24 February - "More Cheese Gromit"

[ecchi]

Ask me what I did Yesterday, go on ask me - You won't be interested but I'm going to tell you anyway so you may as well ask me!

You know Aardman Animation? The people who made the Wallace and Gromit films, and also the films; Chicken Run, Flushed Away, Pirates In an Adventure with Scientists (AKA The Pirates, Band of Misfits), and several other things? Well Yesterday I spent the day in an old music hall theatre with one of their main animators learning how to do stop motion animation. I even made my first "claymation" film.

I know no one else gives a shit about this, but I am still so excited about it that I am telling everyone, and it is your turn to be bored by my Sunday!

[Cleo]

Loved the movie Chicken Run.

Ecchi's day sounds much more fun than mine was yesterday. Spent all day doing yard work. My upper body is killing me this morning due to using an electric pole saw for hours. If there was a prize for having the biggest pile of yard waste for bulk trash pickup we would easily win this month.

Using BBQ lighter fluid to burn all the Asparagus Fern was kind of fun in an odd kind of way though.

Just a day of work planned before attending a networking event this evening.

[Greenguy]

Morning!

Yesterday, after watching Canadia thump Sweden in the Gold Medal Men's Ice Hockey Game at The Olympics, The Bitch & I went to lunch with Yell & his woman, along with his daughter (our niece) and her man & child. Good times

I then napped, worked, and watched the rain delayed Daytona 500

[pc]

Hello Board. Just stopping by to say hello. Quick reading of latest threads and going back offline.

[ArtWilliams]

Originally Posted by ecchi

I know no one else gives a shit about this, but I am still so excited about it that I am telling everyone, and it is your turn to be bored by my Sunday!

That would have been really cool to attend! I loved Wallace and Gromit and watched it with my kids when they were small. I was also a big fan of Gumby. In fact I have a Gumby light switch cover in my office and rubber characters of Gumby and Pokey on my desk!

Good morning everyone!

I think I will try to get organized today. I am about to get busy with some off line business and I need to have "my ducks in a row" as they saw.

Have a great day!

[ArtWilliams]

Originally Posted by pc

Hello Board. Just stopping by to say hello. Quick reading of latest threads and going back offline.

Congrats on post 2,000!

[Ramster]

Good morning

Had a good time in Toronto for the weekend, work related but fun! Just another day for me, we'll see how it goes.

[HowlingWulf]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Ask me what I did Yesterday, go on ask me - You won't be interested but I'm going to tell you anyway so you may as well ask me!

You know Aardman Animation? The people who made the Wallace and Gromit films, and also the films; Chicken Run, Flushed Away, Pirates In an Adventure with Scientists (AKA The Pirates, Band of Misfits), and several other things? Well Yesterday I spent the day in an old music hall theatre with one of their main animators learning how to do stop motion animation. I even made my first "claymation" film.

I know no one else gives a shit about this, but I am still so excited about it that I am telling everyone, and it is your turn to be bored by my Sunday!

Haha yes. I first saw Wallace & Gromit on a plane trip to Vegas back in my 20s, and people kept looking at me because I was trying hard not to laugh my ass off in my headphones.

I sent Nick Park a fan letter and he sent me a hand drawn and signed Wallace & Gromit pic I thought that was pretty cool of him.

The Wrong Trousers is still my fave.

oh and I went to a Ren Faire yesterday, and got to dance with some gypsies.

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Ask me what I did Yesterday, go on ask me - You won't be interested but I'm going to tell you anyway so you may as well ask me!

You know Aardman Animation? The people who made the Wallace and Gromit films, and also the films; Chicken Run, Flushed Away, Pirates In an Adventure with Scientists (AKA The Pirates, Band of Misfits), and several other things? Well Yesterday I spent the day in an old music hall theatre with one of their main animators learning how to do stop motion animation. I even made my first "claymation" film.

I know no one else gives a shit about this, but I am still so excited about it that I am telling everyone, and it is your turn to be bored by my Sunday!

You Lucky Bastard

I really enjoy stop motion films for some reason. My favorite, not Aardman, is The Nightmare Before Christmas. As for Aardman, The Wrong Trousers is probably still my favorite as it's the first one I saw from them. Thou I have enjoyed all of them including all the shorts from the Creature Comforts series a lot.

Over the past weekend I got a new filing cabinet for the office, gorgeous 70F weather prompted a top down drive up the coast thru Malibu to Paradise Cove and my grandchild came over so it was pretty damn good.

[javbucks]

I remember a few episodes hehe

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by JustRobert

You Lucky Bastard

If I wanted to make you really jealous I'd tell you about the time (about a year ago) I went to "The Dr Who Experience" while it was in London. As well as a museum of props, costumes etc. you also got to fly in the Tardis, got captured by Daleks and ended up in a Dalek space ship during a space battle between the old and new paradigms, and finally got to rescue the doctor (when he was Matt Smith) from a second Pandorica!.

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by ecchi

If I wanted to make you really jealous I'd tell you about the time (about a year ago) I went to "The Dr Who Experience" while it was in London. As well as a museum of props, costumes etc. you also got to fly in the Tardis, got captured by Daleks and ended up in a Dalek space ship during a space battle between the old and new paradigms, and finally got to rescue the doctor (when he was Matt Smith) from a second Pandorica!.

Damn You

[MeatPounder]

JustRobert, instead of heading to Greenies you can always go to Wales for a spring vaca
http://www.doctorwhoexperience.com/

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by MeatPounder

JustRobert, instead of heading to Greenies you can always go to Wales for a spring vaca
http://www.doctorwhoexperience.com/

Again I'm gonna recommend waterproofs. More so than for London. Cardiff is on the Bristol Channel and close to the River Severn, both of which are currently leaving their riverbeds and flowing across farmland, streets, and ground floor rooms!

However, if you wait for a drier season I can strongly recommend it. The locals can speak English, but they usually pretend not to, just to piss tourists off! (Hint: make sure they are aware you are American. The Welsh hate Americans, but they hate the English even more, and you don't want to be mistaken for one of us just because you speak the same language, sort of.)

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by MeatPounder

JustRobert, instead of heading to Greenies you can always go to Wales for a spring vaca
http://www.doctorwhoexperience.com/

That would most certainly be enjoyable

ecchi, maybe you can ship some of that rain over here to California as we desperately need it.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by JustRobert

ecchi, maybe you can ship some of that rain over here to California as we desperately need it.

Take all you want. Take all of it if you like. We have more than we need. In many places it is not only in the houses, but it is half way up the stairs. And the weather forecast is for even more to come!

Originally Posted by JustRobert

That would most certainly be enjoyable

It would be, and not only for the Dr Who Experience. I say some awful things about the Welsh people (mostly because they tend to say worse about the English) but they do have a beautiful country, particularly in the north. When I was younger we had several holidays there and I loved it. A couple of years ago my father moved up to Herefordshire, which is close to the Welsh border, so I now spend time in that area. It is well worth a visit.

But in the name of all that is holy, wait a while before going. Not only is a lot of Wales flooded at the moment, but the weather forecast is for more rain, gale force winds, and snow!