Saw this movie last night and really liked it. It’s a “fantasy” martial arts film that’s been describes as “X-Men meets Romeo and Juliet”.
From IMDB: “After more than four hundred years of war between the Shinobi warriors of the Manjidani Koga and Tsubagakure Iga clans, the Lord Hattori Hanzou decrees that they must live in peace. Both clans live hidden in the woods and mountain without confrontation and without training ninjas in the shadow art of Shinobi. In 1614, the Lord of the Lords is convinced that the clans are dangerous threats for keeping peace in his lands, and his advisor plots a Machiavellian plan to destroy their best warriors in a contest. Meanwhile, the young Iga Oboro and Koga Gennesuke fall in love for each other. When Oboro’s grandmother and leader of Iga clan Ogen and Gennesuke’s father and leader of the Koga clan Danjo kill each other, Oboro and Gannesuke must lead their warriors in the ultimate battle of the Shinobi clans.”
Wild fighting techniques and some really beautiful photography. Subtitled.
As if it’s not bad enough that I work with 3 monitors, I recently got the Dell 3008WFP 30″ monitor. I’ve only had it for a week so far, but wrote up a mini-review with pics and added it to the tutorial page at my website.
Okay, okay. So a few months back (make that 5) I posted the Pregnant Pumpkin Belly pictures, and people were like “hey, dude…where’s the baby?”
So here he is:
Evan Andric Gazewood was born on November 29th, 2008. He is a Giant Baby, and at the age of 3 months was wearing clothes for 9 month old chilluns. We call him the “Bobblehead Buddha” because he likes waggling his head around sometimes.
We are happy to report there are no signs of pumpkin paint on his headbone.
The company I work for, Insomniac Games, just celebrated their 15 year anniversary. They took the company on a cruise to the Bahamas. I just got back today, and had a great time. We went to CocoCay Island the first day and did some snorkeling…saw lots of cool fish and some rays, then walked around the island taking pics and just soaking up the warmth. (It was about 30 degrees when we left Elko, so the weather was a nice change!). Next day was Nassau. We wanted to avoid the more touristy spots, so just walked around on the back streets to see how people lived there in the city and what it was like. Jackie had no interest in seeing Atlantis since it’s about the most touristy thing you can do there, but I got curious about an hour before the cruise ship left Nassau, so we split up and I grabbed a cab to go there and get a few pictures before we left.
After the cruise, I continued with my wife Jackie and son Casey for a few days in Southern Florida to check out a couple of the parks there. We saw Biscayne National Park, Everglades National Park, and then cut across Florida to Naples on the Gulf coast side of the state to see the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. We then met up with my sister Toni and her husband Bill, and stayed a night with them in Venice Florida. Also got to visit with my nephew Tony, who I hadn’t seen for years. Then we checked out the awesome Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.
The parks were great. We saw alligators, all kinds of herons, egrets, lizards, turtles, and lots of wild trees, bromeliads, ferns, air plants, and unusual flowers. It was a real whirlwind of a trip and like most vacations was over too soon.
Then it was back to Ft. Lauderdale and the return flight. I took a boatload of photos, and will need to go through them and exercise my delete key to get rid of the crap and whittle it down to my favorites.
Just finished a new piece for my Science Fiction gallery. This one is called “Bitter Reconnaissance”.
The story behind the image:
My wife was coming home one night in a nasty blizzard and made it almost all the way home, but got the Jeep stuck in some snowdrifts that had blown across the road near our house. As we headed out with shovels to dig it out, the headlights in the blowing snow looked surreal…I decided to do an image based on that scene. Later, I had dropped my son off for a Boy Scouts camp and they had used snowmobiles to get the equipment back to the campground, so I took pictures of snowmobile details and worked those in too.
This was modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D, with post work and overpainting in Photoshop.
I’ve been slacking about doing the upgrade from WordPress 2.2 to 2.7.1 for this blog, but finally dove in.
Looks like there have been a lot of improvements, so I need to dig through the release notes to see what’s changed. The upgrade went fairly well, but I’m noticing something strange where all the embedded images are using the same comment I made from a more recent post.
Hopefully that will sort itself out. Looks like a good upgrade overall though.
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