Whiteboard of the Week

Whiteboard of the Week – 10

 

So I’m hoping you can identify my drawings from other people’s by now. The printing party and wetting house radio is of course mine, and the rest are my sister’s. There was also this hideous blingy smile, but I was so disgusted seeing it this morning that I had to erase it. Sorry Laura.

My favorite of Laura’s is the guy creeping out from the frame eating a cupcake off the house. Awesome.

Printing party is a reference to Kevin’s “My 5Si is going to have a party printing this document”, referring to his epic typefest, writing up all of Grease: School Version…just for convenient access I guess. The wetting house is what you get when you take the “s” of your White-Westinghouse Radio. A radio that showers your house.

Stay tuned for a wonderful whiteboard animation of “La Neige en Deuil” by Henri Troyat.

Whiteboard of the Week – 9

So…it’s been a bit more than a week. And I don’t have any make-up boards. Ok, I’m sorry, but Grease does that to a person. But I do have some plans for a french project involving the whiteboard, so don’t get too disappointed.

 

While half asleep Kevin’s rantings about thermostaticity started rolling through my brain, and I came up with that question. I dunno. Top right is “Typing into the Sunset” and bottom right is “SIDEBANDED”, illustrated. In effect, what happens when you… are interfering RF with different RF bands? 

Have a good week, and remember, tomorrow’s hump day!

Whiteboard of the Week – 8

So I’m thinking the WotW is quite inversely proportional to my actual thoughts or something, because this was probably the biggest week for me ever, just…learning so much about myself and the world around me, and yet the reflections on the board are far from inspirational. Maybe that’s a good thing, because we can’t have amazing weeks all the time, so most of the time the whiteboards will be good? I’m not sure, but here’s this weeks in all it’s grayscale glory. (I’ve been keeping my camera in B&W mode, and noticing that a lot of other people do too. It’s a good idea: you can focus on the color balance without being distracted. Plus when you shoot in RAW it is still kept color once you download it.

 

 

So the main scene here is my closet. I reorganized it recently and thought about the giant multi-function printer thing I have in there that I use exclusively for scanning. (I got it from Kevin, and the printer fails and our house doesn’t need more faxes so…) Anyway essentially everything has sort of grown around it, because I keep all my rolls of tape in it’s paper feeders, and it makes me think of a jungle growing around something abandoned in it. (Notably, the abandoned truck in this book from my childhood.)

To the side in that square is Kevin “steaming” the inkjet heads of our old printer. Inkjet spa.

Some interesting thoughts from this week: WordPress has won my heart. My dream is to have all the websites I manage on my Safari toolbar, so that anytime something needs to be changed I can hit Command-# and be in their admin area. I’m starting with elderadvocates.ca, where I’ll be merging all the documents into a giant RSS feed with a bit of PHP and then importing them into WordPress as posts, then converting them to pages using the lovely p2pConverter. I did notice a glitch with it though: it doesn’t seem to handle converting pages with quotation marks in the title. I suspect there’s an escaping issue in the JavaScript somewhere, because it asks you to confirm changing from page to post. (Which, quite honestly isn’t that necessary considering you can switch it back just as easily…)

I’m pretty sure it’s just as easy to do it right in the SQL database too, which might be more efficient for bulk conversion. 

Have a good week everyone!

Whiteboard of the Week – 7

Another busy week I’m afraid, but I sketched out this while discussing boots for ethernet cables. You know how some cables have those little hoods on them that protect the jack (or make it a total pain in the butt to unplug, especially on ethernet cards that are not flush with the PCI slot %$#@!) Yes those. They’re called boots. I say they should be hoods. Here are my illustrations:

I have been studying Roland Harvey’s Drawing Book (Scholastic). I probably got it when I was in like…Grade 4, but it has some good stuff in it. Maybe if I actually have TIME to sit down and draw its influence will be passed on in drawing quality, who knows.

Have a good week everyone!

Whiteboard of the Week – 5 & 6

Last week I was a bit busy, so the results were a bit lame, but I came up with this shortly afterwards. We’ll call this “5.” 

Basically Kevin was complaining about how HP wizards would not extract files until it saw a printer around. I imagined the files in a kennel looking for printers for it to spend time with. Kevin is hitting it with a stick demanding they come out.

 

Onto this week: my parents were off living the Italian lifestyle for a bit, and my sister and I were left to our own devices. Here’s a summary of what happened (Guest author: Laura):

 

There is quite a bit going on here. Clockwise from top left: 

  • jFish dies
  • Laura hands out juice boxes to trick-or-treaters after running out of pencils. They are in fact, happier.
  • We stock the house with organic eggs.
  • Purolator guy shows up with a bunch of boxes (“Mom boxes”) and asks to use the washroom. My sister cautiously permits.
  • We go for breakfast for with my Grandpa, and I get my last pancake “to go” (Hey! It would be a waste not to eat it! I had it for lunch today.)
  • Opa tells of chasing Oma and her boyfriend’s Volkswagen. (Random!)
  • Food choices included pizza pops and soy loaf. My sister couldn’t find any real bread at superstore apparently.
  • Laura brings home jack-o-latterns, they are composted after Halloween. That should work.
  • Derrick shows up before Laura comes home the day that Joel decides he’s going to play piano for the first time in more than a year. He reads the newspaper until Laura gets home.
  • Joel learns how to do laundry. Later he observes the instructions on the machine. 
Of course other things happened but this was the overall summary. Until next week!

