DARK KITTY FRIDAY!
Well im back in the thick of After Effects. I just wish i could devote more time to the "can", i used to be pretty good at it. Takes a lot of time to get started up in it. But its like thearpy for me... a good dabble in a creative abstract collage sooothes the mind. Just need to create more.
Things like Dark Kitty, i miss that.. simple.. crude even.. just create. Don't think, just create. So thats what im doing. Course i tend to collect and pull from my arsenal of apps to do just that. Cleaner cleans my renders, Xfrog makes my abstracts, After Effects adds the touches, AlamDV... well that they got lots of plugins and I like that. As always i typically finish a piece in Avid Xpress DV, but not always. I'm probably going thru mass app exposure. Too many apps, not enough focus. But im always like that.
Kinda like my view on used PS2 games. Play or no play odds are if ive had a game for more than a few weeks.. that is down right amazing. I tried Devil May Cry 2, didnt do it for me, Devil May Cry 1 was better.. then I tried Twin Towers, room mate just about beat it.. I played it twice, never took enough time to play it. Then there was War of the Monsters, cool played it for about 3 days, room mate played it forever.. traded it. Then I had ICO, kinda cool.. traded it. Then there was Primal Fear, expensive... traded it. Then there was Getaway, didnt like it, took it back.. then Mark of Kri, cool, room mate played it, i could never get any time. So what stays? What doesn't get traded? Games that are soo cheap like $6 bucks, i'll keep that around.. like PapaRapper 2, ok I like the 2d silly animation and I really like hearing the guy say "pick up the fries..." in the fast food song. Devil May Cry 1 stays as well, its a classic. Of course my big thing is anything from Rock Star Games. Vice City, GTA3, State of Emergency, Midnight Club II, all have that element of "do whatever you want have fun... no pressure...." I love that in a game. Thats become my most sought out feature. Freedom. Currently Midnight Club 2 gets most of my attention, I like a good racing game. The newest kid on the block is Rachet and Clank, a very good, very fun platformer.
You could look at all that and go.. FREAK, blowin dough like that is insane.. but its not really. Sure if eveything was $55 ya.. but when everything is $25 max typically.. its not that bad. And the Burt works wonders for ya as well. Especially if you have a trade he wants bad.. you'll get prime $$ for it. Still it is like a bad rental agreement.. always losing. But I see it as always gaining.. new new new new new.. i like that. Maybe my new input sensors need work.
As for the PC? Well i started playing Uplink recently. Anyone wanna play Red Faction 2 or Bandits let me know... they are gathering dust over here. I just have limited time i guess. I always look at it as.. ok i get home from work, should i be rendering or playing a game... well RENDER you fool.. you need to learn learn learn.. not download into some virtual existance. Course learn learn learn... kills me as well. Thats why i need quick mindless wonders. Quake! Need my Quake.
So here I am patching Flaming Pear plugins in Fireworks (still avoiding photoshop), I'm ftp'd into floozy checking things, alamdv is next to me on another warm monitor (need lcd) rendering something i did in xfrog... i think alamDV would benefit from an exceedingly fast cpu maybe.. the interface seems kinda slow at times. Course i do have snapstream running in the background idle.. but still.. ok kazaa too. I hate it how kazaa will just forget about you afterawhile and people can rape and pillage yer files and what about yer list of goodies? Infinetly qued up but never connecting.. its like I need a kazaa whipping boy downloader app that just keep pushing kazaa to find and get not list and play dumb. Tunes blare thru winamp2, cause winamp3 and blogamp dont play nice.. and winamp2 is before the AOL time... i never knew nullsoft sold out to AOL.. thats horrible. heh... so i miss the crossfade feature in winamp3, need to get that for winamp2. Cleaner5 stands by ready to convert another non web friendly file into a willing streaming gtg existance... this is what i need to be doing... more of this.