Well, make this quick. Because I'm tired, and the computer's been having the obnoxious habit lately of randomly hitting a bad boot sector and flipping to the BIOS screen on me; I really should take it down to the shop and see about it.
Turns out the art tours haven't happened this semester yet like I'd reported they had? So my missing art night a couple of weeks ago was, just, I missed another round of custom-art MASTERPIECE for nothing.
But it also means there still might be an opening, and I might graduate after this semester instead of next! Maybe. If there's any seats left available; I've heard rumours that there may.
(Rumors the "u" spelling in honour of the Fleetwood Mac album.)
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Monday, February 19, 2018
Dye Dye Dye
So I tried dying my hair today, because it's Presidents' Day and I had all day to try something nuts. My hair is very dark, though. And the dye box, like the instructions weren't in it because I got it second-hand (at a yard sale maybe? heck for all I know I might have just found it in the garbage or, I think it was just sitting there in a back alley wasn't it? along with the dinosaur-shaped rubber bands; whatever happened to those?) I'd probably have to bleach my hair first to dye it. I don't think I have brown hair; thought I did, all my life, up till today. Now I think my hair color is actually closer to black. Because if it's brown, it's a very, very dark brown.
So yeah I think there is a very subtle difference, but mostly all my hair is now is dry.
So I've got this card from Art Night, I may have told you about it but it's from that, artist-made original art, game of Masterpiece that we played? Looking up the artist's instagram, it's got 2,300 likes. 2,301 likes, now, because I just liked it.
I'm not sure how valuable that makes the art, but probably yes, pretty darn.
So yeah I think there is a very subtle difference, but mostly all my hair is now is dry.
So I've got this card from Art Night, I may have told you about it but it's from that, artist-made original art, game of Masterpiece that we played? Looking up the artist's instagram, it's got 2,300 likes. 2,301 likes, now, because I just liked it.
I'm not sure how valuable that makes the art, but probably yes, pretty darn.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
? Pop
It's at 64 views now, with 2 whole likes and only one dislike. I'M NOT SURE I CAN HANDLE THE FAME; I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE AWESOME BUT I'M FREAKING OUT.
So I've been basically sitting around all day waiting for Ryan to text so that I can rush out and covertly snap some pics of... well of him proposing to his girlfriend (this might come as news to some people, but probably not anybody reading this,) finally get the text, get some reeeal good pictures, and there's also a videographer.... but nobody's in a good angle to get the proposal itself.
Very funny.
So we're going to have to swing by tomorrow to get the security camera footage and maybe take photos of that instead, from the managers of the apartment complex where the proposal took place. There was a tree set up, along with candles and rose petals on the ground, so maybe the tree also obscured the vision of the camera; we'll have to see.
Now both of my roommates are engaged? That's fun.
Andrew got married when he was 23; Ryan, it's going to be when he's 25 if I'm doing the math right; and me... in order to keep up this pattern, I've got, 19 months I think.
So I've been basically sitting around all day waiting for Ryan to text so that I can rush out and covertly snap some pics of... well of him proposing to his girlfriend (this might come as news to some people, but probably not anybody reading this,) finally get the text, get some reeeal good pictures, and there's also a videographer.... but nobody's in a good angle to get the proposal itself.
Very funny.
So we're going to have to swing by tomorrow to get the security camera footage and maybe take photos of that instead, from the managers of the apartment complex where the proposal took place. There was a tree set up, along with candles and rose petals on the ground, so maybe the tree also obscured the vision of the camera; we'll have to see.
Now both of my roommates are engaged? That's fun.
Andrew got married when he was 23; Ryan, it's going to be when he's 25 if I'm doing the math right; and me... in order to keep up this pattern, I've got, 19 months I think.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Wurd of Wizzum
I ATE! a WHOLE CAN! of SPAM! TODAY!
Yeah so I always gain like a bunch of weight over the holidays but figured I'd have at least started losing some of that by now, like I usually do, but I think if anything I've gained weight since then too/instead.
I've finally built up enough of an egg (?) with plasma donation money that I can pay my tithing finally, even taking into account all the money earned in order to pay it. I'm at $299 to pay, currently. And I've got no idea how this new electronic tithing payment system works.
With enough money left over for groceries. Which I need to buy. Because like SPAM was one of the only things available to me today; I've been on food storage for the whole week.
Healthy groceries. Salads. Fruits, vegetables. There were those at the art exhibit opening last night, the refreshment table, so it's not like I've been completely without them, but they need to be comprising a far greater percentage of my diet than they currently are (and the fact that I pointed to hors d'oeuvres from a day ago goes in support of this.)
With all my bank money in savings, I'm trying to use the plasma money as my exclusive spending money. The debit card that the plasma money gets wired to, though, has like a $.25 surcharge fee whenever you use it to buy groceries.
I've been trying to use it as my PayPal default, but for some reason it doesn't stick??
And then I can eat wisely.
Yeah so I always gain like a bunch of weight over the holidays but figured I'd have at least started losing some of that by now, like I usually do, but I think if anything I've gained weight since then too/instead.
I've finally built up enough of an egg (?) with plasma donation money that I can pay my tithing finally, even taking into account all the money earned in order to pay it. I'm at $299 to pay, currently. And I've got no idea how this new electronic tithing payment system works.
With enough money left over for groceries. Which I need to buy. Because like SPAM was one of the only things available to me today; I've been on food storage for the whole week.
Healthy groceries. Salads. Fruits, vegetables. There were those at the art exhibit opening last night, the refreshment table, so it's not like I've been completely without them, but they need to be comprising a far greater percentage of my diet than they currently are (and the fact that I pointed to hors d'oeuvres from a day ago goes in support of this.)
With all my bank money in savings, I'm trying to use the plasma money as my exclusive spending money. The debit card that the plasma money gets wired to, though, has like a $.25 surcharge fee whenever you use it to buy groceries.
I've been trying to use it as my PayPal default, but for some reason it doesn't stick??
And then I can eat wisely.
Friday, February 16, 2018
Voodoo Raggyshark
Which is more important, being good or doing it my own way, some way that's never been done before? Ideally all your fresh produce would be both organic and local, but not everyone lives in California, and you're forced to chose. (Chose local, by the way.)
But thinking on this dilemma, I realized, I don't have to chose. Doing it my own way is invariably where the highest quality is. The latest video, the whole thing in general is kind of a, nonsense migraine of computer vomit, or whatever, but the stick puppet scenes are somehow, on a plane of quality much higher than the rest of it.
But thinking on this dilemma, I realized, I don't have to chose. Doing it my own way is invariably where the highest quality is. The latest video, the whole thing in general is kind of a, nonsense migraine of computer vomit, or whatever, but the stick puppet scenes are somehow, on a plane of quality much higher than the rest of it.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Video Ragnarok
I managed to upload yesterday's video early this morning, but looking at it again YouTube, isn't actually tricked, changing the time zone on your computer? Well, all my vlogs managed to get in during the month they were set, and that's what really counts.
