Would you bring them home to mom?

Well, kids, meet the band. They're Shut Up Sean, and this is the very beginning of what will end up being a rather extensive project. I shall say no more. Well, no more other than that the 1st clip is a raw, grainy, rough, shot under basement recessed lighting, piece of something. I'm becoming better versed in After Effects, and wanted to see what I could do to spice this up a little. So, I gave myself a "Color Correction 101" lesson, and did what I could to brighten it, balance the tones and remove blur and noise. That would be what you see in clip #2. Voila. The complete file was too large to upload here, so I've just included a clip. Now, back to work.

Hybrid Creatures

I've developed a fondness for creating ghastly hybrid beings in Photoshop. I'm starting to get pretty good at it. From top-bottom, most recent-earliest, they are the 1) Piguana; 2) Buirrel; 3) Flaminguin; 4) Gazawk. More to come!!!

Doodles allo Symposio

These are some quick sketches I did on my server notepad. This summer, I worked in a small Italian restaurant in Bellmore, NY called Cafe Symposio. I had barely spent more than a few weeks in New York in 3 years, and feel that the experience I had there was a suitable way for me to be reintegrated into my home.
One thing I've always liked about this place is the cultural diversity. Sometimes, at the restaurant, I would hear Spanish in my left ear; Greek in my right; and English in both. I also had the pleasure of hearing some Italian and Arabic, and running into customers with a broad spectrum of surnames.
I've worked in a lot of restaurants, and this place was the first time that almost everyone accepted me as a friend from the moment I walked in the door. Conversely, I also learned that not everyone revels in a multi-faceted world. Some naive part of me thought that it was common to feel genuine happiness at being surrounded by a heterogeneous group of people. I learned a valuable lesson at Cafe Symposio. It'll be there with me on my next adventure.