tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50449722024-03-06T08:17:10.741+13:00animbus...now with added ink!Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.comBlogger195125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-72970806112733750222013-09-04T21:46:00.002+12:002013-09-04T21:51:32.943+12:00Hauling Pixels.I dreamed that I'd updated the new website with all the images from the old one, that I wished to take. It looked shiny. Needless to say, I woke to find that this had not magically transpired.
In the meantime, before me there are four external hard-drives. If they had expressions, they'd be smug. They know I have to sort through the labyrinth of fileage.
Why you require high resolution images, Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-8057104160000955132013-08-21T16:06:00.001+12:002013-08-21T16:06:50.770+12:00I sit down with my pen and brush, I draw and...I listen to Welcome to Night Vale.
http://commonplacebooks.com/welcome-to-night-vale/
It is a weird and wonderful little Lovecraftian style podcast set in a curious little town in the desert, from the perspective of the radio broadcaster "Cecil".
Sadly, I am now up to date on all current episodes... which means I will have to start all over again.
Ahhhh fate. Ahhhh time. Ahhhh fate and time Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-9777270356843206182013-07-19T09:43:00.000+12:002013-07-19T09:43:11.201+12:00One step ahead of the ColdI'll say this for headcolds. They'll send you to bed early, but if you are lucky, you'll wake up and feel a little better - at a silly hour of the morning, whereupon you will at once become productive!So I've got the basics of the site up and running now.
4ormat's hosting is working out alright (subdomain and I, we are sorted - the pictures will be loaded up in better resolution in due course), Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-46190135108852655072013-07-19T00:36:00.003+12:002013-07-19T00:36:47.316+12:00Drawing 42...
Significance Lost... (The VSG is not always up to speed on its pop-culture references!)Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-39608949335489924972013-07-14T10:51:00.002+12:002013-07-14T10:53:10.552+12:00Portfolios? HNNGH!
Still climbing the slopes of "make online portfolio" - wordpress made me grumpy, so I'm exploring the ins and outs of another called 4ormat - although I prefer not to place my entire site into their keeping, because I like being able to access the behind the scenes stuff. (I'm a tweaker, I like to play around with making stuff and things.) So if I can resolve the little issues of Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-17010175721171061792013-07-02T00:24:00.002+12:002013-07-02T00:29:21.359+12:001/4 way there...Quarter of the way through the 100 day challenge!
Boy am I glad I didn't go with my first choice of idea (I was being stubborn).
I think it was around day 14 that the ideas seemed to flag, but it turns out they just come and go in bursts.
And some days, one notion leads to another. Once, a friend said "in a pompom hat". Which produced the above, in an oblique nod which folk either get, or theyKirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-41176195442699404992013-06-25T15:19:00.000+12:002013-06-25T15:20:22.419+12:00100 Days ProjectSo! Been involved in this then...
http://100daysproject.co.nz/project/2013/700
And as a motivation, I am endeavoring to set up a site for the illustrated things!
Currently it's www.drawingformonkeys.com, but I'm developing one that is www.kjwright.com, for the characters that are particularly mine.
Today's 100 day effort looks like it will be an "under construction gif" - heh!Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-6149139856792655552012-11-03T17:31:00.002+13:002012-11-03T17:31:48.258+13:00OmnomnomnomnomicconAaaaannnnd now it's November. Only two months between posts, that's not too bad for me!
Recent responses to a particular movie trailer, newly released, that I enjoyed watching. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=jDd9B1m2LCk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9QUtsAsqR4&feature=watch_response
I am glad there are some excited folk. There's something lovely about Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-35044230564379557452012-08-08T01:12:00.001+12:002012-08-08T01:12:22.729+12:00Almost forgot to mention.Hit 40 very recently.
Reversed, ran over it a few times, got used to it.
I wrote a letter to myself when I was 30, for this point in time. I shall read it on returning to the PIT OF DOOM. In a couple of days. Oh the GUILT!Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-78381880739920305072012-08-08T00:45:00.000+12:002012-08-08T00:47:42.153+12:00The Antisocial Networker's grandmother.Hihi. Yeeeees, it's been some time.
