Archive for November, 2009

New moon is out there and so is the whole team Edward malarkeyall over again.

Sparkly vampires… WTF…

In my days they were all enveloped in mistry and darkness… now they make them… gay… sorry, nothing against the homosexual population of the planet, specially if you happen to read my blog… but there is an old say in Brazil that says that gays don’t die… they become glitter…

I wonder if that’s what they are insinuating… that Edward is gay?!?!?!

Now I’ve done it… everyone is gonna try and kill me!!! The whole of Team Edward (including my wife) will try and lynch me!!!

And all because I wanted to show that comic from the Apple Geeks hehehe

I better go and hide under my bed now…
zya!!!

The other day me and the TB were watching YouTube videos (TB is quite a fan of a few videos you can see around there) and we found some LEGO stop Motion super productions. Since that day we’ve been entertaining the idea of doing something like that.

Now… I might know my way around film making and am OK with editing stuff (although this is far from me speciality) and I am not stranger to the stop motion concept – I mean it has to be at least a bit similar to animating using flash, right??? WRONG!!!!

You have NO IDEA about the amount of patience you need to get the whole thing into place. What with the whole moving the characters frame by frame, positioning of the camera and light, managing your crew (specially if your crew consists of a hyperactive 5 year old) then photographing frame after frame… If you know me you will know that I believe patience is an incredible virtue but that patience is NOT a virtue I have to spare…

The script is simple: A group of lego clone troopers (let’s call them red squad) attempts to rescue the princess from the giant sleeping boy in the second floor of the house and return to the trooper carrier… In theory that as a simple idea, that would not take long at all to finish… in a more practical scale I am starting to believe I should scale down the thing… A LOT!!! hehehehe

Once you watch the clip I’ve made to test frame rate you will see what I mean with that… That was just a test I glued together… but now taking a look at it, the thing is scarring me shitless…

It took me between 4pm and 2am to do what you are going to see bellow… Well… I admit the project is ambitious… but hey… hehehehe

Hope you enjoy!!! (Any ideas… comments… etc etc etc… PLEASE COMMENT!!! )

zya!

ME AND TB ARE WORKING ON A STOP MOTION STYLE LEGO STAR WARS ANIMATION… HERE IS SOME OF THE BRUTE OG THE IMAGES WE’RE USING… ANY IDEAS??? ENJOY

I admit I understood like less than half of what they said in the song (it is in french) but if you are a coffee addict just like me you will LOVE this little clip… and like me agree THAT IS SO TRUE!

LOL

To the untrained eye, I might seem like a seasoned dad that actually knows what he’s talking about when the subject is parenthood. THAT cannot be further to the truth…

I mean I wish I was… and God knows I’ve been trying to be Super Dad for the past 5 years!!!

Before the TB was born I didn’t even have patience enough to be around kids for long… That’s one thing parenthood can teach you if you let it… PATIENCE.

Sometimes the “learn on the flight” approach can be far from perfect… and THAT is the main reason why I didn’t complain when Vic TOLD me we were doing pre-natal classes… I mean… what’s the worse that can happen… Right???

In class one we only got to talk about expectations and got to know each other (the other parents-to-be that are doing the same course at the Lavander Child Center)… Fair enough… One expects that intro class to BE boring… but the Midwife giving the course was able to take it to another level of boredness (is that a word???)….

Class Two:

And now comes the interesting bits as we would talk about drugs and other fun stuff (Nope… I am not condoning recreative use of narcotics…) so a NERD that I am I’ve decided to take notes!! Good boy right???? hehehe not exactly…

The notes were kinda like that:

1) Not to self: I forgot the name of the Midwife, but for purposes of Identification refer to “blob”

2) why does she have to use the word “yeah” after every 2 sentences???

3) “I want all to participate, ask questions, yeah? If I am the only one talking talking talking talking things might get a bit boring” Really?? I thought they could NOT get any more boring… Please let me outta here!!

Then she started to tell us about the instruments that would or could be used during labour…

NOW THAT IS THE FUN BIT!!!

Until then I was trying really hard not to fall asleep until she mentioned that they might use an instrument that worked a bit like a plunger to pull the baby out… My over active imagination decided to kick in at that precise moment and the film playing in my head showed “blob” using a plunger to try and suck Lumpy out of Vic… I could not hold myself and started laughing… I think she noticed and cough up with what I was thinking because she took one out of her bag and passed it around showing that it didn’t look like the sort we use to unclog sinks and toilets…  That made me feel a bit better… the thing didn;t have enough sucking capacity to stay glued to my forehead for long and as so it outdated it’s fun potential…

The next cool gadget she showed us was a pain relief thing that uses electric shocks to neutralize birth pain. I thought it was quite a funky little thing and even thought about getting one of those to try and sort my back pain… (I had actually seen one of those in a documentary about forms to combat back pain once… yup… I watch the health channel when I am at the surgerywaiting to be seen… ).

I was curious to know how high could be the current and all… it showed possibility… Of all the dad-and-mums-to-be in there I was the only one that was able to turn the thing on… Too bad it didn’t have enough battery so I could test drive it… It would have been fun…

The next 30 minutes of the class were filled with a video about water birth.

I can only describe it as “Birth Pool Porn”!!!

Not by the fact that person giving birth was naked and showing everything in every possible angle inside the pool accompanied by her naked older daughter… but by the noises she was making… They sounded a LOT MORE like orgasms than like a woman experiencing labour pain… hehehe… Seriously… you can ask Vic about that!!! She’ll confirm what I’m saying…

And I wasn’t the only one that started laughing my ass when someone gave the poor woman a snorkel and she started waving her ass in the air whilst submerging her head in the pool…

I know… I know… I am terrible… Incorrigible and all that… but I have a short attention span… What can I say… hehehe…

Next week we are learning Relaxation and Respiration Technics…

I am sooo looking forward to it!

zya!!!