pimp yo' playhouse.

memorial day 2009

jet-pack panda.

nothing more need be said.

my little four year old photographer

my daughter, araia lynn, loves to sneak away with my wife's cell phone and take pictures.

my wife and i were surprised at how interesting a lot of the photos turned out:





















seeing kids pics just make you happy, because the only bias you can read into is love or curiosity.

el tigre's soft side.

my birthday gift from my wife and daughter arrived in the mail.



booyah, grandma. booyah.

i'm not a wrasslin' fan by any respect (my babysitter told me it was fake in 91' hasn't been the same since) but how could i pass up a chance for an emerald kitty cover that makes me look brutish at the same time. i think i'm just in love with the paradox.

dann figurine!

after finding this blog on threadless. i nabbed the outline to create my own boxy dann figurine.



i love this widdle guy!

update!

i made the whole family:

yo gabba gabba christmas

this christmas, our families pitched in to get my daughter all of the yo gabba gabba figures.

the first 2 were presented to her at our house, and brianna (my wife) and i set up this video to make it a little more fun for her.



merry christmas!

crude animation: the sequel

my daughter and i collab'd on another little animation project.

more than double the length of its predecessor, and even more crude 3 year old humor!

enjoy.



edit: new video.

had a little patch of time, decided to make another one:

big little monster.

i spent a little time making a cartoon of my daughter's story and artwork:

before it's cliche.

i decided to make a youtube page for my daughter.

1) because i was bored and wanted to do something creative that evening

2) because this is a quick easy way to preserve her at this age

3) because youtube blogging is becoming more and more passé, so she'll be able to show in 10 years she can say she did it before it wasn't cool.

i know i should really use my time editting to bone up on my editting skills... but i get bored subtitling it after a very short while.

speaking of editting, i did my first chunk of editting for pay today at work. the irony is that the creative department at my work doesn't meet the clients outside of creative meetings et al. but we were under odd circumstances and were asked to run to a car dealer with a budget for some web work i'd be doing. the guy had already gone over what he wanted to do with the page, yet when we got there, he was resistant to everything... despite them being his ideas.

at any rate, he basically said no and made us feel uncomfortable. yet today, a month or so later, i'm editting some v.o.d. clips for his website... the exact thing he made us feel small over.

i'm glad i'm not a salesman.

end rant.

i'm gald i'm getting a little bit of a handle on final cut pro. i've been so used to imovies lackluster control that i've become dependant on workarounds, so it's nice to feel the ability to stretch my creative mind with livetype and final cut.