Be there with bells on.

SO....

I asked Mary to Marry me last year. Once you make that kind of commitment, you are also obligated to have a ceremony. We initially had some ideas that didn't pan out. In time, we got closer to what we thought would make for a pretty good time. We made some decisions here and there, and still have a few more to sort out.

We are holding the festivities in Carmel, Ca., at an awesome venue called, The Holly Farm. We are excited and cannot wait to check in. Here's to hoping for a fun and memorable experience for everyone involved.

I knew one thing off the bat; I wanted to design the invites. Figured I have a bit of know-how and we would potentially save a bit of money in the process. I made a few mock-ups and came up with what I am presenting here. Mary definitely helped with the creative process. She is so cutesy with her approach. So here are some photo's I took just before sending out the invites this afternoon! (GASP). So, it is official—no turning back now, the invites are on their way into the hands of the invitees. Well, most of them anyway. < Shameless Plug >Also, anyone interested in getting any design work done, I am available—Got a wedding to pay for. < / Shameless Plug >

bells and whistles

It's started. We have the date set, venue booked and photographer set to go. We needed to submit a photo of ourselves for the venue so Mary and I had a little photo shoot last night in the Apartment model. It was trial and error since I was using my remote for exposures. I think we are gonna have to get our engagement photos set up here soon as well. Pretty exciting.

HollyFarm

DemoReel WIP

Work in progress DemoReel

James Eggleston Demo Reel 2010 from James Eggleston on Vimeo.

I am weak.

I wasn't gonna be a slave to technology, I wasn't gonna contribute to the hype. Not because I didn't feel like it, it was mostly cause I don't have disposable income. Anyway, where there is a will, there is a way. I was able to sell my 3gs for pretty much exactly what I would pay for a new phone. In fact I only spent something like 17 cents out of pocket.

Anyway, so I get the thing the other morning. It really is pretty sweet; even with all the purported problems. Mine seems to be void of all those issues in all honesty. The screen is SUPER sharp. They weren't really exaggerating when compared to the previous generation phone. 1 ghz chip is way faster, it runs 512 mb of ram. That is as much ram that was in my last imac when I bought it.

The camera is lightyears ahead of the previous version. It is 5 mp and the sensor is much more sensitive to photons. This enables much quicker exposures in normal light and pretty awesome low light results. I have attached a few examples taken today on the patio. It takes sharp photos. The flash is okay, nice to have I suppose in certain circumstances. Not expecting it be a savior by any means. The video is also pretty sweet. It uses h.264 compression which has been shown to be a very formidable codec. The additional compression that flickr used on my upload was intolerable so I will post a video sample at a later time. There are some other features that are available now in the ios4 which can be mentioned, such as multitasking with apps like pandora. You could do some of this stuff already with a jailbreak, I'll also be jailbreaking this badboy once it is feasible. Can't for someone else to get their hands on one so I can test out the facetalk feature which looks pretty cool as well.

afternoon walk..

Here are a few photos from either today, or another day...

Early worksite regimen.

Here is a small vid from the previous project. This was the first concept I came up with. I am overly dependent on caffeine..

Untitled from James Eggleston on Vimeo.

Hummingbird tracking in Boujou

Here is a video of the latest project. I am open to anyone with suggestions. Tracking footage is pretty cool, a lot of troubleshooting but very awesome. Next class is advanced modeling (more zbrush) I am psyched to learn some more subsurface scattering and shader networks. Class is so much more enjoyable now that I have a computer up to the task. Much more to come.

Untitled from James Eggleston on Vimeo.

Edit: this video was slightly altered this morning. I updated some object shadow masks and retooled the audio. I noticed the text was slightly unreadable when compressed in vimeo so I made some more adjustments there.