Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Emeli Sandé - Next to Me
Here is my most recent project I have completed: Emeli Sande's "Next to Me (Kendrick Lamar Remix).
Shot this on a Canon t2i with a Canon 14-40mm f/4L lens in different areas of downtown LA. Mounted the camera onto a tripod and basically shuffled through 7 different shutter speeds and sequenced them together in After Effects to get the motion/animated gif look.
Emeli is a great artist, and it's good to see they're bringing her overseas from the UK.
Monday, March 4, 2013
To Do List / After Graduation
I didn't create this list myself, but most of these items are definitely on my own. Really felt inspired after watching this.
My most recent project should be released sometime this week. I'll you guys posted as soon as it is public. Currently progressing through the early stages of another lyric/motion graphic type video.
3 months until I graduate from college and I'm glad to think that I'll be putting my undergrad career behind me. I've committed (leisurely) 6 years of being at a university, but I still can't help but feel I have a lot more to learn.
Not too long ago I stumbled across an article about the difference of mindsets between the rich and the rest of the world. In one section, the article explained that the rich believe in the pursuit of knowledge while the average person believes in the pursuit of an education. I love that mindset and couldn't agree more.
I wanted to type out "I hope to go back to another school and learn more.." but then didn't feel that that statement expressed me properly. Instead, I want to say I hope to move forward and continue my pursuit of knowledge in my field.
At this point in my life, I just want to keep on learning new things that would assist my passion and to help me translate the ideas in my mind into something I can share with others. I'm committed to this idea and will make it happen.
My most recent project should be released sometime this week. I'll you guys posted as soon as it is public. Currently progressing through the early stages of another lyric/motion graphic type video.
3 months until I graduate from college and I'm glad to think that I'll be putting my undergrad career behind me. I've committed (leisurely) 6 years of being at a university, but I still can't help but feel I have a lot more to learn.
Not too long ago I stumbled across an article about the difference of mindsets between the rich and the rest of the world. In one section, the article explained that the rich believe in the pursuit of knowledge while the average person believes in the pursuit of an education. I love that mindset and couldn't agree more.
I wanted to type out "I hope to go back to another school and learn more.." but then didn't feel that that statement expressed me properly. Instead, I want to say I hope to move forward and continue my pursuit of knowledge in my field.
At this point in my life, I just want to keep on learning new things that would assist my passion and to help me translate the ideas in my mind into something I can share with others. I'm committed to this idea and will make it happen.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Back to Back
One project down, another to go.
Another long night for me. Better keep on going before I drop the ball. I need to move to Pluto where there's more hours in the day.
Stumbled across Joe Murray's blog, creator of 90's Nickelodeon TV show "Rocko's Modern Life", and sympathized with a doodle he made.
http://joemurraystudio.com/blog/
http://joemurraystudio.com/blog/
Another long night for me. Better keep on going before I drop the ball. I need to move to Pluto where there's more hours in the day.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Booked
It's been 2 weeks since my last update and I've been booked for the whole month of February and the beginning of March. I've been out doing ADR sessions, shooting (sort of) stop motion photography at night, and I'm dipping my feet with some hand drawn animation work for some projects I've been working on.
It's going to be a tough week with no sleep, but after each sleepless night, another chin hair grows (which is what I need because I'm asian and we're hairless wonders). My friends Erwin and Jeff have hopped on with me with a project and I feel pretty excited to actually lead a project with a small team because I'm more of a soloist when it comes to working on my freelance work but being able to work on my communication skills in projects is always a plus.
I'm hoping for an internship soon but might be side tracked until March. I'm not worried about the hundred some hours I have to do to graduate but more so the end product of connections, people, and experience. I just gotta keep working hard now so things wont be so tough later.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Lama Kinda Post
Was going through my posts on my Flipboard app for my phone and stumbled across this article on Huffington Post about the Dalai Lama's "18 Rules for Living", but the writer takes into account how these rules can be used when running a business. Here is the 18 rules with the accompanying translation for applying it to one's professional life.
Original post: Billie Kell: Dalai Lama:18 Rules of Living
1. Take into account that great love and great achievement involves great risk.
Great results and great growth involve great risks.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Failure always teaches us more than our successes. Learn, reflect then apply.
