Here's a video we made for the November 21, 2008 Theatre Strike Force Gator Nights show. We came up with the idea on a Monday, wrote it on Tuesday, rewrote on Wednesday and shot and edited it on Thursday and Friday. It premiered Friday night for an audience of about 200.

This was a lot of fun to make.

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This is a short video a friend and I made for class. Learn how to make a robot.

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I forgot to post this, this was the Gary Attack ad. To advertise for Theatre Strike Force's Fall Show, we created two tv spots. One for our fictional candidate, Gary, and one against him. I made these ads.

A few things about the Attack Ad. The baby is my nephew, Micah. The violin was played by April D.

It felt really good seeing this ad on TV during the commercial breaks of the Daily Show, even if we were only airing them on campus.

The Steamboat Willies for Truth was originally just a play on Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, but it soon became something more.

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This was another video from the big Theatre Strike Force fall sketch show, "GARY: A New Hope For A Better America." I shot this and stuff. This and Don't Vote were shot in one long, fun, tiring night.

The entire Gary show takes place in an alternate reality where there is a political candidate, Gary, running for president. Theatre Strike Force, the improv troupe at UF, is invited to perform at a rally for Gary. The hour and a half long sketch show itself was the rally, culminating in an appearance by Gary himself. I played Gary in the live show.

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This video was originally shown as part of Theatre Strike Force's Fall Show 2008, Gary: A New Hope for a Better America. I shot this.

All the lighting was done with a china ball and a work light. Luckily, there were a ton of c-stands and flags and other stuff around in the photo studio to help out.

Go vote tomorrow!

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I did another cover for the Alligator! Another Homecoming...

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Here's an ad I shot and helped write with TSF Sketch. We're really into this Gary candidate, apparently. We're hosting a giant rally on Oct. 27th...

(Sketch comedy)

This will be on the tv!

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This is a little web promo video that I shot/edited (and did a little bit of directing) for/with an Upstart member named Jovone B. Assisted by Tito A. and Liz P.

The idea was to recreate an 80's music video show. It was fun and I think it was successful. I'd like to tackle a real music video or two, so if anyone out there knows of/is a band that needs a music video, just get in contact with me.

As always, watch it in glorious HD over at Vimeo.

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I shot this video a month or so ago. I'm not in the video in any way, I was just doing videography, but if you have a half hour you'll probably enjoy this totally improvised musical. AM Radio, the musical improv troupe of Theatre Strike Force, is very talented.

Watch it in HD over at Vimeo.

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Here's a PDF of a sketch that I wrote with TSF Sketch (specifically, a ton of help from Filup M and Erik V). I performed it as the opener to the first big TSF Improv show of the semester Friday night. I was Dr. Killdeathmurder and I wore an eyepatch, a lab coat and a hook arm.

It was a very topical sketch about the Large Hadron Collider Particle Accelerator and supervillains.

UPDATE: A video of the sketch is up on facebook: Dr. Killdeathmurder.

UPDATE: You know what, here's the sketch on the YouTubes.

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Here's another batch of clips from the feature length film I was DP on this summer.

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Hey! Here's a little bit of footage from the feature we've been shooting the past three weeks. So exciting. Youtube messed up the aspect ratio and horribly compressed it.

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Hawaii Girl is a series of videos that I shot around May. We shot five episodes. It's technically an adaptation of a web comic I did back in High School that may or may not still be online somewhere.

I never thought it would happen, but Shaun Spalding provided a lot of encouragement and we eventually found the perfect actresses to play real life cartoon characters (Jenn and April) and a few days to shoot.

I've taken forever to edit them.

My idea was to take the pacing and rhythm of a comic strip and apply it to short films. Keep things extremely short, cut out everything unnecessary. I think this is a good way to go about adapting film stuff to the internet.

I don't know how well I executed these ideas.

