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[May. 5th, 2012|07:08 am] |
I have an imitator. Not sure what to think about that.
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[Mar. 14th, 2012|05:18 am] |
Going both Flash technical and artsy craftsy this week:
And in honor of my videos getting over 100,000 views, I made a short one looking at a shot from Fullmetal Alchemist.
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[Mar. 6th, 2012|01:41 pm] |
Y'know, doing these pony videos is sort of like being a reporter... and it pays about the same.
I also got mentioned for 5 seconds on a Brony podcast, so... there's that. |
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[Feb. 28th, 2012|06:37 pm] |
I don't know when ponies started overrunning my life, (actually, I do. It was a few months ago when I started watching the show) but I still have to show off my new wall hanging:
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[Feb. 24th, 2012|03:21 pm] |
So, that video of me explaining a walk cycle from My Little Pony has over 30,000 views...
Can't say I expected that. |
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[Feb. 22nd, 2012|05:43 am] |
I spent 2 days
making a 5 minute video
explaining a couple hours worth of work
detailing an 18 frame walk cycle.
Still, now you too can make your own jaunty My Little Pony walk cycles right in your very own home!
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[Feb. 17th, 2012|06:31 pm] |
Employment may be on the rise, but it hasn't caught up to me yet.
I haven't had a job since the end of September, and that was non-paying. (I don't even want to mention when my last paying job was) I interviewed with a studio shortly after New Years, which obviously never turned into anything. except for a couple "we'll get back to you in a week or so" emails.
I have actually seen a few more compositor jobs open up this week, but they're all the same "3 years of feature films or GTFO" type I always see.
I'll be out of money in a month or two, (I've been getting by lately on a little money left to me when my grandmother died in November) so I'm left to start looking for more menial work to pay the bills.
I reasons I'm so apprehensive is the same reasons I haven't done it earlier:
-I have no idea where to start looking. Anywhere near where I live would require me to speak Spanish and who knows what I can get with my weird job history.
-It makes it harder to take a proper media job if one were to come up.
-It makes it harder to justify being here at all rather than doing the same thing back in Montana.
I'd better start before I have to worry about being evicted, but I'm not exactly looking forward to my prospects. |
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[Feb. 11th, 2012|10:25 pm] |
I just got back from an advanced screening of The Secret World of Arrietty, Studio Ghibli's poorly named adaptation of The Borrowers. Was it worth standing in line for an hour and a half to see it a week early (and for free)? Well...
My only experience with The Borrowers is the BBC version that's 6 freaking hours long and ends up eating a tiny piece of your soul with how blandly unsatisfying it is. This is clearly better than that, if for no other reason than it's a more palatable length.
It's amazing that for as many times as this story's been done, it hasn't been an animated feature until now. Ghibli did a lot with both the animation and the sound to really make it feel like tiny people instead of just an oversized world.
The voice work was quite good; far better than the trailers would have me believe. It wasn't packed to the gills with name actors (compared to Ponyo bringing in Matt Damon to read three sentences) and Carol Burnett really stole the show.
If you like Ghibli (and I've never met anyone who didn't) you'll want to take the opportunity to see this one on the big screen. |
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[Feb. 9th, 2012|07:46 am] |
My GPS liiiivvvves!
After getting such useful tech support as "try plugging it in the back" I was reasonably skeptical of Garmin's follow-up suggestion of "try unplugging everything else". But I'll be damned if it didn't work, which to me means the real culprit was my pain in the ass printer.
I swear, every single HP product I've ever bought has been nothing but trouble; with the exception of my scanner, which I've had since 1999 and still works great. |
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