Vance Reeser

LAST POST

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.

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Announcing W.I.P.!

I’m really excited to announce my latest hair-brained scheme, W.I.P. aka Works in Progress!

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Channel VR?

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. …

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It is Finished

17 months and 21 days later, animation is complete on ’Project X.‘ More info to come when its available.


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Life and Work

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. …

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Dream Project

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.

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Hairdid


Haircut Timelapse from Vance Reeser on Vimeo.

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Today's Stars of the Lid moment

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New Painting for sale!

Check it out over at my Etsy store!

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Recommended • Issue #4

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. …

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Recommended • Issue #3

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. …

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What is Happening?

So, I haven’t been blahrging too much lately, and for that you have my deepest heart-felt apologies. …

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Photoshop Brushes

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Possible print and/or t-shirt design

What do you think of this drawing? Would you wear it on a shirt?

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Selling Old Software

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

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Recommended • Issue #2

Today’s pick: Odd Nosdam – Level Live Wires

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Google Checkout

Recently I bought iLife '08 from a guy on this Mac Swaplist for $50. He insisted we use Google Checkout, a service like paypal that I'd never used before, and I said sure why not. After getting my money, the guy went completely silent for a month ...

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2 birds

Dear Yokel Diary,
On my way to get some food last night I was driving behind a car that had one of those yellow "Support the Troops" ribbons stuck to its back panel. ...

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So i made this new site...

A while back I decided that my sites (blog and portfolio) needed a good refreshing. My problem was: many times people would ask me where they could see my films or see my portfolio and I would say, “Vance Reeser dot com... uh, then click portfolio, then look around for the piece youre looking for.” which was usually followed with ...

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Welcome to my new site!

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!

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Recommended • Issue #1

This weeks picks: “Milieu – Milieu” & “Miles Tilmann – Melt”

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Air Gut

Dear Yokel Diary,
My girlfriend told me about a large man who entered her cafe the other day. ...

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JunkForest TV Diorama with light!

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Well I finally got around to setting up a light inside of this Diorama …

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Pink Elephant

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?) ...

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Brain Fog

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. ...

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An intro to “Yokel!”

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!

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Mini RC Helicopter


My new toy (youtube link)

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DEVO Show 1978

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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.

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Be Honest

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…?

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RSS

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.

New feed

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Creating horizontally vs vertically

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!

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Twitter

I just joined the coolest nerds in school clique today I think. Im not sure…

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Grizzly Bear

This band sort of snuck up on me slowly and deliberately… but dang it all if I cant stop listening to Yellow House!

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Life update

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.

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Vapor re-stocked!

Hey I did a bunch more copying, cutting, folding and gluing of my Vapor mini-comics recently and they’re up for sale!

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Help

Help. Please. I’ll mail you a drawing!

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Swamped

Man alive I’ve been spending too much time animating the same short film …

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Dead Log shirt

New shirt design!

GuysGirls

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What is that I know what that is

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!

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Vapor shirt

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…)

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Black Cat

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. ...

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Look Around You!

yootoob link

Hilarious stuff. (Thanks Jon Kendall for the link this morning.)

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Today's Free Music Find

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

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Animation lovers rejoice!

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 …

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New Stars of the Lid

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Selling the iBook

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!

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Jurado Illustration

I did a Damien Jurado illustration for the excellent music site daytrotter a while ago and it just saw the light of day today. ...

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Technique

“Technique becomes transparent over time.” – unfortunately I cant remember who I heard say this recently…

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Drawing Kids

I kind of feel like I’ve developed these clichés with how I draw certain things… The way that I draw kids especially. ...

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Miyazaki Fan models

Somebody in Japan has made an amazing model of a guardian robot from Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky – from scratch! ...

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More ambient music finds

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Vapor is a finalist in TGSNT IV

Vote for my mini-comic!

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Today's music finds

Found lots of gooooood downtempo electronic music today. Enough so that I thought it’d be worthwhile to share. ...

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Taste

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: ...

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Vapor #5-7 available now!

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.

Buy them on etsy now for $6 + $1 shipping (in the US)!

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Minuscule

This shouldn’t work, and it shouldn’t be hilarious, but it is. Incredibly well done CG + real nature “cartoon.”

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Art Babbit grizzly bear animation

Just read this article about Art Babbit, an animator at Disney until the 40s. He was asked …

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Hermit dance!


heh heh…

Make your own here.

