Thanks for what you said! Btw, what software do you use for your 3D and animation? I used to use Maya (have to reinstall it) and have been doing a lot in second life with 3d and some animations.

bukem + maya angelou + horizon break = win

Ahh, QM's absolute, blinkers on, bullshit rides in again...

Framed per this sift, Obama sure looks normal...maybe even someone worth voting for. No mention of the bigoted Black Theology church he was a member of for 20 years

Yes, his church has a loud mouthed, aggressive pastor in residence... but until we see Obama spouting any of the same stuff (And he has publicly condemned it on many occasions) I don't see how it's really relevant.

or his half brother who lives in a Kenyan hut, subsisting on a dollar a year. No mention of his irresponsible African father OR unmarried White mother. No mention he's even half-White.

Um "Obama has seven half-siblings from his Kenyan father's family, six of them living, and a half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, the daughter of his mother and her Indonesian second husband." So... Frigging... WHAT? His father is Kenyan, and has sired a host of children. HE has made something for himself in the USA. While you can glean things about a person from where they come from, you can tell an awful lot more about a person by where they take themselves, and Obama has taken himself into a position of having done amazing works for people and being in a stable relationship.

And HOW THE F*CK is it AT ALL supposed to be ANYTHING bad that he's half white? Truly how bigoted are you? Must everyone in this world be pure bred. My god you are a racist dick QM.

No mention of Michelle Obama being proud of her country 'for the first time.'

Sigh... the right wing bullshit again... You are allowed to be ashamed of the policies of the government that runs your country you know. Are you supposed to love everything about your country, even the horrible rights abuses just because it's your country? Then you are a mindless sheep who would have done well in the Third Reich... the mindless 'you're either with us or against us' bullshit is COMPLETE CRAP.

No mention of the good senator's voting record, to the left of Ted 'Swim' Kennedy.

Again this weird thing about being left being bad... I applaud any mainstream politician that manages to become a real contender and still be able to vote actual left based policies, bring it on... I'm sick of each side being just different shades of right wing conservatism.

No mention of the connection to William Charles "Bill" Ayers, domestic radical terrorist.

Oooh, that terrible professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the honor of Distinguished Professor. Oooh, that horrible, dangerous man. You're talking about a man who fought for EQUAL RIGHTS... Yeah, he was someone who did things in stupid ways sometimes... but I would listen to him speak over you any day of the week.

Biden is such an embarrassment the drive-by media never mentions him if they can help it.

Um, I think you said it there, with the 'drive-by media' tag... it's nothing to do with him being bad in any way... it's to do with him being stable, good, well rounded and just not 'sensational' enough for the 'news' channels to do ridiculous attack pieces on him...

and the Taxocrat-controlled do-nothing 10% approval rating Congress put a total frigging useless idiot like Nancy Pelosi 3rd in line should something have happened to Bush/Cheney.

I'm going to plead ignorance on this, sorry, don't know what this is referring to...

McCain isn't trying to thwart anyone who asks legitimate questions about his views or ability to lead. It's all out there for all to see. Obama is a secretive, closed book with the mainstream media acting as his bodyguards and promoters.

WHAT THE F*CK? Just making shit up now are we? I have seen Obama state his views straight out on many occasions where I've seen McCain do NOTHING but feed bullshit lines that never answer the questions asked of him.

Your country is absolutely doomed if there are too many people who are such closed minded, deluded, blinkered, suckers such as yourself out there who can't see reality for the right wing bullshit being piled in front of you.

I sit here stunned at your complete and utter loyalty to bullshit.

>> ^Crawlius:
>>
I am not fortified against the idea that there -might- be systems in the cosmos which exert that kind of influence... But as of yet, such effects are undetected. Astrology is, like many things in the theatre of spirituality, a belief in the unseen. It is in its very nature to betray logic, and it is for this reason that you receive criticism.
But the Mayan Calendar...? Fuck it. 2012 will speak for itself.



aw man... yea... to be perfectly honest, and I know many of you will laugh at this, but from my humble observation, I see between 60-90 % of people falling into similar patterns of astrological (yearly/seasonal/solar/lunar/planetary/galactic) significance.
it could be because of the patterns in variation as we grow up during specific growth stages... these in repetitive cycles of maybe of sun, humidity, oxygen, bloody gamma rays, pollen, weather... gravity, black holes, 97 % of the missing matter out there, I don't know! some kind of evolution pattern or something... In Entropy it is postulated that if time is change, and change is light, then wouldn't a presence of such bodies influence the infinite possibilities of our patterns? One would be closed minded to ignore the unknown and unproven false, unlike the idea of "god".

