Retouching things from college and 1000+ follows

Just kidding! I wiped my old college website in preference to having a link leading here! What finally spurred on this decision was the fact that I’m out of business cards. I did just recently find some older ones that linked back to my original website though. So, now with this little change, I can use those cards and I’m no longer out!

Here’s what the link/splash page looks like now!

1000+ Follows!

I told myself that I would include a little about myself once I hit 100 follows. Then 500, then 800. And now at 1000, I’m finally putting in a little snipet. I normally try to keep things fairly objective as far as only letting certain aspects of myself show through. This is because I want to be able to make work that is strong enough on its own that it doesn’t need a personality behind it because it has a life of its own. Constantly seeking this is what gets me motivated everyday.
More than anything else, I hate feeling useless. So I spend everyday trying to get better. I love learning, creating, helping, and building skills. I’ll probably stay this way until I’m useful in every situation. Ever.
Other facts. As seen from the above section, I can be a bit of a penny pincher (see: cheap ass), especially when I can think of a way around it. At the other side of that, for things that I’m going to keep, tools, tattoos, etc, I would rather pay more and get something too last. I grew up with my dad’s saying, “Do it right, do it once.”
With that in mind, I draw quite a bit away from the computer. With this, I tend to draw everything more than once. Repeating the same thing until I like what I get.

The one on the right is pretty much how I’ve seen myself since childhood.

The ones on the right are plastisol paint pens. They’re pretty much the most fun ever. And they don’t bleed through paper at all!

Other than that, I’m 24, I’ve worked in a print shop, helped start a screen printing shop, an art store, a bicycle shop, microsoft, oodles of festivals, vending at baseball games, and lots of freelance. I’m currently doing mostly freelance production assistant, grip, and video playback work. Also, I’m working weekends at the bicycle shop down the street to have financial padding. I ride my bike about every other day. I’ve grown up on the beach so I know how to catch most sealife by hand.

And to finish it up, I currently have a twisty mustache because it makes me giggle when I see it in mirrors.

Space Movers Infomercial!

This is a completely rebuilt version of the Space Movers animated .gif. I wanted to see how many different programs and thing I could integrate. The audio was just kind of plopped on there, mostly because I know very little about the audio side of things. That is my roommate Jake jake jake reading off the whole info panel as it slides by. And the song is K/Half Noise by Mum.

 

More motion stuff to come!

The programs involved were as follows,

After Effects CS6, Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6, Premier Pro CS6, Hugin, Audition CS6, Flash CS6

The Rocking Portrait Test

My good friend Kali was kind enough to both pose for me and let me use her camera to begin to flesh out an idea that’s been rattling around for a little while! I would love to do this with a third camera do create a larger smoother rocking effect.

I used to love anything that was done with lenticular printing and want to recreate that effect digitally

With that out of the way, I’ve been busy with life lately. It’s been the first bit of warm weather that we’ve seen outside of a few odd days in since some time in October. That being said, I’ve been shooting a lot of time lapse lately with the nice weather, gone camping everywhere from the ocean to the desserts, and have been illustrating often as well, so there’s plenty to come!

Long Exposure Time Lapse

As a test this .gif is made up of long exposure time lapse. Which naturally means, that I was sitting in one spot for a very long time. The exposure time for each frame was 3 minutes and 45 seconds.

To get this I hiked the Saddle in Wenatchee just before midnight.

The stars are a little difficult to see, but they can only get better from here! I’m sure that I’ll shoot plenty of these over the summer!

Space Movers!

8 out of 9 packages aren’t destroyed in space!

This is a little project to play with integrating as much as possible. So, there’s hand animation, hugin (a photo stitching program), photoshop, flash, and illustrator!

The space movers are based out of the great lakes space port.

The hardest part of this, was that flash kept crashing every 20 minutes for whatever reason.
The photo is a panorama from the top of the Sun Valley ski area turned into one of those little planets that are so popular these days.

Next up is some hand illustration!

A Fine Engagement

Here are a few of the engagement photos I shot a few days ago. Congrats to Kody and Crystal! A finer snowboarding pair you’ll never meet!

The were perfect low clouds all day

We spent the first half of the day playing in the snow, and then for the second half, we took our final snowboarding runs for the season!

The snow was kind to us the whole time we were up!

We wandered through the small cabins.

Stopping every here and there to take a picture

A few times we climbed snow piles and snuck onto decks.

And had a good laugh.

Then we followed the trail back to the cars.

The snow was still softly falling

They held hands while I wandered behind.

And of course Crystal’s grandmother’s ring

To which my camera could do no justice.

A perfect last day in the snowy mountains!

Drive By

Im very fond of shooting on overcast days. I love all of the extra mid values and color that they bring out.

 

Here’s one from the other day while driving up to the mountains to take engagement photos.

Those will be up soon! I haven’t had put anything up lately because I’ve been rehashing some other skills and staying busy with work. I’ll have more too put up over the next couple of weeks! This will include motion graphics, frame by frame animation, photos (of course), quite a bit of hand done typography, maybe some calligraphy (Roman and black letter), and doth digital and non-digital illustration.
Re-upping all of these abilities is the excuse I’m going to use for neglecting this for so long, as pour as it is.

Have a good day!

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Turndown into the Waterfall

Sometimes it’s nice to just fool around with photos and have fun with the editing. Split toning, odd gradient masks, fun shapes and the like. This is all the more true when paired with insomnia.

My buddy Chance riding in west seattle.

Four Bikes, One Car, Four Parks

Today was the first official ride day of the season. We loaded up four bikes and four people in one car and rode four parks. And it was glorious.

Chance rolls over the doorway the Marcus sits under.

Bike there, bike there, bike there, Oh, and one there.

It’s always an impressive feat fitting four bikes in the trunk. Though with the improvements through the day I swear you could fit five in there by the end.

Marcus doing a barspin off of a super thin side of one of the doorways.

Dan enjoying some sun and long grass.

I was doing stunts too, at like a 95% of the time stunting to 5% camera(ing). Spring has now officially started in my book!

Weekly Find 13/03/22

Here’s the best animated short that I found this week. I was browsing on Cartoon Brew when I stumbled upon this. The 70′s illustrative style is absolutely fantastic, mixed with a touch of macabre making for a complete package!