http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:datazoid&section=today deviantART RSS for by:datazoid en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:59:07 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/26990444/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/26990444/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:23:55 PDT
1. Standard apology for not having updated this journal in eleventy squillion years: I'm sorry I haven't updated this journal in eleventy squillion years. Everyone else updates their journals with interesting stuff, I just don't have much to say.

2. Shop is going well. It's paying its rent, which is a big deal for a small business that's only been open a couple of months.

3. Storm season hasn't started yet, so there're no new lightning photos.

In the "new news" department, we have:

- I bought a new dining table and chairs. OH YEAH.
- I'm reading Dawkin's latest book, and it's as spiffy as I expected.
- I recently bought an old Olympus OM 50mm f1.8 lens and an adaptor so I can whack it on my E-510, so you can readily anticipate a deluge of photographs of very small items enjoying themselves in the tiny slice of clarity between the front bokeh and the back bokeh.
- All is well.

Take care, drive carefully.

R.

]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/25043191/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/25043191/ Sun, 31 May 2009 01:09:51 PDT
I apologise for my recent lack of activity here. I've had a bunch of other things getting in my way, and old DeviantArt has fallen into the low priority basket.

Among other things, we're working on opening a new (physical, bricks and mortar) shop for selling lightning photographs in Lightning Ridge, which is consuming a huge amount of my time. If all goes to plan, that'll be open for business within a couple of weeks.

Otherwise, things are good, all is well and I don't really have anything exciting to report. Sorry to be such a boring person, but at least I don't have any bad news.

Thanks, folks.

]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/24157080/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/24157080/ Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:27:44 PDT [link]

I'd like to thank kkart [link] for featuring my image, and I'd like to thank each and everyone who commented, favourited and watched as a result of the feature. If I didn't get around to thanking you personally, I'm sorry. I appreciate all of the support!

Thank you!

]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/23995584/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/23995584/ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:47:57 PDT
The storm season is effectively over here, so there'll be no new lightning photographs for a few months. (Unless something wildly unexpected rolls in, but hey.) (EDIT 4/4: It did.)

In other news, my laptop battery has decided to expand like a pufferfish, and is (naturally) out of warranty, so now I'm out of pocket $200 for a new battery. Hoorah! I'm also running my Macbook off of AC power only, which means (for reasons I cannot fathom) that it's running at about 60% efficiency. It takes me twenty minutes to open Photoshop. And I have webpages to design. Sigh.

So yeah. Haven't updated this because not much has happened, and I'm really not the bloggy type. In fact, I hate blogs. And I hate the word "blog" even more. It sounds like a euphemism for something I don't think I want to know about.

Russ out!

]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/22914579/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/22914579/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:14:28 PST
All you need to do is take a picture of a train, in Sydney, with lightning in the photograph. Oh, and HDR it to death. And put a nifty vignette around it.

And then you get to watch my head explode as I try and figure out which category to put it under.

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Meanwhile, in other news:

Sun-Seeker [link] has been kind enough to feature some of my (and Syndyne's [link] ) pictures in a journal feature, which I appreciate endlessly. Thank you, sir!

Thank you to everyone who's supported my lil gallery here!

Here's a photo by Syndyne, for the heck of it:



Me, standing on a bulldozer, showing an unhealthy interest in the tin can covering its exhaust pipe. 'Cause that's the sort of thing I do.

]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/21625812/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/21625812/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:23:18 PST
So I changed the CSS for my journal, because I can. And now it looks like a darker version of DA's standard thingy. Yay, darker.

I've uploaded a lot of crap recently, thanks to everyone who's added and commented and what-have-you. I think I've almost exhausted my hard drive's useful content for the moment, I'll add more once I drag the camera out and do something useful with it.

Well, there you go. Yes, this was just an excuse to get the CSS thing happening. Hoorah, CSS!

Hello, I am a footer. ]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/21478662/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/21478662/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:03:24 PST
]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/13404745/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/13404745/ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:16:12 PDT
Recently uploaded my attempt at Sydney's Central Station in 3D, which turned out fairly well, I think.

I'm working on some more rail-related projects. I'll post more when I can be bothered!

]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/12050184/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/12050184/ Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:05:10 PST
Carry on, all.

]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/11617531/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/11617531/ Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:15:56 PST
I've also started a hobby of lightning photography, which has its own website here: [link]

I'll be uploading some more crud soon. Enjoy!

]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/4055407/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/4055407/ Mon, 13 Dec 2004 06:09:57 PST
So I'm kind of here and kind of not. I don't like DA much, but hey. Comments on art is kinda nice, and there're few places better to get it.

All I need now is a computer that can handle the format of the pages. ]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/304941/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/304941/ Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:53:30 PDT
I've been working on a close-to-massive project, which I hope to somewhat collaborate with the likes of Anemovatis [link] and fraxyl [link] on, hopefully producing something that'll a ) rock the world, and b ) bring a bunch of people from all over the place together into something remarkable.

One does love mystery, doesn't one?

I'll try to keep up. No promises, though.

[link] uberLeem! [link]
- d a t a z i d - ]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/123609/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/123609/ Thu, 02 May 2002 01:24:22 PDT
In the mean time, join my forum ( [link] ), peruse my website ( [link] ), laugh at Flat Pickled Cap ( [link] ), admire the work of Fraxyl ( [link] and [link] ) and take care of yourselves.

In the mean time, I'll be experimenting madly with my digital camera, in great anticipation of abusing the architecture of Australia's three eastern capitals (and one southern one) with my own brand of pixellated goodness.

Be devious to each other.

www.data-zoid.com uberLeem! www.data-zoid.com
- d a t a z i d - ]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/102021/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/102021/ Thu, 04 Apr 2002 23:42:57 PST
And I've recently purchased a digital camera worth the gross national debt of a small country, and a scanner that's so cheap it couldn't scan something easily scannable if provided with an instruction manual in every known language including Klingon, and guided through the process by it's inventor. But regardless, it works. And scan, I do. And from this, thus. A deluge of imagery.

But anyhoo. I'm making less sense than usual.. which is a challenge.

Linkery:

[link] Forum! Rafters. Go. Join. Enjoy.
[link] DeeeeviantARTsiness.
[link] Lookie! For I have a domain name. * gloat *

w00t.


uberLeem!
- d a t a z i d - ]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/101429/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/101429/ Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:20:18 PST

uberLeem!
- d a t a z i d - ]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/86926/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/86926/ Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:08:55 PST
So.

Anyhoo.

Long live the leem.

* squidge *

uberLeem!
- d a t a z i d - ]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/70875/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/70875/ Fri, 15 Feb 2002 03:06:46 PST
Now I just need inspiration, or something. ]]> =datazoid http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/68792/ http://datazoid.deviantart.com/journal/68792/ Mon, 11 Feb 2002 06:09:51 PST
So far, so good. I can't get my lil icon thingie to upload, though. Oh well. Project for another day. ]]> =datazoid