I have never seen the northern lights, and have searched high and low to answer a question I have about them: How fast do they really move? I've seen all kinds of time-lapse footage, but it's never mentioned what the actual time passage of the sequence is (like, here's 3 hours compressed into 30 seconds, or whatever). So how fast do they move?

I live near Seattle, and sadly, we get all the sucky norther weather with none of the Aurora.

What a great idea. IMHO, this is what "art" should be: Timely, witty, crafty, sometimes amusing, with just enough social or cultural commentary to make it relevant. Well played.

oops - my bad! I was mixing him up with Jim Henson.

Riddled with typos and incomplete information. They don't even mention that Frank oz is dead. WTF?

Beside the fact that a lot of these tools are still in regular use, many of them have become indispensable to digital artists using the Wacom Cintiq tablets. A standard tablet doesn't let you maintain a consistent orientation of the pen tool on the work, but the Cintiq does, which lets you to use rulers and curves right on the screen. Very nifty, and the reason I bought one.

As an aside, I was an ID major in the mid 80s (ACCD), and we had to make our own set of ship's curves in the shop. Ship's curves are kind of like French curves, but larger and straighter, and were traditionally used for drawing the section curves on ship blueprints. Making one's own drawing tools is a sweet memory I'm afraid few students get to experience today.

@Kyle - that's awesome they start you on traditional tools. I was a draftsman, then and industrial designer for years while using only traditional tools. I LOVED Rapidographs and did much of my early personal artworks with them. Sure, there were disadvantages to those "ancient" tools sometimes, but the deep understanding you gain from using these will forever serve you better than any "here's what button to press" sort of "education".

>>>end of rambling post....

Shoulda called the Wolf.

Nice to post an apologist quote that seems to offer a pass for shitty fathering. My father was a terrible dad - about as bad as they come and me still being alive to remember him. I'm okay with remembering him as the abusive, violent, thoughtless and awful human being he was and doing my best to avoid such behavior with my own son.

Btw, I had an awesome Father's Day. :-)

Yeah. Because spending $500 on a good chair and simply putting your 3 screens on a desk would be stupid. This wouldn't even fit through a frickin' doorway. Do not want.

We need a word to describe these sort of things - objects that are obviously costly and complicated and supposedly for sale, but their website has only a postage stamp sized pic and no specs. "Vapor-gear?"

Nice crew shirt. As a former cog in the Lucas machine, I used to get and see a lot of cool crew shirts. Best one ever (of the "legit" crew shirts) was the "Full Motion Dinosaur" image that was a doctored Muybridge photo image of a running animal with a Velociraptor in its place.

The best ever non-legit shirt was for the troubled VFX that ILM did for Casper. It featured a big, smiling Casper face on the front with a single bullet hole in the forehead and blood running down the face. On the back it said something like "Kill Me Now". Apparently some artists didn't like working on that project.

Um, it's not the snakes that are fake, it's Kobe's jump. He's flying on wires which are digitally removed.

Has no one noticed the $36,000(!) price tag? Another blog that featured this pointed out that this is merely the new incarnation of an 80s EV whose parent company failed. Apparently that car was only $8,000. Just another example of Green-Gouging?

Last summer we cut down some overgrown trees down that bordered our property. There was a small abandoned bird's nest in them that I was excited to keep and display, or use for some kind of art project, but once I saw it up close, it was half made of trash. And not "neat" trash that could offer some kind of social commentary, just stinky food wrappers and other dirty crap. Still a miracle of natural construction and all, but yuk!

I hope that people don't lose hope while hoping against all hope.

And 99.9% of it will be beyond shite. Reminds me of when "interactive storytelling" was going to replace movies and video games simultaneously.

Just because you *can* do something doesn't mean you should.