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Company C Contemporary Ballet at Dean Lesher Center in Walnut Creek

January 21, 2010 6:52 am

Animation Mentor Graduation – Winter 2010

January 17, 2010 2:58 am

It’s graduation time again at Animation Mentor. It’s not every day you see trained assassins fighting to the death over wardrobe issues!

You can find the photos here:

http://prints.goodlux.com/g/2010_01_17_animation_mentor_graduation


Photos from the Oakland Ballet’s Nutcracker

December 23, 2009 3:13 am

Photos from Animation Mentor’s graduation

July 21, 2009 1:04 am

Animation Mentor is an online school that has students from all over the world…at the graduation, many of the students come to the bay area to visit, sometimes meeting each other in person for the first time. A very cool bunch of very creative people!






Many more photos here:
http://prints.goodlux.com/g/2009_07_11_animation_mentor_graduation_at_cowell_theatre

Free Adobe DNG Thumbnails for Windows XP x32 and X64

April 18, 2009 2:26 am

I was recently experimenting with Windows 7 Beta, but decided to revert back to XP. Why? My CD ROM burning software (Roxio Creator) didn’t work! Also I didn’t think there was that much value in the new version of the OS, considering I’m eventually switching over to a mac desktop. Why buy something into I won’t need in a few months? Anyway, so back to XP.

I decided not to use the x64 bit version of XP, because I was never able to get a fully functional version of iTunes on XP x64. So back to XP, this time 32bit. Once I reinstalled, I came across a familiar annoyance that I had forgotten about quite awhile ago:

If you store your images in Adobe’s .DNG (Digital Negative) format, and you are using Windows XP, you might have been annoyed when you found that thumbnails of the images don’t automatically appear in windows explorer. For some reason, which is beyond me, thumbnails are not generated automatically. Adobe released a codec for thumbnailing .dng files, but it only works on Vista, and doesn’t work on x64 bit systems. So the codec wouldn’t work for me.

I had previously found a solution after a bit of googling and searching through a lot of lame sites for $29.99 software for generating thumbnails, I re-found this site:

http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/nef-windows-xp-sp2.html

Which shows you the simple fix for adding thumbnails to XP. Just save the registry file to your desktop, then double click, and you are done!