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More…

December 9, 2009 1:50 pm

Although the official (business) connection seems to now be severed, I originally discovered Despair as the only distributor of the amazing short film More. I believe this film is one of the most powerful communicators of everything that is wrong with our current culture of commercialism and consumerism. It goes way beyond lamenting isms and grabs hold of the emotional response so many of us have experienced in the moment of despair as we realize the lies we have bought from our culture.

And I do believe that despair connection is what struck me as so powerful and ironically appropriate to have a company named Despair, selling a “Happy Product” as a film with the subversive power to challenge our trust in products as the bringers of hope for those selling and buying.

Every time I come back to watch this short film; the sad grays, smeared faces, and haunting music remind me again of where so many of us live. I truly believe it is a masterpiece for our time.

Categories: Consumerism, Despair, Animation, Movies
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FIRST…

January 2, 2008 3:54 pm


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I love this organization. FIRST is everything I was looking for in an extracuricular activity when I was in highschool… but never really found it. The good news is that I can be involved now.

Here’s how it works… teams (usually by highschool) sign up for the yearly competition. The goal is to create a robot that will compete in the annual competitions in a variety of challenges. Its kind of like battle bots, but all nice and focusing on team work instead of destruction.

Anyone can join because there is room for just about every area of interest and talent on a team. For example, I am a mentor of the animation team… thats right… every team gets to create an animation along with their robot… and it is its own competition right along side the yearly robot challenges. Autodesk donates the software… and all the teams need are a few computers, some willing students, a little bit of direction, and a lot of rendering hours to churn out a fresh animation. I have been involved for the past 4 years…

Every team needs a bunch of mentors, if you think you would like to mentor an animation team… I started this website to try to organize our efforts in the Detroit area…

Here’s an original animation from my team, TNT280

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Categories: Animation, Technology, Art, 3D Projects
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Macross…

December 31, 2007 12:45 am


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I really don’t like anime, sometimes its a guilty pleasure to watch a gratuitously technology ridden Japanese concoction of adolescent violence. And then there is Robotech, my beloved child hood space opera cartoon. Launched in 82′, it was ground breaking… a cartoon with a serial narrative and the capacity to explore complex interpersonal relationships… not to mention really cool transforming space ships and robots… Its amazingly well done and I truly believe it rivals most of episodic TV narratives, especially anything on the Sci-Fi channel. I still watch it… looks like they are going to be doing a movie based on the Macross series… Transformers was cool… but this could be really worthwhile.

Categories: Animation, Television, Art
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