Wake-up Time, the one posted here, was the last one we shot, took the least amount of time to shoot, and was the quickest edit. If we had had another five minutes in the location, we could have gotten it perfect.

I'm telling myself that I'll post a new episode every week until all five are posted, and I hope I'll be able to stick to it.

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So, we're two weeks into shooting Adam's feature film version of the short we shot last summer. It's a lot of work and a lot of fun. I'm really excited about how it's all going.

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Summer Knights: Party Quirks from Theatre Strike Force on Vimeo.

I perform improv with Theatre Strike Force and we had a show a little over a week ago. I recorded the whole thing and a few videos from it (including a few featuring me) are up over at the TSF vimeo page. Make sure to watch in HD (if you feel like it).

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The contents of my table barbecue

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Watermelon

Fourth of July. I still have a watermelon husk in my refrigerator.

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Dance Marathon at the University of Florida 2008 Opening video from Rymo on Vimeo.
Dance Marathon at UF linedance 2008 from Rymo on Vimeo.

Dance Marathon has come and gone once again. I'm still sorting through footage. Here's the opening video I made and a master take of the Linedance.

Click through to see them in HD at Vimeo. HD! This is truly a pleasant future.

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An illustration for a guns on campus point counterpoint "Viewpoints" section.

Oh and hey, why not, Iraq War's fifth birthday.

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My first flash info graphic thing! Here it is at AlligatorSports.

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On Thursday, I had an illustration in the Avenue (The Alligator's Arts and Entertainment section).

This is the first time I've gotten to illustrate a story and I hope it sets a precedent for letting me do it.

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If anyone wants a print of this frame, let me know.

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Some recent stuff. The spread is from a Magazine Design class assignment (To answer any questions, I am Ryan Moulton). The poster is going up around campus just as soon as I can find a stapler that works.

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This is the process I use to come up with my daily political cartoons at Alligator.org.

I usually get to the office anywhere from 7:30pm to 10pm and then I talk to the editor or opinions editor to find out what stories are going in the paper the next day. I might try to casually make a few jokes to warm up. There are usually a few story options. I read them.

Then I start brainstorming. I write lists of ideas in my moleskine notebook. I free associate. I try to understand the story and what's really at stake here. I talk to people to get my brain unstuck. I might go buy some dinner somewhere. I usually end up on facebook.

Sooner or later, I'll have something figured out. Some of the best days are when I hear a story and immediately understand what the joke is or where the twist of the story is.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, I draw in Adobe Flash. I use a wacom 9x12 tablet that I bought 7 years ago and draw directly into the computer. I sketch the layout and art and then go back and "ink" everything.

Sometimes, when I'm drawing, I'll come up with a better joke. These are usually the best jokes, because they are usually part of a "wacky stack" where the jokes just keep coming.

I'll draw for a while and then add shades of grey or color.

When I've finished the comic, I usually sit around for a few minutes trying to get up the courage to show the editor, managing editor, and opinions editor. I go and do that.

They tell me if I made any grammar mistakes and whether or not they like the comic.

My deadline is 10:30. The deadline where I actually die is 11.

After I finish the comic, I do stuff for the website until I go home around 1 am.

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So I've left my job at RecSports at the University of Florida. It was a great experience and now it's time to move on.

So now I'm looking for freelance work/collaboration in the areas of: editorial illustration, photography, film/video (documentary, or narrative) , and web/print design. Check out ryanmoulton.com and give me an email or something.

ALSO: I'm on the lookout for a summer internship in the area of either online video or design.

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The Presidential Bunch

TOMORROW'S COMIC: TODAY. This is for the special Viewpoints part of the paper. The special topic of this week's Viewpoints was the 2008 election.

It's kind of weird to realize I've been cartooning almost every day for almost a semester now.

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I took some photos before/during Theater Strike Force's fall show the other day. These two were some of my favorites.

ALSO, I don't know if you were there, but if you were, I had one line in a video sketch ("Yeah Gellieman, DANCE!") and was The Hand of God in The Miracle of Life. I also animated the eyes/mouths.

