Vancouver Canucks mixed media animation process vid by rapruesign!! I love this guy's work, he usually does basketball (mostly NBA but he's done a couple women's college basketball animations too) and it's sick as hell, this is his first hockey animation. Reel without animating process here if you want to see it, but since this is my blog, I'm posting the process video bc I love watching how artists create 🫡
dysprosium, AN 66, is a silvery-white rare earth metal. its name is derived from the greek dysprositos, meaning “hard to get at”, owing to the difficulty in separating and isolating this rare earth element. dysprosium is used to measure neutron flux, to fuel reactors, and to activate phosphors. terfenol-d is a magnetorestrictive alloy, meaning that it changes shape when a magnetic field is applied, and is used to manufacture underwater acoustic systems.
jason “robo” robertson, dallas stars #21 for @simmyfrobby’s nhl periodic table poems <3
Interviewer: I know you and Mo are pretty good friends, but I don’t know if you know that Thursday’s giveaway is a Mo Seider… it’s call ‘Grow Mo’s Flow.’ So basically it’s like a chia pet that grows Mo’s hair. I want you to give me your thoughts on Mo’s actual hair.”
Lucas Raymond: “I saw that, and I think it’s pretty funny. I got one at home, actually. I think Mo has great hair. I’ve seen it in many, many shapes and forms. You know, early mornings and stuff like that, but he has great hair. He has a lot of hair, most importantly… so it’s good. Good set of full [hair].”
Interviewer: “Okay, not to be weird, but do you have a favorite stage of Mo’s hair. Like, in the morning Mo’s hair is a mess. *laughs*”
Lucas Raymond: “Yeah, probably the morning… could get a little wild, but he has a good set of hair.”
Interviewer: “Yeah, he does have a great set of hair. Have you seen his headshot, though? He let it get a little crazy for that one.”
Lucas Raymond: “I have seen that, and that’s one of my favorite pictures of his hair, actually.”
Interviewer: “I’m glad you like it. Okay, does he have the best hair on the team, though? Because let’s be honest, you have some teammates that have some pretty good hair.
Lucas Raymond: “Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think he’s up there. I don’t think he’s the best. I think the best is Ben Chiarot. I think has an unbelievable set of hair. And also Alex Debrincat. Great hair.
Interviewer: “All right. I’m not sure Mo’s going to like that one, but that’s good.”
Lucas Raymond: “Fabs also has great hair. He has a lot of hair, but he has great hair.”
Interviewer: “That’s the Italian — you get a lot of hair.”
Lucas Raymond: “Yup, yup. Looks great.”
-The Red & White Authority podcast (March 21, 2024)
i do really like that the sharks have this original sin where they collected the patty jumbo pavs leadership triumvirate in the early 2000s and then just like. retired from worrying about that and spent 20 years fuckin around and collecting weirdos. and to this day we are beset by marc edouard
thinking about how when you punch a mirror so that it cracks and fractures into multiple shards reflecting your own visage back at you, you're really just ironically surrounding yourself with more of the self you loathe in your quest to attain self-destruction. the grotesque reproductive quality of gouging pieces from yourself in order to lessen the burden of existence, and in the process only proliferating more individual aspects of You, shedding them as you go. much to consider.
*And people are wrong about urban myths. Logic and reason say that these are fictional creations, retold again and again by people who are hungry for evidence of weird coincidence, natural justice and so on. They aren’t. They keep on happening all the time, everywhere, as the stories bounce back and forth across the universe ... Urban myths are alive.
I don’t blog about sports, but early this morning my favourite athlete Johnny ‘Hockey’ Gaudreau was knocked off his bicycle and killed along with his younger brother the night before their sister’s wedding. He had just turned 31 years old, married his next door neighbour and had a toddler daughter and a 6 month old son (who were planned to be flower girl and ring bearer at the wedding).
I adored Johnny because he was a such a small streak of lightning in a game full of huge dudes who were regularly a whole foot taller than him. His skills were just fucking phenomenal and he was so exciting to watch. I screamed with joy and cheered him on so loudly I lost my voice on many occasions. He represented his country for International Competitions and is the highest US point scorer.
I could get technical and talk about my favourite goals of his, his stickhandling, dangles, on ice spatial awareness etc but it is all on film for anyone to see, just too much to choose from. Nobody moved like Johnny Hockey.
As a person he was a sweet, kind guy who was universally liked in the sport and beyond. I do not follow celebrities on social media, but on hockey forums there are endless stories of his voracious love of mac and cheese (so much so Kraft put him in a TV ad) and skittles candies that he had a hockey stick covered in them and auctioned for charity.
In interviews he always talked hockey and his family. Whenever asked about new contracts and paycheques he would just shrug and say ‘yeah I bought my dad a boat so we can go fishing’ or ‘I just got a cool new wheelchair lift installed in my holiday home so my cousin can come and spend time with me’, or change the subject and talk about his dog, his wife and kids or The Birds. He was a real gem of a gentleman, modest and always ready to give credit to his team and dad (legendary NJ coach Guy Gaudreau) who motivated Johnny to skate as a toddler by placing skittles candies on the ice for him to fetch.
I’m am so sad for him, his family. This is just a blurb of feels about someone I counted down the days for until I could see them make magic on ice. I wish I could write a good tribute, dammit. Thank you Johnny Hockey.