Orphan Works Act of 2008

Ok, so this is something that was brought to my attention a while ago, and while I thought this could not possibly even be considered by the US Congress, it turns out I gave them way too much credit. I am not going to go through all the ramifications and details of this bill if it ends up passing (I'll give you some links to the information you'll need), but let me just state that this would not just make all your artistic work, that you'll ever do or ever have done, become up for grabs by anyone who wants to profit from it, but also cost you future employment. Why hire an illustrator or a photographer to shoot what you need for your ad, when you can just hop on the interwebs, pick out just the right photo that someone else has taken, and use that one for free? All you need to do, is compose a document that says "yeah, I really sort of tried to find who owned this image, but couldnt find 'im. It said some name on the bottom of the image but I just cropped it out and pretended it was like that when I found it."

This is really bad, people. And as always, it seems that trying to oppose this bill is like talking to a fucking wall. No wonder, really, when the people deciding it aren't the ones affected by this bill, and the ones lobbying it are the people who will be making a shitload of money on the new copyright register libraries.

I have done a lot of thinking about this issue, but I am going to let the bill and the documentation and commentary around it talk for itself. I really encourage (and beg) you, if you are any kind of creative person anywhere in the world, to check out these links and spread this around. If this is not stopped, it might mean the end of all online creative communities, and the nail in the coffin for a lot of smaller companies and independent artists.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CqBZd0cP5Yc (the full interview at http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html)

http://orphanworks.blogspot.com/

Showreel done, applications sent

Going away for the weekend, so I got to make this quick. Here is a compressed version of the reel and some screens in somewhat better quality. My quicktime exporter kept acting up on me, and the only setting that wouldnt crash it was the default iPhone export. Just freakin' awesome. Luckily, Im sure youre used to being happy with what you can get. I mean, you dont look like much. Snarky insults aside, I finally got the applications out the door, spoke to a couple of the studios targeted, so things are starting to look up.

Later

edit: finally got my QT to work properly, so I exchanged the iPhone file with a proper one. Mind, its a somewhat hefty 25mb file.

Finally!

I'm done! Today, I finally patched up and sent out my reel. And although I didn't get to bed until 4am yesterday (and not at all the night before) to get the stuff done on time, I actually got a couple of hours of sleep. This all night business is making me all kinds of messed up. I guess I'll trade in my trip to the gym tonight with some candy, a cold one and the south park movie thats on tonight. I'll try to get the reel compressed for web tomorrow or something. I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out, which I hope is a good sign. Even made a proper dvd out of it, holy shit. Now, I have to go catch up with all the porn I've missed out on the last 3 weeks, so if you'll excuse me..

The Hunt

Ok, so as we speak I am working my ass off, doing late nights (more like early mornings) to get all the projects that I need for my portfolio ready. The reason being, I have given myself until tuesday morning to get all my job applications out the door. When everything is done and I have finally washed my hands of it, I'll post the results on this amazingly awesome blog-thingumajig, for everyone to see. That probably means only myself. Right beneath this bullcrap is a little preview to satiate your thirst. You greedy bastard.

God damn, I'm on the interwebs!

And so it begins. I'll ry to use this blog as a portal for all the sculpts and models I do, as well as try to squeeze out some words of wisdom every now and then. And if everything I put up here sucks ass, you do at least get the chance to tell me how much you hate my face, or try to sell me some sweet replica Rolexes or member enlargement drugs. The wonders of the interwebs.