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XSIbase Interview
September 20th, 2005
By Raffael Dickreuter
The Director of Pinocchio 3000 talks about the challenges of directing a CG movie as well as his contributions to Titanic, The Fifth Element, Terminator 2-3D and Tightrope.
Tell us how you got in CG and what kind of education you have
I started doing computer graphics in 1983, as a graphic design student at the University of Quebec, in Montreal. At the time, we had access to a proprietary vector-based system that could calculate and draw simple 3D objects (with hidden line removal!), but could not handle interpenetration. The technology was still primitive, but I was hooked. After completing my bachelor's degree, I started working for the Canadian national television (CBC), doing TV graphics and animations.
Besides being a director and animation director do you still like it to do shots yourself compared to just overseeing the creative processes?
Yes, I have always kept a hands on approach to animation and CG in general. What better way to gain respect from your teammates than to express leadership through the quality of your own work?
What were your contributions to movies such as Titanic, Apollo 13, Fifth Element And Terminator 2 3D?
While working at Digital Domain, I had the opportunity to contribute to these memorable movies doing animation and animation supervision. At the time we were using SOFTIMAGE|3D, which helped us create the photorealistic crowds in Titanic, the stylish reconstruction of Leeloo in Fifth Element, and the liquid metal creature in T2-3D.
Tell us about about the project Tightrope and your contribution.
Tightrope started out as an internal project at Digital Domain in 1998, after the company announced its intention to produce short animated films and welcomed any story ideas or pitches from its employees. I wrote a fable about two tightrope walkers who meet on their rope, then designed and modeled the characters. With these assets built and the scope of the work well laid out, I soon benefited from the help of my teammates in the character animation department. They offered their invaluable contribution in animating shots, and after 6 months, the 5 minute film was completed.
Besides being animation director you also directed various movies. What is the most challenigng part when directing a movie?
The most challenging part about directing an animated film for me is the one that deals with everything that is not of a CG nature: script development, voice actor directing, working with the score composer, etc. A director must provide the whole creative vision for the film he is helming, and this means he needs to develop affinities with a wide variety of mediums. Most importantly, this means he must aknowledge his own shortcomings, and surround himself with talented individuals who will complement him.
How did you get involved int this project and what were the biggest challenges of the movie?
I was initially approached by the producers of Pinocchio 3000 in 1999, who had seen my short film Tightrope at the Imagina festival in Monte Carlo, where it premiered. At the time, they had a first draft of the script and some rather rough character designs. But I was charmed by the idea of transposing the classic myth of Pinocchio in the future, where the protagonist would be a metal robot rather than a wooden marionnette. The film was in development for several years, while the financing was put together through a co-production between Canada, France and Spain. Finally, in 2003, we got the greenlight and went in production. We then only had 12 months and a modest budget to deliver the film. France was responsible for the script writing, character designs and visual development, Spain was in charge of set modeling and postproduction, while Montreal-based animation studio Cinegroupe had the lion's share of all character modeling and rigging, animation, lighting and effects. It wasn't an easy task to assemble a crew, engineer a technical pipeline, while having to create a film in record time and with limited resources.
How was XSI used on the production of this movie?
All the preproduction tests had been done with SOFTIMAGE|3D, including a 2-minutes trailer. While the production start date kept being pushed, the first version of XSI was eventually released and we were faced with the dilemma to either proceed with SOFTIMAGE|3D as had been the plan all along, or make a leap of faith and go with a more powerful software, but one that hadn't truly proved itself in a production environment yet. In hind sight, we clearly made the right choice by going with XSI, which ended up being stable enough to handle all our 3D needs.
Which features of XSI do you find very useful?
What I have always liked about this software is the beauty of the interface, and its strength in so many different areas. The flexibility of the modeling, rigging and animation tools combined with the powerful mental ray rendering, enable artists to take a project from concept to final product within one single package.
Which areas should be improved?
Although the particle simulation tools have greatly improved, I believe there is room for further development before they can be used to create sophisticated natural phenomenons. And I still miss the metaballs!
You started at a time when CG was not yet available to the masses. How did you experience these times compared to now?
In the early eighties, the technology was certainly primitive compared to the one we know now, but those were the humble beginnings of a revolutionary art form. Considering that softwares and hardware cost in the hundreds of thousands for one single seat back then, I felt privileged to have access to that technology.
Which changes did happen over the years that were not easily to predict back then for you, which ones were?
Early on, many thought that computer graphics were just a trend that wouldn't last more than a couple of years, while I have always been a firm believer that we were witnessing the birth of a major medium, as important historically as photography. Turns out that the prediction was right. What I could never have predicted though, were the leaps and bounds in the areas of character and creature animation, as well as photorealistic rendering. What I consider was a major milestones were the compelling animation and effects in Jurassic Park, a glimpse of things to come that was truly influencial in my career.
