I'm sitting here rubbing the scar from some old acid wound on my leg, where I'd spilled printer's ink on my pants and decided to apply the ink remover directly to the pant leg without taking them off first. I've just completed transferring money to my bank account; it should go through in one business day, but the fact that these things take time wound up a friend of mine in this process. I'm $9.73 the poorer for the measures I had to take, still not entirely sure if it was worth it, but at least it's for the most part over and I can rest easy.
The process was a complicated one, full of mistakes and course correction, and also puzzles on the level of some puzzle-heavy computer games like Myst or Portal. My end goal was to pay both my tithing and my tuition fee, and though there are still one or two hurdles left to jump through (over?), I'm far enough through the process that I believe I'm in a position to tell you about it.
[Inhales deeply.]
So I've several years of tithes I haven't been paying, though still considering myself a full tithe payer in the interim; let's start with that. Goes on this wise, when my few thousand dollars of Pell grant money first came in, I decided to pay tithing on it, before I realized that since the money would be going directly toward tuition it was never really mine in the first place and that maybe I shouldn't have paid that 10% on it. So, having it all retroactively (proactively??) paid, I went without paying tithing for a bit. Too long, turns out.
After making an exhaustive spreadsheet of all the money that had passed through my hands for a period of one or two years, and calculating the tithing I'd paid throughout my schooling, I could pinpoint exactly when my prior tithing extension ceased, and what money I had to tithe from then out.
It actually took a while to get to the point where I could pay tithing, though, living from, well not quite hand-to-mouth, but... Okay, this is actually important for later on, but remember that basically my sole income stream is through blood plasma donation, which money gets put into its own separate account. In order to make money on plasma, I have to go through something of a health examination before each donation, which requires my blood protein levels to be a certain minimum. So I have to spend money on, not just any groceries, but specifically groceries that have protein in them, so that I can eat regularly and have a high protein level in my blood. It makes saving up money slightly slower.
Another thing that slows down the savings process is how much money I don't save; I mean I don't go around on shopping sprees or anything (though maybe I could after this, unfortunately a tad too late) but I do enjoy supporting causes on Patreon and Kickstarter. (Speaking of, may I interest you in some Elementis? A third of the way funded, and one month to go...!)
I actually did have enough money two months ago, but that was December which means I had to go Christmas shopping so I actually did go on a shopping spree or something...
But finally this month I managed to recoup everything enough, so that my plasma money finally surpassed my due tithing.
And so here comes the tuition story...
Heck I'm gonna go take a break for a bit and get back to writing this for ya; I've got an opera on DVD I've had paused, plus I'm feeling kind of peckish....
During the opening reception of a new art exhibit at the Spori Building, I got a chance to talk to Kody and tell him I wanted to speak with him; he gave me his office hours (1:00-3:00.) This would have been Thursday. I woke up at 1:00 pm on Friday, and spaced the fact that he would have been in his office starting then; Saturday nobody's in their office, nor Sunday, and Monday was Presidents' Day. So it wasn't until Tuesday that I could talk to him, and he would tell me that the Travel Study in the Arts program had yet to do their field trip this semester.
I could talk to Carla on Wednesday art night, one week ago, and there she said there was still a spot open on her trip at least. She told me to meet her Friday, during her office hours (11:00-2:00,) only she turned out not to be there, with a meeting going on unexpectedly long it turned out. After a few hours of sitting around, going out and checking back in, I decided to do the thing a normal person would have done in the first place, and left a sticky note with my cell number on it. She texted me Monday morning to talk to Kathy at the art office, to remove the late registration hold (Kody, Carla and Kathy; Orson Scott Card would be displeased with all these similar-sounding names, but at least their last names all sound different, and I've just got this weird affect where I refer to professors by their first names if I consider them friends.)
Kathy removed the hold; I went home to register for the trip.
The course details page says that the class is full already, and with my joining there are now -1 out of 8 seats available. Hope that the humans are right and the computers are in error on this one, because otherwise I did all this money stuff for nothing.
The course page says it costs $500 to go on the trip; I'd thought it was at $250 for Santa Fe but I guess that price must be for the Salt Lake trip instead? (There are, of course, varying prices depending on how expensive the trip might be.)
I had $250 to cover it easy, all part of my Pell grant money this semester (taking fewer than 14 credits, and having a GPA a hair lower than the B average required, I'd thought that I wouldn't get a grant this semester, but I guess I was wrong.) (Of course, the grant this semester was, like, a quarter of what I'd usually get, so it might have something to do with that.) $500 was a bit more of a stretch, but luckily near the end of every month my parents send money to cover rent. $300+$300=$600, no problem.
