Hourly Comic Day 2010

These are my comics from Hourly Comic Day 2010. They’re a lot like last year’s, only with less excitement and adventure. You can view them at Flickr or the HCD Forums.

These comics were completed in Seattle, Washington on 2010-02-01.

Boxplay Poster

Boxplay Poster

Here’s a poster I did for Boom! Theater Company’s production of Boxplay.

It was completed in Seattle, Washington on 2010-01-05.

5 Jan ‘10, 6.15pm PST PST

AE Suicide: After Effects Crash Recovery

When running Adobe After Effects under OSX, it is possible to attempt to force a crash recovery if the application become unresponsive. I’ve written a script to make the process a little more painless.

The Script


set procName to "Contents/MacOS/After Effects"
set grepCommand to "ps -ef | grep -i '" & procName & "' | grep -v grep | awk {'print $2'} | head -1"
set curPID to do shell script grepCommand
if curPID is not "" then
set killCommand to "kill -SEGV " & curPID
set result to do shell script killCommand
end if

Stand-Alone Version

You can export the above AppleScript as an application to keep in your Dock, or download a prebuilt version below:

AE Suicide 1.0

Credits

AE Suicide was written based on a technique outlined here:

Adobe After Effects CS4: Optimize the Pipeline

Thanks to Eric Bauer for first turning me on to this trick and Paulo Dias for help with testing and designing the icon.

AE Suicide was completed in Seattle, Washington on 2010-01-04.

No Standing

This is a proof-of-concept short I did to test out some ideas I have for my final thesis project. There are still a million little errors and problems, but I’m ready to move on to bigger and better things. It was completed in Seattle, Washington on 2009-12-17.

Shakespeare Showdown

This is the final result of the Shakespeare Showdown project (http://shakespeareshowdown.com/), in which people voted through several rounds to determine the most tragic figure in all of Shakespeare’s works. It was completed in Seattle, Washington on 2009-12-15. The rest of Team Shakespeare is Paul Barkshire, Jin Kong, Maré Odomo and Blake Wilton.

Remember December Reception

I survived the show with minimal collateral damage. Thanks to everyone that showed up or sent their best.

Piano Gloves

Here’s a the first prototype of the Piano Gloves I’ve been working on. They’re ultra-simple at this point, but I learned a lot in the process of making them and have a lot of ideas for new features on both the software and hardware side of things.

This prototype was created using Arduino and Processing in Seattle, Washington on 2009-12-04.

Words and Pictures

This is a personal series of photography and typography explorations created during the summer of 2009 in Seattle, Washington. For final display, each image was printed on archival matte paper, mounted on wood and then varnished to be featured in my first art showing, Remember December.

Remember December

Let Her Know

My very first art show is now up at the Madrona Vérité Coffee/Cupcake Royale in Seattle, Washington from December 1 to December 31st. I’m planning a reception on Friday, December 11 at 6pm and will post details as they become available.

Each of the mounted, varnished pieces in the show is available for $100. I’m also selling a limited series of prints of each piece in my Etsy Store for $12 each.

There’s a little blurb about the work at Joey Veltkamp’s site Best Of, too.

Massive thanks to Maré Odomo, Leslie Kam, Jin Kong, Tony Evans and Beth Olsen for all of their help and support.

38 Logo Wallpapers

These logos were developed for my Professional Practices class at Cornish College of the arts in Seattle, Washington. They were completed on 2009-11-25 using Maxon Cinema 4D and Adobe Photoshop.