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General Discussion / Re: What is the last thing you bought?

« on: October 08, 2014, 07:04:02 PM »

From Walmart

The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season DVD Box Set - $13.97
The Simpsons: The Complete Tenth Season DVD Box Set - $19.06

It's taken 11 years, but my Simpsons DVD collection set is COMPLETE! I started collecting back in 2003 when I was about 10, turning 11.

Season 2 was the only season I was missing in the first 9 seasons. Could have completed this years ago had I not of been so lazy about picking up that season. I was gonna extend my collection further up to Season 15, but I don't know about that. The episodes are hit and miss from seasons 11-15.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: October 05, 2014, 09:55:56 PM »

Not a good day today. My sinuses is driving me freakin' crazy! I have an off/on headache where the worst of the throbbing pressure is in the center part of my forehead down to my nose and my nose won't stop running.

#miserable

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Jennifer Lopez returns to TWC

« on: October 04, 2014, 09:57:07 PM »

I wonder how long her "extended stay" at WSB-TV will last. She was on this morning before I left town today. I also saw her on TWC either yesterday or Thursday. I think it was yesterday though.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Julie Martin

« on: October 04, 2014, 09:54:04 PM »

I wasn't able to see for myself, but did Julie make a final appearance on TWC back on September 30th? (as the article above this post stated)

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: October 03, 2014, 12:08:33 PM »

WeatherSTAR4000 Emulation - 10/3/2014 circa 1991 (After Effects)

Song: Harry Miller - "Wild Cosmos"

WeatherSTAR4000 Emulation - 10/3/2014 circa 1991 (After Effects)

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: October 02, 2014, 11:56:42 PM »

Hmm, kinda surprised to see TWC doing coverage of the severe weather tonight. I guess I can assume this will be continuous the entire night...

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: October 02, 2014, 12:17:27 PM »

Not to completely discredit these rumors, but I think too much is being read into the whole new graphics stuff. I could be wrong, but it seems like they're emphasizing on uniformity all across the board this time around, something they have been lacking on doing since the big relaunch back in 2005. Any significant graphic changes will probably be minor and probably will be focused on correcting things that viewers may have had complaints about since November last year imo.

Although if corrections on legibility is accurate, it's seriously about freaking time. This issue shouldn't have taken nearly a year to fix. They need to either a: be more careful about the backgrounds they're using on the LFs or b: they need to make the template all dark for the weekend section of The Week Ahead so the white text is readable from a far distance from your TV. I cannot tell you how many times in the past I have had to get up within two of my HDTV to read what the temperature forecast was for Saturday/Sunday because of those stupid bright BGs clashing with the white text.

As far as music, I stopped caring a long time ago. They can do whatever they want with that as far as I'm concerned.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: October 02, 2014, 12:17:50 AM »

Ugh, I need to take the logs off the Pot Belly Stove and crank up the A/C.  Today's high at Oklahoma City was 94 degrees, three degrees shy of the record high of 97 set back in 1938.  Is it October 1st, or August 1st?  Hopefully this approaching cold front will be a promising sign of cooler temperatures to come ... for awhile.

Yeah, it was warm here too, but not that warm. It got up to 85 today, it should be about the same tomorrow then the cold front arrives here w/ thunderstorms (man it's been a LONG time since we've had those) on Friday, and after that the big cool down comes: 60s for highs and 40s for lows on Saturday!

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: October 02, 2014, 12:11:38 AM »

Here's a test run of the WeatherSTAR4000 circa 1990 when it was updated graphically to the Orange/Blue color scheme we know and love, but was still mostly text based. Still working on that fading dissolve effect.

All the weather data is fake and invalid except the local forecast/extended forecast. The weather data is there as placeholders. The time and date is also invalid.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: September 30, 2014, 10:46:10 PM »

I've done a few different spins on how the IntelliSTAR2 should look since the version 2 update last November, but for this one I thought about that Vimeo video that was posted here last year of the mock up Weather All The Time concept and how (in my opinion)The Weather Channel threw away a major opportunity to set the IS2 apart from it's predecessor the IS graphically.

I'll be the first to admit that while I did love the simplicity back then, I realized that too simple can be a bad thing as well as being too flashy. I'm hoping with this concept I was able to strike a good balance between the two, but I'll let those who watch the video decide. I was somewhat disappointed that while the overall design remained similar to the mock up videos, they didn't choose to keep that personalized feel of the cities/landmarks like they did in the mock up videos as well. When the IntelliStar2 v1 first came out over 4 years ago, what made it appealing was how vastly different graphically it looked in comparison to the IntelliStar. It had flair, flashiness and vibrance.

