itesser ink: progress, uncensored

ris is fucking metal

That is all, except for an excerpt from an email I sent off today. I love writing email. (it was in reference to having a blog solely of letters that I write)

I feel that I write better/more interesting when I'm
corresponding, likely do to a concentrated audience. almost like
typing here in gmail is writing on a piece of paper at my desk, and
writing in an LJ textbox is writing on a whiteboard (vertical). Even
if it doesn't go public, my posture was still very different, and that
influenced my thinking



edited to add good idea/bad idea:

Scrubs parody called "Scribes" set in wholly anachronisti

your debates came to mind when I read that. I don't know if you've heard those terms about human nature before, but it was definitely a moment of "oh yah! that makes sense and would explain a lot" for me. I know the "According to research" is really vague and doesn't cite a source, but it's something I'm curious to look into. Oh. And you'll like this, too. For the laughs.

I really love Scott Adam's posts. Last night while I was talking to Reagan I was making beachcomber comparisons between Gaiman and Adams bloggings. Gaiman uses found objects of all kinds to put together collages that he leaves in his wake, and Adams has a rock-tumbler at home that he uses.

Ray Bradbury also gave me a bit of wisdom yesterday that I'll try to put to good use:

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like old faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.



And, last of all, in this post about other people, clockworkmonkey is running for Jungle Skipper in some Disney Dream Jobs competition. You all should watch and vote for him here (voting is my pet project for relaxation today...

m supposed to be posting something that came to mind while we were at the bank this evening. I cannot recall.

Watched Battlestar today. For my thoughts, go look here if you havent seen it, and here (SPOILERS) if you have.

Good idea/Bad idea (for Style Network or E!):

Makeup Artist Challenge.

Get five top notch people in the make-up field and pit them against REALITY. Each show has a different theme challenge. The one that started me off was "Homeless Challenge". The other good one was "Golden Years Challenge".

But the idea is that each artist on the show gets a nondescript person of average or young age and a set amount of time to make this person pass for whatever the week's theme is. Then they put the five made up people on a stage with five people who fit the theme but ARE NOT MADE UP, and make random people guess who's made up and who's authentic. You could do it in a studio, but I think it would work better in a shopping mall or on the street.

They keep score week to week about who does the most convincing make-up jobs, and have rankings and running scores. At the end of the season, whoever has the lowest sore is voted off the island. (Thats not really voting, is it?)

Fill in the rest of the show with "Pro tip!" segments, and "Speed challenges!" for zombies, mermaids, and other fantastic creatures that get stage-fright.

Other weeks they have Select Challenges where there are three teams of two or two teams of three (guest make up artist for the week) in which they go to the set of a TV show that uses special makeup'd characters. The goal is to imitate the special makeup, then a few people who work on the show are asked to "spot the impostors", and a group of people off the street are asked to "spot the impostors" as well.

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And for a good idea/bad idea from a couple weeks ago which came to fruition