This is cool. Check out this great clip from Bill Parker using special effects software available to the ‘home enthusiast’. For a full write up of this viral video and the changing landscape of special effects check out the NZ Herald online article by Manuel Valdes.

“I’ve been rather quiet here lately” is something I tend to read quite a bit when I read other folks blogs and bugger me if I’m doing it too Work is spent all day in front of a screen building new web pages while my after hours spare time seems to be taken up by either gym visits, family outings, sleeping and eating. Rather poor excuses for not blogging really eh? Actually, when I stop [...]

OK I’m showing my age but I found this on YouTube today and had an ‘oh wow’ moment. I can recall watching this movie as a kid and thinking at the time it was actually going to happen one day. Well I was wrong (as far as I know) but the fact that such a cool computer generated movie was on the big screen as I grew up did influence and grow my fascination with all [...]

I’ve been using my iPhone for just on one day and so far the experience has been largely a positive one. The only major hassle on day one was unlocking the phone via iTunes. The problem being finding the right drivers for windows 7 64 bit so it could recognize the hardware. After loading a xt network carrier file I was in full “connected” business! Most apps that I have installed so far are social [...]