So my first true vfx film came out... too bad it sucked. VFX, not too bad- movie: suck. Fortunately for ole Ronnie' Emerich it looks like it will be at least a modest financial success in no small part to blatant media spamming on a level you would think 10,000BC was running for the democratic nomination in the US. Incidentally I haven't even seen the movie in it's full finished glory yet- though i have it on very good authority that the next time we're treated to an emer-epic (you like that one? I just made it up.) the tired 'from the director of independence day' to 'from the director of a steaming pile of poop'. But hey, all is not lost, they had a soaking wet damn tiger. Which I also had no part in.. sniff. The blurry ass image below is from the trailer and shows some of my handiwork on the giant 'terror chickens'-

Giant Domes,Retared Weather, and pirates.

So Roubina is starting a new job at the Berekeley hotel, and will henceforth be getting the royal queen Lizzy shaft for weekends off, so we decided to run off for a quick one night stay in sunny, rainy, snow-y, hail-y, utterly random ass-y Cornwall- was a neat trip, hit up the 'Tortoise Gardens' .. (yup seriously)- which is like a tortoise refuge in the UK, and day 2 we went to the 'Eden Project' which is what you get when you combine an archeitect and a filthy rich hippie- kind of like the movie 'biodome'- it's actually pretty neat, and they have like live concerts there and stuff do, though nothing was on when we were there- Also, weather was fantastically ridiculous, the whole time at the eden project, it was a minute by minute combination of sun, snow, rain, and hail. Literally a switchover like every 20 minutes. Some pretty gorgeous scenery
on the train ride over as well, which incidentally terminated at penzance, as in pirates of... who know it was a real place..? -all in all a really sweet trip, might be back some time soon to catch the stuff we missed, or perhaps further down the coast-

Still here, not dead

So I figured I would try and start posting again, though it's fantastically difficult to do it not having posted in so long.. I suppose I'll just try and hit the high points of the last several months, given that this is the first post of 2008!

Italy! So the good Count Tosti took a bunch of us to Rome, and to his home town in Frascati, just a bit north of Rome, and boy what a trip- thank sweet zombie jesus we had someone who spoke italian with this! Also having Daniele around really helped when I was almost robbed by a tag team of gypsies about 15 minutes after arriving in Rome..=P Still, awesome trip, I thought paris was nice, but rome takes it to another level in terms of 'hey, fuck you! We're steeped in history and we have the giant marble balls to prove it!'


New year was a wash because i didn't get my passport back in time due to holding on to it for rome, but all in all worth it-! Shortly thereafter it was off to Marrakesh in Morrocco with Roubina- damn that was an awesoma powah trip as well, just like being in an indiana jones movie-!! I think this might be our favorite trip so far--!



The last little dribbles of winter were otherwise pretty uneventful, and then over easter it was back home for a week for a fantastic albeit too short trip- thankfully the week before was biblical snow storm week and the week we were back was chilly, but reasonably sunny and dry- was awesome seeing everyone again- best thing about bein' away is comin' back for the short party trips I gotta say- fit a lot of drunken stupidity in to the trip, along with some quality family time, and even a little paintball to even things out-


All in all, a great 2007, and a really promising start to 2008. Future is uncertain for later this year, but hopefully good things will keep happening... stay tuned..( *and I mean both of you..) for more updates!