Byron Levene: Art and Photography

Moving out

2011-09-19T05:51:00.000-07:00

Hi blog-o-bots, I mave decided to purchace a domain and so I will no-longer be maintaining my blogger accounts. Im slowly phasing out my other content and moving it all to byronlevene.net. for those interedted it is a wordpress powered site.. thanx

Tavernology 101

2011-07-16T22:22:00.000-07:00

I did this vandalism of the McMurdoch log back when I was a student there, now that I work for one of McMurdochs competitors I dont know if posting this will come back and bite me on the arse

Snuffy's drug habit

2011-07-09T07:32:00.000-07:00

A mate was looking for a pic of snuffy for his FB profile but he said he couldnt find the right one--SOUNDS LIKE A RULE 35 TO ME

UPDATE: I like this one better

One mans trash is another mans lover

2011-06-19T04:25:00.000-07:00

I was walking down Hampton Road last year when I came accross this pile of rubbbish--Often I do collect junk from the roadside (Computers, TVs, Cars, et al) but this was one thing I would not touch--no even with someone elses dick. I sent them into the Worst of Perth blog as it does certainly qualify.

the GIMP is on tablets

2011-06-07T03:37:00.000-07:00

having the week off work is good to relax and dust off the old tablet... started colouring in this self portrait from earlier...

UPDATE: nevermind

New Art; Old Muse

2011-06-04T21:01:00.000-07:00

those who know me know Storm has been a huge influence on my life, and after meeting up with her again after all these years I needed t do some sort of new art for my greatest muse...

the pic was sent to be from her phone and I used GIMP and inkscape as the productivity suite for this..

low-light photography

2011-05-19T08:21:00.000-07:00

My reason for including this pic now--considering it was taken in 2004 was I was going thru some old pics on a hard drive and I didnt find the one I wanted...

points to note:

this was not taken with a flash
this image has NEVER seen photoshop--tho I did resize it in gimp prior to posting on the web
ISO was 800, hence the grain

also there are "auxillary" issues that add to this pics meaning atm

Layer Masks

2011-01-18T05:18:00.001-08:00

Knocked these layermasks up at work today rather quickly, they can be found on the UNDA website

SVG Slideshow

2010-09-14T22:58:00.000-07:00

Im trying out the picasa slideshows thingy, yeah way to articulate. It will probably remove some of my early pics as I have mooved them out the blog album..

whatever

Ci Logo in Bryce

2010-07-02T20:02:00.000-07:00

I havnt used Bryce in years, the materials editor is amazing and so easy to use--not like the surface editor in Lightwave... anyway thyese few quick renders of the CI logo are from Bryce6

UPDATE: I changed this to an embeded slideshow as this seems to be one of the more popular posts on this blog..

Rules 34 and 35

2010-06-19T08:31:00.000-07:00

I dont normaly do rule 34/5 requests, im too old for that, but I was bored...

Arsenal

2010-05-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

I put together this room to houst the revolver and some other ordinance im working on

Little pink dune buggy

2010-05-13T08:36:00.000-07:00

This is my first attempt at modeling a car... I could probably salvage the tires..

Photoshop Phun

2010-05-09T07:52:00.000-07:00

Truth be told this is not photoshop, not even the GIMP. No, for SOME strange reason I decided to use a VERY OLD copy of Macromedia Fireworks. WHY???? I dont know, so dont ask. The pic was created in a rush for a FB group I belong to. We all hate Warrick Cappa, so this wont get me sued or anything... (one hopes)

Its not ment to look like a work of art--its ment to look like what it is, a very crude attempt at photoshopping so dont get all on my case about how shity layermasking it is...

this is going to end up getting very silly....

Max modeling: Revolver

2010-03-27T00:45:00.000-07:00

These two renders are from some "weapons training" im doing lol. I hope to get a nice arsenal built soon..

Lightwave renders: wall project

2010-03-11T01:57:00.000-08:00

fake products

2010-03-11T00:00:00.000-08:00

I gave no description for these when I posted this, tho some words should accompany:

WHUPT

Ci Logo in max

2010-03-06T00:00:00.000-08:00

Have been Learning Max--brain not work well. need medicine. Breathe. Repeat.

Wacom & Photoshop

2010-03-05T23:57:00.000-08:00

There are some real nice wacom tablets in the labs--much more sensitive than mine..

