Registration Date: 08.15.07
Location: Toronto
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Happy birthday saddletank! hope I'm not too late.
I was just about to reformat my old computer when I saw this place saved under my favourites tab. Its been over 2 years since I've been on here i think. It was a nice little surprise seeing it hope everyone is well.
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09.06.2014, 04:06 PM
Saddletank
Miyazaki's Best Friend
Registration Date: 09.28.06
Location: On your case
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Thank you Kaz and Moro, and Husky and Saviour.
Moro - I definitely remember you! Please try and stay around?
Cake was chocolate. Mm. Enough about that!
Also sparkling white wine and a day out to a friends garden railway on a sunny-ish day. Chatted to all kinds of nice people. Very pleasant.
Off to see Ayami tomorrow to watch the Grand Prix at Monza with her and then a pub lunch!
Yeah, I got that ^^ but I wanna know how it works and if it has a technical name (@Roar)
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09.07.2014, 04:29 PM
FlareNetworkC
Totoro
Registration Date: 07.02.14
Location: Anywhere and Everywhere
Posts: 781
I commented on it!
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09.07.2014, 06:21 PM
foreignfilmfreak
Miyazaki's Best Friend
Registration Date: 10.02.06
Location: Japan
Posts: 7589
quote:Originally posted by Kazegami Happy birthday, Saddles! Glad to hear it's been a great one, and I hope it'll be a darn good cake too.
WL: I leave home in exactly one week. o__o;
You'll do fine~!
HL: Found a book by a Canadian author today that one of my prof's mentioned in class. I'm trying to collect mainly books by new authors especially that focus on the lives of immigrants or their children.
Also, I finished all the extra courses for my degree! ^_^ Something many even fourth years aren't able to say. I can now focus on the core subjects for my degree to count towards graduation. I passed my psychology class FINALLY (with a 50%, but who cares, I passed and I am so pleased with that). No more science courses for me. <3
LL: Just one of those nights where I wish I'd switched my major to Fine Arts after my first year or even got up and left to study social work somewhere... But alas, I like literature, but I feel I'd be a lot happier studying fine arts, especially if I could go somewhere with a program I'd really enjoy.
My boyfriend and I were discussing my creative processes and how I go about planning and doing my projects. Since most of my art is just writing, I find myself really upset letting my painting or drawing skills really slip away. I know I don't need a degree in Fine Arts to do any of that, but still, I should have followed that path even if others didn't think I should. I've luckily found career paths I want to take after university where my degree doesn't really matter and I might go for a second one anyway, so even if I had studied Fine Arts, I'd still be trying to do the same jobs afterwards. It's just so hard for me to make friends in the English department at my school. The profs are all pretty much wonderful, and very knowledgeable, which is great. But I wish I could relate more with the students in my field. Most of my friends study sciences, humanities, or social sciences.
Fine Arts isn't an easy degree either, and the students studying it are some of the most vibrant people on campus. My Canadian studies and literature courses tie a lot into the arts, so I really find myself really wanting to go into it lately. English literature can be so hard to study when I don't think the same way as others and I'm marked very hard on every little mistake. lol I just find myself wanting to create for the sake of creating.
I don't remember what it is, just that I found it in a random toy shop somewhere. I did leave the instructions together with the present though so maybe the name is there. Basically it's a hand-driven music box where, instead of a drum, you feed a punched paper similar to an organ like the ones you see in old western movies in a bar.
Oh btw, happy birthday to husky too
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Watching the wrong to happen is the same as commiting the wrong.
If it looks like things are forcing you to be creative, Then be creative.
its a uniquely Miyazaki film, one only he could make and its uniqueness places it beyond being easily critiqued.[About Porco Rosso] taken from a quote of Saddletank and Orphic Okapi
09.08.2014, 01:36 AM
husky51
The Old Guy
Registration Date: 03.17.08
Location: Southern California
Posts: 12791
quote:Originally posted by fenkashi Screw your opinions, they are not relevant ^^.
09.08.2014, 09:51 AM
husky51
The Old Guy
Registration Date: 03.17.08
Location: Southern California
Posts: 12791
Very Good Luck on your new job, Roar...
The old Western saloon instruments were called 'Player Pianos' and you had an assortment of rolls of strengthened paper with little holes punched in the paper in different patterns that came out as musical tunes. I have actually held some of these rolls, although for more modern instruments...
09.06.2014, 10:10 AM
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hope everyone is well.
Most of my friends study sciences, humanities, or social sciences.
