It's My Birthday!

Thanks to the MySpace message from:

Jefe aka Johnny Chiba

who bothered to download one of my pictures and remixed it into a cool animated gif. I'm liking it... so good he posted it twice.

I got a new digital camera for my birthday. And by new I mean my first, as I have at long last let go of film. OK I'll I'll still be shooting with my Lomo, let's not get drastic; but needless to say expect more shots of Tokyo around here soon.

It's My Birthday!

Thanks to the MySpace message from:

Jefe aka Johnny Chiba

who bothered to download one of my pictures and remixed it into a cool animated gif. I'm liking it... so good he posted it twice.

I got a new digital camera for my birthday. And by new I mean my first, as I have at long last let go of film. OK I'll I'll still be shooting with my Lomo, let's not get drastic; but needless to say expect more shots of Tokyo around here soon.

Illustration Friday: "Red"

Illustration Friday: "Red"

Batocera Lineolata

The top two images are wholy inadequate shots taken on my cameraphone, the next two were 'borrowed' from www.insects.jp. This is a godzilla-proportioned insect I found at a train station when I lived out of the country, out here in Japan. I thought it was an over-sized toy replica until it started walking up the window and eating all the spiders. A google search finds that they can come even bigger, as seen in photos 3 and 4. Unfortunately there is nothing to show the scale of the wee bietie in mt shots, but it really was surprisingly huge. The eyes in the 3rd photo are amazing. Respect to whoever picket that monster up! Not for the squeemish.

www.insects.jp

Batocera Lineolata

The top two images are wholy inadequate shots taken on my cameraphone, the next two were 'borrowed' from www.insects.jp. This is a godzilla-proportioned insect I found at a train station when I lived out of the country, out here in Japan. I thought it was an over-sized toy replica until it started walking up the window and eating all the spiders. A google search finds that they can come even bigger, as seen in photos 3 and 4. Unfortunately there is nothing to show the scale of the wee bietie in mt shots, but it really was surprisingly huge. The eyes in the 3rd photo are amazing. Respect to whoever picket that monster up! Not for the squeemish.

www.insects.jp

Disney Going Back to the Drawing Board

From CINEMATICAL via DIGG:

Disney animation is now putting a stop to the CGI addiction and returning to a more traditional drawing plan.

This change, just announced today by John Lasseter and Ed Catmull, will take place in Walt Disney Co.'s Burbank studios, leaving Pixar to exclusively work onCGI projects.

full story here.