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desertblues · 12-26-2010, 03:06 PM

Watching Lord of the Rings part II.

TheKindleWorm · 12-26-2010, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by desertblues

Watching Lord of the Rings part II.

Sounds like my perfect evening! Have you ever watched all 3 back to back?

Before we had our daughter, I used to spend Christmas day watching something exceedingly long like all the Star Wars movies or Gone with the Wind or (ahem) The Thorn Birds - he he sad I know but always had a bit of a crush on Richard Chamberlain!

bjones6416 · 12-26-2010, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Wonderful! Painter is a lot of fun...that's what I use mostly for my art. ArtRage is pretty amazing and much easier to get a handle on than Painter. Will be looking forward to some of your work! And thanks for the nice comment on mine.

Hey, Kenny, have you downloaded SketchBook Mobile on your Droid X? I played with it a bit on my nephew's phone yesterday, and it's pretty cool. It uses layers, is pressure sensitive, all that stuff.

kennyc · 12-26-2010, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by bjones6416

Hey, Kenny, have you downloaded SketchBook Mobile on your Droid X? I played with it a bit on my nephew's phone yesterday, and it's pretty cool. It uses layers, is pressure sensitive, all that stuff.

No, I don't think so. I tried one painting app, wasn't too impressed. Will check this one out. Thanks!

GraceKrispy · 12-26-2010, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Maybe it's because you're hungry also.

I sure wasn't after watching that!

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Cause Lions are the Kings of the Forest and Hyenas are the Jokers. It's a lot like watching Congress on C-SPAN.

ooh, hyenas are vicious- I watched the babies kill each other

'Course, Congress can be vicious, too....

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Originally Posted by TheKindleWorm

Sounds like my perfect evening! Have you ever watched all 3 back to back?

Before we had our daughter, I used to spend Christmas day watching something exceedingly long like all the Star Wars movies or Gone with the Wind or (ahem) The Thorn Birds - he he sad I know but always had a bit of a crush on Richard Chamberlain!

Lord of the Rings (movies and books I really don't- gasp!- like

) always reminds of having babies. I think it's because I watched the first one in the theater while extremely pregnant with my first baby (sitting in the theater for 10 million hours, watching something you really aren't liking, with a belly ready to pop and needing to pee every few seconds = not fun). I watched another of them on DVD ( can't even remember which one) in the hours after I had my third child at home. My husband LOVES the movies. We watched one the other day. Well, they watched, I read.

My husband has his own tradition of Christmas movies- Planet of the Apes. He insists we watch them every year. Growing up, I don't remember ever watching movies on Christmas.

kennyc · 12-26-2010, 04:10 PM

Hey That's pretty cool....Checking out the express version. Will have to play with it some more.

Thanks!

desertblues · 12-26-2010, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TheKindleWorm

Sounds like my perfect evening! Have you ever watched all 3 back to back?

Before we had our daughter, I used to spend Christmas day watching something exceedingly long like all the Star Wars movies or Gone with the Wind or (ahem) The Thorn Birds - he he sad I know but always had a bit of a crush on Richard Chamberlain!

Yesterday I saw part I and tomorrow we'll see part III. I'm a fan of Aragorn. I read the book long before the film and the two are not the same; though both good.
I'm looking to buy the Milleniumtriologie; saw all three parts in a kind of marathon, with food and all in some restaurant nearby; very good.

Mostly I go alone to our local art-cinema.

phenomshel · 12-26-2010, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Wonderful! Painter is a lot of fun...that's what I use mostly for my art. ArtRage is pretty amazing and much easier to get a handle on than Painter. Will be looking forward to some of your work! And thanks for the nice comment on mine.

LOVE both Painter and ArtRage. I'm no artist, by anyone's stretch of imagination, but I love playing around with computer art programs. The little-known secret about ArtRage is that a lot of digital scrapbooking designers use it for their glitter fills. It also makes awesome sand. Here's a sample of an alphabet I was trying to do once: I used Photoshop for the glass letters, ArtRage for the sand fill, and some images from another designer:

bjones6416 · 12-26-2010, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Hey That's pretty cool....Checking out the express version. Will have to play with it some more.

