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 (29)
Mondwin
Magnificent picture dear Friend!!!!!!!!!!!Bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
J5ive
She looks like she could use some company on that long and winding road!! Your truck looks good on the road!!
ThomasMacCallum
keep on trucking!
MUSEWORX
Freedom of the road. Cool pic and thanks for the afterthought.
debbielove
The long and winding road..... Good work, mate, Rob.
dbrv6
Nice setup - looks like a long climb.
Indoda
Great picture - great truck - steep road but you've got a good driver
evielouise
man ! dale I love LOVE THIS!
~~~~wow amazing work ~~~5++++brycek
Wonderful work..nice background!!
moonbunnie
That''s right , put it in the real roads!
mel841
Very realistic render! Love the Truck!
Hopalong
The United States, and many others, lost all real understanding of concrete a generation ago. The Romans not only invented the aggregate, they also invented a type that would set underwater. Both are still going strong. The uncured and incurable children who nowadays think they are "scientifically trained" civil engineers have a lot of catching up to do. Sorrily, they know neither where to look or how. Most of them are constitutionally and psychologically incapable of looking. The last seriously designed highway in the United States and Canada was finished half a century ago. Its inheritors, for the most part, don't know what it is or why. The skills have not only been lost, they have been buried in hidden graves. For want of anything but the most superficial expertise, and also for the ribbon of continuous cash flow by contractors, road building is now an endless loop of building and repairing, timed so that one contract is finished just as the next must be begun. Railroads? Surely you josh. The incompetence is omnifarious and interlocking. The collapse is just beginning. The Aztecs had the wheel but no wheeled vehicles. They had no wheeled vehicles because they had no fit roads and highways. The question few, if any bother to ask--why no fit roads and highways?
Darkwish
Nice, really nice work!
Richardphotos
this is not a regular highway but an access road to Red Rock Canyon.the road in the foreground is one way going down the hill and the one to the bottom left is returning to the main highway.the road that continues goes back into another area that most people miss and it has some of the best scenery. thanks for the awesome render Dale and the truck looks natural on the pavement
tennesseecowgirl
Awesome... must say this one makes me homesick, love getting out on the desert highways heading west.
jocko500
wow it look like the truck means to be there. cool
goodoleboy
Welcome back, Willie Nelson! Fabulous marriage of the oncoming rig with the mountain pass and surrounding environs.
mapps
very cool, love the old truck :-)
junge1
Very cool. Reminds me of a Humphrey Bogard movie. 'High Sierra?'
lior
Excellent job!
ledwolorz
Fantastic background and super work.
RodolfoCiminelli
Absolutely fantastic Dale.....!!!!!
moochagoo
Interesting way of mixing real and 3D
mila_s
Nice!
Spirit1
A very wonderful render. The truck truly rides the road!
coolcatcom
This really works a pleasure to view !
CarolSassy
It was almost scary as I cruised through all your posts. I recognized way too many car parts 'n' cars 'n' other stuff. Hmmm, and I should add that I prefer the twin headlights on both sides of the '59 Corvettes compared to the single ones of the earlier models. ...oh...that's just MHO. I really like this scene! I really liked a lot of your posts, but it's early 'n' I'm lazy! Good one! (:
Osper
Nicely done. The road width matches the truck.
Bebe160
C'est un très beau travail! Après un long moment d'absence, je découvre à nouveau du bon travail de fait. Bonne continuation dans cette voie et merci pour votre fidélité qui fait chaud au coeur.