Showing posts with label Hoo Mah Moos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hoo Mah Moos. Show all posts
Monday, April 26, 2010
Validation
I Saw this today and I love it. It just did what it set out to do and is definately worthy of a Hoo Mah Moos award. Validation, you are my Media Muse for today.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Mah Mooses and UVU don't want to play nice together.
So it's been a while since I did anything on here. I'm still feeling that flicker in my left eye that is driving me mental. Maybe I just have to come to terms that it's been seven years since I had my eyes tested and that perhaps I don't have 20/20 vision anymore. Rah. Or it could just mean that my constantly viewing a computor screen watching the test takers and idiots yawning, stretching and testing at work,copy-editing, editing and all the homework and reading I have to do for school are all just building up a small bubble of pressure that will pop sometimes soon. Add to this the stress of building a portfolio for a deadline that fell on today, and I was in need of a break by the third week of school.
Anyway We spent the last three days in Midway. Midway from Orem to Park City and just about the most perfect place (except for home with family) I could have been. Well Jill, Dustin and Ella came with us and we played games every night and finally played the Mr. and Mrs Game Jodi Bought us for Christmas. And it was Fun with a Capital. I felt relaxed for a bit, which was good as it prepared me for this week which is going to be hectic to say the least.
This week will include the following.
Nightmare Mansion. I've been waiting for this for ages. Can't wait to be freaked out. Lydia told me she's writing about a haunted house she took her dad to when she was 14 over in London. Sounds like it could be really funny.
A friend is making us dinner this week with some professional stuff he uses for work. It's kind of like a tuppaware thing but without the pressure to buy.
Copy editing the UVU Review will be hectic this week with two issues going out within a couple of days. Well Hectic. I gotta e-mail Kyle to see if he can come in extra time.
Journalism workshops that the UVU Review is paying for me to go to. This should be really interesting and I should get dinner and a continental breakfast out of it too. Yayyy. Hurrah for UVU Review. I really appreciate it.
Also, I think I want to carve our pumpkin this week sometime, but the timing is going to be difficult. This might happen on Saturday.
So I saw this thing on someone elses Blog and thought it would be interesting to figure it out. I actually did it more than a month ago and am only just getting round to putting it up. Check out the next post for my life according to Nerina Pallot.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Title Piece
I'm in the process of trying to personalize this blog a bit more by adding artwork and other elements. I've been reading up on blogs and what makes them successful and gets hits even, but this is all a work in progress.
So I'll be updating the image as I tweak it and transform it into its final state. The one currently in the title space is the skeleton of the piece with Ink pen added over the top.
Just to give people out there a heads up to what the title actually means; it's just me saying the words "Who is my muse?" in a stupid voice. And to answer that question, on the whole I prescribe to the three muses Melpomene, Euterpe and Thalia the muses of Tragedy, lyric+song, and Comedy Respectively, but other things become muses for me at different points, states, and stages of my life.
So I'll be updating the image as I tweak it and transform it into its final state. The one currently in the title space is the skeleton of the piece with Ink pen added over the top.
Just to give people out there a heads up to what the title actually means; it's just me saying the words "Who is my muse?" in a stupid voice. And to answer that question, on the whole I prescribe to the three muses Melpomene, Euterpe and Thalia the muses of Tragedy, lyric+song, and Comedy Respectively, but other things become muses for me at different points, states, and stages of my life.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
My Heroes
So It's roughly a month away from Pilots season for T.V. Quite exciting and me being the T.V junky I am, I am waiting for the new shows and the season premieres of old favourites.
At this time, Leverage and Burn Notice have both been on the screens in their summer spots, but it really is the Fall/Spring shows that I am excited for. Heroes and Lie To Me, being two of my returning favourites. Lie to me comes back to us on a monday this season and is hands down one of the most intelligent, fantastic entertaining pieces of art in a long time. And then theres Heroes.
Heroes is my popcorn superpowered Lover who enticed me with just what I wanted and said, it's okay your wife can watch too. Ever since seeing the pilot a couple of weeks before it was shown on television I was enraptured. This was the show for me. Several superpowered characters integrated in to real life situations with a super powered serial killed thrown in for good measure. It's like they spied on my dreams and said, "okay, Serialised Television show catered just for Loz Cook coming through." Of course I lapped it all up. And so, it seemed, did everyone else. Heroes became the geeky media darling loved by fans and critics alike. Then the writers strike happened (And thank the heavens this didn't extend to comics or... well, bad things might have happened). Heroes gave us a great season 2 that was cut short because of the strike. Now I loved Season 2, despite the ultra annoying Maya, who should have died instead of her brother, but still did not ruin my enjoyment of the show. The New Orleans crowd had me hooked. Season three also gave me what I wanted. More interaction and battle between the super powered characters. The Villains and other characters hooked me and kept me fascinated in almost the same way the X-Men had(and still do) to this day. But there was a problem. The fanboys.
Okay I confess, I'm a comics geek (note I said Geek, NOT NERD, NOT FANBOY, Geek. There is a difference). This isn't a surprise, but I love my comics, and I can be quite obsessed sometimes. It's not even the collectors bug. It's not that I have to have so many issues and collectors items, because I don't. But I do have a substantial collection, most of which reside In about 15 packing boxes in the attic at home. "Oh that I had them here in the USA." Anyway what I'm saying is, Im a plot and story whore. I need my fix of characterisation, plot, story, suspense, intrigue and cliffhangers. Oh the cliffhangers. That feeling after reading the last page of a comic book and painfully, but also excitedly knowing that you have to wait for another month until you find out WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? It's all part of the fun and entertainment.