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Afro-Hitchcock & The Lady Justice Stare Down Deluxe.

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OKAY. So this summer my friend Adam Bowers was making this movie called New Personal Worst. I did all the camera work for it. Well, the movie's nearing completion and he just put a trailer up for it. Watch this trailer and then get excited.

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Homecoming Edition

At 2 a.m. last night I got asked to design/illustrate a cover for the Alligator's Homecoming Edition.

I was happy with the result, regardless of whether or not the science held up. Only bad point: for some reason The Suits didn't want me to set my own type, so what eventually went to print was a much much weaker type treatment.

Oh well, I'll always have the memories.

UPDATE: It looks pretty good printed. Today was the homecoming parade and a lot of us went out and handed them to people. It was great seeing a copy of it in pretty much everyone's hands.

Here's a step-by-step:

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Robot Car! New video at the Alligator.

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That's how we comic in Alligator town.

ALSO: My friend Beau organizes an underwear dash once every semester. A lot of people show up and it's an awesome fun time. It's about being alive.

This dash was the subject of my first documentary, Everybody in their Underwear. Check out the video. Check out the dash. You won't regret it.

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Here's a photo project from my lighting class. Assistance by S. Spalding. Subject was D. Djeljosevic. Class reaction today was favorable.

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I designed a package compiling the Alligator's coverage of the Andrew Meyer gets tasered story.

Check it out if you enjoy people getting tasered, world-class student journalism, cartoons by Ryan Moulton, or grid based design with an emphasis on type and hierarchical presentation of information.

Blah blah blah blah.

I'm excited because now that we've set the precedent for breaking out of the template for special coverage packages, we can do it more often and it gives me more opportunities to do neat little web design projects. Hopefully.

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I've been cartooning for the Alligator since Summer B started. Last week I successfully did one comic for every day of the week. I usually miss a day. Here's yesterday's comic. It's about the protest that happened yesterday in regards to TaserGate 2k7.

Side note: I think it was pretty lucky that we got the "Most Popular" module debugged the night before TaserGate 2k7 broke, allowing people to see that the comments were exploding.

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You get it literally minutes before it goes live on alligator.org! Feel the glory of being a rymo.org patron!

I was less happy with this video than with previous ones. I won't bore you with details. Frank C. was awesome though. I really want to try some sturgeon now.

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Right now I'm very happy with how this poster turned out. Printed out it looks like a watercolor painting.

About 75% of the way through, I realized that I was subconsciously inspired by the photo of tomatoes on this NYT story. I spent a few minutes just looking at that graphic the other day.

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Another new mini-doc up at the BRAND NEW ALLIGATOR.ORG (which I also did a ton of design work on, and I'll be doing an indepth posting on soon, hopefully).

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So my friend Val wanted some free headshots. I wanted to learn how to shoot better portrait photography. On Monday we got together and had a photoshoot.

I'm still editing photos, but it was a very good experience. I got a little more confident at working with off-camera lighting and got some awesome pictures out of it. One of my favorites is at the top. Some of the photos were a lot more "model-y" and less "actor headshot-y", but oh well. She did a very good job.

I'll probably post some more to flickr eventually.

And if anyone out there that I at least kind of know wants some nice photos taken, just let me know.

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Hello. It's the last day the New Student Edition of the Alligator will be on news stands. The NSE has a lot of articles that new students at the University of Florida might enjoy/learn from, but I think more importantly, it includes an awesome cover by me. I don't think I was credited anywhere, but oh well.

Put it on your wall! Or something! Just search for the orange Alligator boxes anywhere on campus.

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I figured I better post it now before I'm ashamed of it.

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Here are some spreads from the RecSports magazine I worked on last Thursday and Friday.

I love doing layout.

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Kamphey.com made me their/his person of the day for July 30, 2007. JAWESOME!

