Fun Facts:

• My favorite color used to be blue, but green has been getting me on the dl.
• I have a cat, and he’s absolutely wonderful until the second he gets outside and turns into a feral alley cat who refuses to be picked up.
• I’m engaged, but absolutely hate the term Fiancee so I just say wife most of the time.
• My emoji use has gotten out of hand so after typing most sentences of this introduction, I have been wishing I could put in a silly nonchalant emoji to set the vibe.
• I drive a crappy yellow 2003 Mini Cooper and have had it for about a year. I enjoy how small it is usually, but I’ve been working really hard at being neat so it doesn’t feel cramped inside.

By Sam Kruse

https://imaclassblogs.lanecc.edu/samsblog/

Hi, my name is Kaiden Kuntz. I am currently planning on getting my AAS in Multimedia Design here at Lane, and I hope to find work that relates to illustration and storytelling after I complete my education. In my spare time, I can usually be found reading comic books/graphic novels, watching movies, animating for fun (either stop motion or 2D), drawing, writing, or biking. Speaking of animation, I highly recommend that you watch Primal on Adult Swim if you haven’t seen it. It’s very good!

I am most excited about the wide range of skills that the Multimedia Design program teaches. Although all of my interests have to do with the creative field, I believe that my current ability to draw and whatnot is fairly amateur. I’ve found that I only ever really focus on character design when I draw, so I am hoping that the Multimedia Design program will help me to improve and expand upon my creative abilities in all forms of art. At any given time, I’ve got several ideas for stories that are always floating around my head. It’s now jut a matter of getting good enough at communicating visually in order to be able to put them out into the world.

Anyways, I’ve never made a blog before, so this is all sort of new to me. I am interested to see where all this goes!

By Kaiden Kuntz

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Greetings, I’ve a passion for a number of random things including getting into uncomfortable situations around the world, under-proofing my sourdough loaves and taking the occasional black and white film photo, letting it sit in a random backpack for years and developing it in my bathroom a few years after finishing the roll. I have tried starting business, failed and tried again.

In a previous life I got an AA from LCC transferring to the UO with a BA in Ethnic Studies and a minor obsession with poetry and film classes. After the UO I left the country as fast as humanly possible moving to Thailand where I got an MA in Thai Studies. I’ve learned to write and forgotten to write, learned languages and now also forgotten them, silkscreened and sold t-shirts, worked in numerous random jobs and wandered and taught. Feeling at home while on the move I’ve spent several years taking stock photography and videography as well as written a book sized thesis about discourse analysis using Gramscian and cultural studies theories analysing advertising imagery in Thai lifestyle media. Currently I am attempting to finish my second year of a daily drawing/animation three hundred and sixty five day project.

My dreams from the animation option of the multimedia program is to be able to design, animate and do art on a beach somewhere while saving for a house and small farm in northern Thailand. Essentially to have enough skills to live outside the US but not have to completely rely on English language instruction as a primary career. As such, I hope to start or run my own small multimedia design firm working in realms of the bizarre and strange including games, videos, photos, storytelling, animations and design.

Danaan