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So… this won’t have anything in it that folks who visit the forums don’t already know- but!

How great is it that I can ask a crazy question like, “WHY DOESN’T EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE TURN INTO FIRE?” and a bunch of people EXPLAIN IT TO ME? So rad. Thanks, guys!

Branson and Jonathan continue to do amazing work on the Project London Graphic Novel! Check that thing out! They’re working on going through the whole thing and doing mockups for each page, such as this one;

I’m about to head out the door to the Oregon Star Party. I haven’t really done any astronomy stuff since I was a kid… so this should be a crazy experience! Just a bunch of people out in the middle of nowhere who really really really like stars!

I leave you with… the Poopmaster™!!

I’ve always been under the impression that energy can’t just disappear, it just gets transferred.

So, say, you have a baseball flying in space, excluding SPACE DUST™ and interference from photos (WHAT?) it’ll just keep flying forever.

But what about the light that hits it? The ball reflects most of the light, but also absorbs some of it, and the energy is converted into heat.

That’s all great, but what happens to the heat? It’s energy; it doesn’t just disappear. It can’t transfer itself to the air, there is no air. How can there be radiant heat if there’s no medium to radiate the heat with? And it certainly doesn’t radiate the heat via “glowing” (I don’t even know how that would work). Wouldn’t the heat just build up until the ball bursts into… well, not flames, but whatever it is things in space do when they get hot enough to burn?

Where does the heat go in a (not totally perfect) vacuum!?

And extending that point- how does heat radiate into space? Like, from planets?

Why are WE not on fire RIGHT NOW!?

Something wrong with my thinking (ex; perhaps heat doesn’t need to be transfered by matter?)

It goes well!

Lots of emails. Tons of emails. Emails out the ear.

WAS YOKO, TRULY, AN UNDERCOVER BEACH BOY? Tonight at 11!

Just wanted to link over to some work being done by my good friend Branson Anderson and Jonathan McConnell. They’re making the Project London Graphic Novel, and I couldn’t be more amazed.

Progress so far is stunning.

Check it out, man!

The Project London Graphic Novel

w00t!

And, of course, check out Branson’s personal website;

Branson Anderson Online

His “Current Work” page is stunning.

I helped out a bit with a 48 hour film festival a month or so back with a bunch of good friends from my Shoreline Community College days.

It won many awards, including Best Picture, Best Cinematography (Barry Gregg!), Best Use of Required Items, Best Actor (Josh Truax!), Best Supporting Actor (Ira Kroese!), and Best Supporting Actress (Whitney Lee). I think it should have won “Best Script”, since Dave’s work is, as always, pretty darn completely amazing.

Hooray!

I didn’t do much- basically just the image correction which, since it was on a monitor I wasn’t used to, came out WAY too dark- but hey, it’s a crazy flick. Also; “Pump it up”.

SWEARING IS IN IT AAAAA!!!!!

Also; Josh Truax?

But yeah! Check it out! Jen Forbes has it over on her site;  Here

It’s been noted that I haven’t updated this site much; this is truth! Utter Truth!

I’m working like crazy on so many crazy things!

I’ve been helping some friends create their website; Wild Moon Video Productions (Wildmoonvideo.com). Wild Moon Video are the masterminds behind the brilliant public-access show “The Billionaire’s Club“. (Check out “Lazers”, “Buddy Beer”, and “Nintendo is God”. Some truly epic stuff) Some very rad folks, with whom I’ve worked on some projects with Adventure Star Pictures, which is making films of its own.

Adventure Star Pictures is led by Jen Forbe’s, currently working on finalizing their show, “Vital Force“. The show was shot over this last winter, and Jen and Dave (of Wild Moon Video) have been working to edit the footage into the finished show. I’ve been helping a wee bit with effects, and play the roll of “Darian”, an alien with a ridiculous hat.

The show will be followed by a Feature Film by the same name that was greenlit by Shoreline Community College a few months back. Very rad stuff. They’re planning on shooting the whole thing this summer. Very rad stuff. Read more about it on their site, if you want.

I’m also working on a bunch of music with Scott Hampson for our band, “The El Camino Guys”, working on a bit of stuff for that, in the evenings. And we have barbeque’s of delicious burgers and hot dogs. Some very rad songs have been made, which we’ll try to record when we get some free time. We’ve also slowly but surely awaiting the day when we have free time and can begin work on “SIA”, a show based on the band which should blow everyone’s minds. Or at least mine.

In my nightly evening walks I’m also trying to fit together all the pieces for my next film (assuming there is one!?) and organizing a bunch of concepts into a coherent whole. Is it, too, blowing my mind? Sources point to Yes!

