tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21474153511325090992024-03-13T11:42:37.897-07:00My Dark Bitter Side Is A Cartoon FishA place for musings of a random nature, whatever crosses my mind, refuses to leave and gets footprints on the rug.FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-44597417621066511952023-04-15T22:50:00.009-07:002023-04-15T22:50:43.455-07:00NaPoWriMo day 16, or I couldn't think of anything to write for 15. An OppositeIt reminds you of life but was never aliveIt has a mouth but does not eat,It suggests wings but cannot flyIt can stand but has no feetIt has no feathers but feels like it shouldIt has eyes but does not see youIt has a tongue but can't make a soundWhat is it? I've no idea hooFishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-62481228162155790102023-04-13T23:24:00.001-07:002023-04-13T23:24:23.755-07:00NaPoWriMo Day 14: A Howling Parody I saw the worst minds of my generation improved by reading, well fed and warmly clothed,marching themselves through the bright sunny streets at dusk looking for the bar where their friend is waiting,every-shaped humans aching for the newest film of their favourite dynamic star to whir through the machinery of their local cinema,who a social security net and well paid available employment FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-77211398027035117462023-04-12T23:24:00.001-07:002023-04-12T23:24:54.428-07:00NaPoWriMo Day 13 (You'll Notice there was no Day 1-12, this wasn't an oversight) I haven't been on here for a while, but I'm dabbling unofficially with some of the NaPoWriMo prompts this year, and I needed somewhere to put them... so enjoy!Day 13: Jokes as Poems#1 Ellie and Prue"What's the difference?" asked Ellie of Prue"Between wallpaper and that of the loo?"Prue chuckling sosaid "I just don't know!""Ah ha!" Ellie cried. "It was you!"#1 Times New RomanTimes New Roman FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-24894398381684093832015-09-24T02:31:00.001-07:002015-09-24T03:00:27.445-07:00As I Liked It
Full
Disclosure: I attended this show free of charge in return for agreeing to write
a review of the performance. The review has not been seen by the production
prior to publishing, and all thoughts and opinions are my own.
Arden Production’s reimagined version of As
You Like It is not your average faithful production. Characters are combined or
compressed. Speeches are passed around and FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-70624719075394667572011-12-03T19:04:00.001-08:002011-12-03T19:05:49.790-08:00New Initiative Shows Initiative
Two things happened this weekend.
Well that’s not true, a lot of things happened this weekend. Especially if you
acknowledge the admittedly unlikely notion that there are more people in the
universe than me. (crazy, I know!) Even if only two things happened to each of
them this weekend, (and if so, the human race in general is quite boring,
unless the two things were #1: Captured internationalFishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-65033856762509211572011-12-01T20:09:00.001-08:002011-12-01T20:09:09.587-08:00Stuff About A Blog About A Blog About Stuff5 days in and I‘m actually struggling on what to write about. While this could be taken as an ominous sign given that I’m attempting to write 400 words a day (not more, not less, exactly 400 words, title not included) and I’m already having trouble, it’s actually a pretty good sign that things are going well at the moment. Easiest thing to write about is hardship, or FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-89604135463038471592011-11-30T17:21:00.001-08:002011-11-30T17:21:23.390-08:00A Bit of a Twitter TwitI’ve been trying hard to get back into Twitter, though it’s kind of debatable if I ever was into Twitter in the first place. Still, first time for everything. The concept of Twitter does interest me greatly. Being required to say what you have to say in only 140 characters (which I’ve already exceeded in this post) is an intriguing challenge, but I’ve actually found it FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-86693777438199043252011-11-29T19:23:00.001-08:002011-11-29T19:27:14.182-08:00We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo. Yes that's right, three zoos.I haven’t been to the zoo in a very long time. Maybe I should do something about that.
I seem to remember being very fond of Melbourne Zoo as a child, we went an awful lot according to my memory. The exhibits were a little hit and miss, though this is not so much the fault of the zoo as the animal kingdom in general. Don’t get me wrong. Animals are incredible and do some pretty FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-29278622190023826612011-11-28T17:15:00.001-08:002011-11-28T22:06:29.096-08:00Burn, baby, burn (do do doo doo)It’s far too hot today. Actually that’s really not true, it’s a paltry 33 degrees, and it’s going to drop to 20 tomorrow. It’ll get much hotter in summer itself. In fact, people often remind me, many places around the world are regularly in the 40s all year around. This is nothing.
