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Nom Con, Satoshi Kon and have I gone?
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Ello!!
been awhile since I posted here.
First and foremost, for those of you organising or going to Nom Con, I wish you the very best! I hope you enjoy it and I hope it is a great success!
Unfortunately, I will not be going. I still live here in Germany, and believe it or not, while I have had no classes for the last few months, I have work starting again on Monday, so really can't take it off as a holiday.
In other news I think I should mention the recent passing of visionary director Satoshi Kon. Kon directed such classics as Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent, and Paprika. I particularly admire Kon for making films that go beyond what is typically considered the realm of animation. They have a quality that distinguishes them from most anime - extreme mental states, psychological suspense, confusion about the blurring lines between reality and fantasy. I believe his works stand tall not only as anime masterpieces, but as masterpieces of film.
To end this journal entry I guess I will talk a little bit about what is going on with me, where the hell have I gone? Have I stopped making art?
To answer the latter answer first, no, far from it. I have been working on a number of large projects, but they are not finished and perhaps not suitable for DA. For one I am working on a new animated film, just over four and a half minutes of animation done another 25 to go. The screenplay is in both English and German, but it will be recorded in German first.
I am also due to start teaching life drawing toward the end of October - so I have also been preparing for that - doing a bit of life drawing, reading several books, learning the relevant German vocabulary, making sure I can translate the exercises into German. Also, although its with the local community college and they do some advertising, I will really need to do a bit of advertising myself to make sure it takes off, so I made some posters and have given a couple out - but its not always easy to get a shop to advertise for you and I don't really know the legalities of just putting up posters around town on empty buildings etc. Still there are a few out there - and hopefully they will get noticed and get people signing up.
I hope all is well for all of you. I look at your deviations and I am very impressed with them.
Keep up the good work!
been awhile since I posted here.
First and foremost, for those of you organising or going to Nom Con, I wish you the very best! I hope you enjoy it and I hope it is a great success!
Unfortunately, I will not be going. I still live here in Germany, and believe it or not, while I have had no classes for the last few months, I have work starting again on Monday, so really can't take it off as a holiday.
In other news I think I should mention the recent passing of visionary director Satoshi Kon. Kon directed such classics as Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent, and Paprika. I particularly admire Kon for making films that go beyond what is typically considered the realm of animation. They have a quality that distinguishes them from most anime - extreme mental states, psychological suspense, confusion about the blurring lines between reality and fantasy. I believe his works stand tall not only as anime masterpieces, but as masterpieces of film.
To end this journal entry I guess I will talk a little bit about what is going on with me, where the hell have I gone? Have I stopped making art?
To answer the latter answer first, no, far from it. I have been working on a number of large projects, but they are not finished and perhaps not suitable for DA. For one I am working on a new animated film, just over four and a half minutes of animation done another 25 to go. The screenplay is in both English and German, but it will be recorded in German first.
I am also due to start teaching life drawing toward the end of October - so I have also been preparing for that - doing a bit of life drawing, reading several books, learning the relevant German vocabulary, making sure I can translate the exercises into German. Also, although its with the local community college and they do some advertising, I will really need to do a bit of advertising myself to make sure it takes off, so I made some posters and have given a couple out - but its not always easy to get a shop to advertise for you and I don't really know the legalities of just putting up posters around town on empty buildings etc. Still there are a few out there - and hopefully they will get noticed and get people signing up.
I hope all is well for all of you. I look at your deviations and I am very impressed with them.
Keep up the good work!
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Stop Uganda's Gay Death Penalty
2 min read
Hi all,
Uganda wants to be able to execute people and send them to jail for life for being gay, essentially for being different to something some political/religious subgroup decided was perfect. I hope you will agree with me when I say this needs to be stopped.
Do you think people should face life imprisonment or execution for being gay? Do you think people should face life imprisonment or execution for being different to some absurd status quo created a some political/religious subgroup?
If not, please forward this information onto other people and the sign the on-line petition.
An online petition helps state your commitment and concern. Forwarding on the information helps raise awareness. Please do both.
You can sign the petition here:
www.avaaz.org/en/uganda_rights…
You can check for yourself some of the news reports on this subject by searching on google, given I don't have a TV here, I am not sure how much media coverage this issue has gotten! For those of you in a similar situation to myself, I can confirm, though having checked the BBC website, that this is happening and this is not simply some spam email. If you have any doubts please do a google search for yourself.
