Category: 365 Days of Creativity

Hello there and welcome!  This blog officially begins on March 8th.  You can check the “About” link above for more information on who I am and what I plan to do with this blank canvas. Have a nice day!

Well, today marks the first day of this crazy challenge as well as the first day of being a non-smoker.  So, in honor of my quitting day I decided to re-purpose all of the old packs lying on the passenger side floor of my car.  It’s a little makeshift zeotrope using cigarette packs as the […]

Unfortunately, I was only able to give a couple of hours of time to todays creative project.  The inspiration came near the end of the work day when I glanced over at a couple of co-workers who were looking at a picture of a creature on the internet.  It was called Sharktopus!   It’s coming […]

So, tonight I finally soldered together one of the many cold cathode tubes that I bought a while ago to use for light painting.  If you’ve never heard of light painting google it right now!  There are some absolutely amazing pictures out there.  I used this tutorial to get me along with the assembly process. […]

I love figuring out good uses for old unused CD’s.  (Check out my zoetrope for another good use for old CD’s)  This is my concertina.  And actually I usually call it June’s concertina because she’s the one that I most enjoy playing it for.   Her face lights up when she hears it.   Anyways, […]

I think this is becoming my favorite project so far.  The reason being, I would have never done something like this if it hadn’t been for this blog concept.  Jenny, my wife, even joined in and made a little clay cactus in a pot.   This time I took the Orctopus and started fresh on […]

Today was a dark day.  On one end of the day a baby was born, and on the other, a great man we love was lost suddenly in an accident.   A shocking and sobering day.  Kiss and hug somebody that you know.

Yesterday was a tough day and today was the same.  I don’t feel comfortable going into too much detail out of respect for the people involved but as I mentioned in yesterdays post, a person who is very special to many of us at my office passed suddenly in an accident.  The atmosphere at the […]

Well, tonight I had to stay pretty late at work.  Luckily some of that time was spent rendering some after effects graphics, so I decided to revisit an old project from about a year ago in Blender 3D.   If you’re a fan of open source software Blender is the end all of open source […]

I’m traveling to London this week for work and it just so happened that by chance I got to travel business class.  Well, what a different experience it was.   I arrived at the airport with my co-worker Ted and we went directly into the business class lounge where they handed us two free drink […]

Today I decided to give a solid go at watercolor.  I bought the materials a while ago for this blog idea specifically but I haven’t gotten around to using them until now.   I have never used watercolor before and I purposely stayed away from buying any books on it or researching techniques on the […]

Tonight was that monumental moment for Jenny, my wife, when for todays creative project, I asked her to teach me how to knit.     Needless to say, if it weren’t for this blog the moment may have never come, but here I am tonight, knitting away.  All I can say is…DAMN, that stuff ain’t […]

One of the nights I spent in London I had planned to take some pictures of the tube station and post them along with a field recording for my creative thing the day.  Instead I met Zoom-Lee and decided to change my plan.  But initially, I did happen to get some pretty nice images of […]

I flew up to Oakland to work today.  It seems like the traveling has been unending lately but the truth is that this will be the last trip for a while.  Tomorrow, it’s back to editing for me.  I’m actually looking forward to getting back to the old routine.   So today I filmed a […]