11 AM ET TODAY!
Author: DOuG pRATt
Treking Another Direction
The Star Trek Tour in Ticonderoga, NY, is the gold standard in the accurate, faithfully detailed reproduction of the sets as seen in the original series. To get official approval from CBS to operate as a tourist attraction, James Cawley agreed to stop creating new episodes. Other Trek TOS devotees have their own fan fiction videos.
Black Soap
An outstanding example of the masterful classic illustrative style of cartooning that I appreciate so much, as seen in the best soap opera strips. The challenge of how to make drawings of people sitting and talking look visually interesting. The inking seems to have been mostly done in pen, then a brush was used to touch up and add black areas.
Note to MIH: Neal Adams was a pen inker. He tried using a brush for line work, but never got the hang of it and gave up.
Dulby Atmost
About a week ago, I posted YouTube videos where the movement of an overly active musician playing a clarinet was audible in a recording. It was characterized as being a problem, but what if musical instruments flying around the room, even overhead, is done intentionally? Last night’s PBS NewsHour had this infomercial for Dolby Atmos.
Honky-Tonk Hanks
1 PM ET t’day, partner, on this thar playar, rat hare!
NAT and the CIDR House Rules
I think we first installed a PIX (no connection to PIXAR) firewall at the office in 1996. Oh, the memories of working with Classless Internet Domain Routing and Network Address Translation. Things were really happening fast!