Uganda is being mislead and miseducated by psychopaths in positions of power. Please note that the term "psychopaths" is not misused here; psychopaths are people who are unable to feel for other people, they are people who are incredibly self centred . Ultimately we are dealing with people who cannot see beyond their own values and lifestyle, have no regard for others and do not care about the suffering that this, their bill, will create for its victims. Please help put a stop to this before people start dying and the laws and censorship become even more absurd.
Signing the petition may not solve the problem immediately, but it will raise awareness - and let Uganda know that people are aware of and against what it's trying to do, this is an important step.
b
(Benjamin Michael Mathews)
Uganda wants to be able to execute people and send them to jail for life for being gay, essentially for being different to something some political/religious subgroup decided was perfect. I hope you will agree with me when I say this needs to be stopped.
Do you think people should face life imprisonment or execution for being gay? Do you think people should face life imprisonment or execution for being different to some absurd status quo created a some political/religious subgroup?
If not, please forward this information onto other people and the sign the on-line petition.
An online petition helps state your commitment and concern. Forwarding on the information helps raise awareness. Please do both.
You can sign the petition here:
www.avaaz.org/en/uganda_rights…
You can check for yourself some of the news reports on this subject by searching on google, given I don't have a TV here, I am not sure how much media coverage this issue has gotten! For those of you in a similar situation to myself, I can confirm, though having checked the BBC website, that this is happening and this is not simply some spam email. If you have any doubts please do a google search for yourself.
Uganda is being mislead and miseducated by psychopaths in positions of power. Please note that the term "psychopaths" is not misused here; psychopaths are people who are unable to feel for other people, they are people who are incredibly self centred . Ultimately we are dealing with people who cannot see beyond their own values and lifestyle, have no regard for others and do not care about the suffering that this, their bill, will create for its victims. Please help put a stop to this before people start dying and the laws and censorship become even more absurd.
Signing the petition may not solve the problem immediately, but it will raise awareness - and let Uganda know that people are aware of and against what it's trying to do, this is an important step.
b
(Benjamin Michael Mathews)
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the berlin sky 2010
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the Berlin sky is filled with smoke and fire.
it is 2010.
Hope you have a merry, manic and messy one filled with crazy adventures - more so I hope you get me involved in your crazy adventures!!
I wanna fall in love with this year!
how about you?
life is ticking away, the new year is the time to make sure were still on track to getting to where we want to be, to find that place that we belong
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it is 2010.
Hope you have a merry, manic and messy one filled with crazy adventures - more so I hope you get me involved in your crazy adventures!!
I wanna fall in love with this year!
how about you?
life is ticking away, the new year is the time to make sure were still on track to getting to where we want to be, to find that place that we belong
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which paint chat? + HAPPY CHRISTMAS :D
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Hello all
Do you use any kinds of paint chat applications? if so which ones?
Right now I dont know anyone on one, so one where I can just start straight away with people I have never met before might be best, but if your on one let me know which one and what your id is.
Thanks
b
Do you use any kinds of paint chat applications? if so which ones?
Right now I dont know anyone on one, so one where I can just start straight away with people I have never met before might be best, but if your on one let me know which one and what your id is.
Thanks
b
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Tax almost sorted, yay!!!!!!! Looks like I will be paying 45 euro rather than 40,450 euro. Had to get my dad's lawyer and his colleagues to help me with the paperwork, but its almost sorted now.
So I have noticed a lot going on for people right now, people starting college, people dying, financial difficulties everywhere, but things are always changing- you solve one set of problems- you get new ones to deal with- sometimes the constant threat to your personal well-being can make it difficult to feel you are in a secure enough position to spend time on art. Maybe you too can relate to this? One of those life transition phases - where there has been or is going to be change.
Right now I am sort of in such a position - I have uploaded some sketches to scraps and will upload more, but not able to start into any of my bigger art projects just yet. HOWEVER I am getting a lot of inspiration that will help me when I do. On Saturday I went to visit the place where I could be teaching as of November- a city/town called Görlitz in Germany that extends into Poland - AND ITS AWESOME. When I was there the town was covered in props, and heavy machinery preparing it for a film being made for cinema audiences- the town has a rather unique architecture - cover the cobbled roads with mud and it looks like a medieval town. The town is filled with castles, medieval style houses and people playing nylon stringed guitars. PURE AWESOME- I took 1 gig of photos!! Will make great reference material. A lot of unemployment there, and not much to do, but it looks awesome and I guess my free time will be spent on art projects.
