March 2012
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka.
A truly great human being.
Months.
Yesterday was the 4 month mark in my relationship, at approximately 7:30am. Prior to that we had stayed awake all night watching movies. The first movie we watched together was The Big Lebowski. Spending so much time with someone is quite out of character for me. Prior to that I was quite happy alone. Now I’ve found someone to be alone with, together.
University is almost over, we break up...
This is not a day for drawing...
… but I do have 20 pages of drawings to do. The sun is out and it’s turned my room into a furnace, it is awful. I’d like to get some work done. I’d like to lose myself working, go into automated work mode where nothing else really matters as long as I make my daily page quota. I’ve rather optimistically set my required pages to do today at 6.
Some cold juice, a desk...
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“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO...”
– AM from Harlan Ellison’s ‘I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream’. A short post apocalyptic science fiction story about humanity’s near extinction at the hands of a sentient supercomputer. It’s excellent. AM is like System Shock’s SHODAN, but a little more evil.
Approaching Oblivion
The past few days haven’t been the best. I’m not exactly sure how I should feel right now, maybe deceived. I may have some unresolved abandonment issues that have been tore open before they can heal. I know I didn’t feel particularly great yesterday, or the day before. I can’t remember much of the day before that. I’ve spent the past 20 minutes or so reading about...
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Every now and again, too often for my liking, something will get to me. Something small, something probably innocent and insignificant. Nevertheless my mood has been thrown out of the window, and the stage has been set to look like an accident.
I should probably read something, or I may do some work. Possibly either, but probably neither.
If you're bored, you're boring.
Today I was dragged to University. It’s not that I don’t like university, I just don’t like my class, although I expected not to like anyone in my class, or at all. I’m really not interested in the whole messy social interaction side of university, that and I think mostly everyone is either incredibly boring or up to something, which is really two very different extremes....
Tumblr.
Tumblr is a place where people can say ‘This is me, and this is my life’, but instead people say ‘This is a picture I and 600 other people have on a page with our names on it, it’s most likely a black and white photo of something ‘macabre’, a GIF set from some popular show/band/movie, pornography or a cat.’
I am told now and again the quality of content...
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Christmas in March.
My girlfriend is playing Killing Floor on the Christmas map and all I can hear is screams, gunfire and Jingle Bells. Brings back memories of ‘Pole. WE WERE JUST KIDS MAN, AND NOW THEY’RE ALL GONE.
I also found out today you can buy some tear gas and a butterfly knife in the Czech Republic for less than the cost of a large pizza over here.
Adamantite and Animation
I made another deadline, shock horror, but only just. A few minutes later and I probably wouldn’t have submitted. I got a decent grade, talked a little about animation habits I have to break from the days of Flash, over complicating key frames and such. I knocked together a quick zombie attack and death animation this morning, I’d stayed up a lot of the night playing Terraria with the...
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Days.
I have to record a video of myself for next week talking about sound design, and I have some animating to do this weekend. Haven’t been to University all week, may get there on Monday.
The last couple of days have been really nice. I’ve mostly been sat in my room the past six days with the girlfriend watching American Dad and playing video games. Pretty much ate pizza and a variety of meat free...
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Darwinia
My Darwinia Limited Edition arrived today, this is in the art book. It came in a huge silver tin with a Darwinian embossed on the front, with 4 foamwinians, the soundtrack, art book and a book showing some design things. I am so happy I finally got hold of all this, my collection is almost complete.
Darwinia is more than just a game for me, for many people, IV put the legacy to rest after over...
I made a deadline.
Actually submitted another piece of work before the deadline, a terrible character sketchbook which should be sufficient enough to pass. I did however stay awake all night working, 20 pages of drawings. I am yet to sleep but I’m not especially tired any more. It’s going to be a quiet Friday night spent alone. I feel somewhat hazy and distant, a little agitated and anxious. Things are...