Whats coming next in the career of Daniel Robichaud?
I am currently working on a 2-minute trailer for a 3D animated feature film that I wrote, entitled "Frog Legs".


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Use your settings page to let Meekan know about the available rooms you have. Meekan can then look up and match an available room for your meeting, and book it for you.
Setting up your available rooms list
To use Meekan's room finding capabilities you first need to go to your settings page (say meekan settings to get your link) and add some rooms that the robot can work with. Find the Meeting rooms section in your settings page, and add at least one room.
Adding a room to the list
The quickest way to add a room is to pick one from the dropdown list (If the list is empty, see below on populating it).
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To populate the drop-down list of rooms:
Click on "import more rooms" – from either Google or Office365. You'll need to have admin privileges to import your team's available rooms into the list.
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meekan schedule a meeting tomorrow, add a room
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Bob Welch is a speaker, author, award-winning columnist and teacher. He has served as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
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Apple's much rumoured new small screen iPad could get its own dedicated launch event in November rather than debut earlier alongside the new iPhone, a report has claimed.
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'We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like"
I couldn't help but chuckle when I read this ! It rang so true for me - except for the money part because I don't have the gut to go into debt buying THINGS !!! If I don't have a family and a mortgage, YES YES YES I would spend every dollar I make and will have outstanding balances on all of my credit cards.
So what's up with that ? the need to obtain fancy things that are overpriced to show off to people we don't know or care for ? as shopaholic on the way to recovering :) I can tell you - IMAGE my friend, it's all about the IMAGE ! WHY ? because many of us are insecure, have low self esteem, and we want people to envy us, we want to be above the norm (to make us feel better) ! it's the "elite" group we're aiming to have a membership with. And for many of us girls, it's about the bag we carry on our arm. We want to throw out designer names like we have them our whole lives. When we get together with other girls we want to talk about Louis or Dolce, and some other names we barely can pronounced. Sure our clothes can be off the sales rack but our handbag shall not. We're living for the NOW, isn't life about seize the moment ? And for some of us, that moment is about looking good right now and ... pay later !
Many of us female are ROMANTIC SHOPPER, meaning we care more about emotional satisfaction and appeal . And luxury handbag gives us that "warm fuzzy special feeling" when other girls to stare at our bag and envy how nice it sit on the crook of our arm or over our shoulder. Simply put, girls want to look good for other girls. There's that natural competitiveness in all women, many of us do it subconsciously while there are those who set out to conquer, to get all the attentions. It seems like many of us are suffering with the case of not-measuring-up and not-good enough. BUT to who ? and to what standards ? MTV ? Gossip Girls ??? what ????????????
The Transunion websited stated that the average Canadian debt is around $26 000 per person ! TWENTY SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS sans mortgage. That is a scary number don't you agreed ? Sure freaks me out. I just hope those people has job to pay it back or else they will have to go on income assistant and before we know it, our taxes will be increased to help them !
Owning designer items in itself is not a bad thing. I do appreciate the quality and craftmanship of them. I think it's the intention of acquiring it is something you should concern yourself with. If you don't have the discretionary income, it doesn't make sense at all to go into debt for the "bling", no matter how nice it is or how good it makes you feel ! It's not smart to take out your saving or working longer hours (sacrifice time to rest, time for family/friends) for them. You need to dig down deep to see what the issue is. What are you buying to covering up ? insecurity ? emptiness ? lack of confident ? anger ? the need to feel important ? need to be in the "in" crowd ? At the end of the day, we're responsible for our action, and in this case, we are the one paying the bill !
Say, if you do have money to blow, share the wealth ! there are many who are less fortunate that just hope to have have full stomach at the end of each day. When you're blessed with money it's meant for you to help others. Blessings are meant to flow so pass it on !
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Still on east coast time, it was impossible to drag myself out of bed earlier than 10am. But once I was up, I was raring to go because Sunday is Mauerpark day! I love a good outdoor market, and I heard Flohmarkt am Mauerpark was quite the experience. Being blessed with a beautiful day only made the whole thing that much better.
Work from independent creatives, vintage wonders, and awesome food was crammed into every possible square foot (or should I say square meter?) of space.
From there, we wandered to the park, which was packed due to the aforementioned weather. Hearing cheers coming from the crowd, we headed over to find massive outdoor karaoke. As if there was any question that Berlin was my kind of city!
The top of the park featured a wall with inches thick layers of graffiti on it. There were a few artists doing their work, and I was told that anyone could participate, but I was satisfied with being a spectator.
