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February 9th, 2010

03:39 pm: Percieved Nudity and kids shows
There is a wonderful funny kids show series made by the same team that makes the Wallace and Gromet movie series called "Shaun the Sheep" These short stories have a bunch of farm animals (who do not wear cloths) and the human farmer and the dog who really runs the show for the farmer (much like Gromet does for Wallace). The sheep have a spot under their tails where their wool is not as thick which is obviously their anus but all you see is a dent in the thick wool. For some reason this gets my "oh no, nudity in a kids show!" alarm ringing in my mind. Maisy Mouse is a character in a series of kids books and now a TV show that is very simply drawn with thick lines and solid colors. Maisy has pink paws, ears, nose, and tail but the rest of her is white indicating fur. Every episode (which is a half hour made up of lots of short stand-on-their-one segments) has at least one point where Maisy gets undressed. The simple drawing style and solid white of her body makes her quite fine as a cartoon character who does not wear cloths but in this case, she takes off her dress, then her panties and undershirt to get in the bath or use the toilet... makes her definitely nude. Alvin and the Chipmonks CGI movie characters did not seem nude even though they looked rather realistic until the recording producer suggested they should wear cloths. The second movie had us used to Alvin and gang not wearing pants but wearing something. The Chipettes, female chipmonks wishing to meet our heros through the Chipmonk's record company, came and performed without cloths but seemed so nude without at least some item of clothing. Of course they had no "knotty bits" to hide as CGI characters but the expectation of clothing was established with the male chipmonk characters. Of course real animal actors side-steps the whole issue but then again I have seen films that used female animals to play male animal parts to avoid accidental scrotum and sheath sightings. Lately kids shows have been heavy with jokes and references to bodily fluids, farts and "potty humour" (same could be said of adukt fair too) but that might actually be OK if you think about it from a little kid's perspective... their lives are focused strongly on experiences involving body functions rather then any thing intellectual. As adults and specifically people concerned about pedephiles and porn messing with young minds, maybe we are too concerned about this stuff. Young kids recognise early that there are two genders and learn the differences in body parts early on. I remember one pet store with two large aquariums on the floor full of feeder mice that were supposed to all be one gender. I was finding some of the wrong gender in them and removing them just for the sake of preventing unwanted litters. Some girl about 3 year old asked me what I was doing so I told her... she proceeded to find more mice of the wrong gender then I found and she was barely able to speak yet. Was she negatively influenced? I think not.

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12:53 pm: Cuy film idea details
Some stuff I envision for such a film idea were in my mind when I started the original post a few days ago but I never included them in that post. I suggest you read that post first.

The cuy might be given the bones of their comrads but it might not dawn on them what (or who) they are munching on. The reactions to such a realizations can be varied but should include one who points out that they have always eaten these scraps so it does not really change anything now that we know it is canniblism. When governments take over farmer's businesses to secure food or land for their own distribution, that food can represent the deaths of people and be a form of canniblism even though the food is not human flesh. Conscription into the government's army is a common requirement in small countries which can be compared using the population much like money... until they are no longer army material and then they are only a financial burden unless they can be sacrificed in some way to the gain of the government. Being part of the government's exploitation of people or resources can be seen as inevitable like the cuy canniblism... not their fault so go along with it.

The escaped cuy is loney, needs sex, and needs the protection of numbers in the wild. This brings the furry freedom fighter back to the still-caged comrads (guy are often kept in pens made of low walls which the cuy are reluctant to jump off of and have difficulty jumping up on them too... they could easily escape if they knew they could). Freedom fighters will need recruits so try to convince or kidnap people to join their cause. It is easy to join them if you are brave enough to jump into the unknown. A human Robin-Hood-and-Marianne-like story can also show this rebel courting the government leader's daughter/sister/cousin for many possible reasons (but true love can easily take over of course).

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February 8th, 2010

07:33 pm: Baby degus finally
One of the three older degu sisters aborted her babies very prematurely about a month ago but the other two got fat. One of those two had 4 babies last night. They are small compared to previous degu babies I have had but seem healthy and active. The males are freaking out though and chasing some of the other females. With just the males, the mother and babies, everyone is happy and with just the girls and babies everyone is happy. I will add extra cardboard tubes and hammocks to make it easy to escape and hide from agressive degus and I made a good nest for the babies... I will make a second nest for the other mother-to-be.

