I'm in love with After Effects. This was one of my projects for Intro to Motion Graphics. The assignment was to animate a quote.

Crying XXs

Developing assets for a Surrealist motion graphics project. As always, I added like 10 times the amount of work that is needed for the assignment.  I call this one Crying XXs.

Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)

random song of the day

DP Child in Time

Deep Purple Loving.

The Original Bomb

Havent heard the original before. Not bad.

here's the version I've been listening to all these years (skip to around the 2min mark if you're impatient)...

Archer - Just the Tip?

LoL

Tophat

Something I ran across on some random forum

"The truth is our minds create our surroundings, our environment, our character and traits, as well as our destiny, our purpose, our gods and our demons. All there is about human culture is there, because somebody thought about it first. That's how powerful and creative our minds are. And you - yes, you, my friend - are a creator yourself, bigger than you ever knew, the god of your self-created universe, lead actor, script writer and director of your very own daily soap. But here’s the catch, because of this, you’re also responsible for the general state of your mind and the state of the world in general. That’s a big responsibility, but it comes with a lot of power; a power that the confederacy of dunces wants you to forget about. Remember, they don’t want you powerful, self-conscious or aware of yourself and your surroundings. They want you asleep, distracted and dumb.

May you be always aware of this power. May you use it increasingly wisely as you travel along, for the better of yourself and those around you. May you unleash your creative mind by creating a better Universe every day and by being a nice supreme being and lastly, may you always have faith in yourself, because if God wouldn’t believe in himself… who would?"

interesting, no?

please excuse all the crud I'm pushing out. Just flushing out all the ideas.

I'm a Young Robot

Flying the Plane

awww man, heck of a time to run out of black ink. Oh well. Good enough warm up.

While reading an NPR story about Watson I came across this in the comments section:

"Daren Daniels (Pointless) wrote:

We, like Watson, manipulate symbolic mental constructs throughout our daily lives. But what sets us apart from Watson (as well as all computers) is the "substrate" in which those constructs reside. With Watson, that "substrate" is silicon based. It's a non-dynamic "substrate" if you will. With us, it's chemically based. The symbolic construct influences the chemistry and the chemistry influences the construct.



If we watch a sad movie, the mental construct triggers a chemical change within us, causing us to become emotional and cry. (Construct influencing chemistry). When we dream, our brain chemistry causes our brain to associate the emotion with some kind of related mental construct or dream (Chemistry influencing mental construct). I do believe, when we dream, the chemistry comes first followed by the related mental construct (our brain trying to make sense of the emotion).



Computers have no interaction between the symbolism and the substrate in which those symbols reside (accept for maybe heat). I think it could be possible that, somehow, consciousness is a manifestation of the interaction between symbolic mental constructs and chemistry."

awesome.

Inception Dubstep

Four-Eyed Monsters