I'd like to welcome Jackie. A longtime member to the club, but she has recently become much more closely affiliated.
Kyler
Warm Welcome
I'd like to welcome Jackie. A longtime member to the club, but she has recently become much more closely affiliated.
Kyler
My Brother's Convocation
This weekend I was able to attend my brother's convocation, he received his Masters of Architecture. And in keeping with the traditions which likely lead to the title of this blog, he won, not one, but the two medals which recognize his achievements.
Congratulations Kris.
Here are some of the prime photos. The rest of the album and can viewed
Kristofer`s Masters of Architecture
Good Luck Big Brother
Though usually you make your own.
Love Kyler
Congratulations Kris.
Here are some of the prime photos. The rest of the album and can viewed
Kristofer`s Masters of Architecture
Good Luck Big Brother
Though usually you make your own.
Love Kyler
Stuff
I stole this way of looking at things from a comedian:
Everybody has a big pile of stuff that they like to keep somewhere. It is in their house, in their basement, their office, their closet, their pockets. Lots of people have lots of stuff.
When you travel you take a portion of that stuff with you. You pack your bags and fly your stuff to your hotel room. Suppose you go on a little side trip from your hotel. You pack a night bag of stuff. Now suppose you were to take a little excursion from your side trip.
Now you have stuff
at home
at your hotel
in you night bag
and finally in your pockets.
Your stuff is spread out over such a vast distance, but you know, usually it will get itself back together. You will collect all your things, following the trail of stuff back to your house.
Right now I am feeling this vast trail of stuff like never before.
I have stuff at my home in Calgary. There is other stuff in my apartment in Montreal. I have another set of stuff with me here in Field BC, a tiny little town in the middle of the mountains. Sometimes I go out for the day and take a bag of my stuff with me, and than leave some of it in a vehicle, and just bring along another subset of my stuff.
My stuff is spread accross the country, and it is going to stay like that for a little over three more months. Doesn't it feel like a feat of magic that somehow all that stuff is going to figure it way back to where I want it to be?
An now to relate to you how I am doing.
I am doing very well. The type of well you only really feel when you don't just win one lottery, but two in a row.
It also makes me feel cautious, because things always seem to come with a catch. Somewhere I missed something in the contract and it is going to get me when I least suspect it.
Good. I finally wrote a blog post.
Kyler
Everybody has a big pile of stuff that they like to keep somewhere. It is in their house, in their basement, their office, their closet, their pockets. Lots of people have lots of stuff.
When you travel you take a portion of that stuff with you. You pack your bags and fly your stuff to your hotel room. Suppose you go on a little side trip from your hotel. You pack a night bag of stuff. Now suppose you were to take a little excursion from your side trip.
Now you have stuff
at home
at your hotel
in you night bag
and finally in your pockets.
Your stuff is spread out over such a vast distance, but you know, usually it will get itself back together. You will collect all your things, following the trail of stuff back to your house.
Right now I am feeling this vast trail of stuff like never before.
I have stuff at my home in Calgary. There is other stuff in my apartment in Montreal. I have another set of stuff with me here in Field BC, a tiny little town in the middle of the mountains. Sometimes I go out for the day and take a bag of my stuff with me, and than leave some of it in a vehicle, and just bring along another subset of my stuff.
My stuff is spread accross the country, and it is going to stay like that for a little over three more months. Doesn't it feel like a feat of magic that somehow all that stuff is going to figure it way back to where I want it to be?
An now to relate to you how I am doing.
I am doing very well. The type of well you only really feel when you don't just win one lottery, but two in a row.
It also makes me feel cautious, because things always seem to come with a catch. Somewhere I missed something in the contract and it is going to get me when I least suspect it.
Good. I finally wrote a blog post.
Kyler
The Car Matador - with Sound
Finally school was finished, and I had free time to finish up the loose ends of this years work. The final loose end, was putting sound to the Car Matador animation. I posted creations photos before, but have been holding off on the animation because it needed to have sound.
It's amazing how fast I can work when I have a deadline, and amazing how slowly I work when I don't.
But finally, the day before I head off to my new job, I present the Car Matador.
I suggest watching in HD 720p.
Enjoy
Kyler
It's amazing how fast I can work when I have a deadline, and amazing how slowly I work when I don't.
But finally, the day before I head off to my new job, I present the Car Matador.
I suggest watching in HD 720p.
Enjoy
Kyler
My Favorite Music Making Artists
Currently my favorite things on the internet:
PomplamooseMusic
Jack Conte
So we have Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, they make VideoSongs which are the following:
1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice).
2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).
For one thing I really like the music, but the videos take the whole art form to a completely different level for me. There is a whole new layer of truth that gets added into the mix. We see the place they made the music. If you watch enough of these videos you get to know the rooms, the camera positions. Further than that you get to know the instruments. They have a wide assortment of instruments which all add their own bit of character to the mix.
And finally we get the people. These people obviously love making music. But it is more than just how they act. You see Jack in his pajamas likely staying up way too far into the night recording his music. You can see progress they make and all the different creative things they do to make this music.
And lastly they are generally a two person show. They play, record, edit, mix, compose, film, composite, publish, distribute all of their own work. We live in the super modern era where you can do everything, so why not.
It may seem crazy at first, but I think they are on to something that can be more generally be applied to all arts. You can try to hide yourself in a glossy coating of nice perfection, but after a while people will start to see it for what it is. But you can be genuinely forward with the truth and the underpinnings of you work and it can raise itself to a whole different level.
I think in animation this is most notable in Stop Motion puppet animation. There are more chances in that type of animation for the process to show through. But in showing through it can be taken advantage of.
So watch these videos and enjoy.
I think they also taught me a lot about how to make a music.
Kyler
PomplamooseMusic
Jack Conte
So we have Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, they make VideoSongs which are the following:
1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice).
2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).
For one thing I really like the music, but the videos take the whole art form to a completely different level for me. There is a whole new layer of truth that gets added into the mix. We see the place they made the music. If you watch enough of these videos you get to know the rooms, the camera positions. Further than that you get to know the instruments. They have a wide assortment of instruments which all add their own bit of character to the mix.
And finally we get the people. These people obviously love making music. But it is more than just how they act. You see Jack in his pajamas likely staying up way too far into the night recording his music. You can see progress they make and all the different creative things they do to make this music.
And lastly they are generally a two person show. They play, record, edit, mix, compose, film, composite, publish, distribute all of their own work. We live in the super modern era where you can do everything, so why not.
It may seem crazy at first, but I think they are on to something that can be more generally be applied to all arts. You can try to hide yourself in a glossy coating of nice perfection, but after a while people will start to see it for what it is. But you can be genuinely forward with the truth and the underpinnings of you work and it can raise itself to a whole different level.
I think in animation this is most notable in Stop Motion puppet animation. There are more chances in that type of animation for the process to show through. But in showing through it can be taken advantage of.
So watch these videos and enjoy.
I think they also taught me a lot about how to make a music.
Kyler
Land
This project has been long since completed, but it needed a few fixes before it stopped annoying me.
I need to work on my 3d animation workflow a lot. This was created very quickly and demonstrated a lot of my weaknesses. At least it got me reacquainted with 3d animation.
Kyler
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