this year was the first year that i watched the olympics in HD. it was a truly awesome experience with slow motion replays and all, and it temporarily re-heightened my fascination with specialized athletics. then i started thinking… where was skateboarding? skateboarding is a super-difficult, astonishingly-dangerous, yet beautiful-to-watch sport. maybe it is wrapped in a shroud of its relative newness or the ‘X-treme’ culture it is often tagged with, but seriously. a skateboard is just another device for a technical and coordinated routine as figure skates are.

youtube searching brought me back to my adolescent amazement of rodney mullen. genius flatland skateboarder, and inventor of dozens of tricks, rodney is my all-time favorite. check out this video of rodney in 1984 japan. watch the way he feels so comfortable with the board that he can do anything with it. that level of control requires a very high level of a specific type of athleticism. now if only i could watch an international competition of it in slow-motion HD. maybe next time…

as per a friend’s request, here is an animation from my college days. it’s all fun and games until it ends in crayola guts.

this is probably the wildest architectural group video presentation that you’ve ever seen. computational design. the idea is that, with the technology of today, we can use our abilities to engineer and compute towards creating more mathematically complex, nature-like buildings. is this useful? probably, although its too new for me to understand why it might.

classic song too by mogwai.

this is a rabbit hole i don’t want to touch with a golden, 80-pound dwarf’s axe.

hitler ain’t having no fun when twitter goes down.

here’s a video from my college days, with more to follow in the coming months.

this is the first music video that i have made. the making of this video involved a green screen, a dv camera, photoshop, a wacom tablet, a two-liter of mountain dew, and (literally) days of after effects rendering on my old g5.

open your mouth and say hello to this brilliant animated short film. gorgeous animation and jaw-dropping events. the thesis is simple and poignant: don’t idolize.