LAST POST
Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Hi. This blog has expired and the new blog is officially WIP.
Also, you can view my new Demo Reel by going HERE. Thank You.
Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Hi. This blog has expired and the new blog is officially WIP.
Also, you can view my new Demo Reel by going HERE. Thank You.
Posted: Thursday March 27, 2008
I’m really excited to announce my latest hair-brained scheme, W.I.P. aka Works in Progress! …
Posted: Wednesday March 5, 2008
A friend linked to an article today that really got me wondering if I could realistically make a living making and selling my own animations and related merch. That idea has been on the fringe of my brain for a really long time, but in the end I always go back to good ole freelancing for various clients to pay the bills. …
Posted: Friday February 22, 2008
17 months and 21 days later, animation is complete on ’Project X.‘ More info to come when its available.

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Posted: Sunday February 17, 2008
So I’ve been working a lot lately. I’ve been cranking away on this one huge project, finishing it up. I still cant really talk about it but it should be done (mostly) in the next couple weeks. …
Posted: Sunday January 13, 2008
Bear with me while I dream out loud with you my dream project of the moment. I want to make an epic animated music video to Lightning Bolt’s masterpiece, Dead Cowboy.
Posted: Sunday November 25, 2007
Posted: Friday November 16, 2007
I know I know I just posted one of these recently… BUT I thought I’d spare the ambient haters of the world from a post of nothing but. …
Posted: Thursday November 15, 2007
Now that its getting chilly outside I thought I’d link up my recent audio discoveries. They’re all frosty ambient on the outside with a warm strangely-sort-of-melodic center. …
Posted: Thursday November 1, 2007
So, I haven’t been blahrging too much lately, and for that you have my deepest heart-felt apologies. …
Posted: Wednesday October 10, 2007
What do you think of this drawing? Would you wear it on a shirt?
Posted: Thursday October 4, 2007
Quick note: I’m selling off some old digital media software on eBay. So go take a l@@k as the eBay kids say. LINK
Posted: Sunday September 23, 2007
Today’s pick: Odd Nosdam – Level Live Wires
Posted: Thursday September 13, 2007
Posted: Friday September 7, 2007
Posted: Wednesday August 29, 2007
Posted: Tuesday August 28, 2007
Hey folks.
As you can see, I did a major overhaul of my entire website over the past few weeks (months maybe?)! I decided to make it live today... So if you run into any broken stuff let me know!
Posted: Monday August 6, 2007
This weeks picks: “Milieu – Milieu” & “Miles Tilmann – Melt”
Posted: Sunday August 5, 2007
Dear Yokel Diary,
My girlfriend told me about a large man who entered her cafe the other day. ...
Posted: Saturday August 4, 2007
Well I finally got around to setting up a light inside of this Diorama …
Posted: Thursday August 2, 2007
Dear yokel diary,
Tonight on the main highway I saw what could only be described as a hand-crafted vehicle made out of an old roadster and a chopper style motorcycle. (Choppster? Roadopper?) ...
Posted: Thursday August 2, 2007
The other night I woke up at about 3am gasping for air, like oxygen was being sucked out of my lungs. After the initial panic I noticed that I was unable to form a single solid thought. ...
Posted: Tuesday July 31, 2007

This new section of VRblog (see it up there under “Comics?”) is dedicated to the sights and sounds of the humble, rural area I live in, NW Arkansas. Its not meant to be mean-spirited, but observational. I plan on documenting the things I see and the stuff I hear that has that special NWA scent and flavor.
Stay tuned!
Posted: Sunday July 15, 2007
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This is 6 songs (~25min) of an amazing performance! I grabbed 6 videos off of youtube, edited them together and upped the audio. Its still very rough, but I think you can still get a sense of the amazing energy this band had back then. They were way ahead of their time! Enjoy.
Posted: Friday July 13, 2007
If you think smoking a pipe is cool – its because you saw pictures of C.S. Lewis and/or J.R.R. Tolkien doing it during your college days.