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02:29 pm: Web stuff
I kept a long list of things I wanted to check out on the internet when I get online again on my cel phone. I needed to "hard reboot" my cel phone which loses all data so I thought I had saved everything on my computer... nope, all the stuff was just a link to the now-gone files on my cel phone rather then an actual copy. Because of this, I will post sites I am interested in checking out later or words and names to google here on my LJ. Here are some;

http://www.peoplepowersk.ca
http://www.filmtvtraining.ca
first film fund (filmpool.ca)
LED lighting on movie film



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12:08 pm: Cuy movie idea and Alvin 2
I just watched "Alvin and the Chipmonks 2" which was kind of a remake of the first one but with the female versions of the trio falling into the same trap with that same recording producer. What clued the Chipettes in that they are being exploited was that the recording producer put them in a cage as Alvin predicted ("Oh he would never do that" one Chipette responded). The recording producer had every intention to deliver riches and fame to the Chipettes and in the previous movie to the Chipmonks (refering to the male musical treo) but freedom for the stars messed up the producer's plans.

Cuy, as I have mentioned lately, are the food versions of guinea pigs found in many South American families menus and often raised at home for that purpose (and eat table scraps, uneaten peelings and tops of vegitables and garden weeds). Their captivity means food, shelter, protection from predators... and being eaten when past breeding usefullness (or used as money and "sold"). Many South American countries are essentially social studies experiments were various elements of communism and facism are mixed together to see what happens. Many people have to choose between joining freedom fighters and being hunted down or being submissive to oppressive governments. Some consider themselves lucky to wind up in jail because they do not have to make such decisions and may even end up living longer.

My idea was to have two films going on and playing off each other as we explore the concepts of freedom and government control for socialistic good. A human family caught in such a struggle as some work for the governement and others become freedom rebels, also raises cuy. One of the cuy excapes and trys to convince the other cuy to escape too. The talkng guinea pigs will keep the young audience entertained while the political struggles keep the intellectuals facinated and the spi action and fighing in the jungles will keep the action film crowd gripping their seats.

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February 7th, 2010

10:58 am: Fast rodent brains
When you watch a small animal run in a situation that requires accuracy for all four feet and try to equate that to human thinking and you realise that something like a mouse thinks many times faster then a human brain can think. Thanks to someone's response with a link, I was able to read (but not watch) a bit of stuff about the linguistic abilities of Gunnison Prairie Dogs on the BBC website. These prairie dogs are able to say a lot of "words" in a short "bark" because of the number of variations in volume and tone within ths bark. Is humans cannot hear these variations because they happen too fast and some of the tone variations are in the ultrasonic frequency. This is an interesting aspect if I get rodents to communicate via electronic chats using computers to interpret their verbal language to English chat room text. The "Turing" test to determine if a computer has intelligence can be done on the rodents too but if they respond too quickly, people may think they are talking to a computer program instead.

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February 6th, 2010

11:25 am: Love and roast chicken
At the library (Children's section) I found a book called "Love and Roast Chicken" by Barbara Knutson. The story was quite similar to several Briar Rabbit stories except the trickster is a guinea pig named "Cuy".

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08:49 am: Wolf improvement
Read my last post "Pissed off drinking game idea" first.

Anthro wolf characters marking their territory (and drinking beer for extra pee) could be a added angle to that game. Burping could be included to knock over various pig structures.

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08:41 am: Pissed off drinking game idea
I mentioned the Wii platform porno movie making game idea to someone and they mentioned that there is a flash game where you pee all over ... and are drunk. I right away thought of an improvement on the idea of a drunken peeing game... the more you drink, the more pee you have to work with but the harder it is to aim due to the alcohol. You may be able to order light beer to hard shooters depending on how crazy you need to be or how much accurate peeing needs to be done for each level.

I don't drink alcohol (just too cheap to buy it) and don't play video games (would rather make video games if I had free time to waste) so I am not the one to judge of this is a good idea or not but I would think most people would be amused playing such a game... even if just to laugh AT alcoholics.

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February 5th, 2010

03:52 pm: Song line idea
I won't get cold feet if you hold my hand.

