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Hello you dudes

Is anyone still in contact with Shatteredsponge? I haven't spoken to that dude in ages but I'd really love to get back into contact...

Is there any way to compile for a mac or whatever?

Hello there!

Unfortunately I'm woefully crap at painting, so maybe you can help me. Basically, this is the intro for a project I'm working on. Starts at the top of the image, then scrolls down slowly (with different layers moving at different speeds to create a less flat, static look).


http://shutupload.com/dl/be40faa9d593/

Originally it was meant to reach a drain at the very lowest level, and the camera was to pan down through the drain until it faded into darkness. But I can't figure out a way of making the perspective work (The camera would have to be very close to the drain, and I can't figure out how to get it that close seeing as at the top of the image everything is so distant, with things gradually getting a bit closer to the camera, if that makes sense...)

So I replaced it with bushes which look rubbish.

Has anyone got any ideas on how to make the drain perspective work, or any other suggestions?

Furthermore, the entire picture is fucking terrible, anyone got any suggestions? Because I can't paint. Any critique, changes, advice etc welcome.

Here's the PSD
http://shutupload.com/dl/27e579ae5211/

Hey Calin!

Yeah it's an AGS thing, that would be amazing. I've checked out Loop and it's very simple. I'll MSN you my MSN contact details?

Thanks

hey all

I'm doing my end of year art project and need someone to do the coding side of things as I'm useless. It's nothing too amazing, but I'd rather just focus on the art aspect is anyone up for helping with this? It's only a tiny short little thing to showcase some stuff we've learned.

Oh man the cheating clip is awful. Before you say it, yes I HAVE been cheated on and I know how much it hurts. But guess what I did - I cried a bit and then I dealt with it privately, me and my partner. What I did not do is call up a bunch of radio disc jockey retards who really don't care about me or my feelings let alone those of my partner, so they can laugh at both our expenses and so can the rest of the world.

Let he is without sin cast the first stone blah blah blah... I don't like listening to grown men laughing at and taunting someone crying and in distress, someone who I've managed to judge well enough to condone this within about two minutes of hearing someone else talking about her. I don't care if she's in the wrong or not, it's the principle of it. If he's the kind of guy who would do something like that then I am not surprised she cheated... They sound like a couple of terrible people.

Also though Stupot I can't watch those accident videos because they make me cringe so bad But I think there is a marked difference between laughing at a guy slapstick falling over, who has presumably been helped afterwards etc, and laughing at someone crying and pleading while grown men mock and laugh at her in public and then the whole internet starts screaming "DIE YOU WHORE!" or "Nasty whoreface slag HAD IT COMING!" etc at her.

I guess it is fine, we all find different things funny etc, but I just hate that clip and the reaction of so many people who watch it... "what a whore, had it coming". Seems like a really nasty thing to think.

EDIT: Yes I thought it was obvious you were being sarcastic

What an amazing city! I just came here a few days ago and wow, I've been wandering around for a few days now and it's just an amazing place, isn't it?

Any of you AGSers from Berlin? Or have been there? If so, are there any cool places you'd recommend me going to see? Preferably non-touristy places I've already explored Mitte quite a good deal, and I'm currently staying in Kreuzburg.

I'd love to know of any pubs or other free venues (I'm very poor) that might play live music etc...

Ahh, you're the king! Perfect

Though I'd be really interested to see what other people can contribute to this thread as I'm really interested in seeing as many different types of interactive illustrations as possible at the moment, so keep it coming please!

Cheers!
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Hello all,

I'm writing an essay for Uni and I ... need your help on one detail. Basically, a long time ago I remember playing a couple of flash games. All I really remember about them is that they were beautiful, bizarre illustrations with interactive bits you could click on to make stuff happen, some of them had strange music, the art was sometimes very abstract. I remember finding them fascinating but I cannot for the life of me remember any of their names and don't know what to google for. Any ideas, or any beautifully illustrated interactive things you would like to point me towards that could be of interest instead?

Thank you lovely people X

Hello all,

I want to knock together a brief animation using hand-drawn images that I've produced. I need it for my portfolio and I need it fairly soon, so it needs to be reasonably easy to learn too... and preferably free although if it's a very expensive package I may be able to dig out a version on a college PC.

Does anyone have any recommendations? All are welcome, tnx etc X

Not many, just a paragraph or two really. Just something I want to write to a German friend of mine...

Hey all,

I need help translating something into German. It's something quite personal so I shan't post it here, but would anybody be interested in helping? (and promise not to replace important words with the german word for "cock!" etc... tempting as it may be!).

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Irish system, not so great in my experience, but maybe it's better now.

Oh, don't get me wrong, the concept of the Medical Card scheme and free health-care is terrific. In practice, it's less than stellar.

Lack of hospital beds, lack of specialists, mass mis-diagnosis, and the infamous HSE, scupper most of it.

Anyone who can afford to go private does, and those who don't qualify for the scheme, yet can't afford to go private, suffer the biggest screw-job of all.

Like my parents :-/

What are they doing with it now that the entire country has collapsed in on itself? I remember just before I left, my mum was saying something about how only a certain amount of medical cards were allowed to be issued that year or something... which I thought was ridiculous, to only allow a certain amount whether or not more people qualified... but I am not sure if that is true, my memory might be skewed, do you remember anything like that?

I also read somewhere that they might bring back university fees in Ireland now that everything there has blown up in the recession.

Vince, that story about Japan's system sounds amazing. Completely different from over here, and seems to work which is cool.

I've experienced two healthcare systems, Irish and UK.

Ireland I don't remember a lot about other than having to pay £50 for a visit to the GP just so she could prescribe me the pill. Then I'm pretty sure I also had to pay for the pill on top of that. Fastest £50 I've ever spent, literally... I spent maybe two minutes in there talking to her.

