It never ceases to amaze me the ideas people come up with when they’re in need of money for someone or something.
Recently saw this site buyacredit. It’s an idea conjured up by three guys that wanted to make a movie, basically you pay to have your name put on the end credits, in turn this obviously funds the making of the film.
Here’s the info from the “about” section on their site:
BUYACREDIT.COM is a ground-breaking new project aiming to raise the sum of One Million Pounds in order to fund the upcoming feature film “Dardentor”.
We have turned to the public to help us fund the movie. To put it simply, we’re selling its end credits online, here at BUYACREDIT.COM. For just one pound/two dollars YOU can become a movie producer and see YOUR name roll down on the end credits of the upcoming commercial motion picture “Dardentor”.
NEW ADDITION: Now for just 50 pounds/$100 you can buy advertising space on the all new Advert Patchwork and on the end credits.
The project has been going from strength to strength and has already captured the imaginations of thousands across the World. Industry professionals, celebrities, journalists and directors have sung nothing but praise for the project and are extremely confident for its future.
BUYACREDIT.COM is taking a brave new leap into the world of cinema, and it wants every single one of you to be a part of it!
BUYACREDIT now and be a part of cinema history!
Pretty clever idea. I don’t think I’d ever bother buying one, but I’m sure thousands of people will. No doubt it’ll be as successful as the million dollar homepage was. I just find it crazy how one idea can make so much money in so little time (assuming they pull it off).
Good luck to them. I just need to think of something now 
Just testing out the blog functionality from Flickr. Only recently started using Flickr to host my photos but it’s really nice so far. Much easier than creating a gallery manually anyway, and hopefully they’ll get more views on there.
This is a picture of my Mum’s dog. Taken with a Canon EOS 40D using the 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens. Not the greatest shot in the world obviously but there’s something about it that I really like
This is another assignment I had to do for uni. We had to use a lamp similar to the one you see at the start of Pixar movies and animate it in any way we wanted.
I decided to do a Mario style theme! It’s my first ever animation so it’s still very rough around the edges.
Pixario
Here’s the link. You’ll need the xvid coded installed to play it:
Pixario – 3D Animation (Direct Download)
Alternatively, you can view a HD version on YouTube. It’s slightly jerky on YouTube though unfortunately:
Pixario – 3D Animation (YouTube)
It was created in Maya 2008. The individual frames were rendered at 768×576 resolution and then compiled with audio and title sequences using Adobe Premiere.
Hope you enjoy it!
Found another cool application the other day, it’s similar to Last.fm in the fact you can stream music and find similar artists you might enjoy etc. You can also stream full albums, add music to a queue and create playlists. The quality isn’t perfect but it’s listenable, much better than most free “web” services. This is actually a desktop application though.
Here’s a few excerpts from their FAQ, they do a better job of explaining it than I can.
What is Spotify?
Spotify offers you legal and free access to a huge library of music. All you need to do is create an account and download our streaming music player.
What is your goal?
Our dream is to let everyone listen to whatever they want, whenever and wherever they want.
Do I need to pay to use Spotify?
No, the advertising-funded version of Spotify is free of charge, however, for now it requires that you receive an invite to register. Alternatively, you can pay for an ad-free subscription to Spotify.
I’ve been listening for quite a while now and I’ve only heard one short advert so far, so it’s totally acceptable in that respect unless you really hate ads. I’ve got a feeling ads will get more frequent as their user base grows but for now it’s great.
It’s only officially available for Windows and Mac at the moment but apparently it works under Wine on Linux.
Here’s a screenshot from their site:
Spotify
Just found a site where you can stream TV. It’s live and totally free.. well apart from the TV license fee of course *cough*.
I really wish this had been available last year when I had crap reception most of the time!
TVCatchup – Free, Live TV Streams
This is another assignment we got at uni recently for a 3D modelling module.
These were created in a free piece of software called POV-Ray.
What an awesome game!
I finally managed to complete it on insane difficulty last night after many hours of getting killed by damn blood mounts all the time!
I found it a hell of a lot harder than the first one on insane but I guess they had to make it more difficult or people would start complaining.
Just need to get the coop achievement now… I’m not an achievement whore, honest…
Anyway, bring on Gears of War 3!
Just thought I’d post a few images of an assignment I had to do for uni. The task was to model a stegosaurus in Maya 2008 (a 3D modelling application for anyone who doesn’t know).
It’s my first proper model so it’s far from brilliant. I’m fairly happy with how parts of it turned out though.
Just a quick post about this awesome bit of software I just found. I was looking for something to add multiple desktop support to Vista and saw quite a few people recommending Dexpot online.
Installed it about half an hour ago and had a quick play. It’s brilliant! Does exactly what I wanted and a lot more.
There’s a couple of features included which I wasn’t expecting but have been wanting on Windows for quite a while, mainly the ability to minimize any application to the system tray and the Exposé feature on the Mac. They have called it “Window Catalogue” in Dexpot.
Overall, excellent application. It’s also free for private use which is always nice for a student
Thought I’d finally get round to setting up a blog. I’ll mainly just be posting things I find interesting online relating to anything and everything really, but I’d guess the majority of posts will be about music, photography, computers etc.
Probably won’t get a massive amount of time to post at the moment with the workload at uni, but I’ll try and keep it reasonably frequent.
Speak to you all soon!
