My Uncertain Career Path

I love Uni. I love the social life, and the relaxed feel.

I love sound, and loved making my sound scape.
I love MPI, and I get really good marks in it.
I even like Vis Com, Neil's funny lectures and Mac Staples random tangents.

And I lover animation. I love the screenings, the atmosphere, the closeness, the after midnight rule. I love how we study movies, and everyone likes the things I like, and were all on the same wavelength. Their the only people I fit in with.
 In fact the only thing I dislike about uni is the animating itself. I can sit through the lectures, and the screenings, but I hate the animating side. The drawing is the worst. Flash isn't too bad, but not knowing how to use it makes it a pain in the behind. I haven't even started my animation, and I'm already over it.

So is there any point in doing the class if I hate the animating side of it?

MPI104 - Week 11 - RSS Feeds

Learnt how to get RSS feeds from different sites, and I learnt different ways to post them on the blog. I would rather just use the feed gadget in blogger then the google reader RSS feed adder, as the blogger way sticks too the theme more.

I also learn;t that Safari makes it hard by changing the URL on me, so i'll use firefox next.

2 Week Rush

Only 2 weeks to go.

3 assessments due. The MPI bloggs, the soundscape for VPA, and my animation for VFX.

MPI needs everything printed off and a blurb written I think.

I have all of my sound effects recorded, and while some of them arn't the best, they'll do. Hopefully I can get it done by the end of the week at the latest.

That way I can spend more time on VFX, cause I only have a few rough backgrounds done, and I cant start the animation before i WORK OUT HOW TO USE FLASH. Hand drawn isn't an option anymore, not enough time.

I wouldn't even be doing this if it wasn't assessable.

Not panicing just yet, but nearly there.

My iWEB site.

To keep it simple, I based my website on myself, so I could focus more on the technical side. The pages are styled consistently, and I have customised the backgrounds, fonts and font colours, as well as reflected all pictures to create an individual look. The counter was specially picked to suit the colour scheme. The RSS feed shows posts from my favourite blog, and the news page shows important upcoming events. The pictures match the theme of bright colours on black. My “me at a glance” page contains the links to my separate MPI pages, as well as my personal information. The third page uses an embedded video from youtube to create a humorous effect. The “I Like page” contains the most content. Blurbs on things I like are accompanied by various pictures, embedded videos, and one of my favourite songs from youtube, so it isn’t copyrighted. I did have a video uploaded, but chose to embed it instead to save on upload and download times. A working window of Google and a game are also embedded. The last page contains my blog, with a main page, multiple entries and an archive. An RSS feed can be generated from this page.

The AIAF

I’m glad it's over really, it took up a lot of time and I barely got anything done over the weekend. But I did enjoy it and will look forward to next years. It is good to know when people say we can animate anything, they mean anything. The late night bizarre reassured me that while I may have weird thoughts sometimes, that’s ok, cause they merely look interesting next to last night’s late night bizarre.

If you get a chance, look for Suzie, cuddle sticks, fantasies in bubble wrap, The Bastard and falling art on you tube. They will... open your eyes. WARNING: One of the above video’s caused a woman some years back to storm out of the cinema screaming “Your all going to hell”.

Big thanks to everyone who helped, but especially Mat Barron, as he's the one who's marking this assignment, and he was one of the main technical dudes over the festival.

M104, Catching Up For Week 6

No class week 6, just a master blog post. Telling us about how to make a HTML page.
e.g. open bracket, close bracket, ect.
LOL. I started a page, and added tables, pictures, video's. 

MPI104 Week 9, FTP

Learn't how t upload the site onto the uni's net. Now I'm all set for the assignment. Also learn't that it takes ages to upload a 71MB video. Ready for another HD guys!!!

IWEB in MPI104, Week 8

This time last week, we learn't how to use iWEB. Though it creates a more aesthetic page, and is much easier and quicker than html, I dont have as much control. I don't know how to do as much as I did with HTML. But, it's still usable, and I can find most stuff on the net. And it's better than staring at code for hours.

Knock Knock. Who's there? Dr. Dr Who? Psych.

I cant really say I'm a bid fan of doctor who, having only seen the last series, but I can tell you one thing...

IT'S AWESOME!!!

The story is so elaborate, every episode there's 3 questions raised for every question answered. And it's so unexpected. Spoiler allert!!! That the little girl would regenerate at the end was a huge suprise.

After having seen the picture of amy and her baby, and seeing the likeness, I thing the little girl is Amy'd daughter. But with the Doctor or Rory???

I think it's Rory's kid, but Amy joked about her kid having a time head (whatever that is). I know it was a joke, but the producersput it there to make us link the two together, so either Amy's baby was evvected by her proximity to The Doctor, or it's a trick. Maby it's River Song's kid with the Doctor??? Maby it's the doctors next incarnation??? Maby another time lord escaped the time prison, if that's what it is, I havn't seen that series.

I'm glad we worked out what the silence is, but I doub't we've seen the last of it. Their spread all over the galaxy, as shown by the "Vampires of Venice".

Ohhh, so many theories. I cant wait till next week. View trailers at The Dr Wwo Official Site

Happy viewing. :)

The Nerd of the Family

I love my family, but it annoys me that I'm so different from them.

I like to watch anime, read manga, read long fantasy books, and watch fantasy / sci-fi movies.

And it sucks when there's an exciting bit and I turn to the person next to me to talk about it ... and they dont understand the significance.

Then I came to Uni. And people know what I'm talking about. They watch the movies I do, know what Bleach is, and wonder when inheritance will come out. And Jesse knows what Red Vs Blue is!!!!!!!

Then I went to the internet for photo's for my flickr account, and there are people there who understand me as well. I love socialising. :)

And the fan based art is great.

                                                                          Gandalf

                                                                         Harry Potter

Master Chief and Samus

The Blitz ... is me.

Have you seen the episode of how I met your mother when Ted, then Barney become the Blitz, and they miss out on all the cool stuff when their not looking. We'll I've realised thats me.

Friends are always talking about how they have so much fun at parties, and the one I go to with them gets shut down in the first 15 minutes, before anything happens.

I play a drinking game with them, and it's fun. Then I find out that I missed out on strip kings. People were walking around naked. People as in GIRLS. And the only photo on facebook is of 4 naked guys.

Bummer. Ah well ...