Just got back from seeing Up, the newest Pixar film. Words cannot describe what an absolute joy it is. I mean that. The film brought me to tears, then raised me to the highest levels five minutes afterward.

Quite possibly the best film this year, and only that because Coraline was just as good ( Read more... )

And now, thanks to flinkie, I am going to break your brains.

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Teaching today's intellectual property class at the Atelier really makes me wonder which is worse: the companies actively trying to screw over new creators, or those new creators who will allow themselves to be screwed over because they want their names in light at any cost ( Read more... )

Well, I finally got my invite to Aviary, a new program/community that allows people to create and share works of art and such based on online tools that help create the works. Yeah, Adobe Creative Suite this is not, and it's still in the alpha stage, but it looks interesting enough and worth a chance to play with ( Read more... )

What is it about some people that the moment they find something objectionable in the past, the first impulse is to hide it, to make it seem as though it never existed, even though many people are aware of it already? What is the need about whitewashing the past so that it looks so clean and sterile, when anyone with half a brain knows that such ( Read more... )

...this one might be worth a look at.

Oh, and something about today being Star Wars' 30th anniversary. Yayz for nostalgia, Im in ur death star, torpedoing ur exhaustports. XP

Oh, Liz, either you're going to need to create an overmuscled heavy for ARC, or you may have to revise Bear to be a bit tougher than he is for the TATARI slot.

(Aren't secret cryptic messages fun?)

This would make my job to make a futuristic version of Paris for one scene so much easier...but frankly, I can't justify the expense for a one-scene picture.

These would also make my life easier, but unfortunately, the copyright holder is unavailable, and I don't want to use it and open myself to a lawsuit or worse ( Read more... )

Happiness is ( Read more... )

yes, I've been watching too much Fate/stay night as of late; my bad ( Read more... )