Jabberwocky Design

First Stab at Marker Rendering

Here is the progression of my first attempt at drawing and rendering for class. Pencil sketch to pen line drawing to marker rendering. It only took me about 8 hours total.

SpaceClaiming a Dragonfly

SpaceClaim just released Service Pack 2 today, so I am posting this (unfinished) article I began right after R4 shipped, before it becomes entirely irrelevant.
I work as an Application Engineer for SpaceClaim, which means I spend a large portion of my waking hours using the software. Which, it turns out, allows me to create [...]

RiffRaff 0.4

I finally took some time to go fix some major issues on the theme I made for Dustin’s SkateBlog.  These should help a lot with navigation. In particular I:

Fixed the Archives to actually display past posts.
Fixed the pagination links to actually fit the theme, and refined some of the locations they show up.
Worked on showing [...]

Blast from the Past – ME 4320 Project

I just came across a video of the project I worked on D Term of my senior year for ME 4320 Advanced Engineering Design. The project was sponsored by Gillette, and involved a member team to devise means of dropping razors with a constant height and orientation upon impact. Gillette wanted to know [...]

Bullets + SloMo = Awesome10.08

Watching this was easily the best 10 minutes of my day today.
It is pretty mesmerizing to see the absolute chaos that comes from such a tiny little bullet.  I like the ballistics gel shots the best.

October 8, 2009 at 7:43 pm | Blog | 287No commenthttp://jabberwockydesign.com/2009/10/bullets-slomo-awesome/Bullets+%2B+SloMo+%3D+Awesome2009-10-09+00%3A43%3A41Jimbo

Music is Instinctual08.02

Bobby McFerrin gives an incredible demonstration of how music comes to people naturally.  A crowd is coaxed into accompanying his vocal improv with only ten seconds of prompting.  Watch the video:

I think it’s especially important to note how much enjoyment everyone seems to get out of this little experiment.  The guys on stage are smiling, [...]

August 2, 2009 at 9:08 pm | Blog, Thoughts | 257No commenthttp://jabberwockydesign.com/2009/08/music-is-instinctual/Music+is+Instinctual2009-08-03+02%3A08%3A23Jimbo

Red Cube07.30

RedCube, originally uploaded by JimboRocks.

I like this picture. I took this picture. Now I’m using it to see if my Flickr account is actually linked correctly to Jabberwocky.

July 30, 2009 at 4:18 pm | Blog | 2564 commentshttp://jabberwockydesign.com/2009/07/red-cube/Red+Cube2009-07-30+21%3A18%3A48Jimbo