Patience short film trailer
The Louisiana Film Prize is one month away so I took the time to cut a quick trailer. I am putting the finishing touches on the film and am looking forward to festival weekend and will start to submit it to a few other festivals as well. After the short has gone...
Top 20 LA Film Prize
My live action short film Patience which I directed, edited, cinematography'd, acted, and all that jazz was just accepted into the Louisiana Film Prize's Top 20 and will be shown during the festival the first weekend in October! What that means: Grand prize is...
“Patience” short film in production
I've jumped in to the deep end. I'm producing/directing/writing/acting "Patience," a fictional narrative short film based on my experience with cancer. Today is one month from my last chemo treatment, but I'm determined to make this short film. I hope to make the Top...
Give Yourself Cancer
"Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything." Saul Bellow Lapidary maxims about lugubrious life events can be far removed from the actual experience of adversity. These phrases sound good and fancy, downright poetic at times, but are...
How Running Saved My Life
I have cancer. Specifically, I have diffuse large B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. I discovered I have cancer through running. Running My relationship with running began because I thought it would give me an edge on my high school football...
11 Second Club 3rd Place
Several of the Moonbot animators rallied together last month to do the 11 Second Club for April. Two of us finished and we placed second and third. http://www.11secondclub.com/competitions/april13 What I learned from winning...
HTC One Phone Review
UPDATE (12/2013): I have gone back to an iPhone. I was fed up with the many problems encountered with HTC One and their lack of support. Any time I would contact them, if their support page actually was working, their answer would be that I need to download a...
Kindle Paperwhite Review
I've owned a Kindle Paperwhite ereader for about 5 months now and I'm in love. I've increased the amount I read by one million percent, yea, that's pretty scientific. PROS Read more (on average Kindle owner's do) Highlight passage, saved in one location "My Clippings"...
Self-Portrait Setup
I was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and am undergoing chemotherapy which makes most people go bald, so I cut a mohawk. If I was going to lose my hair (which I have) I was going to lose it in style. If you were going to lose your hair, what kind of...
LEGO Duplo
I recently created 5 web videos for LEGO Duplo toys. Luckily, my family is the on-screen talent and I'm thankful they agreed to be the stars. This project was facilitated through Tongal.com of which I've been a contributing member for a few years. My set of videos...
Golem Kickstarter
Today kicked off Moonbot Studio's Kickstarter campaign for the Golem video game! Below you can see the kind of super-secret artwork that I see at work every day that we can now share. There's also other great projects rolling out, like we are finishing up animation on...
11 Second Club win
UPDATE: Interview with AnimSchool here UPDATE 2: eCritique by Jean-Denis Haas here I am very excited I won the 11 Second Club for December 2012! There were some great entries this last month and I did not expect to win. I first heard of the competition in school about...