Must See Museums

To pass some time and to dream about the future, I wanted to compile THE museums I must see. Just the not the extremely famous ones like the Louvre, Guggenheim, Tate, or the Met; which I hope to visit someday.

Tezuka Osamu Museum
Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
Cartoon Museum in London
Van Gogh Museum
Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art
Mucha Museum
Studio Ghibli Museum
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (will have to visit multiple times...they have Yoshitoshi right now and Tezuka :O
National Cartoon Museum
Cartoon Museum SF
MFA Boston (over 700 Hokusai prints)
Cartoon Art Museum SF

This list shall forever expand. Tell me if I missed anything.

Meh

New pic of me. Might put up a different one after a while with color.

I kinda liked my old pic better, but I needed the change.
Plus it has the pig!

Bulletin 2.0

National Portfolio Day

Animation
Major :
Academy of Art University (traditional, computer) (UG) (GR)
Atlanta College of Art (computer) (UG)
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Art (computer) (UG) (GR)
College for Creative Studies (traditional, computer) (UG)
Cornish College of the Arts (computer) (UG)
Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (traditional, computer) (UG)
Fashion Institute of Technology (computer) (UG)
Grand Valley State University (computer) (UG)
Kansas City Art Institute (computer traditional) (UG)
Laguna College of Art and Design (traditional) (UG)
Maryland Institute College of Art (computer) (UG)
Massachusetts College of Art + Design (traditional, computer) (UG)
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (traditional, computer) (UG)
Minneapolis College of Art & Design (traditional, computer) (UG) (GR)
Mount Ida College, School of Design (computer) (UG)
Otis College of Art & Design (computer) (UG)
Ringling College of Art and Design (UG)
Rhode Island School of Design (traditional, computer) (UG)
Rochester Institute of Technology (traditional, computer) (UG) (GR)
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (traditional, computer) (UG)
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (computer, traditional) (UG) (GR)
School of Visual Arts (traditional) (UG) (computer) (UG) (GR)
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University (traditional, computer) (UG) (GR)
The University of the Arts (UG)


Concentration:
Academy of Art University (traditional, computer) (UG) (GR)
California Institute of the Arts (computer) (UG) (GR)
Cleveland Institute of Art (computer) (UG)
Columbus College of Art & Design (traditional, computer) (UG)
East Carolina University, School of Arts and Design (computer) (UG)
Fashion Institute of Technology (computer) (UG)
Laguna College of Art and Design (computer) (UG
Maryland Institute College of Art (computer) (UG)
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (traditional, computer) (UG)
Parsons School of Design (traditional, computer) (UG)
Pratt Institute (traditional, computer) (UG)
Purchase College, SUNY (computer) (UG)
San Francisco Art Institute (traditional, computer) (UG)
FIDM/The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (computer) (UG) (GR)
The Cooper Union School of Art (computer) (UG)
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (traditional, computer) (UG)
Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts (UG) (GR)

I have a bad feeling I'm going to be flashing my portfolio like crazy over these colleges.

Big Kahunas

CalArts
San Jose State
MCAD (remarkable good showcase of work)
and if all fails I could check out the local RMCAD...still not sure.
Who knows one of the other colleges might be a perfect fit.

Avatar Season 3 Promo

Wow O.O

Sneak Peek at portfolio

All this summer, I have been working on the portfolio. Right now, I have 37 of the big drawings on newsprint, drawing, and watercolor paper. I still need to work hard on the sketchbook. Animals are quite tricky.

I have been neglecting my blog, so here are some of the sketches that might make it in.

I'm still working on the guinea pig comic that might be called "Fight or Flight." It will be included in the portfolio as well.

Ratatouille

Black Angus!

Ratatouille is beautiful! Of course the animation is beautiful, but the story is wonderfully crafted. It brings a smile to your face. Remy's point of view is breathtaking. When this comes on dvd, a scene by scene analyzation might be necessary because the movement was flawless. I got a warm fuzzy feeling at the end of the movie. Brad Bird really raised the bar on this movie. Ratatouille may even be better than The Iron Giant.

From some of the Rotten Tomato reviews, the main complaints were they couldn't get over the rats in the kitchen concept and they thought it had too much dialogue. My goodness, the rats in the movie clean their hands! Brad Bird's dialogue is complex, but kids will treasure it when they are older. It wasn't sexual innuendo that they will soon discover, but ideas about labeling and pursuing your dream.

Go see the movie ^^

On another note, I was quite surprised whe I found out Camille did a song for the movie, which was an additional plus.

And yes, the movie reminded me a lot of my little guinea.

Now I have a hankering for some Ratatouille. Xiao Bao bring the eggplants and the zucchini!

Sir Slade

I love The Fray not just because they went to my university. So I thought this article was incredibly funny. What are the chances?

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/music/article/0,2792,DRMN_54_5567348,00.html

My favorite quote form the article:
"Sir Benjamin said he suspected the singer is descended from relatives in central England, who founded the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art at University College London.

'They were very artistic ones, so I think it's likely he's related there,' he said. 'My branch of the family were only interested in fighting, hunting, drinking and killing the French.'"

Also an interesting article deadly karaoke:

Karaoke is deadly
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070531/lf_afp/philippinescrimeshot;_ylt=Arkp3FuUNVwBsOsWYY331hjMWM0F

Yes.....when hearing excrutiating karaoke at wedding banquets, the thought of clubbing the singer has crossed my mind. I do feel bad for this fellow. The security guard should have learned to use earplugs.
Sinatra is deadly.

