Within the Mind's Eye

Friday, June 22, 2007

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Status Report at 0052 hours :

Final location confirmed, articles inserted and arranged accordingly. Bedding remains to be determined. Area is unstable, but should be suitable for habitation. More information will be released at a later date.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

trendy folks title blogs with song quotes

I've got so many sketches that I want to upload, but I really don't want to unpack my scanner yet. I've been playing musical futons here at the fraternity house since sunday night, but tomorrow I should be settled into my actual room. At that point I'll do the following.

1. hook up my scanner.

2. upload sketches

3. start back on other projects

4. lock the door and do a silent run-through of Shakespeare's Hamlet
entirely with sock puppets.

5. more sketches

6. alphabetize my keyboard

7. Inform people (via blog) that I was only kidding about 1-3.

I need to stop typing in lists.

In other news, I'm trying really hard to mix up my style, an innovation which should come in handy for use in my many other projects.

But with any luck, I'll learn some new techniques and have much to show for my efforts.

until the sun cycles,

Caldwell

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Things I've Learned

Here a few helpful tips to make your stay in LA more pleasant.

1. Everyone is crazy, you are probably crazy too, but have yet to realize it.

2. Unless you are really, really angry all the time, you're most likely going to get in a crash while driving here.

3. Surf's Up is a really good movie, not only because of the fact that I'm working for Sony, but because of how well the dialogue flows and the beautiful effects of the surfboards cutting through the water.

4. Always carry change with you. It's useful for several purposes including doing your laundry, paying parking meters, and of course fending off homeless people.

5. Linux is a strange and foreign thing, revered by most sages as "the one true nerdspeak," impenetrable by those not well practiced in the coding arts.

6. LA is aweseome.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

phase 2 engage

So yesterday was yet another exciting chapter in the Golden State Chronicles. My dad and I discovered a restaurant called "Rutts". Imagine if Waffle House added a stir fry section to their menu, and also didn't have that one creepy guy sitting in the corner muttering to himself. That's kind of what Rutts was like, a true diamond in the rough. After this feast, we set about finding a rental car. Apparently everyone in California drives, but strangely enough, nobody ever moves anywhere. I think the majority of the people who live in this state get paid to just drive back and forth on the freeway all day. After an excruciating hour on the I-405, we finally made our way to the Dodgers stadium...only to find they were out of tickets. We decided it'd be just downright rude not to at least pay for parking, so we went in, and luckily found a shifty gentleman willing to give us to tickets to the spectacle known as "The Freeway Series", an event which I'm told only occurs once every millenia, when the moon glows blood red and the narwhal's tusk is at it's greatest height. It also occasionally happens whenever the Dodgers play the Angels.
The Dodgers were defeated 3 to 0, but nobody really cares. I've decided that people go to baseball games for the soul purpose of buying overpriced beer and
yelling at people they've never seen before. After the game, I practiced driving to and from work, a necessary procedure for someone like me. I'm not medically certified, but I'm pretty certain that I'm missing the part of my brain that helps me navigate. We'd been driving through LA for two days, and I still had no idea where to go, truly a shame.

Hopefully your appetite for words has been moistened, and hopefully I will soon have more tales to great your weary eyes with. I'm still getting the hang of recording myself like this, and I might start just putting sketches with captions here instead, it's really anyone's guess at this point.

over and out,

Caldwell

Friday, June 15, 2007

I am in the state

Hey faithful,

I'm in L.A. right now, and I must say, it's rather nice. It's nice to be with my dad, he has so far been generous enough to pick up the tab at all the fancy restaurants we've been to. We at lunch at a place called "Ford's filling station" today, and discovered that next door there was a gallery which specializes in animation and illustration. There was several original pieces from Dr. Seuss, as well as animation cells from The Simpsons and some Disney Movies. All in all, it was a pretty incredible gallery. We also went by Culver city today and got some more info from Sony. I can't freakin' wait to start working for them, Sony Animation seems really cool, and everyone there seems very nice and excited about what they do. We also found a nice rental car place, so transportation shouldn't be a problem. That's pretty much all that's happened so far, I really want to accompany these posts with sketches, and once I get my scanner hooked up I'll start doing that. For now, however, I leave you with little but a promise.

peace,

Caldwell

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Changes Afoot

So those of you who know me are aware that in a few days I'll be heading out to California to do an internship with Sony Pictures Animation. In an attempt to keep everyone up to date on my crazy happenings, I'm going to start reconfiguring this site as a more personal blog that I can use to let people know what I'm up to.

peace,

Caldwell