Only, the cost when I looked on the finances page wasn't $500. It was $667.
Not sure what's up with that, but I have a possible explanation: the fee name listed on the website was "tuition," and tuition is always due by the beginning of the semester, with late fees following. Since I only signed up for this halfway through the semester, I've got half a semester's worth of late fees. Late fees being only 6%, though, to my knowledge, that doesn't cover everything. Maybe it covers lunch, though, IDK.
I hope it covers lunch though actually, because after all this I'm down to, not enough to go on that spree I mentioned above.
Here's how I decided to pay for everything, and here's where it gets puzzly.
First, I asked my mom to cover the rest of the balance; let's estimate that I now had $700 in the bank, and further estimate $350 on my plasma-only debit card.
In order to pay tithing online, you need to connect your bank account; I have my bank account already connected to my school account; my plasma card, with the tithing money on it, is just a debit card with no real bank attached, just the account, that only the donation people are allowed to load, but it is attached to my PayPal so I can pay for things online that way (neither the school payment nor the tithing payment systems accept PayPal though.)
You can pay for things on your school account with a card, but there's a 2.75% service fee. Didn't want to have to pay that. And payments due on school fees are due the end of the month, whenever they show up, or else you're hit with the above-mentioned late fees.
With $350~ on my plasma money card to cover tithing, but tithing only being able to be covered by a bank account (even if not paying online, it'd be through check) I paid for half of the Travel Studies using my bank, figuring I could then use the other half of the bank balance to cover tithing, and use all my plasma money to cover the rest of the travel studies trip. This was yesterday; 10:55 last night. How I'd actually go about using my plasma debit card to pay for the rest, I put off till today.
One thing I did know though for sure, and which I also did yesterday, was that I would have to freeze my Patreon support for March, because I'd be just barely covering the rest as it was.
That was yesterday. Today, since bank balance transactions like that don't show up for 24 hours, my bank account still appears to have all the money in it, but it'll drop by half soon, and tomorrow by more than half. Later rather than sooner I hope.
(Sidequest time though; before paying, I went to go get a burrito from Ramires', "best Mexican food downtown," half past 9:00 last night; thinking and puzzling over how I'd pay for everything and being extremely hungry and deciding to think it out over a Carne Asada and Fries burrito. But my plasma card was in my wallet and my wallet was left at home. I had to pay with my bank card, and thus this morning had to transfer over a little bit of money from my savings to my checking to bring it all back to snuff to cover both halves of the equation.)
This morning, I set out trying to find how to get money from my debit card to my i-card, so that I could pay the school balance via my i-account. (i-Cards are the school's identity cards, used for checking out books and things, which you can also load with money for your school account. You need money on your i-card to print things out, for example, which fact has been detrimental to my ability to do homework.) Setting out to the library to see if I'd be able to use plastic to load my student account... turns out you can't, as the cashier's desk only accepts checks and cash. They told me to do it online. As long as I was at the library, though, I used that opportunity to check out a couple of operas on DVD, as I've made reference to above. (Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen, and Britten's Peter Grimes. If you must know.)
(Another sidequest; I'd been meaning to check both of them out for a while but I could never locate the Janacek one; the website always said it was checked in but it was never on the shelf where it should have been. The way DVD checkouts work here is, two day checkout, and what's on the shelf is just the empty case; you bring the case up to the desk and they go back to this shelf thing, like that of the archives at the Family History Library, all these shelves squished together to save space and you have to roll them apart to access anything, only having access to the one shelf at a time that isn't rolled together with the other shelves. Turns out that the DVD was there, case and all, but in a weird spot, educational use only section or something.)
I'd figured that there was an office somewhere, like the financial aid center or something, where you'd be able to load plastic directly onto your i-Card, but if the cashier desk referred me to the website instead, that must have been it.
(Another sidequest, this one failed: as long as I was on campus, I hit the lost and found center to see if anybody had finally located this hat I lost this one time last semester, which I may have told you about because it had been such a merry chase. Nobody had, still; it's probably never going to show up.)
Maybe I'd be able to pay for the tuition thing by loading my i-card? But no, loading my i-card online, just to pay for the tuition thing, would be redundant, since I'd be paying for the tuition thing online anyway, and there'd still be that 2.75% fee.
I just covered the rest of it. And then, two seconds after it was too late, I realized my mistake.
There's a bar where you can type in the amount you want to pay for tuition; there's a bar where you can type in the amount you want to put on your i-card, there are bars for numerous numerous things. It's how I paid yesterday for only half of what was due.
