Dolla Billz & Funky Filmz

I know

2011-03-22T16:47:00.000-07:00

I know it's been a minute. but I just wanted to share this track I made hanging out with Dan Matic. dude let me freak his equipment and I made this.

Sunday Nite Slpops by OhSo

I had lots of fun.

Arts and Music

2009-06-17T13:30:00.000-07:00

So here's some of the designs I had for silk screens. I put these together for the purpose of uploading.

I like how they all came out, which is why I wanted to upload them.

Last night I had a good drawing sesh with B-Moody, DeAndre, Daniella, Allegra, with a momentary appearance of Daniel a.k.a. Nez. I need to scan the drawings and put em up here. should have probably done that before hand.

So hopefully I get more consistent with uploading which means I will try to make stuff to upload.

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So I have been doing some music hunting lately, after Prefuse 73's

Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
and then Guillermo Herron ALSO released a cd with the drummer from Hella, Zack Hill

Diamond Watch Wrist
as well as Passion Pit's

Manners
I decided to find some more music, never too much music.

With Passion Pit being the most recent, some of the new music has been around the same genre.

First we have Black kids - Partie Traumatic

This album is actually a year old, but I'm glad I found it. Here's two songs from that album
(embeded was disabled on these videos...lame)

Black Kids - Look At Me (When I Rock Wichoo)

and

Black Kids - Hurricane Jane

really catchy music, a little bit off sometime, but good listening and dancing music. also another old cd I found was from 2007 from a group called Hail Social

Hail Social - Heaven

not as good as Black Kids but I thought I'd share.

Something a little more abstract and instrumental, I found Caural, which made beats for Diverse. Good music, but I couldn't find any good videos on youtube. you want, look up Caural - Make Us Invisible. One of his better songs.

Last but not least, I found out that Guillermo Herron (Prefuse 73) Produced a new group called VoicesVoices, which consist of two Canadian gals whom can really play some instruments. Their CD will be released sometime late august or early septembre, so keep an eye out. Here's a video of a rough cut of a song off of their previous E.P. before teaming up with Herron. I can definitely see the potential.

that's it for now. I've been Steaming some Beef for about 4 hours that I had marinating for about 2 days before and it smells awesome. We are making chimichangas tonight. and they will be the best in the world. Just gotta make the rice and cook some ground beef.

I Promise

2009-06-12T02:33:00.000-07:00

First and fore most I'd like to thank all that took the time to vote for my t-shirt design. It didn't win anything, but there's a lot of talent at designed by humans that I underestimated.

The semester ended nicely, lots of work created and I now have a sketchbook that I made which I am afraid to draw in. It feels like going back and adding to an old drawing, or like teaching an old dog new tricks. So for now I'm gonna have to put it away for a bit before I'm ok with drawing in it.

Been getting shit together, and I swear there is artwork to be shown, but the internet I am stealing keeps crapping out on uploads to blogger.

I do plan on revamping my blog up and at least keeping up with people's blogs. I never put people's blogs on my RS feed so I always have to go to people's individual pages.

well, it's almost 5 am so I'll leave you guys with this bit of humor;

Chola Make-Up

Help A Brotha' Out!

2009-04-30T07:37:00.000-07:00

Yo peeps. this is some shameless advertising and hopefully gets you guys to vote for me!

I submitted a design to Designed By Hümans . com

Take 5

Go there and vote please!

It's a design I still haven't uploaded up here officially which lets you peep into some of the stuff I have been holding back on. There's 4 more other designs but I'm giving this one a test run since money is a possibility.

so pleeeaaassseee. help me maybe find a way to pay for college next semester! lol. fo real though. throw me some love!

thanks in advance,
with all my love and care,
from gansta' to gansta',
human to human,
college student to college student,

sin-serrrrr-lee,
- OCL

p.s. summer is coming up, I gonna really try to be more active this time. so those whom I need to catch up on, lets have some coffee, or late night cold ones.

