For those of you who don't know already, I went to TDR (Teen Digital Reel) this past Friday, with high hopes. I had made what I consider the best two minutes of animation I'd ever completed in my life (as short as it has been). 100+ hours of writing, storyboarding, drawing, coloring, animating, editing, ignoring Christmas as a whole, and hunting down my musician, and being forced to cut Sarah's lovely flute piece, It finally came up to the big screen. Sadly, I made the horrible mistake of not spending theose 100+ hours making cute crap that won me awards in the past two years. I did walk away with the consolation "best portfolio" award in my category which entails ten seconds of my portfolio on screen, and absolutely no stage time, nor so much as a sheet of paper saying "Good Job".

To say the least, I am still zealously convinced that animtation is the most under appreciated art form in America whenever it doesn't spew ewok cuteness in the end, and will add this offense to my Book of Grudges. [link]

Anyhow

After months of waiting, It's finally come, the summer movie rush. Naturally, I was going to go see Iron Man yesterday, but I read that it was alittle light on action near the end, so I thought I'd wait to see how it panned out after the first weekend.

SO, while I wasn't seeing Iron Man, I was treated away to the Tower Theatre (my paradise away from paradise) to see the new movie "Where in the World is Osama" from the makers of "Supersize Me". Sadly the Tower is repairing the screen I wished to watched and so I was forced to eat rhubard and mousse at the nerby Tower Cafe (YUM!).

Anyhow, knowing our movie was cancelled, Mother and I saw "Young @ Heart". Just to note: THis movie was so amazingly funny/cute/classic. Essentially it's a documentary about a choir in america who sing a range of songs both modern jam and classic punk. This seems harmless enough, until you realize something, the average age of the entire group is 80. I won't spoil too much as I know anybody, and everybody HAS TO SEE THIS, but I just want to say that oxygen tanks and "Stayin' Alive" go together like ketchup and eggs. You never realize how good it is til you've tried it.

Right, so I'll end here by saying, it's a beautiful morning, and I'm stayin' alive[link]-V