Only this morning, with the full amount of money left written in the bar for fees, I'd forgotten to delete the amount from the bar where I'd been considering loading my i-card. I paid $325 more than necessary-- and that was $325 more than I had. There was still a 24-hour period before that showed up though, so I had to act fast. And at least my hand had been forced, so I could get it over with quicker.
You can't pay money to yourself on Paypal... but you can pay money to others and have them pay you back. I sent $325 to Ryan over Paypal, to get him to send it back to my account, from whence I'd be able to transfer it to my bank account. PayPal's service fee for non-bank-attached cards is a bit steeper than the school's, at 3%, so maybe I should have gone with the first option, but whatever. Once he was awake from his nap, and before he went to his class, I got him to transfer me the funds, which (being directly from his Paypal balance, did not cost him a fee) and I could send that from my Paypal balance to my bank balance (also fee-less.)
The way to claim the money was through a link in this text they sent me, which link I followed an hour after I got the text, which was itself sent after Ryan paid me back, an hour after I paid him. Which was after I screwed up and had to act fast. So we're getting out of this okay under the following condition: if the Paypal goes through to my bank BEFORE the school fee goes through to my bank. We'll find out how exactly within that 24 hour period the school's transfers go through, 10:55ish tonight.
Can't say it's not exciting.
Actually you totally could say that.
And once that dust has settled anyway, maybe I'll be able to get a refund on my student balance... into my bank account hopefully of course... and THEN finally be able to pay my tithing, coming on all these years.
Hold on... Yes, that's it; I went under my finances tab and that confirmed my suspicions. The course fee is indeed only $500, but the course still counts as a course, 1 credit hour per week, and that means $167 of tuition for that credit hour, as per the tuition rate. No late fees involved after all.
Which means lunch isn't covered. I mean, maybe it is, I don't know. But now is I feel a really good time to tell you about the shopping spree I've mentioned.
Porter's is closing down. Tomorrow. They've been doing good business and everything, but the owners (Chuck and Linda Porter) have decided to up and retire, which means that EVERYTHING MUST GO. Crazy steep discounts on all these art supplies. It's gonna be a frenzy. Doors open at 9:00 am tomorrow, and close... once the bones have been picked clean, I guess.
That place is/was already paradise, the people there MY people, like at Hobby Lobby or Office Max, but just a couple of blocks down from my door. And everything so much off, it'd be like, double paradise, by the dashboard light and with an extra-rich fudge ripple. Only... I don't have money, anymore. Alright, like, $11.73, on the plasma card, and however few much left in my savings account. $11.79. But that's really not enough to go off of, in such a momentous shopping spree, is it.
Art night's in an hour; I'll see if I can collect some money for the cause, from like-minded individuals.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Hits and Tallies and Futures and All
Blogger's analytics shows that there have so far been 8 different hits on yesterday's post. That post alone, not counting hits to the blog in general (wherein last night's post may have been read.)
And amidst all that, YouTube's analytics shows, one view, of my latest video. Eh, I enjoyed putting it together at least.
Still it raises the question, if none of these hits are genuine (or if the play button is really that difficult to press on the embedded video) where are the hits coming from?
The biggest month hits-wise for this blog was one year ago, which had almost 20,000 hits. This marks the center of a jagged peak, a Himalaya rising above Catskills. Pretty sure most of the hits from that era were robots from France and Russia for some reason; the hit patterns are too even to come from human activity. But that epoch's passed.
Nowadays, Cambodian spam is flooding this blog's comments section. Not even I have enough time to go through that stuff; I now just mark it as spam without reading it (plus I don't speak Cambodian.)
Is all this fake activity a sign that I'm making it? Does the hitrate inspire a higher position in Google's algorithm should anyone search out anything I'd happened to write about?
I don't think they'd care if they did find this blog. Same reason I'm not getting hits on any of my videos. I'm not really anybody, and especially not anybody worth paying attention to. Which is alright, I guess. People paying attention to you only means Cambodians spamming your comments section.
Studying a lot of YouTube, a lot of YouTubers seem to be achieving middling success with cookie cutter graphics and motion design. (The big fish can afford their own.) Maybe there'd be success there, but I don't want to cookie cut anything, even what kind of content I'm producing. I guess I'm not really looking for success (as nice as it would be to have more than one view on, I think it's my best video yet, at least in terms of production quality.) It's all just, another learning experience for me, so that I can be good at something later on.
But I'm (how old am I, I'd been going to say 27 but that's not right) and everyone else's life seems to have already begun by this age, and I seriously want to be good at something now, or at least be making money off of something.
But I think about the economy too much, and no matter the business, the bottom is always going to fall out. The whole entire system is a Ponzi scheme, if you've got far enough eyesight.
I mean that's not the only reason I don't have a job, but...