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A CROSLAND Moor man has appeared in court after flouting his driving ban.
Sajid Hussain, of Row Street, admitted getting behind the wheel whilst disqualified.
Kirklees magistrates were told that the former taxi driver was serving a ban after being caught drink-driving.
Ben Thomas, prosecuting, said on November 26 Police spotted Hussain driving the Skoda Fabia at North Street in Lockwood.
They tried to stop him, but after stopping the car on a driveway he ran off.
The officers gave chase on foot and detained the 27-year-old close by.
Mr Thomas said in interview the defendant admitted he was banned from driving until May 2013. He had been banned in September 2011.
Hussain accepted in interview that he shouldn't have driven. He said that he had seen his wife's car keys in the kitchen cupboard and been tempted.
Magistrates heard he had been jobless since his conviction.
The bench gave him a community order for 12 months.
This includes 100 hours of unpaid work and an electronically-monitored curfew for two months.
Hussain was also told to pay £85 costs and £60 victim surcharge.


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You may have been experiencing some issues with, or reading in the forums about, trouble registering retail copies of Demigod. Specifically errors claiming the serial was invalid or already registered to another account. Unfortunately, this was due to an oversight on our part. Although housing something called the "Unclean Beast" inside of our datacenter seemed like the only logical option at the time (you can't exactly chain him up in the backyard at your mom's house.) in hindsight this was probably not the best option for something with "Ooze" ability. After many hours of work, and some serious hosing down of the servers, the process should be back up and running. You should now simply be able to register your serial number through Impulse. To do this:-Click on the help icon in the upper right of the Impulse interface (the one that looks like a blue circle with a question mark) and select "Register a product". -Once on the registrations page, in the bottom right, click the 'Add Registration' button. -In the Window that appears, enter your serial number, followed by your e-mail you used to create your Stardock.net account, the product category [Games] and the product name [Demigod] (these last 2 fields should auto-populate).-Click 'Add Registration' button and you've registered your product. This will register the software to your account, and get you the latest updates to your product. This will also keep track of the serial number if you ever need to install again. You can now go under the games tab in Impulse and select Demigod and click 'Update' to update it. If this works for you, enjoy the game and please refrain from replying to lighten the support load. If this does not work, or the game is already registered to you and you're still having issues, please reply to this e-mail with any relevant details.On a further note, the Unclean Beast has been scrubbed clean as a punishment, and will not be allowed after dinner treats for one week.Thank you for your cooperation and patience in this matter,-The Stardock Technical Support Team
What about those who bought it, and downloaded it, from you guys in Europe? I'm having issues connecting to a match.
Apparently, the EU over DSL lines is much worse for connectivity than the US.
Lovely. That's just FFT. I never had this problem during the Beta. Ah well, I'll come back to playing this in a week or so when they iron out the bugs from this.
I purchased Demigod from Target the other day and typed in the code on the back of the manual. Despite following your instructions, no dice. It still gives me this message "The serial number you have entered is not recognized by Impulse. Only serial numbers provided by Impulse will be accepted."
If I purchased a retail copy, how do I get a serial from Impulse. I created an account.
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Staten Island Ferry
Waiting for the Staten Island ferry on Tuesday afternoon, I am overcast and scattered showers. How can I describe it? I left my home for home to see my brother who left home to come home but briefly. There are … Continue reading
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First automated, then variant. Patented an undertaker: rumor has it to have destination. And to have without intervention. But no, an undertaker in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. A rumor has it diverting, to have from without his business an undertaker. Rumored diversion from an undertaker. Want some way, routed clear to a destination. To undertake. But no, routed to an operator intervention.
Invention changed throughout; conceptually, the same. Rotating selectors choose a level. Pulses on a line make a level. A level one of many. Diversions. The number of pulses changed conceptually throughout. To instruct a solenoid, what's a solenoid, to move this wiper, a wiper's a selector. A line, a pulse, a level. A level one of many. This is all by mechanical movement, move this wiper, routed clear to a subscriber destination. Mechanical movement like an upward cascade. Rotating change of selection levels.
A level is a digit, an upward cascade. A digit is a number a figure a finger a plug—a grommet and a plug. The tone plant results from additional circuitry. To come back around, to undertake an upward cascade. And again around. Tone plant to provide progress—progress is information: does anyone remember ringback tones? To divert business from the undertaker, maybe a circuit can bounce.
Strowger founded, 1892: Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company. Strowger sold, 1896: patents; and sold, 1898: Strowger Automatic Electric. Strowger died, 1902: brain aneurysm.


