Dragon Boat Festival at Festival Beach. Lady Bird Lake, Austin.

This is what happens to your command key when you are an editor and motion graphics designer. That is an actual groove, not a dirt smudge.

A little short piece I animated this week:

Click here for more details on how I did it.

I bought a Fotodiox Lens Adapter so I could use my old Minolta glass on my Nikon Digital SLR. Here are three of the first few images I shot in natural light on my old Minolta MD 50mm 1.7. Love that speed! It’s cool because I have to shoot completely manual with this old lens, and it looks a little funny to have an old manual focus and aperture lens on digital SLR, but it’s so much fun.

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf’s a flower.”
- Albert Camus

I animated one of my company’s product logos to see how crazy I could make it:

“The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” -George Bernard Shaw

There came a time when it was necessary to wipe away all that cluttered his life. To polish once filthy floors, to dust the walls, and to string lights that focused their illumination on the things he clung to. He did this to rend the concealing curtain of his thoughts from top to bottom, and drag his secrets out into the light, face them, and then again wipe these away. To relax he might later fix himself a drink at the newly varnished bar. He rode the line between zen enlightenment and human frailty with ease, and he knew once a room is empty it is never long before it is filled again. The drink would help.

One evening in Fredericksburg, when the air was cool and the wisps of clouds hung like cotton draped between heaven and earth, a young man stood beneath the shadow of a church belltower and prayed that years from now at the end of his life he might look back and see it had been like this old church: weathered, rusted, and experienced, and maybe once in a while letting out a little chime or two to let passersby know of his joy.