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Helped bill move
ate pasta
bought shirts
planning 4th festivities
procrastinating

Posted by at 4:06 PM | Permalink

mfop is a wonderful tool for
moblogging!!!
i will be putting this through it's paces this week!!!

Posted by at 8:36 PM | Permalink

Neato-keen!

Posted by at 8:32 PM | Permalink

riding the metra in to the city this morning, I listened to a guy from a printing company talk about his trip to Tokyo. He talked about the cost of 2 BLT's at the Hard Rock Cafe ($70), the cost of 2 Kobe Beef dinners ($305) and how cool the bullet trains are.
He also had many nice things to say about how respectful the japanese are. Weird coincidence since Chuck takes off from O'Hare for Tokyo in an hour and a half.

Posted by at 9:20 AM | Permalink

I saw this movie right after seeing a digital projection of Spirited Away at McClurg in Chicago. The movie itself is fabulous, but the projection and its dust and scratches really, really bothered me.
Anyway. That was months ago. Yesterday, tracey brought the new 2-disc DVD set home for me as a gift. Yay me. :) Combine that with my new laptop and I am a fairly happy guy. The DVD looks fabulous on the Wega. Mmmmmmm. I love the size of a movie screen, but few screens around here treat movies as they need to be treated. My wega on the other hand looks fabulous and I don't have to leave the house.
Anyway.....
The bonus materials disc is kinda thin (a fake commercial, 1 long form and 12 short form music videos or vignettes ["Scopitones"] and more artwork) but the film itself is worth getting the DVD.
I just now also got around to looking into who did the wonderful art for the movie. Jeremy Blake. Amazing digital animation and video work. This site is kinda hideous but has some good info. I will try to dig up more links later.
More Jeremy Blake Links:
Digital Utopia by Elisabeth Kley, from ArtNet.com

Posted by at 9:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

heading to the metro (first time in a looooooooooooong time) with alex (nano) to see the plan tomorrow night. yay me.
Hopefully i will have some pics to put up late tomorrow night or friday.
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well, i felt like shit thursday and came home, had a hot shower, some ibuprofen and laid on the couch. alex said the show was amazing. I will try to get some pics.
feh

Posted by at 9:04 PM | Permalink

I had a bbq friday night. It was fun.
This guy was not there. This guy was, though. What a prettyboy. ;)
Also, mike helped me scan a bunch of pretty balloon slides for my new piece, so hopefully it will shape up better than the previous sketch.

Posted by at 6:57 PM | Permalink

I have finally started on a new video piece. This is extremely rough, out-take-ish quality material, but that is OK. It is a start. I am working with some photographs of hot air balloons taken by my grandfather.

View the sketch:
sorenson
mp4

Posted by at 11:11 PM | Permalink

hi all (all 2 of you. ha!).

I am working on some slick new director stuff with mr multimedia superstar himself and we are rapidly approaching cool demo stage. Yay. Look for it soon(tm).

Also, more game-ish stuff coming up, hopefully to be exhibited installation style next summer at flatfile, but shown up here on my site soon(tm).

Also, I just quit my day job so i have much more free time until I settle in to a new position. mmmmmmmm. imaging lingo here I come.....

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