[Sheep Murderer]

What is you....do do?

What is your latest project? (Besides the hair)

If you could choose two Nightly Members to fight to the death, who would they be and why? Celebs? Authors?

Favorite weapon.

[Foxglove]

What is the story behind your board name?

Have you ever been to the US?

Have you ever been outside your country at all? Details?

[Undome Telcontar]

Sheep Murderer, on 7 Dec 2009, 03:53 AM, said:

What is you....do do?

What is your latest project? (Besides the hair)

If you could choose two Nightly Members to fight to the death, who would they be and why? Celebs? Authors?

Favorite weapon.

i'm a physics student! my current favourite equation is lorentz force (the force on a charged particle due to electromagnetic fields), because we needed it to derive an equation in particle physics and i liked the simplicity of it: F=q(E+(VxB) F=force, q=charge, E=electic field, V=velocity of particle, B=magnetic field. yay physics!

projects... well, my last one was dual booting my laptop with windows 7 and ubuntu, but that wasn't so much a project as an afternoon's work. currently i'm trying to get back into photography, after realising that my last three shots (viewable in my blog sporadic development if you haven't got me on facebook, link in my sig) were distintly mediocre. i'm currently <3ing toy camera photography, but as i can't afford to run film through a camera of any sort (about £10 total per roll of film, 36 shots per roll, i take about 200 shots in a session. so not happening), i'm going to have to fake it with my EOS 40D and photoshop. some people hate the PS-effects guys (and as many of them are your average photography student, i heartily sympathise), but to me it's the finished image that matters, not the method of reaching it. call it photography or digital art, depending on your level of purism, but i don't care as long as the end product looks awesome.

hmm... two nightly members to fight to the death... foxglove and nixie would be lulz, ayani (ayame? the one who does weaponry stuffs) and anyone else would be quite funny, in an ESB-vader-vs-luke kinda way. jacob vs dex would be fun too. and there's so many more choices! like april and ericka, for the title of... whatever it is they both want to be ().

celebs... a free-for-all melee with all the people in the hills, paris hilton, nicole richie, katie price, anyone like that.

authors... stephenie meyer and chris ryan.

H&K G36. but i can't help but love the ludicrous overkill of the barrett M82 anti-materiel rifle. and i mean, a war-hammer handled correctly is a thing to behold... and one of these days i hope i will.

anyway, i have labs soon, so breakfast time. i shall return later.

[Iceheart]

Undome Telcontar, on 7 Dec 2009, 04:44 AM, said:

i'm currently <3ing toy camera photography, but as i can't afford to run film through a camera of any sort (about £10 total per roll of film, 36 shots per roll, i take about 200 shots in a session. so not happening), i'm going to have to fake it with my EOS 40D and photoshop. some people hate the PS-effects guys (and as many of them are your average photography student, i heartily sympathise), but to me it's the finished image that matters, not the method of reaching it. call it photography or digital art, depending on your level of purism, but i don't care as long as the end product looks awesome.

That's where you take pictures and make them look like toy models, right? How would you even tell if a photoshopped digital image had been used? I don't get the snobbery...

Have you ever developed your own film? If you have, do you like the process, or do you prefer sending it off to a shop?

Tell me about a project you've meant to get to for awhile, and haven't. Why haven't you done it yet?

Fav Neil Gaiman book so far?

[Sonny]

Can you imagine yourself married?

Can you imagine yourself with children?

If you knew for sure that the world was going to end in 2012, what would you do differently between then and now?

Have you ever been serious enough about a woman to have to meet her parents? How did that go?

Undome Telcontar, on 7 Dec 2009, 05:44 AM, said:

foxglove and nixie

All you have to do to accomplish this is throw one blouse they both love between them and watch the fur fly.

[Undome Telcontar]

Foxglove, on 7 Dec 2009, 05:02 AM, said:

What is the story behind your board name?

Have you ever been to the US?

