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Philippe Lhoste
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I got at DD!

Now I know how it feels... Somehow, it enforces my suggestion Be notified of DDs given to people you watch and the secondary suggestion/corollary of notifying people when they get a DD.
Now, it is quite obvious when you get lot of faves and comments on a given piece, but even then...


Anyway, thanks to Tepara for suggesting that Watching you? could be a DD and to DCZed for giving it.


Somehow, I am a bit disappointed I got a DD for my script, not for my art. But actually, I am happy! =)
And this choice doesn't really come as a surprise, since I am a much better programmer (trained for that, doing it daily for years for living) than artist (self-taught, occasional practice)... :D And most of my scripts are among the most popular pieces of my gallery...



I am late!

I still owe a number of features in my latest journal. I must find some time to do them. I sure don't forget them anyway.
I also have tons of deviations in my devWatch waiting to be purged or looked more closely... It will be worse when I come back from holidays... :(



Holidays!

Although I am in holidays for quite some time already, the days are flying by and I hardly find some time to do productive things in dA (eg. uploading the stuff I scanned).


I will go away for a week, so no answers for a while...




Graphics Tablet

Recently a cousin owning an Wacom Intuos 3 graphics tablet lent it to us, so we can try it. My wife was starting to think it would be cool to have one (she does posters and ads) and knew I would like to have one too.


So we got the opportunity to try it and thought it is great. So we jumped the step and bought a Wacom Bamboo Fun (A5 format). It was cheaper and we thought if it was too limited, it would make at least a great tool for our kids: Intuos is too expensive to left them play with it.


After doing a drawing with Intuos, and a similar one with Bamboo, I can say they are similar enough (for beginners like us) not to buy the Intuos right now. Ie. the Bamboo will be enough for some time.
Actually, I even prefer the "paper" touch feeling of the Bamboo. The Intuos might have better options (finer pressure sensitivity (twice many levels), better resolution (twice much), more buttons and two touch strips vs. one touch ring, tilt detection) but for most of them, we don't really need them. Perhaps in the future, if we hit the limits of the Bamboo.


As expected, I had trouble using it with Gimp (and probably Inkscape). I saved the link to the solution some time ago, to answer questions in Software forum and in case I ever get one...
The link is: Bug 496958 – Wacom Bamboo doesn't function with GTK apps in Win32 (Gimp, Inskscape). The comments explains how to fix the issue with an hex editor: you just have to change a byte in a DLL file. Really easy to do, and it works very well.


So expect to see my first tries (a bit ugly but hey!) and more color graphics in my gallery (gasp!).


See you in a week or two!




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Feature meme

Some time ago, I participated to a feature meme. I wasn't subscribed at the time, so I didn't made one myself. Recently, I participated to two others (FeuSigil and Eru142), and I have no longer that excuse.

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So here it is:

  1. First 10 people to comment on this entry will have three deviations from their gallery featured here till next journal entry (I can accept more, but I will be happy to reach this number already!).
  2. If you are featured, please do the same for another 10 people in your own journal (but I just make this optional, as I don't like to tag people in general, and it is a bit pointless for non subscribers).

I will update this journal for each (batch of) answer(s)!
[EDIT] First batch of features! Don't hesitate to comment here to be featured!


:iconfeusigil: FeuSigil
Little Sigil-chan
Cute character, emblematic since she chose it to illustrate her journal.
:thumb60230766:
Bonnie and Clyde
Because the characters are amusing and well defined, and because there is a good effort on making a background.
haunted house
Because I am still a sucker for black & white illustrations, the character is nice and I love Halloween like atmosphere...

<div class="Clr>


:iconshin-senpuu: Shin-Senpuu
Junk By Jen's Deviant ID 1
Nice ID, with good layout, nice border and interesting choice of colors (beside the original paintings by JunkbyJen, of course).
NevConS' - Opening History
It is less a story than a sketch of a possible future world. I made a similar timeline for one of my stories, so I appreciate this kind of work, trying to define a consistent history where to place a story.
Corel, 3 months old 13
A cute and expressive dog! :D





Current works

Not much. I should update my Greasemonkey scripts, I made some small adjustments. Most of them are in UserScripts.org, but I hadn't updated the dA pages yet.
I plan to translate my comic pages to English.
I still owe to frozenpandaman a kiriban for 3,000 (talk about being late!), I made a preliminary sketch since a long time, I think it will become the final work... :P


I made my little (30s) film for Ani-Jam and sent it, I wait for the final result. It might be also my first film deviation, and I plan to do the planned animation (I made a simpler one to meet the deadline) where the ferns are growing. See Ferns - Static view by philho for details.


