tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155792232024-03-26T10:05:14.112+01:00Me, myself, and Ikwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-44018935321692112822011-04-03T21:10:00.001+01:002011-04-03T21:53:26.353+01:00Springtime in Germany<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5585610735_7d24af724b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5585610735_7d24af724b.jpg" /></a>This weekend the weather in Frankonia was superb. Mid 80'S, blue sky and sunshine. What better reason is there to take a bike trip with the family?<br />
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Pumping along on my bike I felt the sun on my skin for the first time this year. It was wonderful.<br />
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Near the river we spread out a blanket to lay in the sun. Jonathan made a mess trying to get his feet wet and a raft came by with two women and a man paddling after a lost pair of shoes floating downstream, they finally caught up with them. Everything was well in the world.<br />
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Relaxed, refreshed, reinvigorated I spent some time testing out a new (to me) nikkor objective I received as a long-time loan from a friend.<br />
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Manual everything, 135mm 1:2. It's incredibly sharp if you can focus it well with a modern DSLR (without a focusing screen). When you get it right it is amazing. I should probably rephrase that: it is amazing if you get it right but when you do it is really amazing :-)<br />
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In other news, I've agreed to work on a Season of KDE T-Shirt (Lydia talked me into it!)...more on that soon.</div>kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-57937282701018379902010-08-27T19:16:00.000+01:002010-08-27T19:16:23.963+01:00On being famous...I called the registrar's office the other day to ask a question. The person on the phone was very helpful and quickly answered my question. In order to do so, he asked me for my name, which I told him. He started making odd "hrm" noises and repeating my last name. After a bit, a light went on and he announced "I know who you are" which, considering that I am not a criminal or a rock-star (yet) seemed unlikely.<br />
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Somewhat scary, but he knew quite a bit about me. Make and color of my car, particulars about family members, events I have attended and more. How did he know all of this?<br />
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He's a fan of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwwii">my flickr page</a>kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-486205591478521872010-06-30T12:42:00.010+01:002010-07-04T22:48:55.852+01:00Doing the Polka (dot), step by step<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrybREPz1n9dJ__r6WQAdim3zthnIIaRUXg9qp3dgUTBa0mSCpaMMh3q-9A0ccpHFcwENnvr0jycImL2IcrClDbYkqDd1NW5bPIes8MtE2LGHhRgGpL0Sp2_bO8nRqkzKAR-uI/s1600/kat_small.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrybREPz1n9dJ__r6WQAdim3zthnIIaRUXg9qp3dgUTBa0mSCpaMMh3q-9A0ccpHFcwENnvr0jycImL2IcrClDbYkqDd1NW5bPIes8MtE2LGHhRgGpL0Sp2_bO8nRqkzKAR-uI/s320/kat_small.png" width="212" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyone who has seen the new visual identity for Ubuntu and Canonical probably noticed the marketing material includes several stunning images created of differently sized dots; inside the Ubuntu Lucid CD sleeve, on </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwwii/4748176151/sizes/l/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">banners</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> and such. What most probably didn't know is that they were created using open source software.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Start by opening the image you want to trace (the source image) with Inkscape. Your source image can be anything, bitmap or vector objects. It helps to use an image with enough contrast, the right perspective to make the subject discernible when simplified, etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The menu item Edit->Clone->Create Tiled Clones... opens the dialog which contains several tabs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Shift and Trace tabs were of specific interest to us. Shift allows you to add spacing between the tiled clones (Shift X;Per Column, Shift Y; Per Row), offset them and more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Trace tab is where the magic happens. Be sure to select "Trace the drawing under the tiles" to turn the effect on. After that, there are 3 simple steps: 1) get a value from the source image, 2) do some optional processing on that number and 3) apply the final value to some attribute of the clone.</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Process the information read from the source image. "Gamma correct" increases/decreases the value chosen and allows you to fine tune aspects of the pattern, "Randomize" sets the percentage of randomization and "Invert" flips the value.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Define which attribute of the clone should be effected by the value resulting from step 2. The "Color", "Size", "Opacity" and the probability of "Presence" of a clone can be changed. Any combination of these is also allowed. We chose "Size".</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Finally, depending on the ratio of source image to your original clone set the correct number of "Rows, columns" or set the "Width, height" of your the area you want to trace with tiles - remember the original tile defines the top left point.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After that, just hit create. Undo is your friend, given the right source image and with time and practice it is simple to create a tiled pattern which traces and image. Here is what I came up with, kinda spooky - it's going to be the cover of my first book.</span><br />
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In a few days we accomplished quite a lot: a new expander style, a new handle style, new radio and check button styles , focused and default button theme states, etc. More on this in the near future.<br />
