Gloved Chicken Productions

So, I was testing out this website provider thingamajig. I did a little demo site just to get used to the program and such and...well...strange things happened...

see Gloved Chicken Productions here

I really need to go to bed before I start corroding the web.

New Drawings

This is a from a screencap from the movie Cube (Vincenzo Natali). The background is actually still a part of the screencap. I only drew the foreground. I didn't put a whole lot of effort into this one, so the characters don't actually look like themselves, but it's a decent picture, nonetheless.
This is a picture of Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) from Torchwood. I drew this one for my mom. I did it freehand because I was copying the picture out of a book. I haven't drawn portraits freehand in years, so I was surprised that I actually got the resemblance pretty close. Especially since I whizzed through it in under an hour.

Don't forget to check out my writing blog for updates on my writing and reading!

Have a merry Christmas!

2 big announcements

My two announcements are writing related, so please check out my writing blog for more info.


1. Research project

A project for fiction writers! I'm journaling my way through this winter break project. Four people already signed on to watch my progress. You can watch too. Here's the first entry:
http://j-leigh-nelson.livejournal.com/8154.html



2. Published!

My essay "Time at Last" was published in the anthology Authors of Tomorrow. Read about it here:
http://j-leigh-nelson.livejournal.com/8321.html

drawdrawdraw

I hadn't drawn ANYTHING since last summer. But a couple weeks ago, I drew a picture of Anton (Konstantin Khabensky) from NightWatch and forgot to post a picture of it.

And then, today, I drew this portrait of Shaz and Chris from the Life on Mars spinoff series Ashes to Ashes:

Day 1

Day 1 of Winter Break.

Cold as shoulders outside. -4 with windchill factor 0f -21.

People in house sticking ceramic tiles to kitchen wall.

Got up at 6am. 4 and a half hours later: have written 4 grad school essays and filled out 2 applications.

Must stop staring into space and get some sleep.

done

School is done. Done done done. For the semester anyway. Exams sucked, but I only had two. And three papers. I actually enjoyed all four of my courses this semester. Statistics say that's not likely to happen again. But what a great semester. I'll miss it thoroughly. I get to go home tomorrow. I think I'm finally starting to miss La Crosse when I leave. Only took three years.

Well, I'm off to see A Midsummer Night's Dream in Toland Theatre.

Irish Christmas

Irish Christmas in America was my most recent event. I've enjoyed all of my events, but I think I liked this one best so far. It certainly had the biggest turn-out! Over 400 people packed in on a snowy night to see the Irish band Teada and vocalist Karan Casey. There were a few hiccups to begin with, but I got them smoothed over before the band or Irishfest showed up (we co-sponsored with Irishfest La Crosse).

The band was really cool. I didn't get to talk with the two women because they didn't come upstairs for dinner, but they guys were really nice. And talented. The show was amazing. Most people stuck around for part two, which is saying something because intermissions tend to cause people to leave early. A lot of people bought cds too.

The show itself was a concert of Irish Christmas music. We had Christmas trees up on stage to set the mood, as the stage plot requested. Brian did some Irish dancing--like the dancing where you mostly just move from the waist down. He danced with a broom too. And Tristan told stories to give some context. He told us about the traditions of "women's Christmas" in January and about killing wrens for tradition. Definitely traditions I've never heard of, so I learned a lot! Everyone was really impressed with Karan Casey's singing.

At the end, the band hung around to sign autographs for everyone and to take a picture with CAB (see above).

YouTube

I think the reason that each post has so many subsections is because I am a blogger-slacker. That's right. I procrastinate posting for so long, I usually have a million updates. Here is an attempt to do one subject per post. I doubt this noble effort will last very long.

So, YouTube has this thing where you can look at the demographics of your channel. I didn't even know this until I saw Robert Llewllyn's post about it. It took me a while to find these stats, but eventually I found it for my channel. Interesting things going on here. Most interestingly is the fact that my channel is more popular in the UK than it is here in the States. I think this is because the video Holloway Road dominates over half of the views out of my 44 videos, clocking in at just over 5,000 views. Wow, guys! Also, 74% of my viewers (not subscribers--I don't have any) are male while 26% are female. This either means more men watch my channel than women, more men watch YouTube than women, or more men enter in their gender information than women. Also, the age range is mostly 45-54 years old. Is that a bit odd? I thought so. The range between 35-54 makes up half of my viewers.

I bet that was really boring.

Here, go watch Elevated. It's not boring at all. This has nothing to do with anything. I just really like Vincenzo Natali and I just found this video for the first time this week after YEARS of trying to find it. It was on some obscure Canadian dvd somewhere. Elevators are my biggest fear. When you mix elevators with Cube...well, see for yourself.

Part one:



Part two: