This is the only self-portrait I’ve ever done. It is from a nice memory I have of taking a trip to Hokkaido with my then-girlfriend (now wife) between contract jobs. If you’ve never been, I strongly recommend Hokkaido in late summer — beautiful people, delicious food, lovely driving. As with other images, these progress from […]
Month: November 2015
Bad Art: The Natsumi
I did a sketch and cleanup of a larger view of Natsumi. Hopefully she won’t get mad if she sees this (I’m married to her now!). As in other images I touched up, I’ve put the intermediate stages here, beginning with the raw photo of the sketch, moving through stages of touch-up in gimp. Make […]
Bad Art: Natsumi’s Facial Lines
I wanted to take a shot at drawing facial lines, and since my girlfriend’s face had nice lines, it was a perfect subject. I never got good at this style, but I really like the effect it has. Not nearly as cartoony or 漫画っぽい as the way I usually do stuff. I don’t have any […]
Bad Art: The Tia — Less Hair
I took a picture of a friend of mine after she shaved her head close, and decided to sketch it to see if I could. The sketch is a bit of a disaster, but the image is still funny to me. This is my only photo of it.
Bad Art: The Tia
Special circumstances tend to attract special company, at least that’s the way my weird life tends to work out. I met a phenomenal person in Iraq who had a striking profile. I decided to sketch her a few times. Here is the result of one attempt. The images progress from raw photos of the sketch […]
Bad Art: Welcome Back From Leave
I made a few sketches a few years ago while bored out of my mind in Iraq. This is one of them. First is the raw image version, the second is after I cleaned it up with gimp. I seem to have either never finished the cleanup, or just lost the finished version. But whatever. […]
2015-2016 Energy Price Drop Will Disentangle Russia, Not Crush It
Energy prices are dropping. Commodity prices are dropping, actually, in general. Production is slowing. People are finally realizing that China is as flimsy as government construction. The Euro is indeed linking Eurozone economies by failure instead of success, and doing so in a way that limits their market rights. The EU is inherently unstable. Cold […]
France in Syria: Still Not Here to Save the World
Folks have been really excited about France getting into war-mode on Syria after the Paris attacks. People were even momentarily excited about Turkey’s decision to shoot down a Russian plane the other day. Now Paris and Moscow are maybe working together on hitting ISIS? While the Washington is doing the same thing?!? Man, its like […]
How the Internet of Things Will Change the World: Not by Much
Are you ready for the enormous, revolutionary, ground-shattering changes coming with the IoT? If you said “yes” and by “yes” you meant you were prepared for breathtaking changes, you are a naive child wading in a murky pool of lampreys, your will putty in the hands of the same charlatans who brought you terms like […]
Almost Always Stupid: Parallel Quicksort
So you’ve been thinking about applying your awesome parallel programming skills to some problem that is just complex enough to impress the noobs, but just trivial enough to code in a few lines? Cool. Knock yourself out. But stop trying to parallelize quicksort. Posting articles, tutorials, SO questions, and blog posts with the term “parallel […]