Amanda · Williams

Dreamer of Dreams, originally uploaded by awilliams.

Happy Monday, to everyone who is still reading this blog. :)

I hope you're all doing very well!

All is okay in my corner of the world. I've been hiding and drawing, and learning 3D craft. I wish I had internet at home, because I think of so many things at night that I'd love to post. I suppose I could just type it out on the laptop & post later, but for some reason it never comes out the end of my fingers sounding like a blog entry. I may be saving your eyes from reading a bunch of useless things by not posting so often. ;)

Some of the illustrations I'll post soon. That's most of what I think about these days, so I'd love to get them up here.

The movie I've been working on is showing at the Paramount during SXSW. I have no idea if it's okay to blog the title yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing my work on the big screen. Especially since it's some of my very first models. :) Or not. I may hide under the seat and not watch those parts!

I'm also considering going to DragCon in Atlanta this year. Are any of you going? There's also an SCBWI conference after that I think, which sounds interesting.

The picture above is from my apartment. I wanted to test out a few things in Photoshop, so the benefit (if you care at all ;) is that you get to see some of where I live if you click on it. I do not show you my enormous and lovely shoe collection, nor the pretty view outside unfortunately, but you do get to see what sort of art crazyness I'm living in these days (at it's cleanest, naturally.).

Some things I recommend, yes:

The House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones. The sequel to Howl's Moving Castle.

Fathom by Cherie Priest. Totally fascinated by a particular statue in this book.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.

I've started reading Drood. I may still be reading Drood months from now, as it is quite large and packed with Stuff.

I'm late to the party, also just started reading World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. It's good. I loveit.

As far as movies go - SEE CORALINE! I think it's showing at Gateway, still no Alamo Drafthouse. I loved watching it with kids in the audience anyway. I'll probably go see it again.

The Dead Like Me movie is out too. I liked it, after I got used to the new not-Daisy Daisy Adaire.

And hey! Crystal Castles is coming to Austin on April 13th. I want to go so badly.

Right. Back to working on a 3D building for the day job.

TTFN! >^.^<