Yang T'ai Chi

A sketch I did in my all day class. The instructor told many colorful stories while we sat and listened.

My day... (an ellipses kind of day)

It's an ellipses kind of day. You know, it's not a good day. It's not a bad day. It's just...

An emotion undefined by words. It can only be summed up with three little dots...

So much can fit into those little dots...

It's not that I'm sad. I'm just...

I'm not overly happy, either- just kind of...

Hmm...

More films are coming...

The Galilean Satellites- Callisto!

Finally! I feel so neglectful of poor little Callisto. I got my firewire cable in the mail on Monday and re-rendered Callisto last night.

Callisto is the final film in The Galilean Satellites series. She is silent. This film was complete magic toward the end. I had not quite expected the results that I got, but I was awed by them.

Callisto is also one of the most heavily cratered bodies in the solar system. Jupiter's gravity attracts comets, meteoroids, and other objects and Callisto, being far away and tectonically inactive, bears thousands of years worth of battle scars. She also has the lowest density of the Galilean Satellites and it is thought that there might be an ocean beneath her rocky crust.

The imagery consists of liquid crystal paints and rubbing alcohol (like I said, magic). Enjoy:



Click on the above image to watch the film in Quicktime or go to Callisto on blip.tv to see the film in flash video format. Click on the title of this post if you would like to know more about the film.

You would think a thing would be easy...

...until you find that you have no cables that work with any of the equipment that you have (despite the fact that you have a lot of cables).

In the meantime, you can check out my famous neighbor's pictures that made it onto the local news! That's our house behind the deer!

If you can't be a famous artist, become the muse of a famous artist. Or at least the neighbor.