Another thing I did yesterday was an attempt at regular old-school (ish) animation. I didn't resort to pen and paper, but I did hand-draw all the frames. It came out pretty well, you can have a look at it right here.

WARNING: may cause mild hypnosis...

(I actually put together this and the stop-motion video in the previous post simultaneously, something my RAM did not appreciate...)

I did it all in Flash so that it would export to a gif nicely. I set up a little previous-2-frame ghost image manually, which was pretty handy for getting the trajectory looking right. But I hate the fact that in flash lines don't maintain their individuality - if you draw two lines on top of each other they become a single shape, unless you make a new layer for each line. And that's just annoying.

Of course, I forgot that Flash is a Piece of Shit^TM when it comes to exporting anything that isn't .swf (it only exports the first frame of movie clip objects - what use is that???)

So I ended up getting the frames of the animation by:

1. Playing the animation loop in the flash window
2. Trying to press PrintScrn at the frame I was up to
3. ...and then pasting each frame into photoshop

Such a high-tech approach, isnt it? (and I only realised afterwards that it would have been much easier to grab the right frames if I had set the framerate to 1 frame per second first).

Yesterday I made my first attempt at making a little stop-motion video. It didn't come out as good as I was hoping, but it's still kinda cool (and the b3ta folks seem to like it). Anyways, click here to have a lookie...

After posting that, I noticed that all of my recent titles end with an exclamation mark. Perhaps it is in the running for my most over-used punctuation mark?

On second thoughts, ellipsis wins that one hands down...

UPDATE: I uploaded a new version, it looks much better now!

Woo, as of today I'm free of exams for the short-term future, and that is a good thing! Of course, now my attention must focus on all that stuff I put off "just until exams are over" ;)

Tonight I jumped off a first-floor balcony onto a platform which was perhaps 4 feeet high. It would seem this was not high enough above the ground to avoid minor injury. I'm still hoping its just a little bruising, but walking is far from fun right now - we'll see how it feels in the morning.
- It was for a good cause though, I had to retrive some Jullging Club equipment which I acidentally propelled up there, and everything on the first floor was locked so I had to go up (and consequently down again) the outside.

Today I went CD shopping to kill some time. I feel a bit stupid asking them to see if they have any CDs by "The Robot Ate Me", and trying to spell "Phosphorescent" out loud. I tried two of the biggest stores stores but they only had one of the 6 CDs I'm currently interested in (CD Stores are lame :/), so I ended up coming home with the one they did have. It goes by the name of "The Robot Ate Me - Carousel Waltz", and it's looking (sounding?) like a fine choice thus far :)

In more general website-related news, I have ideas! for stuff! how unprecedented! It's different from previous stuff, so it might be better, or it might be worse. It will probably be fun though!
I don't want to talk too much though, it's better just to see it when it's done. So you'd better check back at least once a day to see if I've put anything new up. Or, you know, you could just get with the times and subscribe to my RSS feed ;)

I was told to write something, and this is exactly that!
Kevin Drew mentions in an interview about the new Broken Social Scene album:

"And it's kind of about that shift not really doing much, except taking people for an evening and telling them that it's gonna be okay. But you know, when they get to the next morning, they have the reminiscence of that feeling, but by the time the day is over, I'm sure a lot of them know, once again, it's not gonna be okay."

Sad, but true...

In other news, I qualified a 7-ball cascade yesterday (for non-jugglers: that's 14 throws and 14 catches of regular 7-ball juggling). And now my left shoulder is buggered... coincidence?

I've also decided that you can never really trust the wiki. Which is unfortunate - it showed so much promise...