Or is it just me…?
Posted: Tuesday July 3, 2007
Those of you who subscribe to my site via a RSS reader may want to update your subscription today. The old one had some trouble so I rebuilt it.
Posted: Friday June 22, 2007
This is a concept Ive been thinking about alot lately so I thought I’d try to flesh it out a little further by writing it down – and what better place to do it than a blog!
Posted: Friday June 22, 2007
I just joined the coolest nerds in school clique today I think. Im not sure…
Posted: Thursday May 24, 2007
This band sort of snuck up on me slowly and deliberately… but dang it all if I cant stop listening to Yellow House!
Posted: Saturday May 19, 2007
Since I wrote a pretty bleak post not too long ago, and so many of you have responded in amazingly generous fashion to help me, I feel like I should give an update to how things are going.
Posted: Sunday May 13, 2007
Hey I did a bunch more copying, cutting, folding and gluing of my Vapor mini-comics recently and they’re up for sale!
Posted: Saturday April 28, 2007
Man alive I’ve been spending too much time animating the same short film …
Posted: Sunday April 15, 2007
When presented with something I havent seen before – I think its good to think/say to myself “What is that?” rather than “Oh, I know what that is” as a first response. Much healthier…
Be inquisitive of new things!
Posted: Saturday April 14, 2007
Hey I made a shirt for my Vapor mini-comics! Click the image to check it out and buy it! (Guys sizes only at this point…)
Posted: Wednesday April 11, 2007
Last night, Harmony forgot her phone in her friend Steph’s car, so Steph brought it over. While they were talking on my front steps, I heard Harmony make cat noises, so I naturally poked my head out and started making cat noises too. ...
Posted: Tuesday March 20, 2007
Hilarious stuff. (Thanks Jon Kendall for the link this morning.)
Posted: Wednesday March 14, 2007
I should really do weekly linkup or something… but whatever, for now I’ll just randomly post stuff I find that I like.
Today’s find: Death By Panda
Posted: Tuesday March 13, 2007
Some encouraging news popped up on Cartoon Brew today. They have started their own film “channel” for lack of a better word, dedicated to premiering select animated short films …
Posted: Friday March 9, 2007
Hey Im selling my iBook! If you are in the market for a small, simple laptop for around $600, then click here for the full scoop!
Posted: Thursday March 8, 2007
I did a Damien Jurado illustration for the excellent music site daytrotter a while ago and it just saw the light of day today. ...
Posted: Thursday February 22, 2007
“Technique becomes transparent over time.” – unfortunately I cant remember who I heard say this recently…
Posted: Saturday February 17, 2007
I kind of feel like I’ve developed these clichés with how I draw certain things… The way that I draw kids especially. ...
Posted: Tuesday February 6, 2007
Somebody in Japan has made an amazing model of a guardian robot from Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky – from scratch! ...
Posted: Friday February 2, 2007
Posted: Thursday February 1, 2007
Found lots of gooooood downtempo electronic music today. Enough so that I thought it’d be worthwhile to share. ...
Posted: Tuesday January 30, 2007
Question for today. Leave me some good comments and I’ll write more about it when I have time.
As an artist/patron of artsy things: ...
Posted: Sunday January 28, 2007
My dark little tale of survival in a poisoned and cursed land has reached its conclusion, and the last 3 issues are up for sale on Etsy! You can buy them together in a combo-pack right now, and later on I think I will sell them individually as well.
Posted: Wednesday January 24, 2007
This shouldn’t work, and it shouldn’t be hilarious, but it is. Incredibly well done CG + real nature “cartoon.”
Posted: Wednesday January 17, 2007
Just read this article about Art Babbit, an animator at Disney until the 40s. He was asked …
Posted: Wednesday January 10, 2007
Everyone’s favorite tale of ambition and despair, Bear Hunt, can now be viewed on everyone’s favorite site to get a fix of indie filmness.