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Как путешествовать с ребенком без проблем
За границей часто можно встретить путешествующую семью европейцев с младенцем в слинге или коляске, которая неспешно изучает местные достопримечательности. Однако многие россияне по старинке отправляют своих чад помогать бабушке на даче, а затем весь отпуск тяжело переживают разлуку. Другие, более смелые, ограничиваются турами по системе «все включено», полагая, что так выйдет дешевле и менее хлопотно. А если малышу еще не исполнилось трех лет, то и вовсе решают воздержаться от путешествий. Хотя многие дети готовы к поездкам и в более раннем возрасте: они отлично переносят дорогу и смену климата. Предлагаем несколько советов, которые позволят вам убедиться, что самостоятельные путешествия с детьми могут обойтись без стрессов и опасностей, и решиться на увлекательное путешествие с малышом.
Куда поехать?
Чтобы найти идеальное место для отпуска без помощи турагентства, нужно изучить туристические сайты и форумы для мам. В Сети существует множество сайтов, где нужно всего лишь задать такие параметры, как ваш бюджет на авиаперелет, месяц путешествия и определиться с настроением и интересами. Сайт подберет подходящие направления и покажет всю необходимую информацию по каждому направлению: стоимость питания, услуги такси и общественного транспорта, валюта, погода, стоимость авто на прокат, интересные туристические места.
Далее следует определиться, какой именно отдых будет интересен вашему ребенку. Самым маленьким будет комфортнее в тихой обстановке - ближе к природе или на пляже, где не слишком жарко. Детей постарше заинтересуют креативные игры, аква- и тематические парки. Школьникам понравятся музеи, экскурсии по историческим и культурным местам, тематические туры.
При выборе места и времени семейного отдыха постарайтесь избегать экстремальных и экзотических вариантов и присмотреться к более мягкому и комфортному климату без резкой смены часовых поясов и температур. Так ребенок легче перенесет полет и быстро акклиматизируется.
Путешествовать с ребенком можно вполне бюджетно, ведь авиакомпании предлагают детские билеты со скидками, а отели - бесплатное проживание малышей до определенного возраста и некоторые другие услуги. Так, перелет на внутрироссийских рейсах для детей до 2-х лет не стоит ровным счетом ничего, а на международных авиалиниях действует скидка до 90% или же взимается фиксированный сбор. Однако следует учесть, что весь полет придется держать ребенка на руках, так как отдельное место маленькому путешественнику не предоставляется. Зато, если удастся забронировать место в начале салона, то можно заказать бесплатную люльку для грудного ребенка, которая освободит вам руки. А если вы летите с двумя и более детьми, то им дадут места, но за них придется заплатить сумму, равную половине стоимости «взрослого» билета.
Многие авиакомпании стараются радовать своих маленьких пассажиров и дарят им дорожные наборы и мягкие игрушки. Другие мелочи, приятные для родителей и малышей - наличие пеленальных столиков в бортовых уборных и детское питание по специальному заказу.
Хорошая идея - забронировать отель, расположенный в центе. Так у вас будет возможность вернуться в номер во время дневного сна ребенка или если вы захотите сделать небольшую передышку во время прогулки. К тому же, когда ваш муж и ребенок уснут, вы можете взять тайм-аут и провести время, занимаясь тем, что вам нравится больше всего.
При выборе отеля непременно обращайте внимание на отзывы, оставленные посетителями с детьми. Ведь они обычно указывают на те недочеты или, напротив, плюсы, которые будут актуальны и для вас. Например, многие отели предоставляют детские кроватки, организуют специальное питание и детскую анимацию. Все это, конечно, мелочи, но они могут сделать ваш отпуск с детьми намного комфортнее.
Также можно арендовать апартаменты. Это особенно актуально в тех европейских городах, где жить в отелях очень дорого и количество предложений для семейного отдыха в них ограничено. Например, во Франции, Италии или Скандинавских странах.
Несколько полезных советов
Правильно рассчитывайте время
Если вы путешествуете с детьми, все, как правило, занимает немного больше времени, чем ожидалось: передвижение по городу, посещение музеев, поездки в общественном транспорте… Заложите дополнительное времени на каждое ваше действие.
Договоритесь со своим тревел-партнером
Отправляясь в путешествие всей семьей, постарайтесь согласовать с мужем все действия «на берегу». Если вам понадобится время для себя, например, прогуляться по магазинам, то ему придется посидеть с ребенком. И пусть это звучит несколько официозно, но имеет смысл даже составить график, чтобы никто из вас не чувствовал себя виноватым или обиженным.
