three weeks into school and i've basically been running around like a chicken with its head cut off. have a first solid draft done for my sr. film, gotten back into the grove of the film store, have another interview for barnes and noble in the morning, have a meeting for 'serious fest' tonight, which is always good times, and i'm now officially a member of the conduct board.

had my first appeals meeting today, and where i'm not really allowed to say anything, i will say that doing the right thing has never sucked so bad.

Happy Birthday princesskariboo!

you are my fancy hero!

So it has finally happened! My sister has posted some HP Fanarts! In comic form!
Yay Val! Welcome to the happy world of HP fandom, now start reading some fic so we can giggle together!

link to happy draco/hermione comic!

Real life has been... interesting lately. Interesting in that not fun don't really want to talk about it kind of way. Crummy few weeks, and not just for me (I'm looking at you Becka) and just when I was getting really down I get this from my sister Val -

( click for crack )
best gift ever. makes life better, knowing I've completely corrupted my sister with Harry Potter (should have listened to me years ago on that one Val). I've got to convince her to start putting hp art for people to see (coughcoughhintcough)






I have no clue what to say about the current LJ going ons, but feel as though they are worth mentioning. I'm going to wait the whole thing out for a few more weeks and see what, if anything happens next before even attempting to weigh in on everything and/or move.

So, I finished reading on Saturday, but I'm still sorting through how I feel about DH. I want to sort out all my thoughts properly before I go into them, but in the meantime, I have a happy spoiler-y thing Becka-Becka sent to me.

( spoiler under here, so val, you stay away till you are done! )

Funny, finding myself back on the internet just as most of my f-list leaves.

Real life has been less than kind to me and mine lately, but eh, I’m not the only one, and I don’t have the worst of it, so who am I to complain, right?

Spent the last few weeks beefing up my portfolio and diving into a massive amount of research for my senior film, yay pre-production. It has taken way a lot of internet time I was hoping to gain back after last semester. But I figure, if I want to do something I gotta throw everything I have into it, even if it means I only update this thing once every hundred years or so.

Other than my massive writers block I’m super excited to get started, I’m even learning some new animation programs. By this time next year I’ll have my own hand made Saturday morning cartoon! I swear I’m not an eight year old.

but all and all I my life isn’t all that exciting, I wish I had a new story to tell once and a while, but it seems I’ve become more suited to collecting the stories of others than having my own. I really need to go out and have some crazy adventure. Instead recently I’ve been catching up on my Harry Potter. I’ve read through to HBP, going to finish sometime early tomorrow. It is one tradition I’m going to miss.

It’s really almost surreal, that 7 is coming in the blink of an eye. It’s gotten me thinking a lot about what HP and its fandom really mean to me.

( Lengthy ramblings about Harry, fandom and the last 7 years of my life (no spoilers) )




Thanks for humoring me! Now for the few people still online I have some pre-book excitement doodles to share. I don't think I spent more than 15 minutes on any of these, but enjoy?

( HP doodles (still no spoilers/image heavy) )
I would like to echo the sentiments of many others, giving a thank you to fandom because you are always there when I feel like I'm going mad, when I desperately need a smile, or even just when I'm bored between classes. Fandom, I love you, you all mean the world to me.


(ah! between the time I started uploading stuff and now there has been all sorts of posts about the recent LJ going ons that have started to pop up. I'm not sure what is going to happen, especially with so many people away from their journals avoiding spoilers and the likes, but I guess I'm off to set up GJ and JF accounts just in case. oh internet drama, it has been too long.)

Reasons I still love Buffalo NY #152

Last October there was that GIANT snowstorm that killed just about everything. People are still cleaning up tree branches. Now, some 9 odd months later, Buffalo area hospitals are in the midst of a minor baby boom. Nurses have even taken to sending little trees home with the families to plant so they remember where their baby came from. Kudos, Buffalo, for getting your freak on.

Not having classes today was probably the best thing ever. Not that my Tuesday class isn’t interesting (well, the subject matter, not the teacher) but it gave me some good harass the internet time.

A few days back we had a snow day, which for some reason made me want to color things. I didn’t have a coloring book (yes I have crayons ready to go at any time and I’m not ashamed of it) and that got me a little down. Instead I pulled out some old sketchbooks looking for things to color. It was then I realized just how often I doodle Percy and Oliver while in class.
I guess it explains some of the weird looks I get from the people sitting around me. So here are a few of my favorite drawn in class p/o sketches. (one or two not really work safe)

( doodles! )

I really should be spending more time working on my jr. production. I’m actually getting a bit freaked out about finishing on time. I’ve only got a few months left and am not nearly as far along as I should be. I’ve drawn a bit of it already and done a little scanning and timing, but that just has me more nervous. So far I have the basics done out of what I’m thinking is a 5-6 minute film.

