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This has been my base of operations for nearly a year. Unfortunately, the business I work for is basically shuttered and on 8-13-10 I packed all of this up and put most of it into storage units.
I'll go into more detail here than in the notes, so on with the basics:
Custom built 3.066 GHz Core i7 machine w/ 12 GB ram running CentOS Linux on the left. This is my main workstation which is primarily used to run Maya 2010 and has both a 21.5" and 19" LCD monitors powered by an NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 card. No custom workstation would be complete without a vintage IBM Model M 'clicky' keyboard now would it? Oh, and in case you are wondering, yes, I am modeling a Lunar Module from the Apollo program.
In that same vicinity are my 1940s vintage Telechron red Bakelite wall clock that keeps perfectly accurate time and a Art Deco styled lady lamp named Isabel. Not pictured are my custom framed print by Andrew Bell and a 1970s vintage Honeywell computer advertisement featuring a dragon made of capacitors and chips. Also not seen, but just behind the two adjacent LCD monitors are a 7x100W Sony receiver and my turntable. These are hooked up to speakers which I placed in the ceiling grid above my desk.
Just to the right of that tower is a little white NAS box. That is a Synology DS209 with two 1TB Caviar Black drives in a RAID 1 array. This is networked storage available to each machine of the render farm for storing finished images.
Moving right from those we find an 8 port Gigabit ethernet switch for the render farm, and next a 4x KVM switch. The KVM switch connects four of the five towers on the ground to a single mouse, keyboard and 19" LCD monitor. These are the workhorses of my render farm and range from 64bit capable 3 GHz Pentium 4 machines to 3 GHz Athlon64 X2 ones. Each is maxed out with at least 4GB of ram to help handle large scenes.
Next to those is my now 'old' HP ZD8000 laptop. This was the portable workstation I bought in college. I ordered it with a 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 and I managed to later stuff 4 GB of ram into the thing. It's running the Wacom Cintiq 20WSX tablet display to the immediate right. I use this machine for any Photoshop work, drawing and painting, as a spare Maya station and as a render farm slave when needed.
Continuing down the line we find my older laptop, a Compaq 1800 with a 1 GHz Pentium III processor and all of 320 MB of ram. This is the render master and assigns scenes to each of the render slaves.
Finally, the 17" LCD monitor on the right is hooked up to any of my three really old machines. I have a Gateway 2000 P5-75 with a 75 MHz Pentium running Windows 95, a GEM machine which has the faster 150 MHz Pentium and runs Windows NT then at last the Micron Millennia Pro2 200 Rev B which I've outfitted with dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro processors and a mind boggling 256 MB of ECC Buffered DIMM RAM so that I can truly get the most out of my Windows 98 experience. These machines are just there for fun and frustration. Ever tried finding Sound Blaster drivers for 15 year old computers? When I do I'll be playing Lemmings, Freddy Pharkas and Warcraft to no end.
In front of those vintage machines sits my record collection.
At the very end we find an IKEA Helmer cabinet to store all of the cables, bits, bobs etc.... and a vintage IBM PC Server 704 being used as a bookshelf and holding my HP scanner. Oh how I love anything put out by Ballistic Publishing.
I put a lot of work into making this setup ideal for the kind of work I do. I had a comfortable layout with ample space to glide from one machine to the other, I had a few toys and decorations to liven things up a bit, every last cable was hidden neatly using under desk trays from IKEA and I was able to work efficiently but still play a bit if need be. As I was dismantling it all I couldn't help thinking "what was the point?"
Inside Leyton garage preparation area is Stagecoach London 9.4m Dennis Dart SLF/Plaxton Pointer 2; DS209, W209 DNO [TL] sanded & re-panelled and 10.5m Dennis Trident/Alexander ALX400 TA71, T671 KPU [BK] partly repainted - awaiting rear swirls. Picture taken on 17 December 2002.
Inside of Leyton garage in preparation area for repaint is Stagecoach London 9.4m Dennis Dart SLF/Plaxton Pointer 2; DS209, W209 DNO [TL]. Taken on 17 December 2002.
This view shows the drivers cab. Notice the single leaf front door feature button has been removed with a blank piece of metal over where the button was.
City Sprinter Limited W209 DNO, a Dennis Dart SLF built 2000 with a Plaxton Pointer 2 body on Jamaica Street in Glasgow at the Broomielaw and Clyde Street junction with a Glasgow (Renfield Street) to Eastwood Toll 38 service. Thursday 11th July 2013
Note, W209 DNO was originally operated by the South East London & Kent Bus Company Limited as number SLD209, being renumbered DS209 in June 2002 and being further renumbered 34209 in the Stagecoach Group’s national numbering scheme introduced in January 2003. It was transferred to the East London Bus & Coach Company Limited as number 34209 in August 2003 and the seating was altered from B27D to B24D in June 2008. It was acquired by the Ensign Bus Company Limited (a Purfleet based dealer) in October 2009 and was acquired by Central Connect Limited as number 1209 in November 2009. W209 DNO’s seating was altered from a dual door layout to a single door layout and it was renumbered 20209 at some time before being hired to City Sprinter Limited in March 2013
Ref no Canon EOS50D 7th series IMG_8656
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stripbox right and just out of frame - bottom edge below the plexiglass to ensure continuous highlight on the front panel
1/2CTB bare speedlight 1ft in front of wall, behind product, on ground shooting towards camera where a large white bounce card is diffusing and creating gradient glow onto the wall (cheap/lazy man softbox)
negative fill on left to provide the dark on the product panel
sat on dusty black plexi
via PocketWizard PlusII
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Finally getting around to expanding the storage in my old synology NAS
Inside of Leyton garage in preparation area for repaint is Stagecoach London 9.4m Dennis Dart SLF/Plaxton Pointer 2; DS209, W209 DNO [TL]. Taken on 17 December 2002.
