YET another day

Yes today I have continued my search for new schools. I am fairly sure that I would like to go back to school but have yet to find a school that fits my needs. 

I am looking for someplace that can offer me my masters degree in traditional, or 2D, animation. There are many great schools out there, and each time I find one I keep getting turned off by it. The best schools I've found DON'T have masters programs, or they do but they focus on 3D animation. 

One of my top school choices right now would be The Vancouver Film School which has an AWESOME traditional animation demo reel... HERE.

Another is SCAD, in Georgia, which also has a very cool demo reel that has quite a few 2D animation parts to it. 

One more place that is actually going to call me tomorrow is Dmac, in florida. Their demo reel is not that exciting and does not really have too much 2D animation to it. As you can see on their course list here. Their 3D stuff is good... but i think they just dropped out of the race. 

The weekend

So far I've driven my mom and her friend to the movies about 3 times this weekend. Also drove my mom to a couple different libraries. Nothing too exciting. 

On Thursday, July 3, the neighbors and I shot off fireworks for a while. On the 4th it was basically a lazy day. The neighbors were shooting off fireworks during the day, kinda pointless, and a cop pulled up so they all ran inside, but he just kept driving. Later that night I went for a bicycle ride around 10:30 pm and rode over to my aunt and uncle, Janice and Tom's house. Their neighbors were shooting off fireworks as well, so I stuck around there for a bit. We were kind of planning on going out to watch fireworks but I guess everyone just decided against it. No big deal though, we had a blast just sitting around the house. 

Yesterday, July 5th, Michael brought my bowling to witness my MAD bowling skills... I think I got about a 120 or so for my highest score... cuz I'm that good. More fireworks later that night and then just hung out around the house. 

Overall a pretty chill 4th of July weekend. Good stuff. 

I haven't forgotten

I know it's been a while since I've been on here but I promise, I haven't forgotten to update. I'll be posting about the 4th of July weekend later on today. 

Trip for Sushi and Toys

Today I went to a little place called Zushia with my mother and Michael. It was very good... Then I drove my mom to go see a movie with her friend, during which, michael hung out at robot love, where I pulled a few chases and this little number...

It is a figure of Early*, from the TV show Squidbillys, on CartoonNetwork. Very good show. 

anyway. 

Till next time. 

FINALLY

finally added a counter... YES!

you can find it over there under my labels....  >>

Now you can see EXACTLY how many people read about me and my daily debauchery. 

first 25 of the year

Yesterday I went trapshooting at some new place in Blaine with my friend Mike. I shot my first 25 of the year, although it wasn't for my league in Monticello. After that miraculous round, we shot skeet which was also very fun, never done that before. After that we shot a different type of round. There were 8 different places where the bird could come from. One from over head, one from straight out in the field, right at you, one rolls across the ground like a bunny. Also shot something called a duck tower. It's a tower that was 60 feet in the air and shoots targets at 60 mph. We were supposed to lead the target by about 15 feet, it was INSANE.It was very fun. Had a great time.

don't touch my Hancock

Hancock was actually not as good as I had hoped. I was expecting much more action, story, and background. The amount of action that was there was pretty good. Don't get me wrong, there was action and destruction, **SPOILER** I just kind of hoped there would be an EPIC fight scene at the end or something. I would have liked to see more development with the story as well... I like what story was there... just wanted more of it, similar to the action. As for background, I left the theater with about 20 or 30 questions in my head that were never even close to being answered. WHY this, and WHY that...  after a while I just kind of said, "eh."

Overall Hancock was definitely worth seeing and I'll probably pick it up once it's on DVD for cheap... which shouldn't be too long after it is released. 

p.s. - if you haven't seen too many of the previews, and you're on the fence about it, you should probably go see it. After a couple of preview that I saw I pretty much was calling the shots in the movie. **SPOILER** In one preview they tell you that he starts becoming human, in another you can see the main woman in a dark outfit with eye liner and that, for me, was a huge hint that she too was a super hero.