Проведите время в аэропорту без хлопот
В пиковый сезон, особенно во время отпусков и школьных каникул, некоторые аэропорты организуют особые очереди для семей с детьми в контрольно-пропускных пунктах. Пройдя официальную процедуру как можно быстрее, вы положите отличное начало своему отпуску. Сэкономленное время можно потратить на спокойные прогулки по магазинам duty free или на кружечку хорошего кофе. И не забывайте про детские игровые зоны в аэропортах, где ваш ребенок отлично проведет время в ожидании рейса.
«Child friendly» страны
Наиболее комфортными для семейного пляжного отдыха считаются средиземноморские страны: Италия, Болгария, Испания, Франция, Турция, Греция, Хорватия. Там вам предложат детское меню и кроватки в номерах, услуги аниматоров и нянь, парки развлечений, детские зоны и т.д. Интересную экскурсионную программу можно найти в Чехии, Латвии, Польше, Германии, Австрии, Финляндии. Кроме того, здесь есть все необходимое для путешествия с детьми – от детских комнат отдыха и игровых зон до специально оборудованных стоянок и лифтов для колясок в транспорте и во всех общественных местах.
Несмотря на то, что самостоятельные путешествия с ребенком вызывают множество опасений, планирование поездки и отдых всей семьей может оказаться не такой уж сложной задачей и принесет массу позитивных эмоций и незабываемых впечатлений!
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Три варианта завтрака для первоклассника
Многие родители знают, как трудно заставить ребенка позавтракать. Попробуйте привычные блюда превратить в аппетитные дессерты - вот увидите, ребенок с удовольствием их съест.
Как грамотно завершить грудное вскармливание
Кормлению грудью часто становится проблемой - и не только когда у женщины молока мало, но и в том случае, когда молока много. Бывает, что мама кормит ребенка грудью до двух, а то и до трех лет. Хорошо это или плохо? И как завершить кормление, чтобы не травмировать ребенка?
Трудности первого класса
В первый раз в первый класс - это одновременно и праздник, и стресс. Даже если ребенок психологически подготовлен к школе, мамам и папам нужно понимать, что трудности на первом году обучения - естественны.
Наука для вашего ребенка
Дорогие мамы и папы! Если вы хотите, чтобы ваше чадо не воспринимало науку, как что-то скучное и нудное, приведите его на Фестиваль Увлекательной науки.
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The referendum has placed both Greece and European Union (EU) at an embarrassing crossroads. The future development of the Greek debt crisis concerns not only the well-being of the Greeks but also the process of EU integration and even the pockets of global investors. However, with both sides standing firm, the way out of the current crisis appears to be nowhere in sight.
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a It would be misleading to claim that everything is rosy and we continue to report job losses as well as factory closures. Nor would we be so foolish as to suggest that the industry will employ the same number of workers that were supported by the powerhouse North-East manufacturers of the last century. But there are signs of optimism which deserve celebration.
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In the last four years the duo has seen it go from strength-to-strength and Mr Clarke thinks people are beginning to realise they need to support smaller retailers.
Raleigh, N.C. Forward Justin Shugg agreed to terms on a one-year, two-way contract with eth Carolina Hurricanes Sunday. The deal will pay Shugg $600,000 at the NHL level, or $85,000 at the American Hockey League (AHL) level in 2015-16, with a guarantee of $100,000.
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The first goes to reserve linebacker Kiko Alonso, who had two huge plays. The first, a fourth-down sack of quarterback Russell Wilson at the Oregon 20, thwarted a UW scoring chance in the first half. The second, a third-down interception at the UW 39 in the final minute of the third quarter with the Ducks trailing, 38-35, set up the go-ahead touchdown.
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b The West came out of the second half running and took over the tempo of the game. In the 44th minute, Samantha Firby (Polk County) got past East goalkeeper Allie Cutler (Broughton), but her shot attempt was blocked by Rachael Everhart (Panther Creek), who chased down the ball and stopped it just short of the goal line to keep the game scoreless.
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The survey is the biggest into child and teenage mental health in Australia, and the first to examine the prevalence of anxiety disorders,with nearly 7 per cent of children suffering from them.
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We also enjoy and value the fellowship we have in the athletic and sewing groups we sponsor.
October - Spring break, the men of the church from high school age and up gather for MONDAY NIGHT BASKETBALL. We start at 7:00 PM for a casual, pick up style night of basketball. We are usually done by 8:30. Contact Youth Director - Joey for more information.
During the same months, the ladies of the church together for SEW WHAT?. Bring your latest sewing, knitting or needlepoint projects and your machine to the fellowship hall and join the fun. This group meets every other Thursday morning starting at 9:30 AM. Contact the church office for specific dates and more information.
In the summer months of June - August we gather at the Kalamazoo Christian High School softball field for TUESDAY NIGHT SOFTBALL. This is a fun game of coed slow pitch softball for all ages.. We always have plenty of room for more players and fans alike. Contact Youth Director - Joey for more information.