So under the happy cut is the 30 seconds I’ve timed out. It is a little weird because of compression, but if you have the time I would love it if you guys could tell me if notice anything funky in the movement, I’m really feeling like I need outside opinions. I know what it looks like in my head, so of course I always miss the little things.

( show! )

I’ve been having all sorts of weird fandom related dreams lately, but that’s something I should save for another post. This one is plenty long enough already.

going to see becka-becka's old high school put on Into the Woods. I'm sort of excited, in the way that I really like the show, a lot. I haven't seen it since my own school put it on many moons ago.

I don't know what it is about the show that has stuck with me so long, seeing as our production wasn't brilliant or anything. I think it is the show's subtext, nothing like seeing fiary tale characters act kinky and have affairs and the like. oh prince charmings you are both such man whores.

becka-becka has taken to calling me Dr. Wilson ever since the doctor put her on vicodin. i'm thinking about buying her a cane.

Supernatural never fails to make me smile.

week after week they deliver at least a little something that leaves me dying for it to be next thursday. i may or may not have a giant mythology/folklore problem the show feeds. (my nerd vibe is tingling)

( Fanart )

So, seeing as it's been a couple of months since i've posted something actually productive in this journal i've decided to actually put forth an effort in using it. so over the coming weeks, to keep myself from going mad while i work on my animation i'm going to post assorted doodles. some old some new, some with a lot of time spent on them others drawn on the margin of notes during classes or on napkins or whatever. the point is tell me what you like and don't like about them!

the idea is that by the time i'm done with my animation i'll have a large enough variety of decent quality art to put up on a website (special thanks to my favorite child-like-robot who offered to gimme some of his webspace) so i can hopefully get a real job.

so i'm starting with little Ron in his swim trunks. for some reason whenever i draw Ron he ends up in swim trunks. drew this while ignoring my professor

Oh internet, never ever leave me again. Being stuck without you made me realize just how much i need you to function. i could say the same for tv too, if not for princesskariboo who phone dictated Supernatural to me. thank you darlin, i would have died otherwise.

Just got off the set of Garret's film. Had a number of days playing with a nagra, which would have been more fun if it wasn't a nagra, because my hip doesn't like 30 pound sound recorders. but it was still a sound mixer, which have knobs and buttons for playing with. Actually sound is my favorite on set thing to do, noting decides what makes or breaks a movie more than sound, so lets just hope i didn't mess up at all!
I'm gonna track down some production photos hopefully sometime soon. We were shooting in a small beach house in the Hamptons, which was pretty awesome despite the fact summer homes aren't built for january. i got to play on the beach and look at the ocean when we weren't filming, which makes it only the second time i've actually seen the ocean. playing with sand in my winter coat really made me miss snow.

I'm currently sitting on evilimp's bed relaxing for the first time in quite a while. my other film gig was supposed to run this week has been pushed back to february, so i didn't really have a place to live for the week until i can move back to school. thankfully she and her ma have taken me in. since then i've been trying (and failing) to catch up with lj goings ons. much fic needs to be read.

not that i should be working on my own production or anything like that.. but it can wait a couple of hours until i finish getting my internet fix.

Happy Christmas to those celebrating!
Little Ron is my tiny gift to everyone on ye olde flist



( Wee lil Winchesters holiday doodle )


this has been a strange year of ups and downs (mostly in the size of my wallet, and that's mostly down) and it's not quite over yet, but today I'm gonna kick back and watch some movies with the family. Hope everyone enjoys their day.

Just got back from the Rocky Horror Purchase Show.
oh my god - shoes.


they never did find those goalposts

Spreading the Winchester love. Sam and Dean make my life happy all the time. Honestly I think I want to have Supernatural's babies.

I've gotten off my ass to update this thing. It's not even that I haven't had the time. Most of the time I'm doing literally nothing but chatting and drawing. Well that's not fully true, I actually do work. A lot. Of course when I do work I get into it, and seeing that most of it is drawing it just kinda feels like not working.

