Pirates, puppets, animated animals, and DVD burners
My friend Sam Hale is up for 3 Regional Emmies for his pilot show,
Captain Sid. It was fun to work on, the one day that I did. I painted a boat portal, puppeteered a right hand for an Ogre -- performed by Victor Yerrid, a great puppeteer who's worked on Greg the Bunny and Bear & the Big Blue House -- and puppeteered an Easter Island statue... Oh yeah! A pirate hamster too.
Meanwhile, I'm taking a puppet-building class and a TV puppetry class taught by Michael Earl, who has worked the Muppets and *almost* got to work on Avenue Q until they decided that they would train regular actors how to be puppeteers. There is a definite shortage of good puppeteers who look good on stage and can sing. Though in general, there's not a lot of need for them until something like Avenue Q comes along, once in a foamcore blue moon.
One more week of Spider-man 2. Then I rest... then I'm on a CG cartoon movie called 'Open Season.' Think Ice Age, only with woodland animals. There are some talented designers and animators on the movie -- some of the same folks who made 'Stuart Little' and even a few refugees from Pixar
Ooh... also this week I got a DVD Burner, plus 150 blank DVDs for a steal. $100 from some guy in my apartment building. Took a couple of hours to get installed, but in the process I actually solved the problem of my bad IDE hard drive -- it wasn't the drive at all! It was the cable that was flakey. But now I can watch DVDs again (Hooray!) and even copy them with a now illegal program called DVD X Copy. I bought it the day the courts ruled that it's illegal. Even though it enables a consumer to invoke the Home Recording Act of 1996 (which officially lets you make copies of recordings you've bought as long as you don't sell them), they are guilty of violating the 1998 DMCA law that prohibits "circumventing protection," even if that protection is trivial to break or that you might need to just to use what it is that you buy. Think of it this way. Imagine it were against the Law to make crowbars (which could be used to steal cars) that you could use to get into locks you own, on property you own, that now you've lost the keys for. Can you see how silly this is? Just about anything can have an illegal use. Prosecute that, not the tool.
Meanwhile, I read an article undermining the Recording Industry Assocation of America (R.I.A.A)'s claim that they are losing money on CD sales. Can you say, "suspicious accounting practices" anyone? "Cooking the numbers"?
My friend Sam Hale is up for 3 Regional Emmies for his pilot show,
Captain Sid. It was fun to work on, the one day that I did. I painted a boat portal, puppeteered a right hand for an Ogre -- performed by Victor Yerrid, a great puppeteer who's worked on Greg the Bunny and Bear & the Big Blue House -- and puppeteered an Easter Island statue... Oh yeah! A pirate hamster too.
Meanwhile, I'm taking a puppet-building class and a TV puppetry class taught by Michael Earl, who has worked the Muppets and *almost* got to work on Avenue Q until they decided that they would train regular actors how to be puppeteers. There is a definite shortage of good puppeteers who look good on stage and can sing. Though in general, there's not a lot of need for them until something like Avenue Q comes along, once in a foamcore blue moon.
One more week of Spider-man 2. Then I rest... then I'm on a CG cartoon movie called 'Open Season.' Think Ice Age, only with woodland animals. There are some talented designers and animators on the movie -- some of the same folks who made 'Stuart Little' and even a few refugees from Pixar
Ooh... also this week I got a DVD Burner, plus 150 blank DVDs for a steal. $100 from some guy in my apartment building. Took a couple of hours to get installed, but in the process I actually solved the problem of my bad IDE hard drive -- it wasn't the drive at all! It was the cable that was flakey. But now I can watch DVDs again (Hooray!) and even copy them with a now illegal program called DVD X Copy. I bought it the day the courts ruled that it's illegal. Even though it enables a consumer to invoke the Home Recording Act of 1996 (which officially lets you make copies of recordings you've bought as long as you don't sell them), they are guilty of violating the 1998 DMCA law that prohibits "circumventing protection," even if that protection is trivial to break or that you might need to just to use what it is that you buy. Think of it this way. Imagine it were against the Law to make crowbars (which could be used to steal cars) that you could use to get into locks you own, on property you own, that now you've lost the keys for. Can you see how silly this is? Just about anything can have an illegal use. Prosecute that, not the tool.
Meanwhile, I read an article undermining the Recording Industry Assocation of America (R.I.A.A)'s claim that they are losing money on CD sales. Can you say, "suspicious accounting practices" anyone? "Cooking the numbers"?
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