Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

I recently uploaded a little experimental film of mine called "Square Lights". It was created to see how sound can transform a simple abstract grid of color. If your brain sees an image moving and there is a sound synced up with it correctly, you usually don't question it. I ran with this idea, mashed some interesting sounds together, and came up with this.

I stumbled across the video below today, and it really inspired me to start doing some stop motion work again. After working in drawn animation for a while, it is fun to just pick up a camera and make animation on the fly. It can be a lot less calculated and more intuitive. This video below is by two street artists Limow and Sam3.

I love how much you can get away with, by just doing simple replacement animation. This is one of the cooler stop motion pieces I have seen in a while.

I am looking for more festivals to submit "Bookkeeper of the Universe" to. Any suggestions?

I have been spending a lot of time recently climbing mountains. I am 7 Mountains into my conquest of the NH 48 4,000 ft mountains in a seasonal winter. My buddy Sean and I have been spending most of our weekends up there trying to accomplish this feat. It looks like it may be actually possible to do. Recently we have been only going on trips where we can only bag one peak. We are going to have days soon where if lucky, we can bag 3 or 4 summits. Yeah! It is a lot of fun climbing mountains in the winter. It truly feels like you are on another planet (hoth). It is a good way to test your limits. Here is a couple pictures from our adventures.

Here I am on the summit of Mount Liberty. I received the 10 commandments shortly after.

Summating the summit sign of Moosilauke.

Sean and I trying to navigate our way to the top of Cannon. Frosty.

That is it for now. More to come later.