As of Wednesday afternoon, I've actually got a paid commission - making a 90-second computer-graphics-based advert for Day One Publications. Still doesn't seem possible, but apparently it is. Crumbs.
Following on from that: it is possible to handle financial and legal matters without your brain turning to an off-green goo and exiting your skull via the earholes. Or so I'm told.
After seven months in the making, Fort Paradox gained its fiftieth episode last weekend. Half-way to a hundred. Wow. And as if that wasn't enough, the project has its first episode or two by a guest illustrator. I don't know about the rest of you, but from my POV that's all terribly exciting. And it does seem possible (like I said, it's been a while since we started), but again, I haven't quite got my head around it.
It is entirely possible (and I hope probable) that I'll get round to doing Arbitrary Stopframe 4 in the next few weeks. I've been a little distracted for the last fortnight by long-stay visitors, paid employment, and the fact that I'm running out of finished Alien President episodes, but I've got story plans for a couple more Arbitrary Stopframe clips. Watch this space.
It is possible, but difficult, to design a bathroom by committee. The way it's going in our family at the moment is that we came up with a perfectly serviceable plan several months ago (before discovering that Mum and Dad's bedroom was going mouldy around the corners, and deciding to de-fungus and decorate in there before doing the bathroom), and ever since then Mum's been revising the plan in every conceivable way, working out why the revisions won't work, and coming back to the original plan.
It is possible for the same composer to create some music that's crazy and thrilling, some that's beautiful and uplifting, and one little track that's deliberately, pervertedly, infuriatingly, brilliantly cringible, all on the same album. Case in point: Thomas Newman's soundtrack from WALL-E, which I've currently got on my hi-fi. Oddly enough, exactly the same guy pulled exactly the same stunt on Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is also in my CD collection.
Speaking of music: it's probably possible to sit through the entire 2-disc Doctor Who Series 5 soundtrack by Murray Gold (had it as a birthday present), and not feel the slightest bit like you're having any fun for the whole two hours plus. But I suspect you might have to be a corpse in order to achieve this.
Impossible Stuff:
I'm sorry, but a dying man simply can't do what he did, with that implement, without missing at least a little bit. IMHO, that scene went beyond the bounds of Suspension of Disbelief and into the territory of Plain Impossible. If you've seen Tangled, you should know what I mean, although whether or not you agree is another matter. I've phrased it that way to try and avoid being spoiler-ish.
It is impossible to sit in the same room for too long without starting to feel like you're going to go bonkers. It's taken me a long time to realise this, but it's finally dawning on me.
And finally: IMPOSSIBLE GEOMETRY!!!
#007: Impossible Triangle
It was really tempting to paint a big letter 'S' inside the middle hexagon thing, but I resisted.
- The Colclough
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