NYC Marathon 2010

Level 1.
Crossing The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn

I signed up to run the this year's NYC Marathon with Team in Training. So yes I will soon ask for donations to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for my eligibility to race. My goal is to raise 3,800. 00 for LLC. I truly hope you all can afford to be as generous as you were last year.

I've decided to animate background pans based on the 5 boroughs. For each donation marker reached I will add a new borough (or level for gamers) and the finished result will be crossing the finish line on Central Park West. I hope you all think this is a great idea.

As for my animation, work, and life.... well I'm trying hard to be positive. It's really not always easy. However, my stencil animation will debut on adasport.com within the next week or so. I have a new animation to board and animated. I've also applied to a small grant and studio space with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. I can't imagine getting it on the first try, but at least I have an artist's statement to apply for more grants. Part of me wants to go back to school. Part of me wants to join the ny police academy. The police academy dream is really a civilian alternative to joining the navy for the purpose of surviving boot-camp. Speaking of the military...

My very tall baby brother Marcus is being deployed to Iraq this week. I'm going down to San Antonio to see him off. I'm both excited and scared. I've never been to SA and will be staying the first night alone. That's the exciting part. The scary part is that I'm worried about him.

grammery park painting

This painting has been rolled up since 2004. I just pulled it -along with everything else- out of storage. I can't afford to store my old paintings, record players, animation bond and suit cases anymore, so I rented a car by the hour, got lost for a few hours and brought the stuff back to my studio apartment.

First I used hook and wire as a pulley system.

Then I used the hollow closet sliding doors to add more ground to the dresser for standing the latter.
This was actually maybe the stupidest thing I've done in this apartment. I should have had a spotter because the doors were very weak and I weigh a lot. I had the saddest crash pad made of sofa cushions and laundry bags. I'm sorry I didn't take a photo of that.

Urban Stencil

Here a few storyboard frames, still frames and a production picture from my animation project. It's about 40 seconds long and will play on adasport.com website in the near future. I will be promoting it like crazy soon. The deal is my animation is apart of a dance contest where animations compete "you got served" style. Each day two animations go at each other. The public votes and the winner stays for the next day and competes against the next contender. Like Star Search. So I will be hounding everyone for their vote.