Winter Wrapup *Update*

As the Winter trimester comes to a close, I figured it was about time for a little clean up. I went through my albums on Picasa and moved / removed some images. Some of the images became broken here on the blog, and I took some time to fix those that could be fixed. But some of them were older versions of art pieces that I removed, so I've simply replaced them with quick messages explaining why they're gone.

That said, it's time new a new Concentration! Had this one done friday, I just didin't get around to uploading it... Go figure. :P

Concentration 09 - Mountains

So... ya. Mountains. Honestly, I only have 3 left (and a cover) But ohh man am I running out of ideas. My next one is supposed to be a Movie Theatre of all things, and... heck if I can think of anything that might fit the life and lines theme. We'll see how that goes when I hit that road block (AKA, in a week)

And now, an update! Social Justice poster, away!

Yup. Unlockable Content. Or as the media knows it, on-disc DLC. You see, in modern years, the Video Game industry has created this rather ridiculous notion that users should pay for their disc... and it's data.... and then pay for it again. I personally find this to be silly, and I can't believe most gamers are perfectly okay with this. I can see the benefit of DLC (Or DownLoadable Content) in that you can extend the life of a disc-based game with more content. But paying for a program that just unlocks data you already payed for? That's just dumb. I didin't pay a whopping $60 only to have access to *most* of my game. I expect the full data - and experience - to be available to me from the get go. But whatever, that's my opinion on the matter. :P

Stickerbush Symphony

I return once again to the magical land of Blogger to post some more graphic design work. As Linguini put it best in Ratatouille, "Let's do this thing!"

My Signal-To-Noise poster. I admit I took a little inspiration from those old sharpe-based projects where you created a feeling or emotion using shapes. Noise seems like it would be a random mess of shapes scattered with no real thought. But I thought, to keep in the theme of digital works, I would make them more conform and more like pixels on a monitor. The 7 color shades on the bottom-half are based on the popular TV Screen Testing procedure that the organizers seem to like a lot. As for the dark red.... it was originally a placeholder, but it felt right so I just left it.

Concentration Number 8 - Desert. This is actually based on an older idea I had that was too generic and didn't fit the theme I was going with on these. I thought it'd be a bit of a waste to just let it sit there, so I messed with it a bit and got this. Not sure what I'm doing after this one... I have a long list of locations but no idea how to compose them at the moment.

Aaaaand as for other things: There are a lot of other things. I'm working with Nate on a new website that will hopefully be a place for others to share original works. I'm helping my friend Alex by drawing a cutscene for his game, Z-250. I'm also trying to keep a regular schedule on uploading videos to Youtube (I do Let's Plays - Playing video games while commentating) and streaming mini-marathons every Friday night on Twitch.tv. Oh, and let's not forget Project Data and jSonic, both of which I'm working on. And also, school work. I admit I'm kinda stepping on my own feet right now, but I think it's good to have lots of projects. It proves I'm not just some lazy kid sitting on facebook playing farmville all day. :P

Anyway, thanks for checking out my stuff. "Goodnight everybody!"