Lightwave renders: BabyDragon

2010-02-26T01:50:00.000-08:00

Im learning 3DStudioMax at uni but I dont have the software at home--so this little speedrender is done in lightwave

Texas George Roughs.

2010-01-28T10:42:00.000-08:00

Im spreading out some of the posts that have more images, so things arew ordered a bit better. I have mentioned Texas George before, below are the roughs:

Internet Troll

2010-01-18T13:49:00.001-08:00

I use this charichter as my facebook pic when ive been doing the odd spot of trolling...

DeviantART

2010-01-18T10:59:00.000-08:00

I have added a few more pics to my devianArt profile, and drew (lol) some attention to the search for your rights cause in the process...

I have also been making updates to my personal site, which contains content from a couple of my blgs--including this one. Feel free to check it out

Miss Crylon 1998

2010-01-13T19:25:00.000-08:00

Miss Crylon i drew circa the late 90's

Sexy Ink

2010-01-13T19:20:00.000-08:00

This was in an earlyer post but after editing my blog i decided to give it its own..

A nice cup of tea...

2010-01-13T11:46:00.000-08:00

I blame Lesn for this. A friend posted on facebook a status update about the stupid groups we all join, as I was enjoying a nice cup of tea at the time I decided to create a tea related group...

A nice cup of tea is better than an evil one

Wabbits

2010-01-12T03:52:00.000-08:00

this is the first time i have pasted an SWF and i might need to lookup how others do it cos--im doing it wrong

was bored...

2009-12-21T08:18:00.001-08:00

something a little more recent..

Photography: down the beach

2009-11-10T21:56:00.000-08:00

Was a bit bored so went for a stroll down the beach with the camera...

Shot the dog!

2009-11-08T19:26:00.000-08:00

My friend has a new puppy (well its a year old now) and she wanted me to take some pics of it... now the rule is never work with children or animals and if you ever have then you know why. after a few shots howeverr the pup figured out what we were doing and started to pose for the camera--animals arnt that stupid!. Anyway--heres a pic or two:

I didnt get enough decent shots and all in all I wasnt happy with the results I got--but it was a good learning expirence: Shooting on a beach is best done in the morning (if your on the west coast), and hold a tenis ball where you want the subject's attention focused... that could work for children also, but kids arnt as smart as dogs.

Lightwave Stuff: CI Logo

2009-11-06T17:50:00.000-08:00

an early 3D model of my Cartenz Interactive logo

PowerHause: Part 1

2009-11-06T17:31:00.000-08:00

Down the road from where I live is an old abandon powerstation, a sapre of the moment decission was made by Amuck and myself to shoot/paint for the day. Now technicaly what were doing here is illegal but... fuckit!, tresspass and vandalism are about the last of my concerns. Im just after some good pics, im not out to destroy anything...

not like whom ever torched this old datto... or those that just chuck there cans in away... when we got there there were already some kids down there painting, this guy climbed up on the beams, to give you an idea of how high he is check the pic below. and ofcorse the beautiful beach behind the powerstation...

Photografitti: Amuck37

2009-11-06T17:21:00.000-08:00

I got in contact with an old friend a few months back--he's one of those damn grafitti guys, Amuck 37. Anyway he asked me to take some pics for him for his up-coming book and here are a few of the happy snapps.

Lightwave Stuff: weapons training

2009-10-21T05:08:00.000-07:00

Below are a few early renders of a weapon im creating for a mod. there are no textures yet and there needs to be a bit more modeling done but you can start to se it...

Here is your pen sir

2009-10-19T19:38:00.000-07:00

I wont expliain what this drawring is for... it will become clear soonenough!

No Description

2009-09-10T06:04:00.000-07:00

this is not relevent

2009-08-25T19:59:00.001-07:00

unless you know about hacking ATMs???

Banana Hostage Negotiations

2009-08-18T08:21:00.000-07:00

I knocked up this first image in Flash (my new cs4 edition) for a "hypothetical" site I may or may not be building for my cousin. Since the site may or may not, probably not ever get used i decided this banana could have his own life--if only short and tourtured. Ill post an update on him soon.

Brisbane on the weekend

2009-08-15T13:22:00.002-07:00

this I didnt finish--in more ways than one, I think a little bit of ink and some washes may pretty her up a bit.

