Posted: May 20th, 2009 | Author: happybattle | Filed under: other, pictures, update, via | Tags: guns, images, tech, xbox | Comments Off
a week back? this blogs is only like 10 days old. i posted about my dead xbox, and i made this image. an xbox with a gun to it. today, on gizmodo, is this striking image. i am sure they did not copy me. cause, i don’t have that many readers. just saying. weird.
Posted: May 13th, 2009 | Author: happybattle | Filed under: other, pictures, skateboard | Tags: dirt, lessons, slam, tshirt | Comments Off
maybe my brain is still messed up from the wip it took into the ground this afternoon. maybe the pain reliever is doing its thing, from the loss of skin from my back. and all for what.. a failed backside 50 50.. or is it a frontside 5050. at some point people changed this. anyways. small curb.. but the board slips out.. i fall back and over the curb. butt. back.. off edge.. head.. i watched my glasses bounce off my face. i was done. (though no really. i did the trick later.. just so i don;t get psyched out)
the lesson on this. white t-shirts are the stupiest idea. most of the swag i get. tshirt wise. is on white.. white t-shirt. one spill and this thing might be done.
it was clean when i put it on too. yes yes. i realize falling is part of the game. but i don’t normally roll in the dirt. and smash my head so i just lay there. so from now on i highly recommend to everyone. don’t wear white t-shirts. nobody actually wins. ‘im down a shirt, and i have a massive head ache.
Posted: May 11th, 2009 | Author: happybattle | Filed under: other, skateboard, video | Tags: film, suck, technical, video | 2 Comments »
i know we are moving into the age of HD all the time. so this will stop being a problem. but right now. it’s pissing me off. i basicly cannot watch skateboard videos online. cause no one de-interlances their freaking videos. this is video 101 guys. you spend all this time, and energy filming, and you can’t de-interlace your shit?
i’ve been a proffesional in the “video” field for awhile. this is stuff i learned when i could be trusted to do little else then order lunch, and copy tapes.. video shoots at 30i. thats 30 frames a second “interlaced”. (and its actually 29.976 FPS, give or take a drop frame.. but thats not important here).
HD mini dv shoots at 60i.. still interlaced. the magic we’re looking for is 60p. or 30p, etc. (i = interlanced, p = progressive, or “solid frames”)
24 frame DV is actually 30 FPS. with a alternating field pattern. like.. WSSWW. anyways.
when you shoot video, and edit video. you have fields. if it goes back to tape or DVD. this is not a problem. if it goes to the web.. it is. you HAVE to de-interlace you video. or you get all those little ass lines all over the place.
heres a screen grab of trailer #4 from the new powell video.. powell!!
see those weird lines? interlacing. if i was at a studio working now. we’d be making so much fun of this.
basicly you can use a tool like After Effects to de-interlace you footage. also there is a ton of freeware out there to do this. you take your footage.. import it. and tell whatever app, to “de-interlance” the footage. maybe you have to tell it to start with an upper field, or lower field, or maybe you need to apply a 2:3 pull down. if your a pro, you can deal with this. if you can see your fields.. your doing it wrong. learn it, it’s embarrasing. here is a great site to read about what interlancing technically is.
Posted: May 3rd, 2009 | Author: happybattle | Filed under: design, other, pictures, skateboard | Tags: caps, ink, LIC, skateboard | Comments Off
skated all day in LIC. not time to post. get up off my back.
but na.. lets see.. 
trouble is afoot. what could be going on? i personally. have NO idea/
Posted: April 30th, 2009 | Author: happybattle | Filed under: other, pictures, via | Tags: bike, dog, via | 1 Comment »
from bike snob. look at this thing? how many levels of awesome is this? unlimited. crazy bike. diff wheels and rims. coors light! dog! amazing.
Posted: April 29th, 2009 | Author: happybattle | Filed under: other | Tags: pork, qns | Comments Off
shit, coffee.. anyways. i live in queens. swineflu center!! so i thought i would run down some of my fav swineflu related stories. btw, theres pollen everywhere. so everyone is coughing and sneezin’ to start with. gear.
swine flu is evolution in action.
U.S. seasonal flu kills 13,000 since Jan.
Posted: April 29th, 2009 | Author: happybattle | Filed under: other | 1 Comment »
normally. i wouldn’t post anything about this. but it’s actually making me go crazy.
so my xbox360 RROD (red ring of death) on me. ok, i’ve been expecting this. no problem. i’ll get a refurbed arcade version at my local gamestop. cool. yeah. so i go and get one.
and, the thing more or less doesn’t boot up. it boots up, but it likes to loop on its bootup.. and be stuck looping. look it up online. (maybe that was the problem. the internet).. boot up loop. its your harddrive. so i plug in an old 360 HD.. (yeap. i have an old one).. and it works! cool. i can just reformat my 120 gig HD, and im good to go. i did not think that through. so i erased.. ALL of my game saves. everything. and. it still doesn’t work. yeah. so, now i’ll probably return swap it. AND, i’ve lost ALL of my game data.
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