Acorn Craft!

I found some acorns earlier this week.  About to make some finger puppets or something equally cute and amazing out of the little caps...this is the result of the first attempt which became a gift for my Grandfather's 80th Birthday. 

Ken and Joan Steacy

My friend's folks are conducting some courses soon at Max the Mutt Animation School. Ken Steacy is a well known in his field for comic illustration and won Joe Shuster award in 2009. If you've been following my blog you may remember I posted earlier about him helping with the Desert Bus children's charity. I've seen some of Joan's work too. Both are amazing artists and are very fun and friendly.

Intro to Graphic Storytelling with Ken and Joan Steacy
http://www.maxthemutt.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/09/intro-to-graphic-storytelling/#more-1582

Visual Story Telling with Joan Steacy:
http://www.maxthemutt.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/12/visual-story-telling-with-joan-steacy/#more-1602

Please pass this on to anyone you know that might be interested.

Last week I volunteered at the NXNE (North by North East) Festival in the interactive and film portions of the event.  It was really fun and I met some really cool people there.  The interactive days were very similar to FITC in type of presentations and panels.  My interest in the National Film Board of Canada and a dream of producing animated shorts that help spread awareness on things like human rights and other good causes was addressed in a few of the sessions I saw there.  I heard about youphonics.com and obtained access to try it out.  No doubt I'll be blogging again if it's as cool as it sounds. 

Out of the film area I most enjoyed the films Year of the Carnivore and Suck.  Both were very funny and with director in attendance.  It was good to talk with some of them after the show.  There was an after party for all the volunteers before the main party and more chance to network.

All of the great people that coordinated and helped to make it run smoothly were pretty awesome at what they do.  I'm looking forward to next year.

Women at FITC WINNER!!!

Women at FITC Contest Entree

This is my entree for Women at FITC 2010. I found out the deadline was extended to this Friday though after submitting so there might be some tweeks in order before then...or some just for fun since I had some other creative ideas for it.

H1N1 isn't the Only Virus We Need to Guard Against

Here's a reminder to make sure your anti-virus software updates regularly.

If you don't have auto-updates set you can also send yourself reminders to do it through weekly recurring calendar event that sends you email alerts...though I don't know what good anti-virus doesn't have auto-update set as it's default...some don't apparently.

Extreme Texting in 2010

The sport of 2010 no doubt will be extreme texting...the outlook for digital media is good so far but how will it look in the years to come? I think we'll be making cars that can text people and do GPS simultaneously all in one interface right on the windshield so people won't even have to look away from the road for a second...as for preventing accidents I'm not sure this would work but at least they'd see where their crash destination is ahead of time.