Dana's Animated Mind

Sometimes it is difficult to express thoughts that a whole majority will understand, but then again, that's life. It's a little late to be worrying about that almost 30. Still, I can't help but wonder if there is something about me that is a little off.

A study done a few years back suggested that creative people suffer a form of an insanity (I doubt suffer is the appropriate word for this). So the more creative we are, the deeper we are into the abyss?

No, I don't think that is entirely it.

One person told me that it sounds odd that I consider characters like they are real people, but sometimes I don't think they quite get it. At least that's my impression. All the characters I have written and drawn are a fragmentation of my core personality.

If you wonder about me playing female characters despite being a guy and what part of my personality that is, well I don't think there is any non-psychological way to explain it. The best I can come up with is the balance of very diverse personality. I embraced a bit of my feminine side a long time ago to create a balance in the story so it is not too macho or too much girl power. Both make me ill.

Think about it. If I wrote a story built around a guy needs to be great at everything, and how he is the sole purpose of existence, then that will ignore the females completely. If I wrote about the opposite extreme, then damn shoot me. Instead, I try to write a balance in between to blend in a unique collection of characters with scenarios that sometimes you only see if nightmares.

Of course, if nightmares are the source of disturbance, hell I've been disturbed since I was a young kid. I don't have comparison notes with other children, but often would dream of things that to this day frightens me a whole lot. I often don't speak of them, but they have become a source of enlightment when I do the horror bits.

However, my best ideas for horror tends to not be tangible. I was once talking about doing a Sci-fi Horror where the monsters were toxic vapor hallucinations. It would save money on the monsters, that's for sure.

Oh my..I see some arguements about David Bowie and Kurt Cobain about the Man Who Sold The World. Youtube comments tend to make laugh because you can always except at one point for it's maturity to dive. The funniest part of all this is a copyrighted material, and it's amazing how they get into a tizzy.

I am not so much into David Bowie, and yes I like Nirvana..but..come on. "U R a Fagoot" gets very old very quick. It's like these people are in their very early teens or lack the ability to properly communication

Was there a point to this blog? Not really..just sat down and wrote.:)

Can someone please explain to me this one. Why people go out and buy Vista machines when there are machines that have XP, and try to turn the Vista into XP machines? Then yell at Technical Support when it doesn't quite work?

"I can't do this, I can't do that!" seems to be the logic, but a smart buyer would've found out if there were programs they critically use before they bought the machine. Oh..yea, they like to throw in "I paid X amount of dollars."

For the love of holy, why do I care? It's annoying because they still expect us to support the machine even though it is not in factory state. That's kind of like opening a CD player and adding on modification then faulting the company if it breaks down.

The best one? When people do these swaps without asking Technical Support. We know which machines have NO XP drivers availiable. So when we inform them of such, they go on and on about how they have a paperweight like it is my fault. I kind of like to go "Sir, if you contacted us, not only would we tell you we wouldn't support it but we would of also told you there were no drivers." Unfortunately..I can't.

The only pleasure I find in life anymore is animating because customers drive me insane. Well, not for a week. I will be going on vacation and not dealing with those customers. WOOT!

Sometimes in order to survive, I must learn certain truths that my not be pleasant. One of those truths is colonoscopy. Now, in skilled and careful hands, these tests often go smoothly and fear not, it is did in this case.

But this is the reason I animate. I know there is something inside me that may go active, might not..or do something worse. Animation keeps my mind off that dreadful fact and bring me to a happy place..although some of my animation can be ruled dark, disturbing, and possibly a little moody. ;)It's how I survive.