Sitka Russian Church

The Russians colonized Sitka, then sold to the USA after they killed all the sea otters and other furry animals.

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Sitka scenery

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bald eagle

bald eagle
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Halibut Net

Halibut Net
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a couple hundred pounds of halibut

Halibut haul

Halibut haul
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Alaska Fish Processing Shoot

Alaska Fish Processing Shoot
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Harry our camerman

Harry
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Sitka

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bumpersticker

bumpersticker
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The commercial fishermen were very angry with the charter fishermen.

Sitka shoot with Harry and Rob

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Sitka harbor

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jeff and scotty

jeff and scotty
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These are the guys who took me fishing for a couple days. Jeff lives on the boat with his wife and baby daughter.

Fisherman's Greener daughter

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She's a senior at Evergreen

Yuck!

I finally had a bit of time to work on the film. I want to send a newer rough cut to the Vice Provost of MSU. I have written him a letter to ask to be let back in the program. I let my consecutive enrollment slip by a couple years. I explained why in my letter. I am hoping he will take a look at my rough cut to see I haven't been sitting on my hands.

As for this part of the film.. I wanted to film a dog with a bad taste in it's mouth, but none of my neighbors were out walking their dogs tonight, so I downloaded some pictures from Flickr instead.


Oh, and take a look on iTunes...do a search for "Strange Days on Planet Earth" in the iTunes store. The podcasts I have been working on were number 1 on the iTunes Podcast store yesterday. They are free to download. It was quite a big deal for them to top the charts and to be advertised on the first page of iTunes.

Flickr and sea lions

It's funny, even after making the sea lion film...I seem to still be doing sea lion advocacy of some sort. On two different occasions now, people have approached me and asked to use some of my sea lion photos. I have posted hundreds of different kinds of photos to Flickr, but only the sea lion photos have been put to other uses.

For example, my San Francisco Pier 39 photo of sea lions is used in Schmaps:

And a photo of Moss Landing sea lions is being used for a NOAA tourist sign (my image is on the bottom far right):

Working on two film project (3 if you count my thesis film)

No new animations this weekend. I am doing a bunch to prepare for the shoot in Alaska, and doing some research for a virus film. But here's a blog I have made for the virus film:
http://virusfilmlinks.blogspot.com/

I started making a word document with all this virus info to share with my boss, but I thought I would try posting everything to a blog so he can access it from his iphone.

Speaking of iphones, Mark and I bought ours today. Of course they were sold out, but hopefully it will arrive before i go to Alaska next Monday.

Sunday

Here's the fruits of today's labors. It will sure be nice be let out into the light again when this is done!

Lots of new animation

Sorry I haven't posted for a few days, but I have been hard at it. Here's 3 new animations. I think I will be done with all the 2-d animation by the end of the month! I still need to re-shoot the stop-motioned toys, but it's nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Last night, Mark and I went to a friend's house for dinner and a tutorial lesson. My friend is an editor, so I am helping her learn DVD studio pro so she can get her reel out. I also had the chance to show my film to her kids. They range in ages 6-12, so it was nice to see and gage their reactions. They all seemed to really like it. But I could tell there were a few slow and confusing places. I am working on ironing those spots out.