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I finally noticed earlier today (or perhaps last night) that the last journal/blog entry on here was from little over a year ago. Wow.
A couple days ago on my so-called "main website" (which I should really take the link for down since I don't ever use it), I spent about an hour composing a blog entry about some happenings in the movie industry and my opinion of them with sources linked and bulletin points written about and so on. It was good, I guess, but it took an hour out of my life to write something that probably no one will read and that doesn't really benefit me personally in the grand scheme of things. I already had these thoughts, and while they looked good in print, that was time and enthusiasm and energy I could have put into one of my projects or some new drawings or prep work or any other number of things.
This isn't an "I'm quitting blogging" post or anything like that (if it is, it's ridiculously late), but I guess what I have to figure out is how to blog the right way, I can't put so much of myself into there, I have to be more succinct and more consistent and I guess I have to figure that out. I'm much more conversational and verbose on the web because that's how I am, that's how I talk, but there's really not that much for me to talk about that would really benefit from my voice and opinion, and I don't want to just parrot and relink what a thousand people with more authority than me have already written up. I'm not a nexus, I'm a Neumann.
Now that I"m thinking about it, I'll see where my mind leads me with that. Might come up with an interesting solution to this little quandary. We shall see.
A Quick Dip In The Archives
So I went through the nine years worth of uploads on this page and started pruning... I removed more of the older stuff than the current ones, and I tried to avoid deleting ones that had a lot of page views or faves, though there aren't many of those.
Obviously you would expect me to be nostalgic about it, "oh look how my style has changed, how I've grown as an artist" la da dee da da, but the biggest change is how little I share now, and how little I feel the need to share. Back then, probably because I was still in the mindset of wanting to be a professional artist and wanted to share anything presentable and cool, and I wanted heft, but
Homebrew my iPod!
I love my iPod Classic. Use it every day. I've had it since... well, I don't know when. I'm amazed it's still working, but I know one day it won't. I managed to find a replacement (at a considerable mark-up since it's discontinued), but I know one day it will go, too.
The big problem with the death of the iPod Classic is that there's no suitable alternative for it. Apple doesn't sell enough of them to be profitable, and they corner the market so no one's bothered to make a killer for it. Now the companies are focusing on always-connected phones and apps because that's where the money is. And that's fine for them, I understand. But wh
Based on...
The first teaser for Peanuts came out today and I thought it was cute. But the talkback it generated (especially about why it's in 3D) reminded me of some thoughts I'd had recently.
First, the movie's in stereo 3D because every animated flick is rendered in 3D, the stereo always looks good, and they appeal to families so that's more tickets sold (parent and child to whole families as opposed to individual moviegoer), and it helps justify the expense of buying those 3D projectors in all those theaters, which I doubt have actually been paid off fully. I'm not 1000% sure of the timeline, but the last American animated movie done in 2D was Win
The future of movie art
(I wrote this in response to a thread on io9, particularly the comment "I hate Photoshop," during a discussion about the poster work of Drew Struzan).
I love Photoshop. I hate that it's become an excuse for lazy work. Now whoever was talking about the VHS covers, a lot of those were... well, not lazy work, but they weren't the works of masters, but even back then you needed a bit of skill to put those things together and pay attention to all the little details, so even the rushed work has that effort as part of it's soul (effort becomes embedded in the analogue, I feel).
The real problem with DVD covers and posters these days are that they'
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