I Totally Have a Press Relase.

June 1, 2009 – Columbus, OH – The nominees for this year’s Ohio Valley Regional Emmy Awards were announced on June 1 and Art Institute of Pittsburgh graduate Christopher Mead was among those honored. Mead, a 2005 media arts and animation graduate and current MediaSource employee, was nominated for in the public service announcement category for his work with the Phoenix Theatre for Children, in the commercial category for his work with the The Columbus Dispatch and in the graphic arts category for a motion graphics composite reel. These are Mead’s first Emmy nominations. Recipients of the 45th Annual Ohio Valley Regional Emmy Awards will be announced on July 25 during a ceremony at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort in Lexington, KY.

For more information on Mead’s work and recent nominations, please contact Patrick Sullivan at 614-932-9950 or psullivan@mediasourceTV.com.
For more information on the Emmy Awards, visit www.ohiovalleyemmy.org.

Thanks Patrick for writing me a press release.

-MeaD.

Emmy Nomminated Christopher MeaD!

I have just gotten nomminated for 3 Emmy Awards.

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1st Emmy Nomination

The Phoenix Theatre for Children TV, MediaSource
Scott Baldner, Rick Green, Christopher Mead, Matt Schimmoeller

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2st Emmy Nomination

Columbus Dispatch TV Campaign, MediaSource
Scott Baldner, Rick Green, Christopher Mead

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3st Emmy Nomination

Motion Graphics Composite, MediaSource
Christopher Mead

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I got nominatated 3 out of 4 entries pretty good i think. Now lets see if I win one.

MouseHunt Category

So I needed a place to up these renders and different views of my mousehunt traps so I decided to just throw it up on my blog. So I’m just adding a new Category MouseHunt. Just a FYI post.

-MeaD.

High Tension Spring

So here is the mouse Trap. All i did is study this picture and created it in 3D. This is not nor any of my traps 100% accurate. I use my eye and I also fill in the gaps of how i think it would work and would look from the angles you don’t see from the picture. So i hope you like it and enjoy my renders.

Here are some still renders of the High Tension Spring Trap.

-MeaD.

My Hidden Addiction.

MouseHunt. yeah you probabliy never heard of it. but its the most addiciting game i have ever played.  Sometimes games don’t have to have the sweetest graphics to be a awesome game. cause quite honestly this game has no graphics there is really nice renderings of mice and traps and thats it. MouseHunt is a facebook game. the best way i can describe it is to just copy and paste how they discribe it.

MouseHunt is a passive game that is meant as something fun to check every 15 minutes while surfing the web, browsing profiles or doing some work. MouseHunt is not a ’sit and watch‘ type of game, but rather a ’come back and check your progress later‘ game.

The game works just like a real life trap: Set up your trap, bait your trap, check back later!

Its pretty great the start out is really boring you catching little white mice and brown mice. But after a few weeks it starts to get good and you start catching Pirate Mice. yeah Pirate Mice. then you get better traps and better cheese and start traveling to different places and you catch crazy awesome mice. here are a few. of my favorites

- Zombie Mice -

- Golem Mice -

- Ninja Mice -

- Bionic Mice -

- Lycan Mice -

yeah thats just some of the few awesome ones. but its super addicting if you OCD this is not a game for you. cause you will be up all night waiting ever 15min. But I have started to model these crazy traps. When i have down time at home. Mostly cause they are a challenge trying to model something that you only have one picture of at a 3/4 angle shot. Its hard. Really Hard sometimes. So anyway i started to model these things and posted on the forums to show people. Then something happened I never thought would happen. Everyone Blew up my Post. I mean i got like 5 pages of responses saying how much they loved it. Even the guy that drew the image i am modeling said he really liked it. It was pretty sweet but this is my latest game. I really recommend you adding this game to your facebook if you have one. you only have to check your trap once a day.

the link to the game

http://apps.facebook.com/mousehunt/

-MeaD.

Happy Blogg’n Birthday!!!

It’s My Blog’s Birthday Just want to put up a Happy Birthday Post!!!

IT’S A MeaD!!!!

Noah James MeaD

My son born on April 2nd 2009 10:20pm weighing 7 pounds 4 ounces measuring 20 inches long. Yes its a boy. I have a son right now he is a little over 2 weeks old now.

so a little about his birth. ill keep it short.

