July 2008 Archives

Hello friends and family! It's been a long time since I posted an entry on this blog.. I've been keeping busy updating my work blog, as that is what my life seems to consist of these days!

Given that, here's what has been happening so far this year.. Early in March, I worked on Speed Racer, the movie, which was an abysmal failure at the box office. While the computer generated imagery was top notch, the story and the audience definitely did not connect. I was only on the project for about five weeks, before jumping back onto my regularly scheduled show, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. This film comes out this Friday, so make sure to sit around for the credits to check my name! It's under Digital Domain. At the moment I am creating a presentation for SIGGraph 2008, to be held here in Los Angeles, between August 11th and 15th. This won't be the first SIGGraph I've attended, but it will be the first one where I have a significant role! I'll be speaking on behalf of Digital Domain at their booth, describing the work that we did in creating the dragon emperor, and the computer generated environments and characters in the film. Next up on my plate will be Star Trek, which I should be starting on in the next couple of weeks!

at 11:42 am here in LA, we had a nice "moderate" earthquake of 5.8 on the richter scale, which was then downgraded to a 5.4 about 1 hour later.....i was watchin some TV and eatin a banana when the shaking started, but I stayed sitting on the couch cause I thought it would end..but it didnt..it got bigger and more stuff started shaking around so then i ran for the doorway of our apartment and stayed there until it stopped. Nothing got damaged at our place as we have our pictures on our walls hung up with really strong hooks, but my plants hanging from the ceiling got a nice little shake down there for abit :) Click here to see how close we actually were to the epicenter of the earthquake!

For the past 2 summers now, Aruna and I have been trying to grow cucumbers on our patio, and for some strange reason we never got any to grow to full size ( or any size for that matter)...but this year, it finally worked...YAH! I made sure that the type of seeds that i purchased were of a smaller variety so that the large tub we would be using was enough for its root system. Now the first couple a cucumbers that grew were fine, but the next bunch were all mis-shapen, but we didnt care, as they still tasted fine in our salads!

wishing Mom & Dad Seidel a very Happy and fun filled 72nd birthday on July 9th and July 11th..yup! mom is exactly 2 days older than dad..way ta go mom, you robbed the cradle..hehe...hmm....wait I think I did that too! hehe...but I got 6 years on Aruna..oh well :)

have a safe and fun filled long weekend everyone as America celebrates Independence day

one more year ta go dude, until you join the rest of us who are already partying it up in their 30's... from your favorite brother and favorite sister-in-law...hehe..wait...arent we your only ones as well?? :)

just wishing all my friends & family back home a wonderful Canada Day today! you are 141 years young!