Spring Break 2010

Long time, no see. It is time for a post. What should I talk about? Myself? My love life (or lack there of)? Fullerton? Nah. Let's go with spring break.

Today is April fools day today, but I will not be pulling any pranks on anyone today unfortunately. I just did not plan it out this year.

Spring break is here and sadly is almost over! It is amazing how fast time can fly when you are catching up on lost sleep.

So far spring break has been good and bad this year. It has had a good combination of fun/relaxation and homework/crap. The days usually suck, but the nights are totally awesome. The days usually suck because it is either homework time or northwestern mutual crap. But man the nights are filled with friends, cards, and monsters. And those are three things that are hard to beat when they are combined.

Overall spring break is going good. Highlights of Spring Break 2010 will include:

• The Death of Mithaniel Marr
• Huntington Beach; dead seal foot
  
• FA Game Night
• Most epic sessions of Egyptian Rat Screw
• Monsters
• Northwestern Mutual Fail
• 3 finger smack
• Grand Theft Auto Graduation Video
• Easter eggs downhill to Nathan
  

I'm sure there are a lot more, but this is what I'm thinking about right now.
Popular sayings for this break include:

• There is no reconciliation
• F me F me, My king and my 3
• Come the fuck
• Meat Stack
  

Feel free to add on to these lists.

Last night was especially awesome with the amazing card playing. First James dominates at poker winning $1 and $1 imaginary Michael dollar, but then he wins like 8 games of Egyptian Rat Screw. Michael got second place with 2 wins, and I won 0 games. It was still fun for me though, because it was the closest I have ever come to winning at this game.

During the poker game, James came up with a saying:

"Fuck me, Fuck me, My king and my 3."

Then later on Michael took it further and made a poem:

Playing Poker with Pennies
"Fuck me! Fuck me!
My King and my three
The false hope you bring
One of such royalty
And one no two no three
You see you see
The King and the three
My only chance at victory
I wager you call
I raise you fall
My King! My three
Could you ever save me?"

Awesome job Michael.

As I conclude this blog post I leave you with some pictures that are hopefully recent enough to be cool.

Enjoy!



I thought I had some more recent group stuff but I guess I dont. :(
O well. Maybe James has some on his cameras.

Procrastination

ANIMATION EDUCATION

Procrastination from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

I so do love this one. Worth your time, especially if you're procrastinating on something.

Titles

Well, I didn't intend on doing a post tonight (also see: this morning) but I just stopped writing on my essay for the night and I have some steam left over that if I don't take advantage of will surely pass by morning.

Something that has always fascinated me are movie titles. Or maybe just titles in general. I love titles that are really catchy so I'm making a list of some of my favorites. In no particular order. Let's do this thing.

1.)


I can't say I cared much for the movie (I didn't) but it definitely had one of the most eye-catching titles.

2.)

The Up of emotional contentment? The Up of moving on? The Up of a house lifted by thousands of balloons? It just works.

3.)


I bet they had themselves a party when they thought of this title.

4.)



How catchy is that? It's so freaking catchy. It kind of rhymes, but not in a gay way. How's that for cover art by the way? I pre-ordered this game on the basis that it has an amazing name.

What number am I on? I have to scroll up to see. It doesn't even matter I suppose.

#something:

THE PIGPEN

I so do adore this animated short. It's one of those things you wish you have been the maker of.

Speaking of which...



This title is almost too good to be true. I could make love to this title.

Jurassic->dinosaurs. big. chaos.
Park->playground, fun.

Jurassic Park: A big playground for dinosaurs that ends in chaos. It's too good. Too good I say!

Next up:



This documentary is about a man who sets out to make a historical documentary about Sherman's March to the Sea, but ends up just filming girls he meets along the way. It's his tragic path to misunderstood destruction. It's his own personal March for which he will never receive the praise he deserves.

And in the same boat:



This is the film I am writing my essay on right now. It's a documentary about a mentally challenged man who is (perhaps) falsely accused of murdering his (perhaps) incestuous brother, Bill. Fun film, right? Anyways, "brother's keeper" is taken from, well:

And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

That's a damn good title.

Okay I'm sure there's more but I think I've had my say anyhow.

Any titles you find captivating? Share them here!

Back from the dead.

I'm one to take opportunities when they involve getting the old gang back together for one last go at the old time blog.
Anniversaries are the best dates for reunions.
1 year doesn't seem so long ago.
yes it does.

Lets see if I still remember how to do this....

It is funny to go back and read all of the things we posted before. To see mainly what was occupying our minds that day.
for me it was always some book or movie or tv show.
there's always something.
and sometimes I felt I did a pretty good job and touched on some pretty good topics.
I have two favorites actually. (May I offer them up for submission to the "Bloggies Awards")
1. A life in sight
2. Brother of All

I like that I can write things and know people will have read them. Back when we posted all of the time this was pretty good.

I'm remembering what it's like to write these and balance all the expectation vs. reality of how I planned it to go and how it is ending up. (I intended a more casual and typical post....now we're getting a recap/ epilogue-ish post)

So here's the facts.
This blog is a time capsule.
It's contents are precious and worth wile.
It could always hold more.
But it will always keep what we have shared.

Hello Abandoned Blog

You guys really dropped the ball with the updating.

Well here's some artwork that has come out of the past month or so.





2010

2007

Well we're back in the swing of school by now, right? This semester is pretty good for me. I have a lot of enjoyable, major-related subjects. Well actually, no that's a lie. Only 3 of the 6 have anything to do with my major, but the other 3 are enjoyable classes.

I've been doing a lot of drawing. And a lot of animating. I'm a very, very slow animator though. It's been over a year since my last short. A year! I'm about 75 percent done with four separate shorts right now, but it's always the last 25 percent that's so hard.

Bioshock 2 comes out tomorrow!!! Or tonight. I really want to hit up a midnight opening, but I have no money. So it would not be very worthwhile.