Halfway through editing the video though I was struck by how, just, weird these are. A lot of that has to do with the concept, but a lot of it also has to do with the quality/lack thereof. Continuing to try to get good audio quality, but the microphone is actually so, good, I guess, that speaking normally as near to it as I try to do, it's just too loud and you lose a lot of the, sensitivity or whatever. Also the puppet, it's just terribly upholstered, and the mouth is so hard to move I barely even try, just sort of bobbing the head and pretending... thinking of maybe skinning the puppet, trimming the mouth shape somehow, and reskinning it? Or maybe just constructing a new different puppet entirely; I've got the materials for it.
Or maybe just switch the tack entirely.
Even if I find a perfect volume at which to speak, and somehow get crisp echo-free audio, and have professional-level production, another problem is my voice. It's not the most melodious thing in the world.
And I never get enough time to polish anything as much as I'd like, since my workflow consists of waiting until the last possible minute and getting it in late anyway... The whole thing is just a morass of sweaty embarrassment.
I was watching a Game Theory video, and that stuff is just, such a high level of quality. Does MatPat do it all himself, or is there a host of bts guys we don't know about? He probably makes enough money that it could go either way; he could have it as a full-time job, or, even be an employer of his own. I don't want to be a millionaire; I just want to be able to produce something that level of quality. But do it my own way, whatever that means.
Not that I enjoy being poor, THAT much... sure, I'd love a million dollars. But I'd just spend it on, more of this.
Halfway through editing the video though I was struck by how, just, weird these are. A lot of that has to do with the concept, but a lot of it also has to do with the quality/lack thereof. Continuing to try to get good audio quality, but the microphone is actually so, good, I guess, that speaking normally as near to it as I try to do, it's just too loud and you lose a lot of the, sensitivity or whatever. Also the puppet, it's just terribly upholstered, and the mouth is so hard to move I barely even try, just sort of bobbing the head and pretending... thinking of maybe skinning the puppet, trimming the mouth shape somehow, and reskinning it? Or maybe just constructing a new different puppet entirely; I've got the materials for it.
Or maybe just switch the tack entirely.
Even if I find a perfect volume at which to speak, and somehow get crisp echo-free audio, and have professional-level production, another problem is my voice. It's not the most melodious thing in the world.
And I never get enough time to polish anything as much as I'd like, since my workflow consists of waiting until the last possible minute and getting it in late anyway... The whole thing is just a morass of sweaty embarrassment.
I was watching a Game Theory video, and that stuff is just, such a high level of quality. Does MatPat do it all himself, or is there a host of bts guys we don't know about? He probably makes enough money that it could go either way; he could have it as a full-time job, or, even be an employer of his own. I don't want to be a millionaire; I just want to be able to produce something that level of quality. But do it my own way, whatever that means.
Not that I enjoy being poor, THAT much... sure, I'd love a million dollars. But I'd just spend it on, more of this.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Heart of the Dog
Art night we syncretized Valentine's Day and the Chinese New Year, cutting out paper ornaments but like Valentines. Thinking about this while I was there, I thought about global communication allowing us to share disparate traditions and cultures. Are we moving toward a World Culture? And if that happens, well we lose the elements that created it?
Then I researched, unrelated, the trope We All Live in America. And I don't think it's happening.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeAllLiveInAmerica
Then I researched, unrelated, the trope We All Live in America. And I don't think it's happening.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeAllLiveInAmerica
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
A Couple More Bollywood Numbers
I've got the script mostly hashed out, just needs a bit more editing and all. My computer decided to be exceptionally stupid on me today, crashing twice in a row and requiring an update and not allowing me access to my script in progress for a couple of hours. So I'm just putting completing the video off, until tomorrow. AND NOBODY CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE oops sorry hit the caps lock on accident.
While I was waiting for the technology to thaw its ornery ways down a bit, I could at least watch Bollywood films on a seperate device. No, the lockout did not take long enough to have completed an entire film in that time, it just felt like it did.
Last summer I posted about a couple of Bollywood numbers I couldn't get out of my head; I think I'll do that again.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. I don't think I've ever mentioned this movie, but it's one of the all-time classics. Here's a basic rundown!
Shah Rukh Khan's character, Rahul's, best friend is a girl, Anjali (played by Kajol.) She's more of a tomboy; her favorite hobby is thrashing him at basketball, kind of thing. They've got chemistry... they should, I mean, considering the jodi (that's a, Bollywood term, meaning actor pairing.) Enter the smoking-hot Tina, played by Rani Mukherji, though. Now Rahul has to choose between them... He chooses Tina. Tina dies in childbirth, making him promise to name the daughter Anjali. (This is where the film begins, and it flashes back to that other stuff.) Eight years later, Anjali (played by child actress Sana Saeed) learns of Anjali (the Kajol one), and tries to matchmake her dad with his old best friend. And now (and now this is my favorite part read this carefully) Anjali-played-by-Kajol has to choose between Rahul, a role played by Shah Rukh Khan, and Aman, a man played by Salman Khan (but which role having been turned down by both Saif Ali Khan and Aamir Khan.)
Got all that?
(If you really have any doubt over which Anjali's going to chose, just remember that the Kajol/SRK jodi is, well, like one of the most famous chemistry-tastic pairings ever; (for example, it appeared again in My Name is Khan, definitely a film I have mentioned before, which I'm singling out because, Shah Rukh Khan plays a man named Rizwan Khan SO MUCH KHAN GOING ON.))
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai's title track is undoubtedly one of the catchiest songs, like, ever, but I think that Koi Mil Gaya is also way up there.
Now, Koi Mil Gaya should not be confused with Koi... Mil Gaya, another one I'm bringing up just to deliberately confuse you.
Because Koi... Mil Gaya was followed up by Krrish, which was followed up by Krrish 3, under the idea that Krrish 1 was Krrish 2 and Koi... Mil Gaya was Krrish 1. It's... not as confusing as all the Khan stuffs, but it's still something I love going on about. And it all still starts with a K, so, there's that.
Either way, those movies starred Hrithik Roshan, the most heartthrobby heartthrob to ever throb hearts. His first role (and therefore his youngest and therefore his hottest) was as, well actually he played two different characters, in Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai.
A very very basic rundown of that one is: Sonia (Ameesha Patel, also making her acting debut) is in love with Rohit, a musician. There's something in here about getting stranded on a desert island together, but they're rescued, so yeah that went nowhere (it is where the title song is sung, though.) Sonia's father has ties with the mob, and Rohit witnesses a hit and is killed for it. Complete with goofy whack sound effect as his head hits a rock underwater, after he's already drowned. Sonia moves to New Zealand, where she meets Raj, who also happens to be played by Hrithik Roshan. Raj joins Sonia as she moves back to India, and they're attacked at the airport. Someone's mistaking Raj for Rohit, so they decide to leverage that by having Raj put on the rock concert that Rohit died right before performing, giving them an opportunity to publicly announce the real Rohit's murderers. Bloody, bare-knuckled action scenes ensue, and there's a rather clever gambit with a cell phone, using the murderer's phone to call the man's boss and Sonia's father's phone ringing; that part was cool.
