It ain't all a bucket of roses, kid.
Bath time is totally awesome. Mostly because most towels for infants these days have animal shaped hoods, and there’s really nothing cuter than seeing your lil guy’s eyes stare out at you from a super kawaii frog towel. It rules. Also their hair gets all fuzzy and they look like little monkeys. Also of note, they smell less like pee. Tips after the break. Read more
So, a documentary I’m helping shoot that surrounds Perkins School for the Blind and one of its students brought me to Anime Boston 2011. While I’m no stranger to anime, I’d never been to a con before. I have to say it was awesome! Some of the CosPlay blew my friggin mind right out the ear holes. I just love being around passionate people! Here are some pictures I managed to snap between takes.
update: @daenyth sent me a link to his gallery! Check it out. Thanks Daenyth (and the internet)!
Babies. They pee. A LOT. Sometimes it doesn’t stay in the diaper, where it should. Clicky to see my top 5 tips so far for having a dry baby boy, and avoiding leaky diapers.
Here’s a cool little video I made while stuck on a rooftop doing some filming in Rome for my friend’s a client’s at EF. They’re a great company, and offer a lot of amazing services–including great tours by Go Ahead.
Roman Rooftop from Matthew Dorris on Vimeo.
More info on how it was made after the jump.
A quick look at a video I made for my friends over at Nomuda Games! Read more
I’m committed to DSLR film making. It’s not that I think it’s the best way, or the only way. It’s actually kind of a shitty way to make movies. A beautiful image gets compressed into a chincy little h.264 file, you often have to do sync sound, it’s CMOS and rolling shutter can be a total headache. On the other hand, it’s affordable, and it’s pretty.
So until the 5D mkIII rolls out, I’m sticking with my 7D, and have decided to upgrade my kit. I’ve been lusting, for about a year now, for a decent rig, but as many of you know, the entry price barrier on many of these things (zacuto and redrock) is really quite intimidating. Paying more for the system that holds my camera than the camera itself is not a premise that sits well with me. So for months I’ve been sort of resigned to just making do with a pvc based shoulder mount and looking like an idiot while doing run and gun. With my baby boy keeping me up nights, and my shooting schedule filling up (thank you summer!), I’ve been spending nights trying to figure out how to get started. But where? How can I even think about a follow focus when there’s two thousand dollars standing between me and a sick set of zacuto rails? Read more
Small logo. Big power!
Another quick review, this time for iOS: Battleheart! I played this game on the Ipad 1.
In my seemingly never ending quest to find an RPG i want to play thorugh to the end on the Iphone or Ipad, I recently jumped on the bandwagon and downloaded Battleheart. This is a game that doesn’t need any more press–it was game of the week on itunes, afterall–but I couldn’t stop myself from wanting to write a little piece on it.
This little killer kawaii strategy/gauntlet/rpg has been keeping me up later than I should be, and comforts me when I have trouble falling back asleep after changing a diaper. Made by Mika Mobile, Battlheart is so cute, and it’s gameplay so addictive, that it put a smile on my face. For the first few hours. Read more
LOOKOUT BioWare circa 1990!
I’ve decided to start a new category of review. Necessity is the mother of invention they say, and in this case, the mother of my child necessitates that I only play games here and there, at least while our baby is in swaddlin and peeing rivers hourly. So, I’ll just give a brief look into the games I do play when I get a chance.
The first of these reviews will be of Avadon, a fun little indie rpg I discovered while digging around in the OSX App store. It’s been tough going for me in the past few weeks. I quit WoW after finally getting into a raiding guild again (I just can’t handle HAVING to sign on to play twice a week). My in laws are in town and hogging the tv, so no console games. When they aren’t using it my wife is watching Japanese TV DVDs with our son. I’m looking for new ipad games. Looking for new mac games. I’m looking for a great plot, and easy to moderately challenging action. Read more
momo sleeps just after his birth
I had a baby! He’s awesome. If I can be super cheesy for a second, I feel that I never knew love before. I thought my wedding day would be the happiest day of my life, which had beat out the day I got my SNES as a youth, and now my appreciation for love, hormones, life, and all things delightful and ineffable has increased tenfold. I honestly feel blessed.
Anyway, I want to start including some stuff I’ve learned or researched in my blogs (what blogs?) but I’m going to try anyway.
