Happy Holidays to all and one

Happy Holidays everybody in blogville!

The picture above was made with my new baby - CINTIQ - :D I need to think of a name for it... So if anybody has any ideas what to call an interactive pen device and make it sound cool - the address is on the back...

It is the night before christmas (yes, I did watch Nightmare before Christmas today) And yes, it is still awesome - i have to check every year - just incase it stops being. It's amazing to me how a film made in 1992 odd is still able to extert such a hold over the day before christmas to me... And I imagine to countless other folks too probably.

Anyways, around this time of year, people like to look back on the year that has been, and then turn around and look at the future, like a small woodland animal in traffic.

Personally, this last year has been pretty much full to bursting, in all kindsa ways... Professionally, I've seen my graduation, my first magazine interview, my first televised music video, my first reality television show appearance, my first film festival runs, my first national award, and I had my work on the big screen at Times Square in New York... It's been pretty nuts, but that's enough navel gazing from me.

So what i'm getting at really, is that next year has a lot of catching up to do...

But in the greater scheme of things, this year has been all about transition, and I feel much the same about my own little schemes.

If we look at the Obama election, the credit crunch, CERN, the Pirates in Somalia, the fall of the big 3 auto companies in the states, the rise of China post-Olympics... The thing that governs all, is transition. Things are being restacked and resorted and it is a very exciting; if slightly worrying time for everyone. And I guess it's just nice to feel a part of it. :P

So we shall see what happens when the big 2009 begins...

Best wishes to you and yours, and i'll see you on the other side.

MAtt

If you can - see 'The Orphanage', or 'Kung Fu Panda' - my favourite movies this year.

And so it was...

To begin. Here is a cool album cover i've just done for my little brother's band. I like it 'cause it reminds me of the 80's. And anything that reminds me of the 80's is cool by me.



( I'm talking 80's films, videogames and cartoons specifically. Not fashion. Definitely not fashion.) Although I hear shoulderpads are making a comeback...

Also in this week, the Engine Room finished, and a team was crowned victor. Well, they didn't actually get crowns... That would just be bizarre. Unfortunately it wasn't my team. We lost by a single point. To relive the heartbreak and creative toil go visit www.mtvengineroom.com

Or watch this:



this:



And for our final project, this:



It was a pleasure and a pretty cool time. The skills on display on the show were mind-boggling. I am still in awe. That's not the awwwww like: "how cute", but more the: "awe damn!" Proper reverence and impressed-ness. I made some wonderful friends and they all kick all kinds of asses. I shall add their blogs to the side thingy over there ----------------------------------------->

So you can see just how cool they are!

MTV ENGINEROOOMAGE

Good day there, oh people of the blog.

The following video is from episode 5 of MTV engine room; It's the team EUROPE
stop-motion animation short! This baby has been up on silly big screen at Times Square. Take that youtube. I unfurl my nostrils at you. But mainly 'cause I am a sucker for large format screens, so I guess it's nothing personal Mr inanimate popular web based video application.



and here is the episode:


Enjoy,

cant believe we won! woop woop
MAtt!

Matt make t-shirt. Matt kill t-shirt. Matt eat t-shirt.

So i've decided to design a t-shirt, and somewhere in the process i thought the digestive system would look cool on a t-shirt... Then after doing that, I thought... "hmmm, there's a reason that's kept -under- the skin" So i went about adapting it, 'cause it took ages to do anyway. And then somewhere down the road, Jules Verne got involved... Anyhow, this is what i got... And down to 8 colours too! I call it "Jules Verne's The Amazing Journey". Because lets be honest, who wouldn't want to a travel through a digestive system resembling Jules Verne's face...

Why adding -WERE- to the beginning of words is a fun thing to do.-

The words "were" and "wolf" are inherently unexciting. However, when combined, they form one of the coolest sounding words in the English Language: werewolf. Now I personally believe that there should be more 'were creatures' out there. So I went investigating...

And I heard that there is an old parable in the Pacific islands somewhere, where there was this fisherman dude, who like was out fishing and junk; and it might have been a full moon too, as that would make sense... But anyway, a shark creeped up and bit him. And then he became a wereshark. Which is awesome. Although I dunno if it was like one of those reverse Mermaid deeleys 'cause it would suck if he couldn't go into the village, with his top half being all sharky, or if he "turned" when he was still on land... He would just be flopping about the place! It would be ridiculous. So maybe it's not as good as werewolf, and you'd have to live on a beach, or keep a tank of salt water and secretly swaddle in it, on those full moon nights...

So what other awesome were creature combinations are out there? Well theres 'werebear', which is probably pretty ferocious; and most likely hangs about in caves. Ohh werebat, which is like a more hardcore version of batman. The 'weresquirrel' - the scourge of the forest. The 'wereninja' which is what every young man dreams of, where a ninja comes along one night, and bites you! And from then on... during the full moon, you have ninja powers.

My current favourite and one of my own design is 'wereT-rex'. Imagine that. You're driving along the empty, misty, freeway, in the dead of night. You pass a hitchhiker and flip the bird at him as you drive by... Yeah you're cool. You've got your "Bryan Adams" blasting out your stereo, s'all good baby... And then your car breaks down - put put put nnneeeeeoooo. And the fog rolls in- wooooooshhhhh... But the full moon is giving everything a gentle glow. Maybe even an owl hoot, does this need an owl hoot?The figure of the lowly hitchhiker you 'bird flipped', assembles out of the mists. Trouble is... He just keeps on assembling. And the next thing you know, there's a mutha flippin wereT-rex eyeballin' you up.

Now, there's a lesson to be learnt here... don't go messin' with time travel... and, Bryan Adams? Seriously?

The word 'were' is now also the reason I will no longer be visiting any retail parks as they are all full of werehouses... Now I know this is a ridiculous notion, but have you ever been in a retail park in the dead of night, when the moon high, and the place is deserted?

Well now that you've thought about it, then you probably agree on some base level, that that's a pretty scary situation to find yourself in to begin with. Now imagine all those werehouses surrounding you... You can't, can you? It's just too unsettling to comprehend. And lets not even get started on the logistics.

But i'll leave you with a final thought... What happens if a werewolf is bitten by a wolf? Or if a wereninja is bitten by another ninja in a ninja battle? Is it like typing google into google? (I hear this is where blackholes come from) Ooohhh wereblackhole.

In the beginning, Matt created a Blog.

It was a good blog, full of bloggy things where you could read about his thoughts, or at least some portion there of... Hopefully the good portion, although he/I can't make any promises.

I am relatively new to this apparent phenomenon, but I hear it's mad popular and jazzy cool.

The ground rules will be as follows... I will write stuff... And those will be the ground rules. And we can go from there, I figure that's a good place to start in this sort of venture...