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wow, this guy is good. saw this a few days ago on a monster thread on dhabih’s digital art forum. what’s funny is the whole peanut gallery running on about how he’s is a fraud, blah blah blah.

anyway, some other cool things i’ve found recently were awesome watercolors by this russian artist timur, and discovering the work of chuck close. also, craig mullins has been adding tutorials to his site.

neat, adobe has an online pdf to html converter.

I4U – news on useless gadgetry and overdesigned productry

Gore Holds Post-Debate Lead, Nader ‘Surges’

Nader, the third party candidate who was excluded from the presidential debate in Boston, rose two points to 7 percent in the new survey.

“Gore holds on to his lead, but Nader has picked up significant support, especially after the debate,” Zogby said.

Nader was up to 17 percent among independents and 18 percent among progressives.

so i sleep in one day and war breaks out and the stock market keels over. ok, i’m being melodramatic. add “almost” and “sorta” before those statements.

in other news, milestone 18 is out, w/ mathml, svg(!), and xslt(!!) support.

if i had some (um, make that a lot) spare change, i would definitely pick up a d30. the img quality is especially impressive, although it looks like shooting raw is more of a pain that it should be.

3dpalette Post Apocalyptic Character Contest @ GFXartist.net.

A Matrix & Ghost in the Shell comparison – yeah, some of em are coincidences, however some of the matrix scenes pointed out seem to be flat out… “homages.” (the flattering kind) um, well, the wachowski’s did say they were “inspired” by some anime.

wow memory cards are getting cheap. viking 64mb cf card for $99 @ ssd, and 64mb kingston flash even cheaper at computers4sure or buy.com if you can deal w/ rebate hassles.

in other digital film news, check out the numbers on the bottom left picture.