Archive for September, 2004
Labor Visit from my Parents
It’s Labor Day, and we had our parents to look forward to. This was the only picture I got to take though with the digital, because I think it is getting old, and too lazy to even let me know when the batteries are low anymore.
Clockwise From Left – Mom, Dad, Ryan (Boyfriend) and my sister Jessica.
It was one of the only days this summer that the temperatures got into the 90’s, so it was beyond miserable. So we came home and played cards and ate ice cream sundaes, which was kind of the calling card for the weekend. (The cards, not the sundaes, I mean, look at us, what a skinny family.)
Always bittersweet when they leave, the next time we’ll probably see them is December, which is a bummer.
Effects differences from version Illustrator 9 to Illustrator 10.
Today I learned that the filters options from 9-10 changed. The gaussian blur, which is a seems to be a default filter in 9, is apparently an SVG extension in 10, and if any vector art that contains a blur is attempted to be moved, an “action terminated” dialog box will appear.
King Arthur (2004)
This movie started out slow, with Clive Owen not initially convincing as Arthur. As I watched I realized why this movie had such a dismal showing at the theaters. Unlike Pirates, Jerry Bruckheimer’s success last year dealt with a long removed subject matters, pirates. But this movie is another war between some powerful history group of people Romans, vs outlandish types.
The great thing about this movie, and any Bruckheimer is that is always asks, why can’t this be done. Why can’t we reinterpret this, and do it in an intelligent way so we don’t just retell the story for the heck of it. The end battle was inventive, the idea of more realistic stories of the amount of nights, their appearance, and their interactions, and the love story between Guinevere and Arthur and her history were all more realistic views and interesting insight into these beloved characters.
