An Assortment of Vacation Stuff
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tealinI will share one story with you from my trip to LA. It's only one story, out of the hundreds that happened, but it's indicative of ... so many things.
We went for lunch with a bunch of awesome animation people. My sister and I were at one end of the table, and from the other end we heard a loud sort of pop/bang noise. We looked up, and the guy at the end of the table was holding up his water bottle by the neck and looking at the bottom of it. Apparently he had just swatted a fly. 'What a great silhouette!' he said. The guy next to him said 'Why don't you draw it?' and he was at least 60% serious. The Flykiller replied 'I don't have my sketchbook with me.' I may have been reading too much into it, but it almost sounded like he was disappointed. It was so beautiful, I thought I might cry.
Also at the aforementioned lunch were a couple of illustrators from Washington whose work I'd seen on the Web before, so it was really cool (and unexpected!) to meet them. But the weird thing was, they looked exactly the same, except they had different hair and one had glasses. I'm sure they had more differences but the impression left on the brain was one of strange sameness.
Another attempt at Hermione which I drew on the second leg of the flight. There's a bit of another drawing overlapping this one, but it kind of got incorporated into her head. I realised when I scanned it that she looks a little like a friend of mine from school. The search continues.
There was a very loud woman on the bus. She was talking into her cell phone in a stage voice, even though the bus wasn't loud enough to necessitate that. After she'd called three different people everyone on the bus knew that her flight had been half an hour late but since the bus was also half an hour late that was OK! I assume she's okay with the Internet knowing this as well. One of the other passengers saw my drawing and slipped me a note that read 'The book she is reading is titled Even In Quiet Places.' Irony is alive and well.
We went for lunch with a bunch of awesome animation people. My sister and I were at one end of the table, and from the other end we heard a loud sort of pop/bang noise. We looked up, and the guy at the end of the table was holding up his water bottle by the neck and looking at the bottom of it. Apparently he had just swatted a fly. 'What a great silhouette!' he said. The guy next to him said 'Why don't you draw it?' and he was at least 60% serious. The Flykiller replied 'I don't have my sketchbook with me.' I may have been reading too much into it, but it almost sounded like he was disappointed. It was so beautiful, I thought I might cry.
Also at the aforementioned lunch were a couple of illustrators from Washington whose work I'd seen on the Web before, so it was really cool (and unexpected!) to meet them. But the weird thing was, they looked exactly the same, except they had different hair and one had glasses. I'm sure they had more differences but the impression left on the brain was one of strange sameness.
Another attempt at Hermione which I drew on the second leg of the flight. There's a bit of another drawing overlapping this one, but it kind of got incorporated into her head. I realised when I scanned it that she looks a little like a friend of mine from school. The search continues.
There was a very loud woman on the bus. She was talking into her cell phone in a stage voice, even though the bus wasn't loud enough to necessitate that. After she'd called three different people everyone on the bus knew that her flight had been half an hour late but since the bus was also half an hour late that was OK! I assume she's okay with the Internet knowing this as well. One of the other passengers saw my drawing and slipped me a note that read 'The book she is reading is titled Even In Quiet Places.' Irony is alive and well.
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Date: 2006-08-25 08:28 am (UTC)The cloned guys look like they are still in puberty. Gotta love long limbed boys!
(Oops edit.)