Our entry used to be on-line, but the link doesn’t work any more.
Head to the Angelika at Mockingbird Station this Wednesday and Thursday for more screenings, and next Tuesday, May 29, for the finals.
This is mostly notes to myself about how Hugo works.
This site has been reworked since file-reference-hierarchy was created. This is a fresh attempt to describe how things are connected.
.-> layouts/_partials/head/css.html --> assets/css/main.css
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+-> layouts/_partials/head.html -+-> layouts/_partials/head/js.html --> assets/js/main.js
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| '-> layouts/_partials/head/playlist-js.html -+
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layouts/baseof.html -+-> layouts/_partials/header.html --> layouts/_partials/menu.html
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+-> layouts/_partials/footer.html
layouts/home.html (Defines "main" with right arrow on links, "relme")
layouts/list.html (Defines "main" with scroll on links)
layouts/single.html --> layouts/_partials/terms.html
layouts/pages/list.html (Defines "main" with page icon on links, list of just titles, no summaries)
content/_index.md
content/pages/_index.md (added after creating theme)
static/favicon.ico
static/jquery-1.11.1.min.js
layouts/_shortcodes/playlist.html
layouts/_shortcodes/video.htmlThis was created after changing to the blank theme.
From https://gohugobrasil.netlify.app/themes/creating/ (old?) and https://gohugo.io/hugo-modules/theme-components/
https://gohugo.io/content-management/page-resources/ https://gohugo.io/content-management/image-processing/
hugo --gc.https://gohugo.io/content-management/organization/
https://gohugo.io/getting-started/directory-structure/
https://gohugo.io/templates/introduction/
https://gohugo.io/templates/base/
<body>{{ block "main" . }} ... {{ end }} {{ block "footer" . }} ... {{ end }}</body>{{ define "main" }} ... {{ end }}(GitHub stars)
Sorted by stars: https://github.com/lon9/hugo_stars/blob/master/README.md
The trick with GStreamer is figuring out the complicated “pipeline” to handle the signals correctly. Ultimately, I was able to capture audio and video and keep them reasonably synchronized by running:
gst-launch-0.10 -v \
--gst-debug-level=3 --gst-debug-no-color \
avimux name=mux \
v4l2src device=/dev/video1 do-timestamp=true ! \
video/x-raw-yuv,width=720,height=480,framerate=\(fraction\)30000/1001 ! \
videorate ! \
'video/x-raw-yuv,framerate=(fraction)30000/1001' ! \
queue ! \
mux. \
alsasrc device=hw:1,0 ! \
'audio/x-raw-int,format=(string)S16LE,rate=(int)48000,channels=(int)2' ! \
audiorate ! \
audioresample ! \
'audio/x-raw-int,rate=(int)48000' ! \
audioconvert ! \
'audio/x-raw-int,channels=(int)2' ! \
queue ! \
mux. \
mux. ! \
filesink location=gstreamer.aviThis is loosely based on the “Record from a bad analog signal” link above.
I converted the resulting file to MP4 with:
avconv -i gstreamer.avi -c:v libx264 -b:v 4500k -c:a aac -b:a 360k -strict experimental -filter:v yadif=0:-1:0,setsar=8:9 -ss 12 -t 704 gstreamer.mp4The “12” and “704” mark the starting time and duration to extract from the full raw file. Note the ‘setsar=8:9’, because the NTSC default is 720x480, with non-square pixels. I prefer working with square pixels, but I decided because MP4 has reasonable handling of different pixel aspect ratios, this would be good enough. (And maybe that additional 12.5% of oversampling makes some sort of huge difference in the picture quality. Nah, probably not.)
Update 2015-03-17: To losslessly trim the mp4 file:
avconv -i gstreamer.mp4 -ss 15 -t 315 -vcodec copy -acodec copy avconv.mp4Update 2015-07-14: AAC is the recommended audio format for uploading to YouTube, but the above command may not produce the best audio quality. See https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC.
]]>I first saw Avatar in 2D, and it was beautiful. The visually rich environment of the planet was extraordinary. Many of the scenes seemed to be lifted (unacknowledged) from Roger Dean paintings, but I love Roger Dean paintings, so this was a joy to watch. I enjoyed studying the extensive detail filling many of the shots—the luminous forests and arcane wildlife made every “shot” (to use the term loosely) a feast for the eyes.
I decided I should take advantage of the 3D version while I could, so I went and saw it in one of the highest-quality screenings around. While there were times that the 3D effect was very cool and gave the images a more visceral quality, overall I found the effect distracting and not enjoyable. While objects in the shots did seem to exist in three-space, I found everything to have a sort of transparent flickery quality. By the end, I had a bit of a headache and my eyes felt funny.
Reflecting on the experience, I realized the origin of this feeling might be rooted in a quirk of the way the 3D effect is created. While sending a different image to each eye does create a stereoscopic focal point in space, the optical focal distance is always the actual distance to the screen. When viewing normal objects, these distances are always correlated. However, in a 3D projection like this, the stereoscopic distance and the focal distance are different, forcing the eyes to operate outside their normal parameter space. I suspect this subtle visual anomaly is behind the somewhat weird look of everything and the cause of the discomfort I felt by the end.
There was another factor I found annoying, at a more conscious level—the omnipresent awareness of the “camera”. Even though the 3D image appears “real” in some sense, the frequent cuts and camera motions collide with that sense of reality. But an even greater sense of the “camera” comes from the fact that many of the scenes are rendered with a limited depth of field, as if they had been shot with an actual camera. Thus, for example, when one of the seeds of the tree of life goes floating by in the foreground, it’s a big white blur. You can cross your eyes and look at it, but it’s still blurry. And, there’s still the problem that it’s least blurry when your optical focus is aimed much further away than the apparent distance to the object.
