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.

Comments

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.