Went out riding with the kids this last Saturday. Then I spent some time with Wilson yesterday in my new Premiere CS3 checking out the features. We remapped the time and sped things up, added titles, and imported a new version of an older tune. See it all here. If you aren't happy with Vimeo, see it on Youtube as well. Enjoy.
Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Tags: bicycle, bike, dance robot dance, movie, music, vimeo
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Following close on the heels of the aforementioned camping book, and this little book about a boy wizard and a magical boarding school comes Garth Nix's One Beastly Beast (Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales). Published by Harper Collins, this is a collection of four stories. I made the cover design and all the interior illustrations. It was fun to get to draw pirate rats, slimy aliens, mouse pilots, robot monsters, sea serpents, penguin girls, and a princess based on my very own daughter. And the stories are a lot of fun to read, as well.
Grown-ups will like it too, as the photo shows.
Tags: Garth Nix, One Beastly Beast
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
Two years ago, when I bought a ton of camping stuff and decided that I was going to teach the kids how to fight bears and survive in the wild with only a rubber band, gum, and a box of toothpicks, I went to the book store to find a good book about camping with kids. Surely there was one, right? Wrong. They were all poorly written, were ugly, or the recipes were dull.
So imagine my enthusiasm when a year later I get a call that Workman Publishing was making the very book that I wanted, and they wanted me to draw the funny pictures. I spent most of March and April working on this book called Camp Out!. I'm responsible for the cover and for the seventy-six "funny" illustrations throughout the book (as opposed to the "technical" illustrations that someone else did and that actually show you how to tie the knots and fight the bears and build the tent…).
So, today the kids and Sacha and I were looking for stuff to buy at the local B&N and look what we found in the kids' section.
You should all run out and buy one (except mom and dad, who get a copy). It is a good book. Even if you don't camp or have kids. And it's got funny pictures.
Tags: Camp Out!, camping, Workman
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
I was shopping at the Apple Store the other day and wanted to see how my site looks on the new iPhone (which I vehemently deny any interest in). Apparently the thing has problems with certain kinds of image tags and doesn't know what to do with Flash and Javascript either. Absurd! Note that only one bird appears on the main home page image. Ludicrous! I'll be waiting til v2.0. At least!
Tags: apple, iphone, MrBiggs
Posted in seen, thinking out loud, website | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
I've been meaning to start posting my animations and videos to YouTube and Vimeo, and finally took the plunge with the video I made for One Ring Zero back in 2005. It's a song called Stop Metric Madness. They used it on their DVD, Addendum. Take a look.
One Ring Zero: Stop Metric Madness from Brian Biggs on Vimeo.
