Whats up media classmates, my name is Christian Hindley. This is my second term at Lane and my second total year in college. Next term im going to dual enroll at UO. I’m currently studying Criminal Justice here, and I plan on joining the Navy after school. Im from Portland, Oregon. I love the Portland Trail Blazers, I love the Oregon ducks, and most sports in general. I tend to stay active whether its at the gym, outdoors, or vigorously shouting profanities at the xbox, Im usually up to something. I love life and everything it has to offer so I try to make the best of it.

Cheers!

My name is Wesley LaVassaur and this is my Personal Blog. I recently started the Multimedia Design program at Lane and I am really enjoying it. I think art is a really good way for people to express themselves and helps people to try and understand the world around them. I look forward to eventually creating virtual worlds for people to explore. Virtual Gaming I feel will become huge in the near future, but only if enough artists are willing to contribute to it. I hope that one day I will be professionally designing 3-Dimensional worlds for people.

In my free time I like to play video games, watch TV, and play ultimate Frisbee. Video games take up most of that time though. The ability for something to transport you to a different dimension for a time is a great thing. You can move around in a world where you can do anything and it never ceases to amaze me. As for TV, I really like Breaking Bad and any Tom Hanks movie is amazing. Ultimate Frisbee is my favorite sport to play just because it’s pretty simple and it’s like a mix between a couple sports. I look forward to the future of the Media Arts program as well to see where life takes me!

Just a little bit about myself,

My name is Derek Watson, I’ve lived in Oregon all my life and can think of no other place I’d rather be. I’m 25 years old and have be drawing ever sense I can remember.

I’m an aspiring Cartoonist and Animator hoping one day to own and operate my very own studio, a studio that will give others with their passions and ideas; dedicated to anything and everything animation oriented a place to develop and grow; a collaborative work shop of people who work together on group projects, who help one another to realize their talents and showcase their creations to the rest of the world.

My goal is an ambitions one and is likely to fail before it would even start, but to create a company of my own from the ground up has been a dream of mine for at least 8 years now. The feeling I get in making this dream a reality is a strong one to say the least and one that I am very passionate about.

With the brand name of the company itself in mind: “Cartoon Platoon Studios” and with what I like to refer to as “The Radio Man Logo” (seen above) as my banner for the future company to be.

Hi everyone I’m Jon; I’ve lived in Eugene for almost a year now. I originally hail from Tampa Florida and after being in the Air Force for four years and after having lived in South Korea and Japan I didn’t really want to move back to Florida. It was in Japan that I picked up my current hobby of collecting vintage game consoles and video games. In my spare time I enjoy reading especially comic books and graphic novels, my favorite being Superman comics but really anything is fun. I’m trying to get into film making so I hope the multi media program can offer me a good stepping stone.

 I am Jon Conway and I live in Eugene Oregon in the US I enjoy gaming(duh), Anime, cooking, and all kinds of other stuff. When I complete the Media Arts program I would LOVE to get into concept and design work because I feel that this is where my niche is. I draw my inspiration from many sources including the works of H.P Lovecraft, Edger Allen Poe, Robert E Howard and Anne Rice. When it comes to gaming I do not call myself “Hardcore” because I do not believe in labels, those are for items not people. Clan Malkavian for life! Hahahahahaha!!

Gamer. 28 yrs old. Full time college student. Full time graveyard baker. Yeah….that last part….

If you’re taking time to read this then let me fill you in on a little bit about my life! I was born and raised in Clovis CA and moved up to Eugene in 2012. I had desires to get my transfer degree at Lane and attend the University of Oregon but things have changed in the last few years. I originally wanted to go for Family Human Services but of course like any college student, I have decided to change majors and go with my passion: Media Arts.

I worked on staff at a local church in CA for several years and ran their Media Department. I made anything from flyers, videos, promotional videos, small production, moderate graphic design, and beyond. It all started with being sat down at a Mac that I knew nothing about and was asked to make a video with given footage. Knew nothing about the program let alone how to navigate anywhere on the comp. And I’m here today fully confident in creating projects and working in the media arts realm. Bring on the Multimedia Major! Not entirely sure what specific area or what I want out of the program but hoping to find something along the way.

Hobbies: Hiking, Photography, Music, Movies, Gaming, Settlers of Catan.

I also have an almost 1 year old Pug named LP (short for Little Pimp) and a boyfriend of almost 3 years.

Thanks for stopping by!

// Travis //

Hello Everybody, I’m Mark and I’m creating a Blog for my Multi-Media class at Lane Community College in Eugene Oregon. I am a long time Stagehand/Lighting Tech and also have 12+ years as an Electrician/Grip in the film and TV industries. I’m back at school to update my skills and learn new technologies related to those fields. It will be interesting to hear from other people in these fields and share stories and experiences of shows they are working or have worked on. Also to talk about any new equipment or gear they are working with. In the coming weeks I will talk about some things I am involved with and hope to hear others. Until then, Thanks, Mark.

Hello, my name is Matthew Curry I have chosen to take this class to help better my skills for game development/computer simulation major here at Lane Community. When I have free time I usually spend it chatting with friends and family, playing video games, watching movies, drawing and being an all around nerd of comics and anime. Ever since i was a child I believed that i was born in the wrong century with a feeling of detachment to everything that I came upon, if asked what time period I should have been born I will generally answer that I should have been born in the 1400’s being either a pirate or working as a merchant traveling around Europe. As I grew older I soon realized that I sought to become a game developer wanting to create a gaming system that is both interactive and virtual reality where your mind is the controller and that your imagination will be your greatest weapon in a world where you can be what you choose to be.

this is my journey into the field of multimedia , Ive been a sketch artist and tattoo body art practitioner  for 37 years. Im also a founding member for (CASPSBA) the California alliance for the promotion of safe body art. We created lectures and events to educate artist and health inspectors alike into better awareness of blood borne pathogens and there risks. Today I’m shifting my art skills to a different medium in hopes of a rewarding future. kraig santo aka olioartist

Hello my name is Jack Murphy. Im 22 years old. Before starting my arts education I was a chemistry student and found the lack of hands on work forced my mind to seek other avenues of expression. I am beginning my study of multimedia at Lane with the hopes of transferring back to the University as a digital arts student. My primary focus right now however would have to be sound design. I have been teaching myself how to use Ableton Live for the past 4 years, and I have recently acquired an analog drum machine and mono synth that I enjoy recording. Recently I was introduced to Native Instruments Reaktor which has been taking up huge chucks of spare time. The music scene that existed between Detroit and Berlin during the 1990’s has been heavily influencing my artistic expression for the last years. I really enjoy the futurist yet dystopian atmosphere many pieces exibit from this time period. The sculpting of noise and ambience into solid yet expansive sonic landscaped. My primary foci in art are space, noise, pattern, repetition, monotony, deviation, and time. I look forward to being able to explore some of these concepts in both time dependent and independent media, as well as being introduced to new concepts worth exploring. Currently I am learning the basics about photography using my iPhone camera, coming from audio, pictures has so many tweakable perameters it seems impossible to settle on a final finished image. I have some experience with video via a class in high school, however that was so long ago I have very little left over skill wise from that. Looking forward to a gainful quarter.