desection

Been beavering away on a graphic design/illustration project. Hence the neglect to the world of MYOPERA. Not just that, falling behind in all else...



Salvation is just round the bend though (doesn't sound quite right!), although certainly not in the isle of dogs where i've been sort of residing....


Said salvation takes the form of a trip to Clermont-Ferrand for a festival where one of my old videos is doing the rounds: Videoformes festival of digital art & new media

Always wanted to drive to Italy so am testing the water and going in my old Fiat which should be fun. My partner-in-crime and daughter probably won't be overly impressed with the 10 hour+ drive BUT why fly when you can bumble along in virtual antique and take in the sights?!!?

Anyway - will take my little panasonic camera and catch some highlights or maybe lowlights. We'll see....

Couldn't resist having a bit of photocollage fun with this one:

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/02/slow_white_hous.html




Call me a cad but i still wouldn't hang out with an ageing republican armed with a double barrel shotgun. Maybe I didn't go to the right kind of school - you have to be 'educated' for that kind of thing!

How difficult is it anyway to shoot a frightened bird with a bloody great gun that sprays hundreds of tiny metal balls in a .75m diameter circle at 35m - with (up to) 80% percentage of shot?

They must be pretty tough those guys. Phew!

Few days of being unable to get OPERA to work with my community page. Now using Firefox which works just fine. Anybody got a problem with this (ie from Opera Corp) - then tell me how the £**$ to get it working. I've tried all the settings in preferences etc.

Nothing particularly interesting to report except my 2yr old daughter:star: has become addicted to animated cartoons. She wakes me at four in the morning now, remote in one hand and a DVD in the other, gesticulating in the direction of the living room. Starting to wonder if the producers put something in them, bit like MSG in food.

Also see that yet another hollywoodish film is looking at the old mental health chestnut.

'Proof' : http://www.miramax.com/proof/ stars Lady Gwyneth Paltrow, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Knave Jake Gyllenhaal and apparently "explores the links between genius and madness". Let's face it, if you want to really do this, head off to your local nut house and visit one of the thousands of people who are locked away or live in the community as undiscovered geniuses, spend most their lives living without hardly any cash, in isolation and obscurity and recieve little more than an excess of their fair share of predjudice.

This couldn't be much further removed from the world of hollywood ivory towers et al. I suppose it is good that they do this and i for one should see these films. BUT, i'd rather rewatch one flew over cuckoos nest which has more real people and not super human androids pretending to be real people. Therefore will wait for the DVD. Get the feeling it won't be too long.

Having said that, i excuse Jake G. because Donny Darko is a GOOD film that as far as i'm concerned says more about mental illness than 'Proof' appears to.

As they say.. the proof is in the pudding so let me know otherwise if you've seen this film and were stunned by the authenticity of it..