That’s perfectly valid, and an excellent point, though I did have 3 points in FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-51689384629010217822011-11-27T19:15:00.001-08:002011-11-27T20:15:06.501-08:00Well, you could be having a heart attack… but you’re not.I was sick last week for the first time in about three months (which is a bit of a record. Take THAT, immune system) and ended up having to take three days off to recover. I was fairly confident it was only a cold and so bed rest was all that was needed, but packed myself off to the doctor anyway, partially to compensate from the massive guilt I feel whenever I have to take time off work, and FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-12917086471547524552011-10-31T18:16:00.001-07:002011-11-01T04:20:41.489-07:00Movie Review Smorgasbord Round-up Extravaganza - The Complete Collection Part 13: The Three Musketeers (2011)
One of my fondest film memories is "The Three Musketeers," the 1993 Live Action Disney version to be precise. Funny, rollicking, and very tongue in cheek, it in many ways set the tone and style of Pirates of the Caribbean which followed a decade later.
There were a great many things about the 1993 production that went over my head as a child. I didn't know who Oliver Platt was, for starters, anFishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-37864788713302780682011-10-27T22:23:00.001-07:002011-10-27T22:23:33.798-07:00Movie Review Smorgasbord Round-up Extravaganza - The Complete Collection Part 12 - Real SteelFilms like showing the future a lot. It makes sense. You get to have cool special effects, you can muck around with things that couldn't be done in a contemporary film, and you're not locked down by current day settings or events. In a way you have a near infinite supply of options ahead of you.
So it's curious then that for all the myriad of options the future presents, how narrow our cinematic FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-71732835458121879962011-10-17T21:28:00.001-07:002011-10-17T21:29:15.811-07:00Movie Review Smorgasbord Round-up Extravaganza - The Complete Collection Part 11 - Rise Of The Planet Of The ApesThe Planet Of the Apes bothers me. I don't actually mean the books or films (although they do), or indeed the idea that we will one day be overthrown and inevitably destroyed by our simian overlords. That doesn't bother me because either a) It'll never happen, or b) I'll be long dead before it does, or c) it's stupid. No, when I say The Planet Of The Apes bothers me, I mean literally those words FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-83418231069560087672011-10-03T22:49:00.001-07:002011-10-03T22:49:40.198-07:00Best Laid Blogs"The best laid plans of mice and men" is an expression that has always puzzled me. Mice, as far as I'm aware, are not known for their planning and strategic outlook on life, nor are they known for their collaborations with humans. in fact, their interactions could be almost exclusively limited to "I am your pet, love me, love me." and "Ha ha, I'm in your wall, eating your plasters. Oh wow, that FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-69054134457716994312011-08-27T06:11:00.000-07:002011-08-27T06:18:27.708-07:00Movie Review Smorgasbord Round-up Extravaganza - The Complete Collection Part 10: Cowboys & AliensAnd, friends, we once again return to the town of blogville, blogsylvania, narrowing avoiding the unspoken tragedy that is "not updating your blog in a year" by "updating the blog the week before you haven't updated it in a year," or the Oh Crap I Knew I'd Forgotten Something method of blog writing.
A great deal has occurred since last we wrote. Or at least, since I wrote. You don't FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-5612786592378529302010-09-05T23:25:00.000-07:002010-09-05T23:25:55.962-07:00"Does Not Compute" My Eye!Work on the room project was put on hold for the week last week, as I dedicated myself to the exciting and laugh a minute activity that is reformatting my computer, combining technical work with data entry and a clever logic puzzle, fun for ocd masochists everywhere.
Allow me to elaborate.
My current computer is a couple of years old but still performing well, thanks to a possibly not entirely FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-81977077193220925832010-08-29T20:05:00.000-07:002010-08-29T20:05:15.581-07:00A Room Without A View: Week 2Last week was a relatively light week in terms of construction. As I near the end of the current phase of building I'm eager to begin the next training course as soon as possible so I can continue into creating the props for the room with as little downtime as possible. So most of my time was focussed on painting the walls.
