After two years of being stuck primarily building websites, I’m working on getting my 3D and AE chops back. Thanks to GSG for some great tutorials. Here’s a little screen grab of today’s render which should be done in a few hours…

Playing around with some more Mograph 2, thanks to some help from GSG. I’m not sure why it’s playing so crappy on Vimeo. I’ve tried a few different things. I guess I need to upgrade to Pro…soon enough. You can check out the FCTN animation clean and crisp here on my own server.

I’m in the sweet state of Tennessee. Nashville, the country capitol of the world. Too bad I can’t stand country. Everyone is really nice here, and I’ve never been called ‘baby girl’ so many times in my life. Most of Fiction is working up here for the next month or two, working on our sweet Tennessee accents. We even have a temporary townhouse which includes a mandatory work-out every afternoon. It’s cold here. Bone chilling, long johns under the jeans kind of cold. I can’t escape it.

Tomorrow is a big day. Mark it down. I’m finally buying a nice camera. Photography is essential to graphic design. Remember that. I’ve always been town between buying a nice video camera or a nice digital camera, and finally I can get the best of both worlds all beautifully packaged in one Canon 7d. I’m probably going to need to revamp this blog to fit big pretty pictures and some high quality video! Lot’s and lots of great stuff to come. Can’t wait!! In the meantime I got my hands on Chase’s Mark II for a hot minute and snapped this photo out of the jet window on the way to TN…

2009 is gone already?! Where does time go? I want to find that place and soak up all the minutes and hours that slipped by too fast…

Highlights:

- my trip to Rome

- Landing my 1st kickflip

- Receiving and riding my 1st Integrity Jenny Danger which I created the graphics for with a picture of my gorgeous grandma.

- 1 year anniversary

- Nor Cal Convergence 8 & 9

- 1st Place at Worlds & WakeGames

- O’Neill, Vans, & Pro-Tec

- Throwing my first event/gathering: Girls Ride Day

Lows:

- stolen car (again. 2x)

- saying goodbye to Poppy

- getting wrecked

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I’m sure the list could go on & on. Pretty crazy I know so many great people that passed away in 2009. However, for every person I know that passed, I also know of a baby that was born…pretty impressive how the world goes round. It was a great year, and 2010 has even more to offer, most of which will be a surprise. Fiction’s headquarters is almost done being built and we will be moving in February! We’ve got our hands full with a new project, and got into lots of music goodness last year. I’m hope to keep pushing the women’s side of wakeskating in the right direction. Here’s to 2010!

Chase’s Washed Out video made Pitchfork’s list of top music videos of 2009! Congrats Chase, and Fiction.

Also…Charles (Fiction’s Creative Director) whipped up some sweet show visuals for the Viernes show last weekend. I missed it to due the Crash-O-Rama, but I heard it was great! Luckily we can still see pieces of the show visuals on vimeo:

FCTN.tv — 4th Quarter Update. We’ve added some new projects, don’t forget to peek at the Play section! It been a good month for music, Chase and Charles are blowing up. Check out all the music news goodness here.

Long story short: Chase got a camera housing for his Mark II. Chase and friends go to the Bahamas. Chase takes pretty pictures. Chase gets home and makes a video out out of it to the jam, “Feel It All Around” by Washed Out. Chase sends it to the dude from Washed Out, dude likes it and *bam, it becomes the unofficial video for the song, and *bam, it’s up on Rolling Stones. Nice work Chase…next time take me with you. Hah, jk (kind of, but not really). Fiction, for the win!

www.FCTN.tv

We just added some new goods over at FCTN.tv. Scope the new work, and don’t forget the PLAY section! Because everybody loves blogs. We’ve got a new building in the works, it’s going to be insane. Watch out Winter Park…here we come.

FCTN got new business cards. They are rockin’! Black foil on black 24 point paper with a soft touch finish. More photos at www.fctn.tv/play, I’m looking forward to handing these out!