A dumping ground for posts documenting half finished projects and/or projects which failed to maintain my, or anyone else's interest. There may be other people's half finished stuff here too. You know... Ideas that seemed really great at the time but just couldn't fly in the real world. Who knows, you might find something valuable in here. Like one of those people who buy a painting at a garage sale only to find out it was Heizenburgh's first finger painting.
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Jay Mandarino from CJ Graphics fame showing has awesome skills of ballet skiing. He's the best I've ever seen in real life... It's a young persons sport and he's over 50 when I shot this... and he's got a smunched leg from an earlier ski accident. With risk of further inflating his ego, I must say it is Impressive.
Popular in the 1980's. It's a great compliment to skateboarding skills. I think it's going to come back in style soon. See more on ballet skiing here... https://youtu.be/Sj0-dDDaacw
I'd like to see ballet snowboarding. That would have a high concussion risk. Ouch.
Book Burning
This video demonstrates what happens when Friday afternoon gets away on you and you start putting random items in your laser cutter.
This is a beautiful little Canadian Art notebook that we made last year. It was a bit too thick and a fire started inside. It smoldered away until the book was consumed.
This will be banished to the halfbakery soon. It doesn't really belong here.
Book Burning from Doug Laxdal on Vimeo.
This will be banished to the halfbakery soon. It doesn't really belong here.
Book Burning from Doug Laxdal on Vimeo.
My first cat video
This is Rosie, our cat. She's an absolute sweetheart. She has a brother named Rocket. This is Rosie hanging around our kitchen and courtyard. She rarely goes any further.
This was shot on my iPhone 5 and imported into Adobe After Effects where it was colour enhanced and stabilized, which gives it the weird wobbly look with lots of artifacts around the edges.
Rosie from Doug Laxdal on Vimeo.
This was shot on my iPhone 5 and imported into Adobe After Effects where it was colour enhanced and stabilized, which gives it the weird wobbly look with lots of artifacts around the edges.
Rosie from Doug Laxdal on Vimeo.
Hand built astronomy equipment
This is kind of a cool site by a designer/illustrator that makes his own astronomy equipment, mirrors (lenses) and all. I struggle to maintain an interest in Astronomy but I appreciate anyone hacking this type of thing together from scratch. It's a bit similar to my snowlab project, although I tend not to dwell on the equipment too much (not in public anyway, in reality it consumes me) I like the colorful graph screenshot, it looks cool.
http://proportionwheel.squarespace.com/atm-blog/
http://proportionwheel.squarespace.com/atm-blog/
Animated GIF tests
These are test image using animated gif format to create web images that cycle through a series.
Colour Separation
This is a draft of the section for the main site which explains colour separation and why it is crucial to the print process.
An image that is printed in ink on a page is the result of a variety of processes, each handled by different people using different equipment all of which have the capacity to degrade or impove the image quality. To understand the importance of colour separation we will look at how and where it fits into the overall process.
Below is a brief description of the graphic arts workflow most commonly in use today.
An image that is printed in ink on a page is the result of a variety of processes, each handled by different people using different equipment all of which have the capacity to degrade or impove the image quality. To understand the importance of colour separation we will look at how and where it fits into the overall process.
Below is a brief description of the graphic arts workflow most commonly in use today.
- RGB Image capture. The most common forms of image capture today are the digital camera and the desktop scanner. Both yield an RGB digital image file. In the settings of the camera or scanning software there are various options for how colour is handled.
- Design and layout. The captured image is placed into a page using page layout software such as Adobe InDesign. In the settings of the page layout software there are various options for how colour is handled.
- CMYK press. The page information including the captured image, text, and other design elements are sent to the software drivers of the printer which controls the actual mechanisms inside the print device which are responsible for applying the CMYK inks down onto the paper. Again, there are various options for how colour is handled.
In the above simplified description we start out with an image comprised of red, green and blue digital data. Keep in mind, this image does not exist in the real world, the RGB data file is only a series of numbers describing what the image looks like and can only be viewed using additional hardware. When the printer applies the inks to the paper it must do so using cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks.
Colour separation is the process of interpreting the original image capture's RGB image data to create CMYK image data required by the press. You can see how this would be a massively important component in the quality of a printed page. It is analogous to translating from one language to another. There are many different ways to interpret the original data and the results of the translation will have extremely different results depending on the quality of the translator.
Each of the three steps shown in the description above have the ability to perform the conversion from RGB to CMYK. Most camera and scanner software has the ability to save out as a CMYK file. The colour settings of the page layout software also has the ability to make the conversion, and it will do it by default. If the printer's driver receives RGB image data it will also convert it to CMYK by default.
With modern equipment, the image resulting from allowing the built in software to perform a default colour separation will yield a colour reproduction which will be pretty good so long as it is not compared side by side to a colour separation performed by a skilled colour separator.
A skilled colour separator will prefer to start with the raw image capture data from the camera or scanner image capture and will work to maintain the image information and the intent of the photographer.
A skilled colour separator will prefer to start with the raw image capture data from the camera or scanner image capture and will work to maintain the image information and the intent of the photographer.
In Flight Movies
This is a slightly cool video of taking off from YYC. Zoom!
Start both videos at once if you have fast equipment and a big monitor, you can get it over with quicker that way... So you can say "why did I watch that?"
A slightly cool video of landing at Pearson.
Start both videos at once if you have fast equipment and a big monitor, you can get it over with quicker that way... So you can say "why did I watch that?"
A slightly cool video of landing at Pearson.
The Gas Company Half bakery
Here is a sample of a half baked idea for a military base. It's really just a doodle, but I thought it was funny.
