Well, last night I had major technical difficulties but by the end of the night I had something pretty sweet. Basically, I had this idea while doing my previous creative thing about using a mini-projector to project images onto my whiteboard so that I could advance frame by frame and rotoscope it. It […]
I spent most of the day drawing. In the past two days all I’ve gotten completed is about 5 seconds worth of animation. At this rate, I’m looking at close to two months worth of work in order to get to the finish line. Well, this blog might get awful boring for you if I […]
So, today begins my first themed week on the blog. Dry-Erase Week. If you’ve been following my blog it may feel like dry-erase week is all ready underway but I have really only begun work on the animation I set out to do which is this music video for my buddy Broiler’s song. I won’t […]
Last night I made some nice progress. I was lucky that this section was a little simpler than previous ones and I got 74 frames done. That brings my grand total to 202 frames, about 11 seconds of animation. Not too shabby. The pac man at the end was real easy to animate. […]
I got a fair amount of work done last night. I finished 84 frames. I could have done more but the baby didn’t sleep a wink last night. It was the first real day of summer here in california. It was hot, hot, hot and June just couldn’t sleep. As a result, I got very […]
On the way home from work I got a phone call from Jenny telling me that June had a fever and that we needed to buy an air conditioner. So, I diverted to Home Depot and got a little wall unit for Junes room. By the time I finished installing the thing it was all […]
I’m sorry to disappoint but again I didn’t get started working on this until about 11:30pm. I invited over a friend who I haven’t hung out with for a while for a beer. We got caught up in conversation and before I knew it it was late. I did get many more frames done than […]
I gave it one last good push last night and I drew a whopping 251 frames! Albeit, I was nearly up all night doing it, but I did get it done. I would’ve ended it earlier but I really wanted to get to the part of the song where the lyric goes “Face!!!” In the […]
Sorry for posting this one late. This weekend I was pretty busy with family. On this day, I spent most of my time futzing around with this horrible portable air conditioner, which I plan on returning as soon as I can. They really shouldn’t call these things portable. Sure, they have wheels on them but […]
Yesterday I made the mistake of over-recording our jam with the monome. We used as our sample a song I composed for my music box on Day 110. I basically pressed record and my buddy Jeff and I went to town on the monome. Two hours later I had a lot to sift through. So […]
I thought I was going to get this in tonight but the video I made still needs work. I just showed it to a friend and I realized it was completely boring. (You’ll see) So I’ve decided to add a few things to it and give it a good going over. It’s a patch building […]
Whew! I was really worried I wasn’t going to get this in on time. Last night I edited the majority of it but I had to multi-task on it a bit today while I was at work. Then, for some reason, the compression phase took forever to make my final video file. I let a […]
I had to think fast because by the time I left work last night it was already 11pm. I decided on my drive home to do a little backburner project. I have two unfinished tracks from previous Monome Community Remix Projects. So, I decided to finally finish my MCRP V5 track no matter how it […]
Well, it’s that time of year again. July. On the 31st of this month Jenny and I are going to throw the 3rd annual Visnic Christmas in July party. It’s been 4 ot 5 years since the second annual so it’s been a long time coming. We first threw this party back in 04′ […]
I got home last night and was super excited to get started on my creative thing because I think this one might be one of the coolest posts yet. Unfortunately, June has been having four molars break through her gums for the past two weeks and last night turned out to be a pretty bad […]
UPDATE: I finally posted my Instructable on how to make these speakers for yourself. You can link to it by clicking here Well, I feel pretty good about this one. I could hardly sleep last night at 2:30am when I finished this. I was too giddy. I really wanted to test it out to […]
Today’s post is not as exciting as yesterdays but then again yesterdays post is a tough one to beat. Jenny and I spent the entire day cleaning and picking up the backyard in preps for the party. We altered some chair legs with a sawsall in order to make them level to each other. I […]
Last night I continued the prep work for the big Xmas in July party. Jenny had the idea of doing these cool luminaries. We borrowed some of her moms Christmas cookie cutters to help us make the holes for the bags. I also lit up the two trees I have in the backyard. […]
This motley little table is meant to go on the roof above our bedroom. The snow machine will be set atop it and a few 2-by-4 arms will be added on the day to hang a disco ball and two spotlights. The roof of our bedroom is flat and has some fairly tall ledges so […]
I’m pretty proud of this accomplishment because I’ve never installed a post. I approached my dad for advice and he tried as much as he could to get me to do it at another time when there was more light. I stood firm on the idea that it was completely doable tonight. So, he came […]
Rather than one specific creative thing today it’s really more like many many odds and ends getting taken care of. I got home and the first thing I did was get my jerry-rigged table up onto the roof. I cut it’s legs down to match the ledge so the snow machine would be slightly hidden […]
Another day without a very specific creative thing. I got off work early so I could take advantage of some daylight hours on my roof setting up the disco ball and snow machine. Then I hung more lights, got a few more extension cords and wired the place up. It was a little too much […]
Well, firstly I apologize for this post being so late. The day after the party Jenny and I were pretty destroyed and walking around like zombies. Nevertheless the party went off without a hitch. It was surprising how many people arrived so close to the party start time. I usually expect people to arrive at […]
Tonight I realized that I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I spent the whole day dreading the impending creative thing. I was exhausted from the party and I wanted to be as lazy as possible. I played with the thought of doing a still life of the backyard or possibly another watercolor but everything […]
For the first time in a long time I actually did my creative thing in the daytime. When Jenny and I took our vacation to northern California I picked up a few things for future creative projects. One of which was this Sunprint kit. At work at the moment I’m working on the […]