Still playing with Processing, that's a nice tool. Will draw mazes with it. If you look at my CSS experimentation playground, you can see beating hearts in the header. I made them with Processing: by fixing some parameters, I can make them in various styles and colors, etc. Perhaps I will do free avatars on demand with this! ;)


Not much planned on the drawing side, still must scan my comic with Prune.



My readings

Lately I read a lot of the public transports. I always did, but it was these free newspapers. Now I read books from my local library.


I recently read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (À la croisée des mondes in French) trilogy, after having seen the first movie which I liked.
I am enthusiast, it is one of the best books I ever read (along with the Harry Potters I would say...). It has a good, consistent universe, a solid, well woven story, and despite the apparent child (or, rather, teenager) target, it is deep and mystic and an adult can enjoy it a lot.
A must read if you are not afraid of big, profound books.


On a much lighter side, I have read two volumes of Don Dracula by Osamu Tezuka. This is a very funny parody of Dracula classical movies, which moved to modern Japan with his daughter.
They are confronted to modern problems, and Tezuka develops well the father-daughter relationship, while making the reader laughing out (usually I just smile at such stories).


Just before, I have read Lady Snowblood, the manga that inspired Tarantino for Kill Bill. Superbly drawn and interesting story with historical roots in Meiji period (some adult material).


And I have just read the first volume of Cross Game by Mitsuru Adachi. I am fan of this mangaka, I like his laid back humor, his style of drawing, his storytelling. I have most of his early works in Japanese manga, but not much yet of what have been translated in French. This first volume is excellent, moving, and I hope I will find the followings at the library.
That's the problem with libraries: you often cannot start to read a series because the first volumes are missing, and after the start you have to wait for the gaps to come back!


I was more lucky with Dance! Subaru as I found the 11 first volumes. I am at vol. 5. It is about a girl dreaming of dancing, fueled by the drama in her life. Nice dance images, and good work on psychology, even if likelihood isn't the strong point!


I just stop there, I fear you felt asleep by reading the above! :D




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Do you like black & white drawings and comics?

69 votes

Boogie! Yes, I love manga!

Dance! Yes, they are so contrasted and/or so detailed

:( (Sad) Naah, it is dull and boring

CURSE YOU! Finish them first, go color them!

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Stamp Area!

Stamp - Comics by AzraelleWormser
Comics are an art form
I love Comics and Cartoons by PauZak
I love Comics and Cartoons
Comicslist stamp by Comicslist
ComicsList

I'm an adult and I still love cartoons!

I read the gallery descriptions
:thumb34894270:
I love your OC's even when it seems like nobody else does
Black And White Stamp by PhysicalMagic
I love black & white

I love animation
:thumb73718788:
I love all forms of animation

And an image too:
Scraps Have Feeling Too

Some useful links






Deviant icons

:icongimptacular: GIMPtacular
:iconmozilla: Mozilla
:icontheknotters: TheKnotters
:icondeviantartfilm: deviantartfilm
:iconcomicslist: Comicslist
:iconme: :devme:


CSS experiments

Sorry for the noise, this meaningless journal (although not more than some I have read... :D) is made only as a CSS playground, to allow me to test various CSS designs, for me or for others, in various browsers.
Of course, the great Journal CSS Editor made by xork could be used for this, but I prefer to have my own sandbox, in real, live setting.
The first version was for feawen but I just changed the images to no longer use her design, since she picked another CSS.

The 2008 deviantART Ani-Jam
:iconfernplz::iconanijamplz:


Some Big Section
Micro-scripts


These are bookmarklets, to be pasted in the address bar of the browser. Should work for most browsers.