Whiteboard of the Week – 4

 

Sorry guys. Unless terrible drawings of hedgehogs interest you, this week’s whiteboard is a bit lame. For the jolewriting impaired, the first line says, “I’m happy (or I have understood, am satisfied) with something when I can sum it up in a sentence.”, something from Tuesday @ 1AM. I would probably be more specific in my more lucid state as “one sentence” rather than “a” sentence, but yeah. This is a bit obvious.

Hedgehog (attempt 1 & 2) was me verifying if I could draw one or not. A long time ago I had found an adorable image of a hand drawn one but I couldn’t remember if I had drawn it or not. I’ll see if I can draw it for next week because it’s coming back to me now, but those were my attempts at the time. From far away attempt 2 looks worse than attempt 1, but attempt 2 definitely is cuter… you know the whole *having eyes* part helps.

The last part was just some notes for a TELUS essay contest. More on that some other time.

Whiteboard of the Week – 3

This week I released my first whiteboard animation, as a social project. It is in French though, because I’m in French immersion so my projects are in French. 

In any event it still has some cool stuff and I hope you like it!

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Ok, fine. There’s also a static Whiteboard of the Week. I’m not explaining this week though, because it’s not very meaningful and most of it was fairly context driven, but there was another guest drawer in this one. Make your guesses on what part it is!

 

Oh and the video of course:

 

P.S. I guess that sorta makes this the public of jolevideo. It’s been in private beta for a while, but that’s news for a day when my PSU isn’t fried. (Sigh…)

P.P.S. Thanks to Ashley for her contribution to the project! (No she isn’t the guest drawer.)

Whiteboard of the Week – 2

Wow so here I am publishing on time. It just about didn’t make it because my Quad crashed and I’m in the midst of repairing it, but I am writing it! Oo and next week you can expect a special animated special on presidential and parliamentary government systems (in French!), so look forward to that! Onto this week’s whiteboard…

 

Most of these were written last Saturday right after I erased it, but who cares.

  • Top-left is a demonstration of how audio is hucked through parallelograms. (A reference to using Windows in Parallels Desktop as an MP3 streamer/encoder)
  • Bottom-centre is the Bonjour QT Streaming boat. I tried explaining this one to my Mom and she gave me a funny look. Basically I was illustrating the way in which the QuickTime Streaming Server is very low configuration, because they speak Bonjour and start streaming right away, unlike Darwin Streaming server. Streaming folk get it.
  • Top-right we have the infamous vhat. Basically I express “what?” spoken in a German accent to be “vhat” but that looks way more like virtual hat than “what?” in German, and so I illustrated it.
  • Center-right is not my drawing (how can you tell?) but one by my sister. She likes to call me leoj. She claims I mumble, creating mumbleoj. (Yes, our entire family is pretty much this weird.) Anyway she’s mocking my electric scooter hack. (I’ll have to blog on that at some point.)
So that’s it for this week, and stay tuned for an excellent animation, and another WBoW next Saturday!

Whiteboard of the Week – 1

This Tuesday I bought a whiteboard from Kevin after a long voyage to different Superstores on both of our parts. (Random thought: wouldn’t it be nice to have a stupidity checker? I just wrote that sentence wondering if it made any sense whatsoever and then just kept typing waiting for a squiggly line to indicate to me whether I was being moronic or not…)

Point is I have a whiteboard carefully mounted on my wall. I’ve found that having a large amount of space to just draw, sketch, take notes, and create is quite useful and mind opening. My plan is to not erase the whiteboard until I’ve taken a picture of it, and posted it here under the “Whiteboard of the Week” category. Who knows, things might just get interesting.

So what’s in this week’s whiteboard?

  • Front and center is the wintersaurus, the prehistoric creature that will be showing up on your lawn soon if you live towards in the Northernly parts like I do. As you can see there are some tobogganists enjoying their day on his back. (No, not tobacconists)
  • Up to we have The Running Man. (No not this one.) This running man started out as just a continuous run, but his persistence was interrupted, and thus it is two arrows. This came to me one morning (probably Wednesday…hump day) when I was feeling rather lethargic and realized that I just had to keep going and eventually the end of the week would come.
  • Parachute Man is symbolic of the excellent Coldplay album “Parachutes”. He became tridimensional a few days after I drew him
  • Finally our last creature is a bit of a complexity even to me, one which I can only describe as…Windshield Cat. I mean really, what else do you see in that illustration besides that?
So that’s it for this week’s Whiteboard of the Week. Hopefully I can keep this going longer than all the other things I strive to make “regular.”
P.S. In the writing of this email WordPress seems to have a bug in WebKit that locks up the UI when you try to add a link to text. I would like to thank the dude who forced a draft-save before activating any further UI, because it’s saved my bacon at least thrice.
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