Well, after a productive week, I kind of let things slide. I did make some progress though. Aiming the Camera I worked on the aiming problem in the animation. I experimented with some of the Blender animation features to see if I could get Blender to handle the aiming issue. From what I can tell,… Read Article →
Posts By: James Beattie Morison
Well, I did make some progress this week, after a week where I didn’t make any. I had run into some snags that I wasn’t sure how to deal with. I had to take a break to decide what to do next. Camera Movement The most finicky problem was the camera movement. When I let… Read Article →
I was fascinated by the Breakthrough Starshot Project to send a probe to another star system. They think it will take 20 years to develop the technology, 20 to 30 years to make the trip, and 4 years to send the pictures back. By then, my age will be triple digits and I just might… Read Article →
From time to time, when I watch some video, or listen to some music, I wonder what an extraterrestrial intelligence might think about us if that was the only piece of information they had. I blame that fascination on a short story I read by Arthur C. Clarke called “History Lesson”. It is sometimes called… Read Article →
I have been struggling to get started on my writing and movie projects. Some one suggested that I write a story about a man who’s wife had died. My wife died last year. They thought that writing a story about what it is like would help me come to terms with her loss. When I… Read Article →
I posted a new video this week about my trip to Mars. I didn’t actually go to Mars to make it. The video began as a short story I wrote for a class I took on conversational Mandarin, so the narration is in Mandarin. There are English subtitles though. My new trip to Mars video… Read Article →
It has been a while since I last posted. I’ve had a difficult time getting active on any of my movie projects. In the last few weeks I have started work on a couple of small projects that should result in something to post soon. I’ve had a large number of people sign up for… Read Article →
I saw “Blade Runner: 2049” last week. The character Joi reminded me of a story idea I had many years ago that I called “Virtual John”. It was a story about the virtual resurrection of John Lennon. Joi In “Blade Runner: 2049”, Joi is a holographic artificial intelligence who acts as the protagonist’s girlfriend. While… Read Article →
When I went to fix some minor problems on my website, I realized that the video for “My Most Difficult Case” was not working. I uploaded a new copy of the movie to YouTube. I fixed some problems with my website this week. Years ago, when I moved my website from html and php files… Read Article →
