Lynda.com-greatest site ever

I recently found out about http://www.lynda.com/. This is the greatest website ever (can you tell I’m a little excited about it) If you’ve ever struggled to learn new software applications, this website has incredibly well organized video tutorials on all adobe software including flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Illustrator. They even have tutorials on modeling, rigging and animation in Maya.(which I’m very interested in) I’ve worked with books in the past to try and learn these systems, but these video tutorials really cater to my learning style. There are two plans; the basic $25 a month plan that just lets you see the videos or the $37 a month plan that allows you to follow along the tutorial with the exercise files. If you compare this to the cost of a 3 month college class, this is a tremendous barging. It seems like all the instructors are experts in the applications they are teaching. I’m going through the flash tutorial at the moment; I’ll make sure to post samples of my work when I finish the tutorial.

My Favorite Artist-Michelangelo Buonarroti

When looking back at inspiring work and influential artist in my life, the first thing that comes to mind is Michelangelo Buonarroti. This guy is more to art than Babe Ruth was to baseball. I've always been an art history buff, so when I toured Italy in 2001 half the tour stuck to me to get the Angel Alvarez tour. One of my favorite pieces is the Pieta sculpture, Michelangelo completed the piece when he was just 23 years old. Story has it that when people saw the sculpture, and considering Michelangelo was unknown at that time, they gave credit to a famous sculpture of the time Donatello. Michelangelo was so outraged when he heard this that he broke into the church at night and sculpted his name into the Virgin Mary’s chest.
I also had an opportunity to see the Sistine chapel, I once gave fresco painting a crack and that is not easy. I have my own version attached to this post. Let me know what you think. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel in four years, I photoshoped my “Creation of Angel” in four minutes.