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Don't forget to read November's entries.

Sat-12-30-2000 - The Ocean

Update - New journal entry, The Ocean avaliable for free on front page

Journal - Artistic frustration at expensive exhibits. Art is for living!

Hi. Today's most important thing is the releace of my little mini book, "the ocean". I hope everyone orders this one. There's no charge no postage no nothing. No secure online payment. No payment whatsoever, so why not get one?

Today I went to an art exhibition in a city called "park city" Park city was a mining town a while back, but now it's just a little ski town for all the rich folks and the occasional movie star. The artists name was Alexendaria Nichita. (I'm sorry I'm pretty sure I spelled this one wrong) The best description I could give to her is picasso, only not perverted, and done by a 15 year old girl. I left my camera at home so there is no picture. Anyway, I don't want to say it was totally derivitave, because it wasn't. It was a really nice show. But the problem was is it was so crowded, first off. Which is one thing and I am very happy for another persons success, but I am very sorry to say I was offended by the prices. Her paintings ranged from $2,500 for a simple sketch to $95,000 for a big painting. I'm sorry Alexandria, I really liked you and your art.... But isn't art for everyone not just the rich and high class? There were $50 books and not even any of post cards or cheaper thing. Well if you end up reading this, please don't be hurt feelings. I was just in a grumpy mood. I just don't like park city. That city makes me upset, it frustrates me. I could rant about that but I won't. The other thing that made me upset was when I taked to her father and said that all her friends at school must me lucky to get cool sketches from her and maybe some family members get paintings for christmas. The dad acted very flustered at that statement. But this is still forgivable. She is a talented and sucessful artist. And she supports many fine orginizations. I like her and honour her for that,

In conclusion: It was encouraging to see such a fine young artist doing so well and make such beautiful and honest art, but it was sad to see the trappings of the buisness around her.

Well my last word on this, is I will always try to dedicate myself to bringing art to everyone, even poor people like myself! And remember how smart our african neighbours are! African art is for living! Not only just to decorate your house by hanging on your wall. The africans made all the implements of their life beautiful, chairs, furniture, all the household items were beautiful! That is what we should learn to! I guess you could call this my anger at stuffieness and class-seperation and my hope for more childlike universal friendlship and love.

I have seen quite a few artists on the internet, by the way. And I have to say I am really happy with the way things are run around here. At least for what I have seen. You can buy an E*rock origonal drawing for only 25 dollars at audiodregs. (I was very tempted) You can see torisukoshiro, mumbleboy, Eun-ha, Ian Lyman, rachelrocket, dozens of others online. Their beautiful art free anytime straight to your computer! I like how friendly everyone I meet is too, have you noticed how friendly place the internet is?

the end

Wed 12-20-2000 - Best christmas ever!!!!

Update - New Journal,

Journal - I haven't update for a while, good holidays.

It's okay that I haven't updated for a while, becuase had to be very much wrapped up in holiday preperations, I drew all my close, local friends origonal sketches for christmas, many incuded drawings of me and my friends together, because that's how it should be.

That huge picture that is ruining the layout of this journal entry is me and my friends for the 1000 cranes thing. I felt so guilty because I was so slow at folding and sachika was so fast. She was an angel of a friend lately! Well I am tired and I feel like I won't be a good writer right now anyway. But we gave atsuyo and her husband the 1000 cranes. (Her husband is sick with diabetic complications) I think we fooled her into thinking it was 1000 but it was really more like 650 which was an amazing feat anyway. Pictured above is some of us at the cranes folding party I had and a few of the smallest cranes we made. (you can see the i-mac I am working on now!) Well, it's just late. Holiday break is over. I was absolutely spoiled for christmas with even a 2 mumble dolls and amazing music 4 great CD's.

Sorry I don't have a finished picture of the final cranes but it was spectacular, altough I didn't know that they were supossed to be done in a certian way, so they had like several garlands instead of one giant cluster. Oh well. The best part was that her husband was at home 2 days early in time for christmas and he got to be there when we gave it. She was so suprized! We had to even forge a few people's signatures of her friends who couldn't come to the cranes party to sign the card, but they sent their love over the phone.

