Gift Tag

 

 

I recycled a clothing tag from a pair of jeans to make this gift tag. I try to be thrifty when I can.

Stamp: Happy Birthday-Amazing Creations

Day 1 -The Beginnings!

Well, on day one, not that much exiting things happend. I cut down logs, I spawed in a swamp, swam to the forest, found iron, coal, and stone. Right now, I'm collecting logs to make a tower.                            

Late News From the World of Notch : Notch has left the Building

I’m leaving on a two week vacation tonight, to celebrate my mother turning 60. While I will be bringing a laptop and there will be internet, I will try to not think about work as much as possible while I’m gone.

To keep up with Minecraft development, you can check out our page on Facebook, or follow the following people on twitter:

Carl Manneh (ceo!)
Daniel Kaplan (bizdev!)
Jakob Porser (code!)
Jens Bergensten (code!)
Junkboy (art!)
Markus Persson (code!)
Tobias Mollstam (code!)

When I get back, I’ll finish up the new launcher, then my goal is to get some early sketch of the Modding API out before GDC.

Whoa. I almost forgot

I am a horrible procrastinator once again. I had plans for this blog and I'm not doing them! Dear readers, I am sorry I have temporarily failed you. I had stopped playing Minecraft for a bit to focus on some real life drama and school. Don't fear though. I'm back!

It appears the farmlands will have a halt in development as Amy and I were both inspired to do something different. We both will be making cities, only separately this time. Our little server is about to turn into a huge country!

I've been in a very big Pokemon mood lately. So I decided, why not, let's make a city modeled off a real Pokemon city. Celadon's got a nice mall structure so I've decided to make it based off that.

This will be a pretty big project for me to take on, so I imagine it'll take some time. Readers, I hope I do not disappoint you if it takes long.

I still plan on doing Mod reviews, but SMP is just so much more fun than SSP. It's hard for me to want to go back!

I will say this though. One of my servers uses Bukkit, so I might do reviews on plugins there. Bukkit is basically a server client that allows you to handle server side mods! It's pretty neat-o. I can't tell you how much of a godsend /set home is!

My other server, the one I will be building Celadon City in, is using RuneCraft which is pretty nifty as well. I'm a sucker for the teleporters. I like easy travel!

I guess that's a semi-review for now. Expect more later!

The Lord is my provider

This is for the Technique Lover's Challenge to heat emboss on top of dry embossing. I heat embossed gold over the dry embossed border on the panel behind the dragonfly. It didn't turn out exactly how it was supposed to, but I like how it looks. I used Mark's Finest Papers NATURE'S POSTAGE and IN THE FOREST. I colored the image with prisma colored pencils and added glamour dust.
The Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge was to make a blue and green card to remind us of the 23 Psalm. As our shepherd and provider he finds us lovely green grass and blue water to rest by.

Psalm 23
1The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

5Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

6Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.


(I posted the King James version because that is what I memorized as a child, and it brings me comfort to read it in this version.)

I made this for a friend of mine from church who has been suffering from seizures. The only way the doctors can control the seizures is to heavily medicate her, which only gives her a couple of hours a day that she is even awake. I just wanted to send her a card to encourage her.

The essence of Minecraft in one video

This just sums up everything about the game - damn creepers!

Кроссворд "Повторение"

Задание. Ответить на вопросы кроссворда.
Кроссворд рисуем в тетради.
Кроссворд тут

Fantastic mob-proof sandstone castle

Tired of using cobblestone for your castles? Check this beauty out:

Sandstone castle in Minecraft

День рождения в январе.

Насте и Оле посвящается.
Надо кликнуть по открытке и прослушать песенку.

В День рождения поздравления от нас - это раз.
Шлем мы добрые слова - это два.
Быть все время впереди - это три.
Жить со всеми в дружбе, в мире - это, кажется, четыре.
Никогда не унывать - это пять.
Приумножить все что есть - это шесть.
Быть внимательным ко всем - это семь.
Быть всегда в нормальном весе - это восемь, девять, десять.
Ну, а к этому в придачу -
Счастья, радости, удачи!

