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Monday, August 16, 2004
Slipping away.
Thanks to those who commented on my last post. Sara, I promise you, my next theme will be as pleasing to you as I can possibly make it. I just needed a brief change. ~_^
There hasn't been a whole lot of news lately. I feel like I've been saying that pretty often, but there seem to be less and less things to talk about. I'd say this is partly due to the fact that, aside from the recent changes on OtakuBoards, things have been going pretty smoothly over there. And I've really said all I can about theOtaku.com's new version as I can.
One thing I have had a bit of time to work on recently is my new site. Work has been going slowly, for obvious reasons. But very shortly, all of my work for theOtaku.com will be complete and I'll have more time to push this new site ahead.
I've sort of come up with a design that I like. I say "sort of" because I can't quite put that finishing touch on it. I absolutely hate it when this happens. The same thing happened with theOtaku.com for a while; I hit a roadblock and couldn't pass it for a while. Designer's block, or whatever you want to call it.
But having said that, I haven't lost any enthusiasm for the overall project. And I would say that I probably discuss Kill Bill with Alex once or twice a week, at this point. It's interesting because the discussion, in addition to the research I've been doing, has helped to draw out a lot of potential points of analysis for the site itself. There are a lot of elements in the movie that the casual observer won't notice. And the relationships between characters are incredibly interesting. Although there's a simple basis for most of it, there are many subtleties involved, which are all quite clever. It's not Matrix-type stuff, certainly...but it's definitely a film with a tremendous amount of subtle qualities and elements.
For me, I notice some of these things when I first see a film. But it usually takes repeated watching to draw the most out of it. By combining that with actual research (ie: reading all of the press information, interviews and so on), I find that I can gain a lot more enjoyment from the movie.
I think I might spend my next post talking to you about one of my upcoming school projects. I'm excited about my idea and hopefully at some stage I can take some photos to show you what I'm working on. It's always a lot of fun to present your concepts to a large group (especially when they're really understanding your idea and getting into it).
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