sheesh

ok ok. So i've slacked a TON on this blog. I've been pretty busy I swear. I just finished the first semester teaching at Animation Mentor and it was a blast. My students def. improved which was great to see. Things are getting heavier at work and so I opt'd out for teaching the next semester. I'd rather save some energy for work and not be all burned out on my students. I'd love to go back and teach again though when things slow down again. It was great remembering all the things I was taught in school and being able to relay that to the students. Heck, I even need to take my own advice sometimes. Sometimes we get caught up in deadlines that we take for granted those silly rules about spacing and things like that in animation, so it was great to have a refresher on the 'principles' of animation.

ummm...so yea, also in my absence I went to a few shows...had a birthday...went snowboarding quite a bit...had a very close friend in the hospital...got my place a bit more organized...etc. etc. boring stuff you don't really wanna hear about.

I should be able to update this more frequently now since the semester is over so I'll try and get on it more. I apologize to those of you who actually come read this thing. Maybe the easiest way to do this is to take Missy's advice about just posting my first three thoughts in the morning...haha

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RIP Don Knotts

Three Days ago (last Friday night) Don Knotts unfortunatly passed away. Man what a character. I feel obligated to mention this in my blog because he was so overly animated in most of his work. Which 9 times outta 10 lead to extreme appeal and made me laugh out loud. "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" cracks me up left and right although he's probably more known for his role as Ralph Furley from "Three's Company" and "The Andy Griffith Show" ...anyways. Just wanted to say RIP Don Knotts. Thanks for the laughs and quirky animation reference Don. ;)
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Devil Makes Three

My friend Loren introduced this band to me a little over a year ago and I went to their show before ever even hearing them and it was awesome. I got 2 cd's (which didn't do them justice compaired to how they play in concert) but I'm happy to say that they are back in town and I'm stoked to be going to the show tonight. So excited! Band is The Devil Makes Three. Check'm out if you can.



Went to beautiful Tahoe the past two weekends snowboarding so I'm looking forward to doing some work around my place and take'n it easy this weekend. Should be easy to do due to this stinky weather (although I may go snowboarding on monday - undecided). Pretty swamped at work right now. Which is a good thing, keeps me busy and in the right frame of mind (hence why no bloggy). I'll try and post up something animation related next time. I realized I haven't done that in a while. Too busy yap'n. Animation Mentor is awesome. My students are awesome. Proly better than I was when I just started....which is exciting. So you can see...busy busy. Anyways, time to shower and get this weeekend started.
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I suck...

I know....I'll post something soon.

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Japanese Cars Trailer

A little while ago the Japanese Cars Trailer came out. It's a bit different than the one that came out in the theatres with a tooootally different feel in terms of music etc. Check it out if you want. May show you a bit more than you die hards want to see (consider yourself warned) but I liked it.

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