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10.01.04 - 10.03.04 Small Press Expo
12.21.2012 -the end of the world
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11.11.04 6.25pm
it's not you.
Yup. Still working on the site. The server is up and running and for the time being, Plasticfrank.com is pointed at it. It really wasn't that hard, except SaMBa. It's taken me a couple of months, working in my spare time to decipher SaMBa's config file. Not that it's really that hard. I just didn't "get" how it worked. But a couple of days ago something clicked. Now it's time to rock.
I expect that this blog will stay pretty neglected. Though if I ever have anything to share... maybe I'll put it here. More likely though, I'll probably bottle it up inside untill my lonliness violently kills me and everyone around me.
Stay in school kids.
08.19.04 2.17pm
don't read me.
Yes. It's true. I've taken a long time fulfilling my promises of an awesome, mega-rad Plasticfrank site. But we've been hard at work all this time. I've been turnin' out SuSE for a month now. We just got the server on the network and are configuring that. We'll get rocking on the PHP and SQL side of things and in a few months all our circuts will be online and functioning perfectly. In the end, you're going to agree that the wait has been worthwhile.
Stay plastic Ponyboy.
hugs and kisses.
Pfrank
03.30.04 12.36am
$10.25
If you were wondering what the new Pfrank site is going to look like, the graphics for the interface have been done for a while. Check it out.
newpfinterface.gif
It's a cleaner design while being looser at the same time. The colors are better and it's going to be a lot cooler. Most importantly, this design isn't going to change for a long, long time, which is is why I'm taking so long. I just want to be sure it'll suit all of my needs.
03.30.04 12.36am
pfrank is street
Okay... Now that I have bored off my entire audience I am free to ramble on once again. Ramble on!
Work at the theatre is getting cool. I've been running the projectors and Don the Mazin' hinted that I might be building films in the future. I guess I'm en-route to becoming a manager. I'm looking into the Joe Kubert School again. Dunno why. Probably just have some bizzarre, deep-seated love of getting thrown around the house. At any rate, been reading comics, drawing comics and mad web designin'.
out
03.30.04 12.36am
things that make you go crazy
Ugh.
Yes I said it.
Ugh. And I don't mean it in that bored kind of way. I mean it in the "eating catfood, waiting to die" kind of way. This is stupid. Why am I posting? I've got nothing to share. I should be working. I guess what I want to say is that if you're still coming here don't give up. There's a prize at the bottom of the box.
03.30.04 12.36am
Don The Maizen
Getting Broadband later today. Probably won't have a direct effect on the Geocities site. But it will eventually lead to the final www.PlasticFrank.com launch. Once that site is up, I won't redesign it for a couple of years. I promise. It'd be easier if some more of my technically inclined friends would lend a hand, but I'm sure they're much too busy. Incidently, props to Arron and Hugh for their insight, direction, and hardware.
03.13.04 08.26pm
just add meaning
The good news:
I got a job. It's fun. I work at a theatre now. And best of all, soon I'll have money to fix/maintain my equipment and purchase materials.
The bad news:
I got a job. I work 36 hrs a week and spend 9-12 hours a week getting to and from that job. So I don't have much time for art.
Eh whatever. This new job puts me close to Syracuse everyday which makes book shopping easy. Moreover, While this first week comletely fried me, I think as I settle in it'll be easier for me to come home and work (on art).
It's a transitional period but you can expect comics, movies, and a new website eventually.
03.09.04 11.02pm
Candy bars= $2.75, M&Ms & Ghetto Twizzlers= $3.25, Pop-ables= $3.75, Soda(bottle)= $3.50, Water(small)=$3.50, Water(Large)=$4.00, Popcorn(large)=$6.50, Popcorn(medium)=$6.00, Popcorn(small)=$5.00
Got job.
02.27.04 9.08pm
haaarumph!
gas022704.jpg
Yes, the strain of all my equipment being in disrepair is starting to show itself. This most assuredly stupid idea is called "God's Angry Sock". The idea isn't really deep or anything, just me vicariously ranting through stylish depictions of puppets. I've been interested in puppets since I started animating. And I've always loved comics so this would be a good chance to design some puppets and work on some technical aspects of comics. Don't know if I'll go through with it though. I'll put it away for a while and see if it starts to stink.
Sooo...
