Goings and Happenings

Its been a long time since I've updated you dA peeps on what's been going on in my life so might as well do it now. I've been volunteering a lot lately for the student organisation I'm in, RMITV, so I've been doing a lot of community television shows. I did graphics for a show called Chai Latte, which I wasn't happy with, and animation for a children's show called Storytime with Tall Ted.
View it here.

I also filled in for about 4 or so episodes of 'Studio A' but the real fun experience for me was working on a show called The Inquiry. My friend co-produced and directed it and it was a fun 13 episodes (last episode was a bit of a disaster but live tv lol).

Watch all clips form the show here .

Essentially its a news satire program similar I suppose to The Colbert Report and The Daily Show except more youth oriented. I worked on it primarily as Graphics Op however I did short stints as Tape Op, Assistant Director and Cam Op when the need for crew was desperate enough. I also made some cameos in the pre-tapes of the show which I will subsequently link for your enjoyment or out of curiosity as to what I look like
Homelessness Pre-tape, I play a marine biologist 2:42-3:35
Sex Tourism Pre-Tape, I play DJ, the Filipino male sex slave from 1:30 onwards.

I also had a brief cameo in 3 other pre-tapes in which I get brutally attacked, stare at a computer screen and play a female reporter's left hand. Fun times

I had also finished my 2nd year at uni, the semester I just finished I had High Distinctions in all of my Design Subjects so my specialization for 3rd and 4th year is a bit obvious

Sports

Red Sox eliminated in the first round of the playoff so that put me on suicide watch. Celtics are dominant so that's encouraging yet the Mighty Patriots look awfully mortal lately :S

Music

I've been listening to a lot more music these days. Mighty Mighty Bosstones new album is fantastic, love it to bits especially the song 'I wrote it' which is about Johnny Damon from Red Sox/Yankees fame as well as my friend's band, Tyrian Dawn, whose album was fantastic.

Future Projects

I have a few projects planned. A Christmas animation which I've storyboarded already and plan to finish in the next week or two. Also I have a few illustrations I've planned for a while. Can't wait for you all to see it

Got this idea from =chen-san, you comment if you want to be featured


Rules:

1- Be one of the first 15 people commenting on this journal entry, and I will add you to The List.

2- For each of those 15 people I will put their avatar and three deviations I like from their gallery on the list.

3- If I feature you, you'll have to do the same in your journal, putting me the the first spot, completing The List this way with 15 people

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African Sundown - lovely traditional art piece of a sunset in Africa. Very well done piece.

Asian Gardens I - a lovely traditional art piece of an Asian garden, lovely representation of a river and elements of the garden brought to life here.

Field of Poppies - beautiful painting of red poppies in a field very well done. The highlights here are quite unique and really stand out.

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Green 1 - is a very cool poster design. Very nice use of plants, colours. Aesthetically pleasing.

Self Portrait - is a very cool self portrait. Scanned and done digitally, its a very interesting image.

Fish - is a very cool digital drawing of a cool school of fish in their natural habitat.

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Flowers - is a terrific customization piece. The clarity is simply fantastic here.

Kuwait Parliament - is an amazing advertisement piece. Incredibly well done piece.

Art - is a lovely vector piece filled with lovely colours and vibrancy. Simply outstanding

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June B Lovely - lovely traditional drawing of June B Lovely, ~megahugenarutofan's gaia avatar. very stylish.

FiRePlAcE - a cool abstract painting. An explosion of interesting art here.

Lord Ashura - is a very well drawn piece of fan art.

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Indian Sushi - is an adorable vector-like piece of a sushi piece as an native american. Quite adorable and very cute.

Onigiri Earrings - is an amazing pair of earring in the shape of onigiri. Love the little textures and I'm very impressed with this piece

Green Froggy Stud - is a very cute pairring of stud earrings in the shape of green frog. Very cute abd very creative.

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Fire is a very stylistic digital drawing. Quite a fiery image

Psychadelic World is a very colour filled photo-manipulation. Quite daring

Solar System is a very cool drawing of Saturn and its Celestial neighbours. I dig the perspective

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Over the RainBow is a very nice shot of a rainbow in a highly contrasted environment making it stand out. Very effective aesthetically.

Autumn Sunset is a fantastic photo of a gorgeous sunset, a very soft feel is in this image.

Meran is an incredible well taken shot town-like area by a riverside. Lovely shot, all the elements of it look incredible.

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Visiting Memory is a fantastic composite image combining elements together to form a visual poem. Very creative and well done.

Secret Repertoire is a terrific illustrative piece with solid lineart and creatively coloured. I enjoy the unique creatures and imagery here.

Vernal Equilibrium is a beautiful photo manipulation, very emotive and well done piece.

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I ordered a Wacom tablet

Wednesday evening I ordered a Wacom 6x9 Bamboo tablet and Friday morning it arrived!