The CI logo

2009-08-15T13:01:00.000-07:00

The Cartenz Interactive logo; Where to start... well its a "C" and an "i" united in both negative and positive space... I wont paste anything out of the corporate style guide--as Im still working on it but I think the logo looks pretty shmick.

I started to do the tracing of the roughs in illustrator, but due to the problems saving .ai files I ended up exporting it as an .swf and finishing it off in flash--which makes sence since its for a flash development outfit.

This is to games development

2009-08-04T14:52:00.000-07:00

as somone who enjoys playing actionscript, I thought id look into building one of those shittty facebook games--Im addicted to Mafia Wars!. But I wasnt goig to go in this alone, and knew I needed a trace artist id im going to have to learn how to develop a game from scratch. I emailed one of my facebook friends who I had worked with doing Aerosol art back in the late 90's andthen singed up to facebook developers... the bastard had alrady signed up to that app... and his game I dea is better than mine! so pissed off I grabbed the tablet, and dropped this: this is not graff... not in any sence of the word

Pub Heros

2009-07-31T13:11:00.000-07:00

If I flicked the Flash on quick enough, this would have looked awsome...

UCMPOS: The Gig they tryed to stop

2009-07-31T12:56:00.000-07:00

well due to arseholes and voilence, the gig was stopped short. But I managed to get a few pics before some SKANK TRIED TO SLAP MY CAMERA OUT MY HANDS.

here are some random pics from the night, once I go thru the shoot properly I'll post some more.

UPDATE: I decided just to embed the whole picasa album for that night--includes all pics

My Bros

2009-07-31T12:49:00.000-07:00

Took a couple of pics of the boys at my birthday drinx. everyone here I have known over 20 years so if you feel offended that I didnt invite you--I remind you that the ones that arnt hardcore crims are dangerous sociopaths. BAYSII BOYZ

Peolpe CANNOT BEHAVE PROPERLY

2009-07-31T12:30:00.000-07:00

EDIT: dont blog when still drunk!

No Respect Part 1: Stormboy is oldschool

2009-07-31T11:19:00.000-07:00

People today, IE: GEN Y's, have no respect. NONE. There is so many examples of this I saw tonight that it makes me want to get back on the drugs and start knifing people in the throat again. Im fuckin serious. Luckily I had my camera with me so I am able to present SOME of theose examples of NO FUCKIN RESPECT. Take a look at what some GenY arseholes did to StormBoys artwork: now I dont particularly like StormBoy, I think there are better people in Perth out there doing Graff--but thats only MY OPINION, I would never cap someones work, because that is disrespectful. Whom ever capped this, every last little one of them; deserves BEATINGS!. back in the old school days we knew about respect--and IF RESPECT HAS TO BE BEATEN INTO THE KIDS OF TODAY THEN IM HAPPY TO SERVE THE TIME!

my mind is allover the place today.

2009-07-27T04:20:00.000-07:00

This is 06, but i touched it up prior to scanning it. This is 04, i can tell because it says so in the top right.

Kevin

2009-07-26T11:41:00.000-07:00

I didnt finish this one, but even Kevin does conceed that it does have a resembleance

2B or not 2B

2009-07-26T11:36:00.000-07:00

No, im quite certain that these were all done in 2b... I may edit this post later, I just had to get jen of the first post EDIT: (That did not take long) I forgot that tags. even more female masterbation--hopfully this gets me some hits

my psycohlogist is a Jungian

2009-07-26T11:34:00.000-07:00

I stoped drawring this shit once I got the internet back on...

Time of my life

2009-07-26T11:29:00.000-07:00

This may have to be explained (which means it isnt any good): Its an arm with lips and toung, having pills poured into its mouth. do you get it now? I had to explain it on Deviant, and thats fellow srtists. Oh, I had the time of my life...

Colour Pencil

2009-07-25T20:33:00.000-07:00

I gave it a go colouring in Jen (I told you its not Grace!) in photoshop and wasnt happy so I took the original and gave it a treatment with coloured pencil.

shopped! shopped!

2009-07-25T20:27:00.000-07:00

This was srribbled on the back of one of my lecture pads, id say circa 2006, its had the curves adjusted to get the background white. This is a detail of mixing up, after some cropping and curves adjustment.

Miracles Happen

2009-07-25T20:25:00.000-07:00

This is my friend Eugene, he is ironing his shirt. this is a modern miracle so I had to capture the moment.

