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Friday, September 30, 2011

Все на выставку! :)

Доброе время суток!
Приглашаю вас на свидание со мной :)
На международный салон кукол в Москве.

Наш сектор желтый. Место №119

Наш в смысле НАШ! Так как у меня фееричная компания в виде Беспаловой Катеньки и aniKA Анечки! Эко мне подфартило :)
А пока веду разъяснительно-подготовительные работы с мишками, слонами и зайцами: вытираю носы, зашиваю карманы, навожу кудри, оформляю паспорта, т.е. готовимся к выступлению по полной.
А теперь кроме шуток, буду очень вам благодарна, если вы найдете желание и время поддержать меня на моей первой выставке! Очень вас жду!

Halloween Die Cuts

 A little more work than a silhouette, but not too hard.



ссылки на блоги ваших педагогов

The Viscount and the Witch, short story

Hello all,
This is Robin (Michael's wife for those that don't know). I'm commandeering his blog to announce: The Viscount and the Witch.  This is a little short story Michael wrote at my urging because...well as some may know I'm in love with Royce and Hadrian (sorry hun, but you know it's true) and I just can't get enough of them.

This is a strange time...the Ridan books are out-of-print and the Orbit books (although available for pre-order) won't be available for reading until Thanksgiving so, after three years, we have no books for sale ;-(

As we've both said, there will be no seventh book to the Riyria Revelations.  That particular story wraps up completely in Percepliquis and to "tack on" another just isn't going to work (and no amount of needling will get Michael to do -- trust me on this).

But...Royce and Hadrian spent many years together before the event that happened starting in The Crown Conspiracy so I begged, pleaded, and offered "favors" to get a tale of the "early years" and hence The Viscount and the Witch was born.  Here's a bit about the book:

Eleven years before they were framed for the murder of a king, before even assuming the title of Riyria, Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater were practically strangers. Unlikely associates, this cynical thief and idealist swordsman, were just learning how to work together as a team. In this standalone first installment of The Riyria Chronicles, Royce is determined to teach his naive partner a lesson about good deeds. Join Royce and Hadrian in this short story (5,400 words) about one of their earliest adventures.

It just went live late yesterday on Amazon and already is on the Hottest New Releases for Historical Fantasy (#7) and Short Stories (#14).  And while I hope people continue to buy it at the paltry $0.99 (as it will get Michael some Amazon visibility and possible recommendations for his Orbit books)  we are not releasing this to make money.

Why are we releasing it?
  • To say thank you for all Michael's fans who has gotten him to this next stage in his writing career
  • To have "something out there" that people can read while they wait
  • To hopefully give an "easy to digest" intro to new people to the series
The best way to say thanks is to make the book for free, but Amazon doesn't allow us to do this ($0.99 is the cheapest that we can list a book).  But...hopefully they will "make it free" as they will price match other sites where the book is free (such as Smashwords).  Usually a book has to have some "following" for them to do this so my hope is we'll get a few sales, get on Amazon's radar, then will price match to free.

This short is being released through Ridan Publishing (not Orbit) so we CAN make it free when bought direct. Here is a link where you can get your very own free copy.

I loved being reunited with my two favorite rogues. I hope you'll feel the same.  Enjoy!

Great News and a Challenge

Today I have some news to share, I have been invited to join the DT for Sweet Stampin' and was very pleased to accept. Looking forward to being par of the team.

My card is for the challenge at Cupcake Craft Challenge. The theme this week is ' If you go down to the woods today' you have to include a teddy in your main image.  I have used Nathan, a digi image from Funky Kits.  I have coloured him with
pencils and Promarkers.


Cupcake Craft Challenge - If you go down to the woods today
http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/

Cute Card Thursday - Animal Crackers
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/

Lollipop Cards - Anything Goes
http://lollipopcrafts.blogspot.com/







Challenge #86 Autumn

Thank you to everyone who joined in last week
before we get to this week's challenge,
we have the winner and Top 3 to announce.


The winner, chosen Random org is....

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 from the side bar.

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

1. Shelley
2. Lisa Jane
3.Gro

Congratulations ladies, please take your Top 3 badge,
from the side bar.
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Before we get onto this week's challenge, we have some sad news. Our lovely DT member Sue has decided to take a wee break, as she is really busy with life at the moment. We hope she will be back creating for us very soon, and we ill miss your gorgeous creations Sweetie.

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On to this week's challenge

the theme is

AUTUMN

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Our sponsor is...

