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This is something that has bothered me since high school and until this very day. There seems to be this great conviction, among my countrymen, that it was a Filipino Engineer named Eduardo San Juan, who invented NASA's Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) or "Moon Buggy", the vehicle that allowed Apollo 15, 16 and 17 astronauts to drive over the lunar surface.



It bothered (and somewhat embarassed) ...

Last night I had dinner with a bunch of guys whom I consider to be sources of inspiration. These guys are real world pilots. Two of them fly for Cebu Pacific, a third one could become one a 5J pilot himself soon, and the fourth is a genav pilot who is well on his way towards a bright future in the airline industry. A fifth guy, an iStoryan, was also present. I invited him to dine with us, so that he could hear some words of wisdom and the outrageous stories from the these guys who have much to ...

I took a long hard look at all the months (years na in fact), that I've been posting in these boards, and yes, one thing stands out--whenever I feel like the rest (or the majority) of the posters are for this idea that I find absolutely absurd, twisted or just plain wrong, I make a point to really make a stand and tell everyone that there's some serious flaw in their logic, and that I'd feel compelled to keep on posting ideas that would run in contradiction to their views and let them "see ...

(FYI, the intended title of this blog was "On Adam Savage, the Mechanics of Fame and the Most Realistic Nid Berry Bush Model that Won't Ever See the Light of Day" but mleh, iStorya's Blog title had a limit so I had to shorten it...on with the show)

I think I finally figured out why fame is important or necessary for certain people (probably,including myself).

I was watching this TED Presentation...

YouTube - Adam Savage: My quest for the dodo bird, and other obsessions ...

The title of my blog refers to items I've been 3D modelling this week and last week. The first two are for clients, but the last one...hehehe...it's for meeeeh!!!

I was able to model a North Korean Taepodong-1 IRBM/Satellite Launch Vehicle in 3D Studio MAX to model the 3 stages, but didn't make any payload/satellite, and just pretended that the 3rd stage is a nuclear warhead! After modelling it, I used a program that converts 3DS mesh files into mesh files usable in Orbiter, a ...

I attended the International Year of Astronomy / National Astronomy Week Closing Events and Stargazing Activity, sponsored by the USC Physics Department, and graced by amateur astronomers Christopher Go and Tomio Akutsu. I was there with some iStorya members. The event took place on Saturday, February 28 and lasted until dawn, March 1, 2009 (but I left at around midnight).

Photos...

The venue... USC Talamban Football Field...
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Our company Avatrian recently launched, Machitopia Studio, a sister company that produces Machinima.

Machitopia :: A Studio

What is a machinima? It is the use of real-time three-dimensional (3-D) graphics rendering engines, often from video games, to create computer-generated imagery (CGI) for animated films. More info here: Machinima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Although Avatrian has produced ...