[edit]

Once there was a little kid named Nari. This kid went to school. This school was full of different individuals from all over the world. Some of the kids were rich, others very poor. Some of them carried knives and some of them didn’t. The richest and most popular kid, Sam, carried a big knife with him at all times. This made some of the other kids jealous and others run to Sam for protection. Nari had a bad temper sometimes, but so far he had never tried to start a fight with any of the other kids and he didn’t even have a knife. Well one day Nari decided to start making a knife of his own. He swore he would only be using the knife to cut stuff with to help himself out and never use it as a weapon against any of the other kids. No one believed Nari, with good reason. Nari could be very mean-spirited sometimes and the other kids worried about Nari having a knife. Sam seemed worried most of all and got all the other kids together and started talking about what they could do to keep Nari from making a knife. A lot of them said they should just talk to Nari and figure out ways to let him get by with things without using a knife and ways to help him out if that’s all he really wanted a knife for. Some of the bigger kids, especially Sam, kept talking about how they should just beat Nari up and take the knife he was making and the tools he was using to make it away from him. Some of the other kids tried to object and say talking things out was the best way and simply beating the kid up was the dumbest and most immature thing to do. Sam made fun of these kids and called them sissies. Some of these kids started pointing out that the last time Sam beat up a kid who he thought was making a knife actually ended up not having any knife at all, let alone the tools to make a knife. Sam really hurt this kid and the kid still hasn’t recovered. So of course the other kids were worried about what Sam might do, but they were also worried that Nari might end up using the knife as a weapon. Nari was being very stubborn and did not want to stop making the knife, but mainly because Sam was pushing him around so much. Anytime some of the other kids started talking about ideas that would help Nari out he seemed to listen and at first he even stopped making the knife for a while. But then Sam kept pushing and now Nari was ignoring everyone and Sam started talking about the possibility of beating up Nari. Other kids called Sam’s words ridiculous and some other kids hesitatantly joined Sam’s side but were weary of speaking about beating Nari up. What will become of them all? Will Sam start acting mature and realize talking things out is the best method? Will Nari stop acting immature and stop ignoring the pleas of the other kids?

Even the biggest of issues can be summed up to playground politics.

OMG! Lost!

Click here to watch my newest animation for ART 230. We were required to make a visual representation of 45 seconds from a piece of experimental music. I used an animation of a spider I created with some video I created with my sister playing a spidery character. The song is a version of Tchaikovsky’s “Valse Sentimentale” by Clara Rockmore.

Honestly it didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped, but I think it’s partly because it is my first time doing something abstract without a narrative and so it was quite a challenge for me to try and keep things random. You know what I mean? I’m still proud of it though and I hope you all enjoy it.

I should hopefully have the Fischerspooner music video up by Thursday or Friday, but I’m extremely busy this week (working about 38 hours, volunteering 6 hours at the KSMU fundraiser, helping some friends shoot a film for about 8 hours this weekend, plus all my classes and homework) so don’t count on it. I do believe I could collapse from exhaustion soon if I don’t get some sleep so I bid you goodnight, and good luck.

Erin came over last night and we watched the cheesiest movie ever: Billy Jack. I really should rent the sequels, they have to be even worse. It’s probably the most god-awful movie I’ve ever seen, but it’s so cheesy and full of funny hippies that it’s a hilarious movie. During the movie we kept getting interrupted by our neighbors below us who had their bass BLASTING and the floor was shaking. So finally we decided to have a competition and blast some techno their way on my computer speakers, which the bass is incredibly loud on. They turned their speakers down after that.

After all of this fun we decided we needed to make a music video for the Fischerspooner song “Never Win” and so we did. And we used this “mirror effect” on my camera. And I’m currently editing it and turning it into one of those cheesy 80’s music videos. And since the music is semi-80’s sounding it will seem like it fits right in. It’s so stupid but for some reason we thought it was hysterical and brilliant at the time. I could lie and say we were drunk, but I won’t. Are we ever when we make these stupid things? I will have it linked on here soon.