Photobucket

with this fab prize

and


Stamp Fairy officially launched on November 5th 2010. Gerda, artist and owner, creates cute and whimsical digital images for the young and old, inspired by her life, love and 4 cute cats. You will find adorable teddies bears, young boys and girls to fuzzy little bunnies and whimsical critters.
Stamp Fairy has new releases along with a free image every Friday, a weekly challenge on Mondays and Guest Designers each month on their challenge blog. Please visit the store and browse StampFairy’s wonderful images.


Here's some fab inspiration from our lovely DT.
Just click on their names to visit their blogs :o)


Thursday, September 29, 2011

In-depth video on micropolygons in OpenGL

Anyone interested in OpenGL and micropolygons should definitely check out the following 1-hour-long video presentation by Kayvon Fatahalian, "Evolving the OpenGL Graphics Pipeline in Pursuit of Real-Time, Film-Quality Rendering":


Lots of interesting insights in the future of GPU hardware.

Minecraft 1.9 Pre-release 2

Yes guys Minecraft 1.9 Pre-release 2 is here. Jens Bergensten has just publicized that the Minecraft Beta 1.9 Pre-release 2 is now available to download. There isn't really much added to the game just some new items. There Is A New Mode Which Is Called " Hardcore Mode" In That Mode If You Die 1 Time You Will Have To Delet The World.. You Will Not Re Spawn..

Minecraft Blog

In this blog basically what i'm going to do is to update you guys for minecraft beta! I will talk to you guys about minecraft mods, and the new updates in the releases of minecraft. Stay tuned!

Stop Enderman From Picking Up Blocks Mod

I figure most of you have put a lot of time into your worlds. I know I have. So that's why I don't understand the enderman mob. It seems his sole purpose is to pick apart all our hard work! I don't know about you but I don't want to turn minecraft into repaircraft.

So I found a mod that stops the enderman from picking up blocks. Get it here: Enderman Mod.

To install: you'll need 7zip (free) or WinZip (not free) to open your minecraft.jar file.

Go to C:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin\minecraft.jar

Right click the minecraft.jar file and open with 7zip.

Once open drag the gz.class file into the minecraft.jar archive.

Delete the META.INF folder

Close 7zip.

Done! No more repaircraft and back to building.

I didn't write this mod so my thanks goes out to the original author. You can find his post and more info here. There is also a 1.9 mod and a mod that changes the enderman sounds.


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Minecraft Adventure Map

It's finished!!!!!... My new minecraft adventure map! This thing is just huge and I've put lots and lots,... and lots of work into it.

The map can be found in the downloads section or you can get it here: Minecraft map save.


You start the adventure by going through the main doors where you'll have to defeat monsters and solve some puzzles to continue. The building is jam packed with traps, monsters, twists and turns.

This map is meant for people who like to play hard (that means with monsters on).

Main entrance.

I built this map to be really super tough. 

I challenge people to enter it without any gear; I did design it so someone really good at minecraft should be able to get through empty handed (you'll find plenty of gear hidden inside).


If you die you'll re-spawn about halfway through the map. You'll miss a lot that way. So dying really super sucks.



I built the levels and challenges in such a way that there are always two ways to defeat them and two ways around everything (except the end challenge).

If you want to play the map again or start over you'll need to delete the saved game and write it again into your save folder. The reason is that many of the traps don't reset or are so destructive that they tear up parts of the map! Unless you cheat, you won't even be able to enter the map again, so you'll need to rewrite the saved game to start over.



 Oh yeah,.. and I built a new art gallery and fancy waterside restaurant:

Art Gallery

Restaurant
So I hope you enjoy all my hard work and please let me know what you think if you try it, but please remember, I said it was reeeeeeely tough ;)


I'm going to try and make a video of it soon.

I started this some time ago so it is entirely made in the 1.7.3 build. It should work just fine in 1.8 or 1.9 pre release.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

БОНУСНАЯ АКЦИЯ "Готовимся к Новому году"!!

БОНУСНАЯ АКЦИЯ "Готовимся к Новому году"!!

Ну вот и Бонусная акция для тех, кто мечтал об этом сокровище...

При заказе не менее 3 ножей или папок (в акции участвуют ножи и папки Sizzix и Spellbinders)
Любая машинка - 4350руб!!!
Доставка Почтой России в любую точку мира из MarkaDecor Atlanta -БЕСПЛАТНО!






Для заказа Вам необходимо поставить комментарии +1 (УЧАСТВУЮ В АКЦИИ)  в группе, написать адрес в личном сообщении Марине Чуздюк, и указать способ оплаты (на карту Сбербанка/Ситибанка).

Удачных покупок!!


Творить,мечтать,вдохновлятся.
Каждый день с МаркаДекор!

Secret Crafter - Recipe

My second post for today is for the challenge at Secret Crafter which this week is to follow a recipe - 1 image 2 designer papers 3 flowers 4 brads and 5 pearls or gems.
I have used one of my favourite LOTV stamps and in my favourite colours.



