Tallpindo has been gifted with a digital camera and is able to present his unique viewpoint in photos. There are renders here that were made from machines and software he acquired since December 1994. The machines and software from before February 2004 has now gone to the hazzardous waste and recycling center. BIOTallpindo grew up in a small town and had friends in high school who were older and owned hot rods. He went away to college at a state university where he had friends who were into folk music. Upon graduation it was off to California as the best of the two coasts to fit his degree in Physics.
A Shell salesman with a Porsche introduced tallpindo to the L.A. topless scene in 1965. Other batchelors in Marketing at Douglas Aircraft knew a vocational arts teacher in San diego which led to encounters with nude dwarf waitresses in Tijuana and a tall dark nude in a very dark bar in Tecate on the way to fishing in San Felipe for Cinco de Mayo.
Looking for a sports car led to a meeting with an instructor at the then new Disney sponsored Valencia art School. The next door neibor had a Xerox word processor and was a professional resume writer. I met Arial. Pica and elite were passe.
In Florida I met some extremely beautiful women who were mathematical aides to the engineers at UTC-GPD.
Which brings us to a desktop of the tower type with a 19 inch monitor and Windows XP that is finally hooked to broadband cable in August of 2004. When my sister retired we traveled together each winter to Florida near Tampa and I had to buy the cheapest laptop with a video accelerator board and a 15 inch screen to take with me. It was hooked to cable and the yearly migrations began.
Last year I took the train to the harley-Davidson museum in Milwaukee and took factory tours and even got Bill Davidson to sign one of my renders. I entered my memory first car model as renders into the Troy Traffic jam at a local car show as a virtual car. I flew to Tailhook to get updated on Naval Aviation and showed my carrier renders to the daughter of R. G. Smith an inspiration to me as an artist in the 60's and 70's. I bought (a print of ) one of his works and it is framed and ready to hang here.
Some of the vendors have given me models to use and some have sold me things to use here. I am impressed with the progress in digital modelling and rendering shown here. The site truly runs well and the need to thin the herd to avoid thumbnails not displaying has long ago disappeared.
I'll share with you a secret that inverts atheism. I have no boss. No immediate supervisor. The closest I come is critics and touchers. Then I can let you in on my secret. I work on objects in midair. Perhaps it began with idle preteen curiosity about certain breast configurations that are amazing for their apparant solidity. In the community of those who might be interested in an Air Force career if it was only a 3 year enlistment the official look was the wavey stripes of a Tech Sargeant not the 4 year with rockers of a combat Staff Sargeant. Midairs are something not really talked about except for a shock encounter. Looking will lead to bumping and that could be painful for overly sensitive wrappings. Better to leave them unattended as impost. Getting involved in marquee forms where a tension wire holds in a major compression to achieve lift is not a midair. I think my first secret whisper of the community setup that leads to a midair was an Air West DC-9 and an El Toro Marine Corps F-4 "Phantom." So I don't mold and manipulate geometric solids nor do I extrude splines. Just put the point right there in the open space and put another one somewhere then select "link" and there is is a line. Make several million of them and you have a mega polygon object. A conscientious lady once realized the impending doom and yelled, "Hug, Me!!." There was no way to shift blame for the midair. She didn't have that firm dome of the turn on explorer. Later another lady knocked on my door perhaps to explain. "My car won't move." I looked out and saw a pale blue Japanese hardtop sitting halfway in and halfway out of my driveway. Definitely the subject needed to be made more polite. Then the local animal control warden came in her official truck and demanded I accompany her to the other end of the street because she "was afraid of the man's dog." My dog had just recently died from a bite by a snake thrown over the fence into his yard. I went anyway thinking that was what she got paid for. I wish I could explain better to folks who want table top mockups or on the floor. I don't even hang things on wires from above. Just project a hologram and with a bellows full of electrostatic powder--WHOOSH!! The print is done in 3D and full scale barring those unfortunate excess thicknesses due to charge concentrations at projections.
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Comments (15)
lior
So wonderful render!
RodolfoCiminelli
Impressive car and very sensual girl....!!!! Excellent done....!!!
willigooo
Great scene !!
Indoda
The car (great machine) looks as if it's seen better days or is it the reflection of the ground? Overall great picture.
msebonyluv
Awesome!! She seems ready, set, Go!!!!
tallpindo
I once walked down to the pits after a race of new model stocks at the State Fair Grounds on 8 mile in Detroit. I was amazed at how what had looked from the stands like pristine machinery was just shiney fresh paint on what looked like wadded up tin foil that had been smoothed out with a lot of wrinkles remaining. I suppose I see that as a badge of honor for competitive machinery. I only saw one other example and that was a CONVAIR 880 we were about to board in Dayton, Ohio. It had apparantly been through a hailstorm and the engine cowlings especially were whacked and pounded back after being beaten flat with pall peen hammers it looked like. It was a hanger queen and after all of it's flat tires were changed we set off to make a "whifferdill" on approach to LAX as the autopilot "sought the sea." I admit to being more than put off. I did sense the end was near as we knifed through the clouds all akilter.
Denys234
Excellent work!
indiefilm
Love the Vette in the compition colors. Used to watch them race are a piece-meal circut at the ole metro stadium in Minneapolis. Hard tires, little to no safety, was just in awe. Jay
MeredithWilson
Dear Dale, Ive got a little extra time this morning!! The simulators are having computer trouble - imagine that!!! Trust me, the last place you want to be is in a full motion simulator when its throwing a fit!! You can get bounced around worse than a carnival ride!!! It was acting funky yesterday afternoon, too, so we cancelled the session and I went back in the evening. It was OK then, but this morning its griping again!!! So Im treating myself to breakfast in the hotel coffee shop - and eating French toast - and destroying my laptop keyboard with powdered sugar!!! Wi-Fi should probably be banned from restaurants!! Particularly for messy eaters like me!!! Ive had more than one smarty pants refer to slopping the hogs - and Meredith!! Isnt that just ducky????? While Im on vacation and doing pilot training, Im going to need to continue doing a lot of cut and pasting with just a tiny little real comment added!! Im really sorry, but I just dont have much time right now to write my usual wacko stuff! Ill be back on March 3rd!! I've read about them racing on the beach! Quite a difference from the super speedways. Really neat job of getting the car in racing trim!! I went to a local dirk track a couple of years ago with THE Boss. The cars did look rather patched together close up!!!! Super job on the scene!!!! Love ya!!! Meredith
pakled
wow, you've been to 8mile, where the rappers play..;) Actually, I thought they had lakefront races on the beach of the Great Lakes back in the day.
Biffowitz
Very cool scene and model. I like the paint job!
jocko500
love this paint job
SophiaDeer
Very sleek!
tallpindo
I tend to have my head down and not look up at what is going on abouot me so I here will note there are two games on the market covering three gaming platforms other than the PC and someone has a 3D model of the 1953 for sale on the net. http://reviews.cnet.com/Corvette_Game_Boy_Advance/4505-9975_7-30960549.html http://www.google.com/search?q=1953+Corvette+3D+model&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&start=30&sa=N http://www.the3dstudio.com/product_details.aspx?id_product=19947 http://xbox.ign.com/articles/401/401889p1.html
Celtic_Lass
Nice work!