if i could add one more thing as another washingtonian. the washington monument is highly over-rated and the lines/wait is, well, sometimes monumental.
what most people (even natives) don't know is that you can get a better view of DC from the clock tower at the Old Post Office Pavillion. it's free to go up there and it's right off the mall.
Harbor cruise and bridge walk are the "touristy" things we'll be doing (as well as flying up to see the reef and smacking around Tazmania for 3 days). the three days i have in Sydney are during the week, week after next, actualy. Those nieghborhood descriptions are awesome. I was looking for like "this is why I love this pub" or coffee shop, or book store, or fountain, blah blah, things like that.
Didn’t really think this would be a controversial thread. As I said, many of the people I know work for free here and there to assist with other people projects, and just to be making something. Unfortunately for these ideas, they’re all writers, actors, and directors.
I was at a little shin-dig last night, telling someone about this film I’m supposed to be helping out with next, and he says, “Oh, I have this project, I was gonna call you, maybe you wanna produce for us.” I had just explained that I was already committed.
And I thought about robot.
And I explained that I couldn’t do all of what he wanted, but that I would be happy to help in a smaller way.
And I left it at that.
So, thanks tons to all the monkeys who’ve e-mailed and commented positively.
And thanks Tracy, very excited about MoFiProjects.
I produce in my spare time. My money, my hours of time, theatre and film for friends, I don't get paid. Most of the artist I know occationaly make art for no money, for the pure joy of the experiance. For the fun of working with others. For the thrill of trying something new. I'm guessing you don't "get" that, huh?
Go piss in someone elses thread.
Cause there must be artists out there who are in the same spot and want to be doing something that could make some cash. "Spec" makes me think of being someones employer, and even if I could afford that, it sounds icky and inorganic. What I'm talking about is collaberation, artistic exchange, all that hippy granola shit, but with the goal being some cash in the end (and all that making people happy crap, too, of course)
Specifics....ahh, yes. Oh these have I heard. The childrens book should have more of a classic, sorta dreamy feel to it, this one is a fairy tale. The motion project is for grown-up kids (think Adult Swim) so, we're needing something stylized and edgy. Being unpublished and poor, I'd need to find people who want to work on potentialy profitable projects for nothing more than a cut of the imaginary money that may come in the future. I have one kids book written, I found an illustrator in a bar. That was a year ago. She's still working on that book a year later (6 pages done) and that ain't how you get published, non?
i once loved a girl who loved the bread. i decided i needed to make the bread. 6 loaves before i got one that was edible. mostly it's just practice. stick with one recepie untill you have it nailed, and measure like someones life depended one it.
take care with all the hate being espoused here. there are a number of religions that teach that thiers is the "right and only path" and that thier adherents are the "chosen people" and extremists do teach thier children that they are "better" and in some cases that thier lives are more precious than others.
as to these girls stating that more "white girls" should be playing Suzy Homemaker, well, that isn't just a White Power attitude. archaic, yes, but not racist.
the afct is that children parrot what thier parents teach them up to a certain age, and then they make decisions based on thier experiances as they have them.
i don't agree with what you've said but I will defend your right to say it, yadda yadda.
2 cents- i was diagnosed with HBP about 2 years ago. they said lose weight, put me on a low dose pill. i thought nothing of it. cause i feel good and strong. course then last year they bumped up my dosage, cause i still don't eat right and stopped going to the gym (because of back problems) but thought nothing of it, cause i feel strong and good.
yesterday i got a brand new HBP pill on top of the one i already take and found out that like most people with HBP, i have insanely high lipid and cholesterol, so now theres another pill to take.
i'm just saying i know it's hard to make changes that can prolong your life when you don't feel bad, especialy when you feel good and strong, but maybe both of us need to reassess things.
I know that the focus is on Christianity because of Dubya, but we need to keep in mind that there are plenty of people who profess faiths they don't then seem to follow.
