Am currently making gif animations for my uni project. Since we have an assessment on Monday(YES that’s THIS Monday.!), we’re all busily finishing our work off and labelling the ones from other units, writing essay(s) and panicking about. That’s one of five gif animation in series I need to submit for current unit. 

The project is called ‘Fact’ - we chose one exhibit from the museums given on the list to visit, studied the object or objects from one big category of the exhibit, did a good research. I just knew what I was going to do about - a bagpipe. Living only 5 min away from Horniman museum really helped a lot for my primary research. Then I went up to Glasgow(where my heart is.!) for a few days, visited the National Piping Centre’s great wee museum/gallery and a few kool places. (will blog about this later on -probably after the assessment)

We were given to choose one from five different formats for the final outcome - I chose gif animation set as I wanted to illustrate how it’s made/how it sounds/how the bag moves when it’s being filled with air/etc. It wasn’t easy to do since it had been so many years last time I did any animation work, but am actually beginning to enjoy it a lot.

Here’s my first attempt - an animation to explain how a piece of wood becomes a drone joint of a bagpipe.

Although I quite like it looking organic and its colour scheme, I didn’t feel very happy with it. So I spent another two hours to give it another go, with a different drawing style and all.

So here it is. Much better looking and very much ALIVE. Also easier to understand how a drone joint is made from a wood(originally trimmed from a tree). Am happy with the result, will do the other four with the same style. 

Hope everyone had a good Hogmanay, and Happy New Year 2012.!

Let the new year be Happy, Kreative, Inspirational, Prosperous, and most importantly and to sum it all - Rokk’n’Rolling one to everybody. I will eat less naughties and more chips, sleep in RITE time, laugh more in the new year.

O and, continue my glorious drinking habit. SLAINTE MHATH.!

*picture taken in Wales in Sept 2011.

Today I finally visited the wall in my local cemetery. It was a typical white military memorial wall with the rank/name/location are engraved on.

I walked past it many times but since it was located right in the edge of cemetery I hadn’t got the chance. I looked through all the names and ranks and a few offerings(a poppy cross and a Xmas wreath) and when I was looking at a few separated headstones I found out they’re post WWII as the dates were all in 1946-47.

Then I heard this weird and LOUD sound like a helicopter was flying over me. I felt NO wind nor did I see the fkkn helicopter. The sound was from outside(the wall’s located at the very end of the cemetery, and next to it is main road) but I’ve never EVER heard anything like that when I was on the road. It wasn’t a bus, or any types of motor. I was standing there trying to find where it’s from but not too long after it was gone.

Before the incident I was deeply touched and being sentimental by seeing all the names and imagining their life as soldiers, etc…and all those saddened feelings were gone by the time I walked out from the memorial.

Who’s this.? An American record producer/songwriter. The Runaways. A Loon. One of the early US punks. 

Kim Fowley.

I can’t count how many times I watched this film, probably around ten times.? It’s a beautifully made artwork dedicated to Joe Meek, but with no exaggerations on its storytelling. Before seeing this film for the first time, I knew very little about him although I had heard his name a lot of times, then BANG - I was baffled whilst watching his tragic life which has ended in a very sad way.

I didn’t cry once, but my heart sank almost every time I watched it especially at the end of the film. However at the same time it’d give me tons of inspirations and would definitely motivate me a lot. What can I say more. It is a terrific film; go and watch it… Over and over again.!

R.I.P. Joe Meek the Pioneer of Popular Music. (1929 - 1967)

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/joe-meek-and-telstars-tragic-tale-1670448.html

Festive snack indeed. Am eating tons o chestnuts these days..they’re so good. All you need to do is cutting X on each ‘nut and roast them in an oven for 15 mins.

AND some Vocab book updates… It’s a ‘homework’ given to prevent us from playing/enjoying doing nothing/sleeping all day/etc etc - during Winter break. How wonderful. Of course it’s just a wee part of the whole homework mountain we’re given to conquer. Well, working on hols is always much better than reading comics isn’t it…

I’ve almost finished a book(we’re supposed to use only 3 colours by our own choice and fill out a3 sketchbook with a lot o drawings of things given on the list) but will do another one or two as they’re expecting more than one stinking book. Again, nae complaints here.

I also noticed it’s been AGES since I updated anything on here(and the college one) so will try doing some catch-ups on whatever I’ve been doing for the last…a few months.