Depth of field is a useful compositional tool, and can be used to great effect to direct the audience’s attention to different parts of a shot. But I still like to study the whole frame and look at things that aren’t the central subject. That to me is part of the point of seeing a film on a big screen—so I can see little incidental details that might be overlooked on a small display. Unfortunately, the 3D presentation of Avatar makes it inconvenient and uncomfortable to let one’s eyes wander around a scene.
I decided to look around and see if anyone else had similar observations, and indeed they did:
I’m a completist, and the voluminious feed-based nature of a site like Twitter thoroughly annoys me. There’s probably stuff I care about in that stream of gunk going by, but it takes too much effort to go back through it all to find what has happened since I last looked. I can either spend all my time habitually checking the feed, or ignore it completely. I choose the latter. I’ll be playing my guitar instead. If you want to reach me, look around this site until you find my e-mail address.
And while I’m on a rant, why does the user interface for these supposedly modern tools suck so much? How am I supposed to peruse this garbage? Spin the scroll wheel on my mouse until I get carpal tunnel? Hit reload relentlessly to keep up with updates? Drag the scrollbar quickly to the bottom and give up? In 1991, I used a tool called ’trn’ to read USENET news. Its user interface is still better than the horrible user interfaces on these web sites that people so adore these days.
And hey, what do you know; you can even find that horrible user interface right here on my web site. Enjoy.
]]>I’m not a lawyer, an accountant, a financial advisor, or a doctor, but this page at the IRS seems to support the idea that you should send your tax return certified return receipt via the US Post Office:
http://www.irs.gov/irb/2004-43_IRB/ar12.html
I used to always get a certificate of mailing because I once thought I heard that was what the IRS recognized, but the above page seems to suggest that might not be good enough if you need to prove you mailed it.
Here’s someone who disagrees, in case you’re looking for justification for just dropping it in the mail and not worrying about it:
]]>http://www.baobabhealth.org/2008/02/09/text-editors-and-electric-kettles/
I tend to like things that are more towards the “text editor” end of the spectrum myself, because I’m good at putting together simple parts in an open-ended framework to produce something useful. However, I have also learned that most of the population isn’t that creative, and needs a more structured interface to guide them through a predefined process. That’s probably why I don’t build user interfaces. Anyway, go read the article.
]]>http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_04.html
Processes are better than threads.
]]>The fire a few months ago gave us a long reminder of just how much we love this restaurant. They’re open again, so get yourself there and support them! Go every week—I want to run into you when I’m there! It’s up to us to keep Dallas cool by supporting great businesses like Cosmic Cafe.
]]>Besides, nobody buys CDs any more anyway.
]]>I regret that I never got to see his band Sorta. I had almost gotten around to it, just not quite yet. That’s the way things go, I guess.
But I saw him many times over the years, beginning with some of the prime years of the Dead Thing on Saturday nights at Dada. And the first time I ever played MalletKAT with Magpu, he was in the group that opened up the night. I saw him play some great shows with the New Bohemians. And I saw him play a solo show at Bend Studio last November. I’ll always remember that show.
Farewell, Carter.
]]>So I recently tried installing Slackware 12 (I have been running Slackware 10), and discovered it doesn’t include Gnome. I don’t use a Gnome desktop; I use good old twm. And yet, it turns out that I use several useful Gnome applications that won’t compile on Slackware 12. So I decided to look into other distributions.
Last night I tried Ubuntu 7.04. Well, I won’t be staying with that one. First of all, after installing it, my system won’t even boot. Grub dies with “error 15”. Maybe this has something to do with the fact I installed on hdb instead of hda, or that I use Reiserfs, or something. Whatever. I did manage to boot it by adding it to my Slackware LILO config.
But that’s where I get off this train. I use RCS to track changes to administrative files. There’s no rcs. There’s no cvs. There’s no tcsh. There’s no emacs. There’s no flex, bison, or m4. There’s not even a stdio.h. You get gcc, but I’m not sure what you could compile with it. This is the same problem I had when I tried running Debian a few years ago. I refuse to suffer through the slow trickle of chasing down the packages I need, one by one.
I like to install add-on packages from source. Ubuntu and Debian seem oriented towards just accepting pre-compiled bundles off the internet for everything. If I wanted to work that way, I could run Windows.
I want a Linux with a reasonable base system with the standard stuff I have come to expect on a Unix system. I guess I’ll try Gentoo next. And if that blows, there’s Fedora. And if that won’t do, it’ll be time to look into the aftermarket Gnome hacks for Slackware.
Feh.
]]>If you haven’t seen them, they play this weird blend of psyche influenced rock with sharp funk rhythms and half shouted vocals. There is also some inexplicable guitar shredding to top it off but I’ve enjoyed them when I’ve seen or heard them. I prefer the originality of their music over a lot of Denton’s “tasteful” retro country rockers, music theory students, jazz heads, and gear fetishists. - We Shot Jr - It List: Sat. 9/2/06
(That’s a pretty good description of a lot of the Denton music scene….)
]]>Our entry used to be on-line, but the link doesn’t work any more.
Head to the Angelika at Mockingbird Station this Wednesday and Thursday for more screenings, and next Tuesday, May 29, for the finals.
I guess we can look forward to having our own House of Blues, which will probably feature blues about as much as the Hard Rock Cafe featured hard rock. I hear rumour it’s going to be smoke-free; yay for that. And there’s a part of me that prefers to see places that aren’t name-branded, but if it turns out to be a good music venue, it’s a good thing overall.
Most importantly, go see shows at the Granada whenever possible. Smoke-free, great sound, great bands, cool employees. And not part of a world-wide chain.
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