Where is my mind.

Take a deep breath. Let it out. Close your eyes. Open them again. You cannot see. I'm not talking like everything is black, I'm telling you, you cannot see. Everything is there, but you cannot see it. There are no colours in what is in front of you. There is no movement. There is no focus.

Put your hands over your ears. Squeeze tightly. Now take your hands away. You cannot hear. There are sounds but you cannot hear them. Everything feels like it's coming from very far away. If someone talks to you, you have no idea that they are doing so, even if they are right beside you. If they get your attention and are standing directly in front of you, you only hear the first few minutes of what they are saying (if that) and then you cannot hear or see them.

It feels as though you are dreaming. A dream where you cannot interact with the surroundings. A dream where you do not exist. You are merely the spectator in this dream. You watch the events of the person in this dreams life unfold. You do not seem to have much control over these events.

Your mind. Is a vacuum. Nothing goes in and nothing comes out. Your mind can control actions that you have always been able to do. It can only attempt extreme new actions, actions that must result in some kind of physical pain. That is the only way your mind can learn.

Your attention span is very limited, sometimes less then a minute. You often find yourself standing somewhere with no knowledge of how you got there and no idea why you are there. This can happen several times within the same place.

Think about what you did yesterday, last week, earlier today. Now forget it. You have no idea what you did. The memories are there but you cannot reach them. The more you try to recall what you did the harder it becomes. Draw a picture of a friend/ or family members face. Rub it out. See that smudged mark. That is how you see your friends, family etc in your mind.

Wiggle your toes. Move your legs. Move your bum. Move your belly. Your chest. Shrug your shoulders. Move your arms. wiggle your fingers. Crick your neck. Shake your head. Now stay very still. There is a sick feeling somewhere in your insides. It is impossible to pinpoint where. It's not like ill kind of sick. You are not going to throw up. But it is always there. You are barely aware of the rest of your body. Just the every present sick feeling.

Sometimes the sick feeling, reaches your eyes. Your eyes hurt. Your head hurts. It feels like there is a gaping hole in your chest. There is liquid running down your cheeks. You have no idea why. Your throat hurts. You realise you have been silently screaming. You relax and realise that your whole body has been tensed up. Now you are numb. The sick feeling is still there. You blink. Your cold. You look down. You are wet. You are in a towel. Shivering beside your hall radiator. You have no idea how you got there. You know this has happened before. You do not know when.

Tomorrow will be the same. You will not know what day it is. You will only be dimly aware of the GMT time. You do not register time passing. The time is a constant surprise. Repetition makes it easier.

Tomorrow..

And so I lived up to all expectations.

Last week I really was not here. I would like to have the perfect excuse but there is never a perfect excuse and I'm tired of them. I was not here. I slept all day. I cried at some point in the night and I think I woke up beside a radiator again. I would love to be able to tell you what happened but as usual I don't really know. The only reason I ever make it into uni is because my brother picks me up in the morning. That gives me a reason to get up in the morning. I would be better off with a full time job. I have never had a problem getting up and going to work. I guess there is more purpose to it. I am expected to be at my job at the time  my shift starts. I will be missed and sort after if I do not turn up. I am not expected to turn up to uni, in fact I am expected not to turn up to uni. I am not expected to turn up to crit's and exhibitions. I am expected to be late for tutorials. No one will react any different if I live up to my expectations and do not turn up. If I am not here as I never really am, i am not missed or sort after. I imagine it is a relief when I do live up to expectations and stay at home.
So that's what I'm doing living up to all expectations. I am not here. I never really am.

I feel sad that I missed out on a chance to see what everyone's been up to, but I would only have offended had I been there as I would have certainly fallen asleep continuously throughout. That would have only been another expectation to live up to I suppose.

The Brothers Quay

I just watched this sample from The Brothers Quay's Street of Crocodiles but with Lady Gaga's 'Speechless' (acoustic version) on (because i wasn't in the mood for real sound) and weirdly it works quite well!!

Gaga's New Video.

So totally unrelated to anything I'm doing right now but Lady Gaga's new video! It's directed by nick Knight and you can tell!! It has his style written all over it. Love it! It tops all her previous ones and it's pretty insane.

Horlicks website

I was going to show you guys the Horlicks website but unfortunately they have updated it which sucks because the version I read about is pretty sick and the new one sucks in comparison!

To create the animated website that they had before they used pencil and paper, Photoshop, Freehand Illustrator and Flash. Initial layouts were worked up in Photoshop from thumbnail sketches produced while brainstorming. Outlines were drawn and objects traced in Freehand and Illustrator. Flash was used to colour in objects and animate. Individual objects were animated frame by frame!!
There's more i could say but without the website I'm not sure there much point.

So maybe not the pre-production Process..

...I have all that stuff written in my sketchbook so I'm just going to put more interesting researchy things in here instead :)

Like the gmail mobile add that was made completely using paper-craft and stop motion animation, until now i would have thought that it would have been made using some kind of graphics!


http://www.dragonstopmotion.com/blog/2011/01/gmail-mobile-by-jess3/

Then there's things like Paul Dreissen's Oh what Knight. I did this exercise too and got something completely different. - the exercise is taking the basic Knight saves a Damsel in distress story and twisting it or seeing how you can make the ending funny.

Here's what he did:

It's funny how light hearted and relaxed the whole thing is, it makes you mellow out.

Holy Shit this stop motion is amazing and really sad!!