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Journal
What day is it?
Today was busy. I did some live hand work which honestly feels like it happened yesterday. Partly I’m disoriented because we were shooting parts of three different episodes today. This doesn’t usually happen, but did today because of complicated factors involving setups and I don’t know what all. Whenever we do more than one episode
Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas
All I can really say is, have fun. Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas
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Ãslenska óperan – Litla Hryllings Búðin
Tonight I went to see Litla Hryllings Búðin at the Icelandic Opera. Yep. Little Shop of Horrors in Icelandic. Now, I’ve done Little Shop a few times in my life and at this point have the thing memorized. This made it fairly easy to follow. The set design was really good, it looked like a
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Modern Mechanix » The Secrets of Making Marionettes
Modern Mechanix has reprinted Rufus Rose’s old Popular Mechanics article, “The Secrets of Making Marionettes” Neat! I had only heard about this article, but never seen a copy.
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Long day
Today was long, but good. One of the puppets had to throw this thing, which was challenging but not impossible with live hands. There were a limited number of configurations in which it could happen, but we knew that going into it and were planning on using the easiest of those options. Then, of course,
Kowal’s last day.
Rob’s folks left this morning, but we said our goodbyes last night. They had a five am flight this morning. Ugh. How cruel. Yesterday we went to the studio for lunch, and then Pat, Glenn and I went to Laugar Spa. To start with, they use iris identification for accessing the different areas, so you
Gmail error
Gmail has this wonderful feature which shows the first line of an email next to the subject line. This evening I was checking my email and saw something from CICADA (a highly prestigious, professional magazine) which said: Dear Ms. Kowal: I’m drafting an acceptance letter for “This Little Pig” and w In a state of
Tveir Fiskar
We went to dinner at Tveir Fiskar (Two Fish) last night. Poor Rob has such a bad head cold that he can’t taste anything. He said that even the blue cheese on his salad was only barely present. The rest of us quite enjoyed our food, I think. As a starter everyone ordered the Martha’s
Bad book covers
I stumbled across this link to bad book covers and laughed far more than I should have. The commentary really makes it.
Review: Goose Girl
My review of Shannon Hale’s Goose Girl is up at SFFAudio . When I finished listening to Shannon Hale’s The Goose Girl, I wanted to start the story again. I had read the fantasy novel in print form about two years before hearing it and Full Cast Audio brings the characters to life in spot-on
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Elemental, my dear Watson
After Steve, Lee and I met up, we went to the Long Acre pub to meet Stel Pavlou. We had a nice lunch and were joined by Stel’s friend James. Afterwards, we all followed Steve to Forbidden Planet for the booksigning of Elemental I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this. I
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Tveir Fiskar
We went to dinner at Tveir Fiskar (Two Fish) last night. Poor Rob has such a bad head cold that he can’t taste anything. He said that even the blue cheese on his salad was only barely present. The rest of us quite enjoyed our food, I think. As a starter everyone ordered the Martha’s