http://www.ryntau.com/blog there will be a test at the end, take lots of notes Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:20:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This was the winner of the Award of Excellence at the SIGGRAPH animation festival. It was done by François-Xavier Goby, Edouard Jouret, and Matthieu Landour from France, but the movie has a distinct Argentine flair. I wish I could find the other award winners online, but haven't yet. ... http://www.ryntau.com/blog/?p=121 [UPDATED 02/09/08 - It's working again!] I'm on an animation kick after attending SIGGRAPH in San Diego this past week. This particular short wasn't shown, but it's my favorite, and I recently found it again online. http://www.ryntau.com/blog/?p=120 I finally got some work done on posting my recent trips. San Diego Boston Yosemite To the whole album, click here http://www.ryntau.com/blog/?p=119 New quotation to lead off my sketch book: People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once: Botany, Astronomy, Comparative Anatomy. But can you really forbid a man from harboring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him? Alexander von Humboldt, 19th Century http://www.ryntau.com/blog/?p=118 http://www.ryntau.com/blog/?p=117 On August 5th, 2004 at 12:00 Noon GMT, 60 filmmakers in over 40 countries and on all 7 continents captured a single "moment" on earth. This mosaic builds a composite image of Iraq and the Pacific Ocean out of thousands of single frames from the other moments that were filmed ... http://www.ryntau.com/blog/?p=116 Cereal Bowl Design http://www.ryntau.com/blog/?p=115 Architecture teaches you to see, and therefore you learn to see things - and they are not all in one place. And sometimes they are in places far away from home. And you have to travel; and travelling and seeing is more important to your education than reading books. You ... http://www.ryntau.com/blog/?p=114 Another cool overhead of a port, this time in Long Beach, California //< ![CDATA[ var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map")); map.setCenter(new GLatLng(33.7362,-118.19225), 17); map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl()); map.setMapType(G_SATELLITE_MAP ); //]]> http://www.ryntau.com/blog/?p=112 NPR covered a story about the Paper Concerto, an orchestra performance with instruments made of paper. Within the segment, they featured a musician called David Cossin, who has created an instrument called the Amplified Cardboard Tube. From what I gather it's cardboard that has been smashed on one ... http://www.ryntau.com/blog/?p=111