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Moving along..

So for the first time ever I just gave my 2 weeks notice at my current job. In exactly two weeks I’ll be back at Animation Collective as the animation coordinator on a new show they’re doing called Team Toon.  I’m crossing my fingers that this time around it all goes smooth as silk. 

On a side note I’m finishing up my very first comic. :D. I’ll post the finished work when it comes time. 

jessversus:

Impostor Syndrome.

(Source: wilwheaton)

I feel a lot like Harry at the end of book 8 these days. I’m talking about ‘I open at the close’.

That is to say that currently my mother’s cancer is coming back (currently in her liver) and the second round of treatment she was on stopped working after 5 months. She’s going back onto another kind of IV chemo and when I went with her to the doctor’s appt it didn’t seem or feel very hopeful. That  is not to say we’ve give up. She’s going to try this next round of new meds and all I can do is pray that it works for her.

That is all I really have to say about that, I’m also a little sad with myself because it seems to me that the only way I can communicate when I am so profoundly heartbroken is through emails and blogs. I hope to one day get over that.

Starting in about a week and half I’ll be starting a new job. Its been nearly 6 months since I’ve had a full time position and the new job is nice one working for good people but I’ll be the only artist on staff. It also happens to be the start of a new semester and the weekly ASIFA drawing classes will be starting again. I foresee a bit of loneliness in my new job so I’m making a pledge to make it to drawing every week, once I have a flow for that I’ll start a new animation project, this time a little more challenging. So with that, Enjoy one of my favorite animators Andreas Hykade

Madeon- Pop Culture live mashup

Heres a guy that knows his tools. Just amazing.

GPOYSW CINTQ EDITION!!!! IT CAMEEE

Jason Bentley over at KCRW likes to play this track at least 3 times a week, just love the Serge and Brigitte. -can’t lose.

plandrea:

Bored by the Brooklyn vs. Manhattan Rivalry

Before we even begin what could turn into a very long and emotional discussion, I think it might be important to point out that I have spent my entire life living in Manhattan.

And next month, I’m moving to Brooklyn.

And joining a fair number of my Manhattan-raised friends who already live there.

And guess what we have to say about it: NOTHING. (Except now my fellow lifer- westsiders ride the Q train. We all have a lot to say about that…. Are you express or are you local, Q train? Make up your mind already! But I digress…) 

Here’s my basic theory: the Manhattan vs. Brooklyn rivalry was made-up by people not from New York. Yes, I’m looking at you FiDi investment bankers and WillyWick crafters. I know you are all from the same town in Ohio. You disgust me equally.

New York is a very prideful city. We like competitiveness, we enjoy rivalry (Hello Mets vs Yankees, Jets vs Giants, East Side vs Westside, Coney Island vs the Rockaways…), but we are not spiteful, we do not hate on our fellow New Yorkers.

Every borough has things that make it where the people from that borough want to live. New Yorkers love diversity and they love choice.

That’s part of the magic of New York. Everybody who visits loves emerging from the subway in Brooklyn Heights, Flushing, Midtown, wherever. They gasp at how different each neighborhood is— the food, the architecture, the cultural icons.

And the people who live in each of those neighborhoods chose to live there because they love that it is unique and special in it’s own ways. People’s choices reflect their priorities— tree-lined streets, living in an ethnic enclave, centrality.

Which brings me to another character trait of New Yorkers: we don’t really give a shit about other people’s personal lives.

You want to live in Soho / Sunnyside / Sunset Park / Soundview / Staten Island? Knock yourself out, I’ll be at my house in Battery Park City /  Bayside / Brighton Beach / Baychester.

Thus my conclusion that the Brooklyn vs. Manhattan rivalry was invented by people who are insecure in their choices:

The Willywickers who cannot accept the horrid reality of their L train commute and bedbugs, the Fidi’ers who resent not having any cool places to get a drink in their neighborhood and the desolate streets on weekends.

I get it. No neighborhood is perfect. But stop making your baggage ours. We have enough rivalry about other things— bagels vs. bialys, cart coffee vs deli coffee, cheesecake vs cheesecake.

It’s time to declare a peace treaty. Or better yet, you can all go fight it out in Ohio. I hear there’s some cheap real estate there.    

AMEN SISTAH. I wish I wrote this.

Man is it hard to write in Armenian.. It made Russian feel easy! -I like to write notes to mail people overseas.. DO NOT BENDDDD

SO, I’ve filed for unemployment for the first time ever today. Livin’ it up now? -doubtful.

Going to go ride bikes with my Dad.

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this but I’ve finished my super short film titled: “Sugar” its going to make its debut at the Peculiar Picture Parade this thursday at the 92Y in TriBeCa NYC I hope folks can make it out, I’m super excited :D

Sol's Glasses from Kyra Jean Green on Vimeo.

I love this routine its just wonderful. :D

chillemagic:

joannasosa:

CLICK THE SQUARES.

Love these

THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS

WOAHHH!!!!

(Source: mandaflewaway)

I could not resist adding Neptune to his own planet :D

after that nice mysterious error message I kept getting I threw in the towel and came back to Ol’ “reliable” flash -now we’re cooking with gas!

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