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  • This is Brandon / Bam, a graphic designer / DJ located in the San Francisco bay area.

    Upcoming DJ gigs:

    June 12th: Bassdrop @ Shine
    June 14th: Habit Forming @ Mighty
    June 20th: Underground TBA
    July 3rd: Dyn-O-Might

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  • old news and i blogged about it before, but...

    Saturday, Jun 28, 2008 3:12AM / Members only

    this is more official:

    http://www.webbyawards.com/adobe/

    and

    http://www.expression.edu/news_and_events/expression_student_finalist_for_webby_award/

    "Entrants to the In Motion Contest were asked to create animation/video introductions to Webby Awards category clusters. The work of the winner and finalists was seen by over 800 industry luminaries, Webby winners, and celebrities including David Byrne, Stephen Colbert, and will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas on June 10, 2008 at the 12th Annual Webby Awards Gala in NYC."

    and

    "Out of the 10 category cluster finalists, Brandon originally was selected for the “Living” category, but with a few minor changes ended up better representing “Services.” The Webby Awards acknowledged Brandon’s work as clearly being a “labor of love” and was very impressive to all who saw it. Mind you, this competition is no pushover. It’s highly competitive and open to professionals. Quite an accomplishment for Brandon, and one we are more than happy to recognize."

    the less official blog post

    and

    the original piece


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  • your favorite music videos?

    Friday, Jun 27, 2008 12:53AM / Members only

    this coming term, our group assignment will be to produce a music video. we'll have to shoot all the footage, create and incorporate all the motion graphics and visual effects, and edit all together.

    so what are your favorite music videos?

    i need some inspiration!

    (though i won't know what music group, song, nor type of music until we get our assignment on saturday)

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  • a different take on things

    Wednesday, Jun 25, 2008 3:58AM / Members only

    just finished up another term here and that means two final projects in the can.  the past few weeks have been incredibly busy for me.  i think in one week i was in the computer lab 60-80 hours.  partially due to time mismanagement on my part.  partially due to some challenges in the project developing in way that i hadn't quite planned for.

    i should take this moment to thank my buddy Drake for unknowingly providing much of the inspiration for one of my projects.  i was really inspired by Drake's blog entry on his Art Lozzi study process and thought it'd be interesting to try and use a similar look and bring it to life digitally.

    so i started with acrylic paint and sponges, which were then scanned and brought into After Effects.  i'm not the fine artist that Drake is, so my painting was fairly mediocre but i'm pretty happy with how the texture of the painting lends itself to the animation.

    the project was to create the opening and closing title sequences for a student film called Brain Freeze 1: The Epic Sequel.  it's a comedy about a college student who drifts between his daydreams/fantasies and real life through out the day and can't differentiate between what's real and what's all in his head.

                   
    Movie Titles - Brain Freeze 1: The Epic Sequel from Brandon Sugiyama on Vimeo.

    i tried to express the movie's theme and events in a symbolic manner in the titles.  the hook represents his conscious/subconcious leading him through his daydreams, the bird represents him waking up, the rope snapping and falling represents his loss of sanity, etc.  i suppose i'm explaining too much, but without seeing the film the titles may be a bit confusing?

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  • Supersonic

    Tuesday, Jun 3, 2008 8:31PM / Members only

    sometimes a school project is made more fun by injecting some silly nostalgia into it:


                    
    Text Animation Project - Supersonic from Brandon Sugiyama on Vimeo.

    Short text based animation for a class project. Heavily inspired by CLP's video for "I'm So Trill" designed by Immo Koenig.

    Created in After Effects.

    Music by J.J. Fad "Supersonic"

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  • Ko Fai / Fat Face Production Limited

    Saturday, May 31, 2008 3:36AM / Members only

    Dear AND:

    I need your help!  For my class assignment, I have to do a "report" on a designer/studio who created the opening titles for a movie.

    I'm considering doing the report on "The Heavenly Kings" title sequence designer.  From what I can gather from the DVD, the animation was done by Ko Fai and/or Fat Face Production Limited.

    I'm specifically trying to find information on the designer/studio who did the animated sequence during the movie titles for the "The Heavenly Kings."

    Any chance you guys can hook me up with a name and email address?

    (I'm also sending this to Dan since i'm guessing he knows the guy(s)?)

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  • zyi8vm
    posted on Saturday, Jul 5, 2008 2:44PM  [Report]
    Courage．Justice．Humanity．Sacrifice
    Project "HOME" - An arts exhibition for the relief of victims of Sichuan earthquake -

    Background
    Hi, we are an arts organization in Hong Kong. Our name is 'Art Fete Brings Hope 藝展予希望. We are governed by the Hong Kong Laws. Every year we carried out arts exhibition in various shopping malls in Hong Kong and collected funds for the charity organizations and provided arts therapy to the sick children, and to promote arts to the citizens. The charity organizations included UNICEF, ORBIS, Children's Cancer Foundation etc. Our members are now learning in the universities, or working in various industries, for example, arts education, design, architecture, advertising, corporate communications, public bodies, property development, or running their companies or married.

