sunday 30th may



saturday 29th may
half of the return of the king before sleep. up, sainsbury's, three hour flat clean, this with changes to cheese, random, analogue and a declined suitcase which wasn't as amusing as it should have been but at least the over-pc bitch got what she deserved all right - a return to pikeysville. tonight i'm mispronouncing things and making burgers with a spatchlear and thinking somewhere i heard the phrase 'a half human, half orangutan - a orangaman!' although i have no idea where. i worry about myself sometimes.

friday 28th may
darkside a la day five again and on deadline morning. not exactly good but it's got to be done. lose legs, arms, feet, hands, change board xs, remove all icons and change end sequence and the list goes on. calmly we remove the essence of the whole piece.

thursday 27th may
renders back latest. post production. but then... '...sorry, i don't mean to blow a strop but it was finished...' i sense it's going to be a bank holiday? what bank holiday? weekend.

wednesday 26th may
post production on first few frames. music design continues.

tuesday 25th may
put animatics together and send to mtv for approval.
studio recording v/o.
get approval from mtv.
send animatic and v/o to music design.
double check all corrections made for pre-render.
renders set off (evening at latest).

monday 24th may
chase sony cheque
send new url of latest edit and new design of feet to mtv for approval
design spinning end screen with new url send to mtv to check
changes and url to darkside. ask animatics with a few x separated out
work out special effects changes to textures on zoom outs
cut footage to right length and speed to fit xs
get voiceover script from leighton
book recording studio + get sam to arrange with leighton
pick laura up at 11.45pm, gatwick hilton foyer. her holiday in egypt, in her own words:

Egypt - a journey through the history of egypt and through the family of Payne. early mornings travelling to the ancient palaces of luxor through to aswan, and late nights travelling through the memories of nana from her childhood through to my childhood. new friends in old places. second world war. sunsets and sunrises. 'proud of you'. winning cocktails. broken lift doors - ouch. lizards. midnight feasts. siestas. gallibayas. tan lines. petro, sokker and harry.

photos - view from my bedroom on the montassa cruise, a visist to the markets 'baksheesh', boat trip, falluka taken from bedroom window, sunset taken whilst cruising down the nile, the high dam in aswan, hieroglyphics, the sahara dessert, nana with snake on her head 'what will george say?', potato race, me on a camal, the camal with me on, the mummy (aka nana), luxor airport delayed.







sunday 23rd may
cambridge

saturday 22nd may
redesign feet?

friday 21st may
animatics of all changes, hi res stills, end scene with no alphas
edit together to length and change background on last scene

thursday 20th may
i made a list of next week's work. it doesn't look fun.

tuesday 18th may
day 2 on the 406. if you're a get fan who knows his circular rear lights - here's an impressive gran turismo skyline for you. i miss driving to work soo much. darkside again.



monday 17th may
day 1 at darkside.

sunday 16th may
the lounge comfort factor tripled as i bought two more bean bags. enough to sleep on. after emptying half the polystyrene balls out and hoovering the bajillion that fell out and static electricitied themselves to everything in every direction i painted the champ. no plans, no drawings, just me pondering over what it should look like for the last year. obviously it was pretty much qr colours.



saturday 15th may
them new dvd recorders are good, aren't they? a hard disc and a dvd burner in one box. good idea, that. home contents insurance, ditto.

friday 14th may
rendered bottles with xs on and a drink or two for clairey mary's birthday.



thursday 13th may
onedotzero catalogue corrections. wummer's coming; i saw my first big brither 04 advert on the tele.

wednesday 12th may
in the mornings i usually stroll round the corner and take the lazy bus option. as we stopped at the roadworks on the corner of manor house and finsbury park i sat staring at a lorry with crane attachment wiating for the lights to change. i've been looking out for diggers, bobcats and jcbs as i travel because i need to know how to implement hydraulics in a realistic way - you can't fake engineering principles, really. it's no wonder these things end up in my work - they're what i see every day.

but what i don't see every day as i walk from the train (downhill all the way hence the bus in the morning)is a man trapped under a fairground dodgems ride. everything's funnier on the way home when it's sunny.



tuesday 11th may
if you enjoy ssx3 as much as me i've just saved your life. bird's eye views of all three peaks.

monday 10th may
operation: routine. start.

sunday 9th may
to the station m'lady. (cue laughter.)

thursday 6th may
words?

wednesday 5th may
tom's birthday with rainbows!



sunday 2nd may
blackheath and reds. a walk, a bbq, a walk to of the tower, a drive, a boat trip, and 'welcome to rachel lubes mexican half-arsed theme party' on the walls and the view from their balcony. now that dairy lea has the same camera i get her to steal her bottom row pictures. (although i have the sneaking suspicion she got the idea for this from this.)





saturday 1st may



sky installed again, a trip to dixons, on the way to funks' and a meal with stuffed chicken. he's been to new zealand, but better than that he's bought a digital camera. good lad. these are my favourites out of the 200, which included bungy jumps, sky dives, and the lost world. and me putting them here whilst watching funks hit rails on ssx3. deluxe looks so chilled in her canoe. i suggested a pterodactyl in the lost world one.






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