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January 10th, 2011we are the world
August 9th, 2010from dangerous minds. um. that’s some awesome music video choreography.
portfolio updates!
July 5th, 2010
hey guys.
i know i’ve been aloof. but i’ve been so so busy!
one of the many things i’ve been up to is updating my portfolio. check it out : WORK. some of these are student projects, some professional, some just plain fun. woot. notice that there’s a new time-based media category, that all of the old video stuff has been moved too. the stuff in this category includes some video trailers i’ve made for Half Straddle, personal projects, and some work from my Digital Design class from last semester.
here are some new additions (click to go to page) :
want : synth
July 5th, 2010
end titles
April 24th, 2010
this post in creepy / awesome writer, dennis cooper’s blog, the weaklings, is a contest to name 100 movies based on their end titles.
i like it just for the awesome, now moot title plates.
cool.
on another note, to all those wonderful people out there in the dark :
les machines de l’île
March 15th, 2010
i went here.
i took the above video with my digital camera. the song is “Nantes” by Beirut. most of the video consists of a 45 minute giant elephant ride that Kourtney and i took. the first part of the video features a bunch of french high school students riding some prototypes for a giant marine carousel that they are planning to build.
Les Machines was created after founding artist, François Delarozière split up with Royal de Luxe, a company responsible for this shit.
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happy pi day!
March 14th, 2010
happy pi day!
airbus A380
March 12th, 2010
the largest passenger aircraft in use is the airbus A380. and we flew it. from new york to france.
the above photo was taken at Paris Charles Du Galle airport.
from wikipedia :
The A380’s upper deck extends along the entire length of the fuselage, and its width is equivalent to that of a widebody aircraft. This allows for a cabin with 50% more floor space than the next-largest airliner, the Boeing 747-400, and provides seating for 525 people in a typical three-class configuration or up to 853 people in all-economy class configurations. The postponed freighter version, the A380-800F, is offered as one of the largest freight aircraft, with a payload capacity exceeded only by the Antonov An-225.[3] The A380-800 has a design range of 15,200 km (8,200 nmi), sufficient to fly from New York to Hong Kong for example, and a cruising speed of Mach 0.85 (about 900 km/h or 560 mph at cruising altitude).
here is a view of the plane from the tail camera, as seen on my in-flight tv monitor.
i sat right over the wing on the lower level. it was huge! and i didn’t hear any excessively loud engine noise from those massive Rolls-Royce engines.
blizzard pics
March 12th, 2010
venice canals
March 12th, 2010
ok. so yes i am in france (nantes, to be exact) and i will be posting pictures of france soon. but i wanted to share with you a walk i took through the venice canals in venice beach, california.
i was just in Los Angeles with big dance theater to workshop a new piece at the getty villa (which was awesome). we stayed in marina del rey, which is right next to venice beach. i remember the first times i visited california when my cousin lived there, and how enchanted i was with venice beach. i was super psyched to see an actual street called “electric avenue” and swore, if i ever moved to california, i’d call venice my home.
now, walking along the venice beach waterfront, i feel a little grossed out. the dirty, hippy aesthetic that interested me so in my youth just seems passé to me now. the beachfront is like a combination of the jersey shore and the east village - two locations that i would prefer to have separate. but there’s still hope. set a bit back from the beach is a quiet canal community. the homes are stunning and a peaceful plot of land on a canal filled with ducks in the middle of a bustling metropolis sounds like just the ticket.
