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This white-washing has gotten ridiculous.  

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Sorry I've been pretty quiet lately, I've spent the last week moving from the Washington DC area to Gainesville Florida to work as a concept artist for Trendy Entertainment.  It's been a pretty awesome experience so far.  Gainesville is pretty much a college town, so it's been easy adjusting to the new life.  I really like the job and the people I work with, and I'm pretty much in love with the new apt.  All in all it's been hectic though and I still don't have my internets up and running at home, hopefully when that's set up I'll have some arts to post.  Hope all's well for you guys.

Red Cross Donations, not just necessarily for Japan:

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I haven't talked much about my blog here on DA, mostly because I post the same stuff here that I post on there.  

   I'm doing something a little different now.

  I'm starting to post little autobiographical comics on my blog, which will not be going up here.  I'm also going to post more sketches and doodles on there too, so if you're interested in seeing that stuff, check it out:

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So and turned me on to this new British show called Sherlock, and it's fucking awesome.  It's basically a modernized Sherlock Holmes created by Steven Moffat (current showrunner for Doctor Who) and Mark Gatiss (a dude who's been in stuff).  The cast is amazing, the writing is amazing, the photography is amazing. Just do yourself a favor and watch it.

    I can't think of a good segue, but I'm itchin to make a new animation Viz Dev portfolio with the spare time I don't have, and I'm thinking of doing concept art for a fairy tale of some kind.  Any recommendations or favorites? Preferably ones Disney has not touched.

Oh and it's 2011.  Hooray for holidays and naive resolutions.

Oh P.S.  How do you mess with the skins on these journals?

This guy was one of my professors when I was in school and has since become a friend.  He's an awesome artist and an even better storyteller, and every conversation I have with him almost always ends up with me learning something new.  I'm glad to say that he's finally been convinced to join DA, so go click on this link and favorite everything in his gallery while you can.

You should be aware of this.  I don't feel one way or another about it, but I think people should know:

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I was checking DA today and was totally overwhelmed by the staggering amount of messages! It took me a sec to realize that I got my first DD, which is awesome!  

Thanks to the DA community for that honor, for the kind words, and most importantly for the llama badges!

I got the Art of Tangled and the Art of Megamind this week, and both of these books are awesome! The Art of Tangled is worth the money for Glen Keane's sketches ALONE, never mind all the incredibly beautiful renderings and interesting insight into the design process.  If you've got the money, these are both more than worth the price!

I'm looking at the art of Darksiders next but I'm curious if any of you have checked that one out? Thoughts?

First I want to say thanks to all you awesome people for making me feel all warm and fuzzy inside on my birthday, I really appreciate that kindness!

I saw a few other people post journals like this, and I feel like I should probably do something similar:

I want to apologize to all of you in the form of that obligatory "I'm sorry for not posting" journal.  I feel like it's a rite of passage here on deviantart, and unfortunately like many artists here, I've hit that point where all the art I'm doing is for work and for clients and I can't show any of it.

When I'm not working, I'm spending all of my time trying to learn about writing and storytelling as I develop a personal project I've been working on for the last couple of months.  Hopefully I'll have something to show by early next year for that.

Thanks again for the birthday wishes, for your patience, and I'm honored by the surge of new watchers!

If you're in the D.C area on the weekend of January 14th, you should really stop by to check out this convention.  

What is it?  Here's an excerpt from the website : Gigacon is an educational based, multimedia convention sponsored by The Art Institute of Washington (Aiw). We incorporate many of the majors at the AiW, such as; Media arts and Animation, Game Art, Graphic Design, Audio Production, Fashion, and many more. And we try our best to bring in professionals from each of those fields. Students, as well as faculty members, and outside visitors gain knowledge, tips, and tricks from the professionals at Gigacon.


Some of the folks that will be attending:

Humberto Ramos

Joe Benitez

Brian Stelfreeze

...and MORE.  This is the second time around for the con, which means it's still starting out, it's smaller, and it's WAY more intimate.  You'll have more time to get really thorough critiques from these masters of art, and there's time to actually hold conversations with these guys, which you unfortunately don't really get at the massive conventions like SDCC, where there are a thousand distractions every 7 seconds.  There's more info on the website, including a more comprehensive list of the guests that'll be attending.

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I've recently discovered that the following things are awesome:

-  Firefly

-  Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog

-  Battlestar Galactica (not done yet)

-  Blacksad

-  putting your socks in the dryer over and over when it's cold and the heater isn't in the mood to do its job

-  Louis CK's stand up

-  Smodcast

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I thought this was really cool.  Anyone running any kind of game/animation/whatever else company should probably take a look at this.

I guess I never remembered to make a journal thingie about this.  I really just created my twitter account to fanboyfollow other creators and awesome artists, but I'm sloowwwwwly starting to post on it from time to time.

If you're looking for happiness and/or sexual satisfaction, follow me:

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*EDIT* I tried to link my twitter account to my deviantart and realized that you have to be one of those cool kids to do it.

A friend of mine started this blog where he talks about a lot of things that I can't afford because I'm poor.  If you're less poor than me, this might interest you.

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If you like it, make sure you leave comments mentioning my name.  That way he'll buy me beers which will let me forget that I'm poor

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I'll copy and paste the article's list of directors and description:

    "* Tony Scott (recently of Unstoppable — it's like a missile the size of the Chrysler building!)
    * Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In)
    * Jonathan Liebesman (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Clash of the Titans 2)
    * Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code)
    * Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300, Sucker Punch)"

I think for most people, it's really coming down to Zack Snyder and Duncan Jones.  My vote is Duncan Jones.  I just saw Moon and it punched me in the face with emotion.  That movie showed Duncan Jones' ability to handle character, and that's something I think Zack Snyder isn't too great with.  Go watch Moon if you haven't seen it, it's really good.

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FUCK someone needs to do this movie properly.  I actually don't think you can really make a Dune movie, but whatever.  I'd still geekgasm all over the place if they made a decent one.

*EDIT* I just saw who's writing and directing and I really hope this movie doesn't get made.

Being a huge fan of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's work on Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, I decided to check out Spaced.  Spaced is a sitcom about twenty-something year olds written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, and directed by Edgar Wright.  It's got a shitload of movie/geek references (Simon Pegg's character is an aspiring comic book artist) and it's 14 episodes of fucking awesome.   

You can really tell that it's made by a group of friends who are writing a lot of themselves in the characters, and that makes it hard not to care about them.  The ending of the last episode totally got me emotional as hell.  It's not that the ending is depressing or anything, but the finality of it just kinda leaves you feeling sad and makes you as a viewer wish you could hang out with these guys just a little longer(and musical montages at the end of good shows will ALWAYS work on me).  Every artist and child of pop culture should go buy this show right now.  



Seriously, EVERYTIME I watch that last montage...

Scott Pilgrim was fucking awesome.