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I have cancer. Specifically, I have diffuse large B cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. I discovered I have cancer through running. Running My relationship with running began because I thought it would gi…

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Marriage equality animated GIF

diy:

DIY Stories are here. Meet the Makers.

We’ve all seen makers on DIY that make us happy. Their homemade vacuum cleaners and stop-motion special effects leave grins on our face all day. We’ve often wondered to ourselves what these kids would be like if we could go hang out with them. What is DIY like from their kids-eye-view? How would they talk about it? How do they think about it? What are their lives like?

So we sent two filmmakers out across the country to meet a few of these makers – to see their bedroom workshops and backyard labs. As a surprise, I sent some one-off prototypes of our embroidered Skill patches as a special Christmas gift (they are coming soon for everyone else).

The footage that came back was astonishing. Most of the makers could recount the entire history of DIY’s development during the past year, feature by feature. “Then they introduced Skills… then they allowed comments… then they added following… then they changed the Portfolio.” We were also shocked to see that sometimes only a small percentage of their projects had made it onto DIY. It was a kick in the pants when I saw Gabrielino sift through his physical portfolio of hand-drawn house plans – hundreds of them – that hadn’t made it onto DIY because we hadn’t yet released the Architect Skill.

Above all else, these investigations showed us that the social encouragement and peer-to-peer (kid-to-kid) learning that Makers find on DIY is truly unique and that it keeps them pumped to continue creating. It’s that feeling they have that keeps us pumped to continue creating DIY too.

- Isaiah

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moonbotstudios:

The bots are excited about our Kickstarter campaign to bring our video game, The Golem, to life. For this week’s #SketchTuesday, here’s all new concept art that we haven’t released before. Help us out by backing our project on Kickstarter.

I won last month’s 11 Second Club, and did an interview at AnimSchool here.

diy:

Animating the DIY anthem

Six weeks into creating the DIY anthem – after we had drawn storyboards, made concept art, and built our characters – Lucas Ridley arrived and began animating and breathing life into our animal kids!

Lucas now works at Moonbot Studios – the Pixar of app developers. Can’t wait to see what he does there!

-Daren

I’m responsible for all the animation in this video. On my blog too: http://lucasridley.com/2012/10/16/build-make-hack-grow/

Read more about it on my blog http://wp.me/p22B0y-Lw

Short animation I did for a class at AnimSchool

Hang Gliding in Yosemite National Park

Yosemite sunrise - hang gliding video soon to follow

from the sky diving center in Lodi, CA

[Click here to link to the photos]

diy:

We’re making an animation to introduce DIY to kids and newcomers, working alongside expert CG artist David Chontos and animator Lucas Ridley. It’s an epic ode to making things and earning skills. Now we need some music for our movie.

We looking for volunteers, boys and girls between…