Yeah, it's an incredibly tonally inconsistent film, but it can not be overstated how angelically man-babely Hrithik Roshan is in it. His delicious delicious face (not to mention mindbending dance skillz) makes the whole thing worth watching.
There's this theme that goes throughout the film, anyway, sort of this, Ah, Aaaaah; Ah-ah-ah-ah-AAH, Aaaaah. And, as Raj resolves to recome Rohit, it resolves into this song.
On the subject of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai anyway, apparently Rani Mukherji is Kajol's cousin in real life?
And on the subject of Hrithik Roshan films: all four of those movies I just listed up there also happen to be directed by Hrithik's father, Rakesh. And who said philately is dead.
Stamp collecting, but I can't think of the real word.
And am I the only one who thinks that Wes Anderson is the spit and image of David Duchovny? Probably not, but, that's entirely unrelated, sorry.
While I was waiting for the technology to thaw its ornery ways down a bit, I could at least watch Bollywood films on a seperate device. No, the lockout did not take long enough to have completed an entire film in that time, it just felt like it did.
Last summer I posted about a couple of Bollywood numbers I couldn't get out of my head; I think I'll do that again.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. I don't think I've ever mentioned this movie, but it's one of the all-time classics. Here's a basic rundown!
Shah Rukh Khan's character, Rahul's, best friend is a girl, Anjali (played by Kajol.) She's more of a tomboy; her favorite hobby is thrashing him at basketball, kind of thing. They've got chemistry... they should, I mean, considering the jodi (that's a, Bollywood term, meaning actor pairing.) Enter the smoking-hot Tina, played by Rani Mukherji, though. Now Rahul has to choose between them... He chooses Tina. Tina dies in childbirth, making him promise to name the daughter Anjali. (This is where the film begins, and it flashes back to that other stuff.) Eight years later, Anjali (played by child actress Sana Saeed) learns of Anjali (the Kajol one), and tries to matchmake her dad with his old best friend. And now (and now this is my favorite part read this carefully) Anjali-played-by-Kajol has to choose between Rahul, a role played by Shah Rukh Khan, and Aman, a man played by Salman Khan (but which role having been turned down by both Saif Ali Khan and Aamir Khan.)
Got all that?
(If you really have any doubt over which Anjali's going to chose, just remember that the Kajol/SRK jodi is, well, like one of the most famous chemistry-tastic pairings ever; (for example, it appeared again in My Name is Khan, definitely a film I have mentioned before, which I'm singling out because, Shah Rukh Khan plays a man named Rizwan Khan SO MUCH KHAN GOING ON.))
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai's title track is undoubtedly one of the catchiest songs, like, ever, but I think that Koi Mil Gaya is also way up there.
Now, Koi Mil Gaya should not be confused with Koi... Mil Gaya, another one I'm bringing up just to deliberately confuse you.
Because Koi... Mil Gaya was followed up by Krrish, which was followed up by Krrish 3, under the idea that Krrish 1 was Krrish 2 and Koi... Mil Gaya was Krrish 1. It's... not as confusing as all the Khan stuffs, but it's still something I love going on about. And it all still starts with a K, so, there's that.
Either way, those movies starred Hrithik Roshan, the most heartthrobby heartthrob to ever throb hearts. His first role (and therefore his youngest and therefore his hottest) was as, well actually he played two different characters, in Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai.
A very very basic rundown of that one is: Sonia (Ameesha Patel, also making her acting debut) is in love with Rohit, a musician. There's something in here about getting stranded on a desert island together, but they're rescued, so yeah that went nowhere (it is where the title song is sung, though.) Sonia's father has ties with the mob, and Rohit witnesses a hit and is killed for it. Complete with goofy whack sound effect as his head hits a rock underwater, after he's already drowned. Sonia moves to New Zealand, where she meets Raj, who also happens to be played by Hrithik Roshan. Raj joins Sonia as she moves back to India, and they're attacked at the airport. Someone's mistaking Raj for Rohit, so they decide to leverage that by having Raj put on the rock concert that Rohit died right before performing, giving them an opportunity to publicly announce the real Rohit's murderers. Bloody, bare-knuckled action scenes ensue, and there's a rather clever gambit with a cell phone, using the murderer's phone to call the man's boss and Sonia's father's phone ringing; that part was cool.
Yeah, it's an incredibly tonally inconsistent film, but it can not be overstated how angelically man-babely Hrithik Roshan is in it. His delicious delicious face (not to mention mindbending dance skillz) makes the whole thing worth watching.
There's this theme that goes throughout the film, anyway, sort of this, Ah, Aaaaah; Ah-ah-ah-ah-AAH, Aaaaah. And, as Raj resolves to recome Rohit, it resolves into this song.
On the subject of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai anyway, apparently Rani Mukherji is Kajol's cousin in real life?
And on the subject of Hrithik Roshan films: all four of those movies I just listed up there also happen to be directed by Hrithik's father, Rakesh. And who said philately is dead.
Stamp collecting, but I can't think of the real word.
And am I the only one who thinks that Wes Anderson is the spit and image of David Duchovny? Probably not, but, that's entirely unrelated, sorry.
Monday, February 12, 2018
Characters You Grow to Love as You Grow Up
There are so many times where I would go to bed earlier, if it weren't for the fact that I would have yet to blog for the day. I go to bed late, and wake up... late, or, early, depending on the day; actually, no, I wake up early, then I sleep in late, basically every day... The sleeping in part, when that commences varies from day to day.
So I'm researching Winnie the Pooh right now, for my PPR episode tomorrow I guess, though really just for myself. We watched the second half of Peter Pan at FHE this evening. These aren't entirely unrelated, and I guess I'm showing my age. Rabbit's always been the bomb, but as I grow older I also grow to love Kanga, as small a part as she may play. Both for the same reason, though, really. And... watching Peter Pan... would it be criminal of me to say, my favorite character is now Wendy?
Calvin and Hobbes, one thing you notice, is how much of the comic actually spends on Calvin's parents, as well...
So I'm researching Winnie the Pooh right now, for my PPR episode tomorrow I guess, though really just for myself. We watched the second half of Peter Pan at FHE this evening. These aren't entirely unrelated, and I guess I'm showing my age. Rabbit's always been the bomb, but as I grow older I also grow to love Kanga, as small a part as she may play. Both for the same reason, though, really. And... watching Peter Pan... would it be criminal of me to say, my favorite character is now Wendy?
