Mike Milo’s Journal

I found this on YouTube… it was one of my first animation gigs! Very cool trip down Memory Lane.

then I found the video below with just the credits and yup… My name is on there! Cool!

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Everyday he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him  from the elements, and to store his few possessions.

One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. He cried out, “God! How could you do this to me?”

Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the  island! It had come to rescue him! “How did you know I was here?,” asked the weary man of his rescuers. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied.

The Moral of This Story:

It’s easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn’t lose heart, because God is at work in our lives….even in the midst of our pain and suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground, it just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.

I love this song but sadly I didn’t realize it’s origins.

Geldof wrote the song after reading a telex report on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children playing in a school playground across the street from her house. She killed two adults and injured eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime, and her only explanation for her actions when captured was “I don’t like Mondays.” ^[1] The song was first performed less than a month later at the Fox Theatre, San Diego.^[2]

Weird.

Here’s a poster I worked on recently as some contract-for-hire work for Fox’s new film Alvin and the Chipmunks based on the old TV series of the same name. My role in making the poster was to model and rig the characters in 3d because apparently the studio would not release their own models used in the actual movie so they had to be done from scratch for the poster.

Odd, but good for me! From there the studio Daniel Clark and Assoc. added the fur and textures onto the characters. It was a lot of fun and I only had a week to do it all! Well worth it though!