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Sunday, September 22, 2019

Revisiting Sfumata - Number Two

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After completing #1 in 1998, #2 should have been a breeze.  After all, it had been begun two years before that, using the unsupported Autod...
Friday, September 20, 2019

"We only have to sell one!" - Chain Pharmacy Pricing Philosophy

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And, my, isn't that just ducky.... An international student came into my old pharmacy in January of this year, stricken with an...

ASIFA Central Notes of Thursday, September 19, 2019

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ASIFA Board Agenda Thursday, September 19, 2019, 8:30pm (11th meeting cancelled due to monster weather challenges in Grand Rapids, but o...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Because SOMEONE is having one! (now in THREE versions!)

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Video to Flash CS5 for initial title overlay, output as an insanely large Quicktime video, then into Vegas for layering, feathering, and...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

JUST IN TIME FOR PHARMACISTS DAY!

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About 5 years ago, I sent a note out to the local pharmacy association warning about telepharmacy percolating through the legislature in Mi...

Coffee Playtime - Experiments in Animated GIF to mp4

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Version 1 - Rough animatic (animated gif format) Version 2 - checking timing (mp4 render in Vegas) Version 3 - with video effect...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

ASIFA Central Meeting Notes - June 24, 2019 - backup notes for September 11th meeting (truncated due to weather)

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Present: Jim M (really hoping this phone ap works), Deanna, Chuck, Brad, Gretchen, Chris, Steve (hosting), Julie, Bob Topics: Summer Ret...
Saturday, September 07, 2019

Public Domain Observations - Seeking Stokowski

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Animation for the Ear (from the ASIFA Central Summer 2019 newsletter)         A rich musical resource, featuring Leopold Stokowski and hi...
Tuesday, September 03, 2019

Gotta Love the Sanskrit

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Nine rules for being human – handed down from ancient Sanskrit You will receive a body. You will learn lessons. There are no mista...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

March 4, 1953, from The Kalamazoo Gazette

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Note to self - clean out the dresser liners more often....
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Motley Crew Minus One!

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...and then there were four... And, oh heck, a Keaton gif...because...well, just because...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Never Metaphor I Didn't Like...

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And I got to sleep in until 6:25 this morning!
Saturday, August 10, 2019

The Home Stretch!

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Four days - more layering, more filters, more sound experiments ... oh the pure joy of it all! Three to go - remembering Wm Buckingh...
Saturday, August 03, 2019

And down from Day #9

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#9 - some sketching, multiple filters, and a sincere thanks to Georges Melies 8 days to go - multiple layers again, discovering so...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

And now from day 14 ...

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14 days and getting a bit dizzy 13 days and still can't find enough boxes... 12 days and someone's following me!!...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Starting With Day 19 now.... the countdown continues!

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#19 - Need to revisit this stalled project from 18 years ago, too.... in the meantime, the countdown continues! 18 days!  It's a...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Another Countdown Begins at 27 days....

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27 days - Eleanor Powell Rotoscope from "Honolulu" (1939) 26 days - Images from a missed ASIFA Central retreat in St. Lo...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Jennie Wade House - Gettysburg - June 2019

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The guide told us to take pictures in a series in case something "should appear."  
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Complications from Taking Things for Guinness

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I like burnt toast. I made a crunchy meatloaf tonight. It has carbon. I am carbon based. If I ever burn my fingers, I may be my own lunch. ...
Monday, April 08, 2019

Talking Alone to the Phone on a Long, Long Drive....

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Maybe an animation narration here...(begun in the mid 1980s, bits found on a micro cassette from that "era"): Said Laura Pa...