Calvin and Hobbes, one thing you notice, is how much of the comic actually spends on Calvin's parents, as well...
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Waiting, and Practicing
Felt like I've been waiting. All day. Just biding my time. Not sure what for, since there's nothing now that can't be done today instead of tomorrow. (I am out of fresh foodstuffs... waiting to go grocery shopping perhaps?)
Sitting around, with my sketchbook happening to be nearby, I did get some drawing time in, which I haven't gotten much of this past week. It's good practice, but I'd need to polish my work and add some color in somehow, for me to consider it IG-worthy.
Still, if you don't know what it is you're waiting for, does it qualify as waiting?
Me, I can't do anything when I'm expecting something to happen. And so I've just been... poking around. Double-checking things that don't even need to be double-checked (total views on that YouTube video: 37, now.) I think it's maybe because the next episode of that is due up in two days, and as usual, I'm completely stumped as to what the episode is going to be about.
That's probably it really. And this episode, and the one after that, are scheduled for school nights, wheee!!
I'm a sprinter, not a cross-country runner. I realized that yesterday, in church, Saturday afternoon session of stake conference. Soo bad at making and keeping consistent habits. How I manage to do these posts everyday (or, oh yeah, in today's case, twice today technically,) it's something of a... it was a deliberate choice, to make this a hobby. Maybe it's increased my writing skills, who knows. Either way, forcing myself to do videos, that's also a choice, to have something to do to get good at filmmaking. I'm certainly improving on that. It's, a, laaaawwwt hahhder, than it looks.
And I'm certainly doing myself no favors by having chosen current events as the topic.
Wait, wait... I think I know what the episode is gunna be about.
The end goal I guess is the practice in itself. Focusing on views and stuff would only blind me to that. Getting thumbs downs though, that's a useful tool actually. Also, it's not like anybody needs a reason to want to be YouTube famous.
Maybe I could leverage Instagram somehow, to be the same way? Forcing me to practice drawing, painting as well (I am so much a better draftsman than I am at color theory) even if the paint is all digital...
So. Another thing I realized at church yesterday, singing the hymns, is that sure I've got a lovely set of pipes, but only if I'm actually trying. And there are certain earmarks, or areas of focus rather, that I need to pay attention to, to actually put my heart into singing well. And by these earmarks, I can, sing well. And wonder perhaps if there are earmarks of trying in any of my other endeavors as well.
There's a lot I've learned about successful application of color I've learned from studying other people's art, painters and whatnot, a few tricks I see them apply, but knowing tools and tips and tricks and actually applying them are two different things entire.
Speaking of color, do you think pastels are coming back? I looked up what makes a pastel a pastel, because it seemed so ethereal, the definition; turns out it's actually pretty easy, high values, low contrast. Makes sense. And so, do you think that's coming back?
Sitting around, with my sketchbook happening to be nearby, I did get some drawing time in, which I haven't gotten much of this past week. It's good practice, but I'd need to polish my work and add some color in somehow, for me to consider it IG-worthy.
Still, if you don't know what it is you're waiting for, does it qualify as waiting?
Me, I can't do anything when I'm expecting something to happen. And so I've just been... poking around. Double-checking things that don't even need to be double-checked (total views on that YouTube video: 37, now.) I think it's maybe because the next episode of that is due up in two days, and as usual, I'm completely stumped as to what the episode is going to be about.
That's probably it really. And this episode, and the one after that, are scheduled for school nights, wheee!!
I'm a sprinter, not a cross-country runner. I realized that yesterday, in church, Saturday afternoon session of stake conference. Soo bad at making and keeping consistent habits. How I manage to do these posts everyday (or, oh yeah, in today's case, twice today technically,) it's something of a... it was a deliberate choice, to make this a hobby. Maybe it's increased my writing skills, who knows. Either way, forcing myself to do videos, that's also a choice, to have something to do to get good at filmmaking. I'm certainly improving on that. It's, a, laaaawwwt hahhder, than it looks.
And I'm certainly doing myself no favors by having chosen current events as the topic.
Wait, wait... I think I know what the episode is gunna be about.
The end goal I guess is the practice in itself. Focusing on views and stuff would only blind me to that. Getting thumbs downs though, that's a useful tool actually. Also, it's not like anybody needs a reason to want to be YouTube famous.
Maybe I could leverage Instagram somehow, to be the same way? Forcing me to practice drawing, painting as well (I am so much a better draftsman than I am at color theory) even if the paint is all digital...
So. Another thing I realized at church yesterday, singing the hymns, is that sure I've got a lovely set of pipes, but only if I'm actually trying. And there are certain earmarks, or areas of focus rather, that I need to pay attention to, to actually put my heart into singing well. And by these earmarks, I can, sing well. And wonder perhaps if there are earmarks of trying in any of my other endeavors as well.
There's a lot I've learned about successful application of color I've learned from studying other people's art, painters and whatnot, a few tricks I see them apply, but knowing tools and tips and tricks and actually applying them are two different things entire.
Speaking of color, do you think pastels are coming back? I looked up what makes a pastel a pastel, because it seemed so ethereal, the definition; turns out it's actually pretty easy, high values, low contrast. Makes sense. And so, do you think that's coming back?
Feeling Fame(/ous)
So it may not seem like much (because it's really not much) but my latest YouTube video has 34 views, and, dang that's not much is it. That's the second-most viewed video on my channel, though. Only like three of those were from me, adding a few views to the view count ticker as I added closed captioning.
I went to bed last night with like ten views on the video, and going to check the views this morning, I was all, okay, you're going to be at 11! Only it was at 27. Holy smokes.
And one of my boards on Pinterest has 7 whole followers. I feel so famous.
Both of these are probably going to tick up.
The number of YouTube subscribers remains four. The number of blog subscribers remains four. The number of Instagram followers remains, three, but man I should post there ever, I seriously give it a solid consider almost every day. My non-art Instagram inexplicably has 24 followers, and it seems like other people gain YouTube subscribers the way dogs gather fleas, just like, not even trying. Humph.