Graphics Tablet: GIMP vs PhotoshopCS2

2009-07-20T14:04:00.000-07:00

well well well. I suspected it may be the case, and it is both sad and joyous the events that took place in this battle... oh cut the crap. GIMP kicks photoshops arse when it comes to drawring with the tablet, this may be due to... NOPE, GIMP WON FARE AND SQUARE. Today is a grand victory for open source. If only the GIMP would scan!

I dont drink brass monkey...

2009-07-20T13:54:00.000-07:00

Like to be funky, Nick-Knack Eazy-E, Yo 8Ball junky... ...police are on my draws, I have to pause, 40oz in my lap and its freezing my balls

Torture 101

2009-07-20T13:49:00.000-07:00

we only took these pics to scare Jake a little, it wasnt really part of my photography assignment. why I submitted them I will never know?

Hand Maid

2009-07-19T06:41:00.002-07:00

more female masterbation... Im going to have to animate her one of these days.

Penthouse for sale

2009-07-19T06:34:00.000-07:00

I did this back in college and it didnt make the cut for the final project, why Im posting it is because the penthouse of the building pictured is on the market. ofcorse it looks better than my drawring here. for those fellow texta enthusiasts, this was done entirely with a TRIA process black. BTW: when I was at jacksons the other day I was informend that they are nolonger stocking tria's :(

There a pest. they must DIE

2009-07-18T20:55:00.000-07:00

Some people find it hard to belive that Roos are a pest and need to be kulled. When I was working for the Department of Environment I asked if I could get involved with the roo kull on Herrison Island, I was told no because I did not have a Departmental Firearms Licence. I said I didnt need one because I wasnt planning on shooting the roos, I was going to kull them the TRADITIONAL WAY. (with the roo bar on the front of the hilux). you can probably guess I didnt keep that job long. EDIT: I had just started to trace him up in illustrator when the power went out. DAMN!. Im going to try and find an old copy of ills to put on the laptop because this is starting to get rediculus!

Suzie

2009-07-18T20:22:00.000-07:00

Suzie. this was the first chick to ever let me draw her naked (circa 1999)

Pool Comp: the flyer they didnt want you to see

2009-07-18T20:01:00.000-07:00

this was done with a whiteboard marker that was on its last leggs. I love using markers that are near death, flogging the last drop of ink out of them. I love new juicy textaz too...

Friends I never see

2009-07-18T19:48:00.000-07:00

I thought I had already added young lesn here: This tries to recapture the scene when lesn was passed out on my couch at my 21st(we stuck a screwdriver in his ear, then hadcuffed him to the couch) Marcus here does not smoke pot. he just gonna bug you for a cone. (this is one of the few times I have tried to draw with a ball point pen. horrible things they are)

Modern Art

2009-07-18T19:39:00.000-07:00

Out of all the scribbles I have posted on this blog, the most recent have been from 2007. I decided that I needed to put pen to paper and get some more recent shit on here. So a short journy down to Jacksons to pick up some supplies and here are the first couple of skribbles i have done in a long time. This is a self portrait--and YES MY HANDS REALLY ARE THAT BIG! (huge!, my hands are HUGE!) I didnt bother captioning this one because:

A. I had something else to do that seemed more important

B. I couldnt be arsed explaining that this pic was me tryoing to recreate an earlyer pic the way I intended it to be in the first instance and then linking to said post

C. It really isnt worth mentioning at length

I do have to go back to jacksons thou.

404 hijacking

2009-07-17T06:20:00.000-07:00

I put together some custom 404 error pages for my site, but after installing google toolbar i found that they nolonger work. Im looking into a solution but it will probably be one of those things that will be taken out of the next version of google toolbar. does it in chrome too. EDIT: It only does it if your custom 404 page is less than 512b. mine WAS, larger, but for some reason (Dreamveaver being gay) the file that ended up on the server was a blank document??? though there is much debate on the topic, I refuse to get involved (just yet)

Gabriel

2009-07-17T06:07:00.000-07:00

Before anyone comments that here tits are uneven, id like to point out that her TITS ARE UNEVEN. (its the only sure way to tell if there real without tasting them)

2009-07-17T05:50:00.000-07:00

these two are from aroud the same time (a time when I was using a green pen for notes at uni). Im so glad i finaly got clean

My love of ink...