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10:07 am: Work schedule
I was called in too late for 11 (missed bus) so I started 11:30 (Feb 4) and worked to 2:30 then took a break then worked from 3:30 to 10 am (Feb 5) totalling 9 1/2 hours.

February 4th, 2010

06:30 pm: Work shedule
Last night I actually worked 9 1/2 hours... stayed longer to do stuff to prepare for a "big wig" guy coming to inspect the station. Tonight might be the first night off in many weeks (almost 3 months) if they do not phone me.

03:52 am: Stupidity and religion
The documentary called "Stupidity" suggested at one point that believing in religion, no matter what religion, was a stupid thing to do (but did not specify why). So, we have two ways of being stupid with religion; believe in something untrue or don't believe in something that is true. The first option means if we tell some people what we believe, they might make fun of us and maybe even call us stupid. The second option means spending eternity with the creator of the universe thinking that we were stupid and maybe leaving us in eternal suffering because of it. I personally think option two is considerably more stupid then option one. Believe just in case it is true and join a lot of very smart people who also believed. The other choice is permanent stupidity or die with the satisfaction that now that you do not exist (assuming no afterlife) you can be smuggly correct.

February 3rd, 2010

10:21 pm: Work schedule
I am sure I was cheated hours before at work but since I was working at so many stores, I could not confirm the missing hours due to not keeping track personally. The last two months, I have been working at one store so no problems. I am starting again to work at a variety of locations again so I think I will keep track on my LJ.

Feb 1, Feb 2, 8 Hrs @ Vic-Win each
Feb 3 Northgate (8 hrs scheduled but may change as I am heading to work now)

04:49 pm: Stupidity and genius in the same boat.
Stupidity is going against the normal response to some particular knowledge. Genuis is also going against the normal response to some particular knowledge. To normal people, stupidity and genius look the same ... until, against all predictions of the failure of the percieved stupidity, the genius succeeds instead. To make genius normal requires advertizing the advantages of that genius to the point that jealousy makes enough normal people do what seems stupid to get that advertized advantage.

February 2nd, 2010

09:40 pm: Cool colt's coat
Tongue twister time;

Cool colt's coat

09:16 pm: Clint Eastwood
I just watched "Invictus" (a story about the South African Rugby team trying to win the world cup with incentive from the new South African president, Neilson Mandela) and noticed it was produced by Clint Eastwood like several other films I have seen recently. What surprised me was that the main song in the film was written by Clint Eastwood (with another name). Clint has proven himself a great actor, then a great director, now a great producer, and maybe he I also good at song writting too. Invictus was a rather shallow film (no real sub plots, plot twists, character development, etc.) but it was still able to entertain and inspire.

06:25 pm: Drunk with ideas
Some movies put me to sleep... no, FORCE me to sleep. These movies hit my subconcious with so many ideas for cool dreams that I go out like a light in a thunderstorm. "Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus" seems to be one of those movies. I just woke up in the credits of that movie at the cheap theater on cheap Tuesday so $2 is not much to lose by sleeping through about the last 1/3. I believe it is a Terry Gilliam movie and includes dozens of top actors like Johnney Depp and Jude Law. There were many scenes that were a Monty Python animated section... done live action. Totally crazy! Only Terry can come close to the absurdity of some of my dreams while still bringing a cartoon-world logic to it... like my dreams.

03:55 pm: Vole vs fox = crunch, crunch, crunch
There is a series of easy-reader books that are made of photographs from the lives of the people and animals of Northern Canada. One was about a fox with the text in the voice of the fox. "this is a vole. I eat voles." followed by several photos of fox hunting and pouncing. The story ends with the fox having a mouth full of a large vole with the text "crunch, crunch, crunch". I found it funny but seemed a bit inappropriate for kids... "crunch".

08:50 am: Windmills and homeland security
I just read a article in the local newspaper about how windmills create enough movement that radar equipment can no longer detect aircraft near wind power "farms". As these wind power farms get bigger and closer together, there is another concern of enemy aircraft or those doing illegal activities may be able to enter a country undetected by following the rows of windmills. They are working on a solution in the form of more sophisticated software to figure out and cancel the radar signals coming from the windmill movement.

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