Have you ever been outside your country at all? Details?

undome is evening in sindarin, telcontar is walker or strider in quenya. i love walking in the evening, around sunset, it's probably my favourite time of day. so yeah, i'm an "evening walker." and a LOTR nerd, obv.

not yet. i'd planned to go to SDCC '10, but as i need a new phone, new camera lens, and to pay for a trip to CERN, i'm not going to be able to afford it. i really want to thru-hike the appalachian trail when i finish uni, but we'll see. so yeah, i'll definitely get there sooner or later.

no, in fact, unless you count wales and scotland. but i'll be going to switzerland at easter and maybe somewhere else in the summer. it's kinda disappointing, but there are so many amazing places over here it's not too big a deal.

[Sonny]

Undome Telcontar, on 7 Dec 2009, 11:42 AM, said:

a trip to CERN

Really? Tell us about this!

[Undome Telcontar]

Iceheart, on 7 Dec 2009, 02:47 PM, said:

Undome Telcontar, on 7 Dec 2009, 04:44 AM, said:

i'm currently <3ing toy camera photography, but as i can't afford to run film through a camera of any sort (about £10 total per roll of film, 36 shots per roll, i take about 200 shots in a session. so not happening), i'm going to have to fake it with my EOS 40D and photoshop. some people hate the PS-effects guys (and as many of them are your average photography student, i heartily sympathise), but to me it's the finished image that matters, not the method of reaching it. call it photography or digital art, depending on your level of purism, but i don't care as long as the end product looks awesome.

That's where you take pictures and make them look like toy models, right? How would you even tell if a photoshopped digital image had been used? I don't get the snobbery...

Have you ever developed your own film? If you have, do you like the process, or do you prefer sending it off to a shop?

Tell me about a project you've meant to get to for awhile, and haven't. Why haven't you done it yet?

Fav Neil Gaiman book so far?

no, it's taking pictures with "toy" cameras- really cheap ones, that have poor lenses and cases that aren't quite light-tight. things like this: http://nicnichols.co...k/?page_id=4300. what you're referring to is tilt-shift photograpy, which uses a very small depth of field to make things look like you're looking at tiny things from up close.

i never have, no, although i did seriously consider it when i was about 14. i got really into photoshop at about the same time though, so i ended up going the digital photography/art route. personally i think i wouldn't have enough experience to edit photos during processing, when there's no undo button. i'd rather just keep everything digital. distribution's much easier then too.

i have so many projects that are progressing slowly or are in semi-permanent stasis. one that has been slowly on the go for over a year now is hydrogen generation. hydrogen can run engines, welders, all sorts. while better battery technology means the hydrogen economy doesn't seem to be taking off as predicted, i think it'll still be useful for small-scale portable stuff, and evening out electricity flow from renewable power sources. my plan is to build an electrolysis unit that runs from the mains via a PC power supply, which outputs pure (or as close as i can get) hydrogen and oxygen into separate containers. then i could use that for all sorts. my main plan is to run a oxy-hydrogen cutter/welder off it, but i'll try other stuff too. i want to build a solarthermal generator that produces the electricity for it too, so all i have to feed it is pure water and sunlight, and it gives me unlimited amounts of very useful gas. i built a small-scale prototype one day from some nails, a drinks can, a plastic bottle and the sheathing from mains wire for tubing... it worked well, i just need to upscale it. first i think i'll build a brown gas generator as a second prototype, which produces combined hydrogen and oxygen. obviously this can't be stored, it's way too dangerous, but it would be adequate for a welder. an old project (5 years or so) that i still really want to do is a hovercraft... maybe run on hydrogen. the possibilities are endless with this stuff! basically, anything that involves environmental or vehicular engineering, i'm there. as for why i haven't done them... time, money, the usual.

hmm... between neverwhere and the graveyard book probably, although i do love good omens and stardust. it's so hard to choose, and i've barely scraped the surface of his bibliography.

[Undome Telcontar]

Sonny, on 7 Dec 2009, 03:08 PM, said:

Can you imagine yourself married?

Can you imagine yourself with children?

If you knew for sure that the world was going to end in 2012, what would you do differently between then and now?

Have you ever been serious enough about a woman to have to meet her parents? How did that go?

