I got in last night from San Diego after a crazy weekend at Comic Con! I did some video coverage for Destroy All Podcasts, which includes a whole ton of robots and general nerdery. Observe: Destroy All Podcasts — Comic-Con San Diego 2010 from Star St.Germain on Vimeo. I’ll have another post coming up with […]

Wikipedia defines rotoscoping as: Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films.  This technique is often used to avoid doing a motion test– which is, in my opinion, the most frustrating part of doing animation. A motion test is the process of testing […]

Yesterday, this piece got posted on Metafilter. In case you don’t want to click through, here’s a screencap: The basic gist was this: There’s a group of girls that blog about their life/art/fashion trends. – Is this a movement? – Are they friends? – Is there a name for this? My first thought was in fact, OH […]

Since I just returned from the Black Rock desert, and Burning Man is coming up… I thought I’d share a few of my style tips and tricks for rocking out in the desert. Boots. I cannot stress enough that boots are your friend in the desert. Sandy feet are nice at the beach, but in Black […]

I recently saw this flyer on the counter at a restaurant I go to all the time: I was immediately drawn to the ornamental design, but was taken aback by the deliberate censoring of the very information the design was supposed to be communicating.  This led me to flip it over, hoping the info I needed […]