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Thursday evening Otto, Daniel and myself travelled to Brussels to attend the Libre Graphic Meeting. I really enjoyed myself and learned quite a lot including; best practices in font design, releasing and maintaining open fonts, font design and features for African languages, device specific colour management, and diffusion curves (amazing stuff).kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-68855503349419877902010-05-22T23:05:00.001+01:002010-05-22T23:56:14.496+01:00Colour managementI've been looking for a local store which offers a colour sprectromitor and chanced upon the spyder3. I have to say that it is a total let-down. It doesn't work on Linux to begin with. I feared this going in but the gracious return policy at the store allows me to buy things and simply return them within two weeks without any reason - my standard answer is "It doesn't work with linux". They smile and give me my money back - great store, they get a large part of my earnings :-)<br />
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In the case of the spyder3, it didn't even work with windows, really. No more whites, everything is blue, the colour profile it creates is horrible. I tried it with daylight, incandescent, etc and to be honest I can do much better with my eye. Definitely returning it when I get back from my trip to London and the Libre Graphics Meeting. Crap in a box for 99€ if you ask me.</div>
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After a *lot* of amazing effort from the Canonical design team I am pleased to announce that preliminary Ubuntu visual identity is <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/VisualIdentity">online and available to all!</a>.<br />
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If you've never worked through such a process before the amount of work truly involved will astound you. Every piece fits perfectly into a well-thought master plan and is lovingly executed.<br />
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As this propagates throughout the project and materials it will become clear that everything fits together like puzzle pieces. Hats off to everyone who devoted their skill and love to make this a reality.kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-55029158509811415992010-04-21T12:35:00.001+01:002010-05-16T23:04:00.867+01:00Ubuntu WallpapersIn case anyone is missing their favourite wallpapers from Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) in 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) there is good news!<div>
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<br />kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-71055858580189549402010-03-05T17:45:00.001+01:002010-03-05T17:45:45.079+01:00New in lucid...If you're running lucid with the latest updates be sure to try click n' drag the window from anywhere in the top dark area. In other words, the windeco and menubar are both dragable now. Thanks go to Cody Russell!kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-58135866833109700342010-03-01T02:16:00.000+01:002010-03-01T02:16:29.632+01:00Sunday night<br />
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<span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwwii/4372381028/">Cat at the Lotus</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kwwii/">kwwii</a></span><br />
This is a tale of weary over-worked designers, days spent toiling in the colour factory. Nights searching, yearning, I dare say for some of us, groping, for some magical libation, some flame, to lighten our burdens and free heart and soul.kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-75367019611761666082010-02-19T00:08:00.002+01:002010-02-19T17:56:12.780+01:00Amazing Lunch at Canonical<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwwii/4368299885/" title="photo sharing"><img alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2790/4368299885_ae6b8f2e01_m.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br />
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Otto's friend Elsa has a catering service, <a href="http://www.washoku.co.uk/">WASHOKU</a> we've used in the past but recently they went from good to excellent.<br /><br />She went to Japan and came back much the wiser :-) She and her partner brought in various dishes which really impressed. <br /><br />From the salad, mains, to the desert, everything was top notch. <br /><br />They make a Japanese minestrone which has a very clear and delicate vegetable flavour. I'm not a fan of pumpkin but with this soup they managed to define the balance of flavours so well that the pumpkin turned out to be the slightly sweet, nutty flavour which sealed the deal.<br /><br />The pork, slow cooked to perfection, melted in your mouth. The cabbage that accompanied it was a wonderful contrast to the soy and garlic of the meat.<br /><br />I didn't get to taste the Salmon...I was busy enjoying what I had on my plate and simply missed it :p It's rare to find someone who knows how to combine ingredients in new ways to produce something which satisfies all your expectations and yet goes a step beyond.<br /><br />I applaud them for their skill and highly recommend their service.kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-9780340031242834082010-02-15T23:30:00.001+01:002010-02-15T23:30:13.235+01:00Lucid Day<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/j_baer/4354379009/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4354379009_9044aa9075_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/j_baer/4354379009/">Lucid Day</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/j_baer/">j_baer</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>Ever feel like that?</p>kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-6447062816197906892010-02-10T12:25:00.001+01:002010-02-10T16:11:50.544+01:00Lucid Community Artwork PushLucid is well under way so I thought it is time to remind everyone of a few initiatives you might want to get involved with:<br />
