First of all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. I hope your festive break has been full with great cheer.
Over this season, I’ve been really busy seeing family, and working really hard to earn the money to save for a rainy day.
Not forgetting a few breaks here and there to relax.

Here is a little something I quickly worked on for a Envy as a quick Christmas treat.

Sadly a dear friend of mine and many others died from cancer earlier this month Colin Fryer. as a tribute to his amasing life, my recent motion graphics film is dedicated to him.(will be uploaded later this week)
But that said many new amazing things have come my way.
This Friday I will be playing my first solo gig at Fat Cat in Hanley. This night will be an amazing night to start the Major run to Christmas and eventually into the new year.
But wait it doesn’t stop there I start the new year with an amazing start by going down to london and visiting the amazing post production house known as envy.
All amasing things to come.

Thanks for Reading

Hey People,
Just giving you a quick update on what’s been happening.
I’m currently taking a quick break form working on a project called Nu:clear, You’ll be able to find info and updates on the project page.
Also last week was full on, included a complete reshoot 24 hours before deadline which somehow felt great. A video will be available really soon on here.

Also great news, got a new job, randomly a Cab driver! It’s not too bad, mostly enjoyable when its busy. but only taken me a month to get my licence! :S

And not fogetting… the frenzy show has been going great too. every week gets betters, you can now subscribe to the podcast. http://www.frenzyshow.com/uploads/podcast.xml
and feel free to join the frenzy show facebook group.

Got a few new Mixes you can download too.

DJ Kyle Live from The Lounge Stafford

Monday 01st of December 2008
Wednesday 29th of October 2008

Subscribe to the DJ Kyle Podcast

Until next time

Ki

The Frenzy show has been going from strenth to strength, we’ve had guest such as DeeJay SK from !Friday! At legends/the lounge Stafford also brilliant student DJs Jedi Kush and Steve Fern. The listener support is great and gets better each week.
I’m really happy for starting the frenzy show and really enjoy hosting it every Monday live from Staffordshire university’s student’s union GK radio studios from 8-9 PM

Become a guest on facebook and subscribe to the podcast. Search frenzy show. Don’t forget to listen on Mondays http://www.gkradio.co.UK

For about a month now I have been working on this website for my friend Rajiv Pattni. Square 1 Events is a company aimed for event organizers to hire Square 1 to cater for an event either it be music or playing a fantastic host.
Square 1 Events specialise in Student and School nights but also cover for Corporate events.

Static XHTML designed in Photoshop and converted into HTML and CSS using TextMate and CSS Edit. The template later was added in dreamweaver for ease of multipage edits.

Other Concepts

http://www.vimeo.com/1920647
When I seen the tutorial where we would make a crude Alien Space Ship orbit around the earth. The Idea came to mind, how would I make the earth spin?
I done some searching and CreativeCow and VideoCopilot had an answer.

The earth consists of two layers, 1 flat texture that is converted into a sphere, and a atmosphere texture with an alpha channel on it to lay and move on top of the earth looping.
When rotated, the earth will look like its spinning and there are clouds moving too.

The space mist is a solid layer with fractal noise added to it, the same effect that creates the starts, obviously with different settings.

As for the zoom in, Google Maps helped me, I found a location on google maps that had the best resolution images. I screen printed each increment, taking a screen print every zoom step out.

An wiggle expression was used to make the zoom shake while zooming in at high velocity.

Clouds are solid white layers with again fractal noise added to them to break the solid up a lot to make nice white fluffy clouds.

I imported each screen print (16 in total) into After Effects and aligned them up together to make them appear endless. I had to parent the layers together to keep the scales of previous aligned images in place.

The car though the town, I sourced an above image of a car and cropped it turning everything but the car transparent in Photoshop. I firstly animated the car using motion tracking, later I refined the animation using ease to ease.

This is the first edit and I intend to refine the end car animation.

http://www.vimeo.com/1868011
For the last few weeks I have been experimenting with Adobe After Effects as part of a University module. Adobe After Effects is the main reason why I came to university. I first started using After Effects while in College in 2007, I was just messing about with the plugin Trapcode Particular to try recreate the Apple Nano Advert when they introduced colours. I had fun using it, except a 30 second animation took hours to render.
Now with a faster computer and the latest version of After Effects, and better knowledge of compression, I can now concentrate on learning the application and being creative with it.
Digressed a little there, but anyways, the main reason for this post is to show some of my examples of video work I have been working on over the last few weeks, additional I have been trying to prepare a quick show reel for a when ENVY come to our university and do a presentation, I’m hoping to hand them a show reel of my work and maybe, just maybe get recognised.

