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Wednesday was the day I lived inside a music video. I actually knew what it would be like to live in the world of the music video. One where the same song plays on a loop nonstop, where you cannot leave the location of the video, where people break into mime-rap mid-conversation and everyone is drunk and you are the only person sober, watching everything as you hope that this time will be the last time the song plays.

I was helping out my mate Chris Gray who was commissioned to work on a music video. And I thought I'd waste a day because, you know, I just have way too much time to spend on things that aren't main project-related. Oh well, it was fun. A bit of an experience.

Here are some photos from the set. The guy who looks like Seth Rogen is Jay Brett, the main guy and the chavvy guy is the character Devvo.







Also, this happened in town:

I can't sleep, and this is awful, because I have a class in little under 7 hours. Light seeps in through my curtain at the bit I can't close and it makes the room just too light to sleep in, it's too hot to put the cover over my eyes without choking to death and I can hear, slowly creeping into my skull in a slow and sullen but albeit irritating sounds of bass somewhere filling my brain with not so much sounds but an entire cacophony of bullshit. So I thought I'd write a blog and fall asleep at my computer like they do in the movies. It won't be nearly as restful but it won't be nearly as irritating either. I yawn, but I do not sleep. Sounds like the beginning of a pretty bad riddle.

So I figure I'll try to work for a bit. Tomorrow's lesson is probably the last one I can ask questions about my presentation before I have to do it and seeing I have no idea if what I've been working on is a good idea, maybe I'll just finish it and not tell the teacher about it, so she can't tell me what to improve. It's a bad, defeatist attitude, but in reality it's a "I don't really give a shit any more" kind of attitude.

I posted up the work in progress that is my Amanda Palmer's music video for Girl Anachronism onto Youtube. Its obviously not finished, missing about half of the footage, but it's getting there.

Another video I want to post is this hauntingly beautiful piece from a musical about Dracula called Entre L'amour et la Mort. It's amazing.

There's an artist on my iTunes called "artist". The album under that name is titled "title", the genre "default", the song "Track 02" (makes you wonder what happened to the first one), and the lyrics are pretty undefinable. A mystery indeed. Android music identifier Shazam isn't any help though, so I've taken the few lyrics I can get and googled them. Turns out it's "THE TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION of the Pure Concepts of Understanding. by Immanuel Kant Translation by Roderick T. Long Music and vocals by Paul L. Fine ." whatever the fuck that is.

Ok, time to stare blankly at the screen till I drop for a few minutes. I feel like Edward Norton at the start of Fight Club

So I've spent most of Easter holidays working on a music video for the Dresden Dolls' song Girl Anachronism. I have to do a minute of it, but I've barely got thirty seconds so far, and the aim of the assignment is to use a mix of 2D, 3D and stop motion, which wouldn't be so hard but the problem is I don't have the faintest idea what to do. I have these two clips here online at the moment. 

Also I'm working on a presentation and essay on the treatment of women in comic books which isn't going too smoothly as I don't really know what's acceptable for a pass grade in this class. It's about visual representations of things and buzzwords like discourse and context and none of it appeals to me at all so I'll be lucky to scrape a pass. Oh well

Also thinking on ideas for my big animation project for next year, and I really want to email a load of voice actors and see if any get back to me about doing a small voice part for a student film. I've heard some people managed to get them just because the actors like doing favours. I'll see if I strike lucky.

Now for some sleep and a more interesting post later