Undome Telcontar, on 7 Dec 2009, 05:44 AM, said:

foxglove and nixie

All you have to do to accomplish this is throw one blouse they both love between them and watch the fur fly.

yeah, i reckon so. i need to decide on a career first though. or maybe i don't. but either way, i need to be doing something that generates a reasonable and regular income.

yeah, kids are awesome, on occasion. doubly so if i can bring them up like lara croft (the whole independent-but-socially-capable-and-by-the-way-can-kick-ass line that's probably almost impossible to follow, but i can try). it's just the whole first day at school and 16th birthday and **** that's depressing. but then, i'm weird- i was upset because i was getting old on the eve of my 10th birthday. sometimes it seems like i count time differently to everyone else.

hah, no. the couple of girls i've been even vaguely involved with has been either a psycho or a total bitch. they don't like it when they try to make things one-way and i tell them to **** off. so i'm leaving girls alone for quite a while now, while i try and get a decent degree, and work on some projects.

1) proceed
2) record
3) post on web
4) profit

[Undome Telcontar]

Sonny, on 7 Dec 2009, 04:03 PM, said:

Undome Telcontar, on 7 Dec 2009, 11:42 AM, said:

a trip to CERN

Really? Tell us about this!

we're going to switzerland for a few days to see the inner machinations of the LHC. we already know how it works, our particle physics lecturer has told us, but it's more fun to go and see it in person. i plan to spend more time photographing geneva and the alps though, to be honest. we went to see JET the other week too, the largest fusion reactor in the world (writeup: http://daegurth.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/c...esearch-centre/). we go to awesome places.

[ShadowDog]

WOO HOO!!!

1) Who is the hawtest female celebrity right now?

2) Who's the fugliest?

3) How much would Hollywood have to offer you to be in a mindless blockbuster action movie?

4) Can you DANCE? What kinds?

5) Can you sing? Do you sing?

6) Elvis or the Beatles?

7) Back to female celebs, how do you feel about the proliferation of high profile skanks across the fruited plain? Do you think this is a world wide emergency?

[Undome Telcontar]

i'm not sure, really. the superlative has way too much pressure attached!

maybe simone simons?



dunno, i don't really pay attention that much... can't say i've ever seen a good picture of renee zelweger.

not huge amounts, i do love me some mindless and physically impossible violence.

nope, no dancing here. i've wondered about lessons, but meh. i'd rather do tai chi, wing chun or muay thai if i was going to pay for lessons in something.

no singing, sadly. wish i could sing, and have occasionally been fooled by acoustics into thinking i could, but no.

elvis. i like a few songs of both, but the beatles are more beloved of douchebag indie kids.

daddy's little crackwhores make a make an extremely compelling argument for genocide.

[Sheep Murderer]

If you could have any one thing, what would it be?

Do you have a favorite musical?

Pretend that you are ruler of the world for one week. What would you do, if there were no consequences to yourself and everyone had to obey your commands?

[Nixie]

what is your favorite home project?

if you could wave a magic wand and learn how to do one thing like play a piano or dance or sing or learn quantum pyschics or something, what would it be?

what is your view on cats?

[Rock]

Crinkle or fold?

[ShadowDog]

LMFAO! You're in a zone, Rock.

[Undome Telcontar]

Sheep Murderer, on 8 Dec 2009, 05:08 AM, said:

If you could have any one thing, what would it be?

Do you have a favorite musical?

Pretend that you are ruler of the world for one week. What would you do, if there were no consequences to yourself and everyone had to obey your commands?

to have enough time, money and contacts to do what i want pretty much when i want, photography- and filmmaking-wise.

probably betweeen moulin rouge and dr. horrible's sing-along blog.

wow. erm... i could write a book on that... put it this way, we'd live in a much cleaner, enjoyable, diverse, and (interestingly considering i'm a nihilist) possibly fairer world. not that i'm after world peace or an end to aids or any of that ****. it's all there for a reason.

