frozen octopus

Spent some time yesterday making an animation in Rough Animator for a flyer coming up. I found an old dance step illustration from the 1960s and created panels from them. There are only six panels so I created a transition panel to try and smooth things out. Turned out pretty good but I need to practice hands and faces a lot more.

I woke up today with a note night me wrote that "it is ok to not make titles for blog posts". Morning me is thinking "have a title but make some challenge like try to boil the post down to two words".

I am able to write titles or I could get lazy and let the robots write them. Two (or three) words seems more fun. I'm also kinda curious what a list of them would look like over time.

Very thankful for the medicine that is keeping the cough that started last Wednesday night. I am so zonked from it though that I made zero progress on the video I need to finish before the cherry trees start blooming in Tokyo. I have about three weeks to get it done. Spent the whole weekend practicing animation in Rough Animator. Nothing but false starts though. I do thing each false start was one better than the last though...so progress?

Don't wait until the last minute to get registered to vote if you are living outside the US. I made sure my info is up to date today. Felt good getting it done.

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I gave a music industry podcast a try today with some interesting results. Going into it my head was at even if it doesn't apply to me, I should really know about things. After one episode, I can't tell if I should keep listening to it or not. The two people talking were bringing up some things I hadn't thought/cared about. I even started to get sucked in for a second.

Then I realized at a point that they both weren't saying any of my personal keywords for why I play music. The web designer side of me wanted to take notes, the punk/indie drummer side of me wanted to change to another podcast.

I am going to try some other episodes to see if it was just the guest this week that was rubbing me the wrong way. If you want to know the podcast, send me a message dave@frozen-octopus.com.