Thanks!

I thought you'd like that. My nephew is a computer animator by trade, and he said this app is put out by the same people who put out one of the big software packages he uses -- he was impressed by that fact. (Can you tell I wasn't listening very closely since I can't tell you any names there?

)

kennyc · 12-26-2010, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by bjones6416

I thought you'd like that. My nephew is a computer animator by trade, and he said this app is put out by the same people who put out one of the big software packages he uses -- he was impressed by that fact. (Can you tell I wasn't listening very closely since I can't tell you any names there?

)

Autodesk...they do a lot of vector and 3-D art stuff I think. Here is a link to some images done with SketchBook Mobile:

http://www.google.com/images?q=Sketc...w=1314&bih=742

Some are pretty impressive.

kennyc · 12-26-2010, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by phenomshel

LOVE both Painter and ArtRage. I'm no artist, by anyone's stretch of imagination, but I love playing around with computer art programs. The little-known secret about ArtRage is that a lot of digital scrapbooking designers use it for their glitter fills. It also makes awesome sand. Here's a sample of an alphabet I was trying to do once: I used Photoshop for the glass letters, ArtRage for the sand fill, and some images from another designer:

Well look at that! I played around with Painter for at least 10 years before I decided to get serious with it -- even so I have a looooooong way to go.

dreams · 12-26-2010, 05:53 PM

Wow, way too many posts to try and catch up with. I hope that means everyone had a great Christmas and enjoyed lots of goodies (food and gifts) and the company was enjoyable.

I am on burn-out after days of too many people and too much cooking and cleaning. Now, I'm working on getting the laundry done, the house recleaned (is that a word?

), and trying to resist taking a nap.

kennyc · 12-26-2010, 06:16 PM

I vote for the nap so you can dreams.

wannabee · 12-26-2010, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Well look at that! I played around with Painter for at least 10 years before I decided to get serious with it -- even so I have a looooooong way to go.

Getting the time to play is hard to find but I hope to get some time on sketchbook pro for the iPad over the holiday.

Just found out you can't load an attachment here from the iPad. I was going to pop in a little sketch I did when I first got it.

Kenny, those graphite images are really cool. Did you scan them or just take pictures of them?

kennyc · 12-26-2010, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by wannabee

Getting the time to play is hard to find but I hope to get some time on sketchbook pro for the iPad over the holiday.

Just found out you can't load an attachment here from the iPad. I was going to pop in a little sketch I did when I first got it.

Kenny, those graphite images are really cool. Did you scan them or just take pictures of them?

I photograph my graphite work and do some minimal adjustment in photoshop as well as reducing size/resolution to post on the web. I try to adjust them to look as good as possible, but generally they are much better in person.

The digital work is just adjusted in format and size/resolution to post on the web.

12-26-2010, 03:06 PM	#25756
desertblues Home for the moment Posts: 5,127 Karma: 27718936 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: travelling Device: various	Watching Lord of the Rings part II.

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kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,922 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	Hey That's pretty cool....Checking out the express version. Will have to play with it some more. Thanks!

12-26-2010, 05:53 PM	#25767
dreams It's about the umbrella Posts: 25,110 Karma: 56250158 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony 505\| K Fire \| KK 3G+Wi-Fi \| iPhone 3Gs \|Vista 32-bit Hm Prem w/FF	Wow, way too many posts to try and catch up with. I hope that means everyone had a great Christmas and enjoyed lots of goodies (food and gifts) and the company was enjoyable. I am on burn-out after days of too many people and too much cooking and cleaning. Now, I'm working on getting the laundry done, the house recleaned (is that a word? ), and trying to resist taking a nap.

12-26-2010, 06:16 PM	#25768
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,922 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	I vote for the nap so you can dreams.