I found a webcomic that doesn't suck. Demonology 101 is pretty damn good. It's fun, well done, and has a good Buffy-esqe storyline. (I never liked that crap on tv. Seems to work better here.) There are a few things to look out for. Some of the character designs are just a little too similar. Moreover, while the the inks are good, the values are done quicky and in some ways, can be confusing. If you're not paying attention you can mistake characters for other characters. (admittedly I'm especially sensative to this.) I wish it were in color. There's a couple pages in the archive that are colored and it makes it 100X better. All last weekend I contemplated emailing the artist offering to do her colors but alas she's an animation major at Sheridan College and probably well aware of her superiority to my state educated/tortured ass. Who knows though. Maybe I'll smack my head on the toilette and forget who I am long enough write an email. Probly not though. I type slow.
Well there you go. Feel free to shout about G.A.S. See you next time, space cowboy.
02.08.04 12.27am
gods angry man.
The forums at sketchbooksessions.com look promising and useful. I intend to join the next jam.
01.24.04 10.57pm
i love the sudden starts.
Yeahhhhh... Whatever.
I had resolved to stop uploading works in progress. It's a waste of space and, more importantly, why bother doing the upload dance when time would be better spent woking on the project in question. But it'll be a while before I can upload any art so I figured I'd throw you guys a bone.
This is a test from a scene near completion from Sanguine Animated Productions' new short "Rag Doll Fight". It's just 2 seconds but it's pretty cool.
Here you go.
012404test.mov requires qucktime
01.10.04 2.14am
no more.
Ughhh...
Oh! wretched chinese food what have you done to me? 10 hours later my stomach burns and the ringing in my head continues to grow. I would dissown you if I didn't love you sooo much. I think this is the end. What a way to die.
So my scanner finally bit it. And at such a marvelously opportune time if I may say so. Don't expect comics from this kid for a couple of lifetimes. Gods still punishing me for being born. Screw it. When I replace this thing I'm not going to mess around. Going 12X17.
01.07.04 1.14am
get on up.
Oh yeah... The concept Ford/Shelby Cobra is friggin hot.
http://www.carkeys.co.uk/features/product/1601.asp
01.06.04 11.39pm
right.
Yup. Last year is gone. Apperently the old one wasn't good enough for some people. So due to popular demand, a new year has been ushered forth. In time we'll find that this new year is only a pale imitation of yesteryear, enginerred by schoolboys over a drunken weekend with only mild attention to superficial detail and no care for the mechanics. Yes, this year will require more maitenance than years past, but we'll find it difficult due to clumsy design. Moreover the maitenance and repair of the new year will prove expensive because the parts will have to be shipped from Japan.
REQUIRED READING
Alan Moore's Writing For Comics
It's probably hard to tell these days, with my endeavors being so varied, but one of my primary long-term objectives is bringing to life, via comic book, a story that a friend and I first started to put together almost a decade ago. The story, that started with some loose relationships between some half-baked characters , has grown into a vast story spanning all of existence. The drawings, character designs, profiles and research that this story has generated would take up boxes upon boxes if I had the luxury of keeping it all in one place. As a matter of fact I'm trying to generate a filing system to not only store this material, make it easier to navigate. I admit there's a lot more research left to be done but I almost have a pretty solid timeline and soon (in the context of "decades") I'll be ready to pull stories from that timeline. I always assumed that this would be easy. I've been plodding along, developing my drawing skills, figuring that the meat of comics is in the art. In a sense, I was right. Most comics do revolve around the art. But most comics are garbage. There's a reason I say "I hate comics, but love the medium". It's cause most are crap despite the possibilities of the medium. I always thought that it was wierd that so many comics came out so damn awful even though most of the best artist of any and all commercial art fields are found the subfield of comics. (Admittedly bad colorists don't help any.) But I'm finding that bad comics are bad to the core. And what is at the core of comics? Writing. Thoughtless structure, lack of focus, meandering plots and shallow characterization are what have been turning me (and many other self respecting consumers) off from comics. I've felt this for a while now, but only after reading Mr. Moores eassy can I fully articulate it. Reading "Writing For Comics" has given me a mode of thinking that allows me separate the elements of a comic and think about each critically. I recommend Alan Moore's "Writing For Comics" to anyone interested in comics, creators and consumers alike. It provides a framework in which to think and talk about comics intelligent way. And while I still won't read a comic unless it's pretty, I think I can approach projects in a more balenced way (creatively, if not psychologically).
