Miley Jam

I know I shouldn’t, but I really dig Miley Cyrus’ new song. After pondering it in my hand over and over I’ve realized the vocal melody reminds me of Pearl Jam’s cover the the Dead Boys’ “Sonic Reducer.” That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.

Best twitter of the week

In an effort to add yet another weekly feature to maintain I will begin highlighting the best twitter of the week. My main beef with twitter is that it’s noisy. There’s a lot of 1′s and 0′s running through that site and some of the most laugh-out-loud funny quips may get buried under the noise and clutter. So weekly you can expect to see the one twitter that made me chuckle.

The first in this serious comes from Lloyd Gibson, one of our service directors. It goes like this.

i cant believe that just happened. thnx to @davidjolley & @willrodes for keepin me in the family, even if just to be the retarded cousin.

Pattern Inspiration

Not enough words to describe how I love these pattern illustrations by Daniele De Nigris.

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Stop motion mastery

I especially love the 2:00 mark with the paper wall in this incredible work by jemapur + max hattler: aanaatt (via).

Jemapur: Aanaatt from Max Hattler on Vimeo.

World of Goo

This has consumed much of my evening, and if you’re on the Wii, it should do the same for you.

in March…

My birthday is in March and I wouldn’t say no to a cake like this.

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National Television

What a great piece from National Television. I say we bring Claymation back. Shua, let’s get on that.

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Incase Messenger Bag (NOTCOT)

Dang it! I don’t need to wantin’ another bag but this Incase Messenger Bag looks sweet.

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Catalyst

This has been my first experience attending Catalyst and I’m really digging it. There is no free Wifi however and while my phone gets data signal this year I’m opting to take hard-copy notes, digest them, and post them later next week. In the meantime, here are a few images that show the scope of this event.

Moment Factory interview | NIN visuals

Nice little overview of some of the technologies Moment Factory developed for the current NIN tour. Yes, I will also be attending the second leg of this show.

how the Wilsons roll

Forgive the slightly off-motion-graphics-and-video topic but I just happen to find this to be the cutest thing ever. (and yes, that’s me praising with a “YEAH!” in the background). A few things to note beyond the obvious cute girl singing:

(1) She still rocks the glasses, even indoors.
(2) I married way over my head
(3) You can clearly make out the two wingback recliners in my kitchen in lieu of an actual kitchen table. It’s where Meg and I have all of our deep conversations.
(4) She’s a spunky one (and my daughter is, too)
(5) Through the window you can make out the Fort Gardner project

R singing the alphabet song from Meg Wilson on Vimeo.

iTV

Nice little app I came across today, meet iTV. It’s a TV Guide style browser for shows and movies. A few features that mean I’ll be using it quite a while:

- customize to your shows, channels
- location aware, sets channels based on your geographic location.
- includes previews for TV and movies as well as a brief summary.
- free (a winner in my book)

Go give it a try and check out these screen captures.

making beautiful come to life

Today I’m making beautiful come to life. Here’s beautiful not moving:

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And a teaser of the video version. It moves.

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So, what are you making move today?

Already Been Chewed

If you haven’t been privy to this bit of knowledge, the very talented Barton Damer is now blogging. Go enjoy some Already Been Chewed and upgrade your good-taste-cred.

Twitter fast response

I love Twitter, and it’s fast become more fun than blogging (no worries, still love the blog, too). This weekend, I twittered about a teenage speed demon who lives in my neighborhood. He uses the route past my house as a drag strip tearing about with little thought to those he disturbs or those he endangers.

I’ve seen him and heard about him from my neighbors but I’ve never directly faced him until yesterday. As Gardner and I were walking around a blind curve in my neighborhood I heard him enter the neighborhood. It’s a good thing I did as he was flying. I waved my arm and motioned for him to stop. I’d planned to use that opportunity to confront him face to face, to ask him to slow down in the neighborhood.

At that point he swerved to the other lane and SPED UP, revving his engine and tearing past me. I’m thankful there wasn’t a child in the way (they play in that area of the street… there are several families down the street with small kids).

In the end I’ll end up confronting him directly to protect my family and my neighborhood. But for some input, I put it out there to my twitter peeps to see their advice / suggestions. I must say, the comedic response did make me a little less angry, but there were some good offers I might take them up on (the legal, Godly ones of course).

robinsc @avclub ive got egg throwers and paintballers. If you get any good ones i’m listening. I got recourse but it aint legal or christ like.

jodicwilliams @avclub do his parents not care? yikes!

trevorcox @avclub ask one of the sherif deptuties that help at newspring to scare the :&+-! out of him.

Mingpd @avclub my uncle is an Anderson Co Police Officer.

SpencerTucker @avclub Shotgun usually works.

navets @avclub try one of these – http://tinyurl.com/3mn5pb

dnimmons @avclub However, I do like the idea @jaysizzle suggested! You are a pretty “buff” man you know.

mcdzl @avclub midnight tire slashing. Or burning bags of poop.

dnimmons @avclub A box of roofing nails will do the trick. They stick upside down rather effortlessly . ( Just saying )

garylamb @avclub I recommend the ass whipping that @jaysizzle mentioned.

jessejanderson @avclub some of these are a bit extreme, but maybe a good starting place http://is.gd/3uPV

thejrod @avclub You could get a bb-gun and start sniping him as he flies by

Soundman460 @avclub get a cop to sit in the neighbor hood to pull him over

thejrod @avclub I agree with @jaysizzle…Spike strips in the road would take care of him

jaysizzle @avclub I suggest walking down the street and whipping his *!#. Or spike strips.

jessejanderson @avclub egg his house!

kjellnygren @avclub find a police car at a junkyard and park it in driveway. That always gets people to slow done. Or spike strip. wait, legal? hmm.

The Observer

This guy still intrigues me. If you’re not watching Fringe, you probably don’t really care. This was from the third episode.

Is anyone else out there watching Fringe?

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After Effects “move to master comp” icon

In a series of discoveries by observation I ran across another icon in After Effects. As nearly always, upon examination it’s actually pretty useful. If you don’t pre-comp and sub-comp your timelines, you’re really missing out on some powerful techniques. That’s another story for another day. But assuming you do, look at this icon on your timeline.

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When you’re in a lower comp (one that’s sub comp’d into something else) clicking this icon provides you a list of the higher-level comps that reference the comp you are working with. I’ve always known to Alt-double click a comp at the higher level to open it’s timeline, but I’d never found an easy way to go back until now. This is awesome (for the 0.4% of you who’ll understand what I’m saying).

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It’s been a while. Have fun.

LittleBigPlanet™

LittleBigPlanet™ makes me want to renounce the Wii.

Play Tetris in Terminal

Terminal Tips: Play Tetris in Terminal – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

That’s right, play Tetris in Mac’s Terminal. That’s good, because I don’t really get Terminal and don’t have a good working knowledge of what it does. Now I know it can do one thing.

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