Abstract Swirly Things

Michel Gagné has a section on his website that describes the fun animation of flavor in Ratatouille. Traditionally animated motion graphics reminiscent of Fischinger. :-)

rat a too ee

Ratatouille opens today, somewhere close to you. A few years and many long hours in the making, it seems to be grabbing the imaginations of those who see it and pulling them gleefully along for a couple hours and leaving them full of wonder and that mythical thing called stuff. If you see it, enjoy. Don't forget, leave your ping pong balls at home. :-)

Recent sketches

Back into at the life drawing monkey business. It's a serious stint this time, as opposed to the intentionally experimental, all over the place drawings from the holidays (below). These are the better of the recent sketchbook drawings, as I try to gain a bit of control over the unforgivable gel pen. Larger drawings are catching up, with proportions still all over the place. Model names smudged for privacy, copyright me. don't redistribute, yada yada yada...

Make Your Own Gourmet Topless Pineapple (R)

Once upon a time, a friend and casting director of peeps related a handful of absurd farm market anecdotes. Among them was the tale of the gourmet topless pineapple, a sales pitch and a lie that has stuck in my head and developed into a recurring joke.

An improvisation, a three minute shooting schedule, and a couple hours of final cut later, we have a culinary documentary. Here it is on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_-lJ6RBcHQ

irritable maya dox

i just started playing with maya 8.5 and was passing though the api dox when i found this little bundle of happy-programmer joy:

"To do so would require computing the inverse of the local to world space transformation, and I have just been busy telling you we don’t know how to define that transform in general."

Editors??

water under the dwej

Fingers banging against the keyboard, cleaning up the mess left behind by the namesake of the old Americans. "Let's talk." This and that and that and this, profound and necessary but not relevant here. A walk to the kitchen, and a stall. A stream of water across the floor. A few more steps, deep in puzzlement. A large puddle of water. "We have water." Questions and puzzlement and puzzlement and questions. Phone calls and neighbor conversations. The start of The Mop Bucket. Arrival of the Kay Enn. Explorations and sawings and diggings and pumpings. Mop mop mop. Corrosion? Broken seal? Mop mop mop mop mop. Streaming and inching become running and puddling. Mop mop mop. All the while, explorations and much deeper puzzlement by the Kay Enn of the Dwej. Many more moppings, you know the repetition. Alas, a main has failed. Those in Morocco fare not well. We're keeping up. A promise from the big Tee Oh of arrival in a few hours. Splishing and splashing and mopping and squeegying. And even sweeping. Pause. Lettuce, hot peppers, lemon-soaked apples, and blackberries, under red wine and extra virgin. Play. Puddles to ponds, running to pouring. Verification of water spillage. The water off. Then back on, with the next powers that be to in "hours." Mopping and mopping and moving and stacking. More powers that be, diagnosing with a promise of the fourth powers of being arriving in a day. Stopping, accepting, und schlafenzeit.

a flattened face and unfished forms

pikk a tjurz! good, bad, and ugly!

draw rings

here's some fully lit, rendered 3d images from life drawing night this week. i've contemplated posting some online for over a year now. the irony is that i'm choosing a time of complete sloppiness, intentional mistakery, and experimentation. but it's fun. laugh, cry, moan, and be awed.

or trump your mother's purple mink jacket and collide into the sphere of your noggin.

The Dwej

Dude.  We live in the Dwej.  D.W.E.J.  Dovercourt-Wallace Emerson-Junction.  

http://www.toronto.ca/demographics/cns_profiles/cns93.htm 

bag balm

Bag Balm!

For bunches, caked bags, cuts, sore teats, chapping, and inflammation!

Strikes into the milk glands allaying irritation, relieving congestion and softening the tissues. IT heals the skin troubles and makes the teats soft and pliable. A few applications relieve the worst cases. Bag Balm is soothing, healing, and penetrating.

For sore teats and hard milkers, apply the balm one hour before the night milking and one immediately after the morning milking. For bunches in the bag, first use warm water with a cloth and when dry apply the balm with fingers and rub well with the palm of the hand for 15 or 20 minutes. This should be done night and morning.

For veterinary use only.