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At least once per day, Mouse wants to lay on my belly. And purr. Loudly. She's always liked laying on my belly because it's soft and warm, but she seems even more drawn to it now that someone's in there. Maybe it's warmer.
This morning, she got under the blankets and laid against one side of my belly for warmth. A couple of minutes into this, I felt a definite kick — on the other side of my belly. This means, among other things, that Mouse was likely directly on top of the baby's head.
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Another little box using scraps. It looks so formal, hence the name.
The lid was made from a punky piece of zircote that was definitely past the " Best if used by" date on the label, but I new I would find a way to use some of it in time. I had to rebuild a few areas with CA but its a wonderful, rich looking piece and worth saving.
The body is made from offcuts of maple and its hard to believe that all four body pieces are from differant boards, the grain lines up perfectly on two corners! Very cool effect.
The bottom is cherry.
Deft rattle can spray lacquer in semi-gloss.
Brass pins for hinges.
-- If I can do it, so can you.
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#1 posted 12-16-2010 03:45 PM
Another winner Andy! I like how the texture shows up on the underside of the lid when it is opened. Kind of nice surprise. Is that cherry on the bottom?
-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive
#2 posted 12-16-2010 03:48 PM
beautiful andy…dont know whats wrong with the pictures though , i can only look at the main one…when i zoom it showes just the one without the option of looking at the others….but this one would be perfect for a gentleman…ill be doing a bunch of these once i get enough heat for the shop…thanks…
#3 posted 12-16-2010 03:50 PM
As soon as I seen the name of this piece and took a look at it the ZZ Top song "Sharp Dressed Man" popped into my head…lol
No doubt this is a "Sharp Dressed Box" .... Have I mentioned how much I love these palm boxes?....lol
Good stuff Andy and thanks for sharing!
-- Dan ~ Texarkana, Tx.
#4 posted 12-16-2010 04:06 PM
Thanks guys, glad you like this one too.
-- If I can do it, so can you.
#5 posted 12-16-2010 04:21 PM
Another good looking box.
Maybe I missed it in the blog…..........but how and with what are you finishing that with? Since the lid is attached that has to be a little tricky not to stick the lid together with the box using the finish as glue.
-- Jim, Michigan
#6 posted 12-16-2010 04:27 PM
Andy: A great looking box. I've got about a dozen in some phase of glue up as we speak.
I don't need them done until New Years.
Thanks for the tutorial.
-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Appomattox Virginia [email protected] †
#7 posted 12-16-2010 05:00 PM
well windows did an upgrade last night, and once i did a system restore, everything worked like it should…i dont know what they do , but every time it messes me up…anyway sorry to distract..again a beautiful box…i bought some brass rod the other day so im set…now if i could get the exotic wood fairy to come by my house, i might be able to show something worth looking at…lol…....and actually and its warmed up over here….54 right now…..it wont last long..grizz….....once upon a time there was a box fox, this box fox made a whole bunch of box, and when he did there appeared a bunch of more foxes who wanted to make the boxes, so boxes they made and boxes there was, we just make these boxes because, because ..
#8 posted 12-16-2010 05:34 PM
What is the most common way these boxes are used? That's a neat little box.
-- No matter how many factors go into thinking about a project, there is always one important new discovery to be made.
#9 posted 12-16-2010 05:37 PM
Andy, your small palm boxes are excellent and a work of art. You have given a whole new life to those "too small to use" scraps that had previously ended up in the trash or burn pile.
#10 posted 12-16-2010 05:48 PM
Another very cool box…thanks to you I've got several of these (some different designs and sizes) in progress for Christmas gifts, along with several cutting boards (a shout out to Marc S, the Wood Whisperer for his ideas there). This site and guys like you really help those of us who are imaginationally challenged! Thanks!
-- gbear, Carmichael, CA
#11 posted 12-16-2010 06:10 PM
Nice work!!
#12 posted 12-16-2010 08:14 PM
Andy again and again another awesome box, Just wow. I love your big boxes but for some reason i like the little boxes more. I just love the simplicity of them. Superb craftsmanship.
-- Monty Q, Columbia, South Carolina.
#13 posted 12-16-2010 09:33 PM
Excellent craftsmanship, very original and unusual, love the colors.
-- Tom D
#14 posted 12-16-2010 09:40 PM
Where's the tux Tail? :) :)
Nice job as usual…
-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: https://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/index.php
#15 posted 12-16-2010 09:40 PM
Indeed…all of the above…I have yet to make one but I reckon they will be on my list for sure…
-- Don't drink and use power tools @ lasercreationsbylarry.com.au
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But among the atheists, only Sam Harris is looking beyond religion and into contemplative practices and making a crucial distinction between religion and meditative practice. I know he looked at this issue a bit at the end of The End of Faith, but few people remember that -- all they remember is the bashing of religion and faith.
