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  • Angus

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    Alain & Sté’s dog Angus has a surplus of energy. To let him burn off some of it, Alain, Joe, Tom and I went to take a walk through the “Giele Botter” in Pétange with him. It’s a nature reserve where a steel company used to mine for iron, it’s also where my scout troop is located, so it’s an area that’s pretty familiar to us.

  • Cazz Walker, Secret Agent

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    Before the end of term, Cazz Walker, with whom I’ve worked before asked me for another shooting. I thought it would be cool to do something along the lines of the Bourne films and Max Payne comics. I scouted for some appropriate urban, shabby locations in Canterbury and previsualized some shots. At home I combined them into a storyline. Alison helped me during the shoot and lent me her Pocketwizards which I used for some of the setups, in others I relied on Canon’s ETTL in manual mode. You can look at the individual scenes in the window above or you can download the PDF, ready to be printed on A4: Cazz Walker, Secret Agent. The PDF is published under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.

    Here are some of the sources I used for this comic:

    The bar code font on the cover has been created by Anke Arnold.
    The font used for the title is Adobe ITC Machine.
    The texture used as overlay on the title is from gungetextures.com.
    The font used in the speech bubbles is Anime Ace.

  • Site appearance

    After gloda.net moved to the new server I though my CSS had broken somewhere during the transfer. What I was actually seeing were the effects of poor CSS handling on my part. I had never tested the site on screens bigger than 1280×800. The background image is supposed to stretch a bit beyond the inner container and then fade to black on the sides and the bottom. But the body background colour was set to 111 instead of 000 (pure black), and the image alignment was set to center instead of top. All things you won’t notice when the background image is bigger than your browser window. So for all of you who like to browse the web in full-screen windows on your 17+” screens, the site layout should look a bit more harmonious now.