Okay, so I was awakened by a phone call after about 11 hours of sleep at about 6PM yesterday. No problem. I probably needed to get up soon anyway. So, I just realized that It’s the middle of the day and I’ve been up all night working on this over-ambitious homework. I found that it’s actually taking me just over two hours (average) to complete each image, and I’ve got five of those to go. Plus one more image I forgot about before that’ll probably take me three hours. So, another thirteen hours, probably. Which was what I thought it was going to take before I spent the last 14 hours working on it. Towards the end of which I remembered some details I’ve been leaving out of every image that may take another hour or two to add to the lot at the end, or which I may just leave out. Okay, I won’t leave them out. I’ve invested enough time in this that I couldn’t stand for it to be not-quite-done.
I’m definitely hoping that some (many) copies of the final product sell. I haven’t spent this long on creating some of my favorite paintings. There’s always the chance that no one will like it. I feel like it isn’t as good as the image I had in my mind to begin with. There’s probably another 80 or 100 hours of work I’d like to do on it that simply won’t happen. If I were trying to make a living doing this, I’d need to sell thousands of these things to pay for the 140 hours I wanted to spend working on it. Of course, if I thought I could sell thousands of them, I’d certainly be willing to spend the time on it. Considering it’s likely to be an art school project that I spend $20 to get a professionally printed copy of instead of a money-maker, the 40 hours I’m spending on this version of it seem like overkill.
This is a nice break, though. Sitting back, typing about working on it instead of working on it. I was actually hoping for a phone call, and I’ve just noticed that it’s now too late for the call, and there’s another couple of hours for it to come in. Which doesn’t make sense unless you know the phone call was to plan going to a movie this afternoon, that it’s too late to make the next showtime, so if we still go, it’ll be in at least a couple of hours. Watching Trading Spaces, watching Genevieve screw up another room, watching Vern get it right again. Ty managed to screw up measurements for both designers, too. (Ooh, hey. They just called to cancel altogether. There’s a lot of sick going around though, and they have a good excuse.) Hey. Both couples liked the rooms. That’s good.
Now I don’t have a movie to break up the day anymore. (:snicker: Movie to break up the day. ha!) Since I woke up I’ve been watching DVDs almost non-stop to distract me from all the work on the homework. So far: Original Sin, The Fifth Element, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, Galaxy Quest, and Blast From the Past. Now I’ve got about four hours before prime-time TV starts. I may try napping, but I may instead watch a couple more DVDs. As long as I don’t miss Alias and Angel at 8 and “later” respectively, I’m fine. A little disappointing that I’d be getting some sleep after only 20 hours up. With no caffeine, I’m still not tired yet. Since my TV preferences last until around 2AM though, and I don’t think I’d make it to 32 hours, the nap is in order. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Blast From the Past was such a better movie than I thought it was going to be! The duck joke is now so much funnier than it ever would have otherwise been to me.
Off-topic even further: Chamber of Secrets. I liked it, even the slightly altered ending. I mean, I thoroughly enjoyed it the whole way through. But there was something missing for me, and I think it was that it was so true to the book that I was kind of bored in parts. I mean, interested to see how it all translated, like the cake scene at the beginning, and how well they handled Dobby as a character. And Kenneth Branaugh was GREAT. But every time the audience went “OOOH, didn’t see that coming!” or was supposed to have an emotional reaction to something, I was like, been there done that.
Kind of makes me not want to read the fourth book or any further yet (already read the third, my favorite yet). *shrug*
There weren’t even any good previews. I go away from movie theaters for two months, and when I come back the most entertaining preview is Kangaroo Jack?! I quote, “pfft.”
Blast From the Past was such a better movie than I thought it was going to be! The duck joke is now so much funnier than it ever would have otherwise been to me.
Off-topic even further: Chamber of Secrets. I liked it, even the slightly altered ending. I mean, I thoroughly enjoyed it the whole way through. But there was something missing for me, and I think it was that it was so true to the book that I was kind of bored in parts. I mean, interested to see how it all translated, like the cake scene at the beginning, and how well they handled Dobby as a character. And Kenneth Branaugh was GREAT. But every time the audience went “OOOH, didn’t see that coming!” or was supposed to have an emotional reaction to something, I was like, been there done that.
Kind of makes me not want to read the fourth book or any further yet (already read the third, my favorite yet). *shrug*
There weren’t even any good previews. I go away from movie theaters for two months, and when I come back the most entertaining preview is Kangaroo Jack?! I quote, “pfft.”
First, I forgot to list Lost in Space. I watched Lost in Space between Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey and Galaxy quest. Which was actually part of why i chose Galaxy quest, because by then I’d just watched 4 sci-fi movies in a row, three of them involving time travel and the other spanning hundreds of years. Then it was down to Blast from the Past and Demolition Man to follow, since it turns out I don’t actually have a lot of sci-fi (and I just watched Event Horizon the other day).
Oh, and I’d heard that they’re changed the end a little before I saw Chamber of Secrets, but … I haven’t read the book in so long that I don’t remember what the difference might have been. And like I said, I was having to figure it out along the way, since my memory of the book was buried. Now I want to go see what the othe end was.
First, I forgot to list Lost in Space. I watched Lost in Space between Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey and Galaxy quest. Which was actually part of why i chose Galaxy quest, because by then I’d just watched 4 sci-fi movies in a row, three of them involving time travel and the other spanning hundreds of years. Then it was down to Blast from the Past and Demolition Man to follow, since it turns out I don’t actually have a lot of sci-fi (and I just watched Event Horizon the other day).
Oh, and I’d heard that they’re changed the end a little before I saw Chamber of Secrets, but … I haven’t read the book in so long that I don’t remember what the difference might have been. And like I said, I was having to figure it out along the way, since my memory of the book was buried. Now I want to go see what the othe end was.
Oh, oops. Did I fail to mention that I failed to wake up? I missed all the TV I wanted to see, and was wondering if anyone had got Alias or Angel taped, such that I could borrow it? Silly sleep, interfering with “prime time” TV. Did you know there’s basically no good TV on between 2AM and almost mid-day? Even if you like news, nothing comes on until 5 or 6AM. Whose bad idea is that? “Prime time” What a lark.
Oh, oops. Did I fail to mention that I failed to wake up? I missed all the TV I wanted to see, and was wondering if anyone had got Alias or Angel taped, such that I could borrow it? Silly sleep, interfering with “prime time” TV. Did you know there’s basically no good TV on between 2AM and almost mid-day? Even if you like news, nothing comes on until 5 or 6AM. Whose bad idea is that? “Prime time” What a lark.