Today is my day off, usually I work a 6-day work week. The longer work week is very ideal because I'm paying for my college expenses.
I recently signed up for Netflix, and they offer the first month free! Netflix is a web-based movie rental company. For a monthly fee, $8.99/mo, Netflix offers unlimited access to all rentals, sending one at a time, allowing the consumer to retain each product indefinitely as long as they pay the monthly membership fee. Netflix sends the consumer their next rental upon receipt of the checked-out rental. Netflix most conveniently offers many of their in-stock films in digital streaming format, meaning their entire database of movies can be watched anytime at the member's convenience, without incurring additional cost.
I plan to write up some movie reviews, be sure to check back for them!
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Chad Kaplan's Site Launch
Chad Kaplan, animation artist, has recently announced his site launch for http://www.chadkaplan.com/. Mr. Kaplan specializes in animation, digital art and hand drawn art, and is currently accepting commissions on custom material! Be sure to check out his site, it was programmed with Flash AS3 combined with YouTube functionality. It was a pleasure working with Mr. Kaplan as a client, and without further ado, here are some screenshots:
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Website and Update
Since my last update, I've completed learning many of the new and wonderful capabilities of Flash AS3 programming and have implemented them in a newly developed website for Chad Kaplan, animation artist. After the site launch I will be sure to get some working screenpics posted online!
I'm going to adapt my own website to a career in accounting and business administration rather than IT programming, online services, development, etc. The choice of career path growing up in a business-oriented technology-driven market with a background in both industries has been a perplexing one. To make things more difficult, I've been constantly adapting in lifestyle without an exact preference outside of wanting to be involved directly with what I've already learned so much about.
During this time I've been working at a supermarket bakery, creating perfection with confection. I'd post some photos of delicious pastries for you to enjoy but you can't eat it through the computer! It can't be eaten through long distance digital imagery without some technologically unrealized innovation. It's that advanced.
I've been learning guitar, although my guitar (Ibanez GAX70) now needs a 'set up'. A set up for a guitar would be increasing the play of the strings, like reducing the chance for buzzing over a fret, adjusting the strings to sit more parallel, or having the strings lie closer to the frets on the fretboard. If I do a simple barre chord and strum, I'm getting a lot of extra buzzing, despite holding the barre with different variations.
Guitar practice goes well with regular exercise and a diet for bulking up on mass. The protein drinks, glutamine, etc that I incorporate into my workout regimen help with developing muscles and endurance, even in the finer art of being a musician. Once I'm more sure about playing the guitar I'd like to write some songs and learn some complicated music.
For reading, I've read through Sweet Silver Blues, Bitter Gold Hearts and Cold Copper Tears by Glen Cook, and Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert. I also read The Demon Awakens by R. A. Salvatore for the second time, noting that I hadn't finished it quite thoroughly the first. Currently, I'm currently reading Lovecraft Tales, a compilation of short stories from Howard Phillips Lovecraft's selected by Peter Straub.
I'm going to adapt my own website to a career in accounting and business administration rather than IT programming, online services, development, etc. The choice of career path growing up in a business-oriented technology-driven market with a background in both industries has been a perplexing one. To make things more difficult, I've been constantly adapting in lifestyle without an exact preference outside of wanting to be involved directly with what I've already learned so much about.
During this time I've been working at a supermarket bakery, creating perfection with confection. I'd post some photos of delicious pastries for you to enjoy but you can't eat it through the computer! It can't be eaten through long distance digital imagery without some technologically unrealized innovation. It's that advanced.
I've been learning guitar, although my guitar (Ibanez GAX70) now needs a 'set up'. A set up for a guitar would be increasing the play of the strings, like reducing the chance for buzzing over a fret, adjusting the strings to sit more parallel, or having the strings lie closer to the frets on the fretboard. If I do a simple barre chord and strum, I'm getting a lot of extra buzzing, despite holding the barre with different variations.
Guitar practice goes well with regular exercise and a diet for bulking up on mass. The protein drinks, glutamine, etc that I incorporate into my workout regimen help with developing muscles and endurance, even in the finer art of being a musician. Once I'm more sure about playing the guitar I'd like to write some songs and learn some complicated music.
For reading, I've read through Sweet Silver Blues, Bitter Gold Hearts and Cold Copper Tears by Glen Cook, and Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert. I also read The Demon Awakens by R. A. Salvatore for the second time, noting that I hadn't finished it quite thoroughly the first. Currently, I'm currently reading Lovecraft Tales, a compilation of short stories from Howard Phillips Lovecraft's selected by Peter Straub.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
New Website Coming Soon!
I am officially announcing the impending makeover of my personal site at cheynej.awardspace.biz. Currently it is really not a bad site at all, but I don't feel it is any longer an adequate representation of my talent or portfolio. With the new site, I am starting with Flash CS5 and seeing where that takes me. Actionscript 3.0 (as well as any previous version) is based on Java which I am familiar with and already have some rough, prototype scripts running, experimenting primarily with explosive visuals.
This what I plan to culminate somewhere within the estimated range of three weeks from now. Three weeks for one website in my opinion is outright ludicrous, but I also have experience working as a sound engineer and a graphic designer. Remastering audio, building HD quality effects, synchronizing and testing the multitude of configurations available to find the best overall Flash display for the products and services I have in mind will take three weeks as a conservative estimate. It is more like baking wedding cake from scratch than anything else I could cook up. Speaking of which, I should now be on the go-list for working as a baker during graveyard-like-morning hours to help in making those ends meet! Oh yes, I will be baking in no less than both metaphoric and literal terms.
Edit: I'm waiting for Adobe's textbook on Flash CS5 due for June 4th. Until then I'll be running creative testing.
