Ugh, can’t sleep. Back’s tweaking up for me big time, and it’ll be a while before meds kick in.

Changed icon to The Thing as Blackbeard, at least for a bit. It sums up how I feel about things as a whole. Things aren’t the best by a long shot, but there are certainly some elements that I am surely growing fonder of as the days pass.

Occupying my time with Character Studio 4 tonight. Holy cow. It’s fun… you get a sharp little armature configuration, slap on a musculature, and twiddle for some great creature effects and design goodies. (I would be painting miniatures, but I can just step away from this immediately if sleepy time effects start to kick in.)

Read this amazing story about a 1930s pulp adventure film that’s being shot entirely with blue screens — not a single set, just a few props and the actors in costume. The story and style sound like something I’d dig I just hope it all works out.

ANGELINA Jolie’s latest film, World of Tomorrow, is the first Hollywood film to be shot entirely without props and locations.
In a technological advance on the old back-projection system, the whole of World of Tomorrow was shot on a blue screen – that is, actors played their roles against a blank wall, leaving the background to be filled in later by computer programmers.

Filmed at Britain’s Elstree Studios, all locations, scenery and even furniture were abandoned, except for a handful of props used as markers to show where Jolie and her co-stars, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, should stand during the seven-day shoot.

Jolie plays a British pilot who comes to the aid of Law, another heroic airman, and a wisecracking New York reporter played by Paltrow. They investigate mysterious flying machines that threaten the 1939 World Fair in New York and their adventure takes them to the Himalayas for a dramatic showdown with an evil genius.

Jolie said she was indebted to blue screen. “I had just finished Tomb Raider 2 and making another such film in a similar way would have taken another year to shoot on location,” she said.

Note to self –

• Check direct deposit
• Call Francesco re:rent

Sweet pics from the hellboy movie… abe sapien looks really impressive.

my vampire is getting behind on his blood sucking…his most active offspring is only about 300 pints behind, and closing fast. (The others are growing at a more reasonable rate)

A year ago – Apartment Shopping, world’s smallest website, markers defeat cd protection, sum of all fears, coming home fumigation, smile creators,

two years ago – SWAT Team visits my apartment, prompting me to move.

three years ago – Newt recovers from Fritzs Parasite, and I discover Imood.com

Well, I’m about ready to try for sleep again. Until next time, dear journal.