I mean I'm just too darn good at too many things, but employers are instead looking for someone who's overqualified in one specific area, and nothing so general. And you'd already have to have an in anyway, and...
Heck FamilySearch would probably be willing to hire me, wouldn't they? And getting paid this time? I WAS one of the best workers at waypointing there, in terms of speed and accuracy...
If I'm going to work for the church anyway though, there's still the filmmaking arm. Probably be a lot better for my future and idea of what I want to do, there, over LAIKA. I'm not sure the mobility at an animation studio, or at least not a stop-motion one; maybe I'd move my way up to head of fabrication or something, but that's not what I really want. Maybe it is for the best that Kody's contact (and thus my LAIKA in) no longer works there. The question still stands regarding his contact at the church's filmmaking branch, whether whoever THAT is still works there.
I've got kind of an audacious idea, anyway, as long as I AM still, uh, "learning experience," ing. Maybe I'll explain it tomorrow. Maybe I'll actually go through with it at all. We'll see.
And amidst all that, YouTube's analytics shows, one view, of my latest video. Eh, I enjoyed putting it together at least.
Still it raises the question, if none of these hits are genuine (or if the play button is really that difficult to press on the embedded video) where are the hits coming from?
The biggest month hits-wise for this blog was one year ago, which had almost 20,000 hits. This marks the center of a jagged peak, a Himalaya rising above Catskills. Pretty sure most of the hits from that era were robots from France and Russia for some reason; the hit patterns are too even to come from human activity. But that epoch's passed.
Nowadays, Cambodian spam is flooding this blog's comments section. Not even I have enough time to go through that stuff; I now just mark it as spam without reading it (plus I don't speak Cambodian.)
Is all this fake activity a sign that I'm making it? Does the hitrate inspire a higher position in Google's algorithm should anyone search out anything I'd happened to write about?
I don't think they'd care if they did find this blog. Same reason I'm not getting hits on any of my videos. I'm not really anybody, and especially not anybody worth paying attention to. Which is alright, I guess. People paying attention to you only means Cambodians spamming your comments section.
Studying a lot of YouTube, a lot of YouTubers seem to be achieving middling success with cookie cutter graphics and motion design. (The big fish can afford their own.) Maybe there'd be success there, but I don't want to cookie cut anything, even what kind of content I'm producing. I guess I'm not really looking for success (as nice as it would be to have more than one view on, I think it's my best video yet, at least in terms of production quality.) It's all just, another learning experience for me, so that I can be good at something later on.
But I'm (how old am I, I'd been going to say 27 but that's not right) and everyone else's life seems to have already begun by this age, and I seriously want to be good at something now, or at least be making money off of something.
But I think about the economy too much, and no matter the business, the bottom is always going to fall out. The whole entire system is a Ponzi scheme, if you've got far enough eyesight.
I mean that's not the only reason I don't have a job, but...
I mean I'm just too darn good at too many things, but employers are instead looking for someone who's overqualified in one specific area, and nothing so general. And you'd already have to have an in anyway, and...
Heck FamilySearch would probably be willing to hire me, wouldn't they? And getting paid this time? I WAS one of the best workers at waypointing there, in terms of speed and accuracy...
If I'm going to work for the church anyway though, there's still the filmmaking arm. Probably be a lot better for my future and idea of what I want to do, there, over LAIKA. I'm not sure the mobility at an animation studio, or at least not a stop-motion one; maybe I'd move my way up to head of fabrication or something, but that's not what I really want. Maybe it is for the best that Kody's contact (and thus my LAIKA in) no longer works there. The question still stands regarding his contact at the church's filmmaking branch, whether whoever THAT is still works there.
I've got kind of an audacious idea, anyway, as long as I AM still, uh, "learning experience," ing. Maybe I'll explain it tomorrow. Maybe I'll actually go through with it at all. We'll see.
Monday, February 26, 2018
...Some Memoir... (PretzelsVlog no 12)
So I've got some announcements, but I explain them all in my vlog anyway. So yeah.
I think I'm particularly handsome in this one; WHY AREN'T I VIRAL??
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Essence of Thinking
I had like three paragraphs all written out (not that they were very long ones or anything) but I deleted all that anyway; they didn't really reflect what I truly spent time thinking about today. Which was, too many things to capture here, honestly. I'm juggling between a few Google Docs right now, writing what I really want to in those; they're scripts mostly. It's good to make headway.
But being a filmmaker isn't the only thing I want to do, is what all the topics of thought today etherize down to (etherize=distill into ether, right?)
But being a filmmaker isn't the only thing I want to do, is what all the topics of thought today etherize down to (etherize=distill into ether, right?)
