Category Archives: Shameless Self-Promotion

Fifteen Minutes of FLAME!

Posted on January 22, 2012 by thedude

OK, here it is, more than twenty years after the devastating Oakland Hills Fire, and we’re still talking about it. Well, at least I’m still talking about it. This time I’m sharing my experience with the crew from yet another reality show — Deadliest Planet. Watch out! Here comes another urban fire video!

It’s not hard to recall the events of that day, but just before the interview, we visited the fire zone to shoot some B-roll, and this had the unexpected effect of heightening my memories of the experience and probably made for a much better interview. We’ll have to see how the editors piece my sound bites together. I just hope it’s not totally embarrassing.

Stay tuned to thedude.com for show times and dates!

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This Little Chip Will Change the World

Posted on January 10, 2012 by thedude

View the announcement here. Pretty exciting stuff!

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The Chip is the Machine

Posted on August 21, 2011 by thedude

Practicing with materials and lighting. Fun! I think I may I need to try to render something that could not exist. Hm…

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thedude Meets The Man

Posted on August 13, 2011 by thedude

I’m very lucky to be involved with the design and rendering of the 2012 Burning Man. I can’t show you the rest yet, but soon after this year’s Man burns, I’ll share more.

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The Lobby With Lighter Colors

Posted on May 20, 2011 by thedude

I’ve actually started a blog for my neighbors to gather opinions about possible color schemes for our remodel. Here’s another of several examples.

After I rendered this one, I realized that there is a light leak from the right. The small amount of light leaking in from the blue sky accounts for the green tint in the shadow areas of the walls and the blue tint on the dark side of the pillars.

Oops! Still learning.

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Pratt & Whitney Engine

Posted on May 18, 2011 by thedude

Another Thea Render from a freely downloaded SketchUp model. Wow!

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Mo’ Rendering

Posted on May 18, 2011 by thedude

I’m having so much fun learning SketchUp and Thea Render!

Looking for excuses to create 3D objects, I decided to create a model of the public areas in our building. This could come in very handy, as we are currently working with a designer on updating the 80′s design. This is our building’s lobby with new colors applied.

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The Personal Genome Machine 360 View

Posted on April 25, 2011 by thedude

Swipe your mouse left and right for a 360 view.

This 3D Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine was rendered using TheaRender from a .3DS file exported from the original SolidWorks file. Raw PNG images batch resized with Irfanview, combined using a custom python script, (Thanks, Josh!) compressed into JPEG format with Photoshop and “animated” with the fabulous jQuery Reel plugin. Piece o’ cake!

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An Exciting New Direction

Posted on May 21, 2010 by thedude

After ten great years at Affymetrix, thedude is moving on to what will hopefully prove to be greener pastures.

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Eyelid Surgery Before and After

Posted on May 10, 2010 by thedude

Lately, some of you have been asking about my eyes. You will recall that I had the surgery strictly to correct my vision problem, NOT for cosmetic reasons, and by that measure, the surgery was 100% successful. My vision is better than it has been for years!

Roll over image to see the results of my surgery.

If that weren’t enough, a happy side-effect of the corrective surgery is that my new eyelids make me look at least 5 years younger. You may have to look closely, but I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to see the difference.

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Wolstenholme Fjord, Greenland

Posted on March 27, 2010 by thedude

My latest scanning project keeps turning up gems. I am so glad I shot this panorama of Wolstenholme Fjord — purportedly the only place on earth where three active glaciers join together. If I could have anticipated today’s technology, I might have made a much more detailed shot than this one – consisting of just two images shot with my trusty Pentax ME Super on grainy Plus-X way back in 1986.