What follows is from Harris' speech at the Atheist Alliance conference in Washington D.C. on September 28th, 2007. [The whole speech is much longer and worth the read.]
The last problem with atheism I'd like to talk about relates to the some of the experiences that lie at the core of many religious traditions, though perhaps not all, and which are testified to, with greater or lesser clarity in the world's "spiritual" and "mystical" literature.
Those of you who have read The End of Faith, know that I don't entirely line up with Dan, Richard, and Christopher in my treatment of these things. So I think I should take a little time to discuss this. While I always use terms like "spiritual" and "mystical" in scare quotes, and take some pains to denude them of metaphysics, the email I receive from my brothers and sisters in arms suggests that many of you find my interest in these topics problematic.
First, let me describe the general phenomenon I'm referring to. Here's what happens, in the generic case: a person, in whatever culture he finds himself, begins to notice that life is difficult. He observes that even in the best of times—no one close to him has died, he's healthy, there are no hostile armies massing in the distance, the fridge is stocked with beer, the weather is just so—even when things are as good as they can be, he notices that at the level of his moment to moment experience, at the level of his attention, he is perpetually on the move, seeking happiness and finding only temporary relief from his search.
We've all noticed this. We seek pleasant sights, and sounds, and tastes, and sensations, and attitudes. We satisfy our intellectual curiosities, and our desire for friendship and romance. We become connoisseurs of art and music and film—but our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. And we can do nothing more than merely reiterate them as often as we are able.
If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating for about an hour, or maybe a day, but then people will begin to ask us "So, what are you going to do next? Don't you have anything else in the pipeline?" Steve Jobs releases the IPhone, and I'm sure it wasn't twenty minutes before someone asked, "when are you going to make this thing smaller?" Notice that very few people at this juncture, no matter what they've accomplished, say, "I'm done. I've met all my goals. Now I'm just going to stay here eat ice cream until I die in front of you."
Even when everything has gone as well as it can go, the search for happiness continues, the effort required to keep doubt and dissatisfaction and boredom at bay continues, moment to moment. If nothing else, the reality of death and the experience of losing loved ones punctures even the most gratifying and well-ordered life.
In this context, certain people have traditionally wondered whether a deeper form of well-being exists. Is there, in other words, a form of happiness that is not contingent upon our merely reiterating our pleasures and successes and avoiding our pains. Is there a form of happiness that is not dependent upon having one's favorite food always available to be placed on one's tongue or having all one's friends and loved ones within arm's reach, or having good books to read, or having something to look forward to on the weekend? Is it possible to be utterly happy before anything happens, before one's desires get gratified, in spite of life's inevitable difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease, and death?
This question, I think, lies at the periphery of everyone's consciousness. We are all, in some sense, living our answer to it—and many of us are living as though the answer is "no." No, there is nothing more profound than repeating one's pleasures and avoiding one's pains; there is nothing more profound than seeking satisfaction, both sensory and intellectual. Many of us seem think that all we can do is just keep our foot on the gas until we run out of road.
But certain people, for whatever reason, are led to suspect that there is more to human experience than this. In fact, many of them are led to suspect this by religion—by the claims of people like the Buddha or Jesus or some other celebrated religious figures. And such a person may begin to practice various disciplines of attention—often called "meditation" or "contemplation"—as a means of examining his moment to moment experience closely enough to see if a deeper basis of well-being is there to be found.
Such a person might even hole himself up in a cave, or in a monastery, for months or years at a time to facilitate this process. Why would somebody do this? Well, it amounts to a very simple experiment. Here's the logic of it: if there is a form of psychological well-being that isn't contingent upon merely repeating one's pleasures, then this happiness should be available even when all the obvious sources of pleasure and satisfaction have been removed. If it exists at all, this happiness should be available to a person who has renounced all her material possessions, and declined to marry her high school sweetheart, and gone off to a cave or to some other spot that would seem profoundly uncongenial to the satisfaction of ordinary desires and aspirations.
One clue as to how daunting most people would find such a project is the fact that solitary confinement—which is essentially what we are talking about—is considered a punishment even inside a prison. Even when cooped up with homicidal maniacs and rapists, most people still prefer the company of others to spending any significant amount of time alone in a box.
