Music 3

Tomorrow night, I'm going to a concert.

I'm going to see Radical Face, so I was thinking it would be fun to post my favorite song of him.

Enjoy!

Stereo Vinyl Cruiser photo

I just wanted to share this picture my girlfriend took today of me riding my cruiser. I put the stereo logo in just for fun.

Pimp my ride

So my order came in the mail yesterday

Bennett Alligator wheels 62mm/81a

Khiro Barrel Bushings 90a

Jessup Griptape

My 'work-station'

 

I took appart my skateboard

Changed the bushings and wheels

And voila!

GRIPTAPE

First I made a stencil of my custom griptape, so I could paint on the backside of the griptape what I wanted to cut out.

I used some leftover graffiti to paint the design I made for the griptape.

After that I cut out the design and put it on the deck 

That was actually pretty really hard to do because of some parts being really small and fragile, but I think it all worked out really well!

Thanks to sparkleisaid for all the advice he gave me on choosing my parts.

Here is his blog, CHECK IT OUT!

Custom Griptape 2

I'll probably do it without the letters.

Don't know why but I think it looks better that way

Custom Griptape

So, I have this skateboard, a Stereo Vinyl Cruiser.

Here it is

It's really fun to ride and I like it a lot.

But the bearings that came with the board are really bad. They don't give this board it's full potential.

So today I ordered a set of new wheels, bearings, bushings and some griptape.

And that gave me the idea to be a bit creative with the griptape and make a custom drawing or logo or something...

So I started to design some stencils to make when my order arrives and this is what I came up with.

It's a simplified version of the meme Me Gusta (wich is also my profile pic). "Me gusta" means "I like" in spanish and yeah, I think it would be really cool to have this as griptape. Also, because my girlfriend is half spanish, the spanish text would give this a little more meaning.

I will start making this as soon as my order arrives, wich should be by the end of the week or the beginning of next week!

Jay Adams Mini Cruiser

Found this board on a German site.

I think I'm in love.

Trucks: Tracker RT-X

Wheels: SEC9 9 BALL 78a 61mm CLEAR YELLOW

Bearings: Tracker speed ABEC 3

As you can see it features a lightning-bolt in the grip tape that can be removed.

Yes this is one good-looking board!

I will buy it as soon as I have the money for it. Kinda short on cash right now.

I hope to own one of these babies in a couple of months.

Link to the site where I found it here.

Music 2

I have my first final tomorrow. I'm kinda freaking out so I'm going to study for a couple more hours.
Hope this one will get me trough the night.

PreProduction assignment

As I already said, I'm still in school. I study Digital Arts and Entertainment. It is basically Game Development but I am doing it more to major in the 3D arts.
So, I have my first final tomorrow wich is about Art History. Nothing special.
But in a few weeks I have to hand in big assignments for a couple of my classes and one of those classes is PreProduction.
So I am going to post the work I do for that assignemnt on here. Maybe also my work for another class but I haven't worked on it that much, so I can't show you anything of that right now.
But back to the PreProduction assignment.
Our assignment is that we need to design a submarine from the future that can clean the sea that by then will be completely polluted. And on top of that we need to base or design on the design of an old camera.

this is the camera that I chose

 and this is a side view of the design that I have come up with by now.

I realise that right now the resemblance between the two is hard to find but that should be ressolved when I make a more realistic drawing where you can see the materials and textures.

We have to make modelsheets, productionsheets, digital shading and perspective drawings, so I have still a lot of work.

As soon I have some more work done you will hear about it and see it here on this blog.

If you're intersted in my school and what I study, here is a link to the site of it http://www.digitalartsandentertainment.be/?#/en/News/

Music

Back already!
A great part of my life is music. Music for me is a way to define myself.
So that is why I have decided to post songs on this blog, everytime I feel like it.
It won't be the only thing on here. As I said before, I will talk about random stuff that happens in my life, at school, talk about things that concern me, etc.
But for now this will have to do.


I hope you enjoy this incredible song by Kristian Matsson aka The Tallest Man on Earth.

Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Start

So hi, my name is Olivier and this is my blog.
For now I have no idea what to do with it. I'll probably end up putting random stuff from time to time, but for that we will just have to wait and see. 
Who knows, maybe one day this blog will have a purpose.
I am in school, I study Digital Arts and Enterainment, so I suspect that most of my posts will be about assignments that I get at school.
Anyway, that's it for now.
See you at my next post!