tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38376562159261202892011-09-05T08:43:53.098-04:00A diary of my transition in lifestyle and occupation from a computer geek into a paid artist. Essentially this is going to be where I dump off and more or less justify to myself why I am getting rid of something in my life. Yup, put the old parts of my life that no longer serve me any purpose onto the scrap heap.Hagdrisilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01121769540203816226noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3837656215926120289.post-33585869726727910622011-08-04T23:33:00.000-04:002011-08-04T23:33:45.185-04:00

A wile back, while reading one of my daily web comics, I saw the author/artist was having issue with their desk. Mostly it was that they couldn't get comfy and do their work. they also had a couple of really cool links in their rant to images of all kinds of drawing boards and drafting table. One of them was to an online catalog of all sorts of work stations and drafting tables. After I looked

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I think everyone I've ever met has the same thing to say about the passage of time... I spend most of mine leaping in fits and starts from one task to the next. Occasionally I have a spare moment to look for 'cool' that might be out there on the net and pause a second or two to enjoy it. Lately its been looking for how-to tutorials on doing things in both blender and Photoshop, the sheer number

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You know when you start buying certain things in a virtual world that you've not only admitted not only that your deeply involved in that world... you have further committed yourself to be known as a certain 'caste' of person in that environment. Here we see that I have finally admitted to being a builder... complete with my own virtual drafting table... and yes, I do have one in real life as

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Well... how time does fly when progress is made..... Got myself another super sized monitor to put ton the monster of a workstation I blabbed about a while ago... now its all set up around my drawing table ready for me to start rockin' the 3D!

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... and another day goes past and I still feel no different than I did "when I was 38". I'm really starting to wonder if these annual birthday/holiday/celebration things really are just something devised by the card and gift wrap companies as a machination to promote sales.... On another note, after this moving thing at the start of the month, I now have all my stuff I use unpacked and arranged

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17 days has just freight trained right past me! I've got my monster comp up and running again, almost have my art area (drawing table and supplies storage) all set up; and I got a hold of some more tutorials for 3D model construction and publishing. so it looks like I've got this creative express started up, and ready to get in gear and start doing things. What have I got instore for all of

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What a month... got myself a new place, all to myself. Means I no longer have to depend on anyone else for my living space. I love it! =D I am sooooo done with settling for a place that requires a room mate to be affordable. As for the art side of my life... not really had much time to work on anything of note, still getting all my comps set up. Still need to unpack some things that are in

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Nothing much new to report... just playing about in some of my programs learning the new features. Such as taking my blog profile dragon pic and doing a bit of resizing and recoloring...... Aside from that, been doing a bit of model building in Second Life. Might have an opportunity to build content for a combat system within SL.

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I've been working on learning some new tools lately.. mostly software... the first is this: http://blog.machinimatrix.org/3d-creation/jass-2-1/ Its Called JASS (Just Another Sculptie Studio) .... it's essentially a tweaked up distribution of Blender. The additions are the latest Python scripting environment and a set of python scripts for Blender (named Primstar) for working that black magic of

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A name. What is it? A name, to me, is a verbal way of not just identifying a person, it distinguishes them from everyone else in a unique way. Hagdrisil Its a name I have had for over 20 years now, hard to believe that I still have it and use it. Way back in 1989 while I was at college (yes I am that old) some dice, pencils and paper rollplaying buddies were learning a bunch about Norse

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After many months I finally remembered... wait... I have a blog! =Oyeah... so much for doing many updates with lots of cool art and stories.... still there is hope, I've got my writing bug in high gear and have been working a couple of stories, been tinkering with the 3D model making now that my monster graphics workstation has its own LCD and I don't have to switch it back and forth from my

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So... around about 3:30pm on December the 12th, 2009 I had the absolutely amazing fortune to be present as history happened right in front of me. No body was hurt, No body was injured; and Everyone involved had a huge smile on their faces!On that day at that time I witnessed the Olympic torch relay for the 2010 winter Olympics pass the store I work at in downtown Ottawa.There should be more of

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Jeez... "fits and starts" ... that's what I should have named this thing... not scrapyard. I seem to go for ages with no posts at all then blamo! out of the blue a post about something then likely back to silence.So what have I been up to?Getting fed up with a whole bunch of stuff in my life and finally getting on with making a new future for myself so I have no dependency on things and people

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Wow! As normal... first post in most 8 months.... heh. Typical. To busy to post about what I'm busy with and then can't remember what I was busy doing.As far as my graphics work is going... haven't been out taking photo's as much as I would like to. little things keep popping up left and right to get in the way.... =/my 3D artwork is starting up again.. got a bunch of books on 3DS Max and Maya

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BLEH!!!!!I am so ready for this strike to be over!At least I can get online to answer emails and things.... just not a good enough connection to do anything serious or have fun.... oh well......