2009-07-16T23:39:00.000-07:00

this is ment to be a self portrait from when I still had a beard. We all loved the beer angel. The typical Juliette Lewis lokalike I always draw.

look for Oscar

2009-07-16T23:26:00.000-07:00

This started life as some ink spots tah bled thru from the page above, a friend challenged me to make a Dot-to-dot and it resulted in this dude. I like this, the main reason is because I forgot to put 'R' in colour, but I still remembered the 'U', which is more than some people not looking at anyone in particular AMEICA.

Jenny and Suzie

2009-07-16T23:17:00.000-07:00

A rough sektch of Suzie: Thase that know me will initialy assume this is Grace. it is not the case. The truth is I didnt draw many pics of Grace--she may have been my girlfriend but she was never my muse. this pic is of someone (no, she didnt pose for me--this is what someone hypotheticaly looks like naked) I did actuly have who it was written there but on second thought its probably not the best of ideas so I changed it on edit. I also coloured the pic, will post soon.

Stoned Teenagers

2009-07-16T23:07:00.000-07:00

I captioned an earlyer pic "insert stoned teenagers here". well back by popular demand--here are the stoned teenagers Courntey and Lucy.(well they were teenagers then, it was a while ago.) now when I removed the above pic from my scap book I noticed on the reverse side: obviously I didnt like this enough, or liked C&L better.

Texas George: more peices...

2009-07-14T06:18:00.000-07:00

I was looking for ages last month for any files related to Texas George, and just then by accident--I was just so happening to be using Vista's friendly search utility to find another old .FLA when i found a working rough of the entire movie, so I exported the oil rig out the libary--about the only thing that I bothered at the time to make its own SWF... anyway, since you cant post SWF's here I have placed it on my sites server. Its for the background so its not ment to be hella detailed.

Google Chrome: Love and hate it

2009-07-09T05:04:00.000-07:00

Ive been using chrome alot latley, and I love the fact you get more srceen realestate, but im not happy that the java plugin keeps crashing, and highlighting input boxes is annoying, but when those bugs are fixed its going to be great. The best thing is it supports flash right out the box. I f you havnt tryed chrome then download it now and check it out.

Freehand

2009-07-04T15:19:00.000-07:00

I dont think i have EVER used Freehand (does the product even exist anymore?), Ive used Fireworks alot in the old days, Dreamweaver plenty, Flash--well that was the whole reason for purchasing the Marcomedia studio set. but freehand? i dont think i ever even installed it. but I will tomorrow. If you have been following this blog you may have noticed that Illustrator is giving me probems at the moment and I just picked up a tablet so I want some sort of SVG app to draw penis's. I read in a book i brought on studio MX 2004 (dont ask WHEN i brought that book) that Freehand is sensitive to tablets--I can empathise!. some pills you need to take with vodka just to take the edge off. Ok, i was ment to limit insane posts to the discourse blog. here is an ASCII penis till then 8====>

Someone watches too much simpsons

2009-07-02T02:05:00.001-07:00

I walk past this car most days, the starfish must have been added sometime earlyer this week: EDIT JULY 14: the starfish were not on the bug when I walked past today... one was hanging out at the front of the church though.

Dueling Ahead

2009-07-02T02:01:00.001-07:00

This made me laugh: I forgot to rotate this one before shrinking it... oh well

Alien Land

2009-07-02T02:01:00.000-07:00

These backdrops were for an animation back in the days befor MX. Now its CS4 running AS3--Im years behind and have a long way to catch up. This one got a bit of water damage.

Welcome US NAVY

2009-07-02T01:50:00.000-07:00

Here is a sign we ERECTED just for the US NAVY: (is realy City of Cockburn but framed for your arse)

July to me

2009-07-02T01:37:00.000-07:00

Most posts in June were old stuff, I was spending most of last month trying to find a couple of rich web assignments I did back at uni (but I still never managed to find them). I was thinking yesturday that if its sunny tomorrow then I'll take the camera down the beach and get a shot of C.Y.O'conner (no pun intended to those that know WA history). The dunes were being rebuild by some contractors and not wnating to get in the way of an excavator I decided to head down to the power station--I didnt get there today because I noticed on the horizon that we were being invaded. The zoom on the lens couldnt get any closer--but that is an aircraft carrier. I went into town to get a closer look. There was a destroyer in dock: why we let a forign power park their navy in one of our smallest civilian only ports both puzzles and angers me. Our navy dont berth in Freo, so why should the yanks. (we all know the reason but wont admit just how corrupt the world realy is). anyway. i took some vetter pics today, some dont have an angry leftis political point of view.

cartenz with a K

2009-06-30T11:57:00.001-07:00

This is rare, to find a piece this old of mine--and for it to have carten spelled with a K!. Even though it isnt artisticaly any good, it desreves its own post for its rareity.

