Archive for the ‘personal’ Category

Presentation for MNSWF Code Camp: Intro to Papervision3d

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I'm pleased to announce a small collection of Papervision3D 2.0 demos and sources. You may access these by using subversion to check out the following repository. svn checkout http://modern-carpentry.com/svn/pv3d Please note that you must also be using the effects branch of Papervision3D 2.0, and to compile these files you must change the build ...

working with puny entertainment

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I've accepted a full time job at PUNY Entertainment in north-east minneapolis. My tasks include, but are not limited to actionscript 3 design and devopment, petting Harvey the office dog, and growing up. Here's where we work, have a look around- After working part time at PUNY for a couple of ...

Short Circuits 2: a celebration of Richard Stallman’s birthday

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I helped organize a fun event for yesterday.  You can get more specific information about it here  (when we finish editing the wiki about the event...) Or you can just enjoy my recap of the event below: who is richard stallman? -bio Stallman was born to Daniel Stallman and Alice Lippman in 1953 in ...

Going through some changes.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

the talk of modern carpentry will soon have a new look. until then, please bear with the development. thank you-

tweening .flv frames

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

I've been working with some cool .flv stuff for awhile. In light of joe turgeon's work with stop motion photography, and its possible application to video, I have become very interested in manipulating every frame of a video mathematically. click on any picture to check it out. The linked example may take a ...

Invitation to DRUPAL DAY

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Enough talk, back to the fun stuff: I am very pleased to extend an invitation to the first annual Drupal Day at the Science Museum of Minnesota. It will be held from 10:00am to 5:00pm, and will be a good place to start learning Drupal if you haven't. If you ...

online identity and me, our community

Monday, January 7th, 2008

there's been some interesting things popping up as of late regarding the issues of identity in an online world ( a supposedly fake one), and this lil journal to myself is just a reflection upon what I've been thinking about in the past couple of days regarding it. To be a ...

Happy New Year!

Monday, December 31st, 2007

2007 was crazy in many ways, ranging from a great poverty of spirit, wallet and mores to an over-abundance of creativity, learning, and future promise. It's been very special to me for many reasons, but I'll list a few people/things in no particular order: -Joe t. -Craig s. -Maran w. -Family - the return of ...

Loading Collada files (.dae) into Papervision3d 2.0 GreatWhite

Friday, December 7th, 2007

For anyone interested in learning how to load .dae (collada) files into Papervision3D 2.0, this is your lucky day! A collada file is an open source version of your regular 3d file, whether it be created in 3dStudio Max, Maya, Blender, SketchUp, etc. It is essentially an XML file that ...

Family Time

Monday, November 26th, 2007

I had a great time with the family this weekend (not counting tragic ping-pong loss), and was honored by the chance to make a panorama for our family's christmas card. Here it is! from left to right: sister: mary brother: danny sister-in-law: emily nephew: atticus brother: john brother: kevin niece: clare grandma: grandma grandpa: grandpa niece: therease sister: lisa sister: ...