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<br />kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-58611579813877799632010-02-08T22:14:00.000+01:002010-02-08T22:14:27.736+01:00Dressing for the Occasion<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Watching a new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbWymHmTH98">Nena</a> video today on VIVA, I realized that a) she's hot for her age but makes crap music and b) I really need an evil-bunny-man costume.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Naturally, that made me think of </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwwii/1829417038/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Jono's wonderful costume</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> (not to mention the effects it had on the ladies and other random people on the street).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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We should make a rule that in order to get Ubuntu membership you need to have a pic of yourself as your alter-ego.kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-62954603567724693142010-02-08T13:57:00.001+01:002010-02-08T13:57:10.289+01:00New ToyPicked up a N900 the other day. It's really quite amazing. Best of all it's linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. 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Lots of pieces came together like switching icon themes, colour changes in the UI, a new dark theme for GDM, a new default background and, 19 photos chosen from the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/">flickr group</a> we started earlier this year.<br /><br />The results of the flickr submissions is simply amazing. 639 members submitted 2001 photos. Selecting the images to include in Karmic was a big task, and if there were more free space on the disk, I would add more.<br /><br />First, we chose a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1188458@N24/">short-list</a>. To do so, a group of Ubuntu artwork community members and Canonical employees collected their favourites and we invited the photographers to include their images in the short-list group. That same group then made a selection of 20-30 top photos and from that we have 19 stunning images for users to select from.<br /><br />Anyone and everyone who took part in this deserves a big round of applause, and perhaps a beer from me :)kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-22940782167507245332009-08-28T22:07:00.005+01:002009-08-29T00:34:31.866+01:00Vacation in Southern FranceJust got back from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwwii/sets/72157622045584223/">vacation</a>. In the last 14 years vacation has meant spending a few weeks in America visiting family (or driving my wife's family around America) with the occasional long weekend visiting something nearby in Europe. All things considered, that sucks in the long run.<br /><br />A bit more than a year ago my father-in-law met a couple who live in Southern France who normally "house-swap" their vacations...that is, trade houses with someone around the world. This year they had something planned and didn't need to swap with someone so they offered it to us. Sounds too good to be true, right?<br /><br />It was a dream. The beaches: we found 5 that impressed us and stuck with those; swimming, snorkeling, body-boarding, a dinner picnic at the beach...walking into town to get an ice cream, visit the shops, markets and artists. Every town in the area seems devoted to fine-art.<br /><br />We visited Valbonne, Mougin (amazing food, art pure), Grasse, Nice and Cannes (extremely rich people), drove into the mountains to see Rougon and Moustiers-Sainte-Marie and drove up and down the coast of the Côte d'Azur.<br /><br />One thing I learned by driving 11+ hours through Austria, Switzerland, along the border to Liechtenstein, into Italy, around Milan and down the coast to Cannes:<br /><ul><li>Germans drive really fast (duh!)<br /></li><li>Austrians want a lot of money to get through their country, the Swiss want more and they drive slow</li><li>Liechtenstein is on the other side of the Rhein river and looks amazingly similar to the Swiss side</li><li>in Italy, the lines seperating lanes on the street are treated like grafitti...a German driver (going as fast a possible, naturally) should be aware, they weave back and forth without rhyme or reason.<br /></li><li>in France, at least where we were, in a car, you are the bitch to anything with two wheels and a motor. I honestly saw a guy going 120km/h on a motorcycle while text-messaging; a guy on a moped with his foot against the licence plate of the moped in front of him, pushing it (and the girl on it); and last but not least, the guy standing up, hands in the air, going down a curvy hill at about 100km/h.</li></ul>All in all, it was perfect and if I had to sum it up, it would be with this:<br /><br><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyByxe9iDjTmUiXQhdniwd7bo8ZJsF6DHiji4rZJliy7_x4ljyFGRWx9cyefgq-5lG5me12pYp9KA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-74110475070327311562009-07-18T00:01:00.002+01:002009-07-18T00:05:15.446+01:00ubuntu flickr photo submissions<p>The flickr group photos are coming along very well! ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/ ) </p><p>Keep up the good work!</p>kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15579223.post-41911706345246797852009-07-09T11:47:00.002+01:002009-07-09T11:56:31.201+01:00Karmic WallpapersUbuntu would like to include a beautiful set of images for our users to choose from in our next release. In order to accomplish this we have set up a <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds">wiki page</a> to explain things and <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Backgrounds">guidelines for inclusion.</a><br /><br />In addition we've started a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork">flickr group</a> to attract current flickr users and encourage new contributors to step up and take the plunge.<br /><br />If you have amazing photos which you would like to share with the world, please add them to the list!kwwiihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677399462659617389noreply@blogger.com6