I don't go back to work until january the 3rd, so I have a week of lots of creative stuff planned, most which pertains to this website in some way or another.

Good night more later.

love<Matt

P.S. I fooled alyssa's family into thinking I got a brand new VW bug on christmas morning when I brought alyssa and jared their present. Hah! My family would have to sell the house to buy me a car that expensive. (or even a car at all)

Wed 12-20-2000 - Centerville D.I.

Update - New Journal, Art gallery update, moved mysterions to art gallery too.

Journal - Today this very journal saved me from a big problem.

My ebay auction was going well, bidded on in less than 2 hours! I was so suprize, it's got like 8 days left and it's at 50 dollars. Seaman has learned english and is very wierd and slightly unentertaining. I think I like it though, but It's actually sad that I am writing about him when there are so many beautiful things I could write about and I'm waisting it all on some videogame.

Today I worked and atsuyo-san threw out my time card by accident, sort of. It was really my fault but I just thought it would be best to keep it secret from her anyway just because she doesn't deserve to feel bad about something like that. Anyway, the point is that I was able to figure out which days I worked that I couldn't remember by running downstairs and reading this journal! Saved!

I went to tutor and his house was empty and dark so I guess they weren't there. So after that I went to the centrville DI, which is a thrift store that I used to work at. It was really nice to see everyone again. But I miss my friends from there dearly. I saw a few of them, but some of them don't work there anymore. (like me) Then it turned out that the person I was going to tutor was home after all so I got a call from him, no hard feelings just for to re-schedule to tomorrow and just walk in next time.

Did I say what I do for employment? I work for the high-school in the japanese department grading papers and doing 1 on 1 tutoring. And then I also tutor in calculus privately. Sometimes I try to help out in the art department where much needed is in there macs computer lab. But I do that for free. They let me use their fancy schmancy $3000 printer to print whatever I want really nice. That's where the prints I sell come from. And they also have Wacom tablets that are awesome.

Well other than that I think the update I did today. I'm gonna go work on stuff now. (art, music, new web, etc....)

Tue 12-19-2000 - Buisy day

Update - New Journal

Journal - Sorry!!! Not an update today, but tomorrow I PROMISE> love love

It has just been a really really biusy last few days.. helping all the students and teachers get ready for the christmas break. I have a new private tutoring student in math, it went really well. They have a beautiful house and they have a very tall family also. But unfortunately I didn't have much time to update. Tomorrow I should be able to get more done.

The section I'm getting ready is the art gallery. I have alot of old pictures I'm scanning in, and I just didn't get done in time. It's already 10:30 and I have to get up early. And when I put the pictures on the HTML pages it takes alot of time. I also want to make every description as best as I can get it. I wonder if people will lose intrest when there is alot of pictures built up. I'm always thinking that they will say: That is just this huge sea of pictures, I don't want to look at that! The thing is I was born as an artist:

I'm always in such a frantic hurry to work on my projects I have a movie going, flash animation, art gallery, web stuff, music and it's all so much.

You see I have this secret from the internet people (who I dearly love) I don't even think mumbleboy knows. It's a deep dark secret, but completely beautiful. The secret is I am leaving in the very end of may 2001 for a few years. There it's my secret. Now you know my secret. It's not a secret from anyone but internet people I think, but I ended it. There, I'm better now. No more secrets.

And after the very end of may 2001 I won't be able to update this web for a long time. Sorry, but i intend to do lots and lots and lots and lots until then.

P.S. I put about $125 worth of stuff on ebay today to buy some stuff for the band. (mixman, CD-R....) I plan to sell the dreamcast after I am finished with seaman. But jet grind radio was the best ever.

Mon 12-18-2000 - Good mixed with the bad

Update - New Journal

Journal - Started the band

I've been really buisy last few days. I've been piled under all the work I missed when I was sick. But I just barely caught up. It's actually really early tuesday now, 1:46 AM. I wasn't able to do much.