I don't know why, but for years I always wanted to see a future STAR display weather conditions in the background, in addition to actual cities and landmarks where you live as part of the background. I always thought that would be cool to see and (again in my opinion) would add a level of depth and uniqueness to that particular STAR which is exactly what I did in the video below.

Song: "Something You Said" by David Benoit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv0cqxIo9xY&feature=youtu.be

Hey Tavores, just watched this video, and I have to say, awesome job on these graphics!   I personally like the skyline background and most of all, the animated weather conditions.  What program did you use to make these?

I created/animated it in After Effects. The only thing I can't take credit for animating is the XL icons that were mixed in there. I only used them since the still weather icons I used were limited (I got them from here btw. http://www.iconarchive.com/show/weather-icons-by-jaan-jaak.html)

Actually, my TWC Fan art has been strictly After Effects and PowerPoint Free since May 2013 and I have never looked back. I only wished I had made the full transition back 4 years ago when I first started messing around with AE.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: September 30, 2014, 10:06:23 PM »

It's no secret that my favorite legacy STAR is the 4000 and always will be so my goal is overtime to recreate every graphical era (including all text based) from 1990-Present. Over the past 18 months, I've already recreated the 1992-1995 and 2002-Present era. Starting in October I'm focusing on the 1990-1992 era.

NOTE: I used an actual screenshot from twcclassics.com to size and scale everything as accurately as possible. 

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Local Forecast / Re: Create your own playlist

« on: September 23, 2014, 10:51:02 PM »

Since my final list is not that much different from my rough draft, I decided to delete my last post and just post the videos instead. The main difference was only the additions of Joe Sample songs as a tribute and remembrance to the late musician.

I'll edit this post w/ the other dayparts once I get around to uploading them.

toxictwister00s Final Test Playlist Autumn 2014 Daytime

toxictwister00s Final Test Playlist (Autumn 2014 Primetime/Overnight)

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: September 21, 2014, 06:54:17 PM »

I made a few modifications mainly to the fonts/alignment and layout of the weather data.

These are two different versions:

The first version is for metropolitan areas such as Chicago that used as an example. The Chicago skyline is blurred in the BG w/ the raindrops/rain/lightning overlayed on top. If the weather observation was precipitation-free the Chicago skyline wouldn't be blurred.

The second version is for rural areas where you get a generic cloud BG w/ the weather elements overlayed on top.

Another idea I had was to have the text written weather observation be similar to the actual narration. The Chicago image is a good example of this where it reads, "Thunderstorms in the area". The first line is for the weather observation (rain, sleet, snow, etc.) and the second line (if needed) is for the phrase (in the area, in the vicinity, nearby, skies, etc.)

Fonts Used: Helvetica

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: September 20, 2014, 07:29:58 PM »

I've done a few different spins on how the IntelliSTAR2 should look since the version 2 update last November, but for this one I thought about that Vimeo video that was posted here last year of the mock up Weather All The Time concept and how (in my opinion)The Weather Channel threw away a major opportunity to set the IS2 apart from it's predecessor the IS graphically.

I'll be the first to admit that while I did love the simplicity back then, I realized that too simple can be a bad thing as well as being too flashy. I'm hoping with this concept I was able to strike a good balance between the two, but I'll let those who watch the video decide. I was somewhat disappointed that while the overall design remained similar to the mock up videos, they didn't choose to keep that personalized feel of the cities/landmarks like they did in the mock up videos as well. When the IntelliStar2 v1 first came out over 4 years ago, what made it appealing was how vastly different graphically it looked in comparison to the IntelliStar. It had flair, flashiness and vibrance.

I don't know why, but for years I always wanted to see a future STAR display weather conditions in the background, in addition to actual cities and landmarks where you live as part of the background. I always thought that would be cool to see and (again in my opinion) would add a level of depth and uniqueness to that particular STAR which is exactly what I did in the video below.

Song: "Something You Said" by David Benoit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv0cqxIo9xY&feature=youtu.be

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General Weather Chat / Re: December 1989 Arctic Outbreak

« on: September 18, 2014, 10:56:17 AM »

I don't the exact duration of the entire outbreak, but the peak/worst of it occurred on December 22nd & 23rd, 1989.