Making a Town!

Yes, that is what I will be doing this week. I am doing the unthinkable, making an entire town by myself. Why? I don't know. I need something to do, I guess! I'm pretty excited about it and have a lot of plans for it. So far I've found the perfect area for it and am clearing the land. I also built a huge fence around the entire thing to keep out the unwanted. Can't wait to finish some things and upload some pics for everyone to see!! By the way, if anyone wants a really cool texture pack, download this one. It's the one Lewis from the Yogscast videos uses!

http://www.mediafire.com/?vg740lbk2c2d7kx

If you don't know who Lewis is or haven't seen the Yogscast videos on Youtube, I highly suggest looking them up. They are absolutely hilarious and definitely sold me on buying this game. Almost daytime, so talk to you all soon!

Circle of Friends

 

I made a small gift card using my new circle of friends stamp.

Anita’s Cards

Here a a couple of cards my daughter made with our wonderful friend Vicki. Together they had a great time and whipped these up one afternoon.

Final Render

So I'm calling this done, I'm sure there is a lot I could do but I don't have much more time and this took almost 3 hours to render...

Карантин продолжается. Но! У нас уже есть первые комиксы!!!

Молодцы, ребята!!!
Смотреть тут или по ссылке слева.

Shading and lighting final

Ok so I'm working on this...will probably end up "settling" with specific light setups for this but here is an in progress render...

Magic

Here I have used my fairy stamp again. I coloured her in using my Whispers Strokes Markers from Sugar loaf Products. I have a set of 36 markers and originally purchased from Kmart about three years ago. I used a little glitter to give it a lift.

Flashback (1)

Ok here's what happend on my earlier files. I found a dunguon by spawn, so I got buckets. Then made a infinite water spring, then went on the mountain. Next, I FLOODED THE COUNTRYSIDE! So in simple, I had a huge waterfall flooding everything.

Update : Farms and tricks.

Underground Farm

My underground farm, Dug out inside a mountain.


Water is underneath half-steps.

Reed farm.

My reed farm directly below my wheat farm. (I'm on a ladder)

View Two

View #2

View Three

View #3

Tip of the day. 

Tip of the day;

Add levers to the bottoms of your furnace. Have them pointing up so you'll know it's empty and down so you know that something has been cooked in it.

Update : Farms and tricks.

Underground Farm

My underground farm, Dug out inside a mountain.


Water is underneath half-steps.

Reed farm.

My reed farm directly below my wheat farm. (I'm on a ladder)

View Two

View #2

View Three

View #3

Tip of the day. 

Tip of the day;

Add levers to the bottoms of your furnace. Have them pointing up so you'll know it's empty and down so you know that something has been cooked in it.

Update : Farms and tricks.

Underground Farm

My underground farm, Dug out inside a mountain.


Water is underneath half-steps.

Reed farm.

My reed farm directly below my wheat farm. (I'm on a ladder)

View Two

View #2

View Three

View #3

Tip of the day. 

Tip of the day;

Add levers to the bottoms of your furnace. Have them pointing up so you'll know it's empty and down so you know that something has been cooked in it.

Words....

Proud Mama moment... I wanted to share with you a painting done by my teenage daughter Kristina. She has entered it into an art competion. The theme for this competition is: WORDS.

Sunlight, sunlight in my soul today....

The Friday free for all challenge was to use warm and fuzzy on our card. The warm on my card is the colors orange and yellow and also the hymn... Sunlight by Judson W. Vand De Venter. The fuzzy was the orange fibers that came in a big box, of blog candy, from my friend Grace. This hymn was a favorite of my youngest sister when she was really little. I would sing it to her at nap time and bedtime.

Sunlight

I wandered in the shades of night 'till Jesus came to me, and with the sunlight of His love bid all my darkness flee.

