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Entries from April 2009

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April 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Some 12 years ago a fellow looked me in the eye and said, “You used to be ahead of everything!”
This was a low moment in a low period. It was a few years since the band had fallen from a Top 20 single to no label, no money, no audience in an impressively rapid decline. [...]

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Computer games are movies. Get over it.

April 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off

There. Got your attention.
The problem revealed by The Spirits Within and The Polar Express; that synthetic actors look like freshly dug corpses dragged about on invisible meat hooks – this is not going to hold Hollywood back for too many more years.
Please view this pictorial comparison. One of these is DAZ3D’s latest ‘unimesh’, Victoria 4.2. [...]

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Computer games are not movies. Get over it.

April 13th, 2009 · Comments Off

There. Got your attention.

Was rummaging around for treatments of the Little Red Riding Hood story. Last year I got the Kunstlers to read Riding Hood and try to develop plot points, treatment, character outlines and script. Good for them to see how such a simple story still takes sweat to make into a shootable form. [...]

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April 6th, 2009 · Comments Off

Student Number n324541
Called into office to discuss attendance. Handed me photographs of themselves on top of the burning World Trade Towers attacked by badly superimposed 3D models of WW2 aircraft, including a Nazi UFO. Asked if I had seen the Peter Jackson version of King Kong because ‘that shit was real I was there’. When [...]

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Linked In Updates

April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Senior Lecturer Harlan Phelps is now Professor Harlan Phelps.
Jenny Taylor recommends Tim Aleston.
Sandra Miscargie now linked to Tom Jones, Ace Frehley, Francis Crick, Seymour Kety, Leonard Nimoy, Nova Peris Kneebone, Tori Amos, David Botstein, Leon Botstein.
Bubbles Vavoom is recommended by Ted Oleton. ‘Flexible service’.
Tom Ellard is void of inspiration.
Herbert Lyons is now Graphic Designer at [...]

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