Saturday, February 24, 2018
About This Dropbox
Took a nap at like 4:00 this afternoon-- only waking up now, in time to write this. Someone added 31 files to the shared mission dropbox at just before 7:00 this afternoon, and I'm only finding out about it 6 hours later, with my desktop dropbox informing me of the synched updates
This mission dropbox is not mission related.
Wope, hold on there, now files are getting deleted.
And then added again.
At least it's telling me who's adding. Elder McAfee... Jerich.
I'm sure I must have told someone about Jerich McAfee. And his dad?
If I haven't though, I'm afraid I'm out of time. Gotta publish now, sorry!
This mission dropbox is not mission related.
Wope, hold on there, now files are getting deleted.
And then added again.
At least it's telling me who's adding. Elder McAfee... Jerich.
I'm sure I must have told someone about Jerich McAfee. And his dad?
If I haven't though, I'm afraid I'm out of time. Gotta publish now, sorry!
Friday, February 23, 2018
Megasode Escalations
So the episode is compiling right now.
Oh! The premiere for Tony Boi is in one week. That's something I learned yesterday.
I am eating this pizza with no cottage cheese. Feels weird. I think we do have some chili left...
Alright, fine. The moment that's been hanging over everyone's heads: I went to Carla's office between 11 and 2 like she said, but she wasn't there. Waited around for a bit (would have completed the episode actually on Friday had I not had to do that) and finally just left a sticky note on her door? I don't think anyone has office hours Saturday, but I'll check back nonetheless.
Oh! The premiere for Tony Boi is in one week. That's something I learned yesterday.
I am eating this pizza with no cottage cheese. Feels weird. I think we do have some chili left...
Alright, fine. The moment that's been hanging over everyone's heads: I went to Carla's office between 11 and 2 like she said, but she wasn't there. Waited around for a bit (would have completed the episode actually on Friday had I not had to do that) and finally just left a sticky note on her door? I don't think anyone has office hours Saturday, but I'll check back nonetheless.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Minisode Escaplations
So I wrote out a pretty decent script for today's episode but computer crashes and other troubles caused me to just, throw that out till next time, and go off-the-cuff instead. And further computer troubles caused me to just, ignore that stuff as well and just put up the first part, the stuff of my script that I had gotten filmed... which is just me complaining about homework preventing me from really even wanting to do an episode today because I was too busy doing that instead. Sounds about right.
Looking through my extemporaneous monologue it all seems to suffer from that weird thing where the audio and the visual are unsynchronized. But only when I open in Premiere? Actually hold on I haven't tried it in AfterEffects yet, maybe it does it there too. It doesn't do it in the Windows Media Player, is my point. It might have something to do with filetypes or something, IDK.
Looking through my extemporaneous monologue it all seems to suffer from that weird thing where the audio and the visual are unsynchronized. But only when I open in Premiere? Actually hold on I haven't tried it in AfterEffects yet, maybe it does it there too. It doesn't do it in the Windows Media Player, is my point. It might have something to do with filetypes or something, IDK.
Glory to Hanuman!
Phew. So there may be exactly one spot open on the Santa Fe trip, talking with Sister Jimison at art night tonight. One spot open, for a male. I am one person, and also that yes, and crap man it's 1:00 already, just passed midnight Pacific time, this post is in late (I'm a bit busy with a couple of things at the moment, a lot due tomorrow (today), and, like, juggling. And poorly apparently.)
I said "may." Will that position be open? Will I make it on the trip this semester and thus be able to graduate this spring? What would I even do graduated? The answer to all questions minus the latter will be on Friday, which (it being past midnight) is tomorrow.
Piffle.
So huh yeah. Went to go see Black Panther. It's, good. I'd already spoiled all the twists for myself; they say that in some cases minor spoilers may aid in your enjoyment of a piece of literature. Not the case here I guess. I'd probably enjoy it more if I didn't have that project due in, 15 hours, hanging over my head. What am I writing this for, I could be doing that project RIGHT NOW.
I said "may." Will that position be open? Will I make it on the trip this semester and thus be able to graduate this spring? What would I even do graduated? The answer to all questions minus the latter will be on Friday, which (it being past midnight) is tomorrow.
Piffle.
So huh yeah. Went to go see Black Panther. It's, good. I'd already spoiled all the twists for myself; they say that in some cases minor spoilers may aid in your enjoyment of a piece of literature. Not the case here I guess. I'd probably enjoy it more if I didn't have that project due in, 15 hours, hanging over my head. What am I writing this for, I could be doing that project RIGHT NOW.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Wibbly Rangerdanger
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.)
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.)
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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