Birf

2009-02-16T16:38:00.000-08:00

Hopefully today I have proven that I am wiser. a better person than I was a year from now, and hopefully much more of everything since my years past. I am officially "grown," which to me only means that the fun of gathering booze is gone and it's no longer a struggle.

unfortunately I feel like there is much more I should have gathered, and found out about myself. I feel like what ever test I was given: especially as I journeyed to complete my 21 years of life, was still not passed.

but life goes which means problems and answers come and go but I just have to make sure I keep gathering and learning the most I can of everything.
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on a more productive note, I feel like I HAVE been doing alot, just not much to show for it..yet. but it's there, and that has kept me going.
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Soon I will start sharing my ridiculous experiences at walgreens. I just can't believe how dumb some of the poeple that walk into the store can get.

DANG

2009-02-09T09:52:00.000-08:00

" The result is that a thousand years later we can read poems that remain absolutely accurate and moving descriptions of our most common and central experiences: love and loss, their reflections in the loveliness and transience of the natural world, and the effort to better understand the nature of being. We turn to these poems not to discover the past, but in order to experience the present more deeply. In this way they satisfy the test of any great literature, for it is our own lives we find illuminated in them."
- Jane Hirshfield

this is probably the only bit of text that has honestly just left me in awe, especially coming from a reading for a class. just thought I'd share. Might not seem as cool to those of you which read more than me, but it's nice. plus it defends poetry pretty well.

I will update later with an actual update on my life.

2008-11-09T00:45:00.000-08:00

What is going on guys? everything/everyone seems so distraught lately. all sorts of people around me. myself at times. more and more I see people just struggle day by day. who knows. I try my best to believe in the new day and put yesterdays troubles behind me for the greater good.

to all in deep frustrations, just take a deep breath and remember that this is only a moment in life and not your life itself. it helps me, so that's what I have to give as advice.

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I've been busy busy busy. walgreens keeps eating up my time. and no matter how much of that green I generate, all of it is gone to bills and all sorts of debt. frustrating, but hopefully one day I will be back to a good balance. ever since they changed me to night shifts, my scheduling has been rough, I tend to stay up. but after work, most of it is spent fucking around not really making much of anything, and then I get up too late to do much before I have to be at work again. I've got a list of projects that need to get done, and hopefully I can eventually start using my time better.

I am still an artist and you best believe I at least get a daily doodle in. though most of it is at work, so I end up throwing it away. but maybe I should keep em. we'll see.

not much else to update. just to let you guys know I'm still alive just trying to keep myself above ground.

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also to my fellow fake-humans, check this collective out. Cadaver Esquisito beautiful work.

peace brah's and brah'ettes

and it's caught up.

2008-09-30T20:51:00.000-07:00

Being out of school is hard. I feel that no matter how hard I'm trying to keep myself grounded, I find myself in quicksand. sometimes I can't keep my chin up. sometimes I just let myself drown in the pools of self-pitty and self-doubt. I try to keep myself going, but knowing that for the most part of my teenage and young adult life was spent doing art because that's where my thoughts swam, and finding myself now trying to be the best at fuckin' walgreen's. where have I gone, or where am I going? Projects have kept me going, but with my fluctuating self-motivation, the lack school has left me dancing on top of fire.

yeah yeah, I shouldn't be a little bitch about it, but I can honestly say that I am not professionally mature to keep myself going in a way that best works with my schedule. Maybe I am, maybe I am just now feeling sorry for myself.

I don't want to be " that guy" that once had a direction. I want to make best of my situation, sometimes I just can't. that's all. because money will be money, and I will always need it, sometimes I wish to never be rich. but what I never want to lose is myself.

yeah I feel bad, can ya blame me?

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that's it, nothing more, nothing less, just in need of a little venting.

Now to finish this Fauxmostatious Two Page Spred. THAT'S RIGHT NYUKKAS. two page spred.

some ear candy

2008-09-20T21:09:00.000-07:00

I broke my old headphones yesterday. I was pretty bummed and I'm kinda sad that I won't be able to listen to my music like that for a while. so I was looking for some replacements and am still looking, if anyone has a good suggestion for decent headphones at a good price let me know. I wish I had the cash to get these bad boys though:

check it

that's pretty much it, computer and desk speakers will do fine for now.