Today me and Ryan started our band, music group, whatever. Right now we are working on re-hashing his old songs that he wrote for superforce5. And I am adding my flavour into the mix. Our equipment is His Yamaha DX-7, this really cool old analog six-track, my Roland EG-101, TR-505, and my i-mac. We were running everything through this old tube amp that just had this great sound. Also were planning to get mixman so I can do my sampled grooves, and a CD-R for technical reasons.

We worked on 2 songs today, one is called crystal caverns and the other is mars microphone. Crystal caverns is kind of hard for me but I just need to practice it a little, it's really pretty simple so far actually. Practicing crystal caverns was mainly ryan just teaching me the parts and then we were practicing them. Also I need to write an 8 measure keyboard solo, I was just improv tonight, but it came out different each time.

After crystal caverns we started to work on Mars Microphone. He started to play the part he'd written. It's this beautiful Meloncholy keyboard line that is very chord rich. I just sat down and started improvising to it. It's probably the best improv I have ever done in my life. We also had the TR-505 (a drum machine) playing a loop underneath it all, although I want to do some rythymic samples and drum programming that suits the song and adds structure. That's the only problem I've seen with mars microphone so far is it needs like a bridge or a chorus or different verse or something. But we are just barely started... so it's oaky for now. We did improv mars microphone 3 times, we recorded it on the mac the last time, in a way it was actually the poorest overall on my part, but I got all the important bits in so I have that to remember from.

I took a bunch of pictures of it, but most of them turned out bad. Here is 2 tho. One is me in a really decrepit mirror and the other one is some of our setup.

Well, I look like I'm depressed in what you can make out of me in that picture.

Well, I am not depressed, actually right now I am just tired, which is sad, because when I have more to talk about I'm always tired, and when I have nothing intresting to say I'm always not tired and bored. But I just do want to mention I'm really grateful for all the warm response. I'm starting to really like the internet again, because everyone is so nice and sincere to eachother, at least from my point of view.

P.S. I promise a real update tomorrow. :) :) Well actually today I guess because it's after midnight. But I'm exausted, sorry.

Sat12-16-2000 - Around the world around the world around the world......

Update - New Journal

Journal - Very buisy, Shopping, Seaman.

I had a really buisy day today. I really wanted to work on art, or music or update the webpage with more than just a journal entry. I had a christmas gift cirtificate for target. 30 dollars. In the morning we all went shopping. I had a hard time deciding what to get. Alot of their stock on their little cool stuff, futuristic kitchy stuff was really low. They had these cool party lights for cheap, but I really didn't have a good use for them. In the clothes there was cool stuff, but it looked like stuff I already owned. So I ended up buying the seaman game on sale. I was gonna sell my dreamcast but I think the person who i was gonna sell it to can't really worry about that now. I never could figure out the right price anyway.

Seaman is kind of this virtual pet raising with voice recognition, only instead of being cute and loveable, he is kind of rude and twisted. I guess you could describe him as a fish with a human face. Well, I guess if anyone is really intrested they can look up the review. I guess my point is that holiday gift cirtifacate spending should be worry free and you shouldn't stress about what you end up buying.

The shopping ended up taking quite a while, and then of course I had to play the seaman game. It's meant to play for just a little bit everyday instead of huge sittings every once in a while. Like a journal. I had to take a nap because I am still all weak and coughing alot from this nasty cold I have. I mean I am practically better, but sometimes I just can't stop coughing. Espically when I try to go to bed at night.

Last night I had an expirement and stayed up until 2 to see if I was really really tired when I finally went to be to see if then I would just lay awake coughing for 2 hours. It worked. But I just kind of sat alone in my room and surfed the net and sipped tea. I probably should have done something more constructive, but I was tired. The good thing that came of that is that I re-discovered torisukoshiro (torisukoshiro.com) who I had completley forgotten about. His animation is absolutely brilliant with the perfect sound, but there isn't very many of them.

