UBIQ

Long time no update

Germany pictures:
[here]

Canada is freaking awesome. and so is vancouver. :)

as for the UBIQ video, i've got the reel footage, and will be uploading to youtube and linking here in a bit.

Germany (in 36 hours)

it's monday night, which means that i depart for Germany on my 10 day tour in about 36 hours.
tomorrow, i've got to pack everything up, and make sure i've got the power adapters for the camera charger.

and then i'll be off to the airport to enjoy Deutschland in full. :D

UBIQ at the senior showcase

The senior showcase is coming up this Wednesday, and I'll have a couple of my pieces on display, most notably, the last project for ID that Laura and I made. :)

So I'm looking forward to finishing up this video render of it so it can play on a loop at the show along with a couple of printed pages showing the rendered project.

The senior showcase is this Wednesday at the MID building (4141 NE 2nd ave, Miami, FL, 33179)

Come check out the show!


—Post aus mein iPhone

i fail at updates.

so the schoolyear is coming to a close, my class trip auf Deutschland ist drawing near, and so is my voyage to Canada to get ready for school. (so when those come along, expect a metric tonne of pictures to follow)

in other news: over spring break, i learned 3D, and ran with it.

that's a render of a room i created. everything in it is modeled from scratch in 3DS max and rendered in Vray.
you can see some other projects here:
[alfa brera project]

[ford mustang]

also of interest, my final ID project is under way. i'll reveal more after the first critique by ms. K.
all you guys can know now is that it's a collaboration between me and laura, and it's gonna be called UBIQ.

oh dear....

these deadlines are really catching up with me.
time to put it into overdrive and kick up the turbo.
*sigh*

Whoops!

i've completely neglected this thing. eek! here ya go:

And so my vacation comes to a close. Argh. I’m sitting in the Syracuse international airport as I type this, with nonfunctional WiFi. Whatever, I’ll just upload this when I get back to ol’ MIA… which is a huge amount of time away. Since we’re in Podunk little Syracuse, they’ve got no direct flights to Miami. We’ve got to take a small connector flight across New York State to JFK airport in the big apple, a three hour layover, then we go on a huge jet for two and a half hours to MIA. Our flight gets in at 11. And we left the cottage in the rental at 9:20. That’s a good fourteen hours of travel. Fun? I don’t know about that. Speaking of fun, OH MY GOD. Canada was absolutely amazing on every possible level, except for the bugs, but they were overly friendly anyways. Let’s see… the last I wrote I was what, august 4^th? CRAP! That’s a lot to catch up on. Four places. Columbus, Niagara Falls, Syracuse, and Harrowsmith.

Let’s get started then, shall we?

Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Pulling into Columbus… was interesting. The only thing it’s got going for it is that it’s the capital of Ohio. Why? No clue, Probably because it’s dead center in the state. It’s kind of Podunk-ish, not very big, dumpy in areas, et cetera. It’s stereotypical Midwest. The only thing really big city about it is a small corner, a building called “broad+high” has a couple of Times-square-like-videoboards. CCAD [the Columbus College of Art and Design] is quite small, in a good way. It looks a bit older than CIA in Cleveland but it’s still quite nice. Our hotel was right across from the Ohio State Fair, which inevitably means I got some great shots of the fair at night. We found some interesting things to do, including but not limited to Germantown in Columbus. Dinner at Schmidt’s Sausage Haus, and shopping at the Fudge haus next door. The food was AMAZING. Really, really amazing. *gasp* and then the chocolate we got afterwards. Home made. Dark. German. Chocolate. Need I say more?

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Then comes the 7 hour drive to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. [we had consulted numerous parties on the issue and were unanimously told that the Canadian side was hundreds of times better, and the US side was nothing but a disappointment] amazing fun in that convertible. Crossing the border was fun too! A short trip across a bridge and drive to a toll booth looking thing, and bam: the lady at the border crossing promptly says “Hello, Bonjour!” and thus everything from now on –every sign, every product –is subtitled in French. (it’s one of their official languages, doncha know?) everything from the big red maple leaf on north was metric. YAY! EASY CONVERSIONS! Niagara falls was a bit touristy, and honeymooney. Very honeymooney. The big thing there is in room Jacuzzis. Yeah, even the Day’s inn we stayed at had one. Tacky much? Whatever. The flat screen TV more than made up for it.

The area was touristy, but once you get to the falls, it’s amazing. I’ll let the pictures describe it, but being there in person gives you this aura of being in the presence of something great. The mist is quite dampening, but there’s a thunder, a constant rush of noise. Pretty. Very pretty.

Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Syracuse was fun. We stayed at my mom’s friend Karen’s house. My mom was the maid of honor at her wedding and I was the wing bearer. They have quite a nice split level in Syracuse, along with two wonderful cats, and a DEVIL DOG CHIHUAHUA FROM HELL. The thing would not stop barking at me. Not once. Non. Not even once during my stay. It went biserk, bat shit insane on me. Crazy. Insane. Devil dog. Argh. That, and Karen’s husband Keith, who owns a specialty beer store. We visited the store before we drove on up to Canada to get some creative Beers, or “Craft beers” from independent breweries. Fun labels, such as “Arrogant Bastard Ale” and “Shakespeare Stout”

Oh, yeah. Canada. It’s so amazing it warrants a separate blog post. Yeah, I’m making you wait. :)