Updates on Life

2008-09-16T18:43:00.000-07:00

So, I withdrew myself from school today due to financial problems. really sucks, but the more I dwell on it the less I get to use this time of reflection and possibility.

Since I'm no longer in school, I am working full time at walgreen's. Then on the off time I am working assignments for my own good/ working on a new reel. I plan on putting together a good real to apply to the disney apprenticeship program.

I'm also working on the comic collective project. some of you may already know, but for those that don't. Go here and drool over the fruits of the Fauxmosapien Collective.

Speaking of which, here is the recent addition I've made to the collective:

and then there are these two sketches of classmates.

Evan Tedlock

Liz Long

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I hope everything keeps going better than nothing. I know things will get back on track eventually. I'm a patient man.

gah

2008-07-14T01:06:00.000-07:00

who knows. mexico will be a nice break.

been working al walgreen's. it's actually been fun. my boss is actually pretty cool. hopefully all sets well. but sometimes I feel like the world doesn't know when to stop taking itself so seriously. let numbers and statistics keeps the stress and lets keep our tangibility as the variable.

I wish the scanner at home worked. have a couple of things that need to be scanned.

I need to put up my part for the fauxmosapien project.

I guess so

2008-06-08T23:30:00.000-07:00

I think I'm just tired of people. I kinda want to just lay low. or something. but I think in general, I just feel like I don't really want to react to anyone's presence. I dunno, it's dumb, but I'll get out of this slump.

dammit!

2008-05-31T00:33:00.000-07:00

just when I thought I dodged the draft and made it to greater living, scott peters is no longer gonna be at KCAI and now I only hope that we don't have to learn from liz again.

this summer is starting off with all sorts of bad news.

dang, so lets reflect

2008-05-24T21:56:00.000-07:00

lets get a little serious.

so I got my end of semester review from my professor.

nothing I didn't already know was mentioned, but with that said it is obvious that need to think about things out loud, or at least as far as this blogger goes, which can be pretty far sometimes.

here's the deal, I am attending Kansas City Art Institute's School of Design to major in Animation. when I first applied here, I checked off Illustration first, then Animation second. With the removal of the Illustration program and the fact that I really wanted to be an animator. Now, I chose animation because I feel like illustration is something I can always maintain on the side, but when the tough gets going and push comes to shove, my haven from animation turns to the pleasure of focussing on one single image, creating stroke after stroke. when I am in my liberal arts classes, I doodle, I don't bust out some sheets of papers and animate. Maybe it's just the flexibility of illustration that catches me; It doesn't demands of me more then I demand of it. Maybe it's because I'm new to animation.

The other side is that I don't think in single images. Sometimes I wish on creating a film that shows visuals exactly how I think about them. When I think of a character I let if struggle in my mind for it's own meaning, imagining how it is gonna fumble around and move. I think that's where my drive to animate comes in. I want to create, and sometimes that part of me doesn't get satisfied till I see something move, something I experienced for the first time this school year. I didn't even want to say it at first but it felt like I was God giving life. That was a feeling that I know was worth all the frames.

So what is my problem? I don't know, I can't decide. Granted, there's a possibility in character design and development, but is that really it? I don't know, but sometimes it sounds right sometimes it doesn't. Maybe next year, when I feel like animations isn't such a foreign thing. or maybe I should just animate, and see how that goes. That's what logic tells me, but through my "Hiatus" I've been doodling and working on a drawing in photoshop.

who knows. lets see this one out. for my own sake, I need to focus, and learn to channel what I want faster. because I know it's there, I feel like it is, I see that it is, but the connection from mind to paper is never really as ready as I want it to be.

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way to break the place in huh? this is just me, feel free to ignore. I just need to get this out of my system.

Hiatus Must

2008-05-24T21:19:00.000-07:00

right now I'm taking a break. I need room to do some summer cleaning in the old noggin' so just hanging around. I'll post some stuff soon.

working on a character. I think it's essential.

so this marks the beginning of this blog. lets take this idea for a run. I think that sounds like a good plan.