VVVV to da bone!

Joa! my first well executed experiment in VVVV. I got VVVV wandering around my computer for a couple of months right now, but did not dare to use it yet. Today was a tutorial massacre.



I'm trying to make a 'coded' animation for the personal 15 seconds animation exercise. It's all about pushing boundaries.

"Writing exactly the phrase hello world is crucial to the positive completion of this tutorial. You owe this to programming history, so don't be childish."

From the VVVV website

Motion Week

For every classmate their second, but for me my first week. And were getting off where I'm best at. Motions! We had two lectures on Monday and Tuesday. And I took the oppertunity as well to give a microworkshop on Motion Tracking. Then they gave us two exercises, one group motion and another personal motion. The group motion had to be done today, and had to last 60 secs.

So actually we got two days and a tuesday afternoon to realise this group motion, and in the meantime we were supposed to work on the overlapping Information Soceity project as well (in short: calling agencies in Asia at 6 in the morning..). We managed. As I was the most experienced in doing Motion Graphics in my group I took the role as Art Director and guided the groupmembers along the process and After Effects. Also I tried to function as a Helpdesk for the unknowing classmates, but yesterday I took the service out of order after a crash and not saving for like 4hrs...

A lot off classmates took the oppertunity not to sleep and stay at the Häktet (the prison; our building) working all night. I actually got myself some good nights of rest and I managed a small hangover when I had a couple of beers with Aina, Kristoffer and Andreas (the Widman, not the Dagman) the other night.

The catch: interesting groupworks and tired faces.

Here is ours (on which I would like to thank my groupmembers Rebecca, Alva, Johannes and Frederik for their hard work as zeroexperienced motiongraphers!):

SEPO (and how i manage to survive)

Yes. I'm staying here. I had a good chat with the Hyper officials yesterday. And they want me to stay here as much I want too. So I got their support, no discounts, but supports. They are going to try to contact the 'IB groep' and 'Nuffic' to talk some sense to them. If everything works out fine, I will get my deserved loan (denglish) and live up to the swedish standards.

If not, than we will figure some other way out. They offered to forward me some interesting freelance jobs that could cover my living expensenses. Here my parents jump in as well, they are really supporting me really much, and as much as I need. I finally can get this weight a bit off my mind. And even my classmates are supporting me in the ways they are able. (buying me beers and such). It's so nice to get all this support from everyone and I want to thank everyone. So this SEPO is devoted to all these enlighted souls!

(and yeah I learned to say the word kladdkuk quite quick)

FIPO!

So I'll start off beeing geeky right away. For those who never seen the lights of internets shining from their screens, a FIPO is short for First Post, a popular saying in teh forum cultures. (saying 'teh forum cultures' and 'the internets' can be measured in the same amount of geekyness).

Duckburg & Internets

Jumping in on the internets, the internets at our 'Duckburg' castle are quite slow, I will never manage my great scheme to download them all! Our humble homeowner Bosse has moved his router around the place, but the signal is still poor. We suspect the dozens spiders running around the house of evil internets draining conspiracies.

Duckburg is the place where I live right now, with three other Hypernauts (Jocke, Johannes & Max). We called it duckburg because the place is stuffed with stuff, and in special porcelain ducks. But I can't complain. It's really nice, the homeowners took care of everything and we've got everything from porcelain ducks, over a hundred pieces of cutlery and a great amount of swedish lecture to a dishwasher, a piano, beautiful views and a swimming pool.

Tonight were are going to celebrate duckburg and the fact im staying with tacos & wine. I will post some more info's about Hyper and my most interesting life as soon as I learned to say "kladdkuk".