I’m a really big fan of both of these musicians so I was very excited when I heard that they were working together again. I’m only a few songs into the album but so far I like what I’m hearing.

You can listen to the entire album in the player below!

This is what I’ve been doing for the past 7-8 months or so at work. I Designed the game and Art Directed a team that grew to about 20 people, who all contributed to building it and making it what it is today. The game was made to promote the film Quarantine, which will be in a theater near you on October 10. Here is what the film is about.

Television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew’s videotape.

(You can check out the latest trailer for the film at www.ContainTheTruth.com)

The game is intended to be very similar to the movie. We tried to mimic as much as we could the look and style of the film. Back in January we got the opportunity to visit the set and take photos and video footage for reference. We also ended up getting the blue prints that were used to build the sets. We used all that to get the detail and look of the game just right. We designed, modeled, animated, textured, lit, rendered and coded everything that you see in the game. Everything was done, from scratch, by us at Imageworks Interactive.

I’m really proud of all the hard work and dedication that everyone on the team put into the project and I think they all did an amazing job. Take a look for yourself. Play the game and pass it along to others. Let me know what you think.

Stay tuned for the launch of the site, which I also Art Directed and Designed, in early August.

So, that was my morning. Good times.

It took me a few hours to set it up last night but its up and running now. I’m looking forward to having the peace of mind of having all my data backed up and never having to think about it. And with 1 terra byte of storage space, I shouldn’t have to worry about getting another hard drive for a while.

Also, I can’t wait to have a central location for all my music and photos so that all of my computers can access the same libraries without having to plug in an external hard drive all the time.

Really innovative design from BMW. Nice!

Last week there was a reunion (or sorts) for all of the Black Belts. There were about 100 of us there and we had a big group photo and just hung out for a bit. That really gave me the final nudge I needed to get back in there again. So I’m going to start off slow and just go once a week for now and see how it goes. It’s a lot more difficult to devote as much time as I used to, but going at least once will be good for now.

Our camera fell on the ground and broke last weekend while we were at Disneyland. After spending a few days doing a bit of research, I decided on getting the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5. I went and got it last night and have been playing around with it since then. So far I’m happy with it. It’s a nice, 9 mega pixel camera with some cool features; like image stabilization, face recognition, 10x Optical Zoom, wide ange lens, HD video, etc.. I’m looking forward to taking lots of pictures with this new camera.