Just found some of my old 3D Studio renders from the mid 1990’s. I didn’t even know that this footage existed. Check out the blinking camcorder LED reflection. It adds to the DOS of it all.
So I’ve been the biggest ocean liner nerd for the past like…..16 years right. One of my absolute favorite ships has always been the Queen Mary 2 ever since she was built (I was such a nerd that I collected magazine articles about her back in the day)
Just to give you an idea about my kinda QM2 nerdom:
This is a model I built all the way back in like 2007 and a book I bought around the same time
this is the magazine article from 2004 that I still have
So anyway, each year she comes over to Hamburg to visit Germany. I live in Germany, so it SHOULDA been easy to at least see her once in real life, right? Well somehow because of life and work and uni and school and whatnot, I never managed to actually ever see her for the past 15 years.
But guess who gets to FINALLY fucking see her next Sunday. I booked a hotel in Hamburg for a single night just so I could see a flipping ship and I’m not even sorry. I’m also pretty sure I might tear up when I finally see her in person and I’m not even sorry for that either. I’m so excited!
On the one hand, the oldest book we own is from 1635 and thus an absolutely incredible prop for some final [Caleb?] Wittebane cosplay photos, on the OTHER hand the book in question is a copy of Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity which was, amongst other things, written as a refutation of Puritanism, so actually it doesn’t suit the Wittebanes all that well, on the OTHER other hand it does feel like the Wittebane in question might not have been particularly into the whole Puritan thing to begin with, and on the LAST other hand what I am contemplating doing is taking selfies with a theological book well over a century older than the country I live in while dressed as a fictional character from an animated series and I’m quibbling over denominational differences.
I have so many hands and I love the human experience.
Pulling out the F!Hawke CosPlay for Comic-Con as well. I was just excited it still fits… should lose at least 5 lbs in the next couple of weeks though. Being able to breathe would be nice.
Me being a total cheese ball and getting super hyped for NYC Comic-Con! Still working on my fancy N7 Nerf gun, but should have that ready in a couple of days.
In the equator, when the sun forms a right angle with the earth, the tree and its shadow.
Not to be an asshole, but im pretty sure this happens everywhere at noon
…It most certainly doesnot, I live up north and that’s the freakiest fucking thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I feel like I’m looking at a graphical error.
This is called Lāhainā Noon, and it only happens at the equator and only twice a year (in any given location). Apparently objects like poles that are straight up-and-down look like they don’t even have shadows. More hereandhere.
