I've been running MVix boxes for a couple years now, and they've handled my basic media needs. About a year ago a friend of mine built a pretty sweet home theater setup and was using XBMC for his UI. Ever since then I slowly became more and more unsatisfied with the UI for the MVix box. So one day I downloaded XBMC (Camelot build), installed it, and started playing around. After getting all me media loaded into the database, customizing the skin, and changing my pants after my nerd-gasm I decided that it was time to figure out how I could utilize this awesome tool.
After some research I found that there was no way to add XBMC to my current MVix box. With that knowledge I began the undertaking of building a HTPC. A couple days later of research and I had decided on the parts that I wanted. I knew I wanted to buy components that'd be somewhat future proof, but I didn't want to spend a lot [...Read More]
A friend I've had for a long time now asked me to come up with a tatoo for him that looked like his arm was torn open and there were cybernetics beneath the skin, and also if I could encorperate a Lily and a Rose (the names of his daughters). At first I was like "uhh, errr, I dunno". But after some thought I came up with the idea that the flowers would be growing out of the torn hole. Makes sense when you think about it, his girls came from his blood, so the flowers are sprouting from inside of the machine.
I had him take measurements of the area on his arm where he wanted it. I then drew up that size on some paper and got to work. I scanned the line art in and painted it up. He has both the line-art and color.
Try to ignore the surrounding 'skin' around the bionics. That was just thrown in for a simulation of what it might look like. If he ever finds a tattoo guy that can pull it off, [...Read More]
So apparently cleaning up cat puke at 4 in the morning is an activity that required just enough brain power to wake me up. Thanks cat... you stupid f'n cat. Anyway here's an early morning post for anyone else that may be out there in the same situation.
Arcade Aid: I only got 20 of these, but with the help of my gf we almost got them all.. until we accidentally closed the tab and lost what we had (so beware).
WTF: So this was just one of those random banner adds on a site. Do you notice anything odd about it? You can click on the image, it'll just enlarge the picture, not go to where ever the fuck the original banner went to.
I recently finished watching the first (and only) season of Firefly again and was curious as to what the cast was up to. One thing led to another and somehow I went from IMDB to Google to a site that had some Lightwave tutorials on how to build the Serenity. These tutorials are great reference on all the parts of the ship, but I use 3DS Max for my 3D work, and Max doesn't like Booleans too much. Frankly I don't either, they make for a messy mesh. I bring this up because the guy who made the tutorials tends to use Booleans for every other step.
So I'm gradually working my way through the tuts building one section at a time, but it's taking a while due to not taking the shortcuts of Boolean. And since I'm building this thing from the ground up I'm making a few modifications along the way. You diehard fans out there may be able to spot the differences, but I make the changes outta love and [...Read More]
My name's Trevor Lemon, and this is my blog. I'll try to
update it with whatever I'm working on, random thoughts, links to
shit I think is cool; whatever I deam worthy I suppose.
