Arctic Monkeys

Whoa!

My uncle turned me on to this band from Sheffield, England called the Arctic Monkeys. They are the shizknackinick! They have some really wicked guitar riffs and totally bitchin' lyrics that make me get up and dance like a mother brother like no other. I am going to go out and buy their album tomorrow. Also, they are going to be on Saturday Night Live on March 11th.

Rock!

Let's See How Many Cookies I Can Eat!

Oh mang! I just bought 200 boxes of Girl Scout cookies from my adorable nieces. Their cuteness and surprisingly good sales techniques made me do it. I soon will be very over weight and smell like Caramel Delights.

I need to post my final marriage proposal animation, but I have to take out my character's annoying thumb movements first, so stay tuned.

I don't usually post about my job, but I recently created a golf hole for a corporate sponsored mini golf extravaganza and I have to tell you about it. I built a motion detector with my webcam and Flash and I hooked it up to our sweet LCD at work. I pointed the camera inside a box where the hole was hidden. To get the ball in the hole you have to shoot it through an opening in the front of the box. Since you can't see the hole you have to watch the video on the LCD screen. Whoa! Finally, when the ball does enter the box, Flash uses the webcam to detect movement and depending on the position of the ball certain messages and sounds play. Wow! That was hard to explain. Maybe I will post some pictures. Blah!

I have been looking through my music collection and listening to music from junior high and high school. Of course Primus is always on my playlist, but I have also been listening to a lot of Nirvana, Life Sex and Death, and Devo. I also can't get enough of that L7 song "Pretend We're Dead". Man! That song is a beast. Next I think I will dig into my Kraftwerk CDs.


I have to get back to sketching. Rock people!

Calling All Movie Buffs!

Hey gang!

I need to pick out three 8-12 second audio clips from some movies or shows. I am going to animate over the audio clip so it has to be something interesting with a basic beginning, middle, and end. It can't just be someone saying "Whoa dude". It also can't have any swearing or other naughty bits in it.

Any ideas? Just leave them in the comments section.


Rock!

A Diamond is Forever...Or At Least 250 Frames

Hey people who visit my blog!...Or psychics who have some freaky RSS feed straight to their brains!

I wanted to hop on the blog machine and post an animation that I have been working on. Click here to check it out old school style. I am still polishing it up. I need to fix the timing and add some secondary action. Comments and critiques are welcomed. I need to know if all of my acting choices are reading clearly. Rock!

The Good Doctor and I are going to go see Swan Lake. I don't know what it is, but I just love that crazy ballet. I think it is probably my sister's influence. She loved dance and she always dressed up our dog like a jazz/tap dancer. Freaky deaky! It might also be that ballet is very "artsy fartsy" and I just love the arts and farts.

I haven't been listening to a lot of music lately. I have been animating like a crazy man and I don't listen to music while I animate. It messes with my timing and concentration. Blah! Doctor Gonzo did download some sweet Audioslave songs and I did listen to Out of Exile a couple times. I love that song. Whenever that song comes on I have to immediately play air guitar. I am listening to The Dandy Warhols as I write this blog. I think I may switch it over to Hard-Fi. Cash Macine is the shiznack! I feel like I am in a Guy Ritchie movie everytime I listen to it.

Fistful of rock!