Anyway I digress, Comics are alot like T.V in this respect, and the reason I bring up Heroes and comics together is that on an message board or fan site, you will always get fanboy perspectives and holier than thou opinions. Heroes took a nose dive in popularity. It's almost as though it's cool and intelligent to say that this show is just not as good as it was in the first season and that it's headed for cancellation. Everyone seems like they want a shred of poor torn old heroes. I have to disagree. I've enjoyed Heroes as much this last season as I did the 2nd and the 1st. As I explained, Im a story, plot whore. So what is behind all this discomfort? Let me give you my opinion, like so many other fans.
The thing with T.V shows, and Comics for that matter, is, The longer a show is produced, the more, over zealous fans think they know and should decide what makes it good and what will keep it good. We all think we're owed the exact television we're subjected to and we all think that we have a right to make those desci. Let me explain a bit more.
I think that with a medium we have no control over, you have to just wait for it and see what comes. If you don't like it, you can choose not to subject yourself to it again or wait for the next juicy morsel to entertain you. It's that simple. But to continue to bitch about about it not giving you what YOU want, is just a bit silly. What's stupider still, is to continue to watch it and still complain.
Well just to end this little portion of writing, heres Garth Ennis on comics publishing.
"What we're talking about here, I think, is conventional wisdom, which by its very nature is soundbite-driven and often highly reflexive. I used to handle the letter column during Preacher's monthly run, and I saw a pattern of criticism develop there in what I soon realized was a very predictable way - year two's not as good as year one, year two was wonderful but year three's lost it, this is just a lot of violence and swearing, all he's trying to do is get noticed - repeated ad infinitum. It's one of the reasons I don't bother with message boards and reviews and things, which I believe are largely a distraction.
What I look at instead are the sales figures, which answer the most important question of all: Can I keep writing the story I want to write?"
Here here Garth.
At this time, Leverage and Burn Notice have both been on the screens in their summer spots, but it really is the Fall/Spring shows that I am excited for. Heroes and Lie To Me, being two of my returning favourites. Lie to me comes back to us on a monday this season and is hands down one of the most intelligent, fantastic entertaining pieces of art in a long time. And then theres Heroes.
Heroes is my popcorn superpowered Lover who enticed me with just what I wanted and said, it's okay your wife can watch too. Ever since seeing the pilot a couple of weeks before it was shown on television I was enraptured. This was the show for me. Several superpowered characters integrated in to real life situations with a super powered serial killed thrown in for good measure. It's like they spied on my dreams and said, "okay, Serialised Television show catered just for Loz Cook coming through." Of course I lapped it all up. And so, it seemed, did everyone else. Heroes became the geeky media darling loved by fans and critics alike. Then the writers strike happened (And thank the heavens this didn't extend to comics or... well, bad things might have happened). Heroes gave us a great season 2 that was cut short because of the strike. Now I loved Season 2, despite the ultra annoying Maya, who should have died instead of her brother, but still did not ruin my enjoyment of the show. The New Orleans crowd had me hooked. Season three also gave me what I wanted. More interaction and battle between the super powered characters. The Villains and other characters hooked me and kept me fascinated in almost the same way the X-Men had(and still do) to this day. But there was a problem. The fanboys.
Okay I confess, I'm a comics geek (note I said Geek, NOT NERD, NOT FANBOY, Geek. There is a difference). This isn't a surprise, but I love my comics, and I can be quite obsessed sometimes. It's not even the collectors bug. It's not that I have to have so many issues and collectors items, because I don't. But I do have a substantial collection, most of which reside In about 15 packing boxes in the attic at home. "Oh that I had them here in the USA." Anyway what I'm saying is, Im a plot and story whore. I need my fix of characterisation, plot, story, suspense, intrigue and cliffhangers. Oh the cliffhangers. That feeling after reading the last page of a comic book and painfully, but also excitedly knowing that you have to wait for another month until you find out WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? It's all part of the fun and entertainment.
Anyway I digress, Comics are alot like T.V in this respect, and the reason I bring up Heroes and comics together is that on an message board or fan site, you will always get fanboy perspectives and holier than thou opinions. Heroes took a nose dive in popularity. It's almost as though it's cool and intelligent to say that this show is just not as good as it was in the first season and that it's headed for cancellation. Everyone seems like they want a shred of poor torn old heroes. I have to disagree. I've enjoyed Heroes as much this last season as I did the 2nd and the 1st. As I explained, Im a story, plot whore. So what is behind all this discomfort? Let me give you my opinion, like so many other fans.
The thing with T.V shows, and Comics for that matter, is, The longer a show is produced, the more, over zealous fans think they know and should decide what makes it good and what will keep it good. We all think we're owed the exact television we're subjected to and we all think that we have a right to make those desci. Let me explain a bit more.
I think that with a medium we have no control over, you have to just wait for it and see what comes. If you don't like it, you can choose not to subject yourself to it again or wait for the next juicy morsel to entertain you. It's that simple. But to continue to bitch about about it not giving you what YOU want, is just a bit silly. What's stupider still, is to continue to watch it and still complain.
Well just to end this little portion of writing, heres Garth Ennis on comics publishing.
"What we're talking about here, I think, is conventional wisdom, which by its very nature is soundbite-driven and often highly reflexive. I used to handle the letter column during Preacher's monthly run, and I saw a pattern of criticism develop there in what I soon realized was a very predictable way - year two's not as good as year one, year two was wonderful but year three's lost it, this is just a lot of violence and swearing, all he's trying to do is get noticed - repeated ad infinitum. It's one of the reasons I don't bother with message boards and reviews and things, which I believe are largely a distraction.
What I look at instead are the sales figures, which answer the most important question of all: Can I keep writing the story I want to write?"
Here here Garth.
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