It's my last semester here and all, and this semester's field trips started this Wednesday; I also need one of those, but then that's it and I can graduate, and after that... so Instagram. A lot of the artists I follow are getting jobs at places; Izzy Abreu is going to work at WAG; Tanner Wilson is now working at Cartoon Network. Only, these people are incredible artists. I don't even know-- I mean I guess I could ask, but I hardly ever see Kody Keller; the last time I saw him he was teaching pottery the way he do, and I couldn't exactly approach him... Recap, he's the one with friends who work at LAIKA and friends who work at the Church's video production arm, and he'd somehow be able to wiggle a wand and get any student who wants it a job at one of those. I don't know how, or what the job would be, or if it'd be guaranteed, or anything, like I said I could ask, if I see him ever. Or what kind of things I'd need on my portfolio, or if I'd need a portfolio. I'd say my resume is solid enough for an entry level position in, not the art department, of a film studio. But these are art students he's offering the opportunity to, because of course it's art students he's got as students. Um. But, the Insta-folks I follow, getting jobs at places and studios I'd love to work at, they've got portfolios that allow them to get to those places, and how did they get those portfolios, by doing work, like probably for sure, at least at the start, schoolwork. This is what your art degree gets you, that's what you're building up, is your portfolio. Only I'm over here just, building up a portfolio in an area I don't really care to have a portfolio in, or maybe I would if I were any good at it. I mean, I'm any good at it, like, looking at my completed design this last assignment, I'm like, yeah that's pretty good, but then I see a fellow student's work and am reminded just how good everyone else is, in a competitive field. And how else do you build up a portfolio? Doing work, like, freelancing and stuff. That's what they did, and that's what other art students do, and that's what my fellow graphic design students do, and I've done that a little, in small capacities, but sitting in class and the students around me are talking about clients and stuff. They're professionals already and stuff, you dig? And building up their portfolios that way. I guess I have the capability of doing that, but... well, whatever. If that wand is truly magic, I won't have to angst about it. I wouldn't have to angst about any of this, if it's a guaranteed position. But still, it'd be nice to have, any job. Any, job specifically suited to my abilities. Which seem multitudinous if I try to list them, but in practical terms, just kinda falls flat.
Humph. Just passed 1:00 (midnight PST). I would have published just now, had... like, the internet, just disconnects on my laptop sometimes, randomly, and it did that, and so clicking publish nothing happened, and it switched over to 1:00 as I was reconnecting. So like man, I don't know what to do, don't particularly feel like backlogging it to 11:59, the way I wind up doing sometimes.
Anyway, falls flat. I applied for that thing that I mentioned, last semester, just another thing I never heard back on; it was some, school thing, multimedia, maybe, thing for the school paper. Knowing video editing and all that. When they asked me on the application what sort of special skills I had, maybe I came across as, not specific enough, or maybe I came across as, trying too hard or something, but I just said, I'd probably fit in any open position, just give me a job, my skill set would fit for it. And never heard back.
I'm looking over at a monoprint I made, the one that was never lost because it didn't make it into the portfolio because it was entered into an art show where it didn't win anything. And that's what failure is. Failure is absolutely nothing. It's, never hearing back. The ski trip, falling over so much, it never hurt, it wasn't even cold. It was just, nothing. Not even a great big hole there, that still would have been, something.
They say faint praise can damn, but it's praise all right. So, 34 views. I consider that a win.
I went to bed last night with like ten views on the video, and going to check the views this morning, I was all, okay, you're going to be at 11! Only it was at 27. Holy smokes.
And one of my boards on Pinterest has 7 whole followers. I feel so famous.
Both of these are probably going to tick up.
The number of YouTube subscribers remains four. The number of blog subscribers remains four. The number of Instagram followers remains, three, but man I should post there ever, I seriously give it a solid consider almost every day. My non-art Instagram inexplicably has 24 followers, and it seems like other people gain YouTube subscribers the way dogs gather fleas, just like, not even trying. Humph.
It's my last semester here and all, and this semester's field trips started this Wednesday; I also need one of those, but then that's it and I can graduate, and after that... so Instagram. A lot of the artists I follow are getting jobs at places; Izzy Abreu is going to work at WAG; Tanner Wilson is now working at Cartoon Network. Only, these people are incredible artists. I don't even know-- I mean I guess I could ask, but I hardly ever see Kody Keller; the last time I saw him he was teaching pottery the way he do, and I couldn't exactly approach him... Recap, he's the one with friends who work at LAIKA and friends who work at the Church's video production arm, and he'd somehow be able to wiggle a wand and get any student who wants it a job at one of those. I don't know how, or what the job would be, or if it'd be guaranteed, or anything, like I said I could ask, if I see him ever. Or what kind of things I'd need on my portfolio, or if I'd need a portfolio. I'd say my resume is solid enough for an entry level position in, not the art department, of a film studio. But these are art students he's offering the opportunity to, because of course it's art students he's got as students. Um. But, the Insta-folks I follow, getting jobs at places and studios I'd love to work at, they've got portfolios that allow them to get to those places, and how did they get those portfolios, by doing work, like probably for sure, at least at the start, schoolwork. This is what your art degree gets you, that's what you're building up, is your portfolio. Only I'm over here just, building up a portfolio in an area I don't really care to have a portfolio in, or maybe I would if I were any good at it. I mean, I'm any good at it, like, looking at my completed design this last assignment, I'm like, yeah that's pretty good, but then I see a fellow student's work and am reminded just how good everyone else is, in a competitive field. And how else do you build up a portfolio? Doing work, like, freelancing and stuff. That's what they did, and that's what other art students do, and that's what my fellow graphic design students do, and I've done that a little, in small capacities, but sitting in class and the students around me are talking about clients and stuff. They're professionals already and stuff, you dig? And building up their portfolios that way. I guess I have the capability of doing that, but... well, whatever. If that wand is truly magic, I won't have to angst about it. I wouldn't have to angst about any of this, if it's a guaranteed position. But still, it'd be nice to have, any job. Any, job specifically suited to my abilities. Which seem multitudinous if I try to list them, but in practical terms, just kinda falls flat.
Humph. Just passed 1:00 (midnight PST). I would have published just now, had... like, the internet, just disconnects on my laptop sometimes, randomly, and it did that, and so clicking publish nothing happened, and it switched over to 1:00 as I was reconnecting. So like man, I don't know what to do, don't particularly feel like backlogging it to 11:59, the way I wind up doing sometimes.
Anyway, falls flat. I applied for that thing that I mentioned, last semester, just another thing I never heard back on; it was some, school thing, multimedia, maybe, thing for the school paper. Knowing video editing and all that. When they asked me on the application what sort of special skills I had, maybe I came across as, not specific enough, or maybe I came across as, trying too hard or something, but I just said, I'd probably fit in any open position, just give me a job, my skill set would fit for it. And never heard back.
I'm looking over at a monoprint I made, the one that was never lost because it didn't make it into the portfolio because it was entered into an art show where it didn't win anything. And that's what failure is. Failure is absolutely nothing. It's, never hearing back. The ski trip, falling over so much, it never hurt, it wasn't even cold. It was just, nothing. Not even a great big hole there, that still would have been, something.
They say faint praise can damn, but it's praise all right. So, 34 views. I consider that a win.
Friday, February 9, 2018
"Adults are So Strange..."
I woke up at 8:53 this morning, and the world was still dark. 8:53? I couldn't believe it. I checked the time. And double-checked it. Double-checking it, though, revealed that it was 8:53 pm and not am, I'd awoken from a nap and not from a full night of rest, and that it was still Friday instead of Saturday. So actually, it wasn't 8:53 this morning. I'd been wrong.
