The New Mint o Money

Just a quick little blurb today. I decided to start using that potatosheep stamp I got for some practical purposes. The main one of which is....stamping money! I will stamp money before I spend it...Oh the advertising potential. Here's an example I scanned in:








Well, that's all for now, I'll probably post something tomorrow if I'm not too busy doing all the homework we were assigned over the break >:C...which I conveniently put off until the last day of the break...oh well.

Stupid Video Corrupting Idiots. Why Oh Why?

I'm simultaneously elated and POed. I finally found a video I've been looking for in a full length version for years, Nine, an 11 minute animation by Shane Acker about a ragdoll sort of creature named Nine, and his mentor Five. *Spoiler warning if you're gonna watch the embedded vid. Also, it is highly advised that you turn off or down the sound when you watch the video...* The ragdoll creature things are trying to escape from a metal cougar-like construct. The cougar robot thing hunts the ragdolls and kills them, so it can trap their soul in a green glowy talisman it wears on a necklace. The ragdolls have the other half of the talisman contraption, which glows green at the approach of the cougar robot. Nine and Five are the only ragdolls left in a sort of vast junkyard landscape filled with bizarre contraptions and random junk. After Nine whitenesses the cougar thing kill Five and take his soul into the necklace Nine takes action and sets up a trap for the beast. After killing the the cougar and taking the necklace, Nine realizes that the necklace piece and the other green glowing thing that the ragdolls have fit together. Once they are placed together they release the souls and they go to rest.
That's the good news...However, someone decided to randomly totally defile the video and put extremely disturbing sound clips in the background...which ruined the entire thing. Thankfully, the video does not contain any dialog only sound, so it can be watched and still understood without sound. However, the sound effects and the like are simply superb and it's rather a waste to not be able to watch it with them without hearing freakish noise in the background. I'll embed the video, though I highly recommend watching it without the sound on.

On a completely different note, I am not the proud owner of Halo: Combat Evolved for PC. I finally managed to locate it on the Target website and order it with my gift card. Why I couldn't find it before I don't know...Anyways, it should get here on Monday or so, so that'll be a grand day for explosions, aliens and violence. I still have a bit left on the gift card however, so I'm contemplating what other game to get that I don't have, or what I might need from there (well, want).
At the moment I'm trying to think of something to animate. I've just been doing practice drawings/animation lately, but nothing that is going to turn into a real, full length extravaganza that I want it to. I'm probably gonna end up making some sort of music video. I've been thinking of either Cottoneye Joe or Levas Polka, the thought to animate these is most likely inspired in some subconscious way through these two videos:

and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQlr6YB2anQ
Alright, I've run out of steam for now. I'll probably be putting up something or other on new years on Potatosheep. Happy holidays, even though they're almost over:'(.

Stalkers, Doodles and Serial Killers Oh My!

Well, I don't really have anything of value to say, so I'll blather on about random stuff and post a few doodles. That was a warning by the way.
So, I'm being stalked. I thought this would be a nice way to start off the post, and believe or not, it's true. I'm being stalked by a random paranoid kid I know who for some reason has decided to make it his mission to ruin my life. He has tried to accomplish this through various methods including: intimidation, rumor spreading and threats...I'm sure he's a nice kid under all the violence, insecurity and need to control everything that moves. His newest method is apparently stalking me through this, and my website. I'm not sure exactly what this will achieve, but no doubt he has yet another twisted plan forming in his sadistic brain.
On a lighter note, here's a doodle I made while in a very odd mood.



















*sigh* As if there wasn't already enough proof that I have a twisted mind on here already...
I'm not sure exactly what inspired this. Possibly (well, probably) the Milkman Conspiracy level in Psychonauts, in which you have to fight a random motheresque lady who throws god's eyes at you. Yes, that's probably it...
In other news, I updated my site with lots of stuff that just got submitted by Yhtomit, who is a user on Potatosheep. He hasn't submitted anything in a while, but he more than made up for it with his Shortened Shakespeare animations, in which he condensed Shakespeare plays into less than a minute animations. They are quite entertaining, you can see them here:
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar

Meerrrrryyyy Christmas!!!

Aaaahhh, Christmas. Good times. I think my stomach is about to shrivel up and die....too many chocolates for me. Today was a good day in general, not much happened, besides of course the gift giving/getting and the like. I mainly sat at the computer like the tech junkie that I am. I don't have a cell phone OR Zune(I'm anti-mac) however, and I don't want either, so I don't consider myself to be a complete tech zombie. I'll be the only one with decent hearing and no tumors in 40 years....burn suckers:P.