Posted: Thursday December 7, 2006
My new Threadless shirt design is up! Check it out.
Posted: Saturday December 2, 2006
Hey kids. Here is my latest idea for a Threadless t-shirt submission! The title is going to be “Redneck Chickeneer” I think.
Posted: Wednesday November 15, 2006
Mr. 65 drops more free music at us! This time there are 5 tracks of head-nodding and chin-scratching to be had for all.
Posted: Monday November 13, 2006
I’d been following the progress of Nick Cross on his plog as he worked on his personal film The Waif of Persephone, and now its finished! ...
Posted: Friday October 27, 2006
Yuri Norstein is one of my favorite animators, and he finished this film around 2003 for a Japanese animation compilation “Winter Days.”
Posted: Wednesday October 25, 2006
How much would you pay for a Vapor mini-comic? (poll)
Posted: Saturday October 21, 2006
My pal Herva got his album up in iTunes! Check it out and dust off your moldy credit cards and send him some love in the form of $$$.
Posted: Tuesday October 17, 2006
Hey, check out my new etsy account. You can buy my first mini-comic (and by mini I mean super small!) there if you’re interested and I will mail it out to you! ...
Posted: Tuesday October 17, 2006
Channel Frederator is playing Deep Six in today’s episode, #52. ...
Posted: Thursday October 12, 2006
Ha! I found my first website/portfolio today whilst digging around… I didnt realize it still existed.
Posted: Friday October 6, 2006
Vote for my submission so I can get a random prop from The Science of Sleep signed by Michel Gondry! (+ $ and other stuff) Thanks.
Posted: Tuesday October 3, 2006
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A feature-length cartoon made in ‘83. I need to see this at higher quality! Wow, inspiring stuff.
Posted: Sunday October 1, 2006
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(youtube link)
Amazing. Educational.
Posted: Sunday September 24, 2006
This is a pretty weird thing to write about, but for those of you who grew up in a Christian home like I did it might strike a chord with you too possibly and bring back some interesting memories like it did for me…
Posted: Friday September 22, 2006
Hey ev’rbody! This blog just grew one whole section today. ...
Posted: Wednesday September 20, 2006
Hey I made a Deep Six wallpaper/desktop today. ...
Posted: Tuesday September 19, 2006
I’m messing around with an idea for a Flash comic. ...
Posted: Thursday September 14, 2006
Its finally official – the Nintendo Wii is coming Nov. 19th! I cant wait to play this thing…
Posted: Wednesday September 13, 2006
The other day I thought I’d try out some generic Pop-Tarts after I saw that they were only $1 at the local IGA. ...
Posted: Saturday September 9, 2006
A goofy little flash time-waster I built… I only scratched a tiny chicken peck into the surface of the bro lifestyle.
Posted: Thursday August 31, 2006
Wowee-weewah! No wonder I loved this show! This is maybe the most amazing action-packed cartoon intro ever. ...
Posted: Tuesday August 29, 2006
Hey! Drop on over to the Nicktoons Festival site and click the banner that reads “Viewer’s Choice Award Vote” then vote for Deep Six! ...
Posted: Saturday August 26, 2006
Got some time today though. So an update on the life and times. ...
Posted: Friday August 4, 2006
Its time to saddle up the Whispering Banshee and make enough peanut butter sandwiches for 2 weeks! In other words – Road Trip. ...
Posted: Thursday August 3, 2006
A friend of Harm’s told her about this secret, strange way of beating the pesky allergies you might have. ...
Posted: Thursday July 27, 2006
Tired? Listless? Lost? Confused? Burn out your eyes and ears on this guy’s work…
Posted: Wednesday July 26, 2006
I love me some Grandaddy music, so its kind of sad they’ve called it quits and stuff. Oh well…
Posted: Tuesday July 25, 2006

Woo! My Herva music video, Deep Six is a finalist in the Nicktoons Animation Festival! ...
