Coming to a Central Coast near you

Fluffy is having a good year. After showing in Chicago last fall, Furtissimo has been picked up by film festivals in New York and Taiwan, and has been requested to audition for spots in Seattle and Australia. I think it's going to be an exciting year for my little diva.

In related news, I'm pleased to announce that Fluffy and the gang will be headed to good old SLO town for the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival in March. Apparently the dates aren't solid until Feb 15th, but I've been told that it will be playing on the 14th, 17th and 18th. So if any of the seven people that read this blog are going to be in San Luis on those days (doubtful) you should check it out. And let me know how it goes. Just kidding, I'll be there. Hopefully.

And now, for the first time in four years...

Finished animation!!! Just a simple test done with a clip I found online from the (incredibly awesome) movie Everything is Illuminated, which is strangely different from the lines in the actual movie. Maybe it was taken from the trailer? Anyway, I hope you like it.

Since Facebook limits the length of Wall posts...

An open letter to Ducksworth-

Hey, remember that time we were rescuing those children from that overtunrned schoolbus and all of the sudden a gang of drunken bank robbers came tearing around the corner in their H2 and clipped me in the thigh as I jumped out to push that old lady of the way, and although I was hurt pretty badly I kept on catching those children as you lowered them out of the bus's rooftop emergency hatch. And then later, after the fire department had put out the flames (since the bus exploded just after you jumped out the emergency hatch with the last remaining child) and after the police had found the drunken bank robbers due to Jenette's quick wits and keen eye (good thing she was there to catch the liscence plate on their getaway vehicle) and after all the adrenaline subsided (nothing like the natural high that comes from saving lives), I realized how badly I had been hurt and then all of the sudden felt kind of woozy, and I was like "Woah, I think I'm going to faint." And then I did, so you held my feet up until I regained conciousness, and then got me some Sprite after I blew Spaghetti chunks? That was crazy, man. I'm glad you were there.

Love,
Steakob

Yay, Nature!!!

While at home for the holidays I was able to borrow my sister's camera and shoot some pictures of the local wildlife. It had been a few years since I had used anything other than a little point and shoot camera and knew that it would have been a good idea to go over some of the "one step above letting the camera do everything for you" functions like the light meter and stuff like that, but I decided instead to just take a bunch of pictures and see what happened. The results were mixed. I'm posting the best of the bunch, which have almost all been tweaked in photoshop to varying degrees, and are still all pretty hit and miss. But I had a lot of fun taking the pictures, and a few of them are decent, I think, so I thought I'd share them with you. So here you go.

Merry Unemployment!

To celebrate the Christmas season as well as my first day of joblessness, I present to you this little ditty!

God Rest Ye Merry Gentledudes by wheresboo

Another Insider Analogy

Say you had an evil stepmother who offered you chocolate cake and you were really excited because everyone loves chocolate cake, but then it turned out to be sugar free chocolate cake made in 1993 and she forced you to eat it for twelve to thirteen hours a day for six weeks.

Now say that after the whole ordeal your stepmother tells you that for the last two weeks that you live in her house she wants you to eat more seventeen year old sugar free chocolate cake, but it will be much better because there wont be any pressure and you can eat it at your own pace.

Would you eat the cake?
I didn't think so.

Faces of a nameless boy

I stumbled upon some free time last week and used it to push a pencil around and work on some designs for a possible short film. The design ended up evolving out of the style that I was imagining for this particular film idea, but I was still happy with the fact that I was not only drawing, but actually designing something, as opposed to just scribbling random nonsense like I usually do.
What you see here is a cleaned up version of some expressions I originally did in light blue pencil that seemed way more expressive, but were too hard to see when I scanned them. So, while they prove I will never make it as a clean up artist, I was still happy enough with them to show you. And by "You", I guess I mean the three people who read my blog.