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I'm breathing now...
It's taken me about a month to adjust myself to this hectic work schedule, but I suppose I'm pretty well acclimated to it now. I'm still working M-F 6am-5pm and the money is pretty good. It's nice to wake up early everyday and watch the sunrise from the comfort of my school bus as I drive the kids to and from school every morning. Yet, the return in the afternoon to finish my shift is always a trial. My elementary kids and high school students are pretty laid back and chill. Middle school kids, like in the past, are sometimes a test of my patience. When I drove before the kids used to drive me banana's. Now I just think that they are kind of entertaining. I just hope I have the patience that I do now to deal with a middle school teenager of my own someday.

A few recent developments:

• I've finally splurged and bought myself a Blue-Ray burner so that I can start burning my own Blue-Ray discs for my portfolio. I figured that when I finally put together my reel, which should be towards the end of this summer, that I'm going to have tons and tons of video files that I'd like to send to potential business opportunities. I know that I'd like to send them a quality product, with quality video files and I know they won't fit on a DVD (and look good). I know some businesses wont have Blue-Ray capabilities, but I hope that that helps me stand out.

• I've also purchased my own SLR camera. This has been a long time coming, but I'm glad that I finally have one of my own. I will definitely put it to good use this coming weekend, for Denton's Arts and Jazzfest. I hope I can do a few light paintings there in the crowds! Check back next week for some photo's

• I've also uploaded some of the graphics that I've been working on for my job here at UNT. They have been training me how to use Motion and I've gotten quite good at it. I've been working on their logo, which is a cube. I found out through a bit of research that you can't import 3D objects into Motion. Which would be really cool because I've just started becoming a fan of animation in a 3D space. It's very difficult to work with, but fun at the same time. After a little trouble shooting I was able to create a cube and animate it:
  

It took me awhile to get the background right and the text to fly through the cube, but after alot of trial and error I was able to get a clean video. I then took my cube and added a bunch of drop zones. Now with the click of a mouse, I can put whatever video clip I want onto any face of the cube:

I showed these video's to my head boss today and they are very excited about what it's turning into. I went ahead and flipped the video's over so that they face the camera, right side up, and I'm working on making the video's fly together to form the cube (kind of like a tornado). This graphic could get very interesting in the next few months.