House of Cats (by Courtland Lomax for Swarovski)

An animated short to promote Swarovski’s crystal line by Mr. Court Productions.

I also love the illustrations of Brigette Barager. “Camille”, “Theo”, “Pierre” and “Marie” are like my cats. 🙂
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Credits
Directed by Courtland Lomax
Music by Brian Young
Compositing by Ethan Metzger
Backgrounds and Designs by Brigette Barrager
Layouts by Sean Jimenez

Animation:
Adam Muto
Jules Soto
Shiyoon Kim
Bert Youn
Matthais Bauer
Eric Fountain
Courtland Lomax
Leo Matsuda
Matt Pugnetti
Jennifer Hager
David Nam

Cleanup:
Sean Jimenez
Esther Shin
Jinyoung Park
Juliana Park
Kelli Kuest
Matt Pugnetti

addiction

Spent way too much time on this since I first learned to use the computer in the ’80s. I still do. Spend time, that is.

I remember reading about Patrick Stewart being a Tetris fan and I felt comfort in knowing I was ‘sort of’ in good company. (Here’s the article fortunately still available for reading). Especially since other reads were too inclined towards scary calculations and math variables such as Ivaar Peterson’s article .

Fast-forward 21st century, researchers found a better way of qualifying Tetris through clinical tests that suggested it helped reduce Post-traumatic stress disorder [PSTD] (REF.) This is a nice angle to this addiction. It at least proved Alexey Pajitnov and friends’ hobby had social and medical value.

Happy birthday, Tetris. I know I’ll grow old still playing you.

(Graphic from Google’s commemorative Google page. Read about it.)

[Cross-posted]

Did you ever imagine a Filipino on this page?

Charice no. 5

UPDATE 26 May 2009

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A concert at the SMX Mall of Asia is scheduled on June 27, 2009 at 8 pm. More info here and here

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Preview/listen to Note To God on iTunes or Amazon
(That’s all for this blog. If it interests you to read more of my thoughts on Charice, it’s in one of my two other cross-posts, here)

web virtuoso: The State of the Web ’08 according to matthew inman

Matthew Inman is a web virtuoso. Very few citizens who populate the web in one form, type or other is as savvy as he: a designer, a developer, a CTO (that’s: Chief Technology Officer — which makes him a Technologist, too, I guess),  a web marketer, “Linkbait Developer & Viral Marketer” (his words) and, above all, a web artiste.

How else can one capture a whole virtual concept into a simple visual and be beautiful and understood without the pain of complex processing information?

But isn’t that what masters do: squeeze out the philosophy effortlessly, then show the nuggets in the palm of their hands?

 

Posted and seen two days ago (08 July 2008). Blogged today.

Beautiful, isn’t it?. 

Matthew Inman’s Summer.

music|musings

katie melua.piece by piece

eva cassidy.live at blues alley.american tune.eva by heart. [thank you, din]

jimmy cliff

working music.