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  1. no, no real updates to speak of. I recently brought the car out of storage and I've been driving it a little bit. Oh, that's not true, I did get some black rubber floormats for it a weekend or two ago. Feel like kind of a letdown with no big news these days...
  2. I was, I ended up going a slightly different route after I got my Master's though. I'm now a producer at a small educational video game company in Orlando called 360ed. I do some low level art-related tasks like world building and so on as it becomes necessary, but I'm more of a game designer. Producer is kind of a nebulous job, it's sort of hard to describe. You pretty much find things that need doing, and get them done, whether that's figuring out who on the team will get the best results, or doing it yourself. It's definitely a rewarding career path though, way more exciting than working at the Saturn Dealership (the one i was at before I went back to school has since closed down). I've been doing some 3D modeling in Maya lately, as well as some digital painting in Photoshop CS3. Our company website and my personal portfolio are in my signature. digital painting: 3D model (wip): and just some random drawings i've been doing while waiting for software to load at work (this can take some time depending on the size of the files):
  3. i've not been doing much car related art these days, but i've got some other stuff i've been doing if you want to see it.
  4. To be honest, I really don't recall if I did that or not. I did the conversion 3 or 4 years ago. I need to just get a painless harness or something one of these days and redo the whole thing.
  5. My lights are super dim. I converted them from the sealed beam to the 9004 halogens, and it really didn't do much. I'm not sure the problem isn't specific to my car (or rather, any car with aged wiring like mine), so I won't say they're across the board going to dim your lights. Mine are pretty much only good for being seen by other drivers, as opposed to actively lighting the way for me. As a result, if I do any driving at night I make sure it's only on roads with decent street lights.
  6. All this talk about the early days of copyrighting reminded me of this. I found it pretty fascinating.
  7. The mention of Red Bull and their plane shenanigans reminded me of their warbird collection. I'm not sure how I feel about them painting them up in the new Red Bull livery, but at least they keep them flying. the one one that really had me all weirded out was the P-38. There aren't that many left in flying condition, so it seems like having one of them be done up like an energy drink is kind of....like putting a V-8 in a classic japanese sports car? I guess from that perspective, they own it, let them do what they want... http://video.aol.com/video-detail/red-bull-p-38-lightning/549427660
  8. I was talking to OTM the other day about a car project he's planning, and the subject of racing planes came up. This got me looking around for a physical book with pictures, and I didn't have any luck. The internet saved the day, and i came across a pretty cool website that has pictures and history behind lots of different racing planes from the 30's (give or take a decade or two). People who care about this kind of thing may already know about it, but I thought I'd share anyway. http://www.airracinghistory.freeola.com/the%20great%20races.htm Caudron C-460 Northrop Gamma Can't talk about racing planes without talking about the GeeBee (this one is the Z model) If anyone has any more (or newer/better) pictures (I know some of the Oregon contingent are into planes), post them up! Never know where you can draw inspiration from once you start looking. And for those interested, the streamlining of the landing gear and how that could be adapted to headlights mounted on pods were how OTM and I ended up on the subject in the first place.
  9. It's only easier if you have it and know how to use it.
  10. slightly different angle. This was the drawing I used on this ancient paint job thread: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=111961&highlight=s30+drawings
  11. it's definitely cumbersome, just figured I'd throw it out there as an alternative to buying software (though if you're not using CD-RWs, and you had a lot of protected music to convert, you may end up spending as much in discs as you would on a program).
  12. Perhaps I misread the original post, I thought we were attempting to get iTunes purchased music to work on something that was not an iPod from within iTunes itself. The procedure I described DOES allow you to take a song purchased through iTunes and play it on a non-iPod (like an LG Glimmer phone, for instance) device by only using built-into-iTunes functionality. iTunes won't export it's files as a non-encoded MP3, but it WILL re-import them as such. I've done it, you're welcome to try it and see or not.
  13. The way you do this from within iTunes is to burn your iTunes purchased music to a disc (or use a program that will do this virtually without involving your cd drive at all by sort of fooling iTunes into thinking that it is) first. Then you go to Edit->Preferences->General->then click the Import Settings button. In the drop down tab labeled "import using:", select MP3 Encoder. Then, re-import the music to your computer. Now, instead of being DRM encoded M4P files, they'll be MP3s. Good to go.
  14. the link i posted wasn't the link i was asking about, this one was a white 240z with some deep dish wheels and very distinctive flares. There are stills of it elswhere on the site, but i think the video of it running is gone from youtube.
  15. Anybody have a copy of the Spirit Garage racing video? It seems to have been pulled, but that was a cool one.
  16. Man, you're just looking for the wrong type of girl! Back when i was daily driving my 78 280z (the one with the hood that had been stomped on by the horse, not the camo zzzap!), I went to a movie with the girl I was dating. That car for one reason or another was in the habit of burning out ignition switches (and of course, by one reason or another, I mean the high-wattage stereo I had in it at the time), and sure enough, 12am, movie's out, and the ignition switch burned out...So being the true McGuyver-iffic Hybridz-er that I am, I proceeded to hotwire the car using a paperclip and some extra wire I had laying around. This could easily have been an embarrassing situation for all parties involved, but luckily she was mightily impressed with my red-neckery and the night ended rather well. But that's not the girl I ended up marrying, so I now find myself in a similar situation to yours once again, though not exactly for the same reason: my wife thinks the car is "yucky" inside, and won't go for a ride until I take care of the interior. Women...
  17. If you look close, you can see that photo has been altered, there's a blur line around the rear end where it was smoothed in to the background.
  18. I actually kind of dig that...I remember RacerX used to have a pic of I believe a 610 wagon with a 240z front clip grafted on that was pretty cool as well. I don't remember what thread that was in though.... *edit* I think I found the thread it may have been in, but I'd forgotten that when Ernie withdrew from the site he pulled most of his old posts...so sad. Did anybody happen to save that picture? OTM? Anybody?
  19. So the jump from 200hp to 400hp was only worth .2 in the 1/4? Guess he should have used two bottles of Nawss.
  20. Have you got a better picture of the engine? The valve cover in the picture you took doesn't look rounded enough for a typical Honda single cam, looks more flat like the twin cam cars. I wonder if it's not a ZC engine...they used to be a pretty common swap, since they'd supposedly bolt right to your old tranny and were twin cam. It was essentially the same engine the 1st gen integra had, but with mounts for the civic/crx instead of the integra chassis.
  21. The HF had some novelty D15 8-valve motor with roller-rockers in it. It was a 2-valve motor, but unlike the DX model with the TBI system, it had sequential EFI. This makes it a prime candidate for the Vtec swaps since there's minimal wiring harness work that needs to be done. I always wanted to get one with a 4 valve D15 block and a worked over SI non-Vtec head, and put the 8 valve valve cover back on it. I bet that would be a pretty fun sleeper, though it wouldn't be massively fast so far as hondas go these days. sounds like a nice find.
  22. THIS is in fact the real surprise: http://www.whichisgayer.com/compare.html?w1=two+eighty+z&w2=two+eighty+zx who would have guessed?
  23. Are you planning to model your own body components for the kit testing? I'm afraid my model won't help you much if you need it to be so much to scale that you could take measurements that allow for real-world body mods...
  24. there are far easier ways to test bodykits/wheel combos than constructing them from scratch in a 3D application, especially 3DSMax...Photoshop is much faster, and anyone conversant in a modeling package like Max would have to have access to something like Photoshop to make textures. My guess is to get a jumpstart on a project, possibly for school.
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