Hello Circus Contraption people! I'm happy I can help you out w/ Michael's Thriller video.

I picked up a book when I went to the central library recently - Computer Graphics for Designers and Artists. A lot of fun, old infomation in there, and some very good graphics that are just the visual style I like (late 80s/early 90s). Some references to 'Macromind Director'. Something I also enjoyed was this statistic:

The human visual system has a datarate of 6,168,960 megabits/sec, at a resolution of 36,000 x 28,000 pixels x 7 bits/pixel x 3 colors x 2 eyes x 60 fps. (per Seth Shostack)

Seth, buddy, how do you measure that?

My teeth have been hurting this week - in an act of desperation I've taken up flossing, and clinging to the belief that my actions will have a retroactive effect! Here's a question though - is it proper to floss before brushing your teeth, or after? I really can't find a way that seems right.

The past few days I've felt very run-down and tired... not really sure what's up. I felt so troubled today that I didn't even go to circus class - hopefully I can make it on Saturday. I feel a desire to run off to Tanzania and run around with elephants, and another desire to stop working completely and live a very poor life making independent films, or at least trying to. Maybe I should stick with the desire of playing my axe.

Oh hey - there's a new old video up in the video section. It's an old Zac-n-Krack film (Krack was my high school slave name) from my Sophomore year at Wallowa High. You might want to leave it alone unless you know me, but I was psyched about that flick for a long time. Some great one-liners in there, such as:

"This is war. People get killed, people get hurt. Now you know."
"One more notch on my commie death toll!"
"The green and black attack is back Jack, and there's nothing you can do about it!"

God stuff. On a completely unrelated note, here is a scene from Eugene Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros':