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Well today I went to see this film, expectations high, although I must admit I still haven’t watched Titanic, so disregard any director faith input.
Friends love the film. Amazing.. Fantastic etc.

I did enjoy the 3d aspect, very nice, particularly the cognac ad that preceded the feature.
And all is going well into the first half hour, Character introductions, building the premise, allowing the mind to soar with wild and unimaginable expectations..
But what the hell.
The Matrix meets Dances with wolves, chuck in a little Brave heart spirit and we are done.
There are no twists, or unexpected eventualities, the plot proceeded into the full hour disregarding any humour that engaged you initially, You like a child, a baby… ‘I paraphrase’, but for FFS, Gaia, James Lovelock eat out your neural connections and root your arse to the ground and shimmy.

The idea was delightful, too many explosions for my taste, and the moral implications apparent and obvious.
I did, squinting eyes exit the cinematic arena feeling slightly sad that I could not live among the trees and connectivity of their planet, and couldn’t help but bring a smile to my face for the inhabitants of Pandora.

Add comment January 31st, 2010

Photoshop tutorials

Hay, so I’m doing another tutorial, but this time I’m going to post my progress rather than hide it away on the old hard drive:

So the night has drawn to an end, brew followed swiftly by bed.. Maybe I’ll get around to finishing this one.

20-plus more stages to go, I’ve done the easy bit. See ya soon.

Full tutorial here: PSDTUTS

1 comment January 14th, 2010

Geminids:the year 2009

Geminid meteor shower 09

Excellent pic by Wally Pacholka at http://www.astropics.com/

Add comment December 16th, 2009

The Killers Las Vegas 19 09 09

My wife is a victim

All photos by Jo

1 comment September 25th, 2009

Javascript libraries working together

Mootools and Jquery

I Started freshfreelance site a while ago and used the mootools Kwix script for the sites main menu.
Took me a while to sort it, and was to be honest never as good as the example, but hey..
All was fine, until I used lightbox on one of the sub pages, they worked fine independently, but when together the lightbox wouldn’t work.
I googled for a while, but found no solution I could get my head round at the time, so I took the cop out and disabled the javascript on the menu, (Just for that one page) allowing the lightbox script to work.

Time passed

and I learned to live with it.
Today however I came across the problem again, wanting to implement the JQuery cycle script to cycle some pics, wouldn’t work, and I knew instantly it was the libraries cinfkict.
Googling more successful this time.
Enter:
jQuery’s no-conflict mode,
I have rambled enough:
the solution as I see it.
This is what I had and it worked solo,

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#slideshow11').cycle();
});
</script>

I added

var J = jQuery.noConflict();

and changed the $ for J in the function, and Presto.

<script type="text/javascript">
var J = jQuery.noConflict();
J(document).ready(function() {
    J('#slideshow11').cycle();
});
</script>

There are more elegant solutions out there, Check: JQuery, and I found help here. Michael Shadle

Add comment August 21st, 2009