It’s been again a little while since a blog entry. Now having my iPhone synced with my blog account I now hope I should blog some more. Well since my las post I’ve become jobless single and stressful. If you know me personly you will know the reasons. For those who don’t, I suggest you be careful with employments that are not doing well.

That all aside I’ve been having a great time let alone having no money at all
My friends have been funding me for a few days and I thank the greatly. You know who you are. The university freshers weekend has not been too bad either some new frinds and great new happenings.

Why the title “DJ vs Zanzibar”? Well tonight was a random night like always I had a little of my own money and wanted to treat my mates out and Zanzibar was doing a £6.99 entry free bar, seems great. But some of my mates went to house party and tom fell asleep haha so me and jake had word that the lounge was having DJ trials. My first plan was to play a small set and go Zanzibar it ended up us staying most of the night having a great time and winning ourselfs resedency every Tuesday. Quality times, never knew drum and bass would get me a resendecy and a box of beer mint

To end the night. Bacon and egg butty and blog yay

But wait there’s a little more I’m gioing to be live in GK radio (Wednesday) from 20:00 to 22:00. And again I cab play all I like
Musicly it’s going great for me

Hello guys and girls, seems like a little bit of time since I last posted a blog. Sorry to keep you all the in the dark. So what better time to post a new entry…

Got loads of new things in my life, first of all I’ve recently just started a relationship with a fantastic girl I met though my mate Jez’s girlfriend Hannah at a party last week. Caroline Edwards (aka Caz) and I where texting throughout the week and decided to go on a date on a double date with Jez and Hannah on Thursday (31/07/2008), we had a meal at Essence of the Orient in Stafford and later watched Wall-E. When we left we avoided running into one of Caz stalkers for some unknown reason why he was there, while we where hiding ideas to make the relationship official sprung up.

I’ve now had an Apple iPhone 3G for 2 weeks tomorrow and find this device a fantastic asset to life. As I’m already an Apple Mac user with the MacBook Black since January 2007. I now use iCal, Address Book and Mail on a regular basis to keep up-to-date and in-touch with everything. Finally phone that perfectly syncs with my computer… perfect.

I’ve applied to work at V-Festival Staffordshire 2008 with Flair Events event bars. I undergone a interview held at Wolverhampton College on Thursday 31st July and have been accepted to work the weekend 16th-17th August at Western Park, Staffordshire.

Welcome back my good friend Rio Cato, Missed you man, Soni… BOOOM

Now for some bad stuff

My hours at Love2Love are really low, as there trying to save money here and there, Which in turn results in me having little money myself. Living was already difficult with the current hours, but now I’m unable to maintain rent payments for my accommodation. Also at work, Stock and Cash taking are still not perfect so management are almost at the point of Barring all staff and taking away any benefits such as tips, staff drinks and privileges. If they did this then more then likely a lot of our staff will likely leave Love2Love this may include myself as work is currently tuff now.

Matt Jones is still withholding any payment to fix my car windscreen which he broken about 2 months ago now. The screen is really deteriorating.

My Friend Adam RayRay has decided to finally claim against me for his damages to his car which has resulted in me loosing two years no-claims and him loosing his current no-claims. I personally feel the loss of the no-claims doesn’t equal the amount of damage. I guess patience is not a virtue in this situation.

My MacBook seems to always be hot. I doubt it’s the weather, but the System fan is always running, day and night. Even if the computer is idol the computer is making noise, I’ve called support about issues with performance and heat and its now at a point where i have to take the computer into an Apple Store to be taken away for diagnostics. The only problem with this is that my closest support center is over 40 miles either direction. And that i’ll be without a computer for a week or two.

My account balance is no better then two months ago, as my closest friends would know it was not good then, its still not now. Looking for more work and available money options is currently being undertaken. Hopefully i’ll be fine for a month and My student loan in September will resolve current issues and make things much smoother.

Think its time for me to call this a Post and I look forward to your comments on facebook notes and mekyle.com

Hey yo’ just a quick update, nothing much to really update here. haha Car is still broken(ish) and I’m broke like an old farm gate! :@ oh well. I’ve been working like someones bitch for the last few weeks to sort all my problems out. which slowly they are!.

thats it for tonight, im going sleep night x