Onto matters of business. This Christmas I got a rather massive number of gifts. I received:

The full collectors edition of Calvin and Hobbes! Much great reading ahead:)

Gipf, a very fun strategy game. I tried it out today and found it extremely entertaining.

A hologram maker. In the picture the pig looks material, but if you try to grab it...lo and behold, your hand slips through!

A wooden mannequin, like the kind they use in art stuff. I'm going to try to use it for animation stuff probably.

A Potatosheep stamp. I can now stamp "potatosheep.com" onto just about anything! I'm going to start putting it on all my homework from now on...

An account at our local grocery. It's not so much a grocery, as a place where all the local bakery's foods are sold. It also has a wide selection of fruit/veggies/bulk stuff, but I mainly go there for a good bread roll, a sweet pastry and a soda. Ahhh, heaven.

A very nifty secret box thing. It has a slat on the side you slide back, revealing a small buttonesque thing. when that is pushed, a drawer slides out of the front. I like it quite a bit.

Juggling pins. I have been an avid juggler for a few years, which is what inspired this gift. I tried them a little today, and boy are they hard to get used to!

A remote controlled helicopter. Can't really steer it, but that makes it all the more fun!

A quite nice drawing kit to go with the mannequin, several high quality pencils, and some nice paper too. Ah yes, and a good sharpener! Those things are hard to come by.

A gift card to Target. Still deciding what I'm gonna get. I wouullddd get Halo 2 for PC but nooooo, it requires Vista!:@

A tie-die T-shirt.

A model F-15C model airplane. I need to get some glue for it however.

Well, I believe that concludes the list of Christmas takings, sorry to anyone if they got left out, I apologize. Anyways, merry Christmas everyone! Happy holidays! All that commercialist rubbish to support the economy!

Aagh! The Complexity! It Burns!

Today I remembered a certain tutorial I had saved in my bookmarks a while ago. I only understood about a quarter of it when I read it first, and now I understand about half...The tutorial was created by the makers of N, an amazingly complex game from the programming aspect. The tutorial is AMAZING if you can understand it, which I only sort of can. The tutorial can be found here: http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/tutorials/tutorialA.html

Life, Death and Sledding in the Great Outdoors

Today was a day of sledding. My friend and I went up to Lolo Pass, on the border of Montana and Idaho. The snow there is about 8 feet deep and super powdery. After nearly dieing several times over and completely numbing our faces from snow spray, we headed to a nearby gas station place for a basket of fries. Almost absolutely nothing else happened today besides that I watched an episode of Planet Earth on DVD, which was quite entertaining. For lack of something to say, I'll embed a series of Youtube videos my good friend Nic and I made. Behold in all it's glory: Count Macadame.


Here is episode one, a complete failure in the filming and acting department. We made this on a Saturday, or possibly Friday night when we had absolutely nothing else to do:

Here is the second episode, we made this immediately after the first one. It isn't quite as horrible, besides the fact that we didn't bother to edit any of the mistakes or screw ups we made out:

Here is the third episode, it was made several weeks or so after the first and second. This one, unlike the others, did not have 10 tips. The only real good part in this one is the ending tip:

Here is the fourth, and for now, final episode. The guest star is a friend of Nic's. I personally consider this one to be the best, mainly because of the part right before the credits:

Well, if you bothered to actually watch all of those, then you probably got a pretty good sense of where the term "idle hands are the devils workshop" came from. I'll probably be uploading/embedding more of my random junk sooner or later.

First There Was Nothing...Then There Was Boredom

Well here it is, the blog. Don't expect much of it, 'cause I don't really produce enough or have enough to say to update regularly. I'll most likely be posting a bunch of random crappy doodles I randomly draw on here, but that'll probably be it.
In other news I purchased and downloaded Psychonauts through Steam. So far I've loved it besides the 2001 or whenever graphics. The only drawback is that it sometimes tells you things that you needed to know, after you needed to know them. They could have used the Portal tutorial designers on it...badly.
In other other news, our neighbors kitty corner to us have decided to have a small fireworks party for no apparent reason. I was sitting staring at my computer like a pasty white zombie when i heard a sort of crackling...I figured it was our cat scratching on the door, cause she sounds like a burning roll of caps, but when I looked out of our kitchen window I beheld a flickering light on the hill across from us, the flickering light being a fountain. I was still halfway in my undead computer trance, so I just stared at the thing for the full three minutes or so it went. It's still embedded on my eyes...
Anyways, that's all that I've got for now, I'll probably update sometime soonish, at the very least on Christmas. Congratulations on wasting a good few minutes reading this, and to all happy holidays.