Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Back from Hawaii

  • The large amounts of salt and chlorine I subjected myself to in Hawaii has faded my hair.
  • Tonight the "Over 21" wrist bands that I have yet to remove worked as an acceptable ID at Joselito's.
  • I need to stop putting off buying textbooks.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The Frantic Meerkat Animates!



This animation was made by the artist The Frantic Meerkat. I made everything you hear in the short.

Adding a soundtrack to this has been on my To Do list for quite a while. I started work yesterday afternoon and here it is!

I used Garage Band for the music and Final Cut Express for the sound editing. I spent way too much time trying to fine tune the effects in Final Cut. I really need to get a sound design program on my computer but I can't really afford such a thing right now.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Robot House Party!

We have twenty sales!!! If I had a dime for every sale, I'd have $2.00. Thank you to everyone purchasing custom magnets and be ready for even MORE robot magnets!

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

2008 Reading List

This is something I've been meaning to post for a couple of weeks. I wasn't as diligent a recorder this year so I think I may have left a couple of stories out.

2008 Reading List (Date is the day completed)

Jan 30th – “Samuel” by Grace Paley (Short Story)
Feb 3rd – “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood (Short Story)
Feb 12th – “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Short Story)
Feb 13th – “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe (Short Story)
Feb 28th – “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
March 4th – “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant (Short Story)
March 5th – “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin (Short Story)
March 10th – “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Short Story)
March 22nd – “Wanted” by Mark Miller, J. G. Jones, Paul Mounts (Graphic Novel)
March 24th – “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner (Short Story)
March 27th – “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (Short Story)
March 31st – “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’ Connor (Short Story)
April 3rd – “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Short Story)
April 8th – “The Man who was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright (Short Story)
April 10th – “The Lesson” by Tori Cade Bambara (Short Story)
April 14th – “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver (Short Story)
April 15 – “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich (Short Story)
April 19th – “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’ Brien (Short Story)
April 22nd – “The Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee (Short Story)
May 12th – “Beloved” – Toni Morrison
May 14th – “Nation of Nations – A concise Narrative of the American Republic. Vol I to 1877” by James West Davidson (History Text Book)
May 28th – “Bigfoot – I Not Dead” by Graham Romney
May 28th – “Preacher Vol 5-8” by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion
June 6th – “Rebel Without a Crew” by Robert Rodriguez
June 11th – “Slaughter House-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
June 23rd – “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card
July 20th – “The Thin Red Line” by James Jones
Aug 24th – “My Tank is Fight” by Zack Parsons
Sep 17th – “Best American Short Stories” edited by Ann Patchett
Sep 28th – “The Odyssey” – Homer
Oct 7th – “In Praise of Shadows” – Jun’ichiro Tanizaki (Short Story Collection)
Oct 30th – “Barefoot Gen” – Keiji Nakazawa (Graphic Novel)
Nov 15th – “The Watchmen” – Alan Moore
Dec 18th – “Joker” – Brian Azzorello (Graphic Novel)
Dec 22nd – “Booknotes: Stories from American History” – Brian Lamb
Dec 27th – “Preacher: Until the End of the World” – Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion

Let me know if I misspelled any names or titles. I enjoy not looking like an idiot. Hope you enjoyed!

I Post Again!!!


We just uploaded this new magnet on Robot House Party.etsy.com! Click on the link and read the description. You may or may not think of it as a waste of time. Also, I'm going to be posting my 2008 reading list in the coming days. Be ready!

Friday, January 30, 2009

Treasury!


A Robot House Party magnet was featured in a treasury by The Frantic Meerkat! Find it here! It's a very futuristic collection.

Also, I've gotten obsessed with Dethklok again.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Love Machine 8012

Jessee and I and a couple of our friends participated in this years "Ed Wood 24 Hour Film Festival" at USC this last Saturday/Sunday. For those of you who don't know what a 24 hour film festival is here is a brief explanation...In many 24 hour film festivals, participantes recieve a theme and an object that needs to be incorporated into the final film. Once you recieve these two criterias, you have 24 hours to turn in a finished short film.

This year's theme for Ed Wood was "In & Out" and the object was a deck of cards or a playing card. It was a lot of fun and I'm super proud of what we came up with.

One note: This movie is ridiculous.
Another note: It's called "Love Machine 8012"

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Animation



My brother did this animation. I don't know how long it took him but I think any amount of time he spent on it was well worth it. Follow his blog here.

We surpassed 10 sales on Etsy!

Horahhh! We're going to have a Robot themed House Party in celebration!

...who wants to host it?

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Holy Awesome Picture of Magnet Makers Batman!


Here we are at a nautically themed playground in Central California. Our friend Kelly took this picture and she said it best (I pulled from facebook), "Jessee and Jordan -- they're not in a band but they'll make you some sweet magnets!"

Robots Magnets are Goooooo!




Our first line of Robot Magnets are here and we're excited! Just in time for a new President!