My Transgressions

I have been a very, very wicked girl.

I did not draw in my sketchbook last Friday, nor did I do so Monday or Tuesday.

Here's what I did do:

( Saturday )

( Wednesday )

( Thursday (Yesterday) )

One possible benefit to getting up this early is that the sky currently looks like a Maxfield Parrish painting.

Big Plans

Did you know ... that there is free (and, more importantly, legal) sound editing software available online?

I did not know this until today.

This is fortuitous timing as last week's viewing of some beautiful traditional animation done in Flash has inspired me to try the same. One of my intended vict - er, subjects is a scene from The Hostile Hospital which I'd intended to use to learn Flash because it's mostly setup and not animation, but I needed to make Tim Curry sound like a thirteen-year-old boy, and that requires the use of some sound manipulation thingy. So HAH! Now I HAVE one! Beware!

11:02 pm
Okay, scratch the sound editing thing... neither of the programs I downloaded tonight have a way of modifying tone, which is what I need on top of pitch, because otherwise it just sounds like Mr. Curry is talking through his nose.

Regardless, I went and storyboarded (kiiiind of) the sequence, which makes up ( Today's Sketchbook )

I am rather disappointed (though not surprised) at the results of the Canada Reads competition. I really wanted Oryx and Crake to win ... whenever they read excerpts from the potential novels on The Roundup, its writing was by far superior to any of the others.* But it was Rockbound that won. I can't say I'm surprised because Rockbound is a novel based, as far as I can tell from my scant research (a phrase which here means "what I heard on The Roundup and may not have remembered correctly"), in the Newfoundland fishing industry of days gone by. Its win is only further fuel for my Newfie Conspiracy: that anything from Newfoundland is 150% more Canadian, and therefore more highly valued as being Quintessential to our Cultural Heritage. (Disclaimer: This is a tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theory that is not intended to cast aspersions on any thing, animal, or person from Newfoundland, or the Canada Reads jury.)

I think I'm going to read Oryx and Crake anyway.

*What makes "good writing" anyway? How can you tell? Is it quantifiable? All I know is that the way the words were arranged in Oryx and Crake made them far more satisfying than any of the other excerpts.