Secret Crafter - Recipe - http://www.thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/




Внимание, внимание!!!

Родительское собрание  29.09 в 7 часов вечера в актовом зале. Явка обязательна! Информация по экзаменам!

One More Page




In case you haven’t heard, I’m being published by Orbit, a subsidiary of Hachett, one of the traditional big six New York publishers. Currently most people know me as an ebook success story because that’s where most of my books were sold. Ebooks made my career, but I still love bookstores. I bet you’d be hard-pressed to find an author who doesn’t.

When I was first published, the small press who put out The Crown Conspiracy set me up with quite a few bookstore signings. Once I switched to print-on-demand this became more difficult and over the years I saw a shift in the mentality of many of the large chains and how they handled author’s events. Even though the store managers at Borders loved the number of books I sold at each signing, they had to stop booking me because corporate handed down an edict restricting author signings. Many of the Barnes and Noble’s I used to sign at have remodeled, adding more shelves, and now have no space for author signings. Not only could I not do my Orbit book launch at the store that launched the series, they also evicted my weekly writing group that met there for three years.

This has started me speculating on the future of bookstores. I think a lot of people have been doing that, mostly people in bookstores. I find this trend of big chains to increase the number of books in their stores at the expense of services, a bit of an odd strategy. What brick and mortar store can expect to offer a better selection than a virtual one? I’ve been to some awfully big bookstores, four-story behemoths and I find they almost never carry most of the titles I’m interested in—the ones I’ve seen reviewed online—the ones by independent authors. No matter how big the store, the selection of books are always the same. The same genres, the same authors. The new cutting-edge writers, who are breaking new ground, are missing from those shelves and, I expect, always will be. There are simply too many books being published each year for a physical store to house. Trying to keep up with a virtual store in a battle of selection is like bringing a knife to a nuclear war.

The one advantage a book store has over a virtual space is community interaction and the undeniable fact that people like being in bookstores. They enjoy going to them. They prefer the warm, bookish atmosphere that’s like a library without any priggish rules. Unlike any other kind of store, you can usually get a cup of coffee, relax in a cushion chair, and spend all day sampling their wares. You can chat with employees about the new releases like kids do about new games or movies. And everyone can find something they enjoy, something that appeals to them, that they can get lost in.

Given this, I have to wonder why corporate managers are choosing to stuff their stores so full of books that there’s no longer room for customers?

The Theft of Swords book release is coming up, and I wanted to have a party at a local store. As I mentioned, where I originally launched the series now can’t accommodate an author event.  I was wondering where I might hold the party—or if I would even have one. To my surprise I received an email out of the blue from someone who works at a store called One More Page.

Hi Michael!  We are a new independent bookstore in Arlington--we opened in mid-January.  A friend of store-owner Eileen McGervey forwarded to us a message you sent out in February about your new publishing deal with Orbit Books.  Please keep us in mind when you hit the road and start doing press and promotional tours.  We're just in your back yard, and we'd love to host you for an event, or sell books for you at any local off-site events.

Of course, with this deal, you're probably getting ready to move to New York!  In any case, congratulations, and thanks for letting me introduce our nifty little bookstore.  I could really relate to your invocation of "the little indie that could"!

A bookstore wrote to me? A bookstore contacted me and just threw their arms wide and invited me to hold whatever!

I had never heard of One More Page, but that was certainly about to change. Robin and I accepted an invitation by Terry Nebeker, whose intriguing title is, Author Whisperer, and rode over to this little bookstore hidden away on a business side street off of Washington Street, in Falls Church, Virginia. It is not a big place and its brand new—they opened this year. I had to ask myself who opens a bookstore in 2011, the year of the ebook? The year that killed Borders? It’s like deciding that this is the time to invest in Wall Street. It turns out a woman by the name of Eileen McGervey did. A former marketing executive, Eileen apparently left that world to do something she felt she would enjoy more, something that would allow her time with her family—a world of wine, chocolate, and books. I’ve yet to meet Eileen, but I already envision her as a Willie Wonka of the literary world.

Her store is a beautiful, quaint place with a few soft chairs, and plenty of books, but also plenty of space. Best off all, in some incredible, high-tech coup that has clearly taken all the other bookstores by surprise, One More Page has managed to invent the wheel. Okay, maybe they didn’t invent the wheel, but they put them on the bottoms of the book display shelves so they can be wheeled out of the way for such things as book signings, and writers, and readers groups. This astounding advance in bookstore engineering has allowed them to do the impossible. In a space smaller than a chain store’s coffee shop, they have created a retail space that can also allow for community events.