As a response I did this quick portrait of Kamphey.

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Here is a fake teaser trailer for my friend Adam's movie that I'm doing camera work for. We were packing up after shooting at the infirmary and decided to shoot this little thing.

The real movie has nothing to do with hands coming out of stomaches... OR DOES IT?!?

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Here's a photo of the cast (minus me) of a commercial a friend of mine shot this weekend. It was a pretty wet, pretty fun shoot. Delicious cheese was served.

For this photo I used a little flash gun shot into a reflective umbrella to light them. The past few days I've been feeling like I want to get back into photography a little. Hmm...

ALSO: I just did a quick design for the Camera Phone Photo Blog. It's been a while since I've wrestled with MovableType. Bleh.

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Be a Man. I made this prop book and was pretty proud of myself

Here's a fake book I designed for one scene of my friend Adam's movie. I got it printed up and stuck it onto a book we found in the library. It looked pretty convincing.

The man in the kilt is Patches Beardley, and he will teach YOU how to be a man through chewy foods and harsh words.

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New photo gallery at Rec Sports: Strongman 2007.

ALSO: here's an older one that I'm not sure I ever linked: here: this link: here: Prom Rugby.

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Hello friend. I have an iPhone. The iPhone has a camera. I use the camera. The iPhone has email. I email the photos to flickr, which posts them to a blog I set up.

Amaze yourself with photos of food I eat, places I go, screens I look at, and people I'm around! Almost every day!

I have not yet done anything with the design so... sorry.

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New video at alligator.org: "WE GET DIRTY TOO"

What I gained from this one: confidence with abbreviating dance/music (just cut with the beat/ I only really effed it up once near the beginning, I think), rhythms stuck in my head for several days, a few nice shots that I really liked, got to go to a step show (which I never would have had the confidence to before).

I shot 45 minutes and edited down to 3. After groups performed, practically everyone would come down onto the main little stage area and danced. It was pretty intense. I did not include much of this because: not as rhythmically intense or interesting, the music was most likely copyrighted and I didn't feel like dealing with that.

Bad things: a few different overexposure problems. Who were those guys (Why didn't I get their names)?

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I have a short mini-documentary up on Alligator.org. It's right here and it's about a tai chi/fencing instructor that raises cougars. It is available here: Bruce and the Cougars. The story text is by Devin C.

This was the first video for Alligator.org. (I think?) We got the video request last tuesday, I shot the video Sunday morning, and by Monday night, I had the hours worth of footage edited down to five minutes and 44ish seconds. It was still a little long, but parts of it were ridiculously cute.

I'm hoping this leads to more video requests to the Alligator's new media staff.

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More and more often, my days are really awesome. I've had quite a few days where I've been busy from morning to night just doing stuff that I absolutely love.

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One part of the culture of facebook is that on a person's birthday people flock to that person's wall and post things like "Happy Birthday!"

Yesterday was my birthday. I made a graph showing when people posted on my facebook wall.

Facebook Birthday Posts, a Retrospective

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Last summer was hard. I wasn’t doing a lot of productive stuff and that just made me realize I was lonely. I did a few freelance projects, including an illustration for the Office of Sustainability and another thing for the Business Alliance of Greater Gainesville. In the fall I did a bunch of film projects. I got really involved with Upstart’s Film Slam thing. Every two weeks I made another short film. I made it to the finals.

Most of the shorts were really bad, but a few were great.

I made my first documentary film Everybody in their Underwear. That was a really exciting experience for me. I entered it in the ART Film Festival and won first place in the Documentary Short category. Going to the actual film festival was pretty weird (I thought there would be zero people there but there were about seven) but my brother was there to support me.

I worked on a few different web projects around this time. I reworked the design for Newsies. Newsies 2.0 was much more professional looking. Eventually I did websites for an honors society and a summer camp.

For a while I’d considered web design one of my weak points but over the past year I’ve started to feel a little more confident. I’m learning how to be confident with just designing to solve problems rather than designing to ornament or style something.