I've been using it since then and though I'm a little rough on it I am having a blast. There's a pretty steep learning curve at using a tablet but I'm getting more and more used to it as I use ArtRage for some random sketches

I've wanted a tablet ever since I was a teenager and now that I have one I couldn't be any more ecstatic. The only flaw is that it could be too distracting and I might forget to do my assignment due this week for programing

Uni update

I recently uploaded my deviations that were assignments for my Electronic Imaging and Design class. I'm quite happy with the results and I'm sure I'll be marked well on it. The upcoming assignment has me on edge though as we have to create a photographic essay and I have virtually no photographic experience

Though the final part of the photographic essay requires us to make a gallery in Flash and I'll probably ace that portion the photographic aspect still worries me somewhat

Sports

Celtics up 2-1 on the baby Bulls.

I'm literally watching the yankees beating the Sox for their first encounter of the year

//EDIT Red Sox rally, Red Sox wins!!!

But enough about me, how are you

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Happy Easter

Its been a while since I last updated my journal for dA (since Baseball season ended actually lol) and now I'm updating it for you all

First off, Happy Easter. Whether you celebrated Easter during the Orthodox weekend or this weekend or don't celebrate Easter at all and just celebrating the break I hope you have a great few days.

Now unfortunately the last few months, particularly during the holidays from uni, I haven't been as frequent to dA as much as I'd like. But since March I've submitted two deviations which are Political AIDS poster and Website Design.

I have a few more assignments due for uni including a a re-vamp of my GUI which would have to do with my theme for my political poster and my self-portrait of a machine which hopefully would look awesome. I've been planning some animations too but I'll work on those puppies after I'm done for the semester hopefully

Baseball season has started
The Red Sox started great this year with Beckett looking like the best pitcher on the planet but subsequent games by Lester and Dice-K weren't as impressive. But hey, at least the Yankees are having a terrible start .

For my design class I had to make a design blog which I regularly update but I've been lagging behind lately so I guess I better update it soon

Ugh I have this class called Web3D, which is based off x3D which is the successor to VRML, and I struggled to complete my assignment for it. We had to create a 3D Rubik's Twist (Snake) and animate it with its solutions amongst other things.

This was a difficult assignment because a) We have little knowledge of the language in our first 4 weeks of class in which we essentially learned nothing, b)Its more of a logic assignment rather than testing our Web3D knowledge and c) the submission process HAD to be done with the Universities UNIX turnin method rather than the easier and clearly superior alternative which every other course with the exception of ironically the IT courses at RMIT which is online submission from home via a system known as Blackboard.

But no, I had to go all the way to uni, arrange a folder on an OS I'm not so fluent in and submit it using odd commands due to me being 3 hours late

Well that's good enough for an update, have a great day

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Uni semester over

Greeting peeps . I have finally finished uni this year so until exams this November I'll have time off till next March which means I'll be looking to churn some stuff for you peeps.

ALCS

Well after my beloved Red Sox went down 3-1 to the Rays after woeful performances by Beckett and Lester in games 3 and 4 my Sox were able to crawl to victory in a game 5 rally and game 6 awesome outing by Beckett + bullpen.

So earlier I was really hyped for the Game 7 clash between the Sox and Rays pitting "Lights Out" Lester against against Garza so I was optimistic. The game was fantastic, BoSox got an early lead before the rays were able to capitalize of a shaky 4th and 5th inning by Lester.

So the Red Sox are down 3-1 and failed to score in the Eight inning stranding 3 men on base and infuriating me. So its suddenly the Top of the 9th when inexplicably THE POWER SHUT OFF!

Needless to say I went spastic, called the electric company and found out the power wouldn't be back so I went to sleep and punched the wall.

The Rays won in the end and good for them. The Sox shoulda won Game 3 and payed with their lackluster hitting. I'm not gonna blame Josh Almighty, he's hurt. Lester was awesome and we exhausted him and Dice-K delivered. All 4 aces were just that: Aces but the cards were overplayed.

I mean we can't have Papelbon pitch EVERY pitch....

_{God we missed Manny...}

Make up features
Since I was away from dA for a while I forgot to feature two peeps last time so I'm getting to them now.



=mynameiskeke is an American deviant whose artwork mainly consists of lovely paintings. Be sure to check his stuff.

200th Deviation-Death's Path is an awesome painting with lovely scenery with fantastic reflections and fog in the background.

Second video is a lovely painting with some kind of video to go with it unfortunately I have to sign in some website to view it and I won't do that. The painting itself is tremendous, the colours particularly well done.

Nature Lake is a fantastic image with a lovely water which just looks amazing.

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~ph03nyX is a Portuguese deviant who is an awesome digital artist whose concepts blow me away.

03-Concept Cars Posters is an awesome collection of concept vehicles. Colours are awesome.

I is a very cool pic with a very ominous atmosphere. Lovely sketching style to it with colours that really make it cool.

Percept is a lovely self representation of personal objects. The warped nature of the devices as well as the overall style of the image is fantastic.