(No mood) for journal javascript:var es = document.getElementsByName("supermoodid"); es[0].value = 0; void(0);

Move comment box next to deviation javascript: var co = document.getElementById("reply"); var ca = document.getElementById("zoomed-in").parentNode; ca.appendChild(co); void(0);

"Secret" URLs


  • Gallery feed: http://PhiLho.deviantART.com/stats/gallery/feed.xml - OR - http://PhiLho.deviantART.com/stats/gallery/script.js.php
  • Gallery RSS feed: http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=by%3Aphilho+sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps&type=deviation
  • Journal RSS feed: http://PhiLho.deviantART.com/journal/rss/ ==> http://backend.deviantart.com/rss/journal/philho.xml
  • JSON interface:
    1. http://www.deviantart.com/global/difi.php?c[]=Menu;get;art,2&t=json
    2. http://www.deviantart.com/global/difi.php?c[]=Menu;get;art,2&t=php -- PHP array
    3. http://www.deviantart.com/global/difi.php?c[]=Menu;get;art,2 -- HTML table


HTML codes in dA


<i>italic</i> italic (also <em>emphasis</em> emphasis)
<b>bold</b> bold (also <strong>strong</strong> strong)
<u>underlined</u> underlined
<sup>superscript</sup> superscript
<sub>subscript</sub> subscript
<acronym title="tooltip">acronym</acronym> acronym
<strike>strike</strike> strike (but not <s>strike</s> strike)



HTML codes that doesn't work in dA


Only admins like lolly can use hn tags!
:tears:
For some mysterious  reason, span tag isn't allowed on dA.
Curiously, the closing span tag isn't escaped.



Special Effects
Trying vectical link bar with hovering effect




Trying horizontal link bar with hovering effect


HomedA HomeArtFaves



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My account is quite quiet currently, even though I am active on dA, answering messages in Suggestions and Programming forum, commenting on deviations, trying to catch up on my overfull deviantWatch list... And I keep discovering interesting deviants!
I don't draw much, I program a bit, I am planning to participate to a few contests even though I am not sure to meet the deadlines... So I don't promise anything.
I have some old drawings scanned, but I have to do a bit of clean up before posting them, so I postpone them a bit...



Anyway, I though I could make a little casual journal to give some news and show I am still here...



As you can see, I am subscribed again! Yay for CSS experiments and beta testing (currently Portfolios!). And a bit more comfort in browsing and managing the message center. I might try to do a new poll too.
My current one year subscription is thanks to Age2003 after the contest he held and that I won. He was away from dA for a while, that's why I was unsubscribed for some time, but it's OK, real life has to have a higher priority than dA life...
And one morning, I had the pleasure to see a FedEx man bringing an envelope from California to me. Inside, there was the nice Fella plushie! I am happy (I am fond of plushies!) and so are my children.. ;) (That's the other part of the prize.)



spyed has put my Watching you? script in his collection of deviantART Ideas which was some time in the top of collections, bringing even more faves to an already appreciated script...
Somehow, my Greasemonkey scripts are more popular than most of my drawings... :( Actually, it is logical: I am a professional programmer, trained for that and with quite some experience, while I am an amateur artist, self-taught and with less experience (I don't do that for a living!). So it is OK, I suppose, and the attention is still appreciated.



Another good news: I have now a new computer. Not a fancy super-modern one with a gazillion of cores, a "simple" Pentium 4 of 2004, which is already better than the previous one... The good thing is that I paid nothing for it: my company has moved to a new place (not far of the previous one, but with lot more space) and some computers and screens were deemed as obsolete and promised to recycling... But they allowed some employees to take one each, and most of them went this way... I grabbed the computer, a keyboard and mouse, and a cathodic 17" screen. And the Windows XP Pro license coming with the computer! It would use some more memory, but it is OK, and I type these words on it.



Oh, and I might get some things from my Amazon Wish List because I helped somebody re-coding a site (the main page and the Pizza & Wings page). The design is the original one, but I re-coded it entirely to use modern CSS and HTML instead of tables and monolithic big background image...



That's all for today, see you soon!
Oh, and take a look at my faves, there are beautiful things there!



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