It is all in the trusting.

David V’s trick for me of not looking where my backhand goes, instead keeping my head still as I play through the shot, worked wonders. It seems the same laws of physics govern the universe whether I follow the ball with my eyes or just trust the shot. Why, then, has it never occurred to […]

Fingers had a little falling out with Ears, but they resolved to go easy on each other…

Turns out, according to a Frenchman who makes really good bread, there is one golden rule. The temperature of the water added is dictated by a simple formula: ambient temperature + temperature of flour (the same as ambient temp if the flour has been stored in the same room) + water temperature = 54º C. […]

Not tricky. A nifty solution.

Just heard and then just caught a glimpse from the window.

Cropping video is quick and easy and – crucially – doesn’t need a re-render. But for picture-in-picture you can only crop to rectangles. I want an oval/circle as a zoom from the layer below. Making a matte for vignetting or any other cut-out look is fiddly, time-consuming and takes forever to render out. I need […]

Communal showers, fresh fruit, and did I mention coffee?

“So why are they singing that?”

Caffeine is in lots of things…