{"id":1565,"date":"2009-08-24T08:46:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T14:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2009-08-24T08:46:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T14:46:53","slug":"back-to-the-pixel-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2009\/08\/24\/back-to-the-pixel-mines\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the pixel mines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update here on a bunch of stuff.  First off, the pregnant cat update.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/taxi5.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi\" \/><br \/>\nLatest update: the pregnant cat is still pregnant.  Poor Taxi.  She&#8217;s just waddling around.  I think we&#8217;re pretty close though &#8211; within 36 hours.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going for a job interview later today, which may not sound like a big thing except that it&#8217;s proven insanely difficult of late to even <em>get to<\/em> the interview stage.  This would be one of those nutty creative-type jobs, so I&#8217;m really hoping that I&#8217;ve got a shot at it.  I&#8217;m at the point where I need to be doing something, no matter who or what it is, to bring home some money, so I&#8217;ll be lucky if I can land the kind of job that I don&#8217;t mind going to in the morning, as opposed to stocking shelves.  (Not that anyone seems to be hiring for that either.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q3-09\/jerrylawson.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry Lawson at CGE 2K5\" class=alignright \/>I&#8217;m still working on the Best of CGE &#8217;05 DVD set, which has necessitated a little bit of a rethink on some things.  This is the first thing I&#8217;ve done that&#8217;s all widescreen &#8211; menus, graphics, everything &#8211; so I&#8217;ve had to reinvent a few wheels.  Case in point: lower third graphics.  Rather than adapting what I&#8217;d used for Best of CGE &#8217;03, I created something new that incorporated the logo and has its own internal animation (seen here).  Those of you with HDTVs should enjoy this one.  (Why is CGE &#8217;05 widescreen when CGE &#8217;07 wasn&#8217;t?  Simple: one of my cameras is capable of shooting widescreen, the other isn&#8217;t.  As I was going to cut back and forth between the two cameras for &#8217;07, I went with 4:3.  In 2005, I only had the one camera, and shot everything widescreen.  There&#8217;s also a heap of raw footage &#8211; over an hour&#8217;s worth, though a good-sized chunk of that is a demo of a new Odyssey2 homebrew &#8211; all shot in widescreen.  So none of this is &#8220;faked&#8221; widescreen or squished-down footage &#8211; it was 16:9 from the word go.  I&#8217;ll be plugging away on Best of CGE &#8217;05 with the aim of having it ready for Christmas whenever I&#8217;m not doing something for a steady paycheck.  I&#8217;ll also be working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/media\/vworp-announcement\/\">VWORP!<\/a> during that time.<\/p>\n<p>All this and kittens too.  Wish me luck, I&#8217;m goin&#8217; in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update here on a bunch of stuff. First off, the pregnant cat update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-toiling-in-the-pixel-mines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}