I have been curbing my boredom of late by writing responses to the handfuls of Nigerian scam emails I now receive on a regular basis...

Today, Mrs. Plestina Messi (CEO of PM Textiles) wrote, "...behold, it's still till date my living testimoney that I got my full fund valued at $12,800,000.00 Million in less than 4 working days, at the expense equivalent to only $355.02, that was all I paid to be frank... I saw your email address among pending fund to be paid in the process of signing the needed documents to get my fund. The full contact details of Mr. Perters are provided below... You can give him a call to very verbally confirm that yourself."

I responded, "Hello Plestina,

It are to be very good in hearing your email today. I am like that you will say I have a good help. Please let me know more of it. I hope that the day is good also on you for the sunshine and healthy. Today is being for some money I will like and to very verbally pay to me.

Sincerely,
[Undisclosed Fake Name]"

I like when they write back again. That's when it gets fun! :)

I found an old sketchbook full o' doodles I'd forgotten about!

"Bartholomuella"

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:) I'm making progress!!!

( Here are the paintings I'm working on finishing in time for Artmatic 2009... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

( Lookit what happened this weekend!!! )

Yesterday, I made these blood-spattered cupcakes for a Friday the 13th party.

I'm happy to say they've clotted nicely. :)

:)

chrispiers recently discovered this website that allows you to manipulate a few simple tools to create cartoon movies. If you can type, you can make movies!

( Here are the ones I've made so far... )

( Here is a run-on sentence describing some of the things I haven't been posting. )

chrispiers and I spent this past weekend slipping into sleep deprived delirium as participants in 24-Hour Comics Day!

The goal was to create a 24-page comic book within 24 hours. It was hard! But I think the delirium helped us all (there were eight writer-artists total) in the end.

The free pizza and jog-walking around the mini mall with Chris were my favorite parts!

( I messed around with some cheap acrylics recently... )

I participated in the BALTIMORE 48-Hour Film Project this past weekend. I'm starting to really get the hang of this stuff!

I had to write a "rockabilly" style piece for this one, which was quite a challenge as I hadn't picked up a guitar in probably a year & a half (it was a miracle the strings didn't disintegrate upon impact. I was convinced the two-inch layer of dust was holding the whole thing together).

I quickly discovered some limitations (e.g. that I've become so ungood at playing guitar that I can really only get a decent sound if I play three strings at a time and mute the other three). I ended up recording a "lower three strings" part and an "upper three strings" part. I used rubber bands and toilet paper to fashion the mutes. Hehhh...

This project went quite differently than the DC version, as I basically just met with the producer twice, got a copy of his desired music style samples, and never met any of the actors or other crew. I haven't even seen any footage, as my team was running behind schedule in the last few hours, and we decided the swiftest way to approach final mix-down was for me to upload all the sounds and music over FTP for them to work in themselves. That was the only disappointingish part for me.

And I still have no idea if we made the deadline!

Back to the plusses though, I've been suggested as a sound-designer/scorer to an NYU film student who's working on his thesis film (pretty exciting!). The film's story sounds quite intriguing, and the sound should be a wonderful challenge for me, and a great resume-building opportunity.

It feels great to put my gear to use again, rather than continue to use it as a place to pile laundry. :)

I never posted the actual finished result of our DC 48 Hour Film Project!

chrispiers was the star! He did a fantastic job!
qrissy wrote and produced the music!

I've volunteered myself for the Baltimore project too! This shit's fun. :)

This past weekend chrispiers & I were part of a team that participated in the 48-Hour Film Project ( http://www.48hourfilm.com/dc ), I was the sound designer & musical score writer (Chris was the lead actor).

They're screening our film tomorrow night starting at 7:00pm at AFI Theatre in Silver Spring, and you should come seeeeeee it!!!

Tickets go on sale at noon today through this site: http://www.afi.com/silver/new/nowplaying/events.aspx#48hou

We are team: "Film Junkies", & we drew the genre "Spy", so I got to write spy-themed music!

I signed up for Artomatic again.

krizsa made me do it. :o)

I am hungry for fried chicken and cake.

Introducing... ( Bulimiasaurus & Tyranorexic Rex! )

Finally.

( Apparently Gandhi and Ben Stiller have a love-child! )