I was supossed to get tons and tons of grading done. There's just piles of it, but I only managed to get 2 hours done. I think I was working really fast though. But now I am gonna have to work tomorrow to get more done. And that's working on a sunday so I feel kind of guilty.

There's more to talk about but I won't right now because I always make journal entries that just babble on and on and on and on.

Fri12-15-2000 - Overextended

Update - New Journal, New Special Review section

Journal - Pagemill and Sadko

I have always wanted to do a little reviews section for this website. I can't really explain properly but It's kind of my way of being friendly with the rest of the world, if I do a review then someone can hear that their hard work has acheived a difference somewhere. I just like writing a review. I know I am bad at it, but I think it's a good thing. So when I got that neat link in the mail yesterday of course that was the perfect first thing for me to do a review on.

The problem was is that how I put the review I kind of bit off more than I could chew and it ended up taking me more than an hour or two to put the review together, but I think that is just the way life goes sometimes. It was a little hard to approach her in a review because she is such a renisannce girl. But I do feel good about it.

But I *am* really out of energy at the moment. You know, I use pagemill, and it's okay, but let me just say that it doesn't measure up to Adobe's other fine products. Or should I say, that Adobe makes alot of awesome products, but pagemill is not one of them. So I blame alot of that lack of energy on page mill.

goodnight.

Thurs12-14-2000 - Let's learn to identify the beats

Update - New Journal

Journal - I'm going senile, before i even got married

I forgot to write in my journal last night, it was wierd because I could feel that I had forgotten something.

I got a really cool link in the e-mail today.. I don't want to say anthing but it was really beckish with lots of neon colors and cool photos. I just want to do a proper introduction of it instead of just throwing it into a journal entry and letting it get buried under future journals where no-one will see it anymore.

I have alot of various things I'm working on right now, I think i'm gonna try to keep it secret.... But I know one of them is a good old drawing project, because I have been sick at home and I just feel so infested with all this computers and internet and TV because there hasn't been much better for me to do. I mean you can only animate for so long continuosly before you start to lose it.

So I finally felt good enough to go out yesterday and I went to the library and sketched out of books for a few hours. I'ts for this little project I am making. If I can find offset printing for cheap enough I'm gonna be giving it away for free on this website.

Lastly, we got sent the cutest christmas present today. I was evil and opened the package early, they are these chocolate and merangue mushrooms. It's cute because the cap of the mushroom has little choclate speckels and the gills underneath are really milk chocolate. They were really yummy.

Well when I start to describe candy it must mean I don't have anything interesting to say so goond night.

tues12-12-2000 - Back to reality

Update - New Journal, New Animnation on flash page.

Journal - Let's get rid of the back catalouge

I am kind of shocked at myself how sappy I was in my last journal in parts. But I was having a very complicated day. I mean everything I said was true, but I just feel like it came over dorky in parts.

There is a new flash cartoon up today, finally. I decided to rework an old thing I had from 1998. It was silent and somewhat different. I am just trying to put up all my old stuff and finish works in progress so I can move on to new projects. I hope you like it. It's called Math V 2.0 I still have alot of new movies in the works. I don't have much to say today, I guess. That's a bit of a suprize.

Mon-12-11-2000 - Perfect timing on that entrance.

Update - New Journal

Journal - The perfect winter day. This journal entry is so important, personal, serious.

I am actually pretty suprized. I slept well last night. At least as compared to the rest of the week. The doctor was sick and my eye is barely swollen a teeny bit, but that's not really important.

I had one of those moments today, where you look at everything with love of others in mind instead of our ordinary selves. I know that sounds sappy, but do you hang out with your friends because they are someone you care about or just that they are some cool person. What is it called, and epiphony?

Ryan came over today. I had to help him with the brakes on his jetta. I guess that there was a bubble in the brake fluid or something.

