So I've been watching Samurai Jack.

( And now I'm going to talk about it, and likely start frothing about the acceptance of animation as an art form, as per usual. )

No, brain, we're not allowed to base our design assessment on a Rorschach blot. You attend a college full of nerds. Everyone would know.

In related news, I have a greater appreciation for the works of graphic designers, and anyone who's ever had to create a logo.

Yessssssss.


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Oh god I am physically ill. It seems to be a head cold, with accompanying sore throat. I hate sore throats, because they always start off as this horrible itch at the back of my throat, maddeningly impossible to eradicate, and I now have other symptoms like runny nose and watery eyes - in short, nnrrrrrgh, whine, I want ice cream and a hug so I can ( Read more... )

Two things:

Primus: It's only just hit me that I'm going to be moving to the Big City in three months and attending a course that is both everything I've ever wanted out of life and completely mystifying argh help. I am so terrified that they'll take one look at me and know I Am Not The Right Stuff, through their magical animator powers, or ( Read more... )

Some things!

Treasure Planet is an awesome movie and I have a giant girlcrush on Captain Amelia.

I am compiling a music post.

I reread Shade's Children. It's still incredibly depressing, but also fantabulous, and hell if I don't feel a terrible kind of pity for [SPOILER] at the end ( Read more... )

First things first: Ubisoft has released a trailer for Assassin's Creed that looks suspiciously like an extremely professional fanvid. Check it out. This game is looking so good, oh man. And I am finding myself even more intrigued by Altair than before - he seems to be...reverent. That's interesting ( Read more... )

I just bought a copy of Skulduggery Pleasant and read it all in one go.

It is not deep.

It is not groundbreaking.

It is, however, very smart, very witty, a masterpiece of lampshaded tropes and more fun than thirty barrels of monkeys, and that should be enough for anyone.

(It would make a brilliant animated movie. I want to make it.)