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Bear Hunt is on Atomfilms

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.

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Buy Vapor #4!

Get it now on Etsy.

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Current Dilemma

Should I eat? Or should I…

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Redneck Chickeneer is up!

My new Threadless shirt design is up! Check it out.

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Redneck Chickeneer

Hey kids. Here is my latest idea for a Threadless t-shirt submission! The title is going to be “Redneck Chickeneer” I think.

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Vapor #3 is out!

Buy it on Etsy!

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The Man Who Planted Trees

Beautiful

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Buck 65 - Dirty Work EP

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.

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The Waif of Persephone

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! ...

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Vapor #2 for sale now!

Check it out!

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Yuri Norstein's latest animation

Yuri Norstein is one of my favorite animators, and he finished this film around 2003 for a Japanese animation compilation “Winter Days.”

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A quick poll

How much would you pay for a Vapor mini-comic? (poll)

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Herva in iTunes

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 $$$.

Herva – The Phantom Power

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Buy my first mini-comic!

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! ...

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Deep Six gets Frederated!

Channel Frederator is playing Deep Six in today’s episode, #52. ...

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My first portfolio

Ha! I found my first website/portfolio today whilst digging around… I didnt realize it still existed.

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Threadless: Nocturnal Expedition

Vote for my submission so I can get a random prop from The Science of Sleep signed by Michel Gondry! (+ $ and other stuff) Thanks.

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Twice Upon a Time

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A feature-length cartoon made in ‘83. I need to see this at higher quality! Wow, inspiring stuff.

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Warner Herzog eats his shoe

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(youtube link)

Amazing. Educational.

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Stump & Branches #2

“Wasp Attack!”

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Mike Warnke

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…

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New Comics Section!

Hey ev’rbody! This blog just grew one whole section today. ...

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Stump & Branches #1

“At the Office”

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Deep Six Wallpaper

Hey I made a Deep Six wallpaper/desktop today. ...

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The Adventures of Stump & Branches

I’m messing around with an idea for a Flash comic. ...

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Wiiii!

Its finally official – the Nintendo Wii is coming Nov. 19th! I cant wait to play this thing…

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Toast 'Em!

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. ...

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Bro Face

A goofy little flash time-waster I built… I only scratched a tiny chicken peck into the surface of the bro lifestyle.

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Thundercats are LOOSE!

Wowee-weewah! No wonder I loved this show! This is maybe the most amazing action-packed cartoon intro ever. ...

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Vote for Deep Six!

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! ...

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So its been a while and stuff

Got some time today though. So an update on the life and times. ...

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Road Trip

Its time to saddle up the Whispering Banshee and make enough peanut butter sandwiches for 2 weeks! In other words – Road Trip. ...

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Secret Allergy Remedy

A friend of Harm’s told her about this secret, strange way of beating the pesky allergies you might have. ...

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ARE MOKKELBOST

Tired? Listless? Lost? Confused? Burn out your eyes and ears on this guy’s work…

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Grandaddy

I love me some Grandaddy music, so its kind of sad they’ve called it quits and stuff. Oh well…

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Deep Six on Nicktoons!

Woo! My Herva music video, Deep Six is a finalist in the Nicktoons Animation Festival! ...

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Buck 65 mixtape

Mr. 65 and I go way back to his early days…

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Lawn Wranglers - 1

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A great reference tool

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 …

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Imaginary Interviews

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? ...

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Pixar's Cars

... 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. ...

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The Science of Sleep

The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry – Finally, a movie I actually want to see!

Oh yeah, and Borat too. ha ha …

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NASA + Buddha Machine

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…

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Bravery

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.

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Bear Hunt site v.2

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!

The Bear Hunt v.2

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Site Maintenance

Hey, doing some tinkering on the site over the weekend – things might break occasionally.

Thanks,
The Management

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Floaty Guts - Threadless Submission

My Threadless.com Submission

Hey! Vote for my new threadless shirt submission!
Thanks very much.

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Back in the US

Welp, I made it back to the states in one piece Saturday night …

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Noah + Oscar

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!

View the Quicktime!

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London

Today I went with 2 of my students Kayla and Brad (brother and sister, aw) to London to see the sights. ...

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Deep Six wins again!

I just won an award for Best Animation at the Swansea Film Festival for Deep Six!