I went inside the house while he was changing out of his overalls. Everything was stangely clean and tidy. I used some post-it notes to draw pictures and stories on, and put them all over the pristine table. Then we left to test-drive the brakes we had fixed. They work great now. We went back the block and a half to my home and parked in the driveway. We had a really long + deep conversation. I let ryan do most of the talking because my voice is still kind of out there from my cold. It was kind of personal, but we talked about friends, family, religon.

It was when he talked to me that I realized he is okay. I was kind of worried about him for a while. He had this nerve go off that made him really sick. I hope this isn't too personal to write about on the net, but he kind of woke up a different after his nerve went off. But he's okay. He just got better, like I am get better from this cold soon.

But I am really scared I am gonna lose a friend maybe. There is no reason to. So I guess I am just being silly. I think sometimes everyday I am born into a serious world again, and I just want to live light hearted and escape that. But sometimes serious is beautiful, like this very serious winter day was also very beautiful and serious. It is just like my All is full of love video I did. Serious, but love is all around us.. so It's beautiful. But the thought still lingers..... What if I lose my friend?

I hate dramatic choice sometimes. But I am just being daft again, because I am rreally taking a tiny little thing too far. I am so stupid to think that dramatically, because this is just the same as every day. But when it comes down to it, I guess I am temporarily confuzed at some of the things around the world at me.

When ryan was here, we were play E*vax and Sensualists together while sipping herb tea. That pircture is ryan improvising to glacier. Actually glacier is the perfect theme song for today. I was so sure that me and ryan's two person band was doomed, but today I am turned around with the opposite opinion.

Love, Beats and Confusion. Today was the perfect day. The stranges thing about all of today and lately is that not only am I at peace with my self, but I like everyone else is also at peace. I really hope that doesn't sound new-aged. But today I really am happier that I've ever been, even though in speculation there is some really sad stuff to worry about.

I took this picture so I will always remember what a perfect day looks like.

Sun-12-10-2000 - Bacterium at the horse races

Update - New Journal

Journal - Sick, and it hurts to yawn.

I'm still sick, sleeping sucks. Ususally sleep is this wonderful thing, but when you are sick it's the worst, espically waking up. I took a really really hot bath and used up all the hot water because after a while I wanted it hotter and steamier in hopes that it would make me feel better.

I was actually very angry at my mother. because when I was first sick I told her that I think it might be a bacteria thing as opposed to a virus, so I should go get some antibiotics from the doctor. She was convinced I was wrong and it was a virus that can only be let to run it's course. But now I finally convinced her to let me go tomorrow, and as a constructive and friendly way of expressing my anger to her we made a bet on my cold: if it is a virus, I have to take her out to her favourite restoraunt, but if it is a bacteria she has to buy me a CD.

Still kind of 24 hour a day loafing around the house, I found this group who uses my psuedonym Mafu and it seemed really funny. Here is a snippet of what they had to say:

I didn't look around their website very much because I think that Mafu is the entity of peace and love of some new age thing. I guess that is why when you go to Mafu.com you just get a blank page with the header *peace and joy* or something.Well, why go to "PENNY TORRES RUBIN" when you can get all your mafu teachings channeled straight from mumbleboy.com anyway?

I started to read the garbage.com journal. I can't find the exact place where she talked about it. But I guess she had a problem with cutting herself for a while. I have had a few friends with that problem. One of my friends with that problem was an idioit anyway but the others were all wonderful people. One of them is actually an e-bud of mine, but I won't mention her name because I don't want to stir things up. I guess everyone thinks they are doing a suicide thing. But I think for them it's more of a highly addictive stress reliever. I guess when someone tells you something like that they are being very tender to you, so you shouldn't judge them for that.

Sorry, I haven't worked on any animation at all today. But if you were this sick you probably wouldn't even bother updating your journal now would you?

Oh I feel a fever coming on. Maybe I should do a wierd spontaneous flash cartoon for this journal entry?

Oh look I did do a wierd spontanious flash cartoon, and in less than 30 min. I just don't want to go to bed because it is gonna be awful espically with this burning fever.

