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Richard

Where's the rulebook for life?

About Me

After spending years of not being creative, it's time to start getting back into drawing and writing.
One of the things that I've been using is Poser to create artwork. Poser is a 3D program that allows posing figures in a variety of costumes and environments.

My Interests

Art, writing, movies.

I'd like to meet:

Anybody who's not braindead.

Music:

Beatles, Monkees, Collective Soul, Credence Clearwater Revival

Movies:

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Abbott & Costello, Three Stoogers

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, 24, King of Queens, Shield, Dick Van Dyke Show, Titus, NewsRadio

Books:

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Heroes:

Are there any heroes left?

My Blog

Its a good thing MS doesnt make robots

I was downloading some Poser files and they suddenly started opening without asking me where to put them. It took a while to remember how to fix this annoyance. It turned out to be under Tools/Interne...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:09:00 PST

Big eye 60’s mod teen paintings

I've been looking for these paintings, done in the 60s, for a while without much luck.  I finally tried to be less specific in my searches and looked at 60s poster sites and finally found some of...
Posted by Richard on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:59:00 PST

There’s nothing like sleazy American politics

My state had Senate primaries this week to vote for the party candidates that will run against each other at the end of the year.Just once, I'd like to see an election where the candidates try to get ...
Posted by Richard on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:23:00 PST

Weird backlash for copyright orphans

An odd psychological phenomenon is occurring with the new legislation for creating an orphan exemption to copyright law penalties. A number of artists don't mind the new bills. Some even think that th...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 18 May 2008 07:20:00 PST

The more I think about the Copyright Orphan bills the more I dislike them

There are bills in the US Congress to create a new class of copyrighted works that do not deserve the full protections available to all copyrighted works. Copyright orphans are copyrighted works whose...
Posted by Richard on Sat, 10 May 2008 02:19:00 PST

Sticking to real media

I got an offer last week by a MySpace sculptor to get involved in an unspecified artistic venture because he liked some of the art in my profile. I'm still playing around artistically and learning to ...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 04 May 2008 03:25:00 PST

Comments on New Orphan Copyright Legislation

Both the House and Senate orphans legislation are amendments to the existing copyright law under Chapter 5, Copyright Infringement and Remedies, by adding a new section 514 for Limitation on Remedies ...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:26:00 PST

Copyright Orphan Legislation

There's a bit of furor going on in a number of art forums over the subject of copyright orphans. A copyright orphan is a work whose copyright owner is difficult to locate. If the various proposals bec...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:16:00 PST

Bought a new desktop computer

I've been pricing computers for the last few months and just found a deal that I couldn't beat for a low end quad core computer. I wanted a quad core because Poser 7 rendering makes use of the ch...
Posted by Richard on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:16:00 PST

Modern SF and the 2008 Hugo Nominees

One of the things I decided to do after reading a number of Isaac Asimov novels is read some current science fiction. Initially, I just wanted to revisit the Foundation series that I had enjoyed in hi...
Posted by Richard on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:23:00 PST