Old grafitti

2009-06-28T10:09:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of scetches from back in the 90's when I still thought this was cool: There are stories behind both, but I cannot be arsed telling them, I just wanted that chick to nolonger be the first post. I may edit this at a later date. And today is that later date. Its a lie, there are not sotries to them both. only one has a story, the other is a work of non fiction. guess which one has a story behind it? go on, dare ya!... the latter was part of a large sheet that ended up becoming home made "acid". Dont ask.

When... Somthing... Something... lost its fun--

2009-06-27T16:14:00.000-07:00

--You're fuckin learning!. EDIT: Bite my lips and close my eyes, take me away from peering eyes... somthing somthing somthing somthing somthing somthing. Some-thing something somthing, some-thing something somthing. you know it would be easyer just to google the words to greenday. Is it important to note that this is not the only pic of female masterbation on this blog?

Hardcore Pawn?

2009-06-27T16:10:00.000-07:00

A friend once asked me to "draw some hardcore pawn", so i drew him this... ...Oh, now I get it. PORN. Same dude.

Towser!

2009-06-27T16:06:00.000-07:00

I drew this whilst he was still alive. I cant wait to own a house so I can have a dog again. somtimes ink isnt sexy, sometimes its sad.

Chuck Taylors

2009-06-27T15:56:00.000-07:00

This was part of a college assignment, these two didnt make the final. Years later, in 2007, i was at centeral TAFE in perth to see some buddist thing and one of the exhibits of the TAFE students works about the place was exactly the same thing. Arts students and Chuck Taylors, whoed of thunk it???

Swimsuit...

2009-06-27T15:38:00.000-07:00

This was the first swimsuit pics I was asked to take, I wasnt alloud to use my own camera thou I had to use hers(still ended up with the pics). I wanted to post the first nude shoot but the subject, she's now a lawyer. (thou she thinks I have already put them online so... maybe sometime)

Go Charger!

2009-06-27T15:28:00.000-07:00

I have a habit of taking photos of nice cars with my phone. I took these on the same day, two completely different orange Chargers in two completley different parts of town. This top one is the Australian version, i took the pic with my phone--hence why the quality is shocking, was outside the chemist in you know where... This second one was parked nar me here in fremantle, this is the yank version, decked out in Duked of Hazzard drag.

I like ink!

2009-06-26T23:17:00.000-07:00

Here is another pic of Suzie... This one is just some Graff that got a bit crazy...

There is a story behind this...

2009-06-26T23:11:00.000-07:00

But do you really want to know? ok, the... no... there is no way I can make this sound good.

Old stuff for the spindle of backups: Gouache

2009-06-26T23:06:00.000-07:00

These three I thought id slip in while nobody was looking. Not my greatest pieces for sure.

Stormy below was originaly ment to be some dude doing the Im too cool look, but somwhere I fucked up and so I terned him into Storm.

I really hate this one.

Nazi Pigz Fuk Off

3D

2009-06-26T12:45:00.000-07:00

These two renders are from when I was learning 3D, the girl is not one of my creations, I downloaded her(legaly) but i cannot remember where from. I used Poser and Lightwave to create the scene. and If i knew what I knew now i would have just used Lightwave. I have posted too much this month already.

more J102 pics: Nature

2009-06-26T11:06:00.000-07:00

Below is a pic taken at Lesmurdie Falls (at the bottom--not the falls bit ofcorse), I got a little wet but ~~the~~ that EOS survived that expedition. Heres one from out my front window at my old place RIP: Canon EOS 1000F 1992-2006 Long live Canon EOS 450D 2008-present

The Flash... (da-da-da dadada)