Posted: Friday July 21, 2006
Mr. 65 and I go way back to his early days…
Posted: Wednesday July 19, 2006
This one goes out to all the artists/animators/designers etc who like to dig the web for references.
The BBC Motion Gallery has opened up its vast library for perusal …
Posted: Monday July 17, 2006
Does anybody else spend a lot of their thinking-to-yourself time trying to articulate why you think certain things (usually media-related) are awesome or why they suck? ...
Posted: Saturday July 15, 2006
... this one left me with a strange feeling after it was over… Maybe writing things down and your comments will help me grapple with this weird beast of a movie. ...
Posted: Saturday July 8, 2006
The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry – Finally, a movie I actually want to see!
Oh yeah, and Borat too. ha ha …
Posted: Thursday July 6, 2006
This morning, work is a little slow, so Im watching the Shuttle Discovery dock at the int’l space station and listening to buddha machine.
Sublime…
Posted: Tuesday July 4, 2006
“Love is the promise of the brave.”
- TV on the Radio
edit: Its actually, “Love is the province of the brave.” oops…still carries pretty much the same meaning though.
Posted: Tuesday June 27, 2006
Lovers,
I just finished up a new Flash-tastic website for my film, The Bear Hunt. You can watch it in the Flash player now at full-size and download it for your video iPod! So get on over there!
Posted: Saturday June 24, 2006
Hey, doing some tinkering on the site over the weekend – things might break occasionally.
Thanks,
The Management
Posted: Thursday June 22, 2006
Hey! Vote for my new threadless shirt submission!
Thanks very much.
Posted: Wednesday June 21, 2006
Welp, I made it back to the states in one piece Saturday night …
Posted: Tuesday June 13, 2006
I’ve been waiting for this one! ha ha! Oscar the Boxer-puppy likes to sing the blues when Noah plays his harmonica. A must view!
Posted: Sunday June 11, 2006
Today I went with 2 of my students Kayla and Brad (brother and sister, aw) to London to see the sights. ...
Posted: Saturday June 10, 2006
I just won an award for Best Animation at the Swansea Film Festival for Deep Six!
Posted: Wednesday June 7, 2006
Hey loyal readers. Thought I’d write an update to what all has happened thus far in my English teaching adventure.
Posted: Sunday June 4, 2006
I arrived into London around 9:30am (London time)...
Posted: Saturday June 3, 2006
So I leave for England tomorrow around 1:30pm. Im in the process of packing and making sure I have everything ready…
Posted: Thursday June 1, 2006
I just had to post this: ...
Posted: Monday May 29, 2006
Heres a short clip of me hitting the hot streets of siloam with my buddha machine emitting its magic from my shirt pocket. ...
Posted: Monday May 29, 2006
I have the biggest crush on Deerhoof right now. ...
Posted: Thursday May 25, 2006
My good pals Brian and Anna sent me these 2 pics of them wearing my Night Owl shirt! ...
Posted: Friday May 12, 2006
Random, unsorted things rolling around upstairs:
...
Posted: Wednesday May 10, 2006
I just dropped this fella in my links , but its so amazing I’m double-posting it here as well. Stunning, beautiful, entrancing short film…
Posted: Sunday May 7, 2006
Hey, head on over to Styletax.com and get yourself a t-shirt with my drawings on it! ...
Posted: Sunday April 30, 2006
Ive been a big fan of Everday Okay’s work for a long time, and today I got all their films on DVD …
Posted: Friday April 28, 2006
The booty from my People’s Choice win is starting to arrive, piece by piece. ...
Posted: Thursday April 20, 2006
Its for real, and free, and it works. ...
Posted: Wednesday April 19, 2006
Getting my passport today – or at least filling out all the paperwork…
Posted: Tuesday April 18, 2006
Sometimes an album comes along and hits me with such force that I feel like I need to sit down for a while and take stock of what just happened. ...