But what can I SHOW anyone? Well, we’ve released a small low-quality bit of Project London to help bring more CG guys into the project (which I’ll work on more once I get back from a camp I’m helping at till this coming Friday). Here’s the snippet;

-Whaugh! I cannot embed that video in this blog! Whaugh!

Just view it here!

And it’s even more epic in High Def! It’s my first time working in High Def- I love it.

If you wish to help out with the project, (and you should! We’re doing a ton of pretty darn rad stuff) send an email to me at Mrdodobird@subjectC.com . The requirements?

1. A pretty darn good understanding of Blender
2. Work samples that show your skills
3. Ability to provide weekly status reports on your progress
4. Ability to establish reasonable deadlines for deliverables and then deliver on deadline
5. Pleasant disposition, easy to work with
6. Willingness to volunteer time and talent

But yeah! Love to hear from ya for a bit more info Check Out Here!

A bunch of personal stuff has been going on too- I got to spend a couple uninterrupted days with Tasha, which was awesome. She recently got her surgery for the Cochlear Implant- it’s yet to be activated, but with any luck it’ll totally totally improve her hearing! This should be awesome. Read all about it on her blog here! It’s very informative! And useful; if you’re going to get a Cochlear Implant.

Also? I saw “Princess Mononoke”, and it totally absolutely completely blew my mind. Miyazaki is King.

Also? …Umm… who does Princess Mononoke refer to? I mean… who’s the Princess Mononoke in Princess Mononoke? I don’t remember one. Just a bit of confusion on my part.

I have been CRAZY BUSY!

Can I show you what I’ve been working on?

No.

HOWEVER! Blender 2.46 is out… and just take a look at this insane updates! Thanks Big Buck Bunny crew!

Many things have been happening! Daylight Savings Time, for 1. Which is a good idea. Actually no. Daylight’s Saving is a silly idea.

I have been doing many things! 1st… Err… pictures!

I’ve been drawing and doing some picture stuff, like these ones;

That’s been fun. I haven’t really drawn in years. I wanna make a comic book or something. yeah. To see more of what I’ve been working on you can check my DeviantART gallery, if you feel so inclined.

Also? Uploaded a few more songs to the Post-Huzzinations page! Some good ones, and probably the last I’ll upload for a while, as I’m starting a new music-esque thing with Scott Hampson… we’ll see how that goes. Glorious, probably. I’m hyped to post more about it.

Project London goes well!

Josh Truax and Bryan Hanner in the Hangar

I’ve been working on the CG night and day, and I gotta say, this movie will be pretty darn cool when completed. Still no good estimate on when it will be done, and anything I throw out at random would just mislead you… hopefully soonish!

I’ve meet with Abney Park (sweetest and most steam-punkin’ band on the planet, and the only Airship Pirates) a few times, and am most likely going to be doing a music video for them. Which should be a HIGHLY rad experience.

I made them an airship, once.

Yup!

Not gonna lie; there are movies, and then there are MOVIES.

Amazing movie 1.)
The Rocketeer
Trailer Here

Premise; a man finds a jetpack, gets a sweet helmet, and fights Nazi’s with it. And in the end blows up a Dirigible. With effects by ILM. Just… I mean… have you not seen this movie? I think most people did. A while ago. See it again. You must.

Amazing Movie 2.)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Trailer Here

Here is what IMDB has to say about it; “Buckaroo Banzai is a rock-star/brain-surgeon / comic-book-hero/samurai/ etc who along with his group, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil creatures from the 8th dimension (all named John) who are trying to conquer our dimension. He is helped by Penny Pretty, who is a dead ringer for his late wife, and some good extra-dimensional beings who look and talk like they are from Jamaica”

Still not convinced? This article about sums it up.

Seriously… go see this movie. Right now.

Amazing Movie 3.)
Six String Samurai
Trailer Here!

I already wrote about this. At length. Check that trailer. Oh yeah.

I guess I have a thing for sword wielding musicians.

So… we were hacked, and it sucked.

I gotta hand it to the hacker though, he seemed like a nice guy, from what I could tell (read his pleasant note here. It even contains a smiley).

Fortunately everything is up and running clear as cookies again, so hurrah for that.

How did it get fixed, you may ask? Braedon thinks he might have fixed it… but we’re not sure. Regardless, he identified that PHP was done on the site, and did what had to be done to get it back!

WHAT a guy! I tell you!

Also? I have uploaded some new songs to the music myspace… Some pretty darn rockin’ ones.

And one about a suicidal fish. Which is basically ALL fish.

I’ll make them downloadable on the music page of RobotSoup soon!  So you can download it and put it on your iPod and rock out on the bus, or as you walk down the- oh man. I gotta stop, I’m crackin’ myself up.

“Hey, whatcha listenin’ to?” “‘I Want To Eat A Dog’.” “Wow. That sounds like the worst song of all time.” ‘Word.”