It is summer time now. I haven't been doing much. This is not good.

Spending too much time around the house. Inaction and isolation have made me a little paranoid than usual. Jumpy. Is not good.

I was surprised by a spider today. Usually spiders don't bother me, but when they seemingly appear out of nowhere, crawling down your torso, they are a little more unsettling. Now every nook and cranny is haunted by phantom spiders, waiting for the opportune moment.

Good God, summer is terrible. Freedom is all well and good, but I am bad at doing things on my own that aren't lounging around and art (and even the latter is not doing so well recently). Looking forward to next week. Going to (help) teach animation to kids at HTMMA. Finally going to do something productive, which will be nice. The animation style the camp focuses on is paper animation using a (and I'm not sure I'm spelling this right) multiplan. It's basically a series of glass shelves with a camera affixed to the top, pointing downwards. You can then arrange various layers of the shot (background, characters, foreground, etc) on different glass "shelves" and be able to animate your little paper cut-out people around without disturbing your background or foreground!

Personally, I'm more of a 3D animation guy (meaning stop motion on a 3D plane, not computer animation), but this is pretty cool too. Really cool actually. I want one. It eliminates my second greatest enemy: GRAVITY. You may not understand, but as an animator, gravity is a BITCH.

Speaking of cool, I think some of you (Tyler in particular) would like BLU. [link]

Anyway, I'm lonely. Please, for the love of God, talk to me! I'll try not to foam too much.