Mind-melted...

I don't know how I ever believed that Adobe Flash was the program I wanted to focus on for entire career. I don't mind the program when I need it in certain situations, like now as I create my own website, but four days into some seriously heavy Flash work and my mind feels like a tangled mess of keyframes and tweens and symbols and minute corrections. It's the most tedious workflow I can imagine, and I'm not using ActionScript. Here's what I'm doing, instead of the actual artwork that will eventuall fill it:

But I'm doing it, and I won't complain as long as I'm seeing progress.

To take a break, though, I'd like to talk about some other stuff.
I really hope that everyone lucky enough to possess eye(s) has gone to see Avatar. I think it's still playing at the moment, so you have a little time. To be honest, Avatar was the most phenomenal work of art I can imagine being accepted by the mass public. It's by no means as complex as science fiction can get, or will get, but at the moment I think that James Cameron tapped into some serious issues of the modern age and, by adding in the aliens and creatures and whatnot, disguised some incredible messages as mind-blowing cinema. It won't be the same after goes out of theaters, and I have high hopes for the sequels.

As far as music goes, I think Fear Factory did the impossible and topped everything they've produced to date with the latest album Mechanize. As a devotee to FF for almost a decade, this is the album I always hoped they'd make, and it's here and it's brilliant. That said, I think the wait for Crossbreed's new album was in vain. It's a mess, and I'm a huge fan. Sybreed's new album was a bit more on the dark, pessimistic side, but I'm still with them. Metal fan or no metal fan, you need to listen to a song from Sybreed's first album Slave Design, "Bioactive". No one can claim that this band isn't brilliant beyond comprehension. Whatever they do from now on is gold. Mnemic's new album is equally amazing.

But for now, while I'm staring at Adobe Flash, I've got Pandora.com set to Joey Fehrenbach, and I'm somewhere in sub-orbit at the moment.

I needed the break, thanks.

Jordan Madere