Thursday, February 28, 2008

While all you schoolkids were sleeping soundly I worked madly away at the computer, constructing this skin. It's actually very simple, so most of the madness came from my head.

I'm sorry, Mika might have to wait again. We will come to him eventually, but for the moment, Nouvelle Vague's Dancing With Myself occupies much of my inspiration. The song kinda reminds me of a quiet burlesque house, like when the night is still very young and it's not even the peak hour yet, and all you see is just one pathetic, but pretty showgirl doing her small but insignificant number to entertain what little guests that may have chose to show up early. And she's dancing with herself.

Why, you might ask, is the song named Dancing WITH Myself and not Dancing BY Myself? Because, my dear friend, the song is talking about masturbation.

Not that this irrelevant piece of trivia will be of any impact on the way you interpret this song. I, for one, choose to stick by my story of the lone showgirl performing for an off-peak audience.

The girl with the umbrella. A photography series by George Marks.

Originally I wanted to use pictures from The Sims 2. So I set the game to debug mode, built a studio, plonked down some full-length mirrors and put the model in the room full of reflective surfaces. Zoinks! I forgot that a 3D animated game really only has 3 dimensions. So instead of the countless images of the pin-up bombshell, all I got was the girl standing between two reflections. How awful. Photoshop can't save me either simply because I'm still an idiot when it comes to Photoshop (and that is coming from someone who is due to pursue a diploma in FSV). Nearly wanted to kill myself. Until Getty Images came to the rescue! My long-forgotten friend! Woe betide your shit-ass watermark, but I can forgive you for the plethora of images you have in store!

So, ladies and gentlemen, just put up with that shit-ass watermark from Getty Images, and in the meantime, please remember, it is still a blog, and the main attraction is ME! WooHoo! WaaHaa! WeeHee!

Dancing with myself
Dancing with myself
Well there's nothing to lose
And there's nothing to prove
And I'll be dancing with myself!