indigoshift

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by indigoshift 17y ago
"Steve Jobs is not a conformist." That's true, but I think it's true because that's what his fanbase wants him to be. I always got the impression that Steve was projecting his customers' projections of what they wanted to be themselves. He
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by indigoshift 17y ago
It's fun. When I was 16, my dad bought a 50% stake in an actual gold mine in northern Idaho. We spent the summer mining for gold--after we spent a few weeks getting the neglected mine up and running again. My dad and brother would go unde
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by indigoshift 17y ago
I'm in the same boat. The deadline is everything. I structure my life around my deadlines, and the closer I get to the deadline, the more everything else ends up playing second fiddle to it. I'm an illustrator, though, not a programmer.
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by indigoshift 17y ago
>"You know all those stupid quiz apps on Facebook/fart apps on iPhone? Well, I don't make those, but I try to make more useful stuff on Facebook/iPhone, like X, Y and Z". Hey...I like that! Let's see if it works for me... Me: "You kno
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by indigoshift 17y ago
The only problem in this guy's life is his mentality. He gets almost $200K handed to him and decides he wants to be an author? Great! But he's going about it all wrong. Move out of the city, man! Find a nice country home. Ditch the Blac
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by indigoshift 17y ago
High five! I still have two A500+ machines, one of which has a 42MB external HD with this program on it. :) I did a 192-frame, full-color animation in DPIV back around 1996. Took me five days to finish. Still trying to figure out how to m
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by indigoshift 17y ago
There's still a lot of talent there. It's not easy to coax that level of realism out of oils, but it can be done. However, he's doing a lot of those in watercolors, and getting watercolors to do that convincingly is (in my experience, anyw
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by indigoshift 17y ago
That's some good stuff, man. I dig it. I'm an old metal fan, but going back to college gave me a taste for this kind of stuff. Hands In The Air is spot-on. It's my favorite. You've got good story-telling skills, which isn't common in mus
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by indigoshift 17y ago
> It will take as long as it takes, doing what it takes, but it's the only approach that works. And that right there was my first big mistake. I'd jump into an art career half-assed, and if it didn't take off like a rocket in six month
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by indigoshift 17y ago
Speaking as a Starving Artist, I've noticed that part of the problem lies in artists trying to achieve success by aping corporate methods, which rarely work for an individual artist. I did that for awhile, and it got me absolutely nowhere.
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by indigoshift 17y ago
Rock Band is a fun game. It's a nice way to have a couple beers and kill some time with friends. I get the feeling that, if RB and GH didn't exist, this guy would be complaining about other bands doing Beatles covers. I'm pusing 40, but I'
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by indigoshift 17y ago
Wow. This is a great article. When I took art classes in college, I was eternally frustrated. Every instructor would parrot a variant of, "here's what you should do to be a good artist, but remember: art can't really be taught because it'
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by indigoshift 17y ago
Just installed it--I was curious to see how they handled the image sizing. As an artist, nothing bugs me more than other people's lack of consideration for the aspect ratio of the original art. I'm happy to say that nothing was stretched o
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by indigoshift 17y ago
I feel as if I've just been tricked into reading a lengthy ad for Twitter here.
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by indigoshift 17y ago
Indeed. It seems like I trip over one of these "it's easier than ever for the kids to be haxors nowadays! You gotta think like The Bad Guy to stay ahead of them! But we will, so keep giving us security money!" articles about every 18 mont
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by indigoshift 17y ago
There's a car analogy here; let's see if I can do it right, considering I just woke up 20 minutes ago. Before WWII, the automobile was something a fair amount of people owned, but didn't do much with by way of "hacking". The real automotiv
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by indigoshift 17y ago
When this series first came to PBS, I was 10 years old. It was easily the most wonderful thing I'd ever seen. Absolutely magical--if I can use such a word to define something so scientific. I'm currently saving my pennies for that 7-disc