So Christina started having early labor pains that Tuesday we took her to the hospital. Her contractions were to erratic so they released us to go home. then that Thursday morning she stayed home from work she didn’t feel too good. She made me go to work cause she didn’t think the baby was coming yet. I wanted to stay home but she was forcing me to go so i went. then middle of the day she calls me saying the contractions are 3 min apart. i was like crap instead of me going up there to get her grandmother goes up and gets her and i meet her at the hospital. So the baby was coming we went up they admitted her. She was in so much pain they gave her some morphine and that knocked her out so she slept for a bit then the contractions got worse. So she decided to get the epidural. after that smooth sailing hours later she had a boy. the labor was smooth no complication the nurses bragged about how easy it was for them and Christina for a first child it was unheard of having a labor that easy.

After he was born that boy of mine was so wide eyed and looking at everything. they say that a baby will be alert for about an hour and then go into a deep sleep cause of all of the excitment and stuff he just went thru. NOT TRUE WITH NOAH. he was born at 10:20pm and he didn’t go to sleep till 3:30am. He was so alert and bright eyed he didn’t want to miss a thing. everything else has been a rollercoaster ride at least for me since i have never been around a baby. we had lots of guests in the hospital it was nice there a few nurses got on our bad side. The kind of RN’s that were there to do there job you know what i mean? then there were other ones that really loved there job and were really good at there job because of it.

Well I am super tired and haven’t had a lot of time to write on here this actually took me a week to write little bit at a time. I will write another post soo telling all the things that have happened and how he is doing.

the best words to descibe everything so far.

Exhausting

-MeaD.

The Final Countdown

Ok so i haven’t been on here in quite some time. I have been crazy busy. There is so much to take care of and get ready. We had both of our baby showers actually we had 4 showers total. Her work threw her one and my work did as well. So that put us up to 4. we got some good baby loot. there were only a few things we had to pick up. Haven’t picked them all up yet but almost there. The final preparation to bring a child home is a ton of stuff. I never realized all the things until this past week. unpacking all the stuff get all the cloths washed. OH and ill tell you what washing a full load of laundry of baby cloths Horrible! cause a full load to a normal person is a few pairs of jeans some shirts and done. A baby 25 receiving blankets, 50 burp cloths, 20 shirts, 10 pairs of tiny socks, 17 bibs. yeah try folding all that at once. CRAP took me forever. anyway got all the stuff assembled and still having to get D batteries i finally know what D batteries are for baby toys i swear i never have use a D battery in my life and all of a sudden i need a case of them to make all these toys sing, vibrate, swing, & talk.  I have been trying to be as good of a husband as i can Trying to get all of the things done for the nursery for her and making as little work as possible. I also finished the nursery. Here is the link to my flickr to see the pics.

www.flickr.com/meadsblog

it turned out pretty sweet. all the eggs are hand painted and i created the art work of the yoshi’s and got them turned into wall stickers. but that whole thing took me about 3-4 solid months to do. started from re-drywalling and ended at the pics. everyone that has seen it says its amazing it took a lot of work. I hate painting but its a little different when you are doing it for you unborn child who would of thunk. we have less than 4 weeks to go still haven’t packed the labor bag. yeah super slacking on my part. christina is doing as good as can be expected for having another human inside her. the baby is starting to bare down. which means its coming in the next 4 weeks some time. she is totally ready for this baby to get out. I just want to see what the hell we have been waiting for. Boy or Girl thats the mystery i can’t wait to solve with the first glance of my child. (sappy part over)

-MeaD.

Busy Busy Busy.

I have not forgotten this blog. trust me i haven’t. well i kinda have. i have had so much to do lately everything is going crazy. a quick update on everything. Baby is coming soon. she is 33 Weeks Pregnant today or 48 days to go. yeah its getting real. on the nursery front i have finished painting now i am getting pictures framed ordering wall stickers. and i have to do some lighting. molding in the room and then add a baby. we have baby showers this weekend and next. christina is super excited. i don’t have alot of time but if something happens i will let you know. once things slow down i will be back on here regularly.

-MeaD.

Special Gifts.

Willow-Tree-Angel Site

Willow Tree Angel. they are figurines that say so much without the face. I get these figurines for christina for special occasions and she gets them for me too. really love them they are amazing figures. mainly cause there is so much emotion and story behind every one of them. and they have no face. i think i really appreciate them so much cause in everyone of my drawing classes in college they taught if you can make the person understand and feel all the emotion before you draw the face you have done your job. a tilt of the head the angle of the hands its all added together to make the perfect emotion. well i just bought christina the one above for her Birthday.  its a woman holding her pregnant belly. At first christina thought they were creepy which i can understand a person with out a face then they grew on her. once you study it and see all the feelings behind it you start to appreciate them. check them out.

-MeaD.