I started this off with a password protection, cause I wanted to fill it a bit first before I let people read things. Now you can. Don’t read too fast though, I don’t update regularly.
Bonjour everyone.
Hello, Tumblr. How are you? Or rather, how are all you foolish (read:wonderful) people that actively follow and/or read everything I write into this virtual void of horror…?
Good? Oh excellent!
Me? Well, I’m tired. Hence the great neglect you’ve probably all felt from me, of late. You see, I’ve been working my fat arse off to produce all the work required of me for my final deadlines this year. (I fell short somewhat, but not by nearly as far as my usual standard!)
So, I thought I’d give another little rundown of things or so (It’s becoming quite habitual this, isn’t it? Like an abusive relationship.)
Really this is less for your benefit and more for mine. If I list all the things I have intentions of doing I’ll sound really busy and hopefully, by virtue of that, it will make me really busy. (Logical, eh?)
So, I’ve got some stuff to do:
Obviously the first thing that really needs addressing, is I have to finish my final animation ready to submit it to a festival. I didn’t get it all done by hand in, and I’d like to get the “full version” done for submission (the unfinished version I handed in was for a severely cut down edit).
On top of that, I need to finish designing my professional website. At the moment you’ll only be able to see the construction page, but I’m working on the actual content, it looks more like this:
Unfortunately I don’t have enough content to release it into the wild.
On that note: I need to re-render some of my recent animations to put them on my new Vimeo, that I’ll be linking to on that site.
I also should maybe gather together examples of my best animation so far, to make a showreel to put on there.
I need to find something as well, that I can use like a vimeo for my illustration work. I considered Flickr, but I don’t really like it so much. DeviantArt portfolio was my other consideration, but I still don’t think it has the right feel.
If anyone knows anything, do help me out. Basically I need something that I can just use as a regularly updated display/archive of all my finished work. Not a blog, per se, more like an image gallery type thing. Cause I wanna put a sample of some of my best work on the site, but I don’t wanna clutter it and updating will take a great deal of work when I can just be like: “go here for more like this”.
On the blog note, I am considering starting up a new Tumblr or maybe a blogger or something, that can have work in progress on. It’s not at the forefront of my ideas, because it’s a practice that I’m not too fond of with others. At the same time, though, I have to accept it’s something people do and I should strive to embrace it as a viable way of displaying my work and methods.
I’m also going to try and write more, for my writing blog. Which I’ll also probably throw a link to on the website.
So writing, yeah. I’m gonna try and spend these next few months filling that blog with random stories as well as working on sketches for Tasty Llama and myself, penning some songs, finishing my movie scripts etc. and just essentially getting stuff done.
Also, my good friend Smudge (who I’ve mentioned here from time to time) has started himself a new zine, so I’m going to try and get myself to do some comics and stuff for release in that. Hopefully spread the word and such.
(Incidentally, it’s called Childish Butt-Vomit and I hear it’s available in some comic stores in Brighton and Camden, so you should check it out. If and when I get my hands on a copy I’ll maybe post a review or something on here, for your delectation.)
You know you’re, at least, slightly intrigued. I know I am.
So yeah. Just gonna try and keep my brain active and arty and writey and just churning things out for everyone to see and experience.
Quick 1-2
So, yeah. That last post wound up longer than expected. (Of course). So I’ll throw out a little rundown of other things.
- I’ve been writing a lot of stuff for Tasty Llama Yoghurt.
- Been tweeting the shit outta things.
- I’ve been neglecting my Youtube.
- I’ve made storyboards for a TLY project (that’s been in the works too long).
- I’ve started a writing-based blog (that is private, atm. I want to fill it a bit first)
That was much shorter. Maybe I should bullet-point things more often…
But yes. I’ve basically also been trying to hone my skills, realising the whole “use it or lose it” mantra is based in fact. It’s mainly because I still have no idea exactly what I’m gonna do after uni and with art being a cut-throat, low success, highly-saturated market, I think it’s wise to build up other things I’m good at so I have something to win bread with.
Although, the fact they’re all in similarly “talent-based” fields, means I’ll probably be just as unsuccessful there and kick myself for not being focused on one thing.
ALSO:
There is still opportunity, (for anyone who wants to) to be part of my final animation. It’ll be submitted to a/several film festival(s) and I’m trying to include friends as voices and sound peoples.
It’s not a laziness thing, I could probably do it all, I just would like to include people and not hog the credits with just my name.
Just let me know peeps. All that’s required is that you can send me clean, quality .wav audio of the lines I provide you with.
What’s Crack-a-lacking?
Seems that this is a recurring theme here on the ol’ Tumblr. I’ll spend a huge amount of time not posting anything (sometimes even not checking my dashboard with any sense of regularity! :O) and then I’ll come on thinking “I’ve not written anything in a while…” and write a, what is intended to be short, round-up of recent events. Which, invariably, gets really long and obnoxious and boring.
So I’ma do it again, because I love you. By which I mean hate you. I hate the things I love, because I’m sick. In the head… and that’s the most ingenuous thing I’ve typed so far.
So, I’ve mostly been heavily caught up in this uni lark. (Surprise, surprise! That old excuse). But I have. So suck it. I can’t make it untrue just because you don’t like it!
I’ve been slaving away, attempting to make a better go at this year than I did with my last year (getting metaphorically raped by the education system will do that to ya), and although I’m still procrastinating (you’re reading the case in point) I think I’m being largely more productive.
“So what have you been doing all this time, Mr Productive?” I hear you cry, because I want you to and you’re a patronising dick. I’ll show you, I suppose.
at a book fair in helsinki last year, I was asked to do something about racism. this is what happened. I clearly know what racism is all about.
Is the superheroes rescuing a cat from a tree, on the condition it fits with their “super-outlook”, a common theme? Or do me and Hugleikur Dagsson just think the same way?
http://fav.me/d25grst
That’s a link to my Team Turbulent comic. Yes, it is old. Yes, there is a page two (it is uncoloured). Yes, there is a planned storyline/more pages. Yes, they do fight tree-huggers on the next page. Yes, I will finish it someday. Finally: Yes, a robot does tear a man in half for comic effect.