[Undome Telcontar]

Nixie, on 8 Dec 2009, 01:39 PM, said:

what is your favorite home project?

if you could wave a magic wand and learn how to do one thing like play a piano or dance or sing or learn quantum pyschics or something, what would it be?

what is your view on cats?

anything that involves building stuff, science, and power tools. all at once. i can't actually think of one i was particularly happy with, although i have to say my tennis ball launcher built out of two pringles tubes, two 2litre lemonade bottles, a piezo sparker from a lighter, a piece of aluminium, and a load of duct tape was awesome. it ran on zippo lighter fluid and could launch a toilet-roll-saboted tennis ball for about 30 yards or so. i once fired it (without a ball in the barrel) in the dark when we were talking to some other people in our block (i built it in my first year of uni, in halls) and scared the **** out of them because it made a really lound bang/wumph sound and glowed bright blue for a second.

well, i just came out of a quantum physics lecture, so while that would be useful for the exam, it would kinda be a waste of a wish. i'd probably say to be able to sing. in any style, ever. from james hetfield, to bruce springsteen, to neil patrick harris, to varg vikernes. now that would be awesome.

wild cats are awesome. domestic cats are alright. bit like humans, really. sometimes nice, sometimes not and they like to act like they're in charge. they're more independent than people, too. the only thing i don't like about them is that domestic cats account for about 70% of yearly songbird mortality, which is annoying as they're already rare, and were here first. i tend to prefer wild animals to pets, although there are exceptions to every rule.

[Undome Telcontar]

rock: fold, obv. anyone else is different. and different is BAD. so they should DIE.

[Rock]

Godfather I or II?

[Cashmere]

What are your top five turnoffs in a woman?

If you had to be blind or deaf, which would you choose?

If you had to be one of the Care Bears, which would you be and why?

Which Disney villain scares you the most and why?

Would you rather live in a very green urban area or way out in the middle of nowhere wilderness?

[Undome Telcontar]

rock: haven't seen either of them, to be honest. i'll rectify that at some point, but it's not something that's hugely important right now as far as films go.

Cashmere, on 8 Dec 2009, 08:14 PM, said:

What are your top five turnoffs in a woman?

If you had to be blind or deaf, which would you choose?

If you had to be one of the Care Bears, which would you be and why?

Which Disney villain scares you the most and why?

Would you rather live in a very green urban area or way out in the middle of nowhere wilderness?

no particular order: annoying voice/accent; overly made-up all the time; too fat or thin/no figure; unintelligent (doesn't have to be a nobel prize winner, but general knowledge should be mandatory for everyone); manipulative/attention-seeker/generally poor personality.

deaf, i think. i'm very visual, being a (sometimes) artsy person. being deaf would suck, as i love music, the vocal nuances of actor's performances, and generally being able to recognise audio cues in everyday life. but it's more curable/liveable-with.

i don't know any of them. and i'm perfectly happy with that.

i haven't seen many disney movies, and i tend not to remember the characters, as they're just archetypes; the visuals stick with me much more. the pixar ones are amazing though, so i'm going to say otto pilot from wall-e. his turn to 'evil' was a big "omfg!" moment.

that's much harder than it sounds... while my instinct is to say wilderness, it's incredibly hard work just living day-to-day. right now, i'd probably rather live in one of the big country houses you get on the outskirts of cities once you're out past the residential areas. but near an area with wilderness. because i pretty much eat and breathe hills and trees, when i'm able to. i'm currently in a city without either, and it's very sad. are there any really green cities? i generally consider san francisco to be the only city i'd willlingly live in, because it's so weird and has awesome little gems of shops (although my experience of SF is mostly through mythbusters). not much of an answer, i know, but it's definitely a much harder question than it appears to be.

edit: lol, just stopped in the middle of a sentence.

This post has been edited by Undome Telcontar: 08 December 2009 - 04:39 PM

[Sheep Murderer]

Favorite bands/music artists?

Favorite dystopia? Utopia?

Movies?

[Undome Telcontar]

1) music: gonna have to do two separate sets, i think.

bands, no particular order
ensiferum
amon amarth
tyr
disturbed
nightwish

artists, no particular order
bruce springsteen
tiësto
armin van buuren
bob dylan
sting

2) the alliance core worlds in firefly. as we saw with miranda (and the school), it might look utopian, but they're all too willing to experiment on their own citizens without consent. utopias... aren't really interesting, so i can't think of any off-hand.

