Needed to stay away from blogworld to focus specifically on research and after the meeting yesterday with David, i feel the fog clearing slightly. I can see as far as my hands outstretched and can imagine what the end of the road looks like….but it will probably be a couple of weeks, few more meetings, re-reads of paul wells, lindvall and melton, moritz and bendazzi before the fog begins to thin out a little more.

In a sense, i realise now that really this research is more a documentation of an ongoing journey that started with a studio experience and even encompasses this period of reflection and ends with questions and queries to ourselves based on factual citations.

Returning to the fog that i am in at the moment, I am personally finding it really hard to catch hold of many films that Bendazzi and Paul Wells speak about in their book and its getting increasingly frustrating to only read about these films and how good they are. At the end of the day, i am left rather irritated by possesing the knowledge that ‘there exists a great film that potentially exhibits exactly what i am looking for, but getting my hands on them is close to impossible’. Although, i could quote these authors, i feel its necessary for me to see these films for myself and raise a discourse about it subjectively.

Some people (for some odd reason) find it hilarious and suggest ridicule when i say ‘ i haven’t seen the film, but i’ve read about it’ – i repeatedly fail to see the humor and stare blankly while telling myself that it ‘must be a caucasian joke of some sort that i am unaware of – something to do with reading about a film …maybe ?’ – hmm i dunno…. maybe someone out there can clear that out for me while i still struggle to find these films that i have read about – did i say ‘read’? i believe i did;~

Been watching a lot of Initial D and i find it quite addictive. Hard to keep up with the fast paced subtitles though and the limited animation is a little hard to get used to. Nonetheless, the mix between 3d and 2d is well done and it doesn’t quite have a jarring effect, as i expected earlier. The one other thing that bothered me in the beginning was the fact that many characters appear to look quite simmilar and until you end up getting used to nakes like Takumi and Bunto… its kinda easy to get lost amongst the characters – but thats just me and my anime virginity speaking.