Moil's Ink

Well if you haven’t seen the Double Rainbow phenomenon then you can see it at youtube, and while you’re there you should also watch the remix by the talented crew behind the amazing auto-tune the news.

If you haven’t heard I’ve been singing in a reggae band, Brehdren, and the other night someone brought up Double Rainbow. Not everyone had seen it, so as dedicated musicians we immediately dropped our instruments and watched it, and then the remix and then immediately took a break to soak it all in. During the break  Ian (guitar)  wrote a bouncy likkle jaunt on guitar and upon returning from the break we wrote and completed our Dub Rainbow song.

CHECK IT OUT IN HIGH-DEF

It was recorded with a live mic straight off the floor the third time we played it. It happened so fast we had no idea what had just occured. I immediately asked Darel (bass) to copy it to my USB storage. After a weekend with the kids and a few days of exporting, importing and transferring, the high-definition masterpiece was complete.

If you can’t fix it, feature it. We couldn’t fix our lack of budget, time, and labour, so we’re featuring it in full spectum crayon. This is in fact the SECOND crayon based animated music video I’ve created. Check out the Frog Song in the Boomcity.Biz gallery, which also featured Darel on the bass and myself on vocals, recorded well over 15 years ago.

Since the dawn of my career, some 15 years ago, I’ve been working with digital media. I started out at my favorite film making bootcamp GIFTS and am currently having a blast working at VanArts, the Vancouver Institute of media arts. Lately, on top of my role as an instructor for the Digital Photography dept, I’ve been producing short films for the VanArts website. Currently the videos I’ve been producing as well as other awesome movies can be seen at VanArts Vimeo channel, and after that you should check out GIFTS video gallery for some short film distractions.

In an effort to teach my daughter about media literacy, I manipulated this image of her and aged her approximately ten years. It is truly amazing how people in magazines are created these days and ever more amazing how much we believe them to be real people. As the title of the Boomcity.Biz website states “EVERYTHING YOU READ IS TRUE” and if you believe that have I got an offer for you!

This ‘font’ has had it’s feelings hurt and now it’s fighting mad!

My good friends at Critical Hit Comics have done it again. Joining a national crew they’ve contributed to a multi-story graphic novel entitled ‘Acts of Violence’. This collection focuses on crime stories and old skool detective comics, and dispite it’s title is not over-gratuitous in it’s gore, but the subject matter is definately for mature audiences. Extreme blacks and whites, purposefully devoid of colour and a rare spattering of grey now and then, ‘Acts of Violence’ is a collection of art, and there is nothing comic about it. From the writing, to the artwork, layout, lettering, even the brilliant packaging and cover art all work in perfect tandem for a graphic novel anothology every arm chair detective should have on their shelf.

Who’s your daddy?

Just finished marking some papers.

RIP is up for a GENIE award for Best feature documentary!

Watch the film online at the NFB website!  Brett Gaylor’s 6 year project regarding Copyrights and Intellectual Property Ownership and how it needs to be re-evaluated. Open Source Cinema was the seed of the project where contributers could remix the film, add their own two cents and be a part of the manifesto (you still can help as the film was designed to evolve and not end). So please check out the film and then add to it, make your thoughts and passions regarding copyright be heard.

I created this image with Escape Motion‘s FLAME. Such a remarkable thing to create so easily and result in such magnificent imagery. This is truly an amazing way to create pictures. Make sure you check out the gallery as well, to me it was proof this isn’t just some kind of online drawing toy, but a really amazing new digital paintbrush.

Reviewing my more recent posts you can find a series of vector line drawings I’ve been creating with Illustrator. I’ve been really happy with the results. Then I’m shown this free online drawing tool that makes what I’ve been doing look like the London 2012 logo (ick!). I’m gonna have to raise the bar sooner than I planned.

There isn’t a happier Moil in a hundred thousand miles. Top row is the drum machine, second row includes the strings, next row controls the upper and lower keys, and various other switches and bars throughout control the sound of the pedals, add bass backup, one switch even holds the keys down for you. Once the bedframe is attached this thing will take me to places only H.G.Wells could dream up. I kind of wish it was both, Commodore Hammond AND General Midi, now that would be Space Rock 2010.

These are real objects, made from cardstock and glue, printed from a PDF. The PDF’s will soon be made available to the general public so you too can build your own Boomcity.Biz logo for your desk.

I recently was surfing the web for one thing or another, and ended up on a website called Superpunch. A collection of oddities from around the web blogged about. From there I discovered papercraft. Specifically some Starwars related papercraft. I built the Millenium Falcon, R2-D2 and the TIE interceptor. The Starwars ships are like toys that can be recycled. Much better than plastic, but with less moving parts.

Then I read about someone who used the papercraft concept to create a replacement part for a speaker stand. They modelled the object in the computer and converted it into a paper craft, built and then covered it in epoxy. Plastic-like replacement part. So I decided this was cool, downloaded Sketchup and Pepakura. I’m not sure what I might use this for, but I like the concept a whole lot.

I think we may start seeing some interesting objects appear around Boomcity soon.