What are you excited about? (Page 1 of 2)

I'm gearing up to film my girls' dance recital this weekend. 2 shows, ~10 cameras. If it's worth doing it's worth over-doing. Then the next few months will be editing and disc mastering. I may turn a profit on it this year, but we'll see; I made about $1.50 an hour last year.

Literally, every day with my two boys gets me mad hyped.  We forget at that age how every single day is new ground gained in their understanding of the world.  There's so many things about my time with them that's awesome, but I'll share my favorite new thing.

I'm pretty conscious of the level of tech and media that surrounds my kids lives these days, so as much as I can I try to engage their imagination and have as much play as possible center around make believe.  Grayson and I play this game where we lie down on the ground or my bed, and Grayson will say, "Daddy!  Look out!  The biggest monster is coming!"  I then ask him questions on what it looks like.  How many teeth, what color hair, gender, number of elbows, etc.  The combinations alone are pretty hilarious (33 arms but 2 elbows is my favorite so far).  Then once he's described what it looks like, I look through my imaginary Monster Compendium and identify it, ("Oh, that appears to be Plonkirk, The Monster!")  Then, I describe how Grayson must defeat him.  Sometimes it's with jumping punches, and sometimes the monster is just sad and needs a high five or a hug.  I try to keep that part even.  We can, and have, played this game for hours.  And it's the god damned best.

Getting back into seriously playing piano after two years of just noodling around with pop covers. Feels bloody wonderful, although that's mingled with my embarrassment at how rusty I am.

HANNIBAL SEASON 3

I know there's a "no pop culture" rule but I'd be lying if I said this wasn't my #1 item of enthusiasm. I'll also be covering it weekly for one of the sites I write for. Never done something like that before. Does that count?

oh, and I'm interning at my local library this summer, which is super cool.

Last edited by Doctor Submarine (2015-06-05 18:55:08)

This may be teetering on the edge of pop culture, but screw it - I'm excited. If you've never heard of Secret Cinema before, they basically turn a film screening in to a sort of immersive theatre experience. I actually first heard about them on here, not entirely sure who it was that mentioned them. Here's a little glimpse of what they did last year for Back to the Future.

Anyways, this year they're doing The Empire Strikes Back and it looks to be their biggest production to date. You get assigned a character & class to be (not someone from the movies, I'm a Galactic Explorer called Sang Lendix) and are encouraged to dress up in some sort of costume, so I've had fun putting that together. I'll be heading down to London tomorrow and hope to have a blast.

Also, I'm excited about no longer being unemployed - wahey!

I've been aggressively exhausted for the past 3 weeks, and obsessively checking my email to see if any of my job applications have gotten back to me.

Does that count?

Writing for my own science fiction universe.

A lot of the concepts and the outline of the whole book are coming together in weird, random ways, and I'm finally having the chance to write it down. It is exciting to take a lot of things that I have learned and put it all together.

Also, my eldest daughter just turned 6 and got her first bucket of Legos. Already excited to build things with her.

How have i never heard of Secret Cinema?? Holy mackerel!

I'm still deep into digitizing old family photos and filling out my family tree. Every box of old photos i get from my parents' cousins leads to a new understanding of the lives of people who lived more than a century ago. Some even wrote reminiscences of their childhoods as pioneers. Some were involved in nefarious activity or terrible accidents.

For me, this stuff is like crack: it's research, photography, documentation, puzzles, story-telling... Everything that gets my motor going intellectually. And it's given me reasons to spend time and have quality conversations with my aging parents as well as cousins i hadn't seen in many years (and some i'd never met).

Last edited by Zarban (2015-06-06 16:54:35)

Hah,awesome! I actually suggested this to Teague as a Pi project, I'd be really interested in seeing a work in progress and how you're doing it!

Disclaimer: if you dislike the tone of a post I make, re-read it in a North/East London accent until it sounds sufficiently playful

It has been a lot of fun. It took me a while to get it past the rip off stage and really develop in to my own thing.

Now it is just a matter of putting it all down in writing.

I'm gonna do a good little write-up on it later on, but the long and short of it is that it was a lot of fun. You get what you put in to it though, if you go round getting involved with all the character interactions and everything, you'll have a much better experience. A highlight for me was acting as an interpreter between my friend and a Jawa, it was awesome.

You're supposed to get past the ripoff stage?

(I did a lot of ripping off but from many varied sources so things still took on a bit of a life of their own.)