life = school

the title says it all. i’ve been working my butt off since i got back from annecy, because i have to get an entire animation done by mid-august. it’s gonna be a rough summer. i got my paper done today however; for the curious ones, a wordle was posted on my graduation blog.

anyone ever notice some of the shameless ripping-off that goes on in the animation industry sometimes? i was watching a show called Xperience the other day, i could have sworn that Psyop’s retarded illigitimate birthchild, born with the tragic handicap of having no talent or originality, had developed a career making leaders for dutch TV shows…

from psyop’s converse music video, which everyone should watch:

back from annecy

sadly, i had to return from the festival, because, well, it’s over. it was pretty awesome this year, with great animation, good weather and nice people. admittedly, i was kind of sick of animation by the end, after seeing something like six feature films and countless numbers of animated shorts and graduation films. but i saw some great stuff which i can recommend to all. but first: highlights!

1. the scenery
this photo was taken from our campsite.

2. the grand salle.
best place to watch animation, with an insane audience.

3. catching up with animation folks.
in this case the famous joris from jorisbergmans.com.

4. paper plane chaos
these are just the ones that made it to the front stage.

5. studio soi and studio aka
awesome studios that gave presentations.

6. pixar presentation
peter sohn and bob peterson told us some stuff.

more photos at the end of this post, but first: recommendations! the coolest features (besides coraline, an obviously awesome animation) i saw were Mary and Max, Panique au Village and Brendan and the secret of Kells.

as for shorts, there were so many awesome ones, but my favorites were Chick by Michal Socha and Please Say Something by David OReilly.

and lastly, some photos to finish off…

annecy animation festival 2009

leaving on the bus at 5AM tomorrow.

more photos

i decided to try and get the hang of the new sigma lens arjen and i have purchased to go with our canon 1000D. i’m not much of a photographer at all, i try but i’m always pretty impatient about getting a good shot and, in the true style of a digital artist, manipulate the hell out of the images in photoshop or lightroom. but it’s still oh so much fun, my reason for purchasing the camera in the first place… i couldn’t be bothered to leave the house so here is an impression of all the details that can be found in our living room.

And now it’s time for: Lois’s periodical movie review list! These are movies that I:

want to see: Terminator Salvation (i like sci fi and the trailer made me want to like awesome stunts) and Coco Avant Chanel.
would pay not to see: He’s Just Not That Into You (chick flicks make me want to puke).
saw and liked: Gomorra and, a while back, The Wrestler
saw and hated: X-men Origins (i regret it deeply).

wordle

wordle of my deviantart journal. (info)

i found it suprisingly interesting. work, time, artwork, animation and school are like the keywords of my LIFE. sad but true.

now i will go watch madmen. my favorite show of all time, i have just decided. no single show in the world is more awesome than this one. GO WATCH IT!

welcome to the new blog @loish.net

sooo, lately i’ve been feeling this desire to maintain a more personal blog with just random observations about drawing, school, life, etc. so then this page was called into existence. after my usual round of customizing and messing around with CSS despite my severely limited web design knowledge, the time has come to actually start posting stuff here.

so, where to begin? my personal life! it’s been pretty weird lately. my boyfriend and i got sick of living in separate student rooms that were tiny, smelly, and falling apart, so we decided to try and move in together. unfortunately for us, the market for houses in utrecht is the closest thing to hell for a person in search of a nice city apartment, not to mention a person whose income consists of a student loan and who is about to graduate with very little indication of what their income will be once they become part of the working class. solution? go look for something temporary! there’s a whole neighborhood here in utrecht that’s going to be torn down in about a year and replaced with new houses, but in the meantime students get to live here for a ridiculously low rent. go us! in the last two weeks we put our energy into moving into our new humble home. the settling-in process came to an end the day before yesterday, when we finally got internet. so of course, photos were taken and must now be displayed on the internet to finalize my feeling of total satisfaction at this new phase in my life. observe!!

amongst the various fascinating scenes here are: the master bedroom, my junk room (more affectionately referred to as the walk-in closet), various exotic masks, 70s retro kitchen stuff, the living room, my work corner, and arjen in his natural habitat.

anyway, this house makes me infinitely happy. ever since i left my mother’s loving nest i have moved, on average, once a year over the timespan of five years. although they make for entertaining stories to tell afterwards, each residence of mine had something awful about it. ex-junkies stealing all of my food, schizophrenic kleptomaniacs that could only cook stinky brocolli that made the whole house smell, jealous and controlling house-mates, and the most recent of the bunch was hearing way too much of my house-mate’s private activities through paper-thin walls. even though this new house is temporary, it’s such a relief to have a whole house to ourselves. i’m a happy camper!

and thus came the ending to my first personal life rant here on my blog. BYE!

new blog

hello folks!
i’ve decided to start a personal blog on this domain. this is where my sketchblog used to be but it’s now been moved to sketchblog.loish.net.
now for some customization.. and then we can welcome loish’s personal blog into the world of the internets.
later!