post 100
we've been expats for nearly 7 months and you've had 100 posts to read. i feel like that's a reasonable job of keeping in touch, yeah? though i don't think a blog is quite the same as the real thing for the little nieces and nephews... but anna, benjamin, maggie, genevieve and lyra get to hear stories of wild africa and they get to visit uncle cool and aunt paige's home when they make trips to the zoo.
today's post will be about snow. i have none of it and i've been missing it bit. i just watched the fellowship of the ring, and gandalf, frodo and company are trying to get over the misty mountains via caradhras. anyway, sauroman does some magic and sends avalanches of snow down upon the fellowship. the snow is the one part of the movie that doesn't look right. it falls at a weird speed, is mushy where it should be sharp, sharp where it should be mushy. i can not think of a movie where i have seen realistic fake snow be it computerized or manufactured from ice or flakes of stuff (monsters inc is the closest that comes to mind). and i love that. the same movie that made a starring role out of a computer-generated character (gollum) can't get snow right.
how cool is it that we're this close to being able to replace live actors with computers but snow is still secure in its reality?
today's post will be about snow. i have none of it and i've been missing it bit. i just watched the fellowship of the ring, and gandalf, frodo and company are trying to get over the misty mountains via caradhras. anyway, sauroman does some magic and sends avalanches of snow down upon the fellowship. the snow is the one part of the movie that doesn't look right. it falls at a weird speed, is mushy where it should be sharp, sharp where it should be mushy. i can not think of a movie where i have seen realistic fake snow be it computerized or manufactured from ice or flakes of stuff (monsters inc is the closest that comes to mind). and i love that. the same movie that made a starring role out of a computer-generated character (gollum) can't get snow right.
how cool is it that we're this close to being able to replace live actors with computers but snow is still secure in its reality?
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"Snow is still secure in its reality"? I only wish! I'm sure it still exists somewhere in the amounts we used to see up here, but this ain't the place anymore, it doesn't seem! Good thing you're still not pursuing that X-C ski dream! ;) Training might be a bit iffy!
xox
How scary is it that you know all the names of the characters? I feel like Triumph should be heckling you while you bang together plastic toys.
Seriously, as far as I'm concerned, there's Gandalf (name sticks out for some reason), an elf, dwarf, human, a bunch of midgets, liv tyler, and the dude that played Rudy. Still a good flick.
And 100 in 7 months is pretty good, a lot better than I do.
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p.s. alumni game 5/12. Probably not happening for you guys, but man I wish you could make it.
Congrats on 100! Keep up the good work...loving the photos...so much so that you might force me to buy an upgraded camera against my better judgement.
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