TPM Columnist Gets It All Wrong
I love Talking Points Memo, but I am afraid I have to strongly disagree with the sentiment expressed in an article today by Nathan Newman:
"By a 5-4 decision, the conservative judicial activists on the Supreme Court violated in the Ricci decision any reasonable notion of state sovereignty....
It is a remarkable thing that conservatives that supposedly object to (a) inflexible federal rules on civil rights; (b) telling states how to spend their own money, and (c) second-guessing elected officials with judicial opinion would violate all three principles in the Ricci firefighter case."
Nathan, Nathan, Nathan....Are you trying to tell us that it is "remarkable" when conservatives turn out to not give a God damn about the sacred principles that they have blabbed on about for years? Are you trying to tell us that it is "remarkable" when it turns out that conservatives will do anything they want, regardless of those so-called principles?
Come on guy, there's a reason why most of us regard the words "conservative" and "hypocrite" to be essentially synonomous.
"By a 5-4 decision, the conservative judicial activists on the Supreme Court violated in the Ricci decision any reasonable notion of state sovereignty....
It is a remarkable thing that conservatives that supposedly object to (a) inflexible federal rules on civil rights; (b) telling states how to spend their own money, and (c) second-guessing elected officials with judicial opinion would violate all three principles in the Ricci firefighter case."
Nathan, Nathan, Nathan....Are you trying to tell us that it is "remarkable" when conservatives turn out to not give a God damn about the sacred principles that they have blabbed on about for years? Are you trying to tell us that it is "remarkable" when it turns out that conservatives will do anything they want, regardless of those so-called principles?
Come on guy, there's a reason why most of us regard the words "conservative" and "hypocrite" to be essentially synonomous.
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Do you have a website that shows your Photoshop and 3-D work? I'd love to see it.
Thanks. Don't worry- I'll be back.
Listen, I regard my blog as primarily a comedy site. I know I take a lot of cheap shots, but here's the thing: the number of people who changed their mind because of something they read online is smaller than the number of honest Senators. I see what I am doing here as a chance to have a little fun, without expecting anyone to take it too seriously.
As for my 3-D stuff, as I work only on studio movies and TV shows, my output really belongs to the show, so I don't post it. Sorry, and thanks for asking.
Do you use 3D Max? Great program, but too expensive for a dilettante like me.
The predominant high end program in our business is Maya. I've found this program much more usable that 3D Studio Max, although I am no expert in that program. Its nurbs modelling capacity is great, and it doesn't have the insanely complicated texture generating tools that 3D Studio Max has.
Time constraints often do not permit us to work in a program like Maya- remember my models are part of the design process and are not intended to be used in this form on screen. When I only have a couple of hours to model something, there is nothing as fast as Sketchup, which I use in connection with Piranesi for rendering. This combination produces excellent, painterly presentation material, which is reminiscent of the work of hand illustrators. The guys who do the on-screen graphics often take exports of my models (even in sketchup they are typically more detailed than many on-screen models) and convert them to Maya format, and then apply their more finished texturing.
We then generally use Vectorworks for working drawings. Again, like 3D Studio Max, I find Autocad to be a bloated and rather difficult to use program (in its normal setup, it still isn't even WYSIWIG.) Vectorworks does everything we need, and we don't have the huge number of drawings that large architectural or engineering projects have, that demand the database features that make Autocad worth it.
Believer me, there's software I can't afford too. You can run through your money really quickly if you don't watch out.