The land of Ooo

It is a dark day in the land of Ooo.  Comcast finally figured out that I shouldn't be able to watch Cartoon Network shows on their website.  For some reason Comcast was letting me watch several channels online that we don't have on TV.  Now I'm am forced to watch Adventure Time at my parents.

A Very Happy Unbirthday To You

Sorry for the silence for the last couple of weeks. I've been working away on personal and work related projects and haven't gotten around to posting anything up here. The plus side to all this blog laziness is now I have a nice back log of stuff to post. To start things off I thought I'd post some birthday cards that I made for some family members. Enjoy!

Painting

I just watched Herb & Dorothy on Netflix's watch instantly feature. I love watching documentaries. And any documentaries that has anything to do about art get me excited about being creative. I've loved watching Art of the Steal, Art & Copy, I.M. Pei: First Person Singular, Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?, and many more.

After watching Herb & Dorothy I had the urge to get out my acrylic paints and do some painting. This is what I came up with. I don't know if you'd call it a successful painting, but I think it was a personal success in that I'm starting to think about value. I have a ways to go before I understand it, but I'm making progress.

It's good for me to just be creative and not worry about the results. I don't think you can grow as an artist if you are too worried about the results.

Josh on the Crossfit page

The picture of my brother Josh on the top of Half Dome made the Crossfit main page! Most people probably don't know what this means but I think it's pretty cool. Most of the time you have some pretty hard core athelets that get their picture featured for the day on the Crossfit page. So it's pretty neat to see family up there. Crossfit is the workout program my wife, brothers and I follow. It was at a Crossfit competition where I took those pictures of my cousin collapsed on the floor.

Brain Farts: Samuel

I know some people are thinking "huh"?

Part of the reason I draw these guys is an exercise in creativity and design. I try to make each Brain Fart different from the next. Another reason is to have something to decorate the walls of the cubicle with. I don't have anything against the typical toys that decorate your average animators desk. I have those too. But these Brain Farts are something that is uniquely mine and fun. I think it adds to the creative atmosphere more than a toy you can buy at Toys R Us because it is so different and stupid.

Another explanation for the Brain Farts is they are fun to draw!

Lack Of Posting

Sorry for the silence people. I've spent the last month or so running around like a crazy man getting my demo reel ready. Now that it is done, I should return to a more regular posting schedule.

6-02-09: It came from the fridge!

Speakeasy South Parkerized

Sean (formerly intern Sean and now junior generalist Sean) created the entire Speakeasy staff as South Park characters. Can you guess which one is me?

5-23-09: Black Out

The other day we had a Speakeasy production meeting at the Jolly Trolly. After a few of us stuck around and took advantage of the Speakeasy credit card left behind and did some extra drinking, eating and chatting. We eventually got a hold of the kids menu's and crayons and had some fun doing a bunch of collabrotive drawings. Later we got the bright idea to join in the Jolly Trolly's kareoke night. Being animators we had to figure out a way to take it to the next level. We went back to the studio grabbed our Muppet What Nots and performed the kareoke with the muppets. Lefty (my muppet) and the gang sang two Queen songs, Don't Stop Me Now and Bohemian Rapsody. The unexpecting patrons of the Trolly got a pretty good kick out of it. We definately got everyone's attention. People were taking pictures, laughing and starring with puzzled looks on there faces. It was a ton of fun.

5-7-09 Spring's Arrival part 2

Boston Pictures

5-4-09 Spring's Arrival

Extra Random Pictures

Lefty and a friend.


Jerrod, Lisa, and I at the Mid Atlantic Crossfit Regional Qualifiers.

4-18-09 King of the Toasters

4-11-09: A Stop On The Freedom Trail

4-10-09: The Urban Jungle

* Obviously this is just a beginners guide to surviving the urban jungle.

4-09-09

4-4: Hello Mr Pukie

Guerrilla Fitness was a lot of fun. It was different seeing in real life a place I've seen on the Crossfit main page videos. Meeting pukie, for all of you unfamilar with the term means I threw up. I felt fine durring the workout but about 3 minutes after we've finished I layed down. That was a bad choice. I ended up puking about 2 minutes later. The awesome thing about puking from working out is that as soon as you throw up you back to normal. Weird experience. I've never pukied after a workout before. I think it mainly happened because the workout was tough and I didn't want to look weak infront of so many (13) crossfitters, I layed down, and my stomach was feeling little weird so I took some imodium on an empty stomach. Oh well, live and learn!

Here's the workout we did . . .
Team Angie (teams of two)
For Time:
175 Pull-Ups
175 Push-Ups
175 Sit-Ups
175 Squats

The woman I was teamed up with was tough. She and Lisa were the only women to even attempt to to the pull-ups unassisted. She tore her hand in the middle of the pull-ups and barely took notice. We split the work in half and finished 23:37ish.

4-1 It Came From Beneath The Sink!

I really do enjoy making these comic doodles about my life. It's even more fun when I get to draw a monster.

3-29-09: Lisa's Hair Cut