3) movies:

serenity, for its amazing writing (dialogue and stuff, the overall plot wasn't exactly inspired. but did it actually need to be? i'm not so sure), acting (especially from nathan fillion and chiwetel ejiofor), direction, lighting, camerawork, props... well, everything, really.
moulin rouge, for about the same. a little more heavy-handed as it's deliberately stylised, but there's always something metaphoric to notice with each new viewing. and it's just generally an enjoyable (if that's the right word) film.
man on fire, for denzel and dakota, its at least semi-realistic approach to getting shot, the camera techniques which seem to suit the dusty, nervous disposition of mexico city (more so than NYC, they were out of place on pelham 1-2-3), the emotional punch combined with the deliciously deserved violence, all of it.
wall-e, if only for the first hour of dialogue-free characterisation. goddamn genius.

can't think of any more off-hand that would rank up with these four, my "standard" favourites, although i have many more favourite movies.

This post has been edited by Undome Telcontar: 09 December 2009 - 02:03 PM

[ShadowDog]

What's the worst thing that could happen to you?

What's the worst thing you've ever eaten?

What's the worst thing you've ever drank?

How often each week do you eat dessert?

[Undome Telcontar]

for absolutely no reason, i'm locked in a dark, freezing shed for a week or two, before being rescued. the morning i wake up, i realise that my rescuers are actually my original captors, and they proceed to waterboard me for a couple of days. i'm then thrown in a deep hole for a few days to recover slightly. i'm then beaten bloody every day at random intervals for a week. they then tear off my nails and rip out my teeth and hair. then they electocute me in a bathtub every 15 minutes for a few hours, before drying me off and allowing me to recover for a day. then they skin me alive, one square centimetre at a time, over several days, stopping long enough so that my nerves don't shut down. then they tow me behind a boat in seawater for 5 minutes before leaving me a few yards offshore and disappearing. after i've crawled onto the shore, gasping for air and an absolute agony from the salt water, they come back, douse me in petrol and light me on fire. if i'm still somehow miraculously barely alive after that, they dump me in a vat of acid, never to be seen again.

black-eyed bean pie, when i was about 10. it was completely inedible. i dropped it on the floor behind my chair because my parents wouldn't let me leave the table till i'd finished. i'd intended to clean it up shortly afterwards, but didn't get a chance before they found it. ah... good times.

a pint of 72.5% absynthe when i was 15, after a few other drinks. that ended the night VERY quickly.

0 to 1 times a week, if that often. i generally eat desserts on their own as a snack, i'm not a multi-course meal kinda guy. i rarely eat stuff like that anyway, i don't have a huge sweet-tooth.

[Rock]

Undome Telcontar, on 8 Dec 2009, 05:06 PM, said:

rock: haven't seen either of them, to be honest. i'll rectify that at some point, but it's not something that's hugely important right now as far as films go.

Not hugely important? You couldn't be more wrong.



Buried or cremated?

[ShadowDog]

black-eyed bean pie?!?

Way to make PIE sound nasty, brah.

[Undome Telcontar]

ShadowDog, on 9 Dec 2009, 09:00 PM, said:

black-eyed bean pie?!?

Way to make PIE sound nasty, brah.

you're telling me. i <3 pie, most of the time.

Rock, on 9 Dec 2009, 08:32 PM, said:

Undome Telcontar, on 8 Dec 2009, 05:06 PM, said:

rock: haven't seen either of them, to be honest. i'll rectify that at some point, but it's not something that's hugely important right now as far as films go.

Not hugely important? You couldn't be more wrong.



Buried or cremated?

for me, i meant. gangster films i can generally take or leave, unless they're silly ones by guy richie.

there are pros to both, but i really really want to be sent out to sea in a burning longship. it's illegal here i believe, but i'll find a way.

[ShadowDog]

A story that made big news over here was this seventeen year old boy who sailed around the world by himself, making him the youngest person to ever do this. Is this something that would appeal to you? What about a hot air balloon around the world?

If they ever get affordable commerical space travel up and running, would you be interested?

