I went to the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park [sandiegozoo.org] this past weekend with my good friend Aileen. Here are a few photos from the daytrip. I learned something new: the Wild Animal Park was originally created by the San Diego Zoo to give them a place to practice their very successful endangered animal breeding programs. It was never intended to be opened to the public. That explains a lot about how it’s designed.
Somehow my endless parade of new hobbies has reduced my posting frequency to approximately once a month. April, here I am. I'll take this opportunity for a quick life update. In no particular order.
My family vacation where my father and sister visited in March was a blast. We had a whirlwind week: San Francisco, Yosemite, Sequoia National Park, Santa Monica, Universal Studios Hollywood, San Diego Zoo. Dad and I even managed to sneak in a Nashville Predators game.
Interested in the photos of my vacation? The promised shots from my time in Ireland[muchlessthanthree.com]? Well you’ll be happy to know that they are available on my deviantArt page[deviantart.com], along with a metric ton of other stuff.
There’s a fantastic band out of San Francisco called LoveLikeFire[lovelikefire.com]. Give them a few listens and chances are you’ll fall in love with them, just as I have. They have a new album called Tear Ourselves Away that is dropping this summer, and the mp3 fairy tells me it’s well worth your money and time. Check out the awesome video for the first single, ‘William’.
An enormous amount of my free time is still being dumped into my Team Fortress 2 map, which now has the working title of CTF-Standoff (official home[levelwon.blogspot.com]). It should be going beta in June, but I have recently drawn up some promotional images (below), because…
I’ve just applied for another level design position. It’s at my current company, on a very prestigious project, so wish me luck! I had my first interview already, and I feel that it went fairly well.
Stay tuned next month for another exciting episode!
I went to Crystal Cove this weekend with a friend to shoot a bit of wildlife and landscape (you can thank her for giving me the bird names below). I was confused by both the lack of coves and the lack of crystals. The photos that I liked are below, click to see the huge versions. Comments welcome!
And yes, Ireland pictures are still coming!
White Crowned Sparrow
Western Gull
(Some kind of Sandpiper or a Golden Plover?)
Whimbrel
This [washington.edu] is incredible, assuming that effects like this are actually possible using only the software as they claim.
Sadly I’ve been burned too many times by promises of seemingly ‘too good to be true’ technologies – I’ve learned to be very skeptical until I’ve gotten my hands on said technology and given it a test. It seems that often, creators of new tech like this spend a lot of time manually scrubbing the presentation footage, giving it a better appearance through a lot of manual editing than their tech will actually provide the average user.
Also very awesome tech, but not strictly related:
I’m similarly skeptical about how ‘automated’ this process will turn out to be.
In the silence, it became so very clear /
That you had long ago disappeared /
I cursed myself for being surprised /
That this didn’t play like it did in my mind
photography | JB | 
2009.11.18 23:26 | 
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