Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Today I got up and Nefarious and I went and rebooted the server that went down last night. None of us were up to doing it at the time (sorry). We stopped for a blueberry muffin on the way home and bumped into an old friend (warning: link goes to fat Shannon) that I haven't seen in a long time. Then a bit more playing and around, building and sketching, and I switched to “real” work.

As of 10PM EST (about two hours from this post), we'll be taking BME offline to move it to a new server. This will take a while, but it should be bearable. This only affects www.bmezine.com; not any of our other servers.

But the good news is that I completely cleared our image backlog, and a nice big update with 5,800 new pictures (including tons for members only) will go up when the site returns either late tonight or in the morning. This should eliminate our growth and stability problems for some time to come.

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Other than that, I know I'm a little behind on this meme, but I really love the video that Martin de Thurah did for the Röyksopp song What Else is There?… Here's a good quality link, and it's on YouTube as well. The dreamlike imagery and editing is really beautiful….

Anyway, because the visual is similar, it really made me want to finish the movie I (barely) started back in university… It was called H ANGEL FREE AND DOWN WE GO (terrible title, I know) and, to give the TV Guide blurb, was about life in a collapsing over-industrialized society where people choose between suicide supermarks and drug parlors peddling their own escapism. I know, I know, clichés start to finish, but I did a whole lot of art design for it and it would be cool to finish it some day.

But I've got another movie to finish first.

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