Enjoying the company of the grandmother, thinking about the future, doing not nearly enough to warrant a newsworthy blog! I wish I did. I wish I could regale you with grand tales of what I was up to, but let's face it, sitting in a reclining chair with a cup of tea, watching competitors on a cooking show and conversing with Grandma, is not exactly earthbreakingKirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-29704255733615185742012-04-08T19:38:00.003+12:002012-04-08T19:50:35.969+12:00Art of MashI don't know how many of you find yourself every so often listening to one song, and thinking of another song. But I appreciate the geniuses that do, and who then go out and "MAKE IT SO!"It's a divisive topic. Some folk hate 'em, then there's the whole shennanigans of copyright - the mash-up however, lives in a curious place I think. The bands are acknowledged, the songs themselves are not "Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-45772460032162358012012-04-08T19:29:00.002+12:002012-04-08T19:37:53.081+12:00Nundisclosure.The art of exposing the population to the existence of Nuns.On the other hand, nondisclosure must be taken seriously, and I think I shall have to curtail any future comments that might relate to work (fun though it would be, in some cases), or else start some kind of timewarp blog where I talk about things that happened a year in the past! (given my current rate of posting, this would not be hardKirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-67013850037171735092011-10-11T04:41:00.001+13:002011-10-11T04:43:09.854+13:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVysLueRqD0Uploaded a clip to youtube of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers drummers in action!Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-90987940448585385152011-10-11T00:23:00.003+13:002012-04-08T19:22:10.817+12:00Madness! Power! Domination!Erm. Somehow I've been busy this past month, doing STUFF and THINGS.I've attended two matches at the Rugby World Cup, and been to see the Red Hot Chilli Pipers (that's PIPERS, people, not Peppers) twice, done copious stereophotography, and I'm sure I've been doing other things but it's late!That sounds like drugs really. "She's taken copious amounts of stereophotographs, Sir. She's lost to the Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-20644726630626341862011-07-12T22:19:00.004+12:002011-07-12T22:27:31.193+12:00In which film gets processed, toasties get eaten, and I join a gym...Well, the title says it all.In the quest for re-motivation, I have been told that exercise promotes such feelings, ergo, I finally signed up for membership to a 24 hour place. (given that the times I am likely to want to exercise, for gods know what reason, are not terribly conventional.I also ate of the toasties of cheesiness, enjoyed the company of friends most excellent, and had some slide Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-13781499088080861512011-07-08T22:56:00.002+12:002011-07-08T23:12:34.177+12:00OMG dinosaur *waves hands manically like a four year old*So yes. I went to see the big ol' animatronic dinosaur event (Walking with Dinosaurs) - and verily it was fun and full of big animatronic beasties who looked pretty darned good, and went RAAAAAR.I took along the vintage stereocamera as well, although the roll of film within has misbehaved badly, and I'll need the assistance of a lab to Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-3681968471964774802011-06-06T01:34:00.003+12:002011-06-06T01:36:54.169+12:00Things conventionalHad a Spleeeendid time at ConText, many fine folk to listen to and talk with.This was a good event to refire some much jaded creative nerves.Featured Catherine Asaro and Donald Wolcott as the international guest speakers/performers, and the discussion panels were lively and interesting.I shall check it out next year, and hope to see some of the faces I met, again.Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-74027475692722096252011-05-25T11:38:00.001+12:002011-05-25T11:41:04.116+12:00My proposal for the Wellywood sign.Given that I had some stupid dream the other night where there was a sign building competition on the proposed site, and it was won by a coffee stand...This is what I was trying to put up, in my dreams.Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-61374488568408128412011-05-21T15:21:00.003+12:002011-05-21T15:46:17.325+12:00Intellectual - Properly!Ahhhh the joys of helping Grandma comprehend the interwebs. Her mental imagery of the goings-on in cyberspace is one I continue to treasure.She is infuriated by the men and/or corporations who steal her broadband.We've been trying to move her past the dial up modem stage - although in its defence it is being far more reliable than the bandwidth guzzling mobile stick!) Problem appears to be with Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-14037111651815789252011-05-08T13:26:00.001+12:002011-05-08T13:28:34.801+12:00Ode to a "Massage Chair"Mighty Mighty Massage Chair.How silly I look and feelNot unlike a jello hampsterIn a fast vibrating wheel.(written at Dunedin airport whilst waiting for a connecting bus)On the way to Grandmother's house. Hurrah!Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-80092771824753392852011-04-17T02:04:00.000+12:002011-04-17T03:10:26.269+12:00YAAAAAY!Lordy, what a whinging git I've been in these last few posts!The latest contract seems to be over now... seems to... I'll believe it when the movie's out, just to be certain.On the "things of oddness" front, I found some slides on the ground on my way into work recently. Me being me, I went "Oo! Slides! I wonder what they're of..."Lo and behold, it turned out to be of one Heath Ledger! (nothing Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-64626282001846524822011-03-29T05:01:00.000+13:002011-03-29T05:49:30.852+13:00wasteWhat I should also mention, is that nearly 4 weeks of very hard work got flushed down the toilet.A couple of posts back, I was hopped up on energy drinks, because I'd just worked until about 4 in the morning to meet yet another (as it turned out, pointless) morning deadline.The powers that be have asked for the (virtual) cameras to be revisited. They've decided it's necessary.(This is something Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-88846146962879782772011-03-29T03:40:00.002+13:002012-04-08T19:26:57.536+12:00I r fruzenIt was so cold today in the workroom, that not only have the polarbears moved into the renderfarm room, but penguins have shifted under the work desks.I know the sun is shining outside, and we've barely hit autumn, so this "airconditioning"* is just a bit harsh, no?This contract - at this point, can only be improved by doing everything with a pencil, and a lump of plasticine. What a silly Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-75929403473568384992011-03-24T03:55:00.000+13:002011-03-24T04:06:54.543+13:00ArggfurbleThat's right.The noise you make at some interminable hour of the morning , still hopped up on the drinks of "energy".Still. Soon .. soon this project will be put to bed. And then, so may I find my own!This is promising.Brought a bunch of monarch chrysalises on a (well decimated!) potplant, in to work. It's been butterfly madness, and I think it's been entertaining for my colleagues too.Yesterday Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044972.post-21886612828765633032011-02-01T19:01:00.000+13:002011-02-01T19:10:50.927+13:00Boy.It's been a whirlwind of birth, death, marriage, and birthdays these past couple of months.I lost my remaining grandpa (a lovely euphemism that. Where did I put him?) at the end of December. It was sudden, and we were all thrown for a bit of a loop.And now I have returned from staying with my grandma, who turned 90. She's still brighter than I am , by a long shot! (this is not a difficult Kirbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05061606019956228751noreply@blogger.com2