Though clouds may gather in the sky, and billows 'round me roll, however dark the world may be I've sunlight in my soul.

I cross thew ide extednded fields, I journey o'er the plain, and in the sunlight of His love, I reap the golden grain.

Soon I shall see Him as He is, The Light that came to me; behold the brightness of His face, throughout eternity.

Sunlight, sunlight, in my soul today, sunlight, sunlight all along the way; since the Savior found me, took away my sin, I have had the sunlight of His love within.

Районный конкурс проектов

27 января состоялся районный конкурс проектов и исследовательских работ младших школьников. Наша работа "Литературное путешествие на "Голубой стреле" победила в номинации "Лучший коллективный проект"! Проект защищали Войтенко Сергей, Просветов Дима и Бикейкин Ваня. Поздравляем, ребята! ТАК ДЕРЖАТЬ!
 Подробнее с результатами можно познакомиться здесь    http://mmc.kuyby.edu54.ru/p5aa1detales13.html

Update 5 Cornell Box Pong: looking for help

For the past couple of days, I've been scratching my head over how to modify the tokaspt source code (gl_scene_cc to be more specific) in order to cram in some 2D gameplay physics (circle/circle collision detection) and direct user interaction with the paddles. Unfortunately without much success. I've come to the disheartening conclusion that I know too little about C++ to be able to write useful working code for the game (I know how to program very basic routine-like stuff with loops, hoping that would suffice, but alas). If anyone is interested to help out with this project, I would be eternally grateful! You can contact me at the address on this page http://i55.tinypic.com/2ppfqma.jpg

UPDATE: for the game physics of Cornell Box Pong, I've decided to use Box2D, an excellent easy-to-learn and open source 2D physics engine used by many iPhone games, which uses an advanced continuous collision detection model. You can also specify parameters such as gravity, friction, physics simulation rate and accuracy of the physics.

If I'm done with this project, I plan to integrate Bullet, the open source 3D physics engine, into tokaspt so real-time path traced physics driven animations like in this awesome video will be possible in real-time.

Сервис для создания комиксов

Ребята, хоть у вас и карантин, нечего лениться.

Продолжаем нашу работу.

Сервис для создания комиксов здесь

Комикс на тему "Вредные привычки: курение".

Пошаговая инструкция прилагается. Высылаем по инструкции на тот же адрес. Жду с нетерпением. Все рисунки будут представлены на районном конкурсе и в "Неделе естественных наук"

New videos of the Brigade real-time path tracer!

Development on the Brigade path tracer by Jacco Bikker and Dietger van Antwerpen is going strong and has made great progress as proven by these videos running on a system with dual hexacore Intel CPU (12 cores total) and 2 GTX 470 GPUs. All of the scenes are real-time pathtraced with multiple bounces at 10-12 fps.

Minecraft level with HDR skydome lighting (this time with global illumination) (24 spp):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAGEZnFVTos

simple scene with HDR skydome lighting and refraction (24 spp):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4bkT-QTQXY

Buddha and Dragon scene, multi-bounce lighting (8spp):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qvdO4TxU-8

Escher scene, lots of areas with indirect lighting (8 spp):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLREB7dp1F4

Same Escher scene but with significantly reduced noise (8 spp):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGnvuL8kq_Q

Especially the last video quite convincingly shows that real-time path tracing for games (at moderate framerates and resolution) is almost ready for prime time!

Challenge #51 One for the Kiddies

Hi Everyone :O) Welcome to a Fab New Challenge! Thankyou for joining us last week!!!
Before I tell you about this weeks challenge we have the lucky winner and the top 3 to announce so, here is the winner,.....drum roll please!
The winner is...

Khin


Congratulations please email us (addy is on the side bar ) so we can arrange to get your prize out to you - and don't forget to take your winner's banner.

We always have a hard time choosing our Top 3, but here they are, in no particular order.

