"NUM NUM NUM!!!" Sketchbook #31

"NUM NUM NUM!!!" Sketchbook #31 (5x7 inch), 2H pencil (w/ a wee bit of eraser action), and Sharpie (FINE) Pen. "HEY YOU OUT THERE I DREW SOMETHING NEW LOOK AT IT LIKE IT COMMENT ON IT YOU YEAH YOU COME ON I KNOW YOU WANNA DO IT DO IT NOW THIS IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT TO SEE HOW PEOPLE CHOOSE TO REACT OR NOT TO SHIT LIKE THIS SO ON AND SO FORTH GO AHEAD DO IT NOW LMFAO NO YOU'RE CRAZY NOT ME WHAT DID YOU SAY HEY DON'T TALK TO ME THAT WAY HOW DARE YOU WHAT THE F STOP SAYING SHIT LIKE THAT NO WAIT COME BACK KEEP SAYING SHIT LIKE THAT BECAUSE I LONG FOR PEOPLE TO SAY SHIT BECAUSE SO MANY TIMES PEOPLE DON'T SAY ENOUGH SHIT COME ON COME ON COME ON COME ON AND TOUCH AS IN CLICK THE ENTER KEY BABY YEAH THAT'S WHAT I CALLED YOU DON'T STOP KEEP IT UP BLAH BLAH BLAH..." ~GO

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GREG FEATURES SOME CREATURES

Five views of Lorne

Gigantopithecus

I was making up a story about the re-emergence of Sasquatch. I was going to make them english speaking pacifists. Then a friend directed me to this. It's not exactly the same as the story I was working on, but interesting to see the similarities. My version is a comedy and involves dancing bigfoots. This one is just sad mostly. But in a cool bizarre way.

Uh oh, who's designing the blog this time? It's not me. I'm not a big fan of the money background or purple "Kranky" font? lol

My New Website

It's "done"! Ok not really. I have a bunch of stuff to add still, and could probably format it a bit better, but so far here's what I have... http://www.macridavid.com/

Woot! Robot Adventures in Outer Space won Best Animation, AND Best Film at the University of Winnipeg Film Festival!

I'm inside now (old poem)

i'm inside now// and i can hear my sister ironing// in the room down the hall// the iron// hisses// smoothing out// clean cotton wrinkles// preparing a straight face// for tomorrow's travails// i'm inside now// and the wind won't stop howling// just to think// it's still february//

I am now a meme...

One of my composition students has just made a pretty funny video about our class.

To explain some of the jokes you may not get... As part of our course work, we created a WordPress blog about a book called the Victorian Internet that we had been reading. Also, I made them watch a lot of cat videos, Justin Beiber videos, and just generally talk about the Internet and its culture, as well as offering free cats for correct (or even just interesting) answers in class.

So with all that in mind, my student (Eric) used the "Downfall" meme--

from www.knowyourmeme.com, here's a description of this particular meme--
Downfall, also known as “Hitler Finds Out…” or “Hitler Reacts To…” is a series of parody-subtitled videos based on a pinnacle scene from Der Untergang (2004), a German WWII drama revisiting the last ten days of Adolf Hitler’s life and eventual suicide in his Berlin underground bunker. Due to the film’s international success and Bruno Ganz’ haunting portrayal of the Nazi dictator, numerous segments from the movie soon fell fodder to hilarious parodies on YouTube, spawning hundreds of anachronistically subtitled videos of Hitler getting upset over topical events and trivial gossip.

CLICK HERE FOR THE : MAKING OF (Video)

Interview with The Smoky Tiger from david macri on Vimeo.

That precise moment when you realize you've leaned too far back in the chair.

Quelle grosse crisse de manif!

The crowd you see in this short video passed by, exactly this big and this loud, for over two hours. Apparently from head to tail it was nearly 5 km long.

They're saying "Crions, plus fort! Pour que personne ne nous ignore!" (Yell louder, so no one can ignore us.)

And everywhere the crowd passed it was like you see here-- people hanging banners off their balconies, cheering us on from bridges, standing on the side of the road playing drums, etc. Even some students at McGill, which is notoriously anti-strike, had draped Queen Victoria in red robes and hung a big sign around her neck that said "McGill en greve" (McGill on strike).

I mentioned that it was all students, profs, college and university staff, etc, but actually there were lots of members of the community at large-- kids, senior citizens, and workers from all kinds of walks of life.

Needless to say, I found it all pretty inspiring. I think everyone who was there did, even if they were just watching from their balconies.