Hey, if i'm gonna make movies I may as well do it through doodles. Not that there is an animation teacher. I'm pretty much on my own this year which is really scary, but I'm proud that I have taught myself some shit thus far and actually get it to work and do cool things.

My screenwriting teacher is going to try to get me in contact with real cartoon people from off campus though. This is SUPER EXCITING. I adore my screenwriting teacher, he's also letting me draw a comic book instead of writing a screenplay, which I'll post up here when it's done.


Ok, I have a question. I'm writing the first few episodes for a cartoon I hope to make one day about bad guys. What I'm wondering is what is it about villains that people like? Why are bad guys so interesting? uuum.. yah, tell me what you think, because I've got my opinion, but before I get crackin I'd like some other ideas floating arond.

well, i'm back at school, and done with my first week of clases, and let me tell you, it's going to be interesting.

already i have a five day weekend. oh labor day. oh class three days a week.

packed for a few days and drove up to purchase with me maw and paw. car rides are always long, but it was well worth it to get back to school last sunday.

sure the apartment is kind of falling apart in that dingy, bug infested stained cracked broken toileted sort of way, but it's my dingy, bug infested stained cracked broken toileted apartment, and that's what really matters.

hung out with kara a bit, watched lots of supernatural. i adore that show far more than i should. we ate rice and greenbeans, good times were had. had a film freshman welcome party the other night across the street, good times were had, ducked out early to watch project runway and visit some other friends, but ended up back at(outside?) the party. i can't count the number of times i was told "you know, soda is really bad for you" by a person on their third beer. of course they always follow that up with "well, at least you have a vice, i don't think i could trust you otherwise."

i'm all pumped for school, i'm working on a cartoon and i'm taking some great classes this time round. in one class we're doing exchanges with a school in Istanbul! i'm so excited. we're gonna be sending movies back and forth, sorta round robin-ish. in another we're studying theory behind comedy and horror movies- first class consisted of some chaplin, some monty python, and shaun of the dead.

that really got me thinking about zombies again. i mean, they may be least smart and slowest moving of the undead, but they are the biggest threat. hands down. one zombie in new york city and the entire place is gone like that. bam, dead and munchin on people. and sure getting to the top of a mountain can help, but only for so long. plus everyone will try to drive away, which is dumb. it is so much better to run away from zombies than to sit in a car in traffic and have your face eaten. really folks, aways watch for zombies, because if you don't it's your leg that's gonna be bitten off. got to prepare for the zompocolipse. (random dedicated to team survival, my fave group of zombie specialists. next time i visit your place be awake, ok?)

but yah, internet time has been stolen a lot by classwork, which is already starting to pile on a bit, seeing as i need to plot and budget and cast my jr. production. which i should be working on right now, but instead i'm going to hop into town for a while. it's been a few months, and i miss the place.

.... i've become addicted to PROGRESS QUEST , best game ever.


so, today is the rent's 25th. congrats maw and paw on not killing each other yet!

spent most of the day and had dinner with them, then i went to check my e-mail...
wow.
thanks to everyone who liked my drawing at lameos_maximus!! sooo many comments! i have to go respond to them all. i'm so flattered. for serious.

and m' not gonna put a link to it here, because everyone should go to lameos_maximus and read all the stories and look at all the art! do it.

am still reading everything myself! am so behind! but i'm gonna read it all i swear!

my little sister is the most cracked out person ever =P
"oh.... oh.... oh.... and by the way bitch, FUCK YOU!"

not that i'm on the phone with you right now or anything like that. enjoy the smut filled comics.

so.. that theatre thing? over. it turns out all the actors did quit. i'm glad, they were being treated rally bad like, and i get a new story for parties O_- or something like that.

went to nysssa to pick up the little sister. saw rigo for the first time in two years. i miss the man, taught me more about movies in a month than i had learned in my entire life. if you ever see a movie by rodrigo bellott lying around somewhere watch it! it is awesome!! [/shameless plug]

am still waiting to hear if a thing my sister and i worked on is developing into anything, it's looking good so far. i can't really say anything too much until i know about it for sure, but if anything happens it will be a big thing with lots of the most happy squeals ever.

lots of creepy power threatening rain lately. the weather seems determined not to let me finish lameos drawings, but i showed it! i had windows attack both a stack of drawings and my keyboard (followed by a slight freakout, as it was raining on my computer) then my computer was just being a general ass for a long while. one down one to go!

i'm off to read lots of fun fics and look at pretty drawings. looooove?