    Having seen the Sichuan earthquake in China, we want to make contribution. We want to invite artists in various cities to join force to carry out an arts exhibition in Hong Kong to sustain the citizens' care and help to the victims in Sichuan.

    The Project
    The project is to call upon artists in various arts perspectives to lend out their artworks for the arts exhibition. The theme of the arts exhibition is "家". We will not carry out any sales, or auction of the artworks during the arts exhibition. However, Oxfam will call upon the citizens to donate during the arts exhibition. We will make a book/documentary for the arts exhibition with photos and meaning of the artworks, and give the books to the Sichuan government for reference, and give the books to the charity organizations as a counselling tool, and as our blessing to the victims in Sichuan.

    Your help will make a difference
    We appeal to you to support or take part or to call upon your friends to do so in the arts exhibition.

    Our members are working on the following artworks, and your support or participation would make a difference:

    Chinese calligraphy - the Chinese word '家' in various dynasties.
    Architectural arts – illustrations and models for anti-earthquake schools and citizens
    shelters.
    Installation arts - a human-size transparent container filled with fake steel bars, broken concrete, destroyed personal belongings, destroyed fixtures, fittings etc. It is
    to display how the victims feel compression, breathless and helpless etc under the broken concrete.
    Apparel arts - school uniforms made of scrapped clothes for the victim children.
    Manga arts - various short stories about home.
    Computer graphic design arts - showing the differences between Sichuan and Hong Kong in terms of geography, demographics, education facilities, residence, economy, major trades, standard of living etc. It is to stimulate the Hong Kong citizens to think how fortunate living in Hong Kong is.
    Sculpture arts – a dragon form sculpture made of keys. Each key means a home, and the dragon symbolizes China.
    Photography arts - the photos about feelings of home, or photos about children playing with their parents or friends etc.
    Product design arts - self life survival emergency tools for earthquake, and the photos or illustrations of such self life survival emergency tools adopted in other countries.
    Origami arts - origami of tables, chairs, beds, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, pet dog/cat etc. in rural home settings.
    Handicraft arts - hand-made stationeries including student name tag, knitted pencil bag, school note books, wooden ruler, wooden pencil etc for rural village children.
    Performing arts - songs with the meaning of 'HOME'. Marathon performance with the message of ‘HOME’.
    Action arts - record the voices and sounds at the earthquake spot, and teach the citizens to close their eyes and listen with earphone.
    Video arts - stories about the meaning of home and lives.
    Painting arts - meaning of home and lives.

    We would be very grateful if you could help and support us in this campaign.

    Look forward to receiving your support and participation.

    Thank you.
    Ivan
    Mobile: +852 9462 4987
    E-mail address: artfete@gmail.com
    Official web site under re-construction, temporary homepage：
    (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2235485123)
  • Official artistEmily Woo Zeller
    posted on Thursday, Jul 3, 2008 2:21PM  [Report]
    Drinks. Next week any time. When you free?
  • Official artistRoger Fan
    posted on Wednesday, Jul 2, 2008 12:07PM  [Report]
    Rick Astley + Sir Mixalot = some strange sh*t. Funny stuff!
  • Official artistInvincible Adi
    posted on Wednesday, Jul 2, 2008 2:00AM  [Report]
    its been a while ... how are u doing ??
  • Official artistMimi Leung
    posted on Tuesday, Jul 1, 2008 3:10PM  [Report]
    hey BAM! your name's brill, cheers for checking my page! x :D
  • Official artistAlfred Hsing
    posted on Tuesday, Jul 1, 2008 12:16PM  [Report]
    look at this sexy stud muffin!
  • Official artistAngelica Cukon
    posted on Sunday, Jun 22, 2008 6:25AM  [Report]
    Ya^^ i know that CRAZY man hihi... he has 2 passport do u know? so when he went in italy working, came in italy team for 2005 WWC and 2006 EWC
  • Official artistAngelica Cukon
    posted on Sunday, Jun 22, 2008 3:06AM  [Report]
    hi ^^ are u US team?!?!?!
    so we surelly met in Macao, Hanoi or Beijing
    hehe
  • Official artistLydia Kuan
    posted on Monday, Jun 9, 2008 12:48PM  [Report]
    when u wish to visit Singapore,let me draw u a list
  • pahhhhoul
    posted on Monday, Jun 9, 2008 11:45AM  [Report]
    BREAKS?!?! June 20th? Underground!
    Haven't heard any in years!
    Eyez gonna be thar!
    Later B
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