2007 Lists

So for all 3 of you out there who actually have read my top albums of 2007 AND are interested in my top Games and Films, I just wanted to let you know that I’m still working on my lists. There are still 2 0r 3 games I want to finish first and about 20 movies but I’m burning through those at a good rate. So don’t hold your breath but they should be up in the next o…2 months .

Help With Full Sail

I realize I have been recommending this blog to most people who have questions about the school. I just want to make sure that everyone knows that if they have any questions about my experiences and feelings about the school feel free to shoot me an email at gshonk@gmail.com and I will try to answer as soon as I can. For those of you who don’t know GDC is just a few weeks off (February 18) and I am doing the work program at the conference so I will be there from Sunday the 17th-24th. I am extremly excited to have been given this opportunity to help out with the conference (and have my ticket paid for ). Hope to see some of you there.

Grant

Website

http://grantshonkwiler.com/ is officially up. Check it out

Top Music of 2007

Here it is the long awaited list(by me that is). My favorite albums of 2007. This seemed to be a year of British rock, female singers, indie bands who play mostly acoustic, and of course just some more rocking stuff. So here it is the top 13 albums of 2007.

The View- Hats off to the buskers

Feist – The Reminder

Amy Macdonald- This is the life

Artic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare

The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible

Cloud Cult – The meaning of 8

Eisley- Combinations

Bright Eyes – Cassadaga

The Almost – Southern Weather

The Maccabees – Colour It in

Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha

The White Stripes – Icky Thump

J-Roddy Walston and the Business- Hail Mega Boys

Following are some of the other albums I have enjoyed this year but just aren’t great enough to be in the top 13.

Aqualung – Memory Man, Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, The Thrills – Teenager, Colour – Between Earth & Sky, Anberlin – Cities, Hot Hot Heat – Happiness, The Killers-Sawdust, Mae- Singularity, Justice- Cross, Dashboard Confessional- The Shade of poison trees, Foo Fighters- Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, DJ Tiesto – Elements of Life, The Brothers Martin- The Brothers Martin

There were a few albums I haven’t gotten yet but they just didn’t make it into the cut. I hope to keep finding great cds from last year.

Blog Writing

So I realize I am getting really bad at this blog writing thing so I’m just writing this to let you know that I am still alive and my plans for this blog and a future website. Currently I am in my last month of Full Sail before the five months of final project so I am extremely busy with school. Also I am getting ready for my first GDC which I am extremely excited about. I will be writing about GDC and my experiences there.

Now for the blog I have a few things that I want to write in the next few months first I am going to do my top lists of 2007 including, Movies, Music and games. But right now I am very behind in the movie and game department so it will take me a few weeks to catch up. Also I will be posting a resume soon and hopefully I will have a website up and running in the next few months. Until the next time.

Grant Shonkwiler

Blobula

Go download my friend and classmate Naveen Nattam’s game Blobula its awesome. This is his game for a competition we had here at school. http://nattam.blogspot.com/ Enjoy. And I will be writing more soon