MOTHERFUCKERS

I locked my bike outside of my apartment for one evening. I got home around midnight... an old man was there doing something next to my bike. I thought he was pumping his bike... an invisible bike perhaps. I didn't check. I went inside and realized what was going one, ran outside, TOO LATE. The mother fucker has stolen both of my bike wheels. I feel violated. I want to beat the shit out of the guy's gut and wear his sphincter for shoes. Then, I will kick his nuts until they are rotten like dried up cherries. My bike is everything to me. I commute everyday with it. I do my grocery with it. I basically can't live without my bike. I can't believe someone would steal it. And its not even some amazing wheel, but I did just replace the tires few months ago... expensive tires for the winter. MOTHER FUCKER. I can almost feel sympathy for anyone but a bicycle thief... that's like... the ultimate sin in my book. If I ever see that fucker again, I'm going to not only beat him up. I'm going to bike over his fuck'n hands and he will never steal ever again.

This is not my bike. Just an example of the devastation. My bike is actually ten thousand times better than this. And both wheels are stolen. Stolen by a worthless piece of shit.

working with amalia for 6 hours

WOW, Ed is posting on his blog twice in a month!?

Last weekend I worked with Amalia Levari on a 24 hour film. She wrote a story and I made it into something stupid. A lot of people don't think it makes any sense, but I think it is quiet clear of what's going on. Anyways, enjoy!

Mom from Edward Juan on Vimeo.

And I'll have to say so far I'm pretty impressed with the Calarts character animation freshman year this year. Too bad I didn't attend the Producers show but from what I've seen online, its pretty great. Good job Calarts!

music video

Its finally summer in Portland! Even though my heater never worked since I moved into my new apartment... now I don't have a good reason to tell my landlord to fix the heater. Anyways, I did some more character designs below. I've been doodling a lot of people on the street in my neighborhood, and that influenced in my drawings.


I've also taken the challenge to direct a short live action music video for a local band. That is actually going fairly slow but things are happening. This past weekend Vi and I shot some footage for a green screen test. The band's name is called Jared Mees and the Grown Children, locally formed with some of the best people I know. You can check out their myspace page myspace.com/jaredmees Below are some of the storyboards I was working on.

And here're some designs for the costume.

Its all going to be live action with some additional stop motion and stage matte painting. Its a very low budget project, but I really want to do something on the weekends and after work hours. So far I've received helps from left and right. It will be a great collaboration! Anyways, here are few more holga photos to keep this post more interesting.




cheers.