Sat-12-9-2000 - Fever dream

Update - New Journal

Journal - Christmas party

I've been sick this week. Have you ever heard of a fever dream? It's when you have a fever and it makes you have really wierd dreams. I had never had one before until monday when I came down with this. The creepy thing is that it was almost more of a half waking dream. I could get to sleep because of my cold. And I thought that my thoughts were threads that came out of my heads and that every time I tossed and turned it would tangle up like a web. I thought that my head getting caught up in it was keeping me from going asleep. The first thing I did in the morning was check the medication box to see if there were any wierd ingredients in it., Then someone told me what a fever dream is.

I am totally sick of making paper cranes. I know it is a good reason. But you try it. it is absolutely maddening. I tried folding some when I first got sick, but it nearly made me sick. These are a symbol of peace, but 1000 is like a death sentence.

One good thing has come out this illness. I am one or two days away from a new animation on this website, with sound. I am also about a week away from one more after that. I get alot of work done when I am sick. But putting sounds into an animation is the hardest thing. I really like listening to music. In fact it's like oxygen to me when I work on artistic stuff. I have more than 60 CD's in my cd collection and I am starting to build up my record collection again. But the thing is, when I am composing, designing, filtering, synthesizing, arranging, looping, trimming, or putting in sound for a flash movie I can't listen to music. It's alot harder for me to keep on going, but I guess I manage.

I decided to go to the Nybo christmas party. I'm too tired to go into all the cool details. There was some really cool origonal techno music. And we played the raven game and some dares, and there were tons of nybo inside jokes as usual. Rachel had to eat a hostess snowball and chug a coke. We did white elephant gifts. I was so close to getting the paul yellow submarine doll, but I ended up with the much coveted 3 stooges clock. But debbie got 2 really cool things stolen from her so I shouldn't feel too bad. One person got a live lobster. Only four of the pictures I took turned out. Here they are:

you see, I never really liked the 3 stooges	later on rachel started to get sick
Iasac was playing with the supersonic ear	she really did use the hot-topper on 2 corndogs

Well. I probably shouldn't have gone to that party but any Nybo event is worth being sick for ;)

I'm tired so good night.

Well, I forgot to write about mumbleboy's nice words in days of mumble, Lina's bjorkstuff and also nice words and also Matt's cool new book coming out. (the other matt the one thats in australia) But I am sick!!! That is a good excuse.

12-4-2000 - Crane count 2000

Update - New Journal

Journal - 65 cranes, institute

I am still working hard on new animation, but partly because of frustration at that very animation I decided to take a little bit of a break day for it. I folded cranes while listening to music alot, to day was one of my days off so I did that most of the day. It was enjoyable and it felt like a good cause. I even made two really teeney tiny ones. (Sorry the picture of them is really bad, but they are picured next to a dime for scale.) I just had to put the picture of the tiny ones in because I was so proud of myself. Does this kind of day kind of make me seem like a simple person? Maybe simplicity in it's place is okay.

***Oh before I say anything else, I'd like to thank everyone who is coming and visiting this site it makes me happy to know that people are enjoying it. I don't want to be to self centered on other people's opinions of me or my webpage. But I am very happy to know that there are people all over the place who are looking at my stuff and my friends and people I know and reading my everyday life. (Don't worry I won't make you read my everyday life all the time I will put up lots of stuff that is actually interesting to people other than me, like flash cartoons. *wink*)

those two teeny tiny dark blobs are cranes and the oval is a dime. This picture to the right is Atsuyo wright, It's her husband who is sick in the hospital. She is the most darling person and a very great teacher. Espically considering she has to teach 4 classrooms all at the same time through a video teleconferencing system called "ednet" It's alot harder than it sounds. Well I just want to be typing to fill up this cel in a table so the layout of today's journal entry isn't so incredibly ugly. Well It's pretty ugly anyway. I give up, tomorrow is a working day and I'm tired and I think the world will forgive me for having one ugly journal entry.

12-4-2000 - Hard works

Update - New Journal, New Flash cartoons page is up, Banners Page is up.

