» 20081101: Contact form's fixed... AGAIN.

To those of you that sent me a message using the form: Didn't get 'em. The form was working a-ok a few days ago, so go figure! It's fixed tho. Thanks for all the lovely, blank e-mails, tho! :1

» rene | 9:00 PM | [0] comments

» 20081029: Another Morning

Tohou ni kurete naiteta
Omocha uriba no sumi de ki ga tsukeba
MAMA no sugata wa kieteita
Shiranai hito ga yasashiku hanashikakete kureru kedo
Sonna no maru de kiichainakatta

Ima mo mada onaji yoku nita fuan ga tsukimatou
Taekirenai you na dekigoto wa tashika ni aru keredo

Donna ni sabishikutemo daremo mukae ni konai yo
Maigo no shirase ANAUNSU wa kakaranai
Tobira no mukou ni wa yakusoku nante nai
Demo ikou umare kawaru asa ga kita

Muchuu ni natte jitensha wo koide
Tooku no GURANDO he hashitta
Ano koro kimi to futari nori
Nani mo nakutemo tada tanoshii sonna mainichi datta na
Zutto kawaranai to omotteta

ARUBAMU no atsui PEEJI wo umete hohoenderu kao mo
Tooku hanarete chikagoro ja tegami sae konai kedo

Kyou wa atarashii boku no tanjoubi nan da
Kinen shashin wo torinaosu kara oide yo
Suteki na omoide wo utsusu rousoku wa kesanaide
Umare kawaru asa ga kita

Ima mo mada onaji yoku nita fuan ga tsukimatou
Taekirenai you na dekigoto wa tashika ni aru keredo

Donna ni sabishikutemo daremo mukae ni konai yo
Maigo no shirase ANAUNSU wa kakaranai
Tobira no mukou ni wa yakusoku nante nai
Demo ikou umare kawaru asa ga kita

Another morning!
Another morning!
Happy Re-birthday, yeah!
Oh, yeah!

(Translation here.)

» rene | 9:00 AM | [0] comments

» 20081018: P.S. Swag!



In case you were wondering what my favorite piece of swag was...

» rene | 9:38 PM | [0] comments

» : Create Chaos was a blast!

Goodness, am I actually writing more often now...? Naw... can't be.

So I went with Bender to Create Chaos on Thursday, and it was pretty bad-ass. Scott Belsky gave an eye-opening talk about taking ideas and focusing them into action. Sure, it was mostly a sales pitch for Action Method, but it had some pretty good advice, nonetheless. He had some pretty good tips for advertising action to yourself, which mostly translated into Post-It notes everywhere. Still, I took in a lot out of the talk.

I went into a particularly lame talk about "Designing Websites That Don't Look Like Websites". The topic was great; the speaker not so much. After the umpteenth "Uhhhhh...", I felt my IQ drop a full point. I need those points! I ducked into a Flash talk which was cool, but way too basic for me (Have you SEEN my website...?).

After grabbing some lunch, I went to Dr. Woohoo's talk, "AIR/SWF Photoshop/Illustrator: What Happens When They Talk?", which was ridiculous. Not only is he a pretty decent artist, but he manages to incorporate as much automation into his pieces, as possible, using ExtendScript to communicate actions into all sorts of Adobe programs. Proof of this feat is a video he made, The Enraptured Cranberry Jellyfish from Tokyo. The one thing he hand-made was that prawn-looking thing. The rest was pretty much automated using ExtendScript. I'm still curious as to how he rigged it all, but it looks awesome. Also, using "Nude" as the background music was pretty brilliant. "Don't get big ideas, now..."

So after having my mind blown, me and Bender headed off into the Expo floor, grabbing as many freebies as possible. There was this awesome chalk wall on the floor, and everyone was taking a shot at it. I drew the NFi Studios logo as best as I could, but my hands are NOT steady. Last but not least, I found some prime real estate on the side of the wall, sooooo...

Pics!






» rene | 7:44 PM | [0] comments

» 20081005: Say it ain't so, Joe!

So, the VP debate was pretty hilarious, ehhhhh? Ryan and I (grammar!) went over to Bender's for the VP debate, and decided it's be pretty fun to play a drinking game. The cues were:

1. Every time Joe says "train".
2. Every time someone drank.
3. Every time Palim said "I can see Russia from my backyard".
4. Every time they panned the camera towards Joe's hot daughter.
5. Every time someone mentions an unverifiable statistic.

That last one was the one that got us pretty liquored up! Thanks, Ryan! The Tuesday debate should be pretty fun. We'll make sure to include the cue "maverick".

» rene | 12:10 PM | [0] comments