So I've been stupid busy the past moths trying to get everything done with college and all. I'll have a ton of stuff comin to the portal after all this.

So I find myself askin "what now"? So far, I'm plannin on moving back to Rhode Island into a 3 person apartment. I've got some freelance work set up there but that's only gonna last so long and it's designing a website which is something I dont want to make a profession of. It's nice side money though. I'll probably get another side job to help with bills.

So what should I do to not have my animation degree go to waste? Tried some internships and none of em got back to me. Do I keep looking? What are the best places to look? Craigslist?

Any information would be helpful heh!

Good thing they didn't air this part of the halftime show...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g9t7Pyi0tw

I was originally saving this post to ask for a musician's help creating a soundtrack for my senior project, but this is more important.

My friend or as some of you know him as on this site, "Starogre" is coming out with an indie game called Closure. He's working on the game with another user on this site named Glail_Gamer. Their game is a top 10 finalist in the Indie Game Challenge and could win $100,000. If you vote for Closure, they're that much closer to winning!

Vote here! It doesn't require you to sign up or anything. Just click "vote for Closure" and youre set.

http://www.indiegamechallenge.com/2012 -finalists/#

Here's a link to Starogre's profile on here:

http://starogre.newgrounds.com/

Here is Glail_Gamer's profile:

http://glaiel-gamer.newgrounds.com

2012 is gonna be a big year for me. I can feel it. Lots of projects comin up to.

Ill try and make this as brief as possible.

It gives boundaries to areas artists can dabble in. It prohibits us from executing our art in a more profound way. I have discovered this while trying to start picking up my music video for Valentines day and working on it again. The whole inspiration for the cartoon came when I was listening to the song "She's only Seventeen" by Winger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlN3oEj MpUQ

I found this song to be pretty outrageously funny and wondered "what if I just took the idea and took that unacceptable idea of seducing a minor to a different level?" So I was making a valentines cartoon where an elderly man essentially tries to get in this 17 year olds pantaloons. It gets worse from there but I'll save that for later.

If I try and use music from the audio portal, it will seem more like that unknown song was tailored for my flash rather than the other way around. It will no longer be a concept revolving around the actual song as was part my intention. Instead the audio portal song would revolve around my visuals. It messes the whole cartoon up.

Now I used to believe you could use licensed material so long as you weren't profiting from it. But I've heard stories where Tom Fulp had to fight old Newgrounds cartoons from copyright claims. These cartoons recieved absolutely no money for their toons from anyone. So I'm in between a rock and a hard place and because of this, might not be able to finish this cartoon.

**edit** I've been thinking, is there anyway to circumvent it by having the music play on youtube while simultaneously playing my flash? Any way to program it so when the youtube video reaches a certain marker (the music starts playing) i will cause my flash to play? I'm no programmer so I don't know if somethin like this is possible

That is all

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
584725

This is that big ol' project I was workin on. I haven't been here for awhile I promised I'd finish this first before I did anything. But here it is! Check it out!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
578793

http://www.nytimes.com/

God bless th us

First, I got some new art if you wanna check that out. Its a self portrait I made in Corel Painter with charcoal so there. Check it out if you want to see what I look like oh boy!

http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/coo ldrmoney/cooldrmoney-s-self-portrait

Also that huge project I've been working on is nearing the final stages. It's a music video and will become the next Rebecca Black's Friday. So if you love Rebecca Black like I do you'll love my next project! Here's a screenshit:

yup