I dont know if I have the job there yet though, and even if I do get it I wont be teaching there till november - so I am looking at other work as well. I have been offered a job being a security guard at an old abandoned hospital - its creepy as hell, pure horror film - absolutely UNBELIEVABLE. Very resident evil. Think overgrown and overcome with trees, weeds, and plants and at the same time a GIANT building with several styles of architecture- some overly opulent and ancient with amazing facades - others modern and creepy - gives you the sense that bizarre experiments and horrible psychiatric events. And my job will be to wonder around it- its under 24 observation- so this means at night and at day.
I will be killed by ghosts and old medical equipment - but I will get some great photos for reference before I die.
It will be creepy as hell. Probably be attacked by rats and hear creepy screaming sounds. No doubt I will haunt the place after I die horribly. I cant wait!
besides that also got a phone call from interac today- about an interview for going over to Japan march and to teach there- obviously thats really complex- because if I get the job in Görlitz it will be difficult to leave...
Whatever the case I guess I am lucky I like such weird things - not many people would want to work in Görlitz (because of lack of nightlife) or the abandoned hospital (because of how incredibly freaky, dangerous and potentially boring it could be).
Other that that I was teaching tuesday and it was great. Young adults who are in a school for the unemployed essentially- to get them into the workforce. pretty cool 'kids', if I can call them that. I'd say they were around 18-21; I would be teaching the same type of people in Gorlitz.
Hopefully though just get this job thing sorted soon though, get to work on art. Though gorlitz is insane hours- so wont be easy.
anyway, thanks for reading. I hope your well
So I have noticed a lot going on for people right now, people starting college, people dying, financial difficulties everywhere, but things are always changing- you solve one set of problems- you get new ones to deal with- sometimes the constant threat to your personal well-being can make it difficult to feel you are in a secure enough position to spend time on art. Maybe you too can relate to this? One of those life transition phases - where there has been or is going to be change.
Right now I am sort of in such a position - I have uploaded some sketches to scraps and will upload more, but not able to start into any of my bigger art projects just yet. HOWEVER I am getting a lot of inspiration that will help me when I do. On Saturday I went to visit the place where I could be teaching as of November- a city/town called Görlitz in Germany that extends into Poland - AND ITS AWESOME. When I was there the town was covered in props, and heavy machinery preparing it for a film being made for cinema audiences- the town has a rather unique architecture - cover the cobbled roads with mud and it looks like a medieval town. The town is filled with castles, medieval style houses and people playing nylon stringed guitars. PURE AWESOME- I took 1 gig of photos!! Will make great reference material. A lot of unemployment there, and not much to do, but it looks awesome and I guess my free time will be spent on art projects.
I dont know if I have the job there yet though, and even if I do get it I wont be teaching there till november - so I am looking at other work as well. I have been offered a job being a security guard at an old abandoned hospital - its creepy as hell, pure horror film - absolutely UNBELIEVABLE. Very resident evil. Think overgrown and overcome with trees, weeds, and plants and at the same time a GIANT building with several styles of architecture- some overly opulent and ancient with amazing facades - others modern and creepy - gives you the sense that bizarre experiments and horrible psychiatric events. And my job will be to wonder around it- its under 24 observation- so this means at night and at day.
I will be killed by ghosts and old medical equipment - but I will get some great photos for reference before I die.
It will be creepy as hell. Probably be attacked by rats and hear creepy screaming sounds. No doubt I will haunt the place after I die horribly. I cant wait!
besides that also got a phone call from interac today- about an interview for going over to Japan march and to teach there- obviously thats really complex- because if I get the job in Görlitz it will be difficult to leave...
Whatever the case I guess I am lucky I like such weird things - not many people would want to work in Görlitz (because of lack of nightlife) or the abandoned hospital (because of how incredibly freaky, dangerous and potentially boring it could be).
Other that that I was teaching tuesday and it was great
. Young adults who are in a school for the unemployed essentially- to get them into the workforce. pretty cool 'kids', if I can call them that. I'd say they were around 18-21; I would be teaching the same type of people in Gorlitz. Hopefully though just get this job thing sorted soon though, get to work on art. Though gorlitz is insane hours- so wont be easy.
anyway, thanks for reading. I hope your well
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