chalk actually helps in generating interesting textures, when applied to real paper. The side of the stick of chalk, swiped across the paper, picks up the texture of the paper. You can then emphasize it at will, here and there, to make a convincing rocky texture. I'd prefer software techniques, if adequate.
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Wow.
As always, thank you for the work you post.
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There was an old Tar works called Dowrie on the coast. I assume it was from there. There was also an old railway station/junction at Elliot, it could also be from the demolition of the buildings there.
It maybe the latter, as it looks as if it has been in the sea for ages.
Kinda wish I'd picked up. If I ever find another will certainly do so.
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