And yet, for thousands of years, contemplatives have claimed to find extraordinary depths of psychological well-being while spending vast stretches of time in total isolation. It seems to me that, as rational people, whether we call ourselves "atheists" or not, we have a choice to make in how we view this whole enterprise. Either the contemplative literature is a mere catalogue of religious delusion, deliberate fraud, and psychopathology, or people have been having interesting and even normative experiences under the name of "spirituality" and "mysticism" for millennia.
Now let me just assert, on the basis of my own study and experience, that there is no question in my mind that people have improved their emotional lives, and their self-understanding, and their ethical intuitions, and have even had important insights about the nature of subjectivity itself through a variety of traditional practices like meditation.
Leaving aside all the metaphysics and mythology and mumbo jumbo, what contemplatives and mystics over the millennia claim to have discovered is that there is an alternative to merely living at the mercy of the next neurotic thought that comes careening into consciousness. There is an alternative to being continuously spellbound by the conversation we are having with ourselves.
Most us think that if a person is walking down the street talking to himself—that is, not able to censor himself in front of other people—he's probably mentally ill. But if we talk to ourselves all day long silently—thinking, thinking, thinking, rehearsing prior conversations, thinking about what we said, what we didn't say, what we should have said, jabbering on to ourselves about what we hope is going to happen, what just happened, what almost happened, what should have happened, what may yet happen—but we just know enough to just keep this conversation private, this is perfectly normal. This is perfectly compatible with sanity. Well, this is not what the experience of millions of contemplatives suggests.
Of course, I am by no means denying the importance of thinking. There is no question that linguistic thought is indispensable for us. It is, in large part, what makes us human. It is the fabric of almost all culture and every social relationship. Needless to say, it is the basis of all science. And it is surely responsible for much rudimentary cognition—for integrating beliefs, planning, explicit learning, moral reasoning, and many other mental capacities. Even talking to oneself out loud may occasionally serve a useful function.
From the point of view of our contemplative traditions, however—to boil them all down to a cartoon version, that ignores the rather esoteric disputes among them—our habitual identification with discursive thought, our failure moment to moment to recognize thoughts as thoughts, is a primary source of human suffering. And when a person breaks this spell, an extraordinary kind of relief is available.
But the problem with a contemplative claim of this sort is that you can't borrow someone else's contemplative tools to test it. The problem is that to test such a claim—indeed, to even appreciate how distracted we tend to be in the first place, we have to build our own contemplative tools. Imagine where astronomy would be if everyone had to build his own telescope before he could even begin to see if astronomy was a legitimate enterprise. It wouldn't make the sky any less worthy of investigation, but it would make it immensely more difficult for us to establish astronomy as a science.
To judge the empirical claims of contemplatives, you have to build your own telescope. Judging their metaphysical claims is another matter: many of these can be dismissed as bad science or bad philosophy by merely thinking about them. But to judge whether certain experiences are possible—and if possible, desirable—we have to be able to use our attention in the requisite ways. We have to be able to break our identification with discursive thought, if only for a few moments. This can take a tremendous amount of work. And it is not work that our culture knows much about.
One problem with atheism as a category of thought, is that it seems more or less synonymous with not being interested in what someone like the Buddha or Jesus may have actually experienced. In fact, many atheists reject such experiences out of hand, as either impossible, or if possible, not worth wanting. Another common mistake is to imagine that such experiences are necessarily equivalent to states of mind with which many of us are already familiar—the feeling of scientific awe, or ordinary states of aesthetic appreciation, artistic inspiration, etc.
As someone who has made his own modest efforts in this area, let me assure you, that when a person goes into solitude and trains himself in meditation for 15 or 18 hours a day, for months or years at a time, in silence, doing nothing else—not talking, not reading, not writing—just making a sustained moment to moment effort to merely observe the contents of consciousness and to not get lost in thought, he experiences things that most scientists and artists are not likely to have experienced, unless they have made precisely the same efforts at introspection. And these experiences have a lot to say about the plasticity of the human mind and about the possibilities of human happiness.
So, apart from just commending these phenomena to your attention, I'd like to point out that, as atheists, our neglect of this area of human experience puts us at a rhetorical disadvantage. Because millions of people have had these experiences, and many millions more have had glimmers of them, and we, as atheists, ignore such phenomena, almost in principle, because of their religious associations—and yet these experiences often constitute the most important and transformative moments in a person's life. Not recognizing that such experiences are possible or important can make us appear less wise even than our craziest religious opponents.
It's nice to see Harris making important distinctions that the other atheists generally don't or can't make -- mostly because Harris is the only one who has taken up the injunction that meditation can give us better control of our "monkey minds."
I hope that as he continues his practice he might be more open to integral thinking -- to the awareness that not all faith and spirituality is the same, that these things evolve in humans just as does rational thinking, morality, and so many other things documented by the psychologists.