There's so much I feel like needs to be done. Not that much, though; making a list of it all it's a lot shorter than I'd expected, but... well, writing it all down is a start at least.
So I went to go see Peter Rabbit today. I'd thought, hey maybe this will be what upsets Jumanji off the throne before Black Panther is unleashed in a week, but, turns out that a certain grey-shaded finale also came out today, which already seems to have led the Thursday previews...? Piffle. Because Peter Rabbit is actually really pretty good. Not perfect or anything, but it's more than tolerable/bearable, like the trailers suggested... I mean, tolerable/bearable would just have been tolerable/bearable, but that doesn't make it good. Far from it, it's enjoyable on its own merits, and the CG animation/rendering is among the best I've seen in my life, and I laughed out loud, and I can think of only one or two times where the humor fell flat, to the all-adult audience I saw it with at least.
(Like seriously you know what would have made the "pig in chapstick" gag actually funny, is if what's the pig's name, Pigling Bland apparently, hadn't been there as part of the group, and then Mopsy was it, was like "don't put a pig in lipstick," and Pigling Bland was like there suddenly, all "no no no, it's chapstick, I mean it's strawberry flavored so it may look like lipstick, but it's actually, um, chapstick," and everyone else is all, "how did you get here? were you here earlier??" Like, that'd be great. But it is not what they went with.)
And I'm just baffled by how low of reviews it's getting. Nobody's calling it lousy or anything, but review aggregates just make it seem mediocre, which it certainly is not. Is it the setting update? What? I mean if it hadn't been based off such classic characters, I don't think it'd be receiving such a tepid response from the grown-ups. It's not like it's, like, explicitly present day or anything; they don't make jokes about Twitter or anything. 50 years from now it won't seem so misplaced; I don't know. And people are seeing 50 Shades over this?? Adults are so strange...
There's so much I feel like needs to be done. Not that much, though; making a list of it all it's a lot shorter than I'd expected, but... well, writing it all down is a start at least.
So I went to go see Peter Rabbit today. I'd thought, hey maybe this will be what upsets Jumanji off the throne before Black Panther is unleashed in a week, but, turns out that a certain grey-shaded finale also came out today, which already seems to have led the Thursday previews...? Piffle. Because Peter Rabbit is actually really pretty good. Not perfect or anything, but it's more than tolerable/bearable, like the trailers suggested... I mean, tolerable/bearable would just have been tolerable/bearable, but that doesn't make it good. Far from it, it's enjoyable on its own merits, and the CG animation/rendering is among the best I've seen in my life, and I laughed out loud, and I can think of only one or two times where the humor fell flat, to the all-adult audience I saw it with at least.
(Like seriously you know what would have made the "pig in chapstick" gag actually funny, is if what's the pig's name, Pigling Bland apparently, hadn't been there as part of the group, and then Mopsy was it, was like "don't put a pig in lipstick," and Pigling Bland was like there suddenly, all "no no no, it's chapstick, I mean it's strawberry flavored so it may look like lipstick, but it's actually, um, chapstick," and everyone else is all, "how did you get here? were you here earlier??" Like, that'd be great. But it is not what they went with.)
And I'm just baffled by how low of reviews it's getting. Nobody's calling it lousy or anything, but review aggregates just make it seem mediocre, which it certainly is not. Is it the setting update? What? I mean if it hadn't been based off such classic characters, I don't think it'd be receiving such a tepid response from the grown-ups. It's not like it's, like, explicitly present day or anything; they don't make jokes about Twitter or anything. 50 years from now it won't seem so misplaced; I don't know. And people are seeing 50 Shades over this?? Adults are so strange...
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Sheesh, Igor
It's weird; I could have sworn I saw this, but it didn't show up in any of my watch history or browsing history or anything. I had to track it down again. It does exist, clearly; it's right here. This video is from the Fox Searchlight UK YouTube channel; maybe the video I saw was from the, US branch, like the main channel, but then it got taken down and that magically erased its presence from my browsing history?? I guess that makes sense.
Anyway, this came out one or two days ago, and it's just as pitch-perfect as any given three minutes out of Fantastic Mr Fox. Also it goes a long way toward explaining the 13 part of the film's MPAA classification.
Anyway, this came out one or two days ago, and it's just as pitch-perfect as any given three minutes out of Fantastic Mr Fox. Also it goes a long way toward explaining the 13 part of the film's MPAA classification.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Churchill Stoof
OH MY GOSH THE DARKEST HOUR IS SO GOOD like SO good, oh my gosh, it's better than Monster Trucks. Just, like, on every level, this film blows my mind and like makes me reconsider what it's possible to do with film as a medium. Makeup... cinematography... dialogue... Alright, maybe not every level, but those three levels at least. And like a few more, visual, things, that it would take a while to explain in words. Like the shot with the battlefield/head?? Yeah. You don't see that kind of thing much.
I still haven't seen Dunkirk, but now kind of want to, since the whole, Operation Dynamo, thing, is important to the plot?
I still haven't seen Dunkirk, but now kind of want to, since the whole, Operation Dynamo, thing, is important to the plot?
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Printing Exchange
Remember yesterday how I gave that dollar bill to Kaitlyn to help pay for gas?
AAAHHH MY THROAT BURNS I just burped and, a bunch of the jalapeños must have come up. (Just got back from The Greatest Showman, and I had nachos there.)
Anyway, the project in advanced typography class is due on Thursday, with the song lyrics, and today was due the final rough draft for final feedback and critique, and so today I had to get that printed out. Went to AlphaGraphics for the printout, and... it was a lot cheaper than I'd expected it to be.
See, there's a sign there that says that all exchanges under a dollar have to be paid in cash, because the system or something, and we apologize for the inconvenience. I was looking at that thinking, ha, luckily my printout is going to cost more than a dollar, but what would one do if one's exchange did come out under a dollar and one did not have any cash on oneself? Probably grab an envelope, to make the exchange cost more than a dollar, right?
$.95. Oh. I wouldn't be able to use plastic, but that's alright, because I carry cash on me...
Only there was no cash on me.
So yeah remember that dollar from yesterday?
So I tried grabbing a cardboard tube or something, to push it over a dollar, but she said it was okay, she could just charge me a full dollar, no problem, and I'd just eat the five cents.
Only the card was declined for some reason.
Luckily Matt had a dollar on him. And why do I remember the names of people I barely meet, like Matt and Becky and Austin and Kaitlyn, and all, when I can't even think of the guy I passed heading up to AlphaGraphics, who's in my ward at church and who's the co-family history consultant with me and whom I'd met twice that first Sunday?
But yeah Matt had a dollar on him, so I didn't have to pay for that print myself.
AAAHHH MY THROAT BURNS I just burped and, a bunch of the jalapeños must have come up. (Just got back from The Greatest Showman, and I had nachos there.)