I find it particularly amusing that this surge of "evangelicals" who don't seem to be following Christ's teaching overlap so heavily with "republicans" who don't follow the ideals of the original founders of the rebublican party. So, if you get anough people to agree, then you can redefine any term.
arch1- def. still around as long as excellent ideas pour in, I'm reading. we don't have our first official content meeting till Saturday.
And I think that the financial issues could be worked in, growing up girl is about more than sex and menstruation, it's the kind of good idea we might not have thought of ourselves.
And we'll certainly be laying into the media heavily, I've noticed even so called "progressive" magazines like Jane and Bust can sometimes send mixed messages.
Wow, thank you all for being so honest. This is helping a great deal, my writing partner and I have put this out several ways and Monkeys are by far the best responderers.
Ok, well, those books I mentioned just sort of irritate us and got the converation started about how women get wrong ideas about thier bodies and media fed images that start early and are often carried into adulthood. The idea was that those negative images that are planted from ages 12 to 21 allow books like "HJNTIY" to play on sort of "dormant" insecurities. It would be a bit "Our Bodys, Ourselves" but with updated language and concepts, i.e. new birth control, date rape drugs. Ideally this would be a book that could serve a range of females from 12 up through mid-twenties, depending on upbringing, age of sexualization, etc. , as well as a resource for "hip" moms to engender conversation. The point of canvassing like this was to attempt to address real womens issues and also to narrow the subject matter a little, as the initial concept is broad (pardon the pun).
fucking rad
posted by starrybaby 18 years ago
In "Holy Crap. The Most Annoying Girl In The World."
wow, mocking a 16 year old girl. awesome. go MoFi!
posted by starrybaby 18 years ago
In "Curious George: Going to Washington D.C.!"
if i could add one more thing as another washingtonian. the washington monument is highly over-rated and the lines/wait is, well, sometimes monumental. what most people (even natives) don't know is that you can get a better view of DC from the clock tower at the Old Post Office Pavillion. it's free to go up there and it's right off the mall.
posted by starrybaby 18 years ago
In "OzFilter George-"
Harbor cruise and bridge walk are the "touristy" things we'll be doing (as well as flying up to see the reef and smacking around Tazmania for 3 days). the three days i have in Sydney are during the week, week after next, actualy. Those nieghborhood descriptions are awesome. I was looking for like "this is why I love this pub" or coffee shop, or book store, or fountain, blah blah, things like that.
posted by starrybaby 18 years ago
In "The New Chastity Panties"
"Welcome! Have a tall glass of the Chastity Punch and a Humility Cookie."
posted by starrybaby 18 years ago
it's...it's a hoax? but i needed some for my girlfriends...er...friend...
posted by starrybaby 18 years ago
In "<b>Curious George: Finding An Artist</b>"
Didn’t really think this would be a controversial thread. As I said, many of the people I know work for free here and there to assist with other people projects, and just to be making something. Unfortunately for these ideas, they’re all writers, actors, and directors. I was at a little shin-dig last night, telling someone about this film I’m supposed to be helping out with next, and he says, “Oh, I have this project, I was gonna call you, maybe you wanna produce for us.” I had just explained that I was already committed. And I thought about robot. And I explained that I couldn’t do all of what he wanted, but that I would be happy to help in a smaller way. And I left it at that. So, thanks tons to all the monkeys who’ve e-mailed and commented positively. And thanks Tracy, very excited about MoFiProjects.
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
I produce in my spare time. My money, my hours of time, theatre and film for friends, I don't get paid. Most of the artist I know occationaly make art for no money, for the pure joy of the experiance. For the fun of working with others. For the thrill of trying something new. I'm guessing you don't "get" that, huh? Go piss in someone elses thread.
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
Miss the point much?
