Wow. So I've always wanted one of those cool looking macs, just never had all the applications, games, power, etc I've needed. Now I think I'll be get'n one for sure. I wish I could justify upgrading my laptop at the moment but I guess I'll have to wait a bit before I really take the plundge...however, waiting will only give me more ease of mind that they are flushing out the bugs while I'm waiting. :)
Brilliant
So not to be a link whore or anything but here's two really cool pieces of animation I've run across in the last few days. Kinda different, almost stop-mo feel, but really cool.
One is by a studio called studioAKA who've I've always admired, I fell in love with their "Pica Towers" series and really wish they'd do more of that stuff. They visited work a while ago and showed us some pretty awesome WIP pieces which made me like them even more but here's the new clip.
The Big Win
The other clip I recently found in my e-mail box, I must have liked the video and didn't want to forget about it so I e-mailed it to myself a while ago and now it's ressurected. It's a music video called At a Glance which was created by Eugene and Birg, the band is a Belgian band called Sioen.
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4.05.2006
HUGE!!
4.04.2006
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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3.01.2006
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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2.18.2006
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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