My goodness some of this news is right out of a movie.

CalArts Producer's Show

I really had to post these. For those who don't know CalArts every year picks the top 20 or so short films and show it to producers at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood.

Here are the openings for the shows ^^





Yes there is still debate whether or not CalArts is still the place to go. Great blog that has comments about this.
http://sewardstreet.com/2005/05/17/is-calarts-still-a-good-idea/

Bulletin for me

Sunday, September 23
Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design
1600 Pierce Street
Lakewood, CO 80214
800-888-ARTS
303-753-6046

National Portfolio Day of Doom

CalArts deadline January 5, 2008 supposedly
San Jose....no clue yet

No clue. I bet the NPD will clear up everything....too bad CalArts only wants originals.

Due date for comic with guinea pig July 1st. No exceptions!

I'll hopefully keep all of these promises :p

Why Spiderman 3 why?

I went to see Spiderman 3 Friday in spirit of Free Comic Book Day (which was simply fantastic). Purely disappointed. Sam Raimi and Ivan Raimi should never be able to write a screenplay together ever again. The whole movie was full of cheese and incoherent plot and character development. I'm aggravated because the first movie was great and the second was even greater.

I really do like Tobey Maguire...but there is this really stupid scene with him dancing. I wanted dark Spiderman to be violent and not have value for life. In this movie, they just made him a complete jerk.

The cartoon did a better job.

Red+yellow=orange

I had a bit of an emotional breakdown this week because of concern of a friend at school, and my piggie's pee being orange. He went to the vet Friday and found out he had bacteria and blood in his urine. Yikes, a urinary tract infection! He was bitter about the whole experience because they put him on a smooth counter top (it's like ice skating for him), and they gave him an ultrasound and x-rays to make sure he didn't have a kidney stone. He didn't have any...not to sure why he has blood in the urine then?

Now poor Xiao Bao has to take antibiotics twice a day. He's still just as feisty. I get way too emotional over these things.

On a lighter note, 3 people bought my 24 hour comic! Hooray! Plus, I'm in an article that Bruce MacIntosh wrote. It's for a small newsletter, but it's pretty cool. It talks about the Squidworks group. I'll post when I get permission.

Right now, I'm working on a really personal comic for class (John is the greatest for letting me do comics as art). I hope it gets done by the end of May, but John says not to rush things lol.

Otters

I am now blind from cuteness.

Kotatsu!!!!

Sorry for the abscence lately. Life has been chaotic, and I thought I could get things done during spring break >.>

hehe I swear this blog is becoming a video blog.



I'm in love with Nodame Cantabile right now. The manga, live-action drama, and anime are all fantastic. Someone quickly license these so I can buy it. Hehe this my favorite scene with the Kotatsu. This series makes me love music again. I use to play the flute and stopped because I felt it was a chore. I really relate to Nodame...of course I'm not that wacky lol.

TAS 3 Finale

I had an awesome time with my friends from school and Al in the Squidworks group. Sadly, Don and Rob couldn't make it out, but it was fabulous anyway.

Rob was glorious enough to post my report on the TAS journal. I drew three comics detailing the flyer process. See the pics I took as well.
http://www.animationshow.com/Journal/coloradowraps


I'll post the comics on comicspace later this week.

Cheers!! :D

Flyer Special Year 3!!!

Extreme!!, originally uploaded by Sheau-Sheau.

I have been flyering around Auraria Campus and Denver for the past week. I had a huge help from my friend Dan. But the battle lives on! Everyday flyers get pasted over each other. A religious group already took over some of the bulletins.

I stapled a poster with an envelope full of flyers.

I still have soo much left lol.

I'm going to do one more round this week and use some chalk. I have 452 seats I want to fill and so far I only know about 20 people for sure that will go.

Go see TAS3 if it comes through your are!

More photos here:

http://flickr.com/photos/32106219@N00/sets/72157594543688208/

Happy Golden Fire Pig Year

Due to zen calculations and this particular year, we get a super lucky combination that only happens every 600 years.

Maybe I should buy some lotto.

So here's to the lucky pig year ^^

Hair High

I finally saw the movie "Hair High" by Bill Plympton at the Starz Film Center. The exaggerations and caricatures in the movies are spot on. All I can say is Go Fighting Cocks!

I did some flyering last weekend for the Animation Show Year 3. I'll post those up ASAP.

Kuroko Technique

I know most have you have seen this technique where people dress in black and puppet the scene with people, but it is just too cool.

Extreme Ping Pong



Scissor Sisters "She's My Man"

Garrr!

I finally uploaded all 52 of my "Breakfast at Tivoli" comics. I've been doing this comic since October 2004 0.o

Currently I'm having a little problem with the newspaper, but I'll keep doing whether or not they publish it.

Check it out in all of its glory:
http://www.comicspace.com/manganese/

More comics!

Wow! Comicspace finally put up their comic feature. It's great! Nothing special mind you, but for someone who has terrible web skills, it's wonderful. Plus I can have multiple comics hosted. I'll load up all of my "Breakfast at Tivoli" comics over the weekend.

My creative juices are bubbling again....amazing how the thought of not dealing with technology makes me excited.

Animation Show 3 is coming. So once again the good old blog will be filled with flyering pics.