A cleaner shot of the latest Batman for Square Enix, designed by Tesuya Nomura, the creator of Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts.
Some painted masks and capes at the 75th Anniversary exhibit.
Batman almost always looks better in Black & White.
But sometimes a dash of color helps…
Kotobukiya had an impressive display, as usual.
I think I overheard someone say there were about 1000 Storm Troopers in this setup.
A few miscellaneous shots from around the floor. Mystique, the Ring Wraith and Lurtz, leader of the Uruk-hai were some highly detailed, life-sized statues from the Profiles in History booth.
Deadpool, by Kotobukiya
More Batman, in case you didn’t already get enough.
Came across some pretty cool things at Comic-Con today. In particular, this Monkey King sculpt was really impressive. The detail was just incredible. I also continue to be impressed with how well the iPhone 5s can take pictures. Some credit goes to Snapseed as well, for really simple and powerful “on-the-go” photo editing features.
This next one is from Sideshow’s Court of the Dead. They had a very nice booth that was isolated from crowds on either side and had great art and displays around each sculpture so photos came out much cleaner without glass reflections everywhere and people in the backgrounds.
What Comic-con image gallery would be complete without some Batman, Iron Man and Hulk. The last two in this set are Kat from Gravity Rush, which Kyle recognized since she’s from a video game he had played on his PS Vita. He was also quick to point out that her constant high-pitched wailing in the game is very annoying.
And then there’s…Vader’s car…
Keely Drew patterns on her hands with watercolor pencils and it looked like Henna without the texture.
My Huck Gee 8" Skullhead Dunny Black arrived today. It apparently sold out in under 2 minutes on Kidrobot.com, but I bought mine from Myplasticheart.com instead since I got a "coming soon" email from them a day before I got the KR one. I think it sold out pretty fast on MPH as well since it was no longer available when I checked again after my purchase went through in the morning.
This is the new repaint of the original version that debuted at Comic-con in 2010. Back then, it was a limited edition GID SDCC version, then was released with a red pinstriped suit. I think this is the best version yet.
Fits nicely with the black and white Sean "Cheeks" Galloway Batman already on the shelf in my loft that my wife got me for my birthday last year. Things are beginning to get a bit crowded above the TV though.
Got an email from Myplasticheart about their After Christmas Sale and I didn't have high hopes, but I was pleasantly surprised to find these:
Koguma Black, Number 3 of 650:
And Thundermutt 3.0 Gold, Number 152 of 500.
The MPH website said this was a limited run of 200, but the box indicated otherwise.
This Thundermutt is a collaboration between artists, Tristan Eaton and Lucas Irwin (aka Filth). I love this piece, partially for how the head comes off to reveal additional designs by Filth hidden underneath:
And of course, I've been collecting Tokyoplastic for a long time now, so getting the Black version of Koguma was a nice find. I’m just not taking the photos on seamless anymore so the database is a little out of date.
It's a good day for the toy collection.
I never did update my basic iPhone 4s Retina versions for iPhone 5, so I’m taking this opportunity to create new wallpapers at 1040 x 1536 so they can be optimized for the parallax effect in iOS 7 on iPhone 5/5c/5s.
Once Posterous got acquired by Twitter it was only a matter of time before the great blogging platform got sunset. Well, the inevitable has finally happened so I need to find a new home for my personal blog.
The announcement email indicated that Wordpress and Squarespace had ways to import from Posterous, and since I’ve never been a fan of Wordpress, here I am giving Squarespace another shot.
A few annoying things to note about the import:
While your galleries get imported, you will need to re-set the way you want your images to show up. I had several posts that included several smaller galleries (seperated by blocks of text), but the Squarespace import puts them all into one combined gallery. I found no easy way to break them apart within the admin console, so I essentially had to re-import the ones that got messed up. While this was a pain, it was made a little easier by utilizing the Posterous backup, which saved all the original images in folders based on the post date.
But make no mistake. It is a MAJOR pain. Took me several weeks just to go through all the posts and re-import and format a bunch of them. One of the main ways I used Posterous was to publish posts with lots of images, organized in specific ways. On the plus side, it actually gave me a chance to revisit some of these old posts which I had forgotten about. Love the fact that these memories can be preserved this way.
One nice byproduct of this is the fact that Squarespace has more controls over gallery presentation, so at least I was able to take advantage of this feature to not have all my posts with images look the same.
Some images actually came across with body content moved into the caption area of the image. Not sure what caused this to happen, but if you happen to come across a post that has oddly-styled text, that’s probably one of them that I didn’t get around to cleaning up.
Posterous posts that included videos embedded from other websites like YouTube and Vimeo came across just fine. However, I also had several posts where I uploaded video directly to Posterous. They had their own video player so they were able to host video files captured and sent via iPhone. The posts that contained any Posterous-hosted video were basically hosed. Squarespace does not host video files (or at least not that I can see yet), so I had to re-upload all the videos to YouTube. The problem here is, many of them were shot on iPhone, in vertical orientation. Vertical videos on YouTube stink since they get massive black bars on the left and right and don't maximize the vertical real estate.
I preferred the designs of some of the Portfolio templates as a starting point, but unfortunately, some of the blog capabilities from Posterous are not visible in these templates. Comments, likes, and tweets are preserved in data, but don’t show up unless you pick from one of the Blog templates. I checked with Customer Service, and unfortunately there isn’t a way to get the tags into the specific template I like.
All in all, I like Squarespace, but it’s a paid service which means I need to think twice before activating the blog my twins had been writing just for fun.
Squarespace has some pretty nicely-designed templates to start with. This makes getting up and running pretty easy and fast. There's also a good bit of customization allowed but I haven't quite figured out how to make dramatic changes. Posterous gave you access to full markup and CSS, which made it easy to get exactly what I wanted. It’s probably going to take me awhile to figure out how to do that on Squarespace.
I’m annoyed by the fact that the top menu changes for no good reason when I navigate away from the "Work" tab.
Early adopter @adamehrheart stood in line overnight to get his iPhone 5 which he shared with me this morning. I had no idea the Panorama feature was already on my 4s when I upgraded to iOS 6 the other night until he told me he realized the same thing while standing in line. We tested the Panorama feature this morning on both devices and the differences are ridiculous between the two. Check them out.
iPhone 5:
iPhone 4s:
The iPhone 5 version was shared to me via PhotoStream which came over as a 1.5mb file. The iPhone 4s version was downloaded from my own PhotoStream, and that was a whopping 16mb file.
Here’s some odd specs:
Adam then sent me what we thought was the full resolution from the iPhone 5 via email, but that ended up being only 3.5mb, 8640 x 1865.
Despite the difference in resolution (which is completely unintuitive given the newer, higher resolution of the 5) the quality differences are dramatic.
