Here's a picture of the "Thunderdome". I just recently bought a new bike, a 2012 Fuji Roubaix 2.0 (Mostly Shimano 105 components, except for the front derailleur, cassette, and cranks) and have been itching to get onto the road but the rain has kept me inside. It's my first modern day road bike and it's quite the leap from the steel bikes I've been riding for awhile now. I just cleaned my main commuter, a 1984 Trek 520, cleaning off the dirty Cinelli cork bar tape.
Other than that, it seems all quiet for today save for dinner with some of the guys in a bit. I've been into that Tegan and Sara song "Closer" on the radio for the past month or so and just recently discovered they have a music video and lyric video.
Thought the music video was okay. Tegan and Sara don't seem to be too excited as performers. Definitely noted to make a hipster fortress indoor tent party sometime in the future.
Pretty interesting lyric video. Love the Lichtenstein since every now and then I use his stuff. I really feel they could have done more for the bridge and chorus to make it more up bea, but it's a good video nonetheless. Also love the chromatic aberration effect thats popular now a days.
Speaking of chromatic aberration, there is a tutorial I saw not too long ago about it.. let me just pull that up.
"Chromatic aberration is the failure of a lens to focus all colors to the same point. To a cinematographer this can be an undesired effect, but in motion graphics it can be a very nice addition. While it would be great to capture chromatic aberration naturally with real lenses, most modern lenses aim to minimize this effect. This is why we are dedicating this tutorial to learning how to recreate this phenomenon using built-in after effects plugins."
AE Tuts + Tutorial - Chromatic Aberration
Hope everyone has a safe and happy rainy day in Socal. Now time for me to dread about taking speech class tomorrow..