The maya have been interpreted and revived in a few ways, but it seems their astrology is much more basic (and complex). They go for numbers of days where each day is a unit, a minimal integer. They fit in 27.32 day moon cycles within the yearly 365.242199 days. They take out days of time to correct the calendar in incredibly precise ways with 13 moons fitting perfectly in a year (as opposed to 12). The pattern of days taken away is eerily harmonic and speaks of greater cycles going on... then, also there is a parallel (slightly more iffy, more spiritually? based -dna supposedly-?!) calendar (tzolkin [dreamspell interpretation]) talks about a 260 day year with 13*20 (tones and tribes) matrix of different combinations ... and it all makes sense in a measure of time kinda, but indeed minimally (or so much so we don't notice it)in practical life, but almost seems more of a game than a prophecy, but lets anyone imagine their most intense vision... and if we can do all these wonderful things, can a prophecy be a vision? or vice-versa?

I wish more research were done on the subject, might be a good retirement project. If 2012 is an excuse to be happier for those who chose that, or fear for those who chose to fear, yea fookit, let it happen, let the SHTF! pffft! fear is a disease and a disorder and creates more disease and disorder. Once you start realizing how delicate things are, you start paying more attention to detail.

>> ^mani:
I love astrology, and how it mixes with geometry, spirituality and its sensitivity to the more subtle differences between us... why flog the "believers" as such senseless £^$& ??? yea ok so there is extremists in everything, but c'mon, I am not a senseless &@# just for appreciating 5,000 years of observation. Mr. Cox is entitled to his opinion but I aint no fucktard for admiring the amazing time cycles of the Maya, or for believing there might be some kind of end of cycle coming up... and our retarded governors would never even get close to such sophisticated perception indeed...


No-one would claim that you're a senseless fuck for appreciating 5,000 years of hard observation... However, no such observations exist. Astrology is rooted in assumption, imagination and superstition rather than precious reality... The concept that the celestial bodies and their formations hold sway over human lives is a romantic one but, as far as our intelligence has permitted discovery, it is also false.

I am not fortified against the idea that there -might- be systems in the cosmos which exert that kind of influence... But as of yet, such effects are undetected. Astrology is, like many things in the theatre of spirituality, a belief in the unseen. It is in its very nature to betray logic, and it is for this reason that you receive criticism.

But the Mayan Calendar...? Fuck it. 2012 will speak for itself.

I love astrology, and how it mixes with geometry, spirituality and its sensitivity to the more subtle differences between us... why flog the "believers" as such senseless *£^$&*??? yea ok so there is extremists in everything, but c'mon, I am not a senseless &@# just for appreciating 5,000 years of observation. Mr. Cox is entitled to his opinion but I aint no fucktard for admiring the amazing time cycles of the Maya, or for believing there might be some kind of end of cycle coming up... and our retarded governors would never even get close to such sophisticated perception indeed...

For sure! It will be in my blog. right now I'm working on porting my horrible Dr. Horrible sculpture. Once thats done I'll get back to practicing sculpture and try not to get caught up with another 'big' learning project.

Will have to check that link when I get home. Almost time to go!

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
Maya is such a struggle, I tried learning it once. I have some friends who are pretty good at it, they even made a music video a couple of years ago. Let me know if you make something worth sharing

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
Not just spore! Playing spore and trying to learn Maya simultaniously! It's great fun. I can't wait until I actually know this stuff so it's not a constant struggle just to work out how to get a shader to do what I want. Also, to be able to get back to actually creating new things D:

Also; Never, never change your icon. Unless it's even more awesome.

Maya is such a struggle, I tried learning it once. I have some friends who are pretty good at it, they even made a music video a couple of years ago. Let me know if you make something worth sharing

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
Not just spore! Playing spore and trying to learn Maya simultaniously! It's great fun. I can't wait until I actually know this stuff so it's not a constant struggle just to work out how to get a shader to do what I want. Also, to be able to get back to actually creating new things D:

Also; Never, never change your icon. Unless it's even more awesome.

Not just spore! Playing spore and trying to learn Maya simultaniously! It's great fun. I can't wait until I actually know this stuff so it's not a constant struggle just to work out how to get a shader to do what I want. Also, to be able to get back to actually creating new things D:

Also; Never, never change your icon. Unless it's even more awesome.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
Spore has tempted you away from God. Repent, sinner!

http://backroom.renderosity.com/~maya/Tutorial/subsurfaceScattering/sss5.html

-SSS shading tutorial. Older version of maya.

Fun Fact:
Minnie Riperton is the mother of SNL member and co-star of Videosift favorite Idiocracy...Maya Rudolph.

Watched Cracking The Maya Code, I'll consider the Alex Grey vid.

In reply to this comment by guessandcheck:
hey a couple vids to check out on the netflix
Alex Grey - Sacred Mirrors lots of great detail.
Cracking The Maya Code

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna cancel my cable plan.

hey a couple vids to check out on the netflix
Alex Grey - Sacred Mirrors lots of great detail.
Cracking The Maya Code

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna cancel my cable plan.

I can totally see getting one of these for running complex apps like Maya, AutoCAD or TIE Fighter: Collector's Edition...

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