Bronius Motekaitis - For fun

Renoir - Chagall - Motekaitis

bronius — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:14:49 -0500

Quick post about a recent painting.. This is the "Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir done in a few of the styles of Marc Chagall. In my in-progress photos below, you can see my studies: first a pencil sketch of the Renoir, next a pencil sketch of the Chagall characters of it, finally a pencil sketch outline on the canvas itself..

Can you recognize all the Renoir characters? What about the Chagall ones from "Birthday?" Click the large thumb to get to the annotated Flickr page.

DDB - a Drupal DDB Builder for building distributions on the fly

bronius — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:56:38 -0400

Ok, this is an unfair cross-post, but it's my cross-post, so comment where you will.. Either way, you'll have to wade through the copious collection of spam comments before I see it and approve... What's this about captcha?

Here's what I posted on lullabot after listening to a great podcast:

Because all good projects need a name, I would start there: DDB ("Drupal DDB Builder").

Milo's Baptism

bronius — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:31:32 -0400

Ok folks.. This didn't go down as planned, but you can sort of join Milo in a technological journey of live streaming during his baptism (in fact, the priest didn't confiscate my cell phone!). Flash player required (but you probably have it).

Above, there should be a video player, and you should see either Milo's baptism in action or a splash title screen. If you see something completely random, then the streaming/playing service has a hiccup (but you can easily visit the archives in the provided thumbnails at the end of the clip-- hopefully they're my shows and not another user's again!! :))

Dog Licks Screen Clean Flash Screensaver

bronius — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:20:40 -0500

I tried and tried to keep it low-key on the down-low but my favorite email service gmail refused to let me send to me and my small circle of friends this executable, so here it is on my website instead.

Attached to this post is a downloadable screensaver of a pugsley (sp) puppy dog licking the monitor from the inside of the computer. Adorable. But I'd have kicked it outside if I caught a mangy mutt doing that to my 24" Dell flat panel!

I take no credit for the awesomeness that is this video clip; I just used MDM Zinc to wrap it in a .scr screensaver and .exe windows installer. If you'd like it for the Mac, not sure I can help ya there... enjoy!

What the Font Worked the First Time

bronius — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:35:52 -0500

Well, I might be exposing my weakness as a designer by not immediately recognizing the ollowing font:

which is a title graphic for the intro flash to the Herrick Goldman Lighting Design website whose font I was asked to identify. It is used on the "inherited flash" intro for which I had no source .fla.

I took a screenshot with the free version of Gadwin Printscreen and saved it as a png, headed over to What the Font, stepped through the short wizard and was amazed at how simple the process and accurate the result was right off the bat. I included in my screenshot of the What the Font results screen (below) the text at the bottom with two suggested paths to get expert human help in the event that the right font was not automatically identified.

The Future or Science is Art - Write the Code not the Recording

bronius — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:44:41 -0500

This week's TIME Magazine issue had an article "Man Makes Life" that had a line within that caught my attention:

...nobody doubts that it is our DNA that determines what we are ... [in the same way that] digital etchings on a CD determine the music you hear.

This struck a chord with what I read in the cover article in a recent past issue of SEED Magazine ("The Future of Science .. is Art?"). This article suggested that abstract ideas represented in concrete artwork (music, sculpture, drawings..) are more easily studied than the theoretical concepts and math themselves.

Why I didn't attend BarCamp-Texas

bronius — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:31:13 -0500

In our community, we have a relatively new geek/designer meet-up called Refresh BCS. The organizers of the same put on a Barcamp
this past weekend, but I didn't attend. Here's why...

(more to come... stubbed for my friend Google in the meantime ;) )

Philadelphia Orchestra broadcastst live via Internet 2 to select remote sites

bronius — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:38:35 -0400

In an interesting use of Internet 2, Philadelphia Orchestra broadcastst live via Internet 2 to select remote sites. Fortunately for me, I was invited to watch/listen at KAMU's studio at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas this afternoon. The studio did a fine job setting up the experimental show, but being the brother of an audiophile and maker of high quality recording equipment, I have to admit a hair of snooty disappointment in that there wasn't surround sound and a completely closed chamber immersion-style venue... But hey, it was a first run, and it was pretty darn cool for what did happen!

Laughing crickets - they're not laughing at you..

bronius — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:14:35 -0400

click here to watch my flash movie

Out of Differences: a collage

bronius — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:58:28 -0400

I was browsing my flickr photostream and came across an old favorite image I had uploaded long ago:

It's a collage I call Out of Differences showing the elements of fish and bird representing their inability to coexist, overturned to demonstrate a strong "this ain't right" effect and a solitary individual leaving a crowd through that difference into an unknown. Hmm.. an expansion on this collage could be to simply extend the whitespace of the path before this departing individual...