http://www.taylorshaw.net for all your taylorshaw needs Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:26:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well I suppose it's probably about time to get an actual grown-up job again. And to that end I've put together a little reel. Check it out: It has only about a third of the shots I directly worked on at Dreamworks, but I think it's a fairly representative sample, and ... http://www.taylorshaw.net/2008/06/demo-reel/ Astute readers will note that I havn't been posting for a while. They may even have come to the conclusion that I disappeared somewhere in remote Laos, as that's the last place I wrote about. But the truth is much less romantic: I've actually just returned to the US. And ... http://www.taylorshaw.net/2007/11/koh-tao/ http://www.taylorshaw.net/2007/11/okay-im-ready-to-come-home-now/ As long as I'm complaining about cultural differences that annoy me (see last post), and since beards are our favorite topic around here, what's the deal with people in Southeast Asia not shaving their mole-hairs? I don't have a picture to illustrate the phenomenon, cause I dont really like taking pictures ... http://www.taylorshaw.net/2007/11/on-beards/ I've spent a lot of time riding around on buses on this trip. Particularly in Laos where I took an eight-hour bus to Phonsavan, and a nine-hour bus away from Phonsavan. So I think I'm in a position to make blanket curmudgeony statements: bus trips in Southeast Asia are totally ... http://www.taylorshaw.net/2007/11/on-buses/ After Luang Prabang I headed to Phonsavan in Eastern Laos. It's pretty out-of-the-way---an eight hour bus ride on the most winding mountain roads you can imagine to get there. Actually, for Laos I think that means it's fairly accessible. I mean the road was paved for chissakes, so its like ... http://www.taylorshaw.net/2007/11/jars-and-bombs/ Turns out, Luang Prabang is a beautiful, laid-back and very welcoming city. Nestled between mountains at the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers, it's a picturesque and all-around pleasant place. All palm trees, lazy river boats and old wats. (The Mekong is the muddy river in the back). The entire ... http://www.taylorshaw.net/2007/11/luang-prabang/ The Beard apologizes to its many fans, but its time had come. It just became very annoying to have such a fantastic beard while I simultaneously had a fantastically runny nose. I'm sure you can imagine the problems such a situation might cause. So the one thing I accomplished during my convalescence in Luang Prabang ... http://www.taylorshaw.net/2007/11/beard-removal/ I arrived in Luang Prabang and promptly got sick. I woke up my first morning there with a runny nose, headache and fever; nauseous, shivering and generally just feeling awful. I felt like I had the flu. And normally I'd just sleep that off for a day, drinking lots of orange ... http://www.taylorshaw.net/2007/11/my-encounter-with-laotian-medicine/ I entered Laos by crossing the Mekong from Chiang Khong in Thailand to Huay Xai in Laos. On this little boat here: Note the man in the background who is apparently importing a refrigerator into Laos. Entering Laos on a little rickety boat sounds pretty clandestine and dangerous, I know, but the ... http://www.taylorshaw.net/2007/11/my-reverse-heart-of-darkness/