This what I plan to culminate somewhere within the estimated range of three weeks from now. Three weeks for one website in my opinion is outright ludicrous, but I also have experience working as a sound engineer and a graphic designer. Remastering audio, building HD quality effects, synchronizing and testing the multitude of configurations available to find the best overall Flash display for the products and services I have in mind will take three weeks as a conservative estimate. It is more like baking wedding cake from scratch than anything else I could cook up. Speaking of which, I should now be on the go-list for working as a baker during graveyard-like-morning hours to help in making those ends meet! Oh yes, I will be baking in no less than both metaphoric and literal terms.
Edit: I'm waiting for Adobe's textbook on Flash CS5 due for June 4th. Until then I'll be running creative testing.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Rant & Update
The target audience has not been served, no immediate solution is available, and so I rant.
It is with a somber defeat I must post the news update for the longest web comic that is no more, located here. "8-bit Theater" admittedly throws in the towel. This is simply tragic and unfair to the long-term readers, and it leaves me with an extra moment of my own time that I would not have chosen to liberate quite so easily! I am unable to profess of richness and wealth in my auto-usurped moment of comic-strip-less glory. Does this Brian Clevinger have no protégé, no backup plan?
In recent, similar, but more serious news, I've discovered being an artist is a way of life and not just a cultivated talent. Hailing my thoughts back to my younger years and wondering what exactly the nonsensical choices I had made fostered from, I realized, as if it shouldn't have already been obvious, that I am, in fact, an artist. It is my own unfortunate accident, as I unknowingly fed the starving artist in me by creating poetry of the what's, why's and how's I could not understand. Oh, now I understand, but I warn all the rest of you about feeding any tidbits to your subconscious in the determined hopes of developing art, art that attempts to reach beyond and inspire others from behind their own eyes, in their own stratum, that the change of one's own perceptual psyche while remaining steadfastly true to the self can be a difficult experience. And, yes, I wrote a tremendous deal of poetry over the years and still continue to this day but I feel it has too much emotional impact on the subject to be gifted to them directly. Is a gift still a gift anymore?! Telling me to stop would be like telling the old fisherman to put his trade away forever. Now that I've mentioned it, I don't think I could give fishing up either.
In an even more enjoyable update, I am about to graduate from Suffolk University with my BSBA. I was just awarded Dean's List honors, meaning the extra time I've put into my schoolwork has had the best effect possible. Tomorrow is my last class with a final paper to be emailed afterward as the conclusion. I will not be attending ceremonies but I want to thank everyone who has been there for me in a positive way during my undergraduate years. Thank you.
I plan to further my education for a Master's and a Doctorate and possibly more in the years to come.
It is with a somber defeat I must post the news update for the longest web comic that is no more, located here. "8-bit Theater" admittedly throws in the towel. This is simply tragic and unfair to the long-term readers, and it leaves me with an extra moment of my own time that I would not have chosen to liberate quite so easily! I am unable to profess of richness and wealth in my auto-usurped moment of comic-strip-less glory. Does this Brian Clevinger have no protégé, no backup plan?
In recent, similar, but more serious news, I've discovered being an artist is a way of life and not just a cultivated talent. Hailing my thoughts back to my younger years and wondering what exactly the nonsensical choices I had made fostered from, I realized, as if it shouldn't have already been obvious, that I am, in fact, an artist. It is my own unfortunate accident, as I unknowingly fed the starving artist in me by creating poetry of the what's, why's and how's I could not understand. Oh, now I understand, but I warn all the rest of you about feeding any tidbits to your subconscious in the determined hopes of developing art, art that attempts to reach beyond and inspire others from behind their own eyes, in their own stratum, that the change of one's own perceptual psyche while remaining steadfastly true to the self can be a difficult experience. And, yes, I wrote a tremendous deal of poetry over the years and still continue to this day but I feel it has too much emotional impact on the subject to be gifted to them directly. Is a gift still a gift anymore?! Telling me to stop would be like telling the old fisherman to put his trade away forever. Now that I've mentioned it, I don't think I could give fishing up either.
In an even more enjoyable update, I am about to graduate from Suffolk University with my BSBA. I was just awarded Dean's List honors, meaning the extra time I've put into my schoolwork has had the best effect possible. Tomorrow is my last class with a final paper to be emailed afterward as the conclusion. I will not be attending ceremonies but I want to thank everyone who has been there for me in a positive way during my undergraduate years. Thank you.
I plan to further my education for a Master's and a Doctorate and possibly more in the years to come.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Final Projects, Books and More...
I've been very busy! I'm approaching finals week, supervising weekend set constructions for King Philip Drama, finishing up the fourth of four Glen Cook novels, and transforming my room for the holidays. Exciting, I'm sure.
The painting could likely have been finished by now but I happen to be an artiste. It's somewhat true. I end up having way too much fun, and yet the finished product amounts to the same color on the wall, go figure! The color was intended to be "Forest Hills" or "Icy Forest", some such dazzling "Light Green" and yet the result has instead equivocated itself to 'toothpaste'. Will these walls wage new war against the insidious design known as morning breath? I should hope so.
I plan to release a book review on the currently final dual dualities of Glen Cook's Black Company series, Guerrilla Marketing 2.0, and Die Broke.
The painting could likely have been finished by now but I happen to be an artiste. It's somewhat true. I end up having way too much fun, and yet the finished product amounts to the same color on the wall, go figure! The color was intended to be "Forest Hills" or "Icy Forest", some such dazzling "Light Green" and yet the result has instead equivocated itself to 'toothpaste'. Will these walls wage new war against the insidious design known as morning breath? I should hope so.
I plan to release a book review on the currently final dual dualities of Glen Cook's Black Company series, Guerrilla Marketing 2.0, and Die Broke.
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