Thursday, November 13, 2003
i love it when i hear a piece of music and am immediately transported to another time in my life when i used to listen to whatever it was more.
i've been listening to several albums that i haven't listened to much since last fall: Billy Breathes by Phish, a Cat Stevens compilation, Hearts and Bones by Paul Simon. all three of these albums are incredibly nostalgic on their own, and it's amazing how they make me feel nostalgic about a period of my life in which there was very, very little to be nostalgic about: i was living at home, working for near minimum wage at a bakery-cafe chain, not in school, and not doing anything creative worth mentioning (except for a handful of animations). now, of course, i'm paying for my own apartment downtown, earning a good $9.50 an hour, in school (only technically), and, well, i have been doing SOME creative stuff these days. it's not like the left side of my brain is dormant, although sometimes it seems that way.
really, i actually have been doing quite a bit of stuff. this week i did another animation very much like the ones i did last fall. i'm sort of proud of it, but i can definitely see the errors. here it is: a 48-frame sneak cycle on ones (24 fps) the major problem is that i can't figure out how to make arms move right. but other than that, it looks ok. in case you don't know, that's Barry, a character from QPQ whom i enjoy ressurrecting now and then for things like this.
also, the past few weeks i've been working on yet another No Shame Theatre skit. this one is going to be real groundbreaking. myabe not for No Shame, but definitely for me. i'm going to perform it on Friday, unless greater forces interfere.
there is a cool exhibit in the U of I main library that displays a bunch of pictures, articles and artwork from University of Iowa yearbooks going back to the 1890s. lots of good stuff, including some cool student-drawn cartoons from the early 20th century, and a cartoon by Milt Caniff drawn specially for the Iowa yearbook! also, there was a photo of Jerome Silberman, who is better known as Gene Wilder, in a student production of Harvey back when Wilder was an undergraduate at Iowa in 1953! coolest guy ever.
ok, i need to shut up and go to bed.
i've been listening to several albums that i haven't listened to much since last fall: Billy Breathes by Phish, a Cat Stevens compilation, Hearts and Bones by Paul Simon. all three of these albums are incredibly nostalgic on their own, and it's amazing how they make me feel nostalgic about a period of my life in which there was very, very little to be nostalgic about: i was living at home, working for near minimum wage at a bakery-cafe chain, not in school, and not doing anything creative worth mentioning (except for a handful of animations). now, of course, i'm paying for my own apartment downtown, earning a good $9.50 an hour, in school (only technically), and, well, i have been doing SOME creative stuff these days. it's not like the left side of my brain is dormant, although sometimes it seems that way.
really, i actually have been doing quite a bit of stuff. this week i did another animation very much like the ones i did last fall. i'm sort of proud of it, but i can definitely see the errors. here it is: a 48-frame sneak cycle on ones (24 fps) the major problem is that i can't figure out how to make arms move right. but other than that, it looks ok. in case you don't know, that's Barry, a character from QPQ whom i enjoy ressurrecting now and then for things like this.
also, the past few weeks i've been working on yet another No Shame Theatre skit. this one is going to be real groundbreaking. myabe not for No Shame, but definitely for me. i'm going to perform it on Friday, unless greater forces interfere.
there is a cool exhibit in the U of I main library that displays a bunch of pictures, articles and artwork from University of Iowa yearbooks going back to the 1890s. lots of good stuff, including some cool student-drawn cartoons from the early 20th century, and a cartoon by Milt Caniff drawn specially for the Iowa yearbook! also, there was a photo of Jerome Silberman, who is better known as Gene Wilder, in a student production of Harvey back when Wilder was an undergraduate at Iowa in 1953! coolest guy ever.
ok, i need to shut up and go to bed.