1. Alicia
2. Lori
3. Kathrin

Congratulations ladies, please take your Top 3 badge.

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Nearly time for the New Challenge just before I do I would like to introduce you to our newest DT Member Vicky so stop by and give her lots of love! Welcome Hun

So this week its my turn (Joey) to set the theme and I chose

"One for the Kiddies" nice and easy :O)


Our sponsors this week are Simon Says Stamp who offer the prize in the photograph

and Digi Stamp Boutique who offer some super cute designs!

Digi Stamp Boutique offers a range of quirky and digital stamps for all your card making projects. There is something for every occassion and new images are added regularly so there is always something new.

Here is a little Inspiration from our fab DT

Joey

SARAH

Mel X

Lols

Caroline - KISS

Ria

Mandi

Anne

Sue

Vicky

Heidi

Carol

Please leave your Link below and we will stop by to see your creations, if you would like comments from the DT PLEASE PLEASE TURN OFF word verification, Many Thanks

The TPC DT x x x

Apple Products & Vouchers Contest! (Campaign)

It's been quite a while since I've posted any campaigns, so here's one.

Applied Region: Malaysia Only
Campaign Type: Contest









Description:
Maybank is having a contest that lets you win Apple products! Stand a chance to win vouchers for all Apple products, iPads, iPods and more. All you need to do is to recruit as many friends in Facebook. This earns you points, and the highest score wins.


They give out prizes on a weekly and monthly basis. Weekly winners stand a chance to win iPod Shuffles while monthly winners stand a chance to win iPads. Winning weekly and monthly prizes are quite good too, so give it a try!



Support This Campaign!
http://says.my/lemoney92/maybankard-fb

Bird Punch Art

 

 

 

A freebie from a punch art lady at the Brisbane Craft show, I don't remember her name or what stand she was on, other than she was totally inspirational!

I Trace the Rainbow through the rain...

Close up of butterfly.

The ways to use it challenge today at SCS was to make a card with a rainbow. The StampinB's challenge was to make a card inspired by a song. This is the result of both of those challenges. I made my rainbow by taking acetate and scribbling markers side by side. I then took a coffee filter and sprayed it with water. I then carefully laid the filter on top of the acetate. The markers slowly mixed giving me this great rainbow. When it was dried I printed this hymn onto it. I picked this hymn because of the line "I trace the rainbow through the rain".

O Love That Will Not Let Me Go (George Mattheson pub 1882.)

O LOVE that will not let me go, I rest my weary sould in thee; I give thee back the life I owe, that in thine ocean depths its flow may richer fuller be.

O LIGHT that followest all my way I yield my flickering torch to thee; my heart restores its borrowed ray, that in thy sunshine's blaze its day may brighter, fairer be.

O JOY that seekest me through pain, I cannot clos my heart to thee. I TRACE THE RAINBOW THROUGH THE RAIN, and feel the promise is not vain, that morn shall tearless be.

O CROSS that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from thee. I lay in dust life's glory dead, and from the ground ther blossoms red Life that shall endless be.

George Mattheson the author was engaged to be married and at the age of 20 started going blind. His fiance left him because she didn't want to spend her life with a blind man. After he was completely blind his sister took care of him. He wrote this song in 5 mins the night before his sister was to get married. This hymn was based on the following scripture:

But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
Psalm 13:5

Is That Sheep Green?

HUGE blog post today! I even wrote a short list of everything I wanted to talk about so that I wouldn't leave anything out. I'll start with the boring parts first.

Building Update

As you know, I've been working on a couple of different buildings. I finally finished both the cafe and the guest house. Here are a couple of pictures to show off the finished products.

The guest house, complete with a stove, crafting table, chest for overnight storage, a bookcase, and a bed! Also some dim lit redstone torches hang on the wall to make sure the guest gets a good night's sleep!

Outside of the cafe. The sign says "Aymi's Cafe - Fresh Bread & Cake." Do you like my window decoration? I thought it looked too..wooden, outside. So I added the colored wool to change it up a little bit.

