June

Saturday July 7 2007

The purpose of Jacob and I traveling around the world for the last month was to solely find white 16mm diameter 4mm center hole plastic beads. And as much as I'd like to say mission accomplished the aircraft carrier in me won't allow it. New York, Frankfurt, Miami, Annecy, London, Geneva, San Diego, LA, Las Vegas will all be known as the non-bead capitals of the world. It seems like a strange use of time scouring the world for the beads but I use them as the eyeballs for our figures and without them I'd have to have the figures in a constant blink. If you want other examples of large amount of time on simple issues I spent a day making a metal link chain, Steve built a rope machine so as to get the trebuchet rope to scale, Steve is hand sculpting bricks into a 1/10 scale castle, Steve built a tower with individual cast bricks, Steve... well Steve does a lot of amazing work with a process that scrunches the face the same way spending 9 hours animating a devil to walk across a room does. 'Boy you guys must be patient'

During our travel for beads we did happen across an animation festival in the south of France. Annecy is a fabulous festival but previous exposure to the festival wasn't as rock guitar as we had hoped. I wrote a report about it but it's mainly about the coffee and how French cafes just don’t have take away containers.

Traveling for a month one often doesn't take with him the items that one used occasionally. Such as nail clippers. Too much to carry for a month for one or two uses. I found my nose hair growing and since I was shy of curved scissors or a large hunting knife I felt my nose began to look like I was smuggling Ebola monkey's in them. I don't have a whimsical story here nor a solution to his problem but I have decided to let them grow free. No longer will I shave the inside of my nose. How I love duty free booze.

We visited the exterior build face of the Ghostbusters building and the NY public Library where they ran out and Dana Barrett's apartment which is a lot smaller than you’d think and we saw Billy Connolly walking down a street and Matt Berry coming out of the London Bridge train station and I scared him and I met some nice animators and we saw Jeanne Tripplehorn and we went to A Chorus Line which was ace and we drove in a convertible to vVgas and I saw William Shatner's hand print and I bought a hat etc.

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