12.24.03 3.44pm
Bah friggin' humbug...
Well it's Christmas Eve and my family plans to all gather under the same roof to soil Christmas together with their collective angst and baggage. One never knows what to expect from such a veritable pressure cooker of family fun. Damage will be done no doubt, but what kind of damage remains to be seen. My family being so well-practiced at psychological warfare and hand to hand combat, the options are limitless. The outcome of tonight's affair could be as simple as everyone going home feeling worthless, or the fun could escalate to someone possibly getting thrown out of a window.
Such an incident would not be anyones fault, but rather a matter of loss of control. Mind you not a loss of so much control that the thrower in question would forget himself, tossing the ejected onto the better-lit front yard where neighbors could see, but rather the degree of loss of control it takes to throw someone out a window into the privacy of the backyard.
On similar occaisions in years prevoius I have been a contender for any and all of the awards we regulary give out at these get-togethers. I remember one Easter, in jr high, I got "Best Sidekick By A Kid", "Most Likely to Explode" and runner up for "Best In Feud". But as of late I seem to have lost my edge. "The eye of the love-starved tiger" as it were. My rage has retreated deeper into my being, making it hard to summon for battle. My anger is really no long of a temper-tantrum sort but rather a gnawing, soul-eating kind. And while my weapons have all but abandoned me in their place I'm left with a anxious, jittery reaction to the adrenaline that used to give me so much strength. Granted shaking and crying have won battles, but such behavior is neither as resounding or romantic as ripping a door of it's hinges or throwing a full sized refridgerator. I can stare people to death however. Which, I have to say, is pretty cool. And I'm finding that as my aura gets increasingly black, the effectiveness and reliabily of my death stare grows.
The time to end this post draws near as I have to get ready to (not) shave and disguise my varying maladies. Here's to my death stare, my black heart, and the anniversary of the birth of a rightious and noble man-god who actively chose to suffer, so that his words could be misinterpreted and actions forgot, and so that the legends of his deeds could be twistted to bond the spirit of humankind.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
12.18.03 9.29am
err.
I hate to ppost something like this twice in a row (makes me look like a web addict) but I found the fact that this script existed so entertaining that I had to share.
cool.
12.17.03 11.22am
morning.
I was cruising around online researching the sanguine temperment and I found an online Enneagram test. The results make me look prticularly needy but hell, I'll post them anyway.
 Enneagram Test Results | Type 1 | Perfectionism | |||||||||||||| | 58% | | Type 2 | Helpfulness | |||||||||||| | 50% | | Type 3 | Ambition | |||||||||||||||| | 70% | | Type 4 | Sensitivity | |||||||||||||||||| | 74% | | Type 5 | Detachment | |||||||||||||||| | 70% | | Type 6 | Anxiety | |||||||||||||||| | 66% | | Type 7 | Adventurousness | |||||| | 26% | | Type 8 | Hostility | |||||||||||||||| | 62% | | Type 9 | Calmness | |||||||||||| | 46% | Your Conscious-Surface type is 4 Your Unconscious-Overall type is 4w3 | Take Free Enneagram Personality Test
You should take the test yourself. It's pretty interesting.
12.17.03 3.36am
humbug.
ARRRRRGH!!!!
I did have a lot of thoughtfull stuff to say but my modem server booted me right before I submitted the update thus elinating all progress.
At any rate. New interface. Looks pretty. Like it.
More to come as I see fit and am so inspired.
12.10.03 3.20am
awwws craps.
Man... I need an assistant. I've got comics to post, and a new interface. Damned if I got time to do the painfully slow modem upload dance. Maybe instead of sleeping through Christmas this year I'll get the webpage up to date.
Dunno. Out.
09.16.03 7.45am
yeah.
Just finished 10 seconds of our new movie. The mural is almost complete. Post media soon.
(off to work)
09.02.03 11.11pm
jumpin
Jay Miller is Back. We're almost done with the the mural. Life is good and getting better.