Posted: Sunday April 16, 2006
Hey! Big update over at the JunkForest blog. I am just beginning to do a PODCAST for that film! ...
Posted: Tuesday April 11, 2006
AMAZING! – Deep Six is #1 in the Music category right now! Woo! Thanks for watching, folks!
Posted: Friday April 7, 2006
Great news today! I’m going to be teaching for 2 weeks this summer at Holmsted Manor ...
Posted: Thursday April 6, 2006
What I have learned from my recent jobs: ad agencies hate you ... updated with fresh annoyances
Posted: Wednesday April 5, 2006
Watch it lots and lots! Tell your friends!
Posted: Thursday March 30, 2006
Im very happy to announce that Deep Six has won the People’s Choice award over at TGSNT III! This is super cool. Thanks to everyone who voted for me.
Posted: Sunday March 26, 2006
Today’s music blog: 3hive. Linking ya up to the new and savory out there in indie-music-land. Really good stuff to be heard here, kids – all free and legal downloads, collected in one spot so you dont have to dirty your hands digging. (thanks to bw for the tip)
Links:
3hive Blog
3hive podcast (iTunes link)
Enjoy!
Posted: Saturday March 25, 2006
Sorry the entries have been few and far between lately – Ive been working like a dog for various paying clients. ...
Posted: Tuesday March 14, 2006
Ive recently started using Apple’s Garageband as a sound editor, since I dont really want to spend the $$$ for an app that I will only use every once in a while. ...
Posted: Tuesday March 14, 2006
“Yo, Yo, Yo. Tizzle to yo frizzle for shizzle. Im the shizzle no dizzle.” – Anonymous
Posted: Friday March 10, 2006
Tonight my “special” friend and I are going to attempt to witness a true Arkansas oddity, the infamous Spooklight with our friends Ben and Virginia. ...
Posted: Monday March 6, 2006
Deep Six, my latest film/music video for Herva is up for online voting at THE FLUX’s iPod Video Film Festival!
Posted: Wednesday March 1, 2006
Last post I vaguely talked about how things are shaping up so that I can maybe soon (well, realistically more like within a year I bet…) start to make my own films for a living. Well, I decided to write about this again and be more specific this time, since its a big deal and I’d like to share…
Posted: Wednesday February 22, 2006
Man, things are getting interesting lately. I probably shouldn’t say too much about it yet, because its all up in the air still… But the pieces are falling into place, and it looks like I may be on my way to becoming a “filmmaker” officially! ...
Posted: Monday February 20, 2006
... I had been thinking that a miniature TV would be perfect for this kind of a thing – and a few weeks ago I found one in this rad thrift shop in fayetteville.
Well, I gutted it and Ive been picking away at making the layers that will be installed inside of it. ...
Posted: Thursday February 9, 2006
Heres something I’ve been noticing lately in internet-land… that many sites are cool with using Flash’s built-in video player skins these days – even more artsyfartsy and professional sites. ...
Posted: Monday February 6, 2006
Last weekend I had some friends over to watch this old Russian fantasy movie Sadko and we were all sitting on my futon enjoying ourselves when suddenly there was a tremendously loud pop! and we all fell backwards
Posted: Friday February 3, 2006
Hello kids.
Get on over to this year’s Greatest Story Never Told contest, and cast your vote for my latest short/music video, Deep Six!
TGSNT III ...
Posted: Tuesday January 31, 2006
... Im usually just fine listening to my music or whatever through my computer speakers, since they arent too shabby themselves. BUT! I just discovered something tonight in the latest version of iTunes. ...
Posted: Wednesday January 25, 2006

I made this guy today out of pixelblocks. ...
