Waste not ...

[changeling]

A quote appeared on my Shakespearean Insulter Google toy that seemed to describe much of modern society:

Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.

This amused me immensely. P.S. I rock Derby Garland. Also Lostock.

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thinking of you

[serizawa3000.livejournal.com]

Hey, where you been all this time?

*hugs*

Re: thinking of you

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Shifting between two houses 40 k apart again. Argh.

And I'm housefrauing again, so sometimes I just don't get into that headspace of "oh, this was so cool, I must post about it!"

Essentially I got out of the habit of LJ (well, posting anyway - I check my flist more often than I post), and it's hard to get back. I want to post some photos I've taken recently, but I needed to wait until I got this new debit card I applied for so I could renew my hosting. You know, just the usual collection of circumstances building on each other.

How've you been?

Re: thinking of you

[serizawa3000.livejournal.com]

Me? Um... fair to middling? Sort of like with you but different I guess?

I have made the decision that pleases no one but me (i.e. getting my art career off the ground, such as it is... I'm on an animation kick now. Wrote some stuff for goofy animated short films)... I became a substitute teacher, but I was, um... downgraded to teaching assistant (well, what was I supposed to do that day? One kid jabbed another with a pencil. Sure, it was an accident, but still)... thing is, they call me if they need someone to come in and they've not been calling. My dad was in the hospital for almost a week (and when they let him go home, one of his doctors was like "Why'd they keep him so long?"), and one of our dogs died. She was old and not doing well, but still...

I've been reading Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country over the past few days at this place where I work out (I read it whilst pedaling on the SciFit machine). Just got through the chapter where they went to Ayres Rock... The recurrent theme of the book seems to be about the vast distances between the states... and of all the living things that can kill you. :)

Re: thinking of you

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's awesome! I wish I had the patience and passion for animation. Are you a traditional flat-drawinger, or a stop-motion chappie or into 3D or other computer animation?

Sounds like your life has been full of events. I'm sorry to hear about your downgrading, and your dog.

*nods* I'm a big fan of reading while using a cycling machine. That was I can justify spending some time reading while getting fit. It's great.

I've never met any of our really deadly species, except perhaps a dead bluebottle washed up on the beach. There is vast distances between our states, in part because our land just isn't as fertile as the US, and so can support fewer people intensively. Lower population density leads to larger states ... we drove for two to three hours in straight lines several times over the weekend, and didn't go anywhere near a border once, and I live in the second-smallest state. I really do love my country. If you drop by sometime, I could show you Melbourne (equal most livable city in the world, which isn't too bad!).

[serizawa3000.livejournal.com]

Well, with the animation I was sort of thinking of doing stop-motion with paper cutouts (as seen in the end credits of A Series of Unfortunate Events, or this United Airlines commercial with knights and a dragon). Maybe something a little more three-dimensional, eventually. I picked up a book on animation techniques and read about a guy working on a CGI short called Rustboy... and how he's making it with a Mac and some graphics software that's affordable for once... probably because it's outmoded. I checked out the guy's website (the Rustboy film itself might now be feature length but is still a work in progress), looked at the concept art and read up on what he was doing, listened to some of the music (which was lovely). Didn't actually watch any of it (infernal dial-up), but did watch a short via YouTube that I'd seen years ago on MTV... The Sandman, by Paul Berry, inspired by the E.T.A. Hoffman story... a small boy (looking an awful lot like those kids in those commercials for Kleenex) goes to bed and is spooked by mysterious noises in the night. And that's before the Sandman appears...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, I LOVE the animation at the back of Series of Unfortunate Events! I wish I had a copy so I could watch them again. We don't have United Airlines here, so I haven't seen that one.

Sounds awesome. Have you got some stills from what you're working on yet? You'll have to keep us updated via your LJ ... and then I might catch them if I read my flist on the right day.