Some updates on things faring, and since everything comes in twos, here we go!


Good news: My dad managed to get the adapter (aka box dohickey on the recharger) fixed, so I may not have to buy a new one after all <3
Bad news: It may be a while before I'll have time enough to visit them as to pick it up. He also wished to test it first, in case the new wiring might have a hitch somewhere. Technically it should work but you never know..

Good news: Got a substantial amount of the movie project done in keyframes (18 and a half scenes out of 54) this past two weeks.
Bad news: The 'half' of a scene which compromises of the first 5 seconds of the movie is still MIA somewhere in the piles of paper at the department.. as a result, I can't finish off that scene either to make it count as the 19th.

Good news: Been going on different kinds of tea, but I may have found one which helps animate as well as keeps me awake enough as to not become zombiefied.
Bad news: I can't drink it if I plan to go to sleep in the next 2 hours, else I'll be up for the next 4..

Good news: The first week of school promises to be pretty easy as we have nearly nothing scheduled yet (plenty of time to wrap other stuff up).
Bad news: As a result, we also have no bleemin' clue what our schedule will look like aside some random courses set in place already. This makes for gawdawful planning.

Good news: Worked out an idea for a plan to assign a certain amount of work on certain days of the week (like, animate on monday, edit scenes on wednesday, work on TC pages on tuesday/thursday and colour them on friday/weekend).
Bad news: That idea requires us to have an actual schedule to incorporate it into, not to mention TC still needs a script re-work which will take a week or so of discussions with Josie at the least..


Other than that, things are chugging along surprisingly non-chaotic, despite the occasional lack of order or perspective. It's also a strange yet familiarizing feeling when you actually have birthday parties to go to in this month. Not used to knowing people who also have a birthday in September.. probably because in school I was the only one for nearly half of the term served there (there was one other, but she left in the 6th or 5th grade).

And we got plums <3

Recently a tragedy struck my frail little online life when Neph's recharger (Yes, I do name some of my most used appliances, sue me) cord melted, leaving the laptop to survive on what precious little power there was left in the two batteries I have for it. While normally it wouldn't be seen as much of a big deal, then to consider Neph's a pretty old model and all the new ones have nothing that could be used on it as well, I still linger with a concern of whether a new charger box/brick dohickey of Neph's model is still in excistance somewhere..

Hooking up with the local Dell representive told me they'd search around for one and get back to me, but the delivery could take up to 3 weeks. The bummery aspect is that searching online would amount to about the same worth of waiting time for it to be delivered (outside Estonia, only found one from a local vendor that's almost fitting, but the amps were a bit too high) plus a rather evil postal fee to boot, no doubt.

So, yeah.. up until then, I'll be forced to use the remaining 'juice' sparingly and pop online from the department or from the desktop at home (just as soon as I manage to finish wrestling my brother for it).

But, on a lighter note, artz and photos!
( Redoings and Amusement [4] )


( Pretty much all the snappers I've been meaning to post for the past year, but haven't bothered [Dontmakemecount] )

In light of discovering movies I'm yet to see, found a channel on Youtube with a whole bunch of trailers, including the ones I was looking for. So, after having hunted through the list for some time, thought I might as well compile a To See list of my own:

- 2012
- 9
- The Brothers Bloom
- Daybreakers
- Planet 51
- Ninja Assassin
- Mutant Chronicles
- The Last Airbender
- Whiteout
- The Book of Eli
- Tron: Legacy
- Sherlock Holmes
- Avatar


More may be added as huntin' continues

Things I Learned on Vilsandi (Spit of Island west of Saaremaa, for the confused):

- The little island has it's share of odd natural mutations in the local fauna. Such include the killer-swallows that swoop at you relentlessly whenever you cross the farm's yard, the bohemian woodpeckers that value a good sound of a small wooden house over food for days and the uncommon earwig, that's just Friggen' Big.

- I have a kind of an affliction to injuring my right hand in many different kind of ways, including but not limited to: slamming the fridge door so the thumb gets stuck between the door and the 'ridge' over the door, scratching myself over a dust-bin's uncovered screw, slicing the skin between the thumb and the index finger with a knife while attempting to dry it (slippery blighters..) and getting it bitten by a horse.

- Vilsandi is afflicted in storms as I am in injuring my right hand.

- The only exception to the former is the President. Vilsandi storms either fear his presence or the presence of his Secret Service. In either case, Presidential visit meant a day of sunshine in an otherwise week long rain, thunder, howling winds and general muckery of weather.

- In terms of puddle jumping vs. rainstorm fishing, rainstorm fishing wins.

- In terms of rainstorm fishing vs. speedboat traveling, speedboat traveling wins.

- Even in water up to my chin, it is still possible to seriously scrape one's knee upon divings. Still, the water was crystal clear, so that made up for it :3

- Kuressaare airport is very much like Kopenhagen airport in the sense of the approach and landing. In case of Kopenhagen you spend 5 minutes on approach over the sea and the final last 10-15 seconds watching tarmac go by and land. In Kuressaare, you spend all but the last two seconds between approach and tyre's hitting asphalt going "Ohshiterockstrentchesgrasslandrocksrockrocks!"

- You don't quite miss tea until you've gone a week without.. And although I do not think myself addicted to gummibears, they were sorely missed. (Note: There is no store on Vilsandi. Even if there were, I highly doubt they'd sell 'em)

- Cows are scary up close.. And no, I don't mean this in a City-slicker-never-seen-one-alive sense. I mean it in a sense where it's midnight, there's one staring you in the face, with a calf, a whole bunch of party people shouting and laughing around and being in a semi-fenced area.
I'd get nervous too, honestly..

- Estonian islands can only be classified as Large, Small, Smaller, Smallest, Tiny and Spit-of Lands. Seriously, when compared it all makes sense.

- I forgot how much I loved Dannyl <3 (*discovered she still was half-way through The Magician's Guild, which she started reading, oh, around November last year?*

( Sum Artz [8] )

Josie is to be blamed for my quite contant giggly-fits in terms of the icon.

( 'Hamster gets to go out to the 'vet!' [7] )

In an odd tid-bit of A Lesson From Life, one doesn't really realize just how much they might use the thumb on their handed (whether you are right- or left-handed) hand, before they go and tear a nice gash in it against a screw in a wooden lid, on the inner palm's side.

Up side! Slightly Disabled apparently makes for odd artz:
( Supposed-To-Have-Been-Daily-But-No-Longer-Is Challenges [9] )

( And music-inspired stuff + Amusement [4] )

One slab of artz to go with the scale-fingers to complete the day:



Tried something a bit different with this, but now I'm also unsure where to take it from here. The lineart looks more or less good, but coloured it might be even better. The question with colours is whether to take some kind of odd route with that as well, and if so, which one? Or just to go with the usual and see what happens x3;

Ah, decisions, decisions..

I keep trying to prove it wrong, but sometimes.. Stuff like this happens:


( Moar Under Tha Cut )