If they ever got a moon colony running, would you want to live there?

Basically, I'm trying to find out how adventurous you are.

[Sheep Murderer]

What is the most awkward question we could ask you?

Is there a question you are afraid of?

Do you have any phobias?

How are your dreams (as in sleep)?

Have you ever known things you shouldn't have? Like foreseeing an event?

[Foxglove]

So, in regards to this-

Quote

Creative Ideas Labs - one day, it's actually going to get updated...

When is this going to be?

What is your favorite Harry Potter moment?

How do you feel about the HP movies?

[Undome Telcontar]

ShadowDog, on 10 Dec 2009, 03:19 AM, said:

A story that made big news over here was this seventeen year old boy who sailed around the world by himself, making him the youngest person to ever do this. Is this something that would appeal to you? What about a hot air balloon around the world?

If they ever get affordable commerical space travel up and running, would you be interested?

If they ever got a moon colony running, would you want to live there?

Basically, I'm trying to find out how adventurous you are.

i'd love to circumnavigate the globe, i'm not sure how though. solar plane, probably.

hahaha. apart from environmental engineering, space exploration and colonisation is my other major interest. if we're going to survive/thrive as a species, i don't think we can be tied down to this single rock. so yeah, i'd be interested. i probably designed the ship.

definitely.

fairly. and the more i adventure, the more adventurous i get. it's a nice positive-feedback loop.

[Undome Telcontar]

Sheep Murderer, on 10 Dec 2009, 05:31 AM, said:

What is the most awkward question we could ask you?

Is there a question you are afraid of?

Do you have any phobias?

How are your dreams (as in sleep)?

Have you ever known things you shouldn't have? Like foreseeing an event?

erm... i dunno, i don't really do awkward, not on the internet at least.

nope. if there was, i wouldn't have done this.

no. irrational fears are, by their very nature, irrational. and i try very hard not to be irrational.

generally fairly random. of course, there's my annual zombie dream. every year i get closer to surviving. yes, my mind is actually teaching me how to survive a zombie apocalypse. why, i have no idea.

i forsee things all the time, but not in the way you mean. i don't do supernatural. and in return, it doesn't show itself to me. funny how that works, eh.

[Undome Telcontar]

Foxglove, on 10 Dec 2009, 05:31 AM, said:

So, in regards to this-

Quote

Creative Ideas Labs - one day, it's actually going to get updated...

When is this going to be?

What is your favorite Harry Potter moment?

How do you feel about the HP movies?

hahaha, whenever i finalise a design, get it chopped up into blocks, and write the CSS/HTML for it. i do all web work in photoshop and notepad, so sometimes it can be slow going. generally i just go through phases, though. when i go back to my web phase, more will get done on it. i think i might have to go through my science phase first though, which is exciting.

pretty much the entirety of books 6 and 7... i'm not sure that i can pick out an individual moment. i need to reread, it's been a few months since i've read any of them as they're all at home-home.

1 and 2 are okayish, 3 is excellent as a film, meh as an adaptation, 4 is reasonably good, 5 is very good, 6 is horrific. that's how i remember it, anyway. i don't remember watching any of them, just the conclusions i came to.

[Rock]

If you're out on a date and yoru chick burps, do you:

1) Laugh
2) Pretend it didn't happen
3) Go to high-five her


After the meal, she gets out the car and lets a fart slip. Do you:

1) Laugh
2) Pretend it didn't happen
3) Go to high-five her

[Undome Telcontar]

quiet=ignore, loud=laugh, probably.

[Sheep Murderer]

Describe the most awesome thing you've ever done.

Do you ever make snowmen?

What did you think of the votes on your BC submissions?

An ideal meal is about to appear in front of you. What is it?

Your shoes. Describe them.

Describe the place in which you sleep.

This post has been edited by Sheep Murderer: 10 December 2009 - 11:00 PM

[Sheep Murderer]

....was it something we ate? *checks breath*

Let me guess: finals.

Oh, and speaking of those, you get an extra week. Congrats.

[ShadowDog]

LMFAO! Good, I'll get into the dirty stuff when he gets back.