Anatomy and Art

Hello readers!  I am writing to you from sunny Austin, Texas!  I am at this point two weeks in to a new position in digital education.  I’m trying to minimize my computer time away from work for a little while, due to a little over-taxing on an old shoulder injury, but I wanted to pop in and say that I have not forgotten this blog.  And I may even be able to share a fun little clip of video here that I’ve been working on before long.  And regardless of what happens with that, there will be more words and fun images here soon.

Ok, so I’m posting a picture I grabbed off of Facebook circulation.  It may not be cutting edge journalism, but it feels right the night before I start my new job…

I mean, come on!
I’m gonna teach some people some SCIENCE!!

Heeeeelllllooooo Internet!  Feels like we’ve been apart for ever so long!  So here I am, picking back up in Austin, Texas.  It’s been over a decade since I last lived here, and I still haven’t quite shaken the feeling that I must just be visiting again.  But no, this time it’s a move.  I have an exciting new job with Sapling Learning that starts on Monday, and a whole lot to get done towards this move before that happens.  Fortunately, what would have been a week and a half wait for internet connection services has been facilitated by friendly neighbors who were willing to share their wifi password with me in the interim in exchange for delicious beer donations.  This is especially important, as I’ve been wanting to access some more Cinema 4D tutorials before I start the new position.  My experience has all been with 3DsMax and Maya, so I’ll have a lot to learn with the new software before I can get to the very important business of impressing people with my technique and artistry using this new tool set.  So yeah, you can expect some Cinema 4D posts to come.  After all, they say that teaching is one of the best things that one can do toward learning themselves.  But for now, I’m fast to sleep.  My office can get set up in the morning, and my posting will become more frequent when it can again.

Well, I’m packing up over here for the big move to Austin next week, and I keep coming across all these materials and notes and sketches.  It’s hard to know what to keep.  Just now I found a small stack of scrap pages full of scribbled thoughts.  Most of them seem to be about the balance between eternity and this present moment.  It’s hard to throw things like that away.  And so, I keep folding more boxes to hold more stuff.