Christmas break was good. I was looking forward to the coming semester pretty heavily but the semester didn’t fulfill its promises entirely. It was still good though.

One of the highlights of spring was getting to go to Miami with a few people that I barely knew to try to make a documentary thing. That was an incredible weekend and I’m so thankful for it.

I spent a lot of spring obsessed with getting this one internship. It got to the point where I knew quite a bit about everyone who worked at this small company based on their individual online presences. They crept into my dreams, voices and all.

This is without ever having any contact with them at all.

I spent a lot of time getting a portfolio together and fine-tuning and worrying and freaking out.

Eventually I didn’t even apply.

The semester ended quickly and out of nowhere I was invited to help out with online stuff for the Alligator. I had my summer job.

Working on a redesign for the website of UF’s independent student newspaper has been a great experience. It’s given me a chance to really collaborate with other people on a high level and I’m loving it. I’m hoping we can pull everything together for a successful launch of the redesign.

This has been a weird year for me personally. I don’t like to talk about this kind of thing, but this year has been one of the first where I’m not obsessed romantically with someone completely out of reach. I haven’t really been interested in anyone. Just kind of blank this year.

Weird.

This year I did get to meet a lot of interesting people. Now I want to meet more of them.

I drew a portrait every day for one-hundred days. I remembered how fun and relaxing it is to draw and it seems like, at least to me, I quickly became better. My hand and eye became more confident.

Again this year I was on Dance Marathon Tech Team. I was a lot healthier this year and able to bring a lot more to the table. I did my second (maybe third) biggish (at least for me) motion graphics project and made about thirty short motion identity loops for the entertainers. I'm still very pleased with how these turned out. I also took a ton of photos at the 32-hour Dance Marathon and had a much higher quality-to-crap ratio than last year. Also, this year, I shot in manual and was able to much better post-process my photos to get higher quality images.

Awesome.

This year I’ve grown as a person, I think. It’s been a new experience living entirely alone. No roommate, no dorm, no family. Just me above the laundry room at Arbor Lofts.

I think I’ve always had a ton of independence but maybe it just gave me more? I don’t know.

That was year twenty. Plus or minus a lot that I’m forgetting now.

Now I’m twenty-one and that means I can adopt a child and run for mayor. If I’m going to get any of that done, I’ve got to get going.

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My name is Ryan Moulton and I love my iPhone.

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Facebook has different applications that people can add to their profiles. One of these is called Grafitti. I drew the above dinosaur on a friend's profile.

It was a pretty good experience. It reminded me of drawing on Oekaki boards--these little squares in webpages that you could draw in and then post and people could comment--a few years ago.

It's like drawing with MS Paint and although that can be kind of annoying, there's a beautiful simplicity that comes out of it.

Right now, about twenty of my facebook friends have the graffiti app installed on their profile and I kind of want to just draw random crap on all of them.

There are a few problems with that though: 1) For most of these facebook friends, I don't know them well enough to place a reasonably well drawn thing on their facebook profile without it coming across as weird and 2) the drawings would be there for a few weeks, or at least until three more people had drawn.

Anyway, to come to a conclusion, I like to draw.

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This is how you become a cartoonist for The Independent Florida Alligator:

JD: Hey Rymo, want to be cartoonist for next fall?

Rymo: OK. I'll do it for summer b.

My first try didn't run cause it was far too libelous?

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So I updated the Portrat-A-Day project. I kind of stopped on day 100. Now the final twenty or so are up. I think I'll use the page as a sketch blog from now on.

Today I painted Bach. "Holla Bach", get it?

Sigh...

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Big Snakes make kids giggle. That's the headline of a story. I was there when they decided it was dirty. It went live anyway and got picked up on Fark and we got 50,000 page views just today.

Awesome!

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So earlier this week I was thinking a lot about the logo design for the 2012 Olympics. Go look at it.

