MOMENT BEFORE "EXTINCTION"

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Image created using zbrush, 3ds max and photoshop.

Short-ish sci-fi back-story brainstorm of my own!

What if somebody told you, or better yet, what if somebody proved to you that most of our understanding of the world and space around us is not entirely right? What you see here in this image is one brief moment that took place in long history of our planet.

Specifically in this case, we witness one Dinosaur species being "stored" into, what we like to call "Black hole".

"What if black holes aren't what we think they are"? Just as you and I would take pictures when visiting foreign countries so we can refresh our memories of that place later in life or for what ever other reason we take hundreds of pictures when we go about our planet...

Try to imagine technologically advanced aliens that travel trough space and store away everything they come across for whatever reason.. To save the rare life forms for them to study and experiment, to have something to remember that place by or spread that life further into the space or something completely unimaginable to our perception and understanding..

Now, for the fun part, what if that advanced alien race could artificially produce "black hole" with it's technology. And what if they could reverse it's effect at any time, from whatever point, whatever type or matter or structure..

To try to simplify my thoughts for my self firstly! I will compare this artificial black hole to a vinyl record. These alien guys could create "Black hole vinyl record"(patent pending xD) and record(suck in) virtually anything. Later on, they could use that same superb tech to "read" out anything that has been "sucked" or "stored" into the black hole and load this content back into reality...

I know it sounds far fetched and very hard to digest, as if You traveled to past and tried to explain vinyl record or usb storage devices to a cave man..I think only thing being digested in that scenario would be your leg

To conclude! Message I'm trying to convey with this piece. What if Dinosaurs haven't extinct, what if most of them were simply stored away, saved, from the planet that might have been unable to support this form of life anymore or something like that??

What if Gulf of Mexico is not point of impact of giant meteorite or asteroid, what if that is point of miniature black hole deployment that was programmed to "suck" specific matter(in this case dinosaurs and maybe other life forms) leaving barren planet behind?!.. Wouldn't that be cool

This opens up so many doors for some intriguing scifi stories... Those same tech advanced guys coming back to our planet to store some of us, or all of us at some point..

60 HOURS, YES PLEASE!

I finally got it. The mother of all BR discs ever. Alien Anthology!

This is the pinnacle for a sci-fi buff such as me, if only I could have had it when I was a kid, about 15 years ago!! Oh man, that would be disastrous for my social and educational development xD

Anyways, I took my regular once or twice a week walk to the mail box hanging in front of our house, out of mere curiosity, I cant say I expected anything more than couple of household bills and that sort of thing... and what do I find.
!!!!I found that my Amazon.UK order had just arrived!!! Alien Anthology blu ray combo containing 6 BR discs!! What a nice feeling that is, approaching the mail box and catching a glimpse of the package delivery notice, or how-ever it is called.

I'm not gonna dribble about BR content that much,,,each movie com

es in it's theatrical and special edition release which is great!! What I'm looking forward here is two Additional BR discs with over 60 hours, yes, !!!60 HOURS!!! of behind the scenes footage and stuff...brain freeze... I'm embarking on a loong and fun trip trough the world of aliens and I'm loving that fact..

ALIEN INVASION

Have you ever dreamed something that woke you up in sweat and/or tears and made you appreciate you are alive more than you did when you went to sleep couple hours back.
I started dreaming lately, and unlike all the time, I started remembering what I dreamed about when I woke up, and my latest couple of dreams were insane..
If I'd write about them in details, it would sound like one of Roland Emmerich disaster movie screenplays.

Lately, I have recurring dream about alien invasion, not a friendly ones, but, "run for your life" ones.
It probably has something to do with loads of alien invasion movies hitting cinemas, hope it's not my sixth sense telling me something bad's gonna happen xD. Only problem I have with my dreams is I got no frickin control what so evar. if something can go bad it most certainly will :/
Tho' I love that sort of dreams, sometimes they make me tired and get me scared, well, at least until I realize it was just a dream.

Anyways, I gotta start thinking of some super weapon, so I can take it on my next dream journey.

T REX SKELETON update

I've almost completed T rex skeleton.

This should have been completed months ago, but I've put it on ice due to some other more important work I had back then and just couple of days ago I decided it's time to get it done.

These are some snaps from the Zbrush vieport.

My intention is to make it downloadable, skeleton and body mesh. Idea is to have it for learning purposes and better understanding of T rex anatomy.

This is the place where anyone who might read this blog would find out the time and place of when the T rex model will become downloadable.

Oh yeah, not to forget, the Canon 7D camera works, I had it sent to the authorized service shop and they exchange it's mirror box, and now it works like a charm for last 4-5 months or so.

CANON 7D, error 20

Bought Canon 7D about 45 days ago.

My overall impressions with the 7D performance are positive ones cos this camera is awesome.

It has ultra fast and precise focus, it's HD movie options are amazing, shutter speed is superb..

There are many more things and details that make this camera so special.

But...

I was in visit at my friend in London, and on the first day, we went out to the city so I could see some London for the first time, and as we were walking over the Westminster's bridge, I took some Big Ben pics. At that moment my Canon froze, displaying error 20 code only after couple of hours of use on that day. Used it with my brand new Canon 17-40mm L lens, powered with battery pack.

After the error message, Camera produced some weird buzzing noise(two or three time 1-sec buzzes: bzzzzz bzzzzz) when turned on and off, or when battery removed and inserted.

Dont even have to mention that any attempt on recovering from that error turned out as a waste of time.

Since it is only 45 days old, and under the warranty, I decided to send it to authorized Canon service shop.

Now, I have to wait over a month for it to be serviced, or, if that fails, replaced.

I honestly hope this wont happen again, as I would hate to quit on Canon products, cos I'm a faithful Canon buyer.