Discovering Digital Media

Mobile Post. Woot.

So I’m on my way back to Toronto after my long easter weekend right now. It’s not been a bad weekend… But it has seemed short. At least I finished my layout for print class, and I’ll be submitting it via e-mail when I get home. I’ll also attach it to this post when I publish it. I had a lot of fun doing it, as it’s on Gorillaz… Which is just an all-around awesome subject. I’m slowly catching up on all my work, which is good. GRADUATION IMMINENT!

Unfortunately, graduating presents a slew of new problems. For instance, I’ll no longer be employed by the A/V department, and I’ll have to find a real job. Life is just beginning, which just as horrifying as it is exciting.

Speaking of Gorillaz, I’ve been enjoying a lot of Damon Albarn lately. The Good, The Bad, and The Queen is an excellent album. I’ve also been enjoying Beck’s Modern Guilt of late, which I got from Max in the summer. My favourite song from it is Youthless… I like it’s lyrics and beats a lot. I like music a lot… But I’m really bad  at describing what I like about it. Go me.

I’ve also been getting stomach pain of late… My side to my stomach was hurting all day Thursday, and I’ve had a weird stitch in what I can describe as under my lowest rib on my right side all day today. I kinda felt sick earlier because of it. I hope it’s nothing bad… The last thing I need right now is medical problems… I’ve gotta finish school!

Anyways, that’ll be all for now. Bye, nobody who reads this!

12 Page Book Layout

Tags: Beck, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Intro to Print, Job, Max, Sick

Success!

So I got my database’s address from my host’s support peeps… It’s funny that it wasn’t actually posted ANYWHERE within my account, database, or the host’s support files. Good thing I did ask. So now I’m messing with the forum’s theme.

Anyways… I’m also working on a 3D animation project where I have to animate an inanimate object acting alive. So far… I have my object selected and modeled, but not yet rigged to animate. I’ll probably post it when I’m done.

In other news, I’m bored in class and blogging. We’re watching a thing on the making of Pan’s Labyrinth, which is a little creepy. I have yet to see that movie. I’m trying to do a bit of cleanup work on my computer right now, and it’s nothing exciting either… so it’s hard to decide which to pay attention to. I’m listening to this live Incubus song from their Look Alive DVD bonus CD called Punch Drunk. I really like this song, because it highlights the fact that Brandon Boyd is still a great vocalist and frontman, despite the vocals in this song not being that good… it kind of brings forward a kind of honesty in the song for me. I think WordPress will actually allow me to add music…

Incubus – Punch Drunk (Live in Chicago) [Bonus Track]

Sweet deal.

It’s fun actually taking time to experiment with WordPress and PHPBB. Unfortunately, as Kim said to me today I should be working on my 3D and my Career Prep work first. Ah school… telling me I should be doing things on the side to learn, but then consuming all my time. -_-;

Tags: 3D Animation, Incubus, PHPBB, Web, WordPress

First Blog Post

Welcome to my new blog.

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Kind of a generic opening, don’t you think? Well I do. Either way… I hope I end up keeping this more updated than previous blogs. This blog will (hopefully) document my dabblings with digital media and (also hopefully) my eventual entry into the industry. It will also cover some things going on in my personal life, like the video games I’m playing, the books I’m reading, the music I’m listening to, and the TV shows, movies, and anime I watch.

Currently I am a student at Seneca College, specifically its’ School of Communication Arts in the Digital Media Arts program. I’m in my third semester now, and the work is heavy. Fun stuff, though. I’m also working as a lab monitor for the A/V Department there, which seemed like an easy job at first but is quickly becoming busier as the end of the semester approaches.

Anyway, that’s a sort of taste of what sort of life I lead at the moment… well not including a lot of the other stuff, but that’s why this is a blog documenting my foray into the digital media industry and not a blog about “the other stuff”. You get it. Any posts to do with personal things will be password protected. WordPress is great. I only have to manage one blog!

At some point I will bring in all my old posts from my old blog, Discovering Digital Media Arts. If possible (I’m still learnin’ WordPress) they’ll appear on a separate page linked from the main one. Look for it.

Tags: College, Job, WordPress