Category: Miscellaneous

I came to the University this morning with Anna-Maria and her sister Lana. We went to the make-up shop and I had my face molded with alginate. It was really cold on my face but after about 10 minutes they took it off and it seems to have worked out pretty good. They are going to fill it with plaster and create a positive of my face. They did it as part of their independent study for their make-up class.

Jakob, Josh, and Lana all came to visit Anna last night. Jakob and Josh were supposed to sleep at my house, but Josh went to bed early and I fell asleep on the couch and the next thing I knew we’d all slept over and I had the biggest pain in my neck! I guess it’s my own fault for falling asleep. Lana and I are at the University now and we’re going to watch Anna-Maria’s final project for her TYA (Theatre for Young Audiences) class. Jakob is hanging out with Zee and Josh is writing the ACT.

I’ve been working super hard on my final projects. I am so stupid for leaving them this long. I have been at the school since 9:00 and I’m thinking maybe it’s about time I had some lunch. I can’t believe how much more work I still have to do before Monday.

Anna-Maria is going to make a mold of my face using plaster this Saturday. If you’ve seen the special features on the Fight Club DVD then you’ll know what I’m talking about because it’s the same process that Brad Pitt went through for his makeup in that movie. Anna said that when it was all over I could keep the mold. Anyway I better get back to work.

I’m done all my regular classes and just have finals and review classes now. I am really far behind in my multimedia projects and having said that, I’m going to get to work.

Accordian Guy has an interesting post about how blogging saved him from “psycho new chick”. Blogging can save you too.

My computer is broken – seriously. I spent all afternoon working on it. I’m now giving it a rest and working on homework that is due tomorrow. I’m working on homework at the University that I could be working on at home except that my computer is so messed up right now! I’m going to back up My Documents and install Windows 2000 over itself. If that doesn’t work I’ll convert it into a boat anchor. That better work, it just better.

Mom and Dad came to visit because their computer wouldn’t boot and they just wanted to visit I guess. But when I went to make a boot disk on my windows 95 machine it wouldn’t boot either. Then my Win 2000 machine started acting up and I lost my internet connection and it won’t let me open any programs. I can’t even login to my Linksys router. I don’t know what’s wrong with my computer but its really ticking me off. I now have 3 broken computers at my house to fix. Mom and Dad left theirs so they probably won’t be reading or commenting on the blog for the next week or so.

The motion capture workshop was this afternoon. It wasn’t nearly as exciting as I had hoped but it was very interesting all the same. Will (aka Anonymous) dressed up in black tights and then attached little balls with reflective tape on them all over the suit. There were about 8 or 9 cameras all around the room and sure enough the computer was able to track his motion. The data was then cleaned up and exported to 3D Studio Max where a bi-ped that someone else created was attached to the data and recreated the motions on the 3D plane.

I convinced Anna-Maria to come see the Steve Mann web-casted guest speaker. There is a really good reason why nobody web-casts their speeches; I found out that reason last night. The video screen was like playing Test Drive III on a 286. At least Test Drive III was in colour.