Further Up & Further In

12/21/2022

The overnight rain froze into a slick layer of ice that made exploring Frankfurt a bit tricky. And by a bit tricky, I mean a constantly shuffling, shambling, oh-that-was-close affair.

Despite the ice, though, we had a wonderful time. Being here on the other side of the world with good friends is an absolute treasure, a much-anticipated and much-needed infusion of joy and crazy and closeness.

We took to the streets, shuffling down to the river after a quick breakfast. We strolled across the iron footbridge. We explored the Frankfurt Cathedral. We checked out a market, and we did some grocery shopping. Turns out, all this fast travel ain’t cheap! We enjoyed an evening of hangouts at the hotel over sandwiches.

It was a lovely, lovely day made uniformly lovely by having our friends in town.

08/20/2022

Christie took us to a restaurant this evening. It was transcendent.

Authentic Spanish tapas. Fried calamari. Tortilla de papas. Manchego. Pan y tomate. Roasted peppers. Sangria.

I think my spirit left my body.

As an aside, one of the things I am most proud of on this journey is out kids sense of culinary adventure. They’ll try anything., and more often than not, they love it. I can’t even list all the food they’ve come to love so far, but suffice it to say when this restaurant brought out roasted squid tentacles… They ate it. Easy mode.

These little foodies are rockstars. So proud of them.

And y’all, that FOOD. Can’t wait for Spain! Viva la Espana!

08/18/2022

We woke up to rain pouring in our windows amid the strobing lights of a massive thunderstorm that had knocked out our electricity. It appears that the storm we’d been waiting days for finally hit.

At around 5 am.

After we closed the shutters and windows and tucked our concerned kids back in bed, we settled back in. At around dawn, I went up to our balcony. These clouds are the storm we saw as it moved past us, up against the dawn light.

That storm has finally brought some cool to La Ciotat. We’ll enjoy it while we can, because we only have a few more days here.

08/04/2022

// neon fog

Continuing experimentation with as a starting place for motion graphics.

Image generation with , camera mapping in , particle effects with

01/16/2022

(n) orrery: A machine so constructed as to represent, by the movements of its parts, the motions and phases of the planets in their orbits.

10/21/2021

More OpenVDB explorations

10/20/2021

Exploring VDBs and redshift

02/03/2020

I was privileged to work on motion and graphic elements for this opening piece for the Passion 2020 Conference, which kicked off New Years' Eve 2019. Amazing way to kick-off 2020!

I was privileged to work on motion and graphic elements for this opening piece for the Passion 2020 Conference, which kicked off New Years' Eve 2019. Amazing…

06/14/2017

It's been too long... Here's what I've been working on.

This is "2017 Reel" by Brian Davis on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

11/06/2015

This year Further Up & Further In would LOVE to help you send out a Christmas message of your own! Check out the short video below, and click the link to see other video samples for your own custom Christmas video this holiday season. We're offering three different styles of videos to choose from, so one should suit your own family's individual style. Skip the Christmas cards this year, and share a fun video with your family instead! http://furtherupandfurtherin.org/christmas

This is "Christmas Tree in the Snow" by Brian Davis on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

05/08/2014

So grateful to get to work on this project with Chosen For Life. Helping sponsor adoptions through aiding widows... A brilliant and beautiful idea.

Both Hands is a really awesome fundraiser idea: get people to sponsor you to help out a local widow, and put the money towards an adoption. This is the second year…