Y'know the feeling of having a ton of decent ideas for various images, projects and whatnot - but being unable to actually realise them? I hate the term "artist's block" but that's the only thing I can pin to my current situation. It's rather horrible, I must say; I don't actually have the will or confidence to put pencil to paper at the moment. Or to start work on the written saga I've been mulling over for months. And I don't quite know what the cause is, but suffice to say that I'm feeling more than a bit discontented with the whole thing. What does surprise me is that I still have the motivation to continue shooting, which is never a bad thing these days.

On a lighter note, I now have laptop computing powers. After a slightly prolonged wait, I've got my hands on a Dell Studio-15 widescreen machine. Not an awesome beast of a computer, but it's a nice little gadget to have; uni's necessitated such a venture. I'm tired of the freaking architecture students setting files to render, then leaving their little "Don't Touch - Rendering" notes and buggering off for hours while others (like myself) aimlessly wait for a spare computer just so we can upload files to the network or shove something through the print system. If my laptop doesn't solve this problem, someone's going to eat their keyboard.

Thankfully I'm away from that institution for another four weeks.

Also, call me behind the times, but I've just discovered Firefox's ability to rip embedded Flash files from webpages and save them as standalone .swf's. It's rather handy for those useless little Flash games used for killing time - don't have to buffer them, either. One awesome little puzzle game called Bloxorz has stolen my attention for quite some time thanks to that. And Youtube clips are also rippable, albeit they are Youtube quality.

Anyhoo, I should be putting some kind of new artwork up soon - what it'll be, I have no idea. But smacking myself upside the head and forcing that pencil to paper seems like a decent idea right now.