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[09 May 2008|06:03am] |
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I just stayed up to 6 am watching the history of English monarchy on Youtube.
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[24 Apr 2008|04:21pm] |
THE SUMMER LIST
IMPORTANT WORK-LIKE THINGS
AEL layout 1.5 - end of april.
late breaking news - website - Finish spiderdude image and decide on sample images for website. To do ASAP.
GURPS fan supplement layout - End of may. I'm probably going to end up working on it concurrently with Wargame; that means a lot of staring at the screen. I should find a nice patio with wireless to hang out at.
Wargame: An Epic (OR Kids Heart War ?) - it's a short (like 2 min) animation i almost finished for class. I want to finish it and submit it to the After Dark film festival; the last submission date is June 25th, which gives me two months to make it as pretty as possible. Animation is hard.
sf script - Spec script for an episode of a low-budget Canadian sf show from the 70s. I still don't know if i want to try this as a comic (cheaper) or as an indy film project (crazy, more expensive, more fun?). At least one complete draft by September.
Kri-La, the City of the Sky! - My wacky pulp comic strip. The goal is the first fifteen strips online by September, with an established biweekly uploading schedule.
IMPORTANT FUN-TYPE THINGS
Gaming at Ash's Behest I'm thinking of adapting No Man's Land from CoC to a 'Nam setting. I think it's easier to identify with than WWI, but it requires a rewrite and probably some research. I'm running it as a ToC/nWoD mashup. When I run it depends on when people are available.
Beyond the Final Frontier (Trek RPG webzine) - issue 10 layout - so close to being done. Done by the end of may, at the very least.
BTFF issue 11 - So I volunteered to be editor after the last guy got too busy. If any of you are nerdy enough to have ideas, articles or notes for a Star Trek RPG zine–stuff like episodes, aliens, dissertations on Klingon opera... *cough*–send 'em to me. Completion is dependant on when I get any submissions. I'm writing an article on a bunch of minor aliens for this issue, and that should be done by the end of May, I guess.
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[15 Apr 2008|09:38pm] |
It is surely the height of irony that the one thing I cannot draw on a computer is a straight damn line.
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[12 Apr 2008|10:07pm] |
LET'S LEARN ABOUT.... DYALEKT
AGE: SINCE BEFORE YOUR SUN BURNED HOT IN SPACE, I HAVE AWAITED... COFFEE.
WHERE DID YOU GROW UP: T dot yo.
( THIS IS WHERE THE WORDS GO )
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| standing at the corner of church and state |
[09 Apr 2008|09:18pm] |
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there can be no separation; they are examples of each other.
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| STATUS UPDATE FEATURING THAT WEIRD GUY FROM STAR TREK III |
[18 Mar 2008|03:13pm] |
"Need food yeeees, but money almost noooo."
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[04 Mar 2008|06:47pm] |
I'm glad I met him, at least once. What's funny is that my extent of contact was handing him some character sheets.
Thanks Mister G.
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[27 Feb 2008|03:00pm] |
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It suddenly occurs to me that providing people's email addresses with references might be a bad thing to do... hm. Well... I guess as long as the recipients are professionals...
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[18 Feb 2008|04:39am] |
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The self is never inviolate from the inexorable influx of the other.
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[10 Feb 2008|02:21am] |
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My father looks eerily like Jim Henson.
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[03 Feb 2008|02:48pm] |
I borrowed season 1 of Babylon 5 from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) thebitterguy. It's not as bad as I was expecting. The special effects are pretty jarring, but not any more than some old Doctor Who episodes. The dialogue is problematic; while occasionally hilarious or semi-brilliant, it needs someone else's hand in it. It's horribly obvious that it's the same guy writing most of it.
The human main characters are obviously from a previous iteration of television writing. No one does anything to make us hate them; they all act like TNG-style enlightened humans. Garibaldi's drinking problem is only sketched out and undefined. Ivanova has Parent Issues, just like everyone on TNG and makes hilarious comments about how fatalistic and stoic Russians are but we all know it's a crock. Sinclair, aside from his Personal Arc-Related Mystery* is a big loaf of pre-sliced Wonderbread in space.
What's struck me, though, is how much the actors playing the three alien ambassadors–Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas, and Peter Jurasik–are obviously enjoying themselves. Furlan takes a character that would probably be intolerably fey and noble and gives it just enough personal investment that her Magical Journey actually seems important. Andreas Katsulas manages to push himself through the prosthetics–a great achievement in itself–and still has enough range of presence to go from threatening and belligerent to a thoughtfulness that matches Londo's. Jurasik has the best part in the series** and he probably knows it. You can see his tragic flaws a mile away, but you still want to come to his parties.
It's not as great as it was when I was 12. B5 comes off as a serious effort wrapped in layers of things it doesn't need, or has not tried to overcome. It's too television-y, too Trek-y, too genre-y compared to shows like Lost and BSG; both have done complex characters and complex plot arcs in genre contexts while still maintaining a certain naturalism. People on Lost don't have their own weird formal cadence. We've grown used to rooting for massively flawed characters. Seeing these in B5 reminds you that it was made over a decade ago, and knowing other artistic choices are made now makes me want B5 to have made them then.***
the nakaleen feeder was pretty cool, though.
*Spoiler: he's Valen.
**except for Zathras. And Zathras.
***Especially the decor. 80s much?
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[20 Jan 2008|05:04am] |
Over 24 hours later, all but one of the illustrations delivered.
Anyone know what'd be inside a tong headqarters?
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[19 Jan 2008|01:27am] |
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So I'm almost almost almost done the next bit of work for Worlds of Cthulhu, but it's late and my eyes and hands are tired. So do I stay up and work and send it off a day late, or rest and send it off a day late?
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[31 Dec 2007|12:34am] |
I've already used three years of my twenties! Augh!
Gotta get more producive this year.
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[26 Dec 2007|07:24am] |
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Long holidays tend to make me a little crazy. Right now I kind of want to make Trek fan films.
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[23 Dec 2007|06:15am] |
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Drawing in Egyptian is hard.
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[17 Dec 2007|02:12am] |
I know two people who didn't like Apocalypse Now. TWO!
That's... madness. Madness!
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[08 Dec 2007|05:31am] |
In September I created a proposal for a 32-page comic for my zine class.
Sometime in November I decided the story was about 48 pages long, and cut it in half so I could actually complete it in time.
Now, about six days away from the due date, my hand is cramped around a tiny Micron pen as I feverishly scratch out the inking for page four of the comic. I think, if the next few days are super-productive, can force page twelve out of the gate in time to print the damn thing. I probably need to design a cover too.
How do I get myself into these things?
page four (what I'm doing now)
some other page's I've finished.
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