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Perfection and Procrastination
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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This is how it always begins. Working on my post about my summer vacation, that grows and grows and I realize all the errors, the adjustments, and so one begins to rewrite it, for a short vacation there's an awful lot to write, and I begin to pay attention to structure, grammar, am torn between naming the characters or not, and so it drags on. And, of course, it becomes easy to lose the thread of the blog.
Today nothing of import, the plumbers here for an hour, banging around in the bathroom, they're trying to get me hot water. There's hot water in the tub, but not the sink. There's apparently problems, I don't care, I don't expect results today, within the week would be nice, but they insist upon providing me with useless technical information, they need to contact the landlord, they need to speak with the original plumber, the pipes lead into the drywall and disappear, there should be hot water but there isn't. . .
I don't care.
PostSecret
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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A rather interesting site, where people send in postcards with their secrets written on one side. http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
Should a postcard not hold all you have to confess, do a search on Google for "secret confession", you'll find ample forums to share your secrets. I rather like PostSecret, as the images give perspective to the secret. But that's me.
An Animator's World Shorts - CIFF
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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My patronage of the Calgary International Film Festival not quite what I'd like it to be, there's only so much time, but last night I made it to "An Animator's World Shorts". Now I quite like animation, I'm thinking here of the Brothers Quay "Street of Crocodiles" (Rent their DVD's at Bird Dog Video), or Jan Svankmajer 's "Faust ", (again, Bird Dog. Most of these can be rented there. . ), but there was nothing here in that league. The opening film, "Saint Feast Day", is an amusing mix of animation styles, and this seems to be the hallmark of the show. Mixed styles of animation, some beautiful (see "Hungu "), others disturbing ("My Town"), some old school and even a CGI offering, "Perpetuum Mobile", which, while very professionally done, comes across as more of a student offering to Pixar than an award winning animation. (Humourously enough, the credits for it were as long as most feature films, and if you took the time to watch you would have been treated to the author crediting and thanking everyone born since Leonardo DaVinci [included] as a source of inspiration. . .). "Operator" is another such clip, a well animated, clever short about a man who calls God with a question. . .
My favorite, "Machine with Wishbone", showed delicate wire machines walking across dream landscapes populated with other machines, the kind of dreams Theo Jansen must have.
Overall, while there was merit in each piece the quality was more that of a graduating class of film school students than a worldwide festival.
Rating: 2/5
Note: If you're an animation fan, try viewing some of the early masters. Who can be found here: http://www.darkstrider.net/gallery2a.html
Lucky Mojo
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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In keeping with the theme of lucky, todays link is http://www.luckymojo.com/, a site dedicated towards improving your luck. Of particular interest is their online catalogue which offers almost everything you could wish for to improve your luck, charms, talismans, penis bones. . it's all there. All this said, my humble win was due to persistence alone. . .
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