Sunday, March 13, 2005

All entertainers come original
I think I have a few different things to talk about now, so I'll try to type fast, lest I forget anything.

1. The situation at the university sucks. It's a pretty sealed deal that they're going to ask my dad's company to move him out. Once again, I must emphasize that it's really not his fault (even the university's starting to agree with this), but that there's simply not enough money for Dad's company, Chartwells, to gain anything here.

2. We still haven't got any names for the kittens. There's two girls and a guy. Name them.

3. About the website that I talked about wanting to make a long time ago: it's becoming more of a (very remote) possibility than a dream now. There are still things that I need to work out about it, but when I shimmy off to college in four years, and I'm able to pay for it and have the time to do it, I really think I could pull it off.

However, I do think I'm gonna have to cancel the idea of it scrolling sideways. That would simply exceed the boundaries of function before form.

I'm still getting a brighter picture of exactly what the site would be. And it wouldn't be just one thing, either. It would have several different facets to it.

The home page would be home to my site updates and general ramblings. Basically just like the many blogs and commentaries on the frontpages of sites. However, I would avoid personal and (especially) political updates like the plague. Way too many of them out there. Instead, I would just try to write something thoroughly entertaining. Something that someone could come to the site to read, even if they didn't like anything else about the site.

Another part of it -- the main part, really. Well, it would be officially the main part, but not totally. Just like theOtaku is the main part of this network, even though myOtaku and Otakuboards are probably more popular. Anyway, this part would be a gallery of different flash animations I'll have done. But not simply flash animations like you'd see elsewhere: I would do all my animations based on music. Not music videos, per se -- those are visuals that complement the song. In my animations, the song would complement the visuals. The animations would actually be stories that might be totally unrelated to the song's words.

The animations would be drawn on the computer, but not in the chunky, outlined style that most flash is done in. I would actually draw them by hand on a tablet PC or one of those virtual drawing pads you can hook up to your computer. It would be very sketchy-looking, I imagine. Of course, two problems are revealed when facing this issue:

1) I have no idea how to do flash.

2) I suck at drawing.

Problem one can, of course, be easily remedied. But problem two could take a while.And when I say "it could take a while", I mean, "I'll have to draw my ass off."

Because I really don't have any talent for drawing (have I talked about this before?). I've just been drawing off and on in a-few-months-long spurts for several years now. So it takes forever for me to improve my drawing skills.

But I just realized that I've been talking about this one facet of my site for some time now. Let's move on.

The only other facet that I've thought of right now, and most likely the only other one I'll want, is a community. Not a community like around here, maybe a bit less and a bit different. I have no idea how it'd be different, but it would have to be somehow, because most of the site really should be focused around the site itself. I may want to keep it as small as just a forum, but if I do, it'll damn well have to be a great forum, like OB. I'd... uh...

Yeah, inspiration lost. I think I'll end here.
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