New Waders!
I finally picked up my very own waders...that fit!
For the last 2 season I have been using an ancient pair of neoprene waders given to me by my Uncle (thank-you by the way 
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I picked up a pair of Redington CPX breathables and oh my stepping into them was amazing. Standing, walking, crouching is super awesome! I wore them in the fly shop for a bit and nothing else since. After my graveyard shift I just might head out to the Vedder to play with them.
Eastern Rises
About a week ago I stumbled upon the trailer fro Eastern Rises, a fly fishing film, mostly cinematography in Kamchatka, Russia. Possibly some of the most amazing trout rivers in the world. I look forward to the video release in August 2010, when I will do a brief review.
From what I have seen so far it appears as if these guys are making Warren Miller style films for fly fishing! I would definitely LOVE to hit one of these remote destinations in my life.
Eastern Rises | teaser from felt soul media on Vimeo.
Good things come from small fish
Last week, I made a day trip to Falls Lake, at the summit of the Coquihalla.
It was a fantastic trip, very successful in the fish department.
After an hour long drive and a small 20 minute hike through a pretty forest trail along side a rushing stream I arrived at a mirror smooth lake and geared up. I had been here once before, for the life of me, could not remember it to be this pretty. At the end of the lake a small stream exits where a decent size log jam has built up. Scaling across the logs, in the middle you could see schools of fish venturing around.
Starting our with a dry fly, I got a little action, after pulling in a few smaller brookies, I switched to what I know refer to as dynamite (bead headed nymph). I was getting hits almost every cast, and most of them brookies. About a half hour later, I pulled in a beautiful cut-throat trout, most intense colouring I had ever seen on a non-tropical fish. After that point I decided I should bring my camera out.
I should mention, I was using a much lighter weight fly rod then I had before, typically I use a weight higher, the difference was astounding. These little fish found like they could have been 10 or 11 inches long. Then again, maybe it was just the excitement of first fishing trip of the year.
Small Brook Trout
Brook Trout
Drive Home
I looped my cameras arm strap around one of my belt loops because the logs were a little unsteady at times, and falling between two of them was not on my agenda.
Site Direction
For the longest time this web site has be very directed. Focusing mainly on my work in technology, which anyone can do.
I'm turning this site from a portfolio, to personal blog. I figured some people might be interested in my personal life, not to mention I would really like to keep record of hobbies and what not, for my personal use over writing to the world, which I really don't care much about.
Along side being a techno-nerd, I am also an avid fisher, paintball player, and quickly getting into fly tying. So if I don't get to lazy I will be posting more often and covering stuff that I think would be valuable to note.
Cheers
Back to UDK
Well, it'd be three quarters of a year, I have played with UDK, moved to Java, and C# briefly to get a basic understanding of games (collision, etc...) , as well as dabbled in security; now I am going to start again with UDK see if I can create something cool.
I am pretty confident by the end of the summer I should have accomplished something worth adding to my portfolio. I'm thinking of making a single player 3rd person RPG style game.
Anyway look forward to updates!
New video intros
I decided to take a small break from my usual coding, and do something in a different area. I have been playing with some Adobe After Effects templates from www.aeprojects.com. Here is the out come:
Awesome day
Yesterday was an awesome day.
Headed out to Vancouver before Video Games Live and explored the city for a couple hours with Katie.
The first interesting incident was while we were walking through an up-class area; lots of green trees, and vegetation, well kept. As we turned the corner I saw a a young man on a knee before a girl on a beautiful terrace over looking the bay. He stood up and she leap into his arms. Apparently they were very happy. Then I noticed two people around the next corner peaking over watching, then they jumped out with a massive bouquet of flowers. It all clicked, this guy just proposed and these people are one of their parents.
I thought it was very cool that I had witnessed this, kind of gave me a fuzzy feeling all over! 
Anyway onto the main event. VGL (Video Games Live) was absolutely amazing. The light, MC's, the crowd, and especially the orchestra were truly inspiring. I was a little put off by Tommy Telerico performance... he came off as a bit of a cocky jerk. Though he played the guitar near the end, that was awesome. My favorite part had to be either the Orchestras performance of "One Winged Angel"(video) by Nobuo Uematsu or it very well could have been Martin Leung who rose to fame from the blind-folded mario theme on the piano(video) he played several amazing songs on the piano!
Over all it was a good night!
BlueHarvest Update
Small update:
Over the last few days I have implemented tile-based navigation, and scrolling (still WIP), and spawn points (which is actually a more complicated object system...examples coming)
My goal is to have it so we can load huge maps and they are rendered as approached.
Cheers
Jon
Blue Harvest – Update
Over the last few days I have done a monsterous amount of work to Blue Harvest, including:
- Fixed Animations
- Performance optimization
- Layered Mapping
- Collision detection
Heres a video!