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Time for a break

Today has been nice and relaxing…

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Done with Dreamweaver! (mostly)

Hey loyal readers. Thought I’d write an update to what all has happened thus far in my English teaching adventure.

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Made it!

I arrived into London around 9:30am (London time)...

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About to leave...

So I leave for England tomorrow around 1:30pm. Im in the process of packing and making sure I have everything ready…

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Funniest Pic Ive Seen in a Long Time...

I just had to post this: ...

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Buddha Machine

Heres a short clip of me hitting the hot streets of siloam with my buddha machine emitting its magic from my shirt pocket. ...

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<3 Deerhoof

I have the biggest crush on Deerhoof right now. ...

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2 Happy Customers

My good pals Brian and Anna sent me these 2 pics of them wearing my Night Owl shirt! ...

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Random thoughts

Random, unsorted things rolling around upstairs:
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TYGER

View TYGER

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…

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Styletax shirt is available!

Hey, head on over to Styletax.com and get yourself a t-shirt with my drawings on it! ...

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Sick

Sicker than a sick dog tonite. ...

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Everyday Okay

Ive been a big fan of Everday Okay’s work for a long time, and today I got all their films on DVD …

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Prizes are rolling in.

The booty from my People’s Choice win is starting to arrive, piece by piece. ...

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Be my Blingo friend

Join Blingo as my friend!

Its for real, and free, and it works. ...

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Passport

Getting my passport today – or at least filling out all the paperwork…

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Thoughts on: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

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. ...

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JunkForest podcast?!

Hey! Big update over at the JunkForest blog. I am just beginning to do a PODCAST for that film! ...

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Deep Six is #1 on atomfilms!

AMAZING! – Deep Six is #1 in the Music category right now! Woo! Thanks for watching, folks!

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Teaching in England

Great news today! I’m going to be teaching for 2 weeks this summer at Holmsted Manor ...

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Current annoying client requests:

What I have learned from my recent jobs: ad agencies hate you ... updated with fresh annoyances

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Deep Six is LIVE on AtomFilms!

Deep Six via AtomFilms

Watch it lots and lots! Tell your friends!

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Deep Six wins people choice!

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.

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3hive

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!

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Workload

Sorry the entries have been few and far between lately – Ive been working like a dog for various paying clients. ...

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Garageband: sound editor?

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. ...

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Tizzle frizzle shizzle dizzle

“Yo, Yo, Yo. Tizzle to yo frizzle for shizzle. Im the shizzle no dizzle.” – Anonymous

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Spooklight tonite

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. ...

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The Dictator

...oh, man I want this watch...

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Deep Six iPod Fest

Deep Six, my latest film/music video for Herva is up for online voting at THE FLUX’s iPod Video Film Festival!

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Flickr

I’m doing the Flickr

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Atomfilms etc

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…

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Becoming a Filmmaker?

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! ...

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Junk Forest mini-TV

... 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. ...

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Flash Video Controllers

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. ...

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New couch and chair

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

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Deep Six is a finalist!

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 ...

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Sound

... 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. ...

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My new work buddy


I made this guy today out of pixelblocks. ...

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Deep Six Behind the Scenes

Here is some concept art, sketches, and video of the raw pieces of the Deep Six video…

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Pibb + Red Vines = ?

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. ...

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HERVA video on iTunes

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! ...

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New header thing

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. ...

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Today's idea

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). ...

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Desk Mod

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…

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Big in Europe

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! ...

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Dryer Plug

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. ...

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Trips

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. ...

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last.fm and home for the holidays

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…

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HERVA Video live

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE HERVA MUSIC VIDEO LIVE
(22mbs, Quicktime 7)

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HERVA live show

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!

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Happy bday to me

Well, theres no avoiding it, I’m 27 today. ...

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Hair confusion

I think my hair is getting straighter as I get older. I dont know what it means…

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Moving...

Im considering moving…

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Herva vid almost done

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. ...

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Butt-Rock Coffeeshop

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…

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Quote

Eric Chase Anderson: ...Imaginary events can be shared experiences, too. ...

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And we're back...

Welp, it looks like things are back to normal around here… I will soon begin regular transmissions and whatnot…

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Tech. difficulties

Hello. This site is currently having lots of problems. Thanks for your patience. We’ll get her back up asap.

Vance

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SF59

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…

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Links

New links section added to the site. Check em out.

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Professor V

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…

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The internets just grew one blog today!

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…

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