I hope you all had some nice days (celebrating, relaxing or whatever else). The drawing is the result of watching akeyla's videocast of painting »Crying Sun« (link may follow when she releases it to the public). I think I need such motivation-igniters more often... :)

Take care,
      Brôgon

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Take care,
  Brôgon

After a long time of silence, I post again...

The weekend two weeks ago was filled with fun, freedom and lots to eat: H-Con 4. A small furry convention in the depths of Odin's Forest (usually known as Odenwald – but that's not as mystic, eh?). I even got to draw something again! – Not that my »art« evolved any way within the passed year since the last one, but hey, at least something, So shield your eyes, as I will clutter your friends page with something... well, something-not-like-I-wanted-it-to-be: *fg*

      
(click for larger size and some descriptions)

In other news, I'm still somehow almost finished with my Master studies, short to be a »Master of science in computer science«. But already hard working at some company seemingly no-one knows... but innovative and fun to work at  :)   We produce security holograms for proving a product is really genuine – just not like the common Bragg-holograms you see everywhere (and can buy fake ones in A+ quality directly from the likeable forgery company of your choice). Unlike the non-3D, unique (to each sticker) characters and logos visible to the naked eye, the actual holograms can only be read with a laser. These provide – again – an individual serial number or even a digital, cryptographic information block with each sticker. Fake that! ;)

Take care,
    Brôgon

That's quite what my art teacher said to me quite to often (be it verbal or by grade):

http://www.wetherobots.com/2007/10/19/wrong/

No wonder I stopped to like painting, drawing and sculpting... whatever :( It just took all the fun. And now I struggle to get myself back to do it. Now, where I don't have that much time and no real motivation >.<

Take care,
  Brôgon

I finally, actually publish a software project of mine, even as open source (GPL)!

It's a small tool designed for some forgetful or easily distracted writers (like me :P ). It's especially designed for NaNoWriMo participants. It "reminds" you in (radomizable)  periods  to write using a smooth chime sound and a yellow "post-it"-note like window on the upper left:




It additionally displays both how much you have done and how much is left to write for today depending on the fraction words per day calculated from the given time period. You have to use a plain text file (those .txt i.e. Notepad/MS Edit produce, not MS Word, OpenOffice or alike) as reference/watched file.

( ...and more... )

You can download it here:

• Windows Installer
• Platform-independent Python Script (.tar.gz)

The Windows-Installer provides a complete ready-to-run program. To use the script on non-Windows platforms, you must download the .tar.gz. You'll need to have both Python (2.4 and up) and wxPython (2.6 and up) installed. Of course it would also work on Windows, if you've installed Python & wxPython for Windows :P

Have fun!
  Brôgon