Savage countdown.

[secondlina]

That's it folks. I'm down to two pages left, and two illustrations left. Then i'm going to scan the beezejus out of these pages and be done with it.

HAHAHAHAHA.

I gotta give myself a little pat on the back. 25 pages in 2 and a half weeks? I think that's pretty darn badass. I am the drawing version of Batman. woo-hoo-hoo.

Okay, done tooting my own horn now.

I want to take a little moment to talk about Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet is the story that kinda inspired Rose, i'm not sure why. I'm not a huge fan of the Sakespearian play. I mean, for a french person, it's barely readable. I'm not a big fan of the really famous movies for it either. the 80's one was cheesy as hell and the modern one with guns was confusing (load battles over confused, complicated text. Yeah, that's easy to follow!) so I don't know. I guess I just like the idea being Romeo and Juliet. I mean, it's the story behind every story - two lovers and two sides. It can be used as a metaphor for so many things. However, a few people argue that this story could not happen in modern times (they could have just texted each other, or sued their parents, etc.) I think as long as there are people who can hate each other and arguments, there will be Romeos and Juliets.

Just watched Anastasia again. I know this movie is completely innacurate history wise but GOOD GOD is the animation AMAZING. All the little subtle movements.....ALL OF THEM. I think that is the main difference between Disney style and Don Bluth. Disney kinda exagerates movements (like a punch will be a nice, long, fluid swoop). Don bluth also exagerates them, but he exagerates all the little movements that define the action (a punch with be the character shifting from side to side with footwork, followed by an hesitant, then wide punch, then his weight follows the punch and he looses balance.) I think I like Don Bluth better. I love all the little motions. You can see a few of them in some of the disney movies he worked on (like the fairies in Sleeping Beauty.)

In unrelated news - Lo and behold - the banner I drew for the_flowergirl . Colored by a braver soul then me (I hate coloring). It looks great in colors!



Also - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JESS FINK. Artist of the awesome (erotic) webcomic Chester 5000. If you don't mind the sex (It's...frequent...) it's a fun read. Very light a beautiful drawings. Plus, robots (sex-robots) in a victorian setting is really interesting...

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[gigabahamut666.livejournal.com]

I am the drawing version of Batman.

*giggles* I know have this vision of you sat at your desk all moody looking and speaking with a really gravelly voice. Muwahaha!

I don't know how it is in Canada and America but for school we're usually forced to analyse some Shakespearan plays and so a good amount of English schoolchildren really despise it. I enjoyed the Baz Luhrman version, Romeo + Juliet. I guess because it didn't make the story seem so stuffy and ancient, and it interested that male part of me I suppose that enjoys a good action flick. Yes, it's still silly and over the top but I think I now have more of an appreciation of that particular story than I did before when reading the book.

As I said, we learned them in class through reading but they are plays after all and so you do need to see them acted out.

Ok...I'm done. *starts giggling again* "I'm the goddamn Isa!"

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

(I'm Batman).

I was forced to study a sakespear play (two even!) in my english advanced class in my final year of high school. The plays were Hamlet and Macbeth, which I liked! We didn't study Romeo and Juliet, though we did a reading of it the year before (I was actually Juliet). I loved my advanced english prof because he made us actually read good litterature. I read excellent books like Brave New World and Animal Far and 1984 which I had never heard of before! It might be the most obvious thing to english students, but to me it was brand new and magical! Of course, you should have seen the crap the Quebec Government got us to read. I had two teachers that gav e us decent litterature (like Cyrano de Bergerac!) but most of the time it was this crappy Quebec books full of slang and.....zombies? (I wish I was kidding)

[gigabahamut666.livejournal.com]

(No I'm Batman! Wait...there's something familiar about this...like we're ripping something off. Hmm)

Yup, we had Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. We also read Of Mice And Men and a couple of short stories which we had to compare, Malachi's Cove and Eveline. I really didn't enjoy any of it all that much but I basically grinned and beared my way through it all and then I was able to drop it after my GCSE's. I hear about a lot of these great literary works like Animal Farm, 1984, To Kill A Mockingbird, Catch 22, but we just never got anywhere near them. Although considering my desire to read I probably would have found those unenjoyable too.

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

I think you're thinking of Spartacus?

[gigabahamut666.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I worked it out, it was this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF58II9OKNQ
:P

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

Blah, similar idea.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Wait, you read Brave New World AND Animal Farm? Where have you been?! I read those books forever ago (the first for a class, the second because it sounded interesting to me), but most people I know don't even know about them! Brave New World was especially good to me, albeit very disturbing. The more our society "improves" here (in the U.S. at least), the more similar it becomes to the society in that book. Complete with easily removed clothing, sex without guilt, not to mention the drug to take so you feel good despite not being good.... ^_^;; (Dare I even mention the fact that a lot of people do not read Shakespeare or the Bible anymore as well? Thank goodness they're not yet banned, but I'm betting it's only a matter of time if things keep going the way they are.)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I find I don't have much english lit. Culture, especially compered to my other friends (Other Isa and Tanya are giant bookworms. Bookworms the size of those things in Dunes!) but I still seem to have more litterature to speak of then the average american/canadian. Which is a little worrysome.

When I was younger I actually read the bible. I'm a big advocate of the *Don't knock it until you tried it!* philosophy. Unfortunatly, if anything the bible make me less sympatic to organized religion. I`'s a weird book - you can see where they remove or mixed some of the texts. Some texts are pretty inspiring but others don't make any sense. Not to mention the whole thing, interpreted badly leads to a lot of abuse (abuse of women, abuse of homosexuals, abuse of other religions, abuse of other cultures, abuse of jews). So I don't know. It makes a good story, but people forget that the bible proposes massive metaphores. They take the stories at face value, when clearly, if this would be a dead religion, they would be seen as myths. Aka, take them as an uplifting and explanatory metaphors and stories, but don't believe things that make no sense, on the realm of physics. I think that is the thing that bugs me about books. People take the written word too litterally.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of literary masterpieces I've never read or avoid altogether (Jane Austen, I know I'm bad), but when I had access to the school library I read everything I could get my hands on. I miss those days... It's a sad fact that many people don't read anymore, at least beyond what they find on Wikipedia. XP Funny you mentioned Dune. I had an English teacher make me read it (he wouldn't let me read Jurassic Park since the movie was out) and the book was just so long and boring. It was a real chore! On the other hand, I've gotten through books that were even longer like The Hunchback of Notre Dame and really enjoyed them. It all depends on the writing..

The sad thing about the Bible, aside from people taking figurative things literally, is that through the years of translations and such, people have changed the text to fit their agenda. That has to be why there's so much conflict within the books. Things like where in one part of the Bible we're told to love our enemies (like the story of the good Samaritan), but in others we are told to avoid the evils of the world..and I don't know, it is weird. A lot of things fall down to personal interpretation, except even that's not always possible since a lot of people who say they believe in the Bible (and worse, only even know anything of it through what their pastor preaches) have never even read the thing at all. There are of course some literal teachings (avoiding Satan! We need not beat about the burning bush for that message), a lot of it is metaphor and such so that we can apply the principle to whatever it is we're doing now.

People who take things literally all the time are never fun anyway. -_-;

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

Animal Farm is actually one of my absolute favorite books. I enjoyed it far more than 1984.