If you use Alfred on OS X, I’ve decided to post my Kill AE extension. Functionally, it does the same thing as AE Suicide: force AE to crash and save a copy of your project. This is just another way to accomplish that, but from the keyboard with Alfred.
Week 14 of 52 Works. This is my reel.
For week 13 of 52 Works I decided to dig a little deeper into the Arduino I received for Christmas. After some tinkering, Google searching, patience, and experimentation, I got it to do this. Bonus points to anyone who can name the song it’s playing.
Late in posting, but this is week 12 of 52 Works.
Justin Younger posted this link on Twitter the other day. After some digging I found you could download high-res files of these views (and more, up to 4096×4096). I wanted to do something with them, soI downloaded all of January 2012 and got to work.
In the end, I’m not fully satisfied with this, but part of the rules for 52 works is that when the week’s over, it’s done. I might revisit this and maybe even try to grab a full year.
For the past several years I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the best video and advertising talent in Milwaukee. Most of those years were spent holding residency at Civilian Edit, then Wonder Wonder, but also freelancing for additional projects. Milwaukee is one of the only homes I’ve known, both professionally and personally. As of May 2012, that will no longer be the situation.
In January, I was approached by Code 42 Software in Minneapolis for a motion design position within the company. After many emails, Skype calls, and a trip to the Twin Cities, I signed the papers last week to accept the offer. I will be continuing my work at Wonder Wonder through the end of April, then packing up the family to move in the beginning of May.
This was an extremely difficult decision to make, in no small part because nearly our entire family, our support network, and most of my colleagues all reside in Milwaukee. To a lesser extent, but still a factor, moving to a full-time in-house position from a multi-client full-time freelance position had to be weighed1. In the end, my family and I decided we had to give it a chance.
Fortunately, we live in a time where my kids can have a video conversation with their grandparents back home, where most of my outside freelance work could be (and is) done remotely, where social networks and the Internet in our pockets let us easily communicate with anyone at any time. Distance is becoming less and less of an obstacle. But even when we do travel home, it’s only a five-and-a-half hour drive from Minneapolis to Milwaukee.
Every single person I know in Milwaukee we be missed. And I truly mean that. I hope to continue the relationships I have with everyone here.
So long, Milwaukee! We’ll keep in touch!
Obey the Unicorn! Week 10 of 52 Works involved a photo I took of a Toki Doki Unicorno, After Effects, the DUIK script, some expressions, the puppet tool, and some tweaking.
For week 9, I decided to play around with ASTER elevation data after reading this story on Ars Technica. Matching up the photographic map tiles to the elevation data was difficult (it’s still a bit off), and it doesn’t seem there’s a lot of resolution to play with (1 px ≈ 30m). Though I was using a GeoTIFF and not the raw data.
Music: “Cold Summer Landscape” by Blear Moon
It’s no secret that I’m a heavy tea drinker. So for this week’s 52 Works, I decided to try tea in a new way: as a paint. This “painting” was made with nothing but tea and a paint brush. I’m pretty pleased with the way it turned out. (And yes, I used an actual tea bag to produce the image in the lower corner.)
I’m not entirely sue what I’ll do with this print. I might hang it in our kitchen (or my office). I’m also considering selling either this one, or more like it. If I did, would there be any takers?
Medium: Tea on Paper (9”x12”)
The Oatmeal’s comic yesterday concerning the availability of Game of Thrones was spot-on. But if you want to “stick it to them”, don’t download the show at all. Imagine if revenue was down, yet piracy was minimal. There would be no excuse anymore.
(I am planning a much longer examination of this for a later post.)
Week 7 of 52 Works. Started playing around with projection mapping in Cinema 4D on simple geometry. The original image is of the Victoria Crater on Mars.
Music: “Neuro Science feat. Mouch” by B1t Crunch3r vs Killeralien vs Phonetic System.