Posted: Monday January 23, 2006
Here is some concept art, sketches, and video of the raw pieces of the Deep Six video…
Posted: Thursday January 19, 2006
My friend Kirk D hooked me up with a surprise package today at lunch containing 2 cans of Pibb XTRA (Does “Mr” Pibb exist anymore?) and a big bag of Red Vines. ...
Posted: Saturday January 14, 2006
I am super pleased to announce that my latest film/music video for HERVA, “Deep Six” is premiering today on the FlashTV podcast in iTunes! ...
Posted: Friday January 6, 2006
In case you didnt notice, I fancied up the header at the top of the site because the first one was always kind of a temporary hold-over (in my mind) until I had time to make a really cool one. ...
Posted: Thursday January 5, 2006
Idea: Make a Shadowbox with layers of depth!
Cut foamcore into multiple frames of the same size. Also cut the acetate into the same size (or slightly smaller). ...
Posted: Thursday January 5, 2006
I “modded” my desk today. The size of keyboard tray has been driving me crazy since I bought this desk. Its barely big enough to fit my keyboard and mouse together…
Posted: Tuesday January 3, 2006
I entered a t-shirt design to an up-and-coming European t-shirt shop called Styletax after they wrote me asking if I would, and I found out today that they accepted my design and are going to print it! ...
Posted: Tuesday January 3, 2006
Today’s near-death experience
Casey and Traci are letting me use their washer and dryer while they go to England to work for Innovista. I have hook-ups for them in the cavernous and mysterious back room in my apartment, so we put them back there and tried to get things going. ...
Posted: Monday January 2, 2006
Well hello there. I just got back from California last night, so my Christmas and Knott wedding adventures have ended and Im back home to my studio in Arkansas. Man what a fun trip! I put up some photos, so check em out. ...
Posted: Thursday December 22, 2005
This morning I was checking my morning news sites and whatnot in NetNewsWire Lite and Wired had an article about music discovery websites that use this much-hyped “web 2.0” technology…
Posted: Tuesday December 20, 2005

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE HERVA MUSIC VIDEO LIVE
(22mbs, Quicktime 7)
Posted: Friday December 16, 2005
Greetings area friends!
I wanted to drop a note in here (at the last minute kinda) to say that tomorrow night @ City Coffee Co. HERVA is playing a show – opening up for The Listener!
Posted: Thursday December 15, 2005
Well, theres no avoiding it, I’m 27 today. ...
Posted: Saturday December 10, 2005
I think my hair is getting straighter as I get older. I dont know what it means…
Posted: Saturday December 3, 2005
Ive been working on a music video for my friend Herva for the past 2 1/2 months or so, and its finally nearing the end. ...
Posted: Saturday November 26, 2005
I need to get some grading done for the class I’m teaching, and I decided it might be a nice change of pace to go a coffee shop in fayetteville called the Perk, bring the iBook in and get it done. Of course it wasn’t that simple…
Posted: Saturday November 26, 2005
Eric Chase Anderson: ...Imaginary events can be shared experiences, too. ...
Posted: Thursday November 24, 2005
Welp, it looks like things are back to normal around here… I will soon begin regular transmissions and whatnot…
Posted: Friday November 4, 2005
Hello. This site is currently having lots of problems. Thanks for your patience. We’ll get her back up asap.
Vance
Posted: Friday November 4, 2005
Woke up in a funk this morning, and didn’t really shake it off until this evening. I went for a drive tonite and cranked some old Starflyer59…
Posted: Wednesday November 2, 2005
New links section added to the site. Check em out.
Posted: Monday October 31, 2005
A couple weeks ago, I received a call from the head of JBU’s digital media department asking if I would be willing and ready to teach 2D Vector Animation class there at the school immediately, since the prof who had been teaching it was having heart troubles that were serious enough to warrant open-heart surgery…
Posted: Monday October 31, 2005
I know what you are probably thinking. You’re probably thinking, ‘Doesn’t this joker already have that one blog? Oh, and that OTHER blog too?! Doesn’t this guy…