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Oooh, more Tealin art! Gravy I adore her stuff.

Talk Like A Pirate Day will be here in just over a month! Wow, I just spelled that “munth.” Maybe I should go to sleep soon, yes? Anyway, start polishing your pirate parley post-haste!

Mmm, gotta love having a week’s worth of unread flist posts. It’s like getting a big box of candy. Which reminds me: is there a date for the RotK:EE release date yet?

Okay, sleep now.

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Mmmmm. Just downloaded a bunch of tracks from the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack. I was reminded of my Danny Elfman love when I observed that one of the artists at SIGGRAPH had used a snippet from the soundtrack as a stand-in score for a shortened version of his film. I’m going to get the CD tomorrow. Oh Danny Elfman, how I love thee!

In other news, this has me in tears of laughter. Thank you, Shoomlah, for making my day more politically hilarious! Her “What’d you have for lunch today?” Avenue Q icon randomly reminds of lunch today with mum and dad at Balls Hamburgers, which is managed by a very nice guy that always makes sure I get plenty of extra pickes for my cheeseburger, and also loves getting into political discussions as he is a die hard Conservative. When I made a joke about the burgers tasting better with Heinz ketchup, he told me that he had just bought four cases (64 bottles) of W Ketchup, which is quite possibly my favourite ridiculous Conservative product alternative. He threatened to replace all the Heinz bottles with W if Kerry won. Hee!

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Hawhaw! They’re releasing the first season of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates on DVD. Some time when I’m back in Dallas I’ll have to rent it just to chortle over mini!Dom Monaghan. Not to mention mini!Dom Monaghan in drag. Hey, now I remember! That’s who I reminded myself of at the PoA midnight showing when I wore my “Gryffindor Boys Are Easy”-style Hogwarts uniform and Kell’s platinum blonde wig! Haha, drag!Dom is secretly a HP Mary Sue! Hehehe, I’m sure screencaps alone cannot do the episode justice. I wonder if and when my beloved local independent movie store will acquire the set for rental…

In the meantime, the airport found my The Incredibles poster, so all swag has been merrily accounted for. W00t!

Oh, and Something Rotten was fantastic. I love you, Jasper Fforde.

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Home again! Siggraph was fantabulous. Alas, coming back home last night, I accidently left my favourite piece of swag–a poster from Pixar advertising “The Incredibles”–on the airplane, which is sad, but oh well. I’ll see if Paul (my DMD friend interning at Pixar this summer and fall) could get his hands on another for me. It all works out. :D

As most of the “Intermediate” level courses were WAY over my head, I mostly stuck to the Beginning Level, which on the most part seemed to deal with special effects and 3D animation in recent movies. Therefore, I spent a lot of my time gurgling over SFX breakdowns of scenes in LotR, Shrek 2, The Matrix Revolutions, Van Helsing, The Day After Tomorrow, Harry Potter, etc. My respect for these films has increased a thousandfold. I had never really comprehended exactly how much detail and finesse went into these movies; sometimes the special effects are so seamless you forget they’re there. And if these effects happen to be tied in with a storyline that isn’t particularly impressive, as is the case in a few of the aforementioned movies, sometimes it’s hard to separate the awesome special effects from the lame story. Very eye-opening.

Photos to come later! In the meantime, I need to catch up on a week of flist posts!

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Grfgh. I just wrote a massive entry about the various glees of Siggraph so far, but Blogger ate it. So much woe! I don’t have time to rewrite it now, as I’m off to lunch before the next course thing, so I’ll just say now that I’m having so much crazy fun, I’ve aquired a hefty amount of swag, and after the Weta Digital demonstration/presentation/course-thing, I want to watch all the battle scenes in LotR in slow motion just to take in all the Massive detail and such I had never internalized before. GUH of all GUHs.

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Ooh, an update on MirrorMask! Guh, this movie is going to be gurgle city. I want to be Dave McKean. I want Dave McKean’s beautiful artistic babies. Dave McKean + Neil Gaiman = Priscilla is a happy girl.

Do I remember reading in Neil’s blog that parts of the movie were shot in infrared film? Because that’s just awesome. And speaking of infrared, does anyone know if “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” makes use of infrared film? I rather doubt it, but it does have that look. No luck Googling, but ooh, this is interesting. I am so going to see that movie solely for the technology. XD

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Finally got around to seeing the new HHGTG teaser. Not much to say about it, given its abrupt length and lack of actual footage. The logo is nice. :D

Opinion Guage on Current Status of HHGTG Film: “Well, it looks like it’ll be better than the BBC version!”

After all, Disney brought us Pirates of the Caribbean.

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“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” –best Bushism EVER

In other news, I just discovered the Memory Archives on Rightclicklick, which makes me a very very happy person. :D