Truth That Goes Crunch

I've been very lucky lately - things have been going incredibly well, all considered, and all emotional conundrums have been largely circumvented or avoided. So there will be photos and nerd stuff.

(To be fair, my mood was considerably brightened today after being told by a professor I really admire the first draft of a thesis-chunk is near-publishable for a peer-reviewed journal - an opinion strengthened by her being a journal editor herself.)

( Under cut: Cat! Bar! )

( Things I Have Been Watching: Gokaiger, Tiger & Bunny, Archer, MLP:FiM. )

Honestly, I play a lot more video games than watch video media lately. Because I can listen to podcasts in the background while I play, combining edification and relaxation.

( Things I Have Played: The Witcher 2, Dragon Age II, Fable 3, Far Cry 2. )

Shameless self-promotion: Trial run on mapping the "network" of trans vloggers on YouTube. I'm probably going to get as much use out of this data as I can - definitely going to present at least once on it as filtered through location and declared race/ethnicity/nationality - and what that says about the changing state of trans visibility online.

- I have a secret, not-often-indulged love of indie animation, that quirky, creative cousin of the corporate work most people are familiar with. So I must say, Johnathan Nix's The Missing Key has me terribly excited. The retro-Old World Venetian look never fails to induce wonder while still managing to be engrossing, and the art style similarities to Les Triplettes de Belleville don't hurt. Twitchfilm has both trailers.

- A fun little bit of list film history, Ladislaw Starewicz's Cameraman's Revenge. It's a window into early stop motion animation, done with what are presumably preserved insects who have preserved insect sex.