2009-06-26T10:54:00.000-07:00

(If you laughed then your old) the up till 6am has finaly paid off--well almost, but im not going to exert myself. I have got a basic layout of my flash site, althou I still have to get a CSS happening, and I want to add another text feild... OK, if im up till 6am this morning somone please shoot me. (or sleep with me LOL). Ive also added a new page to my testing site, but thats no cause for celebrations.

even more J102 pics: Crime

2009-06-26T10:26:00.000-07:00

The theme here was Crime. I didnt intend for it to work out like that but one noght walking home (when I still lived in Bawswater) I saw a lone sock on the side of the road, to the Ive-lived-my-whole-sheltered-life-wrapped-in-cotton demographic this means nothing--a lost sock. To somone who grew up in a nice place line Bawswater it means that there has been burglaries afoot (bad pun alert). What thiefs do is they remove there socks to use as gloves when commiting "B&E's". I wasnt going to take a photo of such evidence but I could hear a noise comming accross the night sky... It was the sound of polair 1, the police helichopter (somehow i lost a colour channel when uploading???). A few days later when walking to a friends house in Bayswater I noticed this neighbourhood watch sticker laying in a vacant block... I needed a few more crime shots for the assignment so I took a pic of it. You cant always rely on luck, so I staged the next one with a pair of handcuffs i aquired from a female friend and handcuffed my friend Jex to a chair. (i will post the pics of us tourturing him with a chainsaw, but Im thinking this post is getting too long--LOL)

Frogs

2009-06-26T00:06:00.000-07:00

The frogs were another Art College project, heres the rough and below is what it looked like after being put into illustrator. because I was still learning vectors and wasnt satisfied with the generic vector look. So i printed out the illustrator image and touched it up by hand. you live you learn.

Old stuff for the spindle of backups: J102 Photography

2009-06-25T14:36:00.000-07:00

Heres some more Photos from my J102 Folio 1, J102 was Intro to Photography at Murdoch untill they changed the unit codes--its now like MUL124 or somthing? The idea here is to depict annonimity. The phoe booth in question was common place for junkys to score. Above is Zac, he released a rap album at the time and I shot some promotional pics (and the music video). This is another pic from when I had Zac in studio B at murdoch.

Old stuff for the spindle of backups: My First Flash

2009-06-25T14:22:00.000-07:00

Since were being reminicant this morning, I thought I may as well post this little guy here. he was my logo (awsome corporate identity eh???) from 1998 to 2002, as you can tell I get much serious clients back then--but when your that young its hard to understand how the business world works. hell even now I struggle. he was originaly drawn in illustrator from a working rough, his flanno (plaid shirt, for those not farmiliar with the language of Bogan) was a scanned texture from a shirt I wont admit to owning. he was all good for a logo but i wanted to animate him... so this was the first Flash I ever undertook. I didnt understand how tweening worked then so i frame by framed the motion in his finger. the choice to output him as an annimated gif was so I could also use him as my yahoo profile pic (you understand why I wanted to animate him now?). I do realise its a sad state of affairs to reminiss about the internet before web 2.0

Old stuff for the spindle of backups: Photoshop

2009-06-25T13:57:00.000-07:00

this is some reeeeeeeallllllyyy bad photoshopping!. Guranted this was done on Photoshop 5.5 back when whe were still worrying if our computers would survive the new years celebrations... (Interesting sidenote: I had a broken wrist on millenium eve so I stayed home--and yes I spent the night online. At around midnight my local internet connection dropped out for a few hours and the only way I could get online was thru adobe.com???--my ISP in '99 was iinet so i'll just blambe them) Anyway, I was just learning Photoshop and Illustrator back then and heres some pics I tryed to colour in photoshop: This design was originaly drawn in pencil for an Aerosol project for an unnammed municipal council. You may (if you have visited before) have seen the pencil drawring of my room in a previous post. I just coloured the background to this one, I decided Illustrator was her destination.

A quick knock up

2009-06-23T05:31:00.000-07:00

Im considering animating this little guy but Flash is annoying me at the moment.

more J102 pics

2009-06-23T05:16:00.001-07:00

This is Garret Road Bridge that crosses the swan river in Bayswater, you can tell i needed to clean the lense on that old EOS. Yes they are both on 35mm. This is under Garret Road bridge, the pic was taken at the same time (well slightly after) the above pic, but is shot with a night as day style with long exposure and closed apiture. a techneque i learnt at Murdoch