And they are making use of this.

Their website has a schedule of events, and not just a once a week children’s story time, common to most stores and libraries. They have book club meetings, chocolate and wine tasting, author events, readings, discussions, critics-in-residence, baseball night, writer’s groups, and…yes, children’s story time. Their schedule is—pun intended—booked. And while they don’t have a coffee shop in the store—they have a whole café right across the tiny side street.   

Will they be able to compete with the big stores on the block? With Amazon? Obviously not on their playing field. Yet I don’t think that’s their plan. Instead of trying to offer as many books as possible, One More Page offers a limited selection, but it appears to be a carefully chosen one. These are people who read. Their book buyer is Katie Fransen a grad student with a voracious appetite for books. How voracious? When I walked into their store and we were introduced for the first time—she knew me, and my books. That’s never happened before. Usually, when I tell people I’m an author they ask, “Write anything I’d know?” to which I laugh and shake my head. But she knew about Riyria. She was a living breathing, female version of Myron Lanaklin.

Looking around at the moveable shelves, at the signs on the walls announcing dozens of up-coming events, listening to the passionate conversations the staff held with a constant stream of customers, hearing them instill a giggly exhilaration in others about the promise of a new book release, I had one thought running through my head—this is the future of bookstores. This is the place you can go to ask what you should be reading next. This is the friendly face you can trust to know what you like, to even set aside a copy for the next time you wander in. This is your own personal library, cared for by a staff who don’t demand a weekly pay check from you, just the price of a book, a glass of wine, or a bit of chocolate now and then—and who can’t appreciate something sweet and wonderful now and then. 

And just to be clear, no one at One More Page has any idea I’ve written this post, and probably won’t ever know, unless their in-house-Hermione-Granger, Katie Fransen, also reads my blog, but that might be beyond even her powers.



Oh What a Beautiful Morning!

Clear blue sky, sunshine and more to come - lovely.  And here an I making Christmas cards.  This one is using one of the Pink Gem digi images, coloured with Promarkers with a little bit of glitter added.  Part of the background embossed and inked.



I am entering this into the following challenges;

Pink Gem - Sketch  - http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

CHNC - For a Child - http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/



Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Real-time dynamic GPU path tracing

A small teaser of something I'm working on, rendered in real-time on a GeForce GTS 450:


12 samples per pixel, max path length = 4, 584x266 render resolution, Stanford Bunny with 69k triangles (rendered in about 0.4 seconds on a low-end GTS450):



This will eventually become a full-fledged game inspired by this video:

Mulheres Gordinhas





Para pegar a imagem "Copie o Código"acima e cole no seu perfil ! Se usar o Novo Orkut, antes de colar o código, clique na caixa em branco e depois no botão HTML
Colaboração:http://baudamaryjo.blogspot.com/





Para pegar a imagem "Copie o Código"acima e cole no seu perfil ! Se usar o Novo Orkut, antes de colar o código, clique na caixa em branco e depois no botão HTML
Colaboração:http://baudamaryjo.blogspot.com/





Para pegar a imagem "Copie o Código"acima e cole no seu perfil ! Se usar o Novo Orkut, antes de colar o código, clique na caixa em branco e depois no botão HTML
Colaboração:http://baudamaryjo.blogspot.com/





Para pegar a imagem "Copie o Código"acima e cole no seu perfil ! Se usar o Novo Orkut, antes de colar o código, clique na caixa em branco e depois no botão HTML
Colaboração:http://baudamaryjo.blogspot.com/

A few details on Imagination's PowerVR GPU with Caustic Graphics hardware ray tracing

A few days ago, an article appeared on the Japanese website 4gamer.net about an in-development PowerVR GPU, the PowerVR RTX, which is said to have integrated ray tracing hardware from Caustic Graphics (acquired by Imagination Technologies in December 2010). The article is in Japanese, and the Google translated version is barely understandable:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.4gamer.net%2Fgames%2F017%2FG001762%2F20110920023%2F

Monday, September 26, 2011

Add a number

A bit late today, still recovering a busy weekend.  Saturday, had a brilliant day at Ally Pally and yesterday we were at The Royal Albert Hall where my grandaughter was appearing, didn't get home till 1.30 this morning.  I just don't do late nights!

Anyway, my card today is for a couple of challenges, have used a digi image called Charley from Cuddly Buddly coloured with Promarkers.  The backing paper is from a Papermania pad and the image has been die cut with one of the dies from X cut, have to say I am very pleased with them especially as I got them at a reduced price on Saturday.



I am entering this into the following challenges;

Cuddly Buddly - Big Number or Letter
http://blog.cuddlybuddly.com/

I Love Promarkers - Include a Number
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/





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