Mini-Rant

I am SO fucking sick of seeing student films that have an end credit that says, PRAISE TO GOD especially when they're a project worked on by a group of a dozen people and the school isn't a religious institution. You know it was just the fuckwad doing the end credits who stuck that in there and their classmates were just too polite to say anything.

If I'm ever in a position to vote on any animation competitions, that will get them an automatic fail. That bugs me. All the other people who worked hard on something getting a fail because of a a few asshats. Also, I know there are lots of people who will give them EXTRA points for being so pious. If you said, PRAISE THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER they'd likely react the way I am and take offense and silently ding the piece for it.

You know, from that point of view, it's a credit that makes sense too. Most judges tend to be old obnoxious religious asshats, and everyone wants to WIN and even if there is a liberal judge, liberals are more likely to forgive your asshattery because we'd rather not think ourselves intolerant. (and in truth, after I got over being irked, I'd probably only ding them a little for it because I'd rather NOT be like conservatives)

By contrast, conservatives revel in the glory of being intolerant. Not to mention, since it doesn't offend them, they'd probably not even notice their own reaction, just nod approvingly and go on. ISo putting that credit in there helps you WIN. You've got nothing to lose and everything to gain by adding it. Hurray. :/ Isn't it nice to be reminded that you'll always be on the losing side just because you're inclined to play fair and because you're a minority?

Standing in Lines

So... I mentioned it briefly last week but I'd been holding off until I finished this project.

( A few paragraphs of backstory )

To wrap up, I made all the little sketches into a sort of slide-show presentation in Flash.

Click for animated slides

It's about 700K and Flash.

If you'd rather look at the individual images Click here They're around 40K each and 2 to a page.

I really think that drawing my vacation rather than photographing it made for more lasting memories. I was able to talk with Stacey and her mom and sister while drawing and it made me take a lot more notice of some of the things around me and really look at stuff when I was doing some of the rides (and isn't that the whole point of a theme park over an amusement park?)

Now I should finish lunch and get back to work. :)