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Ok, so...this is the third entry this year in the blog, and it's July already.

The thing is, I started posting my stuff in a few other places and always made updating the blog the lowest priority. At first I meant to do some monthly updates with anything I had, but posting the same thing all over again at a later date made no sense actually, and that got me thinking about what to do with this blog.

For starters, there's been some sort of redesign. Blogger added new features and I played with them a bit. Happier with this design than I've ever been with the previous one.

Along with the new colours and blurry fuzziness came a widget link to my Twitter account. This is nice and all, but I don't see a way to subscribe to that other than joining their site. So there's the box to show what I post in there, that you will probably only see when you visit here, and, with no new posts, that'll be never. The important thing about this is:

Where's the content gone?

Most of it has gone now to MountainOfMinutes.
If you don't already know the site, it's a collaborative thing where some blenderheads post their stuff. And I happen to be one of them, so, whenever I sculpt something it goes there, same applies to timelapses.

Take this image as example:

If you click the image you will see my post there yesterday with this render, a time lapse of the process, and a render of another sculpture.

Going back to Twitter, I had an account for some time there, as well as a Facebook account. I also started a Tumblr blog about a year ago. This three places are where most probably my images first appear.
I think that most of what I posted there end up in this blog, but some things are lost, like this 2d doodle:
http://yfrog.com/h7mu26j

So with everything sculpt-related and the silly drawings out. What's left?

Well, there's this quicky-simple AR thing I did for a friend:
http://www.escolavalenciana.org/feslloch/codi/index.html

this video for the background visuals of a play:


And there's a couple of videos that I've already linked to on Twitter.

A video showing Softblend theme with a few different files:


a doodle with 2.57:


And there is another one that I don't even need to post, because Murat Egretli has been kind enough to do so already :)
http://foreverblender.blogspot.com/2011/07/news-onion-branch-testing-1.html

So, as you can see, almost everything I do gets linked somewhere else, spread everywhere and, most of the time, fed to the same audience. Should I add to the noise and repost everything here?

Comments

  1. no worries Mr. Roch:)

    we are still here to see your findings and creations:)
    I inked mountain of minutes now, but still i'd drop the links here now or then (not much work involved).. i always enjoy checking back now and then and see what you came up with, great stuff.
    Mountain of minutes posts are huge...great sculpts!!!

    Best regards!

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  2. Hi Nixon!

    Thanks. Always happy to read you, I'll keep posting here. If there's nothing new, I'll do weekly-monthly updates with everything I posted online.

    Cheers!

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