The Poker Beard

While I have been learning the deep dark secrets of AE and Lightworks, I have created a couple of adverts for Jared Tendler’s excellent book “The Mental Game of Poker” which has ben helping my attitude and outlook towards the game.

Jared is currently running a competition until the end of July where the biggest tilter in poker can win 4hrs of live coaching worth around $1200, trust me, the advice is probably worth far more.

I have still yet to read the whole book, it has a great structure where you read the first few sections which act as a foundation course about learning the ways to discover & resolve issues that affect your game.  The later sections explore the specific types of tilt that hinder you as a player and you read the section that applies to the problem you are working on at that time.

Is all that sprang to mind when I realised how long ago it was since my last post on here, a month seems to have flown by, I never wanted to post boring stuff or feel that I had to post something, there are just periods in life where nothing major seems to happen.

Things have been quiet poker wise as I have not been playing except for some live excursions, particularly Helen and I representing our good friends public house in the APAT pub poker championship event in Blackpool with Sean and Cath putting in some strong performances but sadly we did not win.

Another thing that has taken my time is getting into digital composite effects, I did some practical/physical makeup & prothetics back in the day but this sudden urge to get into the digital side of things suddenly struck me so I have been working with AE & Lightworks -

It can be a slow process working on something frame by frame for a slight touch to the shot which will last less than a second purely to add a sense of realism & depth but so far I am loving it, besides, I will only improve by working on such things.

Just be assured, this blog is not dead……

Animation has come on leaps and bounds since I was lad, with huge teams of animators & massive render farms creating some of the most startingly realistic images ever seen.  Being raised on Sinbad movies and Morph I am a fan of the old school stop motion animation techniques and given a little spare time I have created a few videos, two of which are shown here.

Messing around and creating these has really got me thinking about the varied ways one can create fantastic little mini-movies & the fun they can inspire, the ways you can express yourself.

I have a sneaking suspicion there may be more of these created in the future.