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Phew!

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Animations - www.vimeo.com/user1088763/vide… & uk.youtube.com/user/mairperkin…
Website - www.mairperkins.co.uk
MySpace - www.myspace.com/skittlesthecri…

The last few months have been exhausting and very busy. I had to be strict and not allow myself to procrastinate online. Things have settled down and I am now allowed to play online again. I finished studying Animation at the University of Derby and have moved house. The house my boyfriend and I have moved into has a spare room which is now my studio/art room :D I'm  a very happy bunny.

In August I'm starting work as a graphic designer for the University of Derby Student Union. Its part time so the plan is to do freelance work (and pointless "just for fun" art work) in the other time. My current "for fun" project is painting an A0 sized, obscenely detailed picture of Bill Adama puking all over himself just like in the final Battlestar episode. Callum and I think the living room decor is missing something and that picture would complete it perfectly.

My latest animations are up on www.mairperkins.co.uk The new layout makes it easier to update content and post news of projects and other bits and bobs.

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Animations - www.vimeo.com/user1088763/vide… & uk.youtube.com/user/mairperkin…
Website - www.mairperkins.co.uk
MySpace - www.myspace.com/skittlesthecri…

Design Against Fur Storyboard by tifachan infurmation.com/daf/2008/daf08…

I'm ecstatic! :D I care deeply about this topic. Its a great honour for my animation to be selected. I hope it can help in some small way to stop the fur trade.

University has been keeping me very busy recently. Its my third and final year of my animation course. Soon I'll have to venture out into the real world :S eep.

Over the holidays I'll upload some more art work and animations/storyboards. Hope everybody had a very merry christmas x

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The last few weeks have been full of minor misfortunes the worst of which being my laptop going on strike. It's ok though, I have a warranty and it has been sent away to be repaired. :bounce: It just means I'm using the university computers when I can be bothered to go in. So I'm sorry for not replying to comments and messages, its not me being impolite, just the laptop.

Is anybody else going to chibicon.co.uk/ ? I'm going to be selling anime art work there. Most of them can be found in my DA gallery  :) Prices will be about £30 for a framed original painting and £15 for paintings without frames. So they are not prints but the original paintings!

If anyone who can't make it to Chibicon still wants to buy a piece, just message me with the link to the picture you want. Remember it has to be one done in traditional media as I don't keep the line art for digital art. Same prices apply but no charge for the postage and packaging :)

The reason I'm selling my work is because I have SO much of it just piled up at my parents house and I need to clear some space (Since I moved out I just use my old room for storage :giggle: ). The works won't be used in one of my portfolios either so I thought I may as well try to sell them.
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crack

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not really, just Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core which is better than crack.

Seriously I'm loving this game so far. I did like Advent Children and Derge of Cerberus but I think Crisis Core has more connections to the original FFVII story. Or at least the parts of the story I was most interested in *cough* attractive SOLDIER members and young flower girls *cough*

:D

The 10th anniversary of FFVII has made me feel rather old :S I remember when it came out and begging my parents to have it as an 11th birthday present. I'm still grateful to them for that ;)
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I really, really, really should be doing uni work. Deadlines are on Tuesday....but there's still a few more days to do it in! ^^; WHOO procrastination!

I'll be posting more art work and some animations up after Tuesday.

Ooh I'm going to do my dissertation next year on how anime has affected western culture in past 20 years :D I love that my course will let me do everything I wasn't allowed to do in school's art classes.

I've left my data entry job for.... *drum roll* a part time graphic designer job! Whoo! I'm so happy I'll be working with photoshop instead of excel this summer.

Not much else has been going on. Just plodding along happily :) Looking forward to summer!

Now for the ultimate in procrastination! (hee can you tell I love that word too much. Apathy is another favourite right now)

:iconflashatasha: tagged me to do this. I don't usually like playing these games but I have a soft spot for her :P

*1. Post these rules.
* 2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their self on their journal.
* 3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons on the same journal.
* 4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
* 5. No tag-backs.

1. Between the ages of 3 and 5 I lived in New Zealand with my Mum, Dad and newly born brother Christopher. I love them very much and have a lot to thank my family for.

2. Until I was 12 I wanted to be an astronaut. Then I realised I was crap at maths, engineering and sports so wanted to make cartoons instead.

3. I'm a naturally very shy and unconfident person. I just forced myself to get over it when I started college as it was making everyday life pointlessly difficult. Something as simple as buying something in a shop would make me stutter with awkwardness :lol:

4. I've been told I'm a very curious person. As a child I pestered my parents with lots of "why? "how did that happen?" What's that? "How does that work?" :bounce: They were very helpful and bought me lots of books and encouraged me to watch documentaries :lol: I did Philosophy at A level but that just ended up leaving me more confused and posing more unanswerable questions x_X I'm confused and worried by a lot of things that really are not important to everyday life. Though on a plus my curiosity leads me to trying new things ... like sky diving :D and other more   socially taboo things like necrophilia.

5. My sense of humor can and has been described as sick, dark, immature cruel, perverse and twisted. I usually try to hide it until I'm comfortable enough with someone...or just let it show through my sketchbook.

6. Though I have a cruel sense of humor I'm really a sappy hippy type. I'm a vegetarian, I have a tendancy to bring home stray/injured animals (which I inherited from my Mum who has 8 cats and 3 dogs), pick insects up off the path so they don't get squished, use shopping bags for life, do volunteer work for the RSPCA and Enabled Art, donate money to Shelter and Water Aid, buy the big issue, I'm doing volunteer conservation work abroad this summer and I strongly believe in recycling (which my poor housemates and boyfriend know too well ^^; ), fair trade, animal rights, human rights, equality, tolerance ....etc etc *typical left wing hippy stuff* Lately my art work has been related to these sorts of things. I really believe that the world can be made a better place and changes can happen if everybody does their bit. I'm too shy and passive to be a political activist but if I could make any small change for the better through my actions I would be very happy (and feel less guilty >_< )

7. I'm really crap at keeping in touch with people I care about (including my poor family though my Mum understands because she's the same lol). I don't mean to offend people or make them think I forget about them...I'm just a big hermit and not the most communicative person (unless you get me alone then you'll want me to shut up!)

8. Now for something completely sappy! My boyfriend Callum is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I have never been so happy and at peace with myself. We're probably one of those annoying couples that live in each other's pockets but I'm addicted to his company and everything about him. He is TEH SMEX!!!!!111111 we're a pair of geeks but happy ones :)


I'm not tagging anybody because I don't want to force anybody to do this ;P
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