Some Thoughts

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Had to take down what I'd written here because well...it was a complete and total nonsence.

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That business with the next door neighbour

I don’t want to be guilty of not reporting the positive news here, and well...I didn’t report what happened with the next door neighbour...well, I did write something out but lost it and never got around to re writing it until now.

Basically, everything got sorted out and is now cool. There was never any mention of the letter, but then that’s ok...don’t know if the letter is something I should have written out or not, but felt that I had to...and things are ok about it, so there we go. (this was months ago now though)

I Didn’t Get to Where I am Today by Thinking

This quote is from C.J. who is the managing director of Sunshine Desserts in the classic comedy television show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin made in 1976 to 1979.

This one I find very interesting, so I’ve written some things on how it could be interpreted.

1) Too much thinking and not enough action can lead to not getting much done.

2) It can also mean that progress can be made sometimes by spreading yourself out, fast decision making on multiple fronts. Fast unending persistence. This is definitely how C.J. got to be directing manager...I think a good example of this is when a person sends out say a letter to 200 people, or a DVD. When, and if, you were to do this, you would just do it, and there would be possible outcomes happen, as a result.

3) I wouldn’t really ever tell somebody not stop thinking, as I think it’s healthy...some problems need a long think, and people vary in thought process speed. Putting down something and coming back to it after a bit of a think can help a lot.

4) Dwelling on the negative to the point of stopping what you are doing entirely and losing years to it. This is a big no no.

5) Something that has cropped up in my life is this thing where a artist will put down something mid way...say it’s a painting, the painting is taken off the easel, and put up against a wall and left unfinished for six months or even three years...the artist returns to it after this time with a fresh perspective or new ideas entirely. Now you could say that this was some form of attention deficit...but it was perhaps something that was just done, and not thought about...it was just done.

Single Artist Getting Into a Mess

My studio was in a extreme mess and I just didn’t realise how bad the floor was until today, the toilet was pretty bad too, I’m not normally somebody to let the toilet get like that, so today had to attack all of that. If your single and don’t have anybody round very often and get addicted to making these animations and lose sight of the time / days / months this seems to happen.

I’m also very tired, it feels like somebody is crushing my brain.

Somebody once said a very wise thing (James Russell) “One person Isn’t meant to make an entire film on their own” but I still to this day don’t know or see how I’m going to form a team with no money, I spose really that horrendous doubt problem of mine should be stamped on and I should really try and get a grant from one of the film places that offers money to people like me. I was, in the past, actually there at a presentation of one of those companies, and had the damned form in my hand, and just didn’t fill it in...what is it I’m not happy about with regards to that exactly?...I honestly don’t know, I perhaps was not ready at that point and wanted to learn more on my own for a couple more years.

Another thing that happened today was I noticed a thing I wanted to go to, has been and gone, it was on the Saturday night. Now I was all...”oh that’s ages off, that’s two months away” and there it is past!...damn...lol

But on the good side of things, the animation is going very, very well.