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Realm of Ice
Posted Dec 9, 2000
December morning in Canada... its easy enough at this time of year to picture a landscape of snow and ice...I am of course pre-occupied with the work I must do for the money I must earn for the things I must buy, so I sit and draw, work until the sun rises and I ache like an old man...but out the window here there are fields and fences, distant barns and houses, all of it made beautiful- genuinely, actually, beautiful, by a frosting and glazing of white and diamond ice... ever see Dr Zhivago? the frozen dacha sequence would be reminiscent...mercifully, the biting cold of it is on the other side of the window- regrettably, the magnum opus on the desk before me is nothing but a children's cartoon- but the field out there is dusted with white jewels, blazing white in the morning sun, seen through a window filigreed with new frost...
We may just be meat monkeys, spinning out lifespans, doomed to eventually suffer and die and revert to the carbon from which we rose...but even an elaboration of carbon, careworn and work-weary with an agenda and objectives and obligations, can afford a moment to look out the window and appreciate the view...
Life on Earth, for all its shortcomings, is still, to paraphrase Mr Adams himself, 70 years well spent...
Regardless of your belief system-Merry Xmas!
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Latest reply: Dec 9, 2000
Colour Rushes
Posted Feb 3, 2000
Feb 3/2k and after five months of sweat and struggle, the first scenes in colour are showing up- 'doesn't suck' is about all I have to say about it, though there does appear to be a dim flickering light at the end of the TV tunnel... by next year at this time, those of you with kids are going to be stepping on little plastic Lampies toys in your kids room, cute little elfish looking critters in alarmingly bright colors- its been a grim task getting this stuff on the screen, an ordeal of compromise and angst for the sake of...of what? I seem to have forgotten that part. Paycheck power, I suppose. The pleasure of putting the show in the can and walking away from it. The why of doing a TV series somehow eludes me at this point. Why do we take on jobs, projects, missions, especially the challenging, taxing, exhausting ones...? I wonder if I ever thought this would be fun? After firing over a dozen people, after having to smile and nod at stupid ideas and brutal compromises, there are two episodes on the verge of done, 24 left to go, and its a struggle to bring enough interest to work with me every day for the weekly panic of fixing scripts, revising storyboards, checking scenes, editing, typing notes and lists, meeting and talking with clients and staff and people in suits, staring into one screen or another and finding ways to make it look pretty, or funny, or charming, or just making it 'not suck'.
Thats showbiz.
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Latest reply: Feb 3, 2000
Disney? DISNEY??!?
Posted Jan 2, 2000
Just heard an interview with Mr Adams on the BBC- Please, say it ain't so!
Being probably the only person on earth with a "Death before Disney"
T-shirt, I was horrified to hear that Disney is going to be given the H2G2 movie....of all the malicious repugnant organisations to give this jewel of a project to, why THEM?
You tread this path at your peril, Mr. Adams...if you truly want to see your best braninchild thrown to the wolves, go to it and good luck...I'm certain you will make a whole heap of money, but do make a point of not ever seeing what they are going to DO to it.
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Latest reply: Jan 2, 2000
Back to Work?
Posted Jan 2, 2000
Damn, and I was just getting the hang of this time on my hands routine. So here it is at last, the Year Two bloody thousand- still no robot to make me a sandwich or beat me at chess, no flying car waiting on the roof, commercial space travel still 20 or 30 years away, no aliens here to save the world, and all of our old problems still around...granted, alot of us have some groovy toys to play with, but there are still too many people out there who are poor and hungry and uneducated- kind of steals a bit of the fun, knowing that only a select few planet wide are allowed to play, and the rest are scrounging for food or trying not to get blown up...
Ever since I was a kid, 'experts' have been making predictions starting with the words 'by the year 2000...' Okay, so here we are, the movie Blade Runner has become more real all the time, there really do seem to be replicants out there... but weren't we supposed to have gotten rid of war and starvation and poverty by now? Britain has made some positive steps, abolishing billions in debts owed to her by some of the worlds poorer countries- quite possibly the only democracy that still shows signs of a conscience- and too, most countries (except of course the good ol' US of bloodthirsty A) have banned land mines...
I'm not saying that progress hasn't been made- I just think we are a bit behind schedule here.
Personally, I'll wait for my flying car and my plastic pal thats fun to be with, to see a few improvements in more important departments.
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Latest reply: Jan 2, 2000
Happy to be Wrong
Posted Jan 1, 2000
So, its turned out to have been a pretty painless night- glad it was not too savage, just crowded and noisy and claustrophobic. My computer still appears to work, rampaging hordes didn't set fire to Trafalgar Square, just messed it up a little.
I still have my suspicions and doubts, but I really anticipated some real horrors last night.
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Latest reply: Jan 1, 2000
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