Kenn, two Ns - ProfilesArchive

About Me

A straight talker who'd rather be a contributor than a consumer.
Click here to check out my animations and games at Newgrounds , including a large collection of music videos.
If you are a band/crew who need an animated music video like the ones at the link above...
These babies are great for online and TV promotions. You can post them on your website, your MySpace, on forums, on NewGrounds, on YouTube, wherever. Thousands of people will see them on the last two alone.
Music videos can also be output to DVD, DV tape and Betacam SP.
Price is based around the complexity and time commitment involved, and the kind of label you're with (if applicable). Message me if interested.
Check out the re-release of my collection of "American Gothic" short fictions, The Pine Box Anthology. They're online comics, also formatted and packaged for viewing on your PSP. Click here or here to get reading/viewing/downloading.
A preview of my Flash game:
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My Interests

Video games (Atari 2600 to PS2), movies (watching & making them ), music (listening), animating with Flash , Japanese language & culture, etc.

I'd like to meet:

People I've got shared interests with in general, but fellow Ugly Duckling and SDP fans in particular! Preferably articulate people with something to say.

If you are going to add me, please message me first . If we have something to talk about, I will add you. Otherwise, I won't. I am not in the habit of simply collecting "Friends".

Music:

Eclectic tastes: Ugly Duckling , SDP , De La Soul , Beck , Pizzicato Five , Gorillaz , Cake , Noonday Underground , The Avalanches , Resin Dogs , Calexico , Squirrel Nut Zippers , The Reverend Horton Heat , 16 Horsepower , Palace Music , Pnau , Bentley Rhythm Ace , Corduroy , Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings , Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds , Tarnation , The Argyle Pimps , Lightheaded , the list goes on...

Movies:

Favourite directors would be Wes Anderson , The Coen Brothers , Jim Jarmusch , Hayao Miyazaki , Sergio Leone , and Quentin Tarantino .

Television:

Twin Peaks , CarnivÃ le , American Gothic , The Simpsons , Northern Exposure , Good Guys Bad Guys , King of the Hill , The Ren & Stimpy Show (the John K. episodes), and don't mind a bit of Star Trek from time to time. A fair proportion of these are long cancelled, mind you.

Books:

And The Ass Saw The Angel , All The Pretty Horses , I'm Not Scared , He Died With A Felafel In His Hand , Catch-22 , 1984 , A Clockwork Orange , The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe , The Quiet American , plenty more...

Heroes:

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso & Spike Jonze

My Blog

New animated work

Being the father of a little baby isn’t easy, if you do it right. Living in Japan, I’m very aware of how some fathers can be, in terms of not putting much effort into raising their kids. ...
Posted by Kenn, two Ns on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:02:00 PST

Practical parenting tips

So my little girl is a bit over a month old now. My wife and I have had to deal with a few minor health and behaviour issues already, so I thought I'd share how we solved them.VomitingThis one trouble...
Posted by Kenn, two Ns on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:48:00 PST

Sleep and early fatherhood

Yesterday was the second week anniversary of my daughter's birth. She gets cuter and shows that she is making more sense of her environment every day. It's very interesting to bear witness to the begi...
Posted by Kenn, two Ns on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:12:00 PST

Long time no blog - life in Japan

Yes. So I've been living in Japan for a little over three months. It's not so bad.When I first got here, the weather was stinking hot. About a month ago it started to get cooler, and now it's been rea...
Posted by Kenn, two Ns on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:25:00 PST

Update

Alright, so I posted this in a bulletin at one point, but those things disappear quickly (even quicker if you're a Friend whore), so here it is again.I got accepted for the July '07 intake of the JET ...
Posted by Kenn, two Ns on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:49:00 PST

Designer Diary 4

Okay. So it's all done.Well, pretty much done.I defied the blanket ban on game creation while my wife's in the house and now all I have to do is finish making a couple of the bonus feature thingies (o...
Posted by Kenn, two Ns on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:53:00 PST

Designer Diary 3

It gets ever closer. 3-4 solid days' work, and I know it could be all done and dusted. But I don't have 3-4 days free to work solidly on it any more, because I go back to my place of payed employment ...
Posted by Kenn, two Ns on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:05:00 PST

Designer Diary 2

It's been hard to get back into programming since getting back from the road trip up to Queensland with my wife. I've gone into full holiday mode, just lounging around and playing PSP all day long.Pus...
Posted by Kenn, two Ns on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:23:00 PST

Designer diary - belated

Some of you would know that I'm developing a Silent Hill tribute game, which I've called Quiet Falls. It's a new story in the world of Silent Hill, developed in Flash. It plays as a top/side view acti...
Posted by Kenn, two Ns on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:46:00 PST

I videotaped this

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Posted by Kenn, two Ns on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:34:00 PST