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4th of July
2005-07-04 00:04:53
The closest some of us will ever come to experiencing a war raging outside our quiet homes. Unlike gunshots, that crack and startle, rarely as fast and suffocating as machine guns on tv, these are bombs going off overhead. The windows rattle, my floor shakes and I feel like the ceiling is going to topple in and send my entire apartment crumbling to the basement where my cat is cowering from the explosions. In the country it was different. Few neighbors could afford the really loud 'firecrackers', the ones that don't crack at all, but rather boom and shake against the eardrums. I used to think there were laws against noise in small 'cities', at least against noise so loud at night that it rattles windows more than the loudest car crash outside your house ever could. I don't understand how anyone can enjoy hearing bombs go off overhead, more violent and rapid than any thunderstorm. Maybe it's because I'm inside. It isn't a light show, it's noise, an unwanted assualt on what should be a quiet night in a little city filled mostly with people over the age of sixty.
I don't like it. I find it offensive now that the few young people in this town are being sent home in boxes from their 'noble war on terrorism.' Their family members are listening to the explosions rattle thier homes and they're celebrating? Is it fun to think that this is their chance to feel what soldiers feel with bombs going off so close they can feel the shoundwaves on their skin? I find the noise disturbing, and the idea of those old people alone in their homes listening to the wall shake, those grandparents you only see if you go by Main Street every day and follow them driving ten miles per hour to and from the post office in hopes of some sort of human contact. Are they out there on their lawns giving false smiles to their adult children while explosions tear at their eardrums and their roofs are lit by green and blue lights? Or do they really believe the celebration is a credit to the number of them who've actually fought undre real explosions? I wonder how many are terrified in their homes, with the windows blocked off, reliving trauma that those cheerful kiddies enjoying the lightshow will never really understand.
Call me un-American, but as much as I enjoy the idea of a non-religious holiday celebrated by the nation, I'd rather keep the explosions isolated. Those of us who prefer not to have bombs go off over our homes should have a right to avoid the festivities. -
current project
2005-06-22 00:21:58
I'm now officially 2 months into my current video. That makes it the longest I've worked on a single video and I'm not even halfway through - I have 1min 30 seconds in a 3+ minute video. I know, that's nothing for those really dedicated editors. I know. But I'm a person who has trouble sticking to any single project for longer than a week. It helps that I'm rationing my time between this excessively tedious video and a very long fic (to be finished by September, I think...it has a deadline I need to meet).
The video is set to an overused song, but the footage is very original. I'm drawing and animating it. ^.^ It's a fanart video using anime characters (YYH and IY so far), but it's *my* fanart. I now know how to pull off those crossover vids I've been wanting to see. It may take longer to 'draw' an entire video, but the footage is more consistent than I could ever get editing frames to match anime 'coloring'. I hope to have the vid done by November at the latest. If my fic starts running behind, I'll have to stop drawing and rush to write (it has a deadline, the vid doesn't).
A few screencaps for anyone curious:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/19727326/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/19205504/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/18223140/
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hilarious
2005-06-16 23:12:55
I'm watching the Gotenks-Buu fight for the first time, in Japanese happily, and I can't remember the last time I laughed so much. This is great.
Just wanted to have that in writing. ;p -
high speed
2005-06-15 01:28:39
Yep, I'm breaking down and getting high speed internet access. There's only one service provider for my area, but they raised the price of dial-up by $52 a year - without raising the price of their high speed offer. So, yeah, I'm going high speed...
What does this mean? I can finally get started on the backlog of downloads I've been putting off since last year. ^_^;; I have some thirty editors I wanted to follow religiously - and I've only downloaded one out of ever 15 vids I've wanted to get due to time constraints. Who knows, maybe I'll find an hour now and then to drop a review. It could happen. - Paulo - 2005-04-28 19:35:20 Sucks that you're leaving. I kept thinking you'd be active again eventually. But you can still watch vids, right? Even if you can only stop by once a month, that's still something. 8(
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