LIFEOFBK

Less than 24 hours to go. Today is going to be rough. Let me...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:17:00 -0700

Less than 24 hours to go. Today is going to be rough.

Let me know if you live on the tour route. I’ll hand out photo passes in exchange for clean socks or homemade food.

The Arcade Fire Does Something Cool With The Internet

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:33:53 -0700

The Arcade Fire Does Something Cool With The Internet:

Way, way bad ass. Google has teamed up with Arcade Fire and video director Chris Milk to make a crazy interactive video for their song We Used To Wait, set… on the street you grew up on.

The video gathers up a whole bunch of crazy aerial and street-level panoramas of your street from Google’s satellite spy cam gizmos, and HTML5 video is constructed on the fly, dynamically layering in elements of the music video over your intimately familiar scenery.

There’s no google magic at any of my Wisconsin addresses, but my mind is still pretty blown.

Today, we are testing my faith in the Gorillapod Focus.

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:17:03 -0700

Today, we are testing my faith in the Gorillapod Focus.

New Numbers Reveal: Cord Cutting Is Real

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:42:00 -0700

New Numbers Reveal: Cord Cutting Is Real:

…cable companies lost 711,000 subscribers, which represents the biggest quarterly loss in cable TV’s history. Six out of eight cable TV operators also reported their worst subscriber losses ever last quarter.

Here comes the part where network executives get to play “shocked and surprised” and never really realize that they don’t run shit anymore.

This is a campaign commercial airing on primetime television in...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:12:00 -0700

This is a campaign commercial airing on primetime television in Miami. It pretty much sums up my reasons for leaving the Miami production scene.

Forgery in Motion, Hey Brian. Was about to get AE CS5. using it mostly for cover up stuff like that, text in motion, lower thirds sometimes. intro graphics, etc.

What are some benefits of motion?

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:09:00 -0700

Lots of people hate Motion, and would choose AE over it any day. The biggest benefit of Motion is the tight integration with Final Cut Pro, which allows you to drop Motion files directly into timelines.

When I have a compositing project that I know Motion can handle, It’s convenient to duplicate the clip, then do a right click->”send to Motion project”. This makes the clip into its own motion project, and every time you save it in Motion, your changes get reflected in FCP. This saves you the trouble of rendering out, and matching settings between Motion and the FCP timeline. I also use Motion to build lower third (and occasional fullscreen title) templates which get saved directly to FCP, where they can be applied to a timeline with editable text. This beats the shit out of doing a different AE render for each lower third.

I’m shooting everything I can possibly shoot, so I can...

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:29:23 -0700

I’m shooting everything I can possibly shoot, so I can become one with the 1D before tour starts. Today, I got some fun freerunning shots in Santa Monica. Check out my Flickr stream for more.

As it turns out, Santa Monica has a British candy store.

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:32:36 -0700

As it turns out, Santa Monica has a British candy store.

I don’t know.

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:59:44 -0700

I don’t know.

I had a fun side project today. The goal was to uncheck a couple...

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:48:00 -0700

I had a fun side project today. The goal was to uncheck a couple checkboxes on a document and recheck some other boxes. It wouldn’t have been an issue with a still image (or some foresight while making the prop), but my subject was floating around and getting covered by fingers and stuff.

I used Apple Motion to clone, track and shift the boxes around. Overall, the shot came out pretty well, given the limited time I had to work with it.

Sean vs Rubbing Alcohol

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:00:00 -0700

Sean vs Rubbing Alcohol

seanmobrien: After Effects Doodle: Day 1 (510 shoes) Next...

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:52:03 -0700

seanmobrien:

After Effects Doodle: Day 1 (510 shoes)

Next week, Sean needs to After-Effects me a tan.

So are you an urban street...thing... hahah Im not good with words and i just made you sound like a street sign.. Erm... Are you like, an urban warrior type thing.

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:02:47 -0700

Yes! I’m a type thing. I do freerunning and acrobatics with a group of people in Los Angeles. Look at my posts tagged with “parkour” for more of that silliness.

This better show up in the deleted scenes.

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:47:38 -0700

This better show up in the deleted scenes.

No, kitty you MAY NOT have that yogurt.

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:07:06 -0700

No, kitty you MAY NOT have that yogurt.

Stripper Finds Degree Profitable for Goldman Wasn't Worth It

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:04:21 -0700

Stripper Finds Degree Profitable for Goldman Wasn't Worth It:

It’s so nice to see my alma mater in the news.

The Art Institute system has had a lot of successful people come out of it, unfortunately, most of those success stories happen despite the degree from AI. While the education and facilities themselves aren’t bad, degrees in the industry are inherently worthless. AI is cashing in on years and years of High School students being told that they need a degree to survive in the world. In video/audio/multimedia/design, this just isn’t the case. People spend tens of thousands of dollars on these degrees, but that money would have been much better used to establish a safe starting point in their careers.

This girl should be happy that she can pay off a $80,000 degree by giving wealthy men erections. Most AI graduates have a hard time giving those away.

Going through my footage of Sum 41’s set at Warped Tour

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:25:00 -0700

Going through my footage of Sum 41’s set at Warped Tour

Hurrr.

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:25:08 -0700

Hurrr.

On this trip, I learned that working at radio stations is...

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:13:03 -0700

On this trip, I learned that working at radio stations is utterly fucking terrifying.

Visiting Sirius HQ.

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:34:05 -0700

Visiting Sirius HQ.

LIFEOFBK

Less than 24 hours to go. Today is going to be rough. Let me...

The Arcade Fire Does Something Cool With The Internet

Today, we are testing my faith in the Gorillapod Focus.

New Numbers Reveal: Cord Cutting Is Real

This is a campaign commercial airing on primetime television in...

Forgery in Motion, Hey Brian. Was about to get AE CS5. using it mostly for cover up stuff like that, text in motion, lower thirds sometimes. intro graphics, etc. What are some benefits of motion?

I’m shooting everything I can possibly shoot, so I can...

As it turns out, Santa Monica has a British candy store.

I don’t know.

I had a fun side project today. The goal was to uncheck a couple...

Sean vs Rubbing Alcohol

seanmobrien: After Effects Doodle: Day 1 (510 shoes) Next...

So are you an urban street...thing... hahah Im not good with words and i just made you sound like a street sign.. Erm... Are you like, an urban warrior type thing.

This better show up in the deleted scenes.

No, kitty you MAY NOT have that yogurt.

Stripper Finds Degree Profitable for Goldman Wasn't Worth It

Going through my footage of Sum 41’s set at Warped Tour

Hurrr.

On this trip, I learned that working at radio stations is...

Visiting Sirius HQ.

Forgery in Motion, Hey Brian. Was about to get AE CS5. using it mostly for cover up stuff like that, text in motion, lower thirds sometimes. intro graphics, etc.

What are some benefits of motion?