The view from the kitchen. Booth area with the family size table.

A look at the artwork on the front door. The green patch of grass in front of the door HAS been filled in with another piece of orange wool.

View of the cake bar with the "bar" seats. 

The overall view from the door. I'm not sure why that stove keeps turning that way, but oh well.

That's pretty much it for the building updates. Still trying to find a good spot for my log cabin so I can build it.

Creeper Update

The creepers were MAD yesterday. I don't know what I did, really. Well sure I do, I existed. There were two creepers running around the farm and it just so happens I had my sound turned down enough so that I didn't hear the SSSSS. Joke's on me. The first one took out the back left corner of the newly completed guest house. Luckily I had extra bricks, otherwise I would've cried as clay is a pretty scarce building material. The second one took out our teleport to the spawn point AND our address pad. That was a pain because I've just recently learned how to make these. But Jeff was around so he helped me fix them quickly! 

The damage. To the right you can kind of see the teleporter creeper hole too. Thank goodness dirt isn't hard to find, right?

Wheat Alert

I'm not sure if everyone knows this yet, I know I didn't, but if you don't watch your wheat fields carefully, they will eventually disappear if you don't harvest them. I found this out the hard way when Sammy and I were taking our minibreak from Minecraft. When we left, there were 3 double rows of wheat full, and some extra seeds. Yesterday, there was enough to make one double row. Biiig difference, especially when you supply a lot of the wheat to newcomers to the server!! Only got to make 6 loaves of bread with that, which doesn't last very long.

What was left of the wheat field..sad, sad day. Remember to harvest wheat in a timely manner!

Trish's House

Yesterday and this morning, I got the privilege of being able to play at Trish's house. Yes, play. Trish's house has a huge waterfall going down the side of it. It makes for some excellent entertainment when you're tired of..oh..getting hit by creepers, losing your wheat fields, etc! I'm glad Trish decided to relocate. Her new house is pretty awesome. She made it out of stone slabs, which gives it a really unique look compared to the rest of the houses in our server. I had never even seen stacked slabs until yesterday! Here are a couple of pictures so you can witness the awesome.

The front view of her house. She is our main supplier of sugarcane now if you can't tell.

The top of the waterfall/slide. I love the lit pumpkins, it gives it sort of a creepy/cool feel.

The water slide in all it's glory. Trish asked me to come over and "jump off her roof." I didn't realize it was going to be this much fun!

I ended up making a teleport behind my other ones to come directly to Trish's when I need sugarcane or some stress relief! It's being used a lot.

Google Map?

Vapor figured out a really cool "thing" yesterday. A google map of Minecraft worlds!! So Jeff set us up one, you can check it out here. 

http://www.internetfightclub.info:1337/minecraft/

If you look in the very middle of our little land, you can see my red barn! I was very excited about that! Check it out any time to see our progress. I also took a sky view picture of the farm to compare it, and I'm going to show you guys just because I think it looks neat.

Our farm! It's really coming together nicely.

How to Dye Sheep

So apparently, I'm the last one in on this little tip. But hopefully some of you can benefit from it also! Jake told me a little bit ago that you can throw dye at sheep and have a better chance at getting more colored wool!! I had no idea and never even THOUGHT to try it. As you guys can probably see from some of our house pictures, I'm all about some colored wool. That barn was made 1 dye per block, afterall. So this definitely excited me. I had a little competition between 4 colors: pink, blue, green, and orange. Here is the ranking!

Tied for 3rd were orange and pink, still giving me one wool each.

Hi to you too!

Second place was Mr. Green sheep, who gave me two pieces! I thought he looked the coolest, and almost felt bad for punching him.

The blue sheep wins! He gave me three pieces of light blue wool, which I absolutely will use.

That's it for now. Hope you guys enjoyed this update, and hopefully some of the advice will help you out. Have fun in Minecraft!! Until next time!