@unknownuser said:

What if God is the singularity? One with the universe. Is everywhere and nowhere.

Actually, money too, Everywhere and nowhere.

Happy birthday Chris Fullmer
I wish I could buy you a drink, a good one. Something involving Scottish water I mean.

May I?
From a Christian perspective... God created the Universe, is Jesus a creation of God too? Before the existence of time?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

Do you know how many people suffered and died because of silly questions like these?
Another Wittgenstein's quote then.
"Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only"

To search God is like searching for a purpose in the Universe.
Is this what we're talking about? A purpose?
Because, if God is a before time creator or the universe just jumped out of nothing, these aren't much different sentences.

@pilou

@alan and all other friends,
Carl Sagan's Cosmos original series is my favorite. As the "contact" movie.
@pilou
This graphic on the front page of the book... it looks like... shadowbox-zbrush?

Let's try to understand what we're saying here.
Especially Pete, the most "mystical" among us. This "c'mon lets be real" pete...

Some Ludwig Wittgenstein's quotes.
-The world is all that is the case.
-The world is the totality of facts, not things.
-It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true.
-The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
-The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world.
-Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
-The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
-doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.
-There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
And of course...
-Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Never! Not in this form but anyway

@Boofredlay
Video #5 isn't available in greece as well.
@ Chris Fullmer
I know what you mean.

Of course Pilou. Thanks.
What he's proposing on this video is a bit heretic. Though in the end... lol watch the videos.
These ideas are funny and this all matters. To have fun, this is the most important. A great start for creating art. I can't think any better way.

Try to watch these eight poor quality videos (unfortunately)
You may find them interesting though.

You aren't alone Alan
Mechanically or aesthetically speaking.

Pete, you should post the first image on 'some funny pictures' thread. No comments needed.
An act of God,
Should we start writing about the deepest meaning of the word "hubris" ? As Oxford dictionary suggests, read about some ancient greek theatrical tragedies.

thank you, terrific indeed
Reminds me ... the greek economy.

It's beautiful
Yeah, a tutorial, but I can also assume some past involvement with art. he he
Which happens to be the most important.
Here we have a clear vision of the architectural work, in a way that no physically correct render can produce. Just notice the play between these figures and the trees. This exactly projects the scale of these buildings. The scale in a more philosophical manner. A script.

Some crits. The girl (bubbles), should look much closer to camera but let's not make it more difficult for the clients

Hey
Nice one
So a blend file... UV mapped already? There's something wrong, noticeable on the wing. Texture stretching.

Amazing!
Speechless!!!

Some 3d applications that never crashed OSX 10.6.8:
sketchup
zbrush
sculptris
blender (the old bl 2.49b never crashed either lol)
modo
3dcoat (except some betas, acceptable)
All these under nVidia graphics (I think this is important)

2d apps?
Any adobe suite (I don't remember even an app crash BTW)

Most of these OSX crashes aren't real crashes. It's the graphics related UI that crashes. Indeed, if you have a net access from another mac, you can still shut down - reboot OSX.

Thanks, mitcorb, sid
I found the app I like most. On sculpting I mean. Though based on less attractive developing solutions, still straight into art. No jokes.
It's not just about developing, it's about a team that listens carefully to the artists needs. And they never asked money for upgrades...

As a beta tester in some apps, I experienced memory leaks and system crashes under OSX. It was expected anyway.
What I learned is to start OSX at safe mode, (oh it exists under OSX too), just hold shift as you're rebooting. This clears all log files, then reboot normally again. Exactly as under win systems! Otherwise you'll face crashing running the same app. So let's keep it clean.
If an app still results in memory leaks, please trash it as soon as possible.

@unknownuser said:

Isn't it ironic that Greece was the home of Democracy. Maybe it could be the home of New Democracy?

Greece, no, Athens was the home of Democracy. An Utopia to some, the only event that changed the world and made us individuals, to others.
But now... a new democracy sounds like a new greece. This new greece that's is trying to find something common with the ancients... except our language.
I'm not so optimist at all.
Once again, dear friends... simplicity is the key.

"Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighbouring states; we are
rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. Its administration
favours the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a
democracy. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in
their private differences; if no social standing, advancement in public
life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being
allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way, if
a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of
his condition. The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also
to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance
over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our
neighbour for doing what he likes, or even to indulge in those injurious
looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no
positive penalty. But all this ease in our private relations does not
make us lawless as citizens. Against this fear is our chief safeguard,
teaching us to obey the magistrates and the laws, particularly such as
regard the protection of the injured, whether they are actually on the
statute book, or belong to that code which, although unwritten, yet
cannot be broken without acknowledged disgrace."

By Thucydides 431 BC
Translated by Richard Crawley