I also remember my parents getting lots of hospital bills for things like childbirth etc... and they were quite short on money so I'm not sure how they afforded it. It was only after they separated that my mother and sisters became entitled to medical cards. Before that I had to once put off going to the GP for a week with a UTI because I couldn't afford to pay. My brother also started to experience scary blackouts and seizures that the hospital/GP could not identify the cause for, and now he's on a 9 month waiting list to see one of the only two experts in the country. Meanwhile his fits are getting worse and worse...

However, despite this I am glad that there is a cheaper public service available to people with little money, as being on a 9 month waiting list is better than being on no waiting list at all. If my mother could afford, she could go private but it just isn't an option in her case.

Irish system, not so great in my experience, but maybe it's better now.


The UK system has always been good to me. I have had two operations and both were non-urgent and the waiting lists were only about two/three months. Anything serious is treated faster of course... my boyfriend had his appendix out pretty snappy. Now that I'm unemployed I get any medication for free, which is something I'm so so grateful for as otherwise I could not have afforded any pain relief after my tonsilectomy. The Pill is also free over here (so you'd think we'd have a lower teenage pregnancy rate..)

Nobody I know has any complaints about the NHS except for maybe having spoken to a rude receptionist or or something, but otherwise the service is great and I am happy to pay my national insurance contributions. Maybe the sussex area runs things better than other areas of the country.

I had private medical insurance with a company I worked for a while back but I never availed of it and decided not to continue it after leaving the company. I could get private if I wanted but I'm very poor at the moment, and the NHS is fine for me anyway. One thing I do want is private dental though, as soon as I can afford it. The first time I visited an NHS dentist in the UK he gave me a filling I didn't need. Bad experience! The difference between private and NHS dentists seems quite significant...

I'm very grateful to the NHS over here. I wonder what the arguments against a national healthcare system in the US are? People can still get private medical insurance if they wish, it's not like everyone will be forced to use the national healthcare system. It's about pooling in and helping your fellow countrymen... I don't see a problem with that.

only thing that came to mind was this http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=5887542&ap=0&albumid=4617656

but it's probably not that, sorry :/

Edit: and on rereading your post it's definitely not upbeat so it's definitely not this song. Bleh. More details would be good...

Stupot that's quite a generalisation. Maybe most people you know with iphones are wankers, however I don't know a single person who does that. When something great exists - from mobile phones to flashy cars - there are always going to be a few people somewhere who are dicks and only get it to look cool. You can apply that to anything that exists and is in some way good. For you to find an overwhelming majority of people do this with the iphone shows that either you're surrounded by an unusual number of dicks, or you're just overreacting and in fact you meet plenty of people every day who have iphones and you don't even know about it. To say most people who own iphones do so at great expense only so that they can flash it around in public seems a bit ridiculous and bitter.

I'm also quite sure nobody bothers to throw down euros 'just so you know they've been on holiday'. That sounds more like you're being a bit bitter mate, but maybe where you are from, most people are genuine wankers and bother to spend their time thinking about this stuff.

Anyway I just came back to this thread to link you all to this, yay!:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8169971.stm

I love my iPhone. In my pocket at all times, in one device, I have constant unlimited internet access no matter where I am, an excellent MP3 player, a phone, movies and TV shows (on my iPod or from BBC iPlayer), a voice recorder, a guitar tuner, MSN, a usable camera (although I would really like to see the camera being improved...), my photo albums, and iTunes (meaning I can sample and download new music to my phone whenever I like). I've got a recipe book with 1000s of recipes for when I go shopping. I've got a step counter and calorie counter for exercising and dieting, and I've got an app that listens to and then identifies music so that I can identify cool songs I hear being played randomly in pubs or whatever (I've gotten so much use out of that app...) I've got BBC news and the Guardian news sites bookmarked on my homepage for train journeys. I've got live train updates in fact.

I've got a shiny little entertainment system, and personally to me that is worth a lot. I can see someone like my mum would not find it so useful, but I love mine. Also someone made a point earlier about how well-designed it is in terms of usability. That is very true. It's a very polished product.

super, thanks!

Wow, the Weighted Companion Cube is a briliant idea

Yeah this looks like the sort of stuff I need. Anyone have any recommendations for modelling with it? To make things like sushi pieces or cupcakes, I'll need to create certain effects (for instance, rice-looking textures). Any special tools recommended?

Hello all,

I'm looking for advice from you artists out there. I want to start making some basic jewellery, for instance earrings in the shape of sushi or cupcakes etc. I am guessing whatever material I make it out of needs to be hard and light, like plastic... but easy to mould, like clay. I also don't know what paint I should use in order to colour them?

What recommendations do you guys have? I have no idea how to go about doing this. Clay seems like it might be too heavy or would break too easily, but then I don't know a great deal about clay. All suggestions welcome

The discussion seems to have turned to free vs non-free medical healthcare. I'm too depressed to read all the posts at the moment since my life just fucked up a bit, but anyway, I never understood about arguments against the NHS. In the UK you can opt for private medical insurance just like in the US - in fact, most decent jobs afaik offer private dental and healthcare. What the NHS insures is that all people regardless of who they are or how much money they have - everyone will be treated. And despite horror stories about the NHS, I've always had pleasant dealings with them and been treated fairly quickly.

All the horror stories about people being denied care etc - these stories also happen in the US so I don't quite understand why they're used as arguments against the NHS. These people allegedly being denied care (though I've personally never encountered a story like this with myself or anyone I know) could still have been on private healthcare if they had so wished. Anyone can, same as the US. The difference is that even though who do not have private health insurance, have something to fall back on.