Scott Stickane

You say tomato, I say zombie

stickane — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:44:42 +0000

So since I love zombie movies, but normally only the ones with slow dumb zombies, I decided to post this. I have seen it before but since my mom finally found it on the “interweb” I realized its on the brink of being lost forever. I have no idea who the artist is (and don’t feel like a google search on my iPhone), but what a great use of time wasting. It belongs to the collection called “bent objects”.

Bradley & Chelsea

stickane — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:27:48 +0000

Fort Worth Texas.

Save the Date July 7th, 2012, Brad and Chelsea are getting hitched. I was fortunate enough to take their pictures. Check them out here. Brad and Chelsea’s engagement pictures.

Portrait Picture Gallery

Best of 2011

stickane — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:46:16 +0000

Since I spend the majority of my day sitting in a chair and using a computer, I wanted to share the best things the internet has to offer, for someone of my bent.

>Best phone
Jailbroken iPhone 4.
Most people think the iPhone is the best phone ever, which I agree, but it is so much better when its jailbroken. Similar to my mac, I can now add all sorts of functionality to my workflow, thanks to Redsn0w for the work.

>Best hamburger
Hands down, SmashBurger. I have only been to the one in Dallas on Mockingbird in Uptown, but dang, the BBQ and bacon combo helped my gain 15 pounds, in my “eat everywhere good in Dallas before I quit my job” adventure.

>Best new thing to eat
Fried pickles or sushi. Thanks again to Smashburger.

>Most exciting accomplishment
Remodeling a foreclosure in 3 months with the help of my friends… and saving $35k in the process.

>Best new music (for me)
Very, very, very strange, but electronica. It started with RJD2 and then Skrillex, which I found from watching GoPro videos. Which leads me to my next point. —>Trip Lee‘s new album.

>Best new gadget
GoPro Hero2. Very cool! Just in case you have never heard of them and want to wish you led someone else’s life, check out this link. If I ever wanted to quit my job and be an adrenaline junkie, it was from these videos.

>Best online discovery
Freddiew’s youTube channel. This guy single handedly ruined my productivity at work over the last 6 months. Yet made me wish I had a buddy to make videos with everyday too.

>Best piece of software
Pluraleyes. Syncs audio and video assets really easily and does it really well.

>Best new Browser
Sorry Safari, Google Chrome just beat you out, because you’re not compatible with everything.

>Best Cloud Service
Toss up between, iCloud (only because it automatically backsup your iPhone, and DropBox.

>Biggest Switchup
Moving from OSX Mail to Microsoft Outlook. No one could open up my attachments when I sent them with Mail.

>Biggest Switchup in 2012
Moving from Final Cut Pro to Premiere. Apple, you make wonderful products, and operating systems, but your software just stinks, Motion and Aperture are lousy.

>Best OSX shortcut
Shift + CTRL + CMD + 4 = screen capture selection copied to clipboard. I was just draggin and droppin from the desktop anyway.

>Best online service.
The heck with facebook. Twitter is where its at. I finally got over the hump of “Twitter is stupid, who cares what you’re eating for lunch”. The great thing about Twitter is you can connect to the people who you would never get a chance to otherwise in a semi-personal way. Check out @RealRonHoward. He shares a lot of what he is doing in preparation and production of his movies.

>Best to follow on Twitter
WITHOUT A DOUBT. @ghettohikes. A little crude, but always funny. Check it out and make sure you understand the context.

>Best movie
The Help.

>Worst Movie
Real Steel. Im not even going to make a link

>Worst Song
That country rap song. Jason Aldean’s remake of Colt Ford – Dirt Road Anthem. Maybe its because when I was working on my house it played twice an hour.

>Best Experience (work related)
Praying for a long time for a new job and then landing a really awesome one at Sabre.

>Best Experience
Wrestling with my 1.5 year old son, who now growls at every animal.

>Best thing to add to your mac
OSX 10.7. Not quite as cool as the change from 10.4 to 10.5 but, still good and a lot better than I thought it would be. There are so many mac haters.

>Best realization
Money isn’t going to make you happy, but it might just make you upset. Its not the end all to life and it fixes nothing, so why pursue it. Pursue your passion and make it greater.

>Most anticipated of 2012
RED digital cinema’s new “Dragon” sensor for the RED Epic. I hope its a game changer.

