Mon, Jun 29, 2009 – 14:01
There were more than a thousand people in Suhl (near Erfurt) for the 50th anniversary celebration of the European Callers & Teachers Association over the weekend. The weekend was pretty much fifty hours of awesome (though I think it would have been nice if a few more of those hours had actually been spent sleeping [...]
Wed, Jun 24, 2009 – 14:53
Yesterday I went to the photo studio for the afternoon to make an attempt at the Mittelformat part of my real film project. I had an audience of like five people while I tried to set up lighting on my model, which made me feel really awkward, and they kept asking me questions and lacking [...]
Mon, Jun 22, 2009 – 14:05
I’ve made my travel reservations for Paris and Amsterdam at the end of July. Except for booking the Paris-Amsterdam train, which I’m having trouble with. Now it would be nice to find friends in Paris to meet up with! I’m taking a sleeper train Berlin-Paris on July 20, staying in a youth hostel until July 25 [...]
Sat, Jun 20, 2009 – 10:46
Since there was no square dance meeting on Thursday night and I went to see Viel Lärm um Nichts, I went down to Leipzig on Friday to get a tour of the city and then go to my square dance partner’s club. He told me to come whenever, without pointing out that the zoo would [...]
Thu, Jun 18, 2009 – 22:47
The production of “Viel Lärm um Nichts” was interesting… It reminded me of the movie Romeo + Juliet, except that Much Ado about Nothing evidently translates WAY better into a modern setting. The evening was gorgeous for sitting outside, although there was something going on nearby that kept producing cannon-like explosions at random intervals during [...]
Thu, Jun 18, 2009 – 17:35
I finished roughing out my animation with music today: First draft of Cthulhu trailer. I’m not really satisfied with the music, it feels way too calm, although it’s possible that to someone who hasn’t been editing this together, it makes sense. It also needs secondary animation and better transitions for the pictures (and maybe not having [...]
Mon, Jun 15, 2009 – 21:21
I’ve had this idea in my head for about a week now and I finally sat down and drew it out this afternoon. After spending all morning trying to get Flash to talk to Javascript and failing :( I think Frogtopus might be happy to be being fed again. EDIT: this is not an emo [...]
Sun, Jun 14, 2009 – 14:06
Saturday was the celebration of Luther’s wedding in Wittenberg, so I went to check it out. Once I got there, I realized it would have been a good idea to do research – there were at least two large churches in town, and postcard stands had a distinct lack of poscards with doors on them. [...]
Fri, Jun 12, 2009 – 10:48
So, Janine gave me a whole bunch of music by the German band Die Prinzen the other day. I remember watching “Millionär” in German class and “Deutschland” always reminds me of one of the videos from Big Show my senior year, so it’s really cool to hear the rest of their music. Evidently they perform [...]
Wed, Jun 10, 2009 – 15:59
There’s some awesome inspiration for my Cthulhu project on Motionographer! This morning I went to the English class the square dance caller teaches to answer questions from his 6th grade students. I was kind of worried about them asking questions that would either be too complicated to answer quickly or they wouldn’t ask any questions, [...]
