“What was probably going through my mind is this sense of what I call “digital nervousness” — that every little aspect of life these days involves navigating some digital system that forces you to act both perfectly and arbitrarily to suit its needs.”
New Commisioned Poster Art
Just finished up a commissioned Poster for the Portland band We Are Parasols that I am super happy with. A bit of a breakthrough piece for me for a few reasons. This is the first fully creative piece I have made since recently switching to a new Windows machine from Puget Systems for my full time environment. The Mac be dead people, move on sooner than later. I also contribute the new PC workstation with helping light and build out this set since it is so damn fast. Full on game changer for me. So many more possibilities with a system that does not choke and crash in dense scenes. Another reason is it just looks super damn cool, wheee! Really happy with the feel of it. I kinda had a breakthrough with Octane Render and understanding the node network and it's slightly quirky take on displacement as well.
Been a hot minute, lol!
Been super slammed with work since coming back from vacation, glad we snuck one in this year. Some fun things going on though. Currently, my imagery is being used for the headers on both the Retouching subreddit and the Cinema 4d one. Nerdy but fun.
Also, my band New Not Normals is playing Friday the 6th at The Firkin here in PDX. Head on out!
Back from vacation
Just got back from a much-needed vacation in Hawaii and we caught a bit of the storms in Maui and were trapped behind a landslide causing us to miss flights and do the travel rebooking shuffle but we left the day before they really hit hard. We were in Hanalei on Friday and on Sunday it was flooded and the roads were washed out. Pretty crazy. Here's to hoping all the folks there are OK. That footage is so crazy.
Music! New Not Normals Live at Kelly's PDX
Just finished mixing a live recording of my band New Not Normals playing live at Kelly's Olympian in PDX if you all wanna get some music in your lives. Check it out!