The Robin LeBlanc

Find Your Place in Space, originally uploaded by amy kate martin.

Beautiful poster designs by Amy Kate Martin for the 826LA Echo Park Time Travel Mart.

Zoom, originally uploaded by robinleblanc.

One of the very few shots that came out of my photo expedition on Saturday.

So early last week Caroline Harrison and I were talking and we decided that with our height and general badassery, we should fight crime.  We determined on what our costumes would be (a mix of Valkyrie and Amazon) and had so much fun, that Caroline posted our conversation along with our pictures on an artist thread in the Whitechapel forum and said “Go fo it!”.  This is one of the results from Mr. Paul Sizer.

But little did we know, deep in the foulest castle of England, writer Will Ellwood was writing a script for a comic inspired by these characters and asked the very talented Andre Navarro to start drawing it.  Well, page one just came out today.  Click to embiggen.

So apparently mine and Caroline’s days are spent being involved in the superhero biz.  My folks were devastated of course, since there’s next to no money in it.  But what the hell, I’m helping people.

It’s been a very busy week here both with my own stuff and other people’s.  One photography gig, one filming gig, two backstage gigs, one trip-to-Memphis gig and one social media job are all up in the air and I’m wondering which ones will fall down and hit me right on the head.  Pretty exciting stuff!  On top of that I’ve been experimenting with HDR, figuring out Adobe Lightroom (On advice from my good friend and INCREDIBLY talented photographer Lex Machina) and actually feeling like I can write some stories.  Going to be flexing my scripting muscles next week in order to prepare for “Project: Not Telling Yet Ssh” with stunning artist (both in his art and his wit) Neil Struthers.

A thought hit me earlier in the week touching on the topic of what the future might hold for listening to portable music.  I don’t mean anything like the iPod Touch, but the actual experience of listening to music.  The short of it is a device that reads your brainwaves to determine what mood you are in and plays music that you designated to that particular mood before hand (somewhat like the iTunes star system).  Make it colour coded, and when you’re angry your player turns red and plays angry music.  Two additions are that the player could slowly integrate happy music in to the playlist  when you are angry or sad and having the ability to stream other people’s playlist that corresponds with your mood.  So if you’re happy you can listen to what other happy people are listening to. Tastes of course will differ, but it’s fascinating if you’ve ever wondered what music other people listen to when they’re in a similar mood as you.

Anyways, thinking on some more things.  I’m off for now.

What a productive day.

I spent the morning studying other people’s HDR photography and reading Trey Ratcliff’s HDR tutorial linked to me by the wonderful (and thought-provoking) Ariana Osbourne. I made an initial test which took ages to figure out how to export in photoshop, but was finally done. I then set out to experiment and see what I could do if I put some thought in to the shots. This was one of the results from that experiment.

Today I’ve also cracked after ages of deliberating and downloaded Adobe Lightroom. I’m still sort of toying around with it, but the initial reactions to it are incredibly positive.

This is just about a minute’s walk away from my cottage up in Muskoka where I spent my holidays.

I know it’s a little late, but Happy New Year. Let’s not let this one be a horrible mess, eh?