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You have one life and what if you have got it all wrong. The Gods have gone the furthest, known the furthest, they were the first eyes and ears. They became the discriminating awareness that makes us what we are today. But even before them, that existed. What do we know of it today, What [...]
Random Thoughts
When has reason got the better of man. Where does this thought that reason means being reasonable and it can in some way govern human affairs for its own good arise from? On the other hand, reason seems in its heart to be a contrapted excuse by a speaker who has his reason anchored to [...]
Random Thoughts
There are no good and bad stories, but stories that don’t pretend and stories that pretend that they are not stories. A man who teaches you a trick or two against knowing is a dangerous man, more dangerous than he who pretends that he knows a few things about you and is here to help [...]
Blender to be a featured application in Ubuntu
Rumors are that Blender may well become a featured application in the upcoming Ubuntu LT release. Up to now one 3 such application have the honor, they being, Firefox, OpenOffice, and Gimp. Well this is a welcome news and proves that Blender has reached maturity levels unheard of any OpenSource 3d animation and compositing package [...]
The Ghost of a Ghost Film
Ghost films are usually cut to order canned films. Even the good ones borders on the tried and tested cinematography techniques, slide cut editing and sound kicks. Can there be a ghost film that avoids the usual canned techniques of cinema and approach the film like an art. I am sure Ghost films can rise [...]
The problem of ‘Poetry’ in poetry Films and Festivals.
The problem with poetry film-festivals or any film festival, especially if it happens to be Indian is the imitation-westo; a sort of low grade western fascination that reduces poetry to a visual commentary and skits on social issues and disabilities (for example see the works of Dutch Filmmakers Leendert Pot and Anja Hiddinga where sign [...]
Random Thoughts
Every species or living organism lives by securing the conditions that guarantees its comfort and the possibility for it to be in a state of equilibrium. A will to power, if it be that. But this state of equilibrium has its falloffs. Chekhov’s play Uncle Vyanya, depicts this well as a struggle between the other [...]
Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book”
Neil Gaiman at each stop of his 9-city national tour in 2008, read one chapter from The Graveyard Book and answered audience questions. Watch his tour readings below and hear the captivating book in its entirety. Then, watch exclusive tour Q&A videos each week throughout the month of September leading up to the anniversary of [...]
Raja Mehndi Ali Khan
The new generation kids might not have heard the name of Raja Mehndi Ali Khan, but he has penned some of the most haunting songs of yesteryears. Surprisingly his songs are in great demand on TV bloops especially the sa-re-ga-ma sort of competition, still he is hardly mentioned in any of them, though Madan Mohan, [...]
Compiling Kino and HandBrake
Well Kino is like a video work horse on Linux. It supports accurate DV capture and playback and is quite similar to Sceneanalyser and boast features that are not available in any dedicated stand alone capture program. Apart from capture it also supports excellent encoding features. HandBrake on the other hand is the portable media [...]
The Danger of Over Optimizing Blender
Recently one of the studios wanted me to rig, animate and render a train model that they had purchased. The project was supposed to be done on Houdini, but I insisted that It can be done faster in Blender. Any way I did some render test to compare Blender’s Internal renderer with Houdini’s Mantra and [...]
Windows Xp and Linux
I have been wondering as to who visits my site and what OS do they use. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that windowsXP is the clear winner. Its way ahead of everyone. It is followed by Linux, Vista, and at the tail end is Mac OSX. It also shows why Microsoft is so jittery [...]
How to Gamma Calibrate your Monitor for 3d and Compositing work on Linux.
Gamma is the key to highend colorcorrection and color grading. It is the most secret of secrets and knowing or not knowing about breaks or makes a compositors carrier. On the other hand calibrating your monitor is actually quite simple. All you need is compile and install Monica or GammaPage and use the notes that [...]
कारवाँ गुज़र गया – गोपालदास नीरज
स्वप्न झरे फूल से ,
मीत चुभे शूल से ,
लुट गये सिंगार सभी बाग़ के बबूल से ,
और हम खड़ेखड़े बहार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया , गुबार देखते रहे !
About Raj Thackeray and the rise of neo-politics of Hate.
Deep down, I may be having Maharashtrian roots. Still, one is saddened to read the daily pounding by Raj Thackeray against North Indians. How much time and propaganda it takes to transform a culture of humility and love into that of hate. We saw in the late 70′s, that is, at the peak of cold [...]
Compiling MyPaint
Martin Renold’s “MyPaint” is one of the best thing to happen on Linux and Opensource in general. From a long time, there was no dedicated painting application on linux that can match the power of OpenOffice, Firefox, Blender, Ardour, and Gimp. Krita OK. but it never worked out of the box and usually when it [...]
Compiling Cinelerra on Fedora 11 (rough and ready workaround)
Well, here is how you can compile Cinelerra on Fedora11. This a rough and ready workaround till they fix things and make the whole process a bit smoother. Read the previous post here to install all the deps now roll your sleeves and get going. mkdir Cinelerra cd Cinelerra git clone git://git.cinelerra.org/j6t/cinelerra.git cinelerra cd cinelerra [...]
How to patch blender with the new sculpt clay patch.
How to patch blender 2.49 with the new sculpt clay patch. First and foremost you will be needing the patch utility which you can get by typing sudo yum install patch in the terminal. To patch do the following. Download the clay patch from here: https://projects.blender.org/tracker/download.php/9/127/18666/8329/claybrushv2.patch (you will need to be registered to download it) [...]
Compiling Gimp with ‘gimp-for-painters’ Wacom support and XSane for your 3D matte painting needs
How to compile Gimp Painter on Fedora. Gimp Painter or “gimp-for-painters” basically is a patch that transforms Gimp into a dedicated Painting Canvas. With it you can paint like a pro. But there are no easy ready to use compilation available, so you need to compile this beauty on your own. To do so, you [...]
Compiling Cinelerra
Compiling Production ready Nonlinear Editor Blender itself boast one of the finest compositors as well as a full fledged NLE which happens to be surprisingly steady even for long form edits. But many users who come from Premiere and Avid background find blender’s non-traditional work-flow a bit tedious, though it is still your best bet [...]
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