Because I'm a terrible blogger, I'm just going to ask a bunch of questions and answer them myself.

Is it good? yes. Does it look good? Maybe. What do you mean by that? There's a certain jarring ugliness to it that is endearing and memorable.

Endearing and memorable, what do mean by that? It's different in a fresh way and grows on you--I went to sleep hating it and woke up appreciating it.

Bullcrap, ugly is ugly? Here's something else: this logo, with it's bright late-80's/early-90's style colors and sharp angles, could very easily be developed into an entire visual language for the 2012 olympics. What? You wouldn't judge an entire language (english) from the first letter of its alphabet (a), would you?

A giant event like the Olympics requires literally pantloads of designed things, from broadcast design, to stadiums, to posters, to McDonalds promotional tie-in commemorative cups. This odd logo brings with it a way of communicating visually that will be both memorable and (probably) beautiful.

Maybe.

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Added this to my portfolio—it's the motion loops from DM. You can just scroll down to see some of them, I think they're still on this page.

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There are times in your career development when you pass certain landmarks.

Today was the first time I had a bunch of suits tell me they needed more (and thicker) ads above the fold on a website. Exciting!

Still though, I'm very excited about the redesign we're working on for alligator.org. We just started last week and it feels like it's going to turn out very well.

And I've decided I really really enjoy collaborating with others. Some of my favorite projects this year have been collaborations.

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So if the telecom department completes the paperwork I'll be producing a series of short documentaries and publishing them online this summer (and getting school credit for it/access to school equipment).

Do you have any suggestions for stories? I think my range is going to be within three or four hours of Gainesville, but right now I'm planning to drive far far (far) away to do one episode on my brother's Team Effort volunteer service camp. The documentaries will be on a variety of different subjects and done in a few different styles. Planning on doing one a week.

I really really hope this happens.

Also, I didn't get Florida FlyIns. (Oh well, I'll apply next year.) And I may be working at the Alligator doing online stuff this summer.

Also, I am thinking about doing a redesign. Hmm... This design was started on May 22, 2006.

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I actually did this poster, which hasn't been printed yet (won't be printed?), before the sustainability flyer I posted a few days ago.

I'd spent seven years KNOWING that drop shadows weren't something for good and decent people. Sometimes you have to just try things and grow or something.

What am I even saying?

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Here are the work samples I submitted with my application for the Florida FlyIn program, including three new video things NEVER BEFORE SEEN BY ANYONE INCLUDING ME.

Well, I guess I saw them when I was filming them, editing them, and watching them over and over and over.

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So I'm editing this documentary footage and a guy's talking about having a knife pulled on him in a homeless shelter. The guy next to him as he's telling the story says, "Pull a butter knife on ya, put some butter on your arm."

Somehow, three months later, this amazes me.

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I've entered a Helvetica Rounded phase.

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If I don't come back, I've probably got a giant log/80lb hammer in my head.

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Sometimes I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere.

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Look at this: THIS. It's so incredibly beautiful. I've watched it like eighty times since last night. This makes me happy and excited about many things.

What I look for most in media is energy. I like upbeat driven songs; I like movies that you can feel. Hmm. I'm not quite expressing myself correctly.

I just really really like this little commercial. As a person who likes this kind of thing, this inspires me a lot.

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I've realized that I'm a bit like a bird: I'm attracted to patterns and colors. On people and on things.

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For Dance Marathon I offered to create a bunch of motion graphic things that would be on screen while the different performers were doing their things. I made about thirty of them all in all. Here are some.

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Here is a link to every episode of This American Life with John Hodgman listed in the description.

I have been listening to tons of episodes of this radio show over the past two weeks. It's an inspiration both as a journalist and as a person. Get the Podcast and listen.

Do this thing that I command.

