Nov
29
2010

The Third and the Seventh

This is not new, but if you haven’t seen it yet, you should. Make sure to watch it fullscreen.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Even though there are skeptics out there, this is entirely done in CG. Alex even posted a making of video for those who still doubt.

The title is a references to the list of arts (as first defined by Hegel, but extended by others): painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, music, dance and cinema.

The buildings depicted include:

  • 1:41 Tadao Ando: Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum (2001, Higashiosaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan)
  • 2:12 Mies van der Rohe: German Pavilion (1929, Barcelona, Spain)
  • 2:19 Rafael Moneo: BCN Auditorium (1988, Barcelona, Spain)
  • 3:06 Santiago Calatrava : Milwaukee Art Museum Quadracci Pavilion (1994, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
  • 3:43 Louis Kahn: Phillips Exeter Academy Library (1971, Exeter, New Hampshire)
  • 4:17 Frank O. Gehry: Walt Disney Concert Hall (2003, Los Angeles, California)
  • 4:50 Quadracci Pavilion
  • 5:14 German Pavilion
  • 5:47 Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum
  • 5:47 Barcelona Auditorium
  • 6:19 Quadracci Pavilion
  • 6:51 Phillips Exeter Academy Library
  • 6:51 German Pavilion
  • 8:00 Tadao Ando : Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Annex and Minami-dera Art House Project (1995, Naoshima, Kagawa prefecture, Japan)
  • 8:29 German Pavilion
  • 8:31 Satoshi Okada: House in Mt. Fuji (Forest Refuge) (2000, Narusawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan)
  • 9:14 Eduardo Chilida: Elogio del Horizonte (1990, Gijón, Asturias, Spain)
  • 9:21 Quadracci Pavilion
  • 9:56 Barcelona Auditorium
  • 10:24 Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum
  • 10:37 German Pavilion
  • 10:37  House in Mt. Fuji (Forest Refuge)
  • 11:02  Phillips Exeter Academy Library
  • 11:44  Louis Kahn: Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban, National Assembly Building (1982, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

I wasn’t able to identify a few places, including a loft at 3:18 and 6:37, an interior with an Eames lounge chair at 3:27, some frosted glass panels at 4:43 and some stairs at 7:15.

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Nov
2
2010

Hike to Clouds Rest

Clouds Rest — 3,025 m (9,926 ft) — is a massive granite formation just northeast of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. From its central location you can admire many of Yosemite’s famous landmarks, including Half Dome, 332 m (1,090 ft) below, the Clark Range, the Cathedral Range and Tenaya Lake.

Clouds Rest was named by members of the Mariposa Battalion during their first visit to Little Yosemite Valley in 1851. As recounted by Lafayette Bunnel, [so named] "because upon our first visit the party exploring the ‘Little Yosemite’ turned back and hastened to camp upon seeing the clouds rapidly settling down to rest upon the mountain, thereby indicating the snow storm that soon followed". Note that the correct spelling does not include an apostrophe. Since 1890 the United States Board on Geographic Names has deprecated the use of possessive apostrophes in geographic names (there are only five exceptions).

It tends to be less crowded than Half Dome, but offer views just as stunning, if not more so if for no other reason that you can actually see Half Dome. During fall and winter, you are likely to have the trail past Little Yosemite Valley to yourself and can enjoy the quiet and solitude. Water is abundantly available while following the Merced river, but becomes scarce after that, save for occasional patches of snow. Plan accordingly.

During the warmer months Clouds Rest can be reached from Tenaya Lake by following a 21 km (13 mi) round trip trail.

When the Tioga Pass road is closed, however, you must start from the Valley floor, passing through Vernal and Nevada falls and Little Yosemite Valley, a 40 km (25 mi) round trip hike. This is a fairly easy hike, if a bit strenuous at time (Mist trail and the last 500 m before reaching the summit). Total elevation gain from the Happy Isles trailhead is 1,794 m (5,886 ft).

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Nov
1
2010

Introduction to Adobe AIR for Mobile (MAX 2010)

Here are the slide deck (minus the awesome Keynote animations :-) ) and the video of my MAX 2010 talk on Adobe AIR for mobile devices, including iOS, Android and BlackBerry PlayBook.

Intro to Adobe AIR for Mobile (7.3 MB)

Development  1 comment    
Sep
6
2010

Bliss Dance – Burning Man 2010

Bliss Dance by Marco Cochrane at Burning Man 2010 “Metropolis”. See more at www.blissdance.org

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Aug
7
2010

Gourdol: Where it all began


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The hamlet of Gourdol is probably where my earliest ancestors lived, sometime around the XVI-XVII century. They were protestants living in a catholic nation, which made for accurate record keeping difficult. However, most of my known ancestors can be traced back as having lived in the area, so the name of this hamlet is surely not a coincidence.

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