Some of you might have already seen strip#107 some of you might have not, but it’s been taken down. It was me and Kirsi building our new barn and there were some slight innuendo remarks. I received a lecture here at home about “keeping things clean” etc. And I agree that I don’t feel the need to explain the joke to our 11 year daughter, so in order to make my life easier, in many ways, I took it down.
New one on Monday.
-Scott-
It’s been one crummy year!
At the beginning of this year my grandmother passed away. My mother and I tried to get things in order for one of us to get there (The U.S.) but we didn’t make it on time. Then a few months later my father’s mother died. We weren’t that close for various reasons, but I felt really bad for my dad. Now Kirsi’s mom passed away yesterday.
So I’m sure you understand that things will be quiet around here for awhile.
Thanks for understanding.
-Scott and Family-
Don’t worry, I’m not disappearing for weeks on end. There’s just some stuff going on in the family right now (no one’s died) and we have to do a family road trip. It’ll be the whole beginning of this week and since these things tend to get me by surprisde and I don’t have a buffer like most smart webcomic creators… there’l be a small pause, but hopefully we’ll be up on Wednesday’s (probably go over to Thursday) update.
Seeya,
-Scott-
It just dawned on me the other day that I never followed up with what happened to the music video project I was working on.
“What was it…?”, you ask.
Well… the plan was to make a prequel to the Capital of Culture event that takes place Turku in September of 2011. It was put together by CulturaMobila, a local community arts group headed by Julian Garner (who you first saw here) Julian directed the kids and also wrote the script, the lyrics and performed the song. Originally it was just guitar with some duplicating of his voice during the chorus, but later additional music was added by Ari Viitanen.
It was storyboarded, filmed and edited by yours truly. I also did the effects, which was biting off a little bit more than I could chew 
If you remember we got off to a rocky start and the resulting footage was a nightmare to track. This was my first time doing tracking and it almost drove me insane. I learned a LOT, but unfortunately the hard way. However… I think the end result turned out pretty good.
Especially with zero budget.
Actually, talking with Julian later, we both agreed that there was so much that we would do differently if ever in the same situation again. We had a blast working together and with so many ideas flying around between us, hopefully we’ll do something together again in the future (Maybe without tracking though… 
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So go check it out and maybe even give us a “like” on Youtube. You can also check out and befriend CulturaMobila on Facebook where there’s some really great photos of their other projects!
And all you pros out there… be kind.
-Scott-
I’ve got a small gig working on a music video that’s part of the whole “Cultural Capital of Europe” thing going on in Finland throughout the year. So all of my time has been sucked up lately doing storyboards and going over the project with the creators. I’ll also be shooting it, editing it and doing the VFX in post-production, so my time will be tight the next couple of weeks. We plan on shooting Monday and Tuesday, so after that I hope I’ll have a bit of a breather to catch up on emails and do some updates on the comics before I dive into post-production.
Over the last week I’ve done the equivalent of about 4 standard sized comic books! Mind you, the quality isn’t even close to what I do on Heroes,inc. or even on Married to my Wife since storyboards just need to help figure out angles and storylines (especially on this tight of a schedule), but still…
Actually for a small gig, there’s quite a lot of work that needs to be done, but the people are a fun bunch to work with and with all this drawing it’ll be great to have a chance to brush the rust off of my other skills, so I’m not complaining. 
-Scott-
