Which talks about script writing (again) and a movie

Script Frenzy starts tomorrow and I am totally pumped, man! Okay, I'm not totally pumped. I'm more scared. I've never written a script before, let alone a screenplay. Plus, basically, I'm scared that it'll suck. But then I realise that I shouldn't even be scared for a few reasons:

1. Nobody but me has to read it.

2. It's just a draft. So it's supposed to suck.

3. 100 pages in script format is not that long

4. I now have something to procrastinate over!

And procrastination is always fun.

In other news, American Gods* is being turned into a movie! Which I'm quite pleased about. Although, I had always thought of it as being better suited as a television series - purely because it's got a very detailed plot line and I think a 6 to 8 episode series would do it much more justice than smooshing everything into a 2 hour movie.

My posts are never long. But they'll probably get longer, as I procrastinate more through the month of April while writing my script.

*American Gods by Neil Gaiman is a book you must read. Read it and thank me later.

Which talks about script writing and graduating from studies

I've decided that I'm going to participate in ScriptFrenzy this year. If you haven't heard of Script Frenzy - it's run by the same people who run NaNoWriMo, except instead of writing a 50,000 word novel in a month (like you do in NaNoWriMo), you have to write a 100 page screen play in a month.

I've wanted to compete in NaNoWriMo/ScriptFrenzy since I found out about them way back when I started University. I've had a rather awesome story idea kicking around in my brain since then but both events seem to run right when assessments are due. So I never had the time to put a solid effort in. However, now, I've finished Uni and have all the time in the world to do whatever I please! It's about time I start doing something constructive with my free time.

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In other news, I finally know the date of my Uni graduation! May 16th at 2:30pm. I'm not really looking forward to the whole ceremony thing (I'm just more into the whole "Yay, I've now officially finished Uni" side of things), but I figure since I spent 3 years of my life slaving away studying about networks and programming and design and animation that I probably should attend my ceremony. And hey, I get to wear a wafting robe for a couple of hours.

Which talks about shopping and photos and shoes

Lauren and I had our shopping trip yesterday (yay!) and while I didn't end up getting exactly what I went in for (I wanted some new sneakers..), I did get some nice spoils. Which is good, 'cause I usually don't buy many things for myself..I'm not much of a wanter.

I ended up getting two tshirts and a little bag. I am a little bit obsessed with t-shirts, and them and jeans and a nice jacket is basically my staple wardrobe (unless I'm required to look nice..in which case it's a dress....and boots). That being said, I don't think there's anything wrong with wearing subtle variations of the same thing everyday. As my sister pointed out - you're basically like a comic book character, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I also got my second roll of film developed! On my first roll of film I used the view finder a lot, and the photos came out perfectly framed and lovely. On my second roll, I skipped using the viewfinder all together and the results were varied. Some turned out as really lovely fluke shots - others had peoples heads chopped off. It's all part of a learning experience though, and snapping away with a film camera is so much fun!

Here are some of the results:

This is my sister. Snapped at the Sydney Opera House when we went to see Amanda Palmer (thus the Amanda Palmer poster in the background). I really like how it turned out, despite the over exposed left hand side (entirely my doing - I accidentally opened the camera back before the film was fully rewound).

This is out the front of the Opera House (obviously..), and again, the over exposed side because of my folly..But I think it turned out nice.

And lastly, one of Lauren and Duong.

I think I posted all of the dodgy pics on here. There are lots of lovely in frame ones that I've posted up on my Lomo profile. So if you feel so inclined you can have a squizz at them on there.

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I've found that whenever I want a new pair of sneakers, and I find a pair that I really like, they never have my size. It's a real pain, and it keeps happening to me.

Anyway, I saw these yesterday and I really like them and they didn't have my size. Massive fail.

In which there's talk of concerts, film and a cat

My last post ended rather abruptly. I got distracted halfway, by realising that The Wombats had released their Australian tour dates, and their tickets for Sydney were already on sale! So I had to quickly buy two and in my excitement my blog went unfinished.

I've been waiting to see the Wombats for a while now. Well, since 2008 when they last came down here and did sideshows. I didn't end up seeing them then, due to the Fratellis playing on the same night (or it might have been the night after...). Either way, I had to choose between them and the Fratellis, and the Fratellis obviously came first. And it was a good decision, considering the Fratellis are on a "break" at the moment, and the Wombats are still together...

Also, I've finished War of the Worlds, and am now onto reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Most people who know me would know that Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite authors (after Douglas Adams) and reading Good Omens, or anything by Neil for that matter, just makes me think of Adams writing style. And that makes me happy. Straight to the point with round about reasonings make me happy.

On the weekend I'm going shopping with Noble, during which I should really get my latest roll of film developed as it's finally finished and I can't wait to see what photos I've taken. I know that the last half of the roll would be from Wesley's party, and then the middle from the Amanda Palmer concert, but I think there are some miscellaneous ones at the start there and it'll be interesting to see what they're of.

In the meantime, here's a photo from my first roll, of my cat Tod, doing what he does best (being a poser while I take happy snaps of him).

Thought I'd do a quick photo post showing my snail tank. Too small to house a fish, it's now home to my family of about 8 tiny snails, all of which are so small, it's proven impossible to get a proper photo of one of them without the snail turning out a brown blur.

I've been reading War of the Worlds recently, and should finish it on my next train journey tomorrow morning. It's a really good book, and you should read it if you haven't already. I think, in the time it was written it would have blown people's minds, what with the alien invasion, the technology. We're all a bit desensitised to that kinda thing nowadays. Plus, it's all about technology evolving, and I would really like to see it as a movie actually set in the 1890's, when technology such as the aliens were using would have been so much more advanced and unimagined by humans, as opposed to the film being set in the 50's or present day.

Although, Google tells me that a version of the movie was made that was set in the 1890's, but didn't do quite well and was therefore went straight to DVD only in America. ..Worth investigating.

I like to believe the alien technology to be a little something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA (Theo Jansen's Strandbeest).

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Just bought tickets to see The Wombats play at the Enmore in May. So. Excited. My God.

The Beginning

So, it seems that when I open up Photoshop at home instead of work, all inspiration to create that amazing web page design has disappeared and all I am left with is a Photoshop file with guidelines marked out and a grey rectangle in the middle.

I think I shall leave the designing of my blog until I get sick of black text on a white background.

Note: This may be never.