The House of Quark (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 3) Quark accidentally kills a deadbeat Klingon
Rewatching ST:DS9 On a slow night at the bar, Quark grumbles expositionally to Rom (reminding viewers of recent story arc developments). A drunken Klingon assaults Quark, then falls on his own knife. To attract a crowd (and customers), Quark embellishes: he killed Kozak in self-defense. O’Brien comes home to find a pensive Keiko philosophizing expositionally about closing her school. (Afraid of The Dominon, families moved their children off the station.) Quark is happy his tale-telling has improved business, and proud that his customers respect him as “Quark, slayer of Klingons,” not just another Ferengi stereotype. (Ironically Quark is using stereotypes…
More #steampunk control panels. Recessed workstations with fold-down keyboards. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dart
You aren’t doing it wrong… if no one knows what you are doing.
Adding detail to a #steampunk control panel workstation. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dart
A #steampunk control panel in context. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #blender3dart
Trust and friendship prove to be more valuable than wealth in the story of Damon and Pythias. Written by James Baldwin and read by Dennis Jerz.
One day earlier in the summer I visited the studio for a couple of hours and churned out three or four recordings. Here is one of them.
A snifter of brandy helps a supporting character deliver exposition & set up for a nice spit-take. #indiefilm
The Search, Part 2 (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 2) The Federation makes a risky deal with the Dominion; Odo learns from other Changelings
Rewatching ST:DS9 After the recap of Part 1, a female Changeling (leader? spokesperson?) says Odo was sent by his people out into the universe as their equivalent of an infant, in order to learn about the “solids.” When she takes Odo’s hand, both of their limbs mingle as orange goo, which causes Odo to appear rattled. Kira is concerned for his well-being, but the female Changeling says she’s let him briefly experience the Link, the communal state where all the other Changeling individuals co-exist in their liquid form. Meanwhile, after six days drifting in a failing escape pod, Sisko and…
Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life
In sync with the resurgence of labor activism nationwide, actors, dancers, stage managers, technicians and others have been questioning the nuts and bolts of their contracts — both the documents that detail their jobs and the wider assumptions about what they owe an audience. Can the theater, they ask, find a way to uphold them more holistically as humans, even as they continue to gut themselves every night? Some people will not even agree that it should. The idea that theater is a calling, not a job, and that the two categories are mutually exclusive, is so ingrained in the…
The Search, Part 1 (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 1) Sisko takes the Defiant on a mission to contact the Founders
Rewatching ST:DS9 Although the season 2 finale didn’t end in a cliffhanger, the season 3 opener begins with “Last time on Star Trek Deep Space Nine,” followed by clips, followed by “And now, the continuation.” (Note… not “the conclusion.”) In Ops, Kira and the senior staff are debating how best to respond to a Jem’Hadar attack. Warning bleeps sound. A blunt-nosed, tightly-packed, no-nonsense Federation starship decloaks, and a cheerful Sisko apologizes for the surprise. (Welcome, NX-7207 Defiant, to the Star Trek family.) In the wardroom (a big meeting room fitted with Federation viewscreens) Sisko explains the Defiant was originally developed…
More delightful #steampunk control panels. These are computationally efficient bitmap rectangles, that emulate #neovictorian brass and glass geometry through #blender3d #cgi magic. #blender3dart #design #aesthetics
I apologize for this one. R2-D2 stars in Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical CATS.
Craiyon: The signing of the Declaration of Independence, starring Chewbacca.
The daughter is working hard as a dancer and Flaemchen understudy. @frontporchtheatricals
Slicing up a massively detailed trimsheet to simulate reflections and geometry for four variations of a #steampunk console keyboard. #blender3dart #blender3d #design #aesthetics
Top: flat, monochrome rectangles. Middle: rectangles with a flat bitmapped texture of buttons and dials. Bottom: angles, smoothness, glow, and metallic reflections added by texture magic. #blender3d #steampunk control panel #design #aesthetics #blender3dart
The Jem’Hadar (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 26) Sisko father-son bonding vacation threatened by Ferengi and the Dominion
Rewatching ST:DS9 Sisko is unimpressed by Jake’s botany science project, and offers to take him on a vacation through the wormhole to do a planetary survey, proving he’s learned absolutely nothing from O’Brien’s attempt to take a runabout on a vacation. Space Dad is flummoxed when Space Son announces he’s invited Nog to come along, too, and annoyed when Quark presents himself as Nog’s chaperone. Jake’s friendship with Nog is sincere, but Quark, who hopes that spending quality time with Sisko will help him negotiate using the station monitors to broadcast advertisements, pressures Sisko on the grounds that letting him…
Nichelle Nichols, ground-breaking Star Trek actor and NASA recruiter, 1932-2022
Nichelle Nichols, 89, who played Lt. Uhura in the original 'Star Trek' TV series and films, has died. https://t.co/CudCGU5d6S — CNN (@CNN) July 31, 2022
I baked about 12 million vertices of steampunk control panel geometry into a flat plane with just 4 vertices. All these reflections are mathematically faked, saving memory and speeding up rendering. #blender3d #steampunk #blender3dart #design #aesthetics #optimizing #gameready
Tribunal (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 25) O’Brien Must Suffer: shore leave interrupted for a Cardassian show trial
Rewatching ST:DS9 O’Brien annoys everyone in Ops with last-minute instructions. On his way to join Keiko on a runabout for their vacation, he runs into a former shipmate from the Rutledge. Boone says he’s left Starfleet and is now settled on the Cardassian side of the demilitarized zone. The two promise to check up with each other later. In private, Boone suspiciously plays back part of a recording he just made of O’Brien’s voice. On the runabout, Keiko is annoyed that O’Brien has left behind the “holocam” he was supposed to bring and instead brought some technical manuals. He softens…