Anyway, the project in advanced typography class is due on Thursday, with the song lyrics, and today was due the final rough draft for final feedback and critique, and so today I had to get that printed out. Went to AlphaGraphics for the printout, and... it was a lot cheaper than I'd expected it to be.
See, there's a sign there that says that all exchanges under a dollar have to be paid in cash, because the system or something, and we apologize for the inconvenience. I was looking at that thinking, ha, luckily my printout is going to cost more than a dollar, but what would one do if one's exchange did come out under a dollar and one did not have any cash on oneself? Probably grab an envelope, to make the exchange cost more than a dollar, right?
$.95. Oh. I wouldn't be able to use plastic, but that's alright, because I carry cash on me...
Only there was no cash on me.
So yeah remember that dollar from yesterday?
So I tried grabbing a cardboard tube or something, to push it over a dollar, but she said it was okay, she could just charge me a full dollar, no problem, and I'd just eat the five cents.
Only the card was declined for some reason.
Luckily Matt had a dollar on him. And why do I remember the names of people I barely meet, like Matt and Becky and Austin and Kaitlyn, and all, when I can't even think of the guy I passed heading up to AlphaGraphics, who's in my ward at church and who's the co-family history consultant with me and whom I'd met twice that first Sunday?
But yeah Matt had a dollar on him, so I didn't have to pay for that print myself.
Monday, February 5, 2018
Skiasco
There's a ski resort called Kelly Canyon just like half an hour's drive away from here. Every year as a stake there's a trip up; the past two years I've missed it but could finally make it this time. I could go into details- there would be a lot to cover if I did- but it's not the only thing that happened today.
Actually basically it is.
My latest YouTube video got a like and that makes me happy; I worked hard on that. Four views! That's, um, that's a lot for me...
Also, From the Dust, which I told you about two years ago almost to the day, is updating again, now that... like under the old distribution model it just wasn't worth it, and everything, like I've said, but Patreon opens up this new model and new avenue of support that was impossible when the project first started 7 years ago. So that's exciting.
So fast Sunday yesterday I was really wondering what to fast about; it kind of took me by surprise. I made my fast about, getting the opportunity to socialize with people more somehow. And hey! presto, the annual ski trip today presented the perfect opportunity.
There was a bus, but the bus filled up quickly behind my back even though I made sure to get to the bus stop early, but it turned out there was a second bus, but waiting for that I was offered a ride by a girl whose friends were taking her. Austin (sp?), her name; and Kaitlyn (sp?) was the driver and there was a fellow passenger in the backseat named Becky. (Well, first I was offered a seat in her truck to wait for the second bus, but then her friends came.) We went to get gas, and pulled back to the truck to get Austin's tickets; she had an extra one so she gave it to me up there and that's the last I saw of any of them.
The tickets are apparently necessary if you want the free food, so it's good she had that. The tickets are free through the stake, but I didn't know we needed them. Or that they were free? Well I knew the food was free, but there were three tickets together, printed side-by-side. One for food, one for equipment rentals if you want to rent ski equipment, and one for... I think taking the ski lift or something?
Think of the annual ski trip as a freemium service- it's for free, but there are certain extras that cost. $10 to rent equipment. $10 for, some other thing, maybe the ski lift.
I thought the $10 was included in the ticket's existence itself? Left my wallet at home; all I had on me was $1.51 in cash, and I'd given the Washington to Kaitlyn to help pay for the gas. I figured, if Austin is going to be nice and give me the $20 worth of ticket, I might as well take advantage of that. I hadn't been planning on skiing, but I decided to ski.
After playing a handful of rounds of Avalon with a group I found playing Avalon (some of the faces were familiar back from when I had the board game workshop. George.)
I'm not sure if it's an expansion or what, but there's this Lancelot thing, and the way it works is there's two Lancelots who know who each other are, and their alignment can swap because one starts as a servant of Arthur and the other starts as a servant of Mordred and there can be triggers to swap which is which. I started out good and ended good, but was bad in the middle there. They found Merlin though (I guess it's a hazard when the Lancelots know each other, because that's automatically one good guy fewer who can be Merlin, because it's Lancelot.)
But the game before that though, that was also interesting because there was, probably a fan expansion, with a Jester, who's like his own thing and knows who everyone is, but good won in the first three rounds because we just stuck with the people who'd won the quests already, and none of those fancy characters even mattered. I was just a loyal, vanilla servant of Arthur, and was king second round, and just chose the same people who'd won the quest the first round, plus one, and we just stumbled in the dark and happened to come out on top.
And the game before that, I was Merlin but I was king first round, so I chose two villains to be on the first quest to deliberately throw my scent off, and it worked and we won though of course one person of the two failed that quest for us.
But anyway, turns out that the ticket doesn't cover the cost of rental. They gave me the stuff anyway since it was so late in the evening already; I payed the last two quarters and a penny.
And didn't have gloves for a bit there, and never had poles, and crashed a lot, and got dragged by the bunny slopes pully mini lift. And poles must be necessary, because everyone with poles, even the other newbies, made it look easy. er.
There was room on the bus leaving.
Actually basically it is.
My latest YouTube video got a like and that makes me happy; I worked hard on that. Four views! That's, um, that's a lot for me...
Also, From the Dust, which I told you about two years ago almost to the day, is updating again, now that... like under the old distribution model it just wasn't worth it, and everything, like I've said, but Patreon opens up this new model and new avenue of support that was impossible when the project first started 7 years ago. So that's exciting.
So fast Sunday yesterday I was really wondering what to fast about; it kind of took me by surprise. I made my fast about, getting the opportunity to socialize with people more somehow. And hey! presto, the annual ski trip today presented the perfect opportunity.
There was a bus, but the bus filled up quickly behind my back even though I made sure to get to the bus stop early, but it turned out there was a second bus, but waiting for that I was offered a ride by a girl whose friends were taking her. Austin (sp?), her name; and Kaitlyn (sp?) was the driver and there was a fellow passenger in the backseat named Becky. (Well, first I was offered a seat in her truck to wait for the second bus, but then her friends came.) We went to get gas, and pulled back to the truck to get Austin's tickets; she had an extra one so she gave it to me up there and that's the last I saw of any of them.
The tickets are apparently necessary if you want the free food, so it's good she had that. The tickets are free through the stake, but I didn't know we needed them. Or that they were free? Well I knew the food was free, but there were three tickets together, printed side-by-side. One for food, one for equipment rentals if you want to rent ski equipment, and one for... I think taking the ski lift or something?
Think of the annual ski trip as a freemium service- it's for free, but there are certain extras that cost. $10 to rent equipment. $10 for, some other thing, maybe the ski lift.
I thought the $10 was included in the ticket's existence itself? Left my wallet at home; all I had on me was $1.51 in cash, and I'd given the Washington to Kaitlyn to help pay for the gas. I figured, if Austin is going to be nice and give me the $20 worth of ticket, I might as well take advantage of that. I hadn't been planning on skiing, but I decided to ski.
