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A Brief Return to Asia

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As those who follow me on social media sites know, a few of weeks ago, I finally got to return to Southeast Asia, a region where I lived 5 years ago, back when I was a college lecturer.  I reconnected with old friends, made new friends, ate exotic foods, attended weddings, walked amazing beaches, visited cool temples, saw wild animals and even had a few exciting romantic adventures that I probably shouldn't get into in this blog. ;)    As I've said before, the traveler's greatest dilemma is the ability to be homesick for more than one place, and sadly, now that I am back in Los Angeles working hard for my less-than-Hollywood but Hollywood paycheck, I keep wondering why I even returned stateside.  Perhaps some day (maybe sooner than later) I will live in Asia again and see the people I care about there more frequently... but for now, here's links to photos of my recent adventures:  -  Killing time in Taiwan  -|-   The Indonesian Adventure  - ...and here's s

Covers by Valentino

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Recently, an eccentric friend of mine named Valentino has been making his way around the Los Angeles area entertaining the public in semi-random places by singing some pretty interesting song covers. This is pretty funky and interesting because my friend Valentino is... well... he's a puppet... and not at all in the metaphoric sense. :)

My Job on TV

I am a digital artist by trade, and currently, the kind of digital artwork I do for a living is stereoscopic film conversion for Hollywood movies. In super-simple terms, stereoscopic film conversion is where you take a movie that was shot in 2D and create a 3D version after the fact.  Now, while most folks would consider working on movies to be glamorous and/or fascinating, amid the worlds of film-making and visual effects, stereo conversion is usually given the critical shaft and is frequently referred to in negative lights by layperson and critic alike, regardless of their intellectual qualification to comment ... usually ... but not this past week. :) I have to say, it was a kind of uplifting to see this positive and informative piece that G4 TV's Attack of the Show recently shot at my workplace about our work on Titanic 3D.     Game Trailers - E3 2012 - AOTS Exclusive

Trailer Assemble!

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When you are working hard on a new movie day in and day out, and then a new trailer for it comes along and the presentation is so exciting that the film actually looks unfamiliar enough to make you say "Wow!" ...well ...that's a good thing. ;)

Mocap with the Kinect

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After mentally toying with the idea for a long time, I finally cracked and I decided to buy a Kinect for the X-Box 360. I did not buy it so I could play the games mind you, but rather, the animator in me bought it so I could hook it up to my PC and see what it can do in terms of improvised affordable motion capture utilizing software from brekel.com .

Dear Robert Hanson...

I would like to take a quick moment to say to Robert L. Hanson of Altamonte Springs in Florida: Please grow up and pay your freaking bills! ...and to every bill collector on the planet Earth, 407-619-3826 is not Mr. Hanson's phone number anymore, it hasn't been his number for years... and like it's previous users since Mr. Hanson, I'll be gladly getting rid of this number soon as well! In the mean time:  Bill collectors, please stop failing at your jobs and go directly to Hell!!! That is all... thank you.