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WT-89 Flak Cannon!

Posted on August 26, 2010, by admin, under Uncategorized.

Heyo all!

Finally finished up the video for the Flak Cannon I’ve been working on. You can check it out on the animation section of the website.

There will be some high quality stills added to the digital art gallery by the end of the week too, so stay tuned!

Every once and a while I forget what true friendship is like. I revert back to some old mode of being alone, that seemed to have gotten me through high school. Being back in Burlington though… It’s just so awesome. Which inevitably makes it pretty hard. Hard to be away from them, makes it hard to figure out my life and situation, and makes it hard to leave. I certainly miss it here, which still leaves me feeling so unsettled in where I am and what I should be doing. Yet it’s where I’m at for now… but I wonder how much longer I’ll keep saying that.

On a brighter note, the flak cannon is nearly complete. Hopefully by the beginning of next week I’ll be posting a small presentation video to show it off. So keep an eye out!

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Islands

Posted on August 15, 2010, by admin, under Uncategorized.

So… a good friend of mine turned me onto this podcast. This podcast is done by “Radiolab” a podcast I had never heard before. If you’ve got an hour, everything should take the time to listen to it. It talks about some really interesting stuff, which I’ll get into in a moment, but for me started making some new connections to things I’ve thought alot about. The podcast talks about words, and the connections they can make in our brain that aid us in a deeper comprehension of…. well… life. I don’t want to go too deep into summerizing their podcast, because I’d rather you just listen to it, but it’s like saying… could you really understand time if you didn’t have words like time, hour, minute, second? In this podcast they describe words, as sort of bridges, that connect islands of concepts in your brain. Which I find to be very interesting, because for one… if these words are helping us to better understand things… it seems as though it’s a natural evolution to continue with this sort of learning. What new words could be introduced into society that aid us in understanding what has yet to be understood? It doesn’t even necessarily have to be really scientific, but to be honest I can’t describe what it would be because I don’t have those words.

It’s just interesting then, to think and dwell on things that we have a hard time explaining. These thoughts, concepts, feelings, and ideas that we cannot put to words. What does that mean? Could it be reaching deeper into our own void of understanding to the point that there just aren’t words that can adequately describe them? You could perhaps argue that I just don’t have a very large vocabulary, haha which may be true, but I do think it’s reaching into the right hemisphere of the brain, and connecting with something that we cannot bridge quite yet. At onepoint during the podcast they discuss a state of wordlessness, a point where you don’t have words that clutter up your thoughts…. what would that be? I started thinking about this, and of course my head was filled with words and ideas, but what I came up with is that it has to be close to being in some state of meditation. Perhaps this is what someone can truely tap into, when a Hinduist masters meditation and describes it as finding their center and really feeling brahmin (everything), maybe what is really happening is that they have reached a point where they’re in a wordless state. A state of complete intake of whats around them, having feelings, sights, smells, and emotions without the names… They feel connected… Wierd yet interesting to think about.

This past weekend I went camping, and at onepoint during the night I found myself sitting on a dock, looking up at the stars. Ideas of this podcast floating around in my head, and for a moment I was filled with joy. I think I’ve tried to describe sort of feeling before. This sort of feeling of being full, and taken in by a particular moment. As I found myself looking up and just taking in the mess of stars above my head, I couldn’t help but feel myself falling in and being humbled by the grandness of… how things are.

While I still lack the words, I couldn’t help but feel like this podcast bridged an island of ideas for me… and in some way I understand me a little better.

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Old friends, Places past, and Productivity

Posted on August 4, 2010, by admin, under Uncategorized.

It’s been a while again since I wrote, and in all honesty… there’s probably so much I could write about here… Since I blogged last I’ve had opportunities to see old friends, return home, and be more productive on personal projects. I had actually planned on writing about returning home, when I got back, but it just didn’t quite seem to happen for some reason. I don’t know… I still have such mixed feelings for that place. In some ways I have many emotional ties, and then in other ways I have none at all. I think most of all it sort of made me miss my folks. It was like gazing out across something that once was, and will never be again… there’s always a tinge of regret but you’ve also moved on.

I’m happy where I’m at for now… I think I’ve finally found my nook in life, and no longer live in regret of being far from friends and family. I try to visit people when I can, but also it’s become a bit tiring traveling so often… Last weekend was the first weekend I had spent in Montreal since I arrived back from Arizona, and while I didn’t do much socially… It was really good. I actually ended up working on a large section of the project I’m working on with Terry, and nearly put twenty hours into it in one weekend It had been so long since I had attempted something like that, that I sort of crashed a little bit on Monday haha. Things are looking good with it though, and I don’t know why I go through these burst of suddenly pouring a lot of time into Maya in a short period. Made me feel productive though, and I really can’t wait to show it off

comingsoon

I find myself in a bit of an odd area right now… I’m living a bit day by day, with no major plans as of late. It’s nice though, I think I need a bit of a lull.

Well that’ll be enough for now

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Red Dead

Posted on July 22, 2010, by admin, under Uncategorized.

Every once in a while a really good game comes along. Of course your definition of “Good” is pretty subjective, but really for the past couple months I’ve been pretty enthralled with Red Dead Redemption. My recent attachment to this game could be for several reasons, mainly probably because I’ve enjoyed cowboy nostalgia since I was young and in my formidable “Farmer” days. While I know that the game has plenty of faults, the main character’s voice acting doesn’t always seem to fit, his actions seem contradictory at times, there are clear corny moments, and miscellaneous bugs throughout the world… Yet these didn’t really break the experience for me. The story and the game play made it easy for me to develop emotional attachments to characters in the game. The story felt a bit more tangible then others I’ve found in games lately, where life is a bit more realistic and a bit harsh at times. By the end, I found myself in a mission, feeling the same way I did in Heavy Rain, caring a lot about the lives of certain companion characters and playing a lot more aggressively because of it. Obviously I’m trying my best not to have any spoilers in this post, haha which is really hard, but needless to say I was really satisfied with the game. I’m sure I’ll be continuing to play the multi-player, as well as the DLC as that is released… Something has got to give me my western fix before I’m able to head back to Arizona again

If you haven’t yet, pick up this game… let me know so we can play online!

As for a general update about me? Well things have been super hectic since I got back from Arizona. Feels like I always have plans lately, and that’s getting to be a bit exhausting. This week I’m fighting a head cold because of it. Last weekend I had the opportunity to see a lot of Champlain friends in Cornish, New Hampshire, for Mike Ackerman’s Graduation Party. It was pretty much an amazing time, it had been so long since I had been to Cornish to visit Mike… in many ways Cornish sort of reminds me of where I grew up. Which, ironically enough, is where I’m headed this weekend to see Ryan before the Navy ships him off to somewhere. I’m not sure what to expect from this visit, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen people from High School, and I’m mainly going to just see Ryan. Hopefully we’ll get an opportunity to get some Kayaking in before the weekend is out.

Anyways that’s enough for now! Hopefully the following weekend will be nothing but Maya work