Anthony @anthony@social.da-am.com

Hi I'm Anthony. I'm a freelance Houdini / FX artist near Chicago. Big Linux and self-hosting advocate. Check out my work at da-am.com.

It’s time... for another server. I need another one to compliment my r720 on the rack. So many possibilities.

Listen to Bush? Hmmm. No thanks. The world has gone insane.

3 hours to renew a driver’s license is just dumb. Take phone numbers at the door and call them when they are a few spots away , or take a ticket like in a deli and have a big board. Probably a hundred better ways to do this. But by all means let’s trust the system to take care of us...

Anyway, how is your day going?

Thinking about moving my site's videos to an S3 type object storage. Anyone server video from S3 to a wordpress site? I'm wondering how the performance is and if there are any current players available. Seems there are a few but maybe outdated?
#wordpress

Amazing Mandalorian Season 2 breakdown by Important Looking Pirates:
https://vimeo.com/525673750
#vfx

g4dn.metal is my new favorite AWS instance 🤘

#rendering #3d

<rant>
The population that is least affected by Covid is taking the brunt of the lock-downs. And boy is it affecting them and their future.
</rant>

Christ, congrats Beeple! Everydays do pay off.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/beeple-first-nft-artwork-at-auction-sale-result/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Top+Stories%29

I just heard my first frog of the season. A lovely sound after a hard winter.

My favorite video for PDG / TOPs in Houdini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZhTI4tjKho

Lot's of good info and I always lose the link so here it is for my future self.

Support this brilliant human:
https://www.patreon.com/openfirehawk

#houdini #tops #openfirehawk

Podman 3.0 now supports Docker-Compose. Really neat and may finally get me off of Docker. I'm a little late on this one but looks really cool.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose

My clients have asked what I use for file transfer, since it's not Dropbox. I use and love Seafile for all my transfers. Flexible, fast, and reliable. Plus the file auditing is handy for security.
https://www.seafile.com/en/home/

What in the open internet!? Just opened a link from Reddit that took me to CBS news. The site asked if I wanted to read it on the CBS news app or Chrome... like most crappy news sites do on mobile. But on my desktop... Is this a new thing? Gotta add CBS news to my blocklist.

Houdini Algorithmic Live #051​ - Geodesic Hatching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mif5AtC34M&feature=youtu.be
#houdini #3d

Selfhosted alternative to Airtable, Baserow 1.0 has been released:
https://baserow.io/blog/february-2021-release-of-baserow

"But McBean was quite wrong. I’m quite happy to say.
That the Sneetches got really quite smart on that day.
The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches.
And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches.
That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether
They had one, or not, upon thars."

Blender + More Nodes = ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnXQMxr5xg8

My favorite image sequence viewer, mrViewer has been updated: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mrviewer/

Amazing playback, super customizable, ACES support, OCIO, VR, Stereo, HDRI, Deep... the list goes on and on. Consider donating to this fantastic open source project! https://mrviewer.sourceforge.io/
#vfx #animation