Tenebrous Rex

07 October 2008

Also

This picture is awesome. Like, so awesome. At this point, I think we were very hot and tired. I could be wrong though, this could have been in the morning, we rode the subway all damn day. Wouldn't change it for anything though.

Shinjuku Arcades + Pics

Slapped this one together last week. Arcades from the 2008 trip. NEW FOOTAGE! I'll be working on a few more of these.

Street Fighter 4 is EPIC! I should have played that more. That Silent Hill light-gun game was pretty fun too, though, it took all the creepiness out of what makes Silent Hill, you know... Silent Hill.

ALSO: Here's a TON of images from our trip mostly taken by Jacy and Jess. I was busy filming and Rick was busy being an unhelpful mustard-hating dumbass-american.

Building an Illustration

So I'm doing an illustration to be placed in a friend's book. Jess and I have been building the "set" since last weekend. I took a few shots of it as it is now. We're almost done and the mood is starting to become very apparent.

The last time I did anything like this, I was in college, illustrating a short story my mom wrote. It's exciting to get back into it. I'm enjoying it, even though Jess would argue it's like pulling teeth getting me to work on it.

Kyoto Vignette

Here's the first, in hopefully a few, small video vignettes of our trips to Japan.

I've built a new PC and during which I had my primary video hard drive start making the clicking noise of eminent death. It's being RMA'd as I type this. Anyways, I got everything off of it before it died but unfortunately, I have no room to ingest (a Jess word) any of the video from this past trip until the new drive arrives. So, essentially, the short of it is, this is from last year's trip. Deal with it, Ricky.

I ate that thing.

Oh and also, I went to Japan again, which is where Jess took this:

I think it's safe to say we all had a blast. It's a little disorienting to be home, at least for me. It seems to take a lot of adjusting. I'll write a blog proper here soon about the experience. Needless to say, we did it up bigger and better this time.

In other news: I have a computer ordered that I need to build and a shit ton of video to edit.

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Seriously though, I ate that thing. And looking at it again, in that picture up there, makes me want another one SO BAD! WTF is wrong with me? Chicago, your airport sucks ass-nards but your hot-dogs are from another dimension!

TWO DAYS!

It feels like it's been forever getting to this day and finally, it is upon us. As I've stated before, the stage is set, we all know our lines. We're ready to go.

I must confess, I'm feeling the pre-flight jitters pretty hard at the moment. I want it to hurry up and get here. I want to look out the window of our 757 and see a thousand tiny cars and houses below, fading into the gray of low hanging clouds.

Tonight Jess and I will pack and do a quick clean of the apartment so we have something nice to come home to. Tomorrow we drop the boys off for 10 days. I'm going to miss them. Jess will miss her early morning love sessions from Baby Pino. :( They will be in good hands.

Wednesday we fly.

I can only imagine an adventure awaits.

EDIT: It's getting overwhelming as the day goes on. I'm pretty much useless here. I mean, I'm working, but my head isn't in it. It's across an ocean.