>Most education in 2012
NAB 2012, or REDucation. Here’s to hoping I can attend both.

>Best person to learn from (besides Jesus)
Vincent LaForet, but I feel like he is becoming a little cynical and hasn’t really done much in terms of movie making.

>Best thing learned from Jesus
His coming is more than promised, its eminent.

Things I want all engaged girls to know

stickane — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:25:34 +0000

I have finally gotten through the time in my life where the majority of my friends are married and I don’t have to attend anymore weddings. This weekend we had another wedding for one of my wife’s friends and since it’s been a while I have been to a rehearsal dinner and since I’ve been married now for a couple of years, I have decided to share a few things I think every woman should know before getting married.

1. Chances are you have too many clothes.
2. You definitely have too many shoes.
3. Making a noise in response to a question is completely appropriate.
4. If you ask a question and you don’t really want the answer, don’t ask it.
5. Please don’t change your hair, it will just cause an argument when you ask for comments.
6. Comments we make are null and void after 3 days, you are not allowed to bring it up again after that. Ever.
7. If you want something, ask. Hinting at things will only make you feel like you married an inconsiderate jerk.
8. I don’t want to hear anything about any ex-boyfriend.
9. Masterpiece classic movies are not “masterpieces”. If its in French, I probably won’t like it.
10. You didn’t marry a jerk you married a sinner. Very different.

Rain Clouds

stickane — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:25:27 +0000

Recently I have had the inspiration to “paint” clouds. My mom does it really well and for the most part good pictures of just clouds are really cool. That combined with one of my co-workers sons who does a sketch everyday led me to do something similar. I have no idea if it will happen with the frequency of everyday (in fact I would bet against it), but it is seems like a very cool and easy way to stay creative, and if you are any thing like me who sits in an office all day, you know you need it.

So here it is. A simple painting of clouds, just forms cause thats about all you can do in 30 min (which I am limiting myself to).

Broccoli

stickane — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:15:18 +0000

So on the way to Kansas for Thanksgiving. Last night we kept our son awake until 10:30 in hopes of making him super tired today. He slept for 2 hours from the Texas Oklahoma border to the Norman, OK Chickfila. Apparently he woke up with such a raving appetite he is eating broccoli. What little child likes broccoli. I can remember hating it for my whole life.

Tiny Men, Big Quest

stickane — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:53:12 +0000

Another great piece of work from Dennis Zilber. You can check out his whole gallery on CGsociety here.Dennis Zilber →

LD Bell high school football 2011

stickane — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:27:33 +0000

The Defensive Coordinator at LD Bell asked me to come make a highlight reel of their team for the 2011 Texas playoffs. Shot with the Canon 5d2 with the L series 100-400mm lens which was perfect for fast movement and depth of field. The full frame sensor of the 5d really made shooting at a long focal lengths easy with a super clean image even at 800 ISO. This won't be the last time I do this. Anyone out there with some high quality original soundtracks let me know.

LD Bell vs Richland

October 2011

The Defensive Coordinator at LD Bell asked me to come make a highlight reel of their team for the 2011 Texas playoffs. Shot with the Canon 5d2 with the L series 100-400mm lens which was perfect for fast movement and depth of field. The full frame sensor of the 5d really made shooting at a long focal lengths easy with a super clean image even at 800 ISO. This won’t be the last time I do this. Anyone out there with some high quality original soundtracks let me know.

LD Bell wins

Don Quixote

stickane — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:04:19 +0000

Great picture from Dennis Zilber from Israel of all places. Check out more from CG society by clicking on the link below and go check out Dennis’s cg portfolio.

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Turner – Save the Date

stickane — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:16:14 +0000

So my really awesome friend Andrew who happens to be a missionary in a country that is to be left unknown and unspoken is getting married. They have an awesome story of how the Lord brought them together and now they are getting hitched. Andrew not only asked me to be the best man, but also asked me to make a save the date for them which I couldn’t refuse.

My problem was, Sarah lives in Georgia and Andrew is 5000 miles away, so there wasn’t a great opportunity to get them together to shoot a creative picture or edit something… so I drew it out. Been a while since I delved into the annuls of cartoons, but I think it turned out well. Best of times with my brother in Christ, Gigantor. He’s 6’9″ and from this cartoon, kinda looks like Jesus.