Allow me to elaborate.
As previously mentioned, in order for my room toFishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-67665160661250910642010-08-22T20:08:00.000-07:002010-08-22T20:08:46.561-07:00A Room Without A View: Week 1One week in and the room is proceeding well. The main architecture of the room (walls, roof, cupboards etc.) are complete, and textured, though not with the correct colours yet. I have found the work immensely satisfying and may have found a new hobby/career option, and have learnt many things, most importantly to never put fireplaces in your levels.
Allow me to elaborate.
Monday: Only had an FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-58772647754271706812010-08-15T20:12:00.000-07:002010-08-15T20:12:54.951-07:00A Room Without A View: IntroductionI have decided to build myself a bedroom.
Allow me to elaborate.
For the past few months I have been working - slowly but mostly surely through a dvd course on level design in the Source Engine (the engine used to create games such as Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and many other games with 2 in the title). I am nearing completion of the course (whereupon I will start one of the 6 OTHER DVDs in FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-30832944617591159412010-08-01T20:11:00.000-07:002010-08-01T20:11:57.164-07:00Why Advertisers Should Fear MeDear Universe,
I have been told on occasion that I have an excellent memory. I forget who by. However, over the years I have noticed that, while it definately has its moments, at times it seems to be rather selective in its excellentness. For example, I cannot remember What I had for breakfast on the third wednesday in February. You could argue this is because this counts as unessential FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-35546075064140802432010-07-25T21:16:00.000-07:002010-07-25T21:19:33.023-07:00Attack Of The Mini-Blog 2: Return Of The Killer Mini-BlogAn Ill Wind Is Blowing. And Sneezing.
I always get rather guilty when I get sick, much in the same way that other people get blocked noses. Ok, so I get those too, but I also get guilt.
Allow me to elaborate.
It can be argued that I am rather tougher on myself than I am on other people. A friend has kindly put this as "You hold yourself to a very high standard", which is much nicer than sayingFishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-8802436280756983262010-07-14T22:47:00.000-07:002010-07-14T22:47:06.560-07:00Diary Of A Mad Writer #8 - So The Foresight Had Some Insight, In The Light Of Hindsight. (Thankyou, Bernard)As I look towards the future, I've decided it might be a good time to take a step forwards and take the opportunity to look back at the previous projects I have begun, both to get an indication of the work I've done so far, and to see if there are any works that may be worth salvaging and updating for future use. Or to put it simply, in order to move forward I've looked backwards and taken the FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-39598471365220963802010-07-11T20:06:00.000-07:002010-07-11T23:43:53.056-07:00To Sleep, Perchance To Oh Crap It's Half Past Six!There have been many strategies over the years as to the best way to get out of bed in the morning, with limited scucess. I have been told to try putting the alarm clock on the other side of the room, to keep slippers by the bed, and on one rather bizarre occassion, to tie a peice of string to my toe and through some mechanical genius enable it to be tugged sharpy in the morning, thus waking me FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-58777924875461994642010-07-08T01:51:00.000-07:002010-07-08T01:52:19.210-07:00Diary Of A Mad Writer #7 - Project UpdatesI seem to have story ideas coming out of my ears at the moment, although possibly it's just wax. Either way I have a lot of ideas to write and I'm having a little trouble deciding which to write first, and indeed what style to write them in. Largely it comes down to what I can do with them once they are done.
Allow me to elaborate.
Current project ideas:
1. - "Mistake In Identity." Short FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147415351132509099.post-24778543329839604282010-07-04T21:22:00.000-07:002010-07-04T21:51:12.986-07:00Welcome To Your Mid Year Review, Please Sit DownWell, the first half of the year is over (or if you're financially minded, the first half of the year has only just begun, so well done on catching up to the rest of us). Summer has been and gone (and good riddance), winter has properly arrived (Hello Winter), tax returns are now submittable (yet despite the offer of free money, many won't bother to do them until the night before the deadline, FishInBlackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14037805877336878605noreply@blogger.com0