I found some rather juvenile digital art I made a long time ago. Have a look.
afundamentalstateofbeing.jpg
confirmation.jpg
laydown.jpg
untitled.jpg
08.25.03 11.11pm
just cuz'
Here's a picture of Rich, Jenn, Jess, Kim and myself at the mural. I'm the randy one in the bottom row.
mural082503.jpg
08.24.03 11.42pm
should be sleeping
Punk Rock Animators Unite!!! "Live Freaky, Die Freaky" is a post-apocalyptic, stop-motion film involving Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Tim "Lint" Armstrong of Rancid. The movie takes place in the 31st century and features Charlie Manson as a messiah-type character. I really don't know what to expect. Here's a link.
http://www.livefreakydiefreaky.com/
08.24.03 11.10pm
viola
I have a graphic. Frank Rules!!!
08.22.03 6pm
the cool hand blues
Well I've edited out my entries from the summer as they are mostly a record of my unhappiness and discontent, and not that of my progress or artistry. But so as to not manicure my (unexistant) public existence, I've made the entries available here.
060303-082203.html
05.21.03 8.46pm
all polish, no
brass.
ahhh...
aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh...
hm. Well... Jay,
Rich and myself shot the final scenes to our movie. We put it together
only to find that the walking scene (the scene that was most stressful and
time consuming) was too dark. I presumed that we'd have to shoot it again.
But Jay salvaged the whole operation by editing each frame, pulling out
what he could out of the dim images of our little puppet. We have
assembled a un-edited
sequence of all of our material. It's not available yet as we have run
out of
space on this site and I have yet to find a suitable new place to post our
endeavors. As soon as I find a place that allows movies we'll be making a
page dedicated to our animations.
I seem to have survived finals
relatively unscathed. I didn't do so hot in 353 but I passed. Completion
of my independant study in painting this summer will end the travesty that
has been my academic career. After completing a number of commissions this
summer I can move to a new place and start saving for a building.
I
finally made my feelings known to the girl in question and while she was
exceedingly
receptive she did admit that she had to 'figure thing out'. It is my hope
that at the very least she feels appreciated.
05.13.03 1:45am
lighter.
Here are stills of
Jay and I working on the movie Monday night. It's too bad Rich wasn't
there. GET OFF THE INTERNET SO I CAN CALL YOU RICH!
051203jayandgeorge1.jpg, 051203jayandgeorge2.jpg
Jay
and Myself
051203dixycup.jpg
Jay showcasing our fine, fine
equiptment.
051203garbagecan.jpg
Myself and our ghetto light source
for the tv.
stopmo12sec.mov
Now
it's a total of 12 seconds long. Watch him stand.
05.12.03 1:40am
does that congradulations come
served with dinner?
Here are some stills and an unedited animation
of one of our puppets. Props to Jay Miller and Rich Muley.
051203puppet1.JPG
051203puppet2.JPG
051203puppet3.JPG
051203puppet4.JPG
051203puppet5.JPG
051203puppet6.JPG
051203puppet7.JPG
051203puppet8.JPG
051203puppet9.JPG
051203stoptest12.mov
05.10.03 5:36pm
is there a 'Winston Man'?
A
link to an excellent Honda commercial airing in Austrailia.
http://onlinetonight.net/images/hhonda-ad-300k.swf
05.08.03 12.45pm
good times
Added
Art-Exchange comic.
050803pc.jpg
I want to add photos of all my stop
motion
puppets, props ect. but I need to get pictures first.
05.08.03 12.13am
bad timing as usual,
crushing
Burned out. Thinking about the wrong stuff. Should take
a break before I start stressing out. Extra sleep is helping. I think the
term "all-nighter" is permanently out of my working vocabulary. And while
it's hard not having that extra time, sticking to going to sleep 12-12.30
and not relying on the wee hours will ultimately force me to procrastinate
less.
Finished new puppet and t.v. prop. Can't wait to
animate.
Meeting John weldin, Dennis Speagle, and Dave Amrod at the
shop tommorrow to
discuss commissions.
It's officially Thursday and no reply to my
shift post. Not looking foward to telling the girl that I can't go. Trying
to
get to know eachother during the last weeks of school is difficult. We're
both trying to restrain ourselves and focus on work. NY would at least
give a chance to occupy the same room(s) without worrying about work
(except that I'd probably worry anyway).
Bed calls
This
entry reads like a telegram.
05.07.03
welcome home jellybean
I had a
webpage here. I didn't ever update it but I intended to turn it into a
journal of sorts relatively soon. I deleted the site to allow someone to
put something on my account so they could submit to the Art-Exchange
exhibition. While I didn't give my webpage any attention, It grieves me to
not have one. So in turn I submit this, an entirely hard coded webpage.
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