Where in the World has the Forum Gremlin gone Now? Complaint Thread
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I believe that, after over 3 years programming stupid computers, I'm finally getting tired of it. I'm down to one compiler on the computerm only 2 3D art programs, 3 2D art programs and several thousand dollars of audio software.
I just can't write code at home any more, I get home and I want to chat, play games, or compose music! 
If Had a steady $300/week income, I'd walk away from all this and focus on music.. just live and create. My dream!
So in other words do not write or create art to please you as you would not like it anyways?
Complaint: my bain huts worse!
Non-complaint: managed to scrounge up some money for wodka and beer this weekend!
snowcada tee hee wanted to animate intrepid explorer but got stuck trying to spin a sphere 360 degrees >.<
TGIF
BEER
a last bit of eggnog to pollish off
If that's what you want to believe, but that's not what I said. I never said I didn't like the new stuff, I just don't like derivative works pretending they're new. How many times can one watch the same movie? When one recognizes a plot line and begins predicting the rest of the movie it's time to go for a pee or go home.
The great artworks hold one's attention longer than others. I love classical music and love all the greats but I'm going through a phase where I'll turn away from Beethoven & Brahms because it's too familiar. I poke around a bit and find something by a lesser known composer or artist or director that is different enough to warrant examination. But I find that many of the lesser artist have but one style which can be exciting when first discovered but quickly becomes boring. The greats are great because they are masters of style and bring a freshness to each creation. Then one day I'll remember Beethoven and the joy returns. Great works of art become classics because they have something that survives the test of time and are rediscovered by subsequent generations. Lesser art of which there is an abundant supply may become popular but quickly fades away.
And please don't believe that I am attacking you or your favorite art, I'm not. Just because some art style becomes a fad doesn't mean it was bad art, it just means that for a while a lot of people jumped on the bandwagon, reveled in the hay then got off the wagon for something else. You do what you want to do, see what you want to see, be who you want to be. If you're comfortable doing what you do and it's not hurting anybody else then go for it.
Personally though I'd like to look in the paper for a Saturday afternoon movie that doesn't involve vampires, zombies, supermen, or teen hero cliques.
I did not mean to misunderstand you.
Sorry to misunderstand you. I do not know what to say but I am also trying some experiments with iRay and Genesis 3 female.
Well, no, it doesn't eliminate the theory. Just like if everyone at an ice cream bar orders a root beer float, doesn't mean they're out of ginger ale...but it doesn't mean they're not out of it, either. Just that there are a lot of fans of root beer floats!
Actually, I do think they are having difficulties coming up with new ideas. One thing, though. There are no new stories to be told. There are only a handful of stories. How they are told, in which timeline they are told (past, present, future), any ethnical twists added, and so on, that's what makes the story interesting enough to indulge in again. Boy meets girl, good vs. evil, overcoming obstacles, adventures in new places, pioneering a continent or scientific research, etc. Same stories, different environments, time periods, political environments. There was nothing new about Star Wars except the graphics and effects, the story was one told over and over throughout time. Presentation makes the story, and for a film, direction and acting, and good editing.
Dana
It seems to take forever for an iRay render test.
..sounds a bit like one of your previous positions where the person you needed was rarely if ever there.
Have a friend who was in a fairly decent paying position this kind of thing happened to. He was supposed to have a team assist him but ended up doing everything himself. Had no life outside the job. Finally he left and, after a similarly bad experience at the next company he worked for (which also took away just about every waking hour of his life) decided to get together with a couple other entrepreneurs and set up his own development firm. I actually see him more often than every two months now.
How can I tell someone to leave me alone without being rude?
...here in Portland, that would barely pay rent. You would need to make twice that just to have some left over to live on and enjoy a few simple pleasures.
I hear you on the burnout factor. Why I never want back into it and still have no interest to even after twenty years.
Do whatever you enjoy, Miss Kulay.
The potholes are big up there, huh K.K.?
Meanwhile, in Oregon...
Trying to get back into writing but not gettting into the mood. I do not know what to do
Well, when it actually comes down to it, I've pretty much given up on fiction stories. Like you say, the stories are just dressed differently. I'm an avid consumer of science documentaries, and semi-lay person science journals that don't involve me in the math, only the concepts. Reality has much more appeal to me than fiction. Although I detest those scripted "reality" shows on TV. Mostly complete trash. Even science fiction isn't much of a turn on anymore, I get much more brain activity from science fact. I've gone back and re-read some of the great science fiction stories but new ones leave me cold. I'd rather get my science straight from the horse's mouth and imagine my own possibilities. Also, I'd never had much of an interest in history but now I find I enjoy a well written biography of well known personages.
...I got turned onto ragtime and early jazz years before The Sting was released. I particularly loved the syncopation of Ragtime which was is actually quite challenging to work with. I was familiar with not just Joplin, but Hayden and other contemporaries.
Then came the film and after that all everyone seemed to want to hear was The Entertainer. Great piece of music, but it was now everywhere as ragtime became the latest "fad" thanks to the film. I finally set my own moratorium on playing the piece and dove into the lesser known works by Joplin as well as those of his contemporaries. What was really sad is so many times I heard ragtime played, it was usually at the "breakneck" Tin Pan Alley tempo (Joplin himself often noted on the scores that ragtime was not meant to be played fast).
The worst violator was the Shakey's pizza chain which gave the public a very inaccurate perspective of the music not only through fast tempos and over embellishment, but they had a special fixture on the piano that inserted a strip with metal studs between the hammers and strings to give the piano a very "tinny" sound.that was supposed to be considered "authentic".
In fact, nothing could be further than the truth as Joplin himself composed these works for the concert stage. Across the ocean in France, ragtime actually became very popular and highly regarded as a "true and original" American style of composition. There, works by Joplin and his contemporaries were performed in recital halls and salons on grand pianos.
Fortunately, by the early 1980s the fad had faded and the music slipped back into blissful obscurity.
...yup. Down south of Brookings near the California State line.
Not more than a few blocks away from me there are a couple on one of the side streets almost big enough to fit a Smart Car in
Morning. Small birds out in large numbers in our garden eyeing off the strawberry patch and chasing lil white butterflies around :)
...fly faster flutterbys, fly faster!!!
Derrick May and Jeff Mills are on here tonight with a symphony orchestra in the park, should be a thing :)
serious pot hole heh you wouldn't want to be pulling out of the driveway half asleep :)
Trying out the orc tusks. Not sure what she is though.
she looks fearsome and hey a reverse vampire, that bottom bite has got to be dangerous :)
Only thing I know about honkytonk is to avoid gin soaked bar room queens in Memphis :)
...honkytonk is totally different than ragtime. Ragtime is related to jazz and blues. Honkytonk is a style of country music.
Sadly, because of the social prejudices of the time, ragtime, blues and early jazz was looked down on as inferior, and representative of a more seedy lifestyle here in the US because bars and clubs in red light districts were about the only venues performers and composers could get a gig at.
watch a movie?
eeeks gophers?
tee hee
she tried to take me upstairs for a ride ...
tee hee heeeeeeee
this so funny is killing me wheeeeeeeeeeze