After playing a handful of rounds of Avalon with a group I found playing Avalon (some of the faces were familiar back from when I had the board game workshop. George.)
I'm not sure if it's an expansion or what, but there's this Lancelot thing, and the way it works is there's two Lancelots who know who each other are, and their alignment can swap because one starts as a servant of Arthur and the other starts as a servant of Mordred and there can be triggers to swap which is which. I started out good and ended good, but was bad in the middle there. They found Merlin though (I guess it's a hazard when the Lancelots know each other, because that's automatically one good guy fewer who can be Merlin, because it's Lancelot.)
But the game before that though, that was also interesting because there was, probably a fan expansion, with a Jester, who's like his own thing and knows who everyone is, but good won in the first three rounds because we just stuck with the people who'd won the quests already, and none of those fancy characters even mattered. I was just a loyal, vanilla servant of Arthur, and was king second round, and just chose the same people who'd won the quest the first round, plus one, and we just stumbled in the dark and happened to come out on top.
And the game before that, I was Merlin but I was king first round, so I chose two villains to be on the first quest to deliberately throw my scent off, and it worked and we won though of course one person of the two failed that quest for us.
But anyway, turns out that the ticket doesn't cover the cost of rental. They gave me the stuff anyway since it was so late in the evening already; I payed the last two quarters and a penny.
And didn't have gloves for a bit there, and never had poles, and crashed a lot, and got dragged by the bunny slopes pully mini lift. And poles must be necessary, because everyone with poles, even the other newbies, made it look easy. er.
There was room on the bus leaving.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Further PPRoblems
Stupid audio track became disaligned; luckily I caught it, and also that Google's timestamp for when your video is uploaded is fooled by changing the timezone on your computer. Still way frustrating though.
EDIT: Okay, got it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kipUwnKVY
It's got one view already. And I know it ain't mine 'cause I ain't even touched it.
But seriously the one you see is like, the third one- at first, uploaded it to YouTube but did not publish, good because it turns out the first half of the video, the audio wasn't synced. And then I fixed that and recompiled everything, but before I uploaded it again, thankfully caught that the second half's audio, this time, wasn't synced. Fixed it, uploaded it a second time, 'sall good now.
EDIT: Okay, got it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kipUwnKVY
It's got one view already. And I know it ain't mine 'cause I ain't even touched it.
But seriously the one you see is like, the third one- at first, uploaded it to YouTube but did not publish, good because it turns out the first half of the video, the audio wasn't synced. And then I fixed that and recompiled everything, but before I uploaded it again, thankfully caught that the second half's audio, this time, wasn't synced. Fixed it, uploaded it a second time, 'sall good now.
Saturday, February 3, 2018
PPRoblems
Still don't know what I'm talking about tomorrow. Superbowl?? Probs the Superbowl.
Meanwhile though I've got homeworks and stuff...
Meanwhile though I've got homeworks and stuff...
Friday, February 2, 2018
воздая́ние, よる
Okay so technically the next episode of Pretzels+Prints+Repeat should be coming out on Sunday, which means that technically I should have written (or at least started on writing) it today, but... I've got absolutely no idea what to make it on. None whatsoever. I don't know what's going on in the world. I'm too busy watching Russian comedy movies from the 60s and Japanese cartoon shows from the 90s. And Batman. Is, Batman, a current event? I think he is.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Digital Monsters Stuff
So I went to go see... there's like 6 Digimon movies, in this new Digimon Adventure Tri series, same continuity as the Digimon Adventure show from when I was a kid with Matt and Tai and Sora and all. And they're serializing the showings of all 6 movies, in theaters, and today's showing was the fourth one, and the fifth one will be in another couple of months and all that-- and looking it up apparently Digimon is a spin-off of Tamagotchi pets but designed to appeal to boys, and the Tri series is geared toward an adult audience (i.e. people who grew up with the original show) because kids apparently aren't as big into Digimon these days, which is sad.
The Digimon movie from 2000 is on YouTube (I guess legally because you figure it would have been taken down by now if there were a copyright issue,) but it's even weirder than I remember it being. The first couple of sections were directed by Mamoru Hosoda which is totally obvious in retrospect, and the third section follows the Digimon Adventures 02 cast (which takes place canonically in 2002, but the intertitles note the section as taking place in the "present," which is two years off of course); the Tri series reverts to following the cast of the first series but I think the 02 cast are somewhere in this series as well; they could get killed off in the first movie or something might be what happens.
So I watched two Digimon movies today, and now gosh darn it I'm totally invested in what'll happen in Tri parts five and six, even though I walked in on the series halfway through with only very very vague memories of what happened in the first Digimon Adventures serieses. There's sort of a reboot at the end of the third one, like a literal reboot of the digital world to flush out this virus, and so the fourth one begins with none of the Digimon able to remember anything, like any of it. Well, one of them remembers... so the virus may not be as flushed as we thought...
But Digimon: The Movie has its own issues, like Kokomon comes back after he dies which doesn't make any sense because Digimon only resurrect as DigiEggs if they die in the digital world which Kokomon clearly does not do. Unless-- and this is probably it-- when Angemon and Angewomon kill him, destroy the virus inside of him, the true Kokomon form is inside Wendigomon, a virus-infected digivolution, and that digivolution counts as its own digital environment which means that Kokomon does die in the digital world?? Which means he gets to come back. Totally logical.
The Digimon movie from 2000 is on YouTube (I guess legally because you figure it would have been taken down by now if there were a copyright issue,) but it's even weirder than I remember it being. The first couple of sections were directed by Mamoru Hosoda which is totally obvious in retrospect, and the third section follows the Digimon Adventures 02 cast (which takes place canonically in 2002, but the intertitles note the section as taking place in the "present," which is two years off of course); the Tri series reverts to following the cast of the first series but I think the 02 cast are somewhere in this series as well; they could get killed off in the first movie or something might be what happens.
So I watched two Digimon movies today, and now gosh darn it I'm totally invested in what'll happen in Tri parts five and six, even though I walked in on the series halfway through with only very very vague memories of what happened in the first Digimon Adventures serieses. There's sort of a reboot at the end of the third one, like a literal reboot of the digital world to flush out this virus, and so the fourth one begins with none of the Digimon able to remember anything, like any of it. Well, one of them remembers... so the virus may not be as flushed as we thought...
But Digimon: The Movie has its own issues, like Kokomon comes back after he dies which doesn't make any sense because Digimon only resurrect as DigiEggs if they die in the digital world which Kokomon clearly does not do. Unless-- and this is probably it-- when Angemon and Angewomon kill him, destroy the virus inside of him, the true Kokomon form is inside Wendigomon, a virus-infected digivolution, and that digivolution counts as its own digital environment which means that Kokomon does die in the digital world?? Which means he gets to come back. Totally logical.
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