3. Follow the 3 R's
• Respect for self
• Respect for others
• Responsibility for all your actions
Respect of self -- value your achievements and acknowledge your deficits as without both you cannot develop.
Respect others; be open minded to what they may be able to teach you. Respect of self and others, alongside responsibility, are essential leadership qualities.
Respect has to be given before it can be received and is correlated to the level of responsibility for your actions you are willing to take.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Remember that flawed deal, the PHEW you felt that it fell through and the better opportunity that followed. Sometimes life has a way to taking us in directions we should have chosen for ourselves.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Being creative and innovative in business requires you to know the rules and break them - and the boundaries/limitations simultaneously! Watch the mavericks -- they see opportunities where others see limitations and failure.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
Business relationships are like any others and involve ups and downs -- it's how you handle them that retains the relationships and defines you as a team player and leader. You don't have to agree with someone to remain a business colleague.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Getting it wrong is part of the process, make it right immediately and own it -- it's called integrity -- a highly valued commodity in business.
8. Spend some time alone everyday.
Hit the brakes regularly -- reflecting and incubating your ideas requires alone time.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Change is an essential and necessary part of business -- so is the ability to retain your values. They should be written through you/your business like a stick of rock; as they illustrate who you are. Remember, values are held by people, not buildings.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Leadership requires knowing when it's time to stay stum!
11. Live a good honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
Work with honor and integrity -- then you can reflect back with respect for yourself and those you worked with.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. The values of you and your company are the foundation to your success. Create the climate you want and use them to form and represent the culture of your business.
13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
In work disagreements with colleagues, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve mortality.
Share your skills and abilities. It's your way to leave your mark.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
Be gentle with and in business -- it's actually how greatness is shown.
16. Once a year, go some place you've never been before.
Regularly step outside your comfort zone -- its how your and your company will develop.
17. Remember that the best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Remember that the best business relationships are the ones that motivate, help people develop and enable everyone fulfill their potential by working at their best level.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Judge your success by how far you have come and how well you treat others. Success in some ways is what people say about you when you're not in the room.
I felt these were some really good rules to run by. I didn't plan to be all Tibetan monk on this post, but another afterthought:
Original post: Billie Kell: Dalai Lama:18 Rules of Living
1. Take into account that great love and great achievement involves great risk.
Great results and great growth involve great risks.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Failure always teaches us more than our successes. Learn, reflect then apply.
3. Follow the 3 R's
• Respect for self
• Respect for others
• Responsibility for all your actions
Respect of self -- value your achievements and acknowledge your deficits as without both you cannot develop.
Respect others; be open minded to what they may be able to teach you. Respect of self and others, alongside responsibility, are essential leadership qualities.
Respect has to be given before it can be received and is correlated to the level of responsibility for your actions you are willing to take.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Remember that flawed deal, the PHEW you felt that it fell through and the better opportunity that followed. Sometimes life has a way to taking us in directions we should have chosen for ourselves.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Being creative and innovative in business requires you to know the rules and break them - and the boundaries/limitations simultaneously! Watch the mavericks -- they see opportunities where others see limitations and failure.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
Business relationships are like any others and involve ups and downs -- it's how you handle them that retains the relationships and defines you as a team player and leader. You don't have to agree with someone to remain a business colleague.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Getting it wrong is part of the process, make it right immediately and own it -- it's called integrity -- a highly valued commodity in business.
8. Spend some time alone everyday.
Hit the brakes regularly -- reflecting and incubating your ideas requires alone time.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Change is an essential and necessary part of business -- so is the ability to retain your values. They should be written through you/your business like a stick of rock; as they illustrate who you are. Remember, values are held by people, not buildings.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Leadership requires knowing when it's time to stay stum!
11. Live a good honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
Work with honor and integrity -- then you can reflect back with respect for yourself and those you worked with.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. The values of you and your company are the foundation to your success. Create the climate you want and use them to form and represent the culture of your business.
13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
In work disagreements with colleagues, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve mortality.
