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About a month ago I started doing the storyboard and some preliminary writing for a short animated film. I've honestly been procrastinating with that, otherwise I'd have much more done by now. I'm planning on doing the animation traditionally by myself and that translates to roughly 6000 individual drawings, (10 minutes worth of film with 10 frames per second). That alone makes the project more than a little intimidating, but I've also been trying to become proficient with the software I'll be using to compile it with. That still doesn't give me an excuse to procrastinate as the longer I put it off, the longer it's going to be until I finish.

Today I attended my first meeting for the Huron Area Art Counsel, (Huron is the town I live in), which was interesting. It was honestly pretty boring as I had no idea what they were talking about half the time. I suppose that's to be expected when walking into something like that with no prior knowledge of its activities. I'm now one of two people within the counsel that is part of the "Visual Arts Committee", so that's kinda cool I suppose. My duties as part of the committee will mainly consist of contacting local artists and setting them up for exhibitions and/or having their artwork displayed in other ways. It's too early to tell whether I'll enjoy or detest being a part of all this, but for the time being I'm intrigued.

I really don't have much else to say right now.

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I suppose I can't really complain, having done very little with my life even while taking all of these things into consideration. If I had held a steady job for these three years that I've been trying to go to school I could have saved up enough money to go without needing any sort of financial aid.

I guess it just seems a bit hard to find motivation to do anything when even my own parents seem to be going out of their way to prevent me from living up to my potential, (assuming there is any to begin with). It's hard for me to live in a place like this, (South Dakota), where the only way to succeed seems to be by working some sort of manual labor or meaningless task. I refuse that...I would rather die having accomplished nothing and history forgetting me altogether than working to live for something I don't even acknowledge as being worthwhile.

Maybe I'm just conceited...there's a lot I could have done much better, (though there is a great deal I could have done much worse. Look at some of the people who have had similar experiences to my own….i.e. Corey V., Eric L., etc.). I would like to continue my education and be all that I can be...think of it this way: I have just a small portion of a high school education and never even got the opportunity to complete Art 1.

All and all, I would classify this as a straight-up rant. Thank you for your time, you single person reading this, (whoever you are...maybe just myself...). I apologize for a basically “emo” journal entry, it just so happens that it is how I feel currently.

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Hopefully I should be submitting some NEW art that isn't more profile pictures soon....HOPEFULLY.

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