Today’s Daily Shoot assignment is:
Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
My To Do list grows like a weed, but if I can set up some daily priorities, I'm more likely to 'check off' some items! Unfinished, but making a dent today and there's still time! Naples, FL
The Daily Shoot assignment for 2010/06/12:
Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
dailyshoot.com/assignments/209
They are finally putting up a warning light at the crosswalk to the high school across the street. A hat tip to the crossing guard that steps into the middle of 4 lanes of traffic every morning and afternoon to stop cars going as fast as 50 miles an hour (speed limit 35).
Seems like laundry is always unfinished.
Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
The Daily Shoot #209
Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
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When I read today's Daily Shoot assignment, it was pretty easy to decide what I was going to take a picture of.
This picture frame has been sitting all around the house since Valentine's Day 2009 when I made this for my boyfriend. He would rather be behind the camera then in front of it, so pictures of us are few and far between, thus making this the perfect unfinished subject :)
Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
While visiting my sister this weekend, I peeked into my nephew's bedroom, and the whole essence of his room caught my eye.
This pic shows a close-up of the Stagecoach Selkent logo. It is from Stagecoach London 9.4m Dennis Dart SLF/Plaxton Pointer 2; DS209, W209 DNO [TL]. Taken on 17 December 2002.
Daily Shoot - Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished..
Once the site of Admiral Collingwood P. S., this fenced in hole in the ground anchors the south end of Collingwood's main street. Originally destined to be a beautiful structure of condo residences, retirement residences, and commercial space, the water-filled eyesore has been nicknamed Carrier Pond, (after our current mayor), by the local coffee shop pundits. The blame for this fiasco can't be placed at the feet of any one person. Previous and current council, the developer, the Heritage Committee, a rate payers' group and the state of the economy must all share in the blame. Hopefully after the next election, we'll see an end to the bickering and some positive action.
Daily Shoot: Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
I'm only starting to plan this summer's flowers around our house, so spent a long time in the local garden store today. And as usual, ended up buying too many for the pots I have at home. Hmm... Got to think where to plant all of them. I just can't resist the lovely, colourful summer flowers.
This is how my workspace look since the switch to Mac occured in late 2008. Better late than never right ?
#ds209 Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
Looming rain and humid weather stopped the deck staining mid-project.
The Daily Shoot #209: Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
This book is unfinished but it won't be for long :-)
Replacing the pair of 1.5Tb disks (Seagate Barracuda 7200 from Feb 2010) in a Synology DS209 with a pair of larger (WD Red NAS) 4Tb drives
New drives are incredibly quite compared to the 7year old Seagates. Taking a damn age to complete migration...
Took about 5hrs to 'RAID repair' the Seagate -> WD and then 3.5hrs for the WD -> WD 'RAID repair' and then some more hours (~5hrs???) to expand the ext3 volume to full capacity
Topic: Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
I went for the most literal interpretation of the assignment. A construction site of the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland.
Shooting info: I selected this location with respect to the light source--not a flash ;-) --knowing the consequences of the exposition being for the sky. The construction site, along with the machinery would be practically silhouetted. I wanted to create an atmosphere of powerful strengths in operation.
Postprocessing: none
Practice photography at Daily Shoot.
{Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.}
These are my Concord Grapes...They should ripen to a deep dark purple in about a month! Jelly anyone?
#ds209 Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
Most of the flowers are not open yet.
"Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished."
For one of our enrichment activities next year, my kids will be making puppets. I started this one as a sample yesterday. He still needs paint and decoration, but my son is enjoying the unfinished version!
2010/06/12: "Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished." #ds209
Not the greatest picture, but I like the subject so decided to post it anyway.
Take whilst stuck on the M1 motorway, I'd only seen the assignment announcement on Twitter a few seconds before. I literally put my phone down, took a look around and saw this half finished.. room (?) on the back on a lorry slowly passing me. If I were a religious man, I'd say it was a sign. :)
...for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished."
Some Unfinished Business:
"From a healed, peaceful heart, humility is born;
from humility, a willingness to listen to others is born;
from a willingness to listen to others, mutual understanding is born;
and from mutual understanding, a peaceful society will be born.
Nonviolence is the highest form of humility; it is supreme courage."
#ds209
Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished.
There is so much unfinished stuff in here, that I don't know where to begin:
The prototype of a puppet armature for a stop motion clip I plan to make wearing the prototype of a puppet dress. There is a second unfinished armature sitting to the right and even the unfinished armature of a cat and some cat head tests - experiments on how to coat the (unfinished) hands... various versions of puppet hats unfinished ball and socket joints etc. (did you spot the FIMO dslr?)
Btw: Why does a day have only 24 hours?
Port ethernet 10/100/1000mbps, 2 ports usb, bouton de reset, connecteur d'alimentation, ventilateur.
2010/06/12: Why wait for the perfect subject? Make a photo of something that is unfinished. #ds209
In the garden, the red current berries are still mostly green. I only spotted the caterpillar while looking at the picture on my iMac. So: caterpillar = unfinished butterfly...? Also: Unfinished house in the background, though not really noticeable.