Author: Barry Carlyon

Motion Graphics Audio Sourcing

Some YouTube Audio Sourcing

Just been doing a quick hunt for audio, whilst I finish my story board for my motion graphics project, and I’m going with some audio from 2001 A Space Odyssey.

First YouTube result, was interesting, since apart from containing the audio I was after, its a Adobe After Effects CS3 remake of the opening.

Comparing that to the original, its quite a faithful reproduction…

Anyway back to finishing my storyboard, but given that both of these is a minute long, or so, still need a further 2 minutes of audio….

Then again I might change the order of elements, since I am making a advert for firefox or chrome (I can’t remember which one I put in my brief, so should probably dig that out…. and check).

Anywho in other news, my other project is coming along nicely, the new games module for 360gaming [dot] net, now gathers data from Xbox.com and Wikipedia. All thru async. jQuery.

WIll be posting about that another time.

Post #SRAcon

Post #SRAcon

So its post #SRAcon now, it was a good conference, nice to catch up with people, had some fun with the Flickr wall, but banned from the Twitter wall, no fun to be had their.

Learnt some things and came up with some ideas for the coming year.

In other news, didn’t get appointed as Web or Chart, so that sucks.

Anyway this week is GSoC application time, so getting on with that as well as general coursework. And loosely job hunting….

Should hear about Glastonbury Radio Station soon too…..

Halo Reach is coming

Halo Reach and its “All-Encompassing Player Investment System”

So Halo Reach the Beta multi-player is just over a month away.

And this caught my eye on the twitter feed as retweeted by @Bungietweets from @TheFeed

http://bit.ly/ciThuW

Halo Reach and its “All-Encompassing Player Investment System” looks quite good, but will be interested to see it in use when the times comes

EASTER, and Shutter Island

Easter is and and Shutter Island was watched.

So its Easter, #SRAcon is next week, and I have coursework to do!

Which means I need to finailize my story board for Motion Graphics (read as start), and work on 360gaming [dot] net which indirectly means work on CarlyonCMS.

Makes me think I should port my site to C’Cms…….

Anyway in recent news, I bought tickets to the wrong cinema so paid to see Shutter Island Twice. What a Monday that was! I was having a bad day, most of it I can’t/should not go into here…..

My brother was up for his 21st Birthday so off we went!

Was an off film, with an interesting story line, and now that I have had time to think about it the Shooting and continuity errors (in many places) make sense.
And interesting and difficult film to understand in places, but that is the nature of the film, since it does deal with delusions, I won’t spoil the story line but the twist can be quite revealing.

Leonardo DiCaprio acted well, a nice down to earth film in terms of special effects, it need a lot of thinking to understand. Tho the acting and dialogue at the end was a bit dodge or so the GF thought.

I enjoyed it, have you seen it? What do you think?

Google Summer of Code 2010

Google Summer of Code 2010 is on!


So, Google Summer of Code 2010 is nearly upon us, the mentoring organisation application period is now open!

Initially been looking at projects I have been involved with before, work on now, or do at the moment, or similar parent orgs.

I’m sad to say that AptitudeCMS, my project last year, is now no more. But its parent org Geeklog is still with us, (AptitudeCMS was supposed to be GeekLog 2).

Geeklog is a PHP CMS, and my main thoughts for going for Geeklog this year is, due to being involved with Aptitude last year, and some of the possible project ideas look interesting and I have some knowledge and expertise on, given that it is a PHP CMS, and they tend to run in to similar problems.

So, just waiting to see which organisations get accepted this year, to fully decide on a project to go for this year. As well as work around my finals for my degree.

So time to break out the Green Tea!

See you in #gsoc on Freenode