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All Over, But For The Screaming And Crying And Gnashing Of Teeth….
Four days of actual real-live Taking of Pictures at the set, and then two days of Remorse and Depression and Low-Level Anxiety. Yay Art!
Some thirteen setups and some seventeen total hours of shooting, and then it was all over:
Walls pulled down, window uncovered and opened, and RAW pics stored on two separate hard drives, and then feelings of Not Doing Enough swept in. I’m better now, and oddly enough, it’s still not over. I still have to run the RAW through Photoshop a couple of times, and then, according to the plan I have in the back of my head, I have short stories to write to go with the pics. But first, some time away from the Project, I think. Right now I keep looking at the pics and seeing all the flaws and the missed opportunities. So for now, it’s focusing on things Not of the Project. Like, oh, I dunno, catching up on Japanese film, or learning the LAMP stack for potential Employment, or going off to see RoboGames this weekend. Anything that doesn’t involve kneeling in dimly lit rooms and taking pictures of miniature furniture….
Oh, and I suppose I should clean up the workspace….
Yes, I’m Late, And Fuck Off Yerself Too….
The things that get underfoot are Many and Varied and not particularly worth a blog post. After all, I am way beyond being a whiny thirteen year-old girl, what with the “my life sucks!” and the “no one understands me!” and the “I could just die and nobody will care!” mode of mindset. Guess what kids, I’ll be turning 40 in just over a month, and those feelings, they just don’t go away….
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And I am also selling my childhood in exchange for Artistic Funding on eBay.
More to come, once the Photography Project comes together….
Still Alive, After A Fashion….
So, where was I?
Job search is grinding on, been poking at Perl and SQL and LAMP stack via bookslearnin’ to bolster the skillset. Set up a laptop as a Graphic Arty Visual Manipulation Thingy, what with the Photoshop and the Flash and the Fireworks and the Illustrator installed. And only just yesterday, I ran a few of my older pics through Photoshop and posted them for sale here:
http://KitsuneCaligari.imagekind.com/
Read Soon I Will Be Invincible in one sitting, that was fun. Also read A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons, good stuff. Haven’t been reading as much as I’d like, that’ll have to change soon. Same goes for music-listening, haven’t been doing as much of that as I’d like. Spent much of the weekend re-watching Torchwood, didn’t have the impact that it did on the first viewing. Less teevee and internet, more reading and music, I guess I’m saying….
Dabbling in eBay selling stuff, focusing on genre books, maybe comics, slow going at the moment:
http://myworld.ebay.com/shearhartbooks!/
The Photography Project sits idle for the moment, still got that whole stitching up the Figure coat and all. It’ll get done real soon, one way or the other. I have to finish this, so I can move on to other ideas I got, like a couple of comic book ideas, to go with the pile of script and novel ideas….
Beyond this, I for one am pleased as Punch that the weather is changing, but ya know, 90F in a houseboat isn’t as much fun as it should be….
Where I Can Be Found (And Where I’ve Been)….
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Not much else. Job Seeking not going well, Photography Project hung up by Job Seeking, started auctioning off some books on eBay. Also, I’ve been cleaning out my Bookmarks and found a few that I forgot about:
A listing of the 1902 Encyclopedia Britannica
Victorian Lowbrow (whatever that means)
J Clayton Spears (also known as Neat Stuff You Can’t Afford)
Girl Genius Comics (but you already know about this, right?)
The Tom Waits Library
And speaking of Tom Waits, here’s an imbedded concert from NPR
A nice long Alan Moore interview
And speaking of Alan Moore, here’s a collection of Alan Moore Visual Items
Avast, And Augment Thy Speech…..
It amused me when I saw it, think I’ll post it in its nigh-entirety:
So here’s the deal. I’m calling on everybody in sight to help me bring back a word. It’s a conspiracy, see, and you’re all part of it
if you choose to be.
I want to bring back the word “anon.” As in, “I’ll call you anon,” or “See you anon.”
It isn’t as specific as “see you tomorrow,” when you may not, or “I’ll call you later” which is even more ill defined and inelegant…”anon”
means simply again…”I’ll see you again” or “I’ll call you in the fullness of time.”
I’ve started using it, and slowly, over the last year, I’ve noticed the people around me starting to pick up on it: friends, agents,
business folks.
I think it’s time for anon to make a comeback.
If you want to be in on the conspiracy, just start using it in your day to day speech and, when it can be done quietly, because this is a
conspiracy after all, enlisting others to do the same. But it’s best if it’s just used regularly, without making a deal out of it.
So who’s idea was this? J. Michael Straczynski, he of Babylon 5 and Changeling and The Real Ghostbusters and Captain Power. Neat, huh? Take it from one who has been using “god’s blood” as a curse since high school, antiquated verbage is fun to pull on the unwashed masses.
That is all.
Taking A Particular Stance….
But what’s it all mean? Well, it’s all about stating that I’m an atheist. Easy enough for me, but some folks still have a difficulty about it. I know I did, when I first came to the Logical Conclusion, but then again, I wasn’t raised as a particularly religious person. That being said, I for one stand with all those who stand for a world that refuses to use mythology or pseudo-moralistic dogma as a basis for government or scientific inquiery or a touchstone for artistic validity or personal worth. If you are as I am, then this here’s a place to go:
http://outcampaign.org/
Like Watching Hair Grow….
The job search becomes more tedious, and in the meantime, I’ve been bolstering my skill set with big thick books from O’Reilly: System Administration, Learning Perl, Programming Perl, Unix CD Bookshelf. Also Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, and Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days. Also Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, but I doubt that’ll help much….
The hair on the Figure is very nearly done:
Also did a few more bits for the set:
It’s getting there, but there’s still the whole coat thing. Guess what I’m gonna be doing later today….
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That’s all I got to say about that…..
Galloping Towards An End Of Sorts….
First and foremost, I still have reservations about the damn coat. I hate myself. That’s why I’m drunk at the moment. But all in all, there was progress. Mostly hair:
Me bright idea was, get a couple of chip brushes, stain them with water-based stain, and cut bits out and glue them to bits of cloth and glue them to the head of me fella:
Also did a bit of distressing on the workbench, was frankly a bit distressing to me (ha ha):
Then I did a few test shots of the painted head of the fella in the set lighting, just to see what it looked like:
It’s getting there, but I keep hitting that ol’ debbel Creative Apathy, also known as Why Bother, Mate. The hair makes me happy, but the coat thing still sticks in me craw. Feh.
In other news, the overall look of the set is pretty much done, the Shots are mostly set in me head, and it will take me maybe a couple of days to get the workings of the DSLR under control. And I’ve started asking around for folks’ opinions for programs for working with RAW format. So, ya see, I do have a handle on things….
Also, anyone know of a position opening for a lower-level IT tech? ‘Cause I got taxes to pay soon….