I feel kind of odd for kind of focusing this post on John Hodgman, the PC from the Mac vs. PC commercials/Daily Show Correspondent/author, since I've only heard a few of the episodes he reports in (Superpowers and Plan B) but oh well. What's done is done. Ira Glass is awesome as well.

Also, check out the first episode of the tv show.

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I feel both very good and very tired.

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I'm at Dance Marathon again. Taking photos and making graphic things for the big screens in the O'Connell Center sometimes.

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Here is a picture of an owl.

Here is a picture of an owl.

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It's called a "callback" when a comedian makes a reference to a joke from earlier in their set. This is a good way to end a set because people like to laugh at what they're familiar with, even if they only became familiar with it a few minutes earlier.

I went to see Lewis Black perform at the O'Dome yesterday along with my brother and a few thousand other people. Very very funny. As we were driving over, I made a joke about how, in a television special from years back, Lewis Black introduced a joke "If it weren't for my horse..." and then later ended his set with a callback to it.

I don't know why I made the joke. Later, the warm-up act, Johnathan Something, used the callback technique to end his set. I was pleased by this.

I was thinking about the short play I wrote for the Senior retreat back in high school. It was basically poking fun at where different people from our class would be in twenty years.

It easily got eight times as much laughter as any of the other plays we did for the other classes.

People like to laugh at themselves and at those they are most familiar with.

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Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society needed someone to create a new web presence for them. RYAN MOULTON was on the job.

Take a look.

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Hey? Do you ever have those dreams where you're traveling across the country in a camper with someone you knew in High School solving Murder Mysteries and playing around in muddy ditches?

Thanks Lost, Bones, and Facebook.

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PAD continues, even though I haven't been updating the web site.

Lately, I've been drawing famous people. More politicians and directors and miscellaneous people. I do this on days when I don't feel like getting personal and finding someone I know to draw.

I put up walls.

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cuban bread

Cuban bread was everywhere in Miami.

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a color swatch thing

Coloooorsss.

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I wish I could hover about a foot off the ground and travel around like that.

HEY GATOR NATION, where are my hover boots? I'm talking to you, physics and engineering departments.

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March: In like a lion! FREAK OUT.

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Tonight: I wrote a web site proposal. Was finishing up a draft for another web site. Couple days ago I sent in some revisions for a project for the Office of Sustainability.

I need to become a better designer. Also, I'm excited about motion design. I want to do more of it.

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I had a dream that it was snowing in Gainesville and I was throwing snow balls around. I was taking photos and I could only take a few before the front of my lens was covered in snow/ice.

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tv

OK. I may be going out on a limb here, but I'd just like to make the prediction that "Drowning Meredith" will become the new "Jumped the Shark" expression.

Definition: Phrase used to describe a show that has lost its relevance/spark.

Example: "Oh man, Heroes really drowned Meredith when that one asian guy turned out to be the messiah."

I'm watching 30 Rock.

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Here's a gallery of some of my favorite photos from shooting Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament at SWRC on Feb. 16.

Also check out the Rec Sports Home Page to see a flash thing I built that pulls in XML and jpgs and swfs. I was very happy to figure out flash/xml.

Did I mention that I got promoted from photographer to photographer/webmaster a while ago?

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rock, paper, scissors tournament

Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament at SW Rec Sports Center. This is one photo where the strobe didn't fire. I like the silhouettes.

It's really really cold.

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Every Portrait-A-Day ever.

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calle ocho

Miami was incredible. I've got a whole bunch of video to capture and edit and I'm really excited.

Some of what we documented: Bus ride, Venetian Pool, Viscayne Gardens, Little Havana (Domino Park), night fishermen at South Beach, the Umoja Village Shanty Town and a Cigar Maker.

Such a good weekend.

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I'm going to Miami tonight and will be back late Sunday. We're making some kind of documentary project. Photos and video to come.

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Because the world needs to know...

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sunset

I was photographing people running the stadium stairs for work today and we ran to the west side of the stadium to look at the sunset. I captured this moment with my moment capturing device.

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