Share your skills and abilities. It's your way to leave your mark.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
Be gentle with and in business -- it's actually how greatness is shown.
16. Once a year, go some place you've never been before.
Regularly step outside your comfort zone -- its how your and your company will develop.
17. Remember that the best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Remember that the best business relationships are the ones that motivate, help people develop and enable everyone fulfill their potential by working at their best level.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Judge your success by how far you have come and how well you treat others. Success in some ways is what people say about you when you're not in the room.
I felt these were some really good rules to run by. I didn't plan to be all Tibetan monk on this post, but another afterthought:
Kinda reminiscent of this quote I saw where a man had a dream with God and asked him what he found so interesting about man and he replied that "When they are children, they yearn to be old, and when they are old, they yearn to be children again."
Friday, January 25, 2013
Rainy Day - Downtime
Just experiencing some downtime in between work. Currently in the talks for several other projects. Hoping to make some power moves for 2013.
Cooper (Trek 520) in the foreground, and I'm still yet to name my Roubaix (pronounced roo-bay). I thought of the name "Ruby" but it's not even red, seems kinda cheesy, and one of my friend's girlfriend's name is Ruby so that's just kinda awkward.
Here's a picture of the "Thunderdome". I just recently bought a new bike, a 2012 Fuji Roubaix 2.0 (Mostly Shimano 105 components, except for the front derailleur, cassette, and cranks) and have been itching to get onto the road but the rain has kept me inside. It's my first modern day road bike and it's quite the leap from the steel bikes I've been riding for awhile now. I just cleaned my main commuter, a 1984 Trek 520, cleaning off the dirty Cinelli cork bar tape.
Other than that, it seems all quiet for today save for dinner with some of the guys in a bit. I've been into that Tegan and Sara song "Closer" on the radio for the past month or so and just recently discovered they have a music video and lyric video.
Thought the music video was okay. Tegan and Sara don't seem to be too excited as performers. Definitely noted to make a hipster fortress indoor tent party sometime in the future.
Pretty interesting lyric video. Love the Lichtenstein since every now and then I use his stuff. I really feel they could have done more for the bridge and chorus to make it more up bea, but it's a good video nonetheless. Also love the chromatic aberration effect thats popular now a days.
Speaking of chromatic aberration, there is a tutorial I saw not too long ago about it.. let me just pull that up.
AE Tuts + Tutorial - Chromatic Aberration
Hope everyone has a safe and happy rainy day in Socal. Now time for me to dread about taking speech class tomorrow..
Here's a picture of the "Thunderdome". I just recently bought a new bike, a 2012 Fuji Roubaix 2.0 (Mostly Shimano 105 components, except for the front derailleur, cassette, and cranks) and have been itching to get onto the road but the rain has kept me inside. It's my first modern day road bike and it's quite the leap from the steel bikes I've been riding for awhile now. I just cleaned my main commuter, a 1984 Trek 520, cleaning off the dirty Cinelli cork bar tape.
Other than that, it seems all quiet for today save for dinner with some of the guys in a bit. I've been into that Tegan and Sara song "Closer" on the radio for the past month or so and just recently discovered they have a music video and lyric video.
Thought the music video was okay. Tegan and Sara don't seem to be too excited as performers. Definitely noted to make a hipster fortress indoor tent party sometime in the future.
Pretty interesting lyric video. Love the Lichtenstein since every now and then I use his stuff. I really feel they could have done more for the bridge and chorus to make it more up bea, but it's a good video nonetheless. Also love the chromatic aberration effect thats popular now a days.
Speaking of chromatic aberration, there is a tutorial I saw not too long ago about it.. let me just pull that up.
"Chromatic aberration is the failure of a lens to focus all colors to the same point. To a cinematographer this can be an undesired effect, but in motion graphics it can be a very nice addition. While it would be great to capture chromatic aberration naturally with real lenses, most modern lenses aim to minimize this effect. This is why we are dedicating this tutorial to learning how to recreate this phenomenon using built-in after effects plugins."
AE Tuts + Tutorial - Chromatic Aberration
Hope everyone has a safe and happy rainy day in Socal. Now time for me to dread about taking speech class tomorrow..
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