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So I live in Ottawa Ontario Canada.... and there is a strike going on right now by transit workers..... I'm still not clear about what all the issues are... though a few things did come to mind....Oh and before I get to far into the ideas... they have absolutely nothing to do with the strike or either of the sides in the strike at all. (^_^)The first one is in keeping with the whole reason for

Hagdrisilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01121769540203816226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3837656215926120289.post-48782014153590682882008-06-30T22:15:00.003-04:002008-12-09T15:53:50.876-05:00

just a quick pic of what I see while I'm DJing on Second Life.

Hagdrisilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01121769540203816226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3837656215926120289.post-37249808000907136132008-04-27T20:10:00.003-04:002008-12-09T15:53:51.028-05:00

A trip out for fast food needs some fast wheels!

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I'm always amazed at just how much computing power can be bought for next to no money. In the past year I have bought a pair of Dell workstation class computers. Not these cheesy little Dimmension or Optiplex machines or even the new Vostro's that most people end up buying. No, I have a pair of Precisions'!The first one I bought is a Precision 650 that I have added to and built up over the past

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I finally got myself a beemer!Yup, thats it in the pic, its about 8 inches long and goes like stink! Its even a hybrid! runs on 4 rechargeable AAA batteries! Hows that for being environmentally conscious?Anyway, the local all-around electronics store was clearing these out for $20 each. Originally they sold for $60! I also grabbed a mess of other parts and bits from the car upgrades rack.I so

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So you have all your shopping done a day ahead of time and have nothing else to do?Well, I grabbed my booze, a bunch of Egg Nog and a glass or two and logged onto my fave social network, Second Life, and checked into my usual hang out, a rock club called Overdose!Now I'm just going to relax the day away and listen to the awesome tunes and chill-lax with some really cool people!If your on SL and

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Found this on one of the web comics I read....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV8jTsAYK2Y

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I just picked up a new hard drive to gather all my music onto. Nothing more than that, jut my tunes.I needed to find a way to edit all my id3 tags so that the library in my players would display the correct info when I play them. Well after a quick romp through the google monster I found this:http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htmAfter installing it you will be hard pressed to find anything

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So you just dropped a mega bunch of Linden dollars on that huge sized avatar (like my Dragon) and you suddenly found that you have a wildly hard time controlling its walk and the flying is nearly impossible with the keyboard and mouse. Well, I do have a solution for you!If you have a game controller (such as a Logitech Rumble Pad(tm) or the PS/2 controller and adapter that I have) then all you

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Wow! Its been a while since I put anything up here.So I finally got around to setting up my room for my great leap of faith. Now all I have to do is let creative inspiration in and run with it. Lately my muse has only come out when I have been using Second Life (more on that below). I sometimes can't believe just how many computers I have. If you look closely you can make out all but one of them.

Hagdrisilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01121769540203816226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3837656215926120289.post-25586238419108033912007-09-27T22:06:00.003-04:002008-04-18T00:32:39.772-04:00

This little clip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5RnaJkIeA&feature=dir makes me want to get myself a digital video camera and start making all kinds of really funky videos.

Hagdrisilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01121769540203816226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3837656215926120289.post-4309447530882598072007-09-22T16:21:00.001-04:002008-04-18T00:31:00.764-04:00

So for those who have just stumbled on this blog, I work in a computer store. A long time customer of the store has asked me to help out with advice for a new friend of his.Without making a story longer than required, the request is to help this artist promote her art and take her name further than the last person did (which is to say that he didn't do anything). So what I have in mind is going

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So I've not posted here for a while and I don't plan to keep this blog for its original intended purpose. Instead its going to degenerate to what all blogs become. A mess of whatever I think is relevant to me right now. For example:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkgNn50k14which I find really funny as I have taken a great liking to playing in second life.Another completely different direction

Hagdrisilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01121769540203816226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3837656215926120289.post-40244473970473299002007-07-16T16:38:00.001-04:002008-04-18T00:35:04.209-04:00

I had no idea that an online virtual world would be as addictive as it is, or as engaging as it has become. The whole premise of a three dimensional environment where people come together to meet and create just boggles my mind! The idea that I can at once explore what others have built and then create my own thing is so engaging that I just have to be part of it. So if your in Second Life and

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I'm interested in way more than I have time to acctually work on. The latest addition to my list of things to look at is a new (to me) computer for doing animation and 3D graphics rendering.-- Geek speak warning --The machine itself is a dual CPU workstation class Dell, running Xeon 2.8GHz Hyperthreading processors. It has a gigabyte of memory and a 36gig SCSI Ultra 320 hard drive. This thing is

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Over the past year or so I have been slowly teaching myself the fine craft of written story telling. In various forms I have managed to write almost 200,000 words in four different stories. The longest of these is book one of three that I am attempting to write.To help me out in the this literary quest is a small group of people who happen to share the same interests as I do. We meet every second

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So here I go adding a new info stream to what the big G can already search up on me.I wonder sometimes if this glomming together of all these services is such a good thing? Yes it does make it easy to gather all my used services under one umbrella, yet I can't help feeling that this same umbrella is very easy to flip upside down close up and there you go all of you neatly bundled up into one

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