My experiments with After Effects!

A concept sketch for Modeling challenge!!

Something recent!

My sketch book extracts

Just a few of my sketch book pages!

Darkness Calling......

Sometimes in my sleep I do hear it calling,

I always did hear it call me,

As a kid I feared it very much,

but it just called me!!

I would wake up in cold sweat,

it would just be me, there alone in the dark,

and I would hear it calling me,

calling ever so softly,

calling me towards it…

so I just did what I thought was to be done…

Just part ways with it…

Just like I did with most of the things…

Go with the light….

Hurt/love or love/hurt?

When they say .. love hurts..

When they say.. love just is a manifestation of this hurt…

Do they mean that we are in love with the very hurt…

Does that mean that we must hurt to be able to love..

Or does it mean we must get hurt to understand love

Or that hurt makes you love more..

Or hurt makes you appreciate the love more….

Or that hurt is a part of the love….

Or love is the part which heals the hurt….

Or love is that part that cause hurt…

So then which does come first…

The love or the hurt…

Or does the order matter…

Cause whatever anyone says they are always together!!

Love/Hurt or Hurt/Love!

Art updates

Since I have been ignoring my blog post quite a bit, I decided to at least keep [posting some of my new art work on here, with the promise of new poems and written matter!

Some new art works!

Hello!
Been a long time since I scribbled anything on here.
Anyways, thought I will atleast post some skecthes I have been working on.

Night, luminescent .

(medium: Pen: edited in photoshop)

Untitled 2
Quick sketching practice, done in just under 3 mins.
(medium: Pen: edited in photoshop)

Angel playing musical instrument. (WIP)
(medium: pencils)

Captivated
(medium: pencils)

Representation and Participation

Last week I attended the IAI conference held by Animation Xpress.com in Mumbai on teh 21st and 22nd May. There were quite some interesting points discussed during the 2 day sessions on how Indian Animation I should get more organized in the Academic sector, Collaboration between the Industry and the Academia etc. A point I did notice was that there were a lot being discussed, some very valid thoughts and concerns, but very little was actually being thought about in terms of coming up with solutions and finding methods of implementing them.

With these thoughts buzzing in my head, I came across an interesting article by Prof. John Maeda of MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, on his thoughts on a similar topic of purpose of a committee, specifically in academia.

Representation and Participation

In academia there are many committees as compared with industry. Committees enable the sharing of viewpoints in an open forum of members who are committed to the cause of the committee. If you turn that around however for someone who is not on the committee, from the outside it appears like a closed forum and makes those that are not inside the committee feel less committed to the cause of the committee.

A committee is usually formed of representatives for particular constituent groups. It is the responsibility of the representatives to provide representation, and more importantly to report back to their constituents how they did with enough details such that they feel properly represented but also they know how to become more committed, albeit indirectly.

Minutes are an important tool for sharing the issues discussed in a meeting, knowing who went or didn't go, and when shared openly provide for greater accountability. Starting the meeting with an agenda is important; sharing the agenda ahead of time for feedback is even more important. Finally, executing the meeting in the promised allotment of time is critical.

Even and fair participation is important. Otherwise the viewpoints become skewed and the outcome fails to benefit from the strength of diverse opinions. The leader needs to be careful to solicit opinions from quiet constituents, and at the same time ask for more vocal constituents to grant some extra room for the less vocally-gifted.

A committed core needs to connect with the uncommitted masses. Otherwise the committee has no meaning to exist. Communication in every which way is everything for the leader. Without communication, she is the leader of a team of one -- her own mind.

- Prof. John Maeda

I just find that at this stage, the Indian Animation industry and academia need to come up with a follow-up action plan rather than just talk about it in seminars and sessions.

As pointed rightly by Prof. Maeda, the leader becomes a very important driving force in the success of the committee. The question that most definitely arises then is 'WHO' is going to take on this kind of a task, and lead this cause in an effective and more importantly a committed way.

The answer to that, only time shall tell.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

Well believe it or not this is actually a sentence!
An interesting forward mail in office today, and I thought is was worth sharing!!!

It is an linguistic sentence example called: Lexical ambiguity

The best part, this sentence is grammatically correct and has meaning: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” First devised by professor William J. Rapaport in 1972, the sentence uses various meanings and parts of speech for the term “buffalo” (and its related proper noun “Buffalo”) to make an extremely hard-to-parse sentence.

Although most people know “buffalo” as both a singular and plural term for bison, and “Buffalo” as a city in New York, “buffalo” is also a verb meaning “to bully, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.” Using these definitions, Wikipedia suggests the sentence can be read:

[Those] (Buffalo buffalo) [whom] (Buffalo buffalo buffalo) buffalo (Buffalo buffalo).

Still too hard to follow for those of us who don’t know “buffalo” as a verb. Refine once more:

[Those] buffalo(es) from Buffalo [that are intimidated by] buffalo(es) from Buffalo intimidate buffalo(es) from Buffalo.

And once more:

Bison from Buffalo, New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also happen to intimidate other bison in their community.

Wikipedia has further explanation, including the slightly frightening note:

Buffalo is not the only word in English for which this kind of sentence can be constructed; any word which is both a plural noun and a plural form of a transitive verb will do. Other examples include dice, fish, right and smelt.

And there is an image explaining all of this!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Buffalo_sentence_1_parse_tree.svg

WOW!
Beware of Buffalo buffalo, buffalo, for they may buffalo you.