Journal - Lots and lots and lots of Animation and also lots of animation

I'm still working really hard to get this Animation finished. I'm working many hours each day on it. I'd like to think that I will be able to put it up within a week. It's hard for me to believe mumbleboy can churn out animations so often and not get burned out. But He does and they are all amazing so It's not just like the same old thing anyway. Another amazing example of flash animation working with awesome sound is groovechamber.com I can't get enough of them. Speaking of which, One of the hardest thing for me is doing to sound too. I can't accept anything except perfect because I see on the internet soo good. Although I still feel like I could get alot alot better becuse I don't feel that my sounds are anywhere near perfect. Sometimes I wish I had someone who would collaborate, but the snotty person in me is scared I would meet up with some flake or just something bad. How do these people meet?

But unfortunately my friend Ryan who I was planning to collaborate on some music with seems to be going through a kind of wierd period and I don't feel like he is up to writing songs with me. It's strange because a few weeks ago we were trying to decide when to set a date to start writing songs together. He said he wanted it to be kind of like William Orbit meets petshop boys. I agree that would be a cool Idea. But I'd rathar be compared to E*vax's ambience than William Orbit kind of ambience. So I'm still a solo artist in most ways. And I want everything I do to be totally origonal. But Beck will always have a huge influence anyway. I suposse you can't deny that your work is influenced by others.

Well less talking and more flash, I promise cartoons within the next two weeks.

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Okay Okay. I decided to put up a different flash movie in the meantime, this one is sort of my logo based theme animation. If there is anyone out there who can do flash sounds and would like to have a shot at this one, I would love to let someone try. E-mail me.

Sat-12-2-2000 - Apples and cheese

Update - New journal entry, Flash page in the works.

Journal - What?? No Dr. Who???? Who is responsible for this????

I am working really really hard right now to finish all my unfinished flash projects and put them up on the web. Most of the work is changing them from being no-holds-barred for the tv scren to streamlined for web performance. Also the sound is alot of hard work, espically because I was born more of an animator than a sound eingineer. I actually found a project on my hard-drive that I had completeley forgotten about. And then alot of work is finishing the actual animation it's self. I think people really like to see flash animation on a website.

To my great suprize I was babysitting today. I mean here I am on the web, trying to make some sort of professional appearance. So now what is my resume? Babysitting and graphic design? haha. Well, when someone is your friend, you care about them enough to do that. Besides I need to save my money anyway, and every little bit helps.

I just think it is funny. I am sitting here trying to put together some flash animation for presentation to whoever across the world wants to view it. And then I am babysitting. Well, they were in a pinch because when I was 15ish I did babysit for them. And I guess I am the only person that they felt like they could use. So that's fine for me. I dont want to be a snot, so I'd like to think I am not above that kind of thing. (P.S. I'm 18 now so I guess you could still count this as young...)

Nothing really Interesting I guess. Maybe I should write only every other day so these entries won't be so borring. Well I am gonna go work in flash because that should be very interesting once it is finished.

Fri-12-1-2000 - I'm happy boy.

Update - New journal entry

Journal - Phonograph.

Lots of things happened today, but nothing all that interesting. I forgot to take my camera with when I went and watched power puff girls and dexters labratory, but I'll see him tomorrow. We made 10 cranes today. I tutored buddy, and it went very very much better than last time and we got done in half the time. Worked on getting all my pictures organized so none of the origonals would get ruined.

The main interesting thing is that I went to the DI and found a really good phonograph amp for 8 bucks. So now I can listen to all my records collection better. My last one was so tinny sounding and this one is beautiful.

I drew a picture and listened to my LP of Erik satie, the velvet gentleman, which is my favourite composer done all in MOOGs and a lot of contemporary orchestration. And I drew batman thinking about a couch in the corner. That one was while E*Vax was playing.... click the picture to see the whole thing. This is just the detail of the turntable playing music and it's coming out like flowers which is what the album is like.

That was my day, enough at least. But I still need to write sometime what I promised in november. good night then,