http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx an insight inside of ivancruz's tormented mind. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:54:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Starting last week I've been trying to set aside at least a half-hour to reading, It's been great so far. The book I've been reading is called "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. An eater's manifesto as the author claims, that builds on historic events about food and food politics, ... http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/2009/01/21/in-defense-of-food/ I've been incredibly busy lately and the bad part of that is that most of the projects I've been working at Sequence are under NDA [Non Disclosure Agreements] which sucks because I have no projects to blog about, until now! Our latest project, a series of 10 episodes divided into ... http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/2009/01/15/batman-black-white-unveiled/ I've been out of it for the last couple weeks, immersed into Visa paperwork, trying to figure out the best way for me to stay in Canada, well I took some time and sent a t-shirt design that was sitting on my computer for months to Threadless. For the few of ... http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/2008/07/09/my-tee-on-threadless/ Here's my first attempt to controlling LED lights through a Distance Sensor and Arduino. Here's a temp link: http://ivancruz.com.mx/pickup/led.mov http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/2008/04/18/led-crossfade-first-test/ [qt:http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/wp-content/uploads/videos/whokilledthem.mov http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/wp-content/uploads/videos/whokilledthem.png 480 290] At the beginning of the day we got a brief: to create a motion piece showing a different version of the famous case of the hatchet murders that occurred in New England in the late 1920’s. Everything from concept to delivery had to be done in under ... http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/2008/04/11/who-killed-mr-and-mrs-borden/ Here's my first tackle at the Xpresso node-based editor of Cinema 4d, I'm connecting the Sound Effector to control the birth rate, size and rotation of the particle system I created with Thinking Particles. Sound Effector + Thinking Particles on Xpresso from Ivan Cruz on Vimeo. Enjoy! http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/2008/02/13/xpresso-sound-effector/ Today while I was doing research for my Final Project, I stumbled upon this unusual yet amazing website. The address http://laptop.org belongs to a non-profit organization called One Laptop Per Child, program initiated by the MIT and designed by renowned industrial designer Yves Béhar. It's mission, to develop low-cost ($100) ... http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/2008/01/11/one-laptop-per-child/ While I was reading some articles a couple hours ago, I stumbled upon a quite promising website, Christmas greetings from Wieden + Kennedy London. This website's reason to be is to express your Christmas spirit to friends and family, without killing trees. I don't know if it's the fact that I ... http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/2007/12/15/christmas-spirit/ This is my first experiment using the dynamics module of Cinema 4d. dynamics is a module that recreates real life physics, such as gravity and wind. In this experiment I have two cubes at a certain height, that I then drop by the magic of gravity and a little bit ... http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/2007/11/28/dynamics-cn-bumper/ Mograph is, in the words of one of my instructors, Cinema4d's "Do Cool Shit Button". Because with the minimum knowledge of Mograph you can do some crazy cool stuff with it. This experiment features Mograph's most basic object; the Cloner Object, which as you might've imagined it creates copies of ... http://blog.ivancruz.com.mx/2007/11/20/3d-experiments-mograph/