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
Cause there must be artists out there who are in the same spot and want to be doing something that could make some cash. "Spec" makes me think of being someones employer, and even if I could afford that, it sounds icky and inorganic. What I'm talking about is collaberation, artistic exchange, all that hippy granola shit, but with the goal being some cash in the end (and all that making people happy crap, too, of course)
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
Specifics....ahh, yes. Oh these have I heard. The childrens book should have more of a classic, sorta dreamy feel to it, this one is a fairy tale. The motion project is for grown-up kids (think Adult Swim) so, we're needing something stylized and edgy. Being unpublished and poor, I'd need to find people who want to work on potentialy profitable projects for nothing more than a cut of the imaginary money that may come in the future. I have one kids book written, I found an illustrator in a bar. That was a year ago. She's still working on that book a year later (6 pages done) and that ain't how you get published, non?
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
In "Yeknom, Inc."
the internets win!
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
In "Moist Bread"
i once loved a girl who loved the bread. i decided i needed to make the bread. 6 loaves before i got one that was edible. mostly it's just practice. stick with one recepie untill you have it nailed, and measure like someones life depended one it.
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
In "Is there anything cuter"
take care with all the hate being espoused here. there are a number of religions that teach that thiers is the "right and only path" and that thier adherents are the "chosen people" and extremists do teach thier children that they are "better" and in some cases that thier lives are more precious than others. as to these girls stating that more "white girls" should be playing Suzy Homemaker, well, that isn't just a White Power attitude. archaic, yes, but not racist. the afct is that children parrot what thier parents teach them up to a certain age, and then they make decisions based on thier experiances as they have them. i don't agree with what you've said but I will defend your right to say it, yadda yadda.
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
In "Curious George: I'm Dying"
2 cents- i was diagnosed with HBP about 2 years ago. they said lose weight, put me on a low dose pill. i thought nothing of it. cause i feel good and strong. course then last year they bumped up my dosage, cause i still don't eat right and stopped going to the gym (because of back problems) but thought nothing of it, cause i feel strong and good. yesterday i got a brand new HBP pill on top of the one i already take and found out that like most people with HBP, i have insanely high lipid and cholesterol, so now theres another pill to take. i'm just saying i know it's hard to make changes that can prolong your life when you don't feel bad, especialy when you feel good and strong, but maybe both of us need to reassess things.
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
In "The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. "
I know that the focus is on Christianity because of Dubya, but we need to keep in mind that there are plenty of people who profess faiths they don't then seem to follow. I find it particularly amusing that this surge of "evangelicals" who don't seem to be following Christ's teaching overlap so heavily with "republicans" who don't follow the ideals of the original founders of the rebublican party. So, if you get anough people to agree, then you can redefine any term.
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
In "Songs from Juliana Hatfield's music vault."
Thanks astroboy, not just for the songs, I didn't know she had released anything since "Some Girls", what a nice surprise.
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
In "<b>Curious George: Growing Up Girl</b>"
arch1- def. still around as long as excellent ideas pour in, I'm reading. we don't have our first official content meeting till Saturday. And I think that the financial issues could be worked in, growing up girl is about more than sex and menstruation, it's the kind of good idea we might not have thought of ourselves. And we'll certainly be laying into the media heavily, I've noticed even so called "progressive" magazines like Jane and Bust can sometimes send mixed messages.
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
Wow, thank you all for being so honest. This is helping a great deal, my writing partner and I have put this out several ways and Monkeys are by far the best responderers.
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
Ok, well, those books I mentioned just sort of irritate us and got the converation started about how women get wrong ideas about thier bodies and media fed images that start early and are often carried into adulthood. The idea was that those negative images that are planted from ages 12 to 21 allow books like "HJNTIY" to play on sort of "dormant" insecurities. It would be a bit "Our Bodys, Ourselves" but with updated language and concepts, i.e. new birth control, date rape drugs. Ideally this would be a book that could serve a range of females from 12 up through mid-twenties, depending on upbringing, age of sexualization, etc. , as well as a resource for "hip" moms to engender conversation. The point of canvassing like this was to attempt to address real womens issues and also to narrow the subject matter a little, as the initial concept is broad (pardon the pun).
posted by starrybaby 19 years ago
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