Warning: paper nudity!

This is a really amazing paper puppet show — a short film by youTube user PandorasToyBox. I especially love all the little details that were made animatable, like the girl’s eyes fluttering, and when she puts her hair behind her ear!

The Art Institute

I’m sure you’ve seen me write about my time at the Art Institute.

I had great teachers who, because of the nature of the school, had to puppymill students through a curriculum that basically makes them unhireable. When my boyfriend had to look for designers to hire, there was just nobody worth anything from Ai. And those who were hireable were expecting completely unreasonable wages.

In fact, one kid applied for an unpaid internship. The interview went okay, but he ended it off with “my starting rate is 40k.” What?

They laughed him out of the office.

So, alright, I had learned what I could and was ready to move on to another school. The only problem was that because of how the Art Institute schedules their semesters, by the time I was out, I had nowhere else to go! Application deadlines were cut off across the board.

On a side-note, I hated Ai’s semester schedule. Eleven weeks on, two weeks off. Eleven weeks alone in Vancouver, two weeks with my boyfriend.

Emily Carr University

Alright, well, that’s over. I’ve been out of school for about a year — and my applications are all in again! Time to go back to school! Except… what’s that, Kev?

Your job is making us move to New York City? You just found out now, after the art schools there stop taking applicants?

Okay, I understand how this could sound whiny. Oh, boo hoo, Amy, looks like you’ll have to live in that dump they call Manhattan with paid living expenses. What a raw deal. Yeah, I know, and I’m psyched it’s NYC. The only problem is I can’t get a work visa unless I’m in school. And I can’t start school before next Spring unless I build myself a time machine, go back a few months, and send in some more applications.

I’m going to keep phoning around and try to see what I can get done about this. What a difficult thing. In all honesty, I’ll probably be back here in Vancouver.

I just want to go back to school!

Just finished this one today!

Have we all been reasonably excited about the new Alice in Wonderland movie? Good! Now let’s have nightmares about it:

In 2000, American McGee twisted Alice Liddell’s dream world of Wonderland into a terrifying delusion–she becomes asylum-bound after witnessing her family die in a fire, and falls into a nightmare-laden coma. If only she hadn’t left her lamp on, she wouldn’t have had to blame herself!

But I, for one, enjoyed their perversion of what is one of my favourite childrens’ stories of all time.

They’ve done it again, but this time to Little Red Riding Hood! Here’s some of the concept art.

Aside from that, I’m looking forward to Alice 2. Poor thing, though, you’d think they would have given her a break after what she went through in the first game.

Over the past couple days I’ve been working on a graphic overhaul for KRR’s forums. That’s why I haven’t been writing as compulsively as I usually do (hooray art montage instead).

I loathe SubSilver (the default phpbb theme), so I made a cuter, star-covered pastel theme! It’s the default theme now; if you click through to the link without logging in or having an account it’ll be the default one that shows up.

I’ve also been doing rank images (the little health bar type graphics that show up under a username)!

Here’s mine.

I’ll admit that I’m not the best coder in the world — I had lots of talented help laying out this site, for example, so doing a forum theme all by myself is kind of exciting. I’m still working on it, since a bunch of topic and post icons are just plain missing, but those shouldn’t be too much longer!

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