So I finally got my graphics tablet working…
My graphics tablet, a Trust 1200 Wireless Tablet has been lying unused in my bedroom for about a year, I once had a dream of doing a grand web comic called Men N’ Bots, but my Windows PC was too crappy to handle my leet skills. So I got a mac, and low and behold, my tablet didn’t work. Well long story short, I put some batteries in, and found some compatible drivers (not by Trust) and it works like a charm, and it’s truly great.
So to get to the point, I’ve been doing some drawing, and here’s one I’d like to show you…
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It isn’t perfect, but yeah it was like my second try, and I sortof cheated on the face, if you call tracing cheating. But I still need to master the art of faces.
and yes… OK OK, I promise my next one will not be of Evangeline Lilly. I promise, gimme a break, geez.
Wild Speculation: Did Apple leak their new cinema displays?
Without wanting to turn my site into the lamest Apple Rumour blog in history, I did today find this image on the site for the new Mac Pros released today…
Certainly, they look just like the cinema displays we know, but that Apple logo is black. Like the new iMac… and unlike the current displays and the top frame seems to be taller than the old ones. Obviously this isn’t an exact science (there may be perspective involved), but I’ve made an image to show what I’m on about.
If that is extra space up there, are there iSight cameras photoshopped out?
Anyway, I just thought I’d post this, in case I’m right, I’ve also submitted it to 9to5Mac in the hope they think it has merit. If it turns up there, I’ll post a link.
Macworld is a week away! So not long to find out!
Apple’s Mac Pro Graphics Page (where I found the image)
UPDATE 19:33 GMT: 9to5Mac got in contact with their opinion on this display thing…
“I think your case is good but not good enough…plus we’ve heard the new displays are going to be black”
Well, I thought it would be cool to share my findings anyway, 9to5mac knows more about Apple than I ever will, but I’d like to remind readers that Apple just launched a new set of silver Mac Pros.
Time will tell on this one.
Leopard’s turning out to have some bugs…
Turns out when you wake a mac from sleep, it’s keyboards attention can go AWOL on you. Best solution is to restart and don’t put your mac to sleep, unless like me you decide to rant to your friends through the on-screen keyboard.
What happens on a slow news day at Rocketboom?
I’ve been subscribed to Rocketboom for a while, but this is definately the best episode I’ve seen… maybe I’m not in the right demographic…
Isn’t it awesome?
Why I love the Apple Store
Recently we have had an Apple Store move near where I live in West Quay southampton, I attended the opening, now I’ve had my mac since before then, we bought it online and it’s served me well. So my battery failed, and I took it to the store to see what the problem was, and they said they could fix that, but then the guy looked at my display and saw that it had dirt and grime underneath, it’s totally annoying as a graphic artist but I never thought about complaining about it.
So now I have a great new display! My previous one looked awful compared to this and hence now I should be able to do much better work and truly enjoy my MacBook Pro. They also fixed my keyboard which was very nice of them. All for free. I am one happy customer… but soon my warrenty will run out – AppleCare for me?
Steve Jobs is blogging, oh yes he is…
I may have only been a Mac user since September, but I have emmersed myself in all things Apple for that time, and I descovered one of the funniest sites I’ve ever been to this month. The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.
In this blog, one man has made it his task to sound and act as much like Steve Jobs (either that or it is really him) as possible, and the writings are hillarious. Take for example one of his latest postings, celebrating easter, he has a picture of himself and Jesus, with the title “He is risen!”, hillarity ensues…
Back in black…
Well it’s time for me to say hello and apologise for abandoning LiveJournal for a little while, now I think I shall attempt to be a true blogger, and why not? it’s good for the soul, apparently.
My Weekend: I went on a march with my good friend Katie, we were marching to have nuclear power reinstated as we both passionately believe it is the energy source of the future… just kidding, I do, but she doesn’t. Well it was the climate march in central London, I would show you some pics but they havn’t been processed yet, yes I probably need a good digital camera if I am to be a true blogger, you’re right, but I will process them soon, and let you have a gander, promise.
I was very happy at the end of the march, because it turned out there was a gig afterwards, how exciting! KT Tunstall, and well 2 seconds of Razorlight for me, as myself and Katie had to hike (in some cases barefoot) back to land of dragons, southampton, nightmare.
Then on Sunday I went to the cinema with Freya (who may I add is delightful) and we went and saw Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan which is a documentary by a Kazakhstani journalist by the name of Borat Sagdiyev and his assistant Azamat Bagatov…
It’s Nice!
The film is widely misinterpreted as a comedy by some, who say that Borat is simply a creation of a comedian from England, but anyone who has been watching carefully will see that everything to do with Borat is desturbingly true. The racist underpinings of the film are widely seen in the east as not amusing, but frightening, where we might see comedy, in Kazakhstan they may see horror, Borat’s "crazy" attitude in the west may be amusing to some, but it is a desturbing view of the future to people like me, one day we will be flooded by many Borat clones, a nightmare world if I ever thought of one.
None the less this documentary, documenting Borat’s travels accross America in order to find a wife is well worth viewing, if only to see the attitudes prevalent in nations such as Kazakhstan and understand our worldly neighbours. Five Stars.
Up next movie fans: Casino Royale!
While I have been gone many things have happened, I got a laptop notebook in the form of a now defunct MacBook Pro…
(This is the new one but it looks almost exactly the same as mine)
(while it was still new, in August) and I’ve been playing around with it, now you must understand I absolutely hate the current iMac, urgh! So I’m put off of all Apple’s consumer line, so no MacBooks for me. But I love this, so easy to use, but I’ve currently clogged it up with Lost episodes, what I need is an external hard drive. Next on my wishlist is Windows Vista, which if you’ve seen pics of, actually looks really cool, it could almost put my mac to shame, for a screenshot look here and for those that are wondering, yes it is exactly like Mac OS 10.4 – with cooler looking windows, no dock and less security. Ace!
Ah but there’s always Mac OS 10.5 to look forward to… ok nerdyness over…
And I hope this brings about more bloggieness in the future! See ya then!