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About Me Member Pencil Artist ljbcraigie21/Male/Australia Recent Activity Deviant for 5 Years
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2 years in anticipation

Sun Dec 13, 2009, 10:22 AM
Well apparently its been two whole years since my last journal entry... whoops! I apologize to the literally tens of people that may have been reading my journals.

What has changed? Externally not a huge deal although I am currently living in Scotland for the year. Internally I think I have cemented the values I have always had. I try to rely only myself and perceive things with my own measure of worth. Hopefully this will allow me to one day do something exceptional.

I had a dream the other night of taking the idea in my drawing 'when you go down to the woods today' to a whole new level. Its essentially based around a day when for no apparent reason giant teddy bears pop up everywhere and appear to aimlessly wander the earth - freeky everyone out entirely. I have developed the whole thing into a thorough story;
- while the teddies cause chaos and destruction moving about, the most observant will see that they have a special affinity with children, ensuring they aren't hurt amongst the chaos, stopping to wave to a child with his own, normal sized bear etc
- girl meets giant teddy and befriends
- girl realizes giant teddy is not wandering aimlessly but is trying to reach somewhere
- girl and teddy battle all kinds of odds; man made, environmental, through oceans, mountains and snow
- a clear caring love develops between the two, the teddy clearly not malevolent and indeed deeply protective of the girl
- meanwhile civilized society cannot cope with these random events that challenge their perception of what is possible in reality
the natural human reaction is fear, intolerance, the magestic wonders that are these bizzare teddybears are attacked, brought down, destroyed, without anyone pausing to reconsider
- the teddy reaches his destination, a village in Japan, a small graveyard, the grave of a child
- at this moment the girl's mother who has been distraught chasing after her finally catches up to her, pulls her away from the teddy
- but now the teddy sits by the grave and fades out of existence
- the giant wonder gone like that

- the mother and policemen with her all witness that the bear was trying to reach a child's grave
- communication across the globe soon reveal that other bears have disappeared at graves
- all graves of abused or neglected children
- the remaining bears are allowed to reach their destinations
- while nobody can definitely explain it, they acknowledge that this break from reality was some kind of sign

- Children everywhere have new faith in their small fuzzy companions, and everyone else some strange sense of awe and respect
- In future when a child is threatened with abuse, a teddy bear clasped in a child's arm acts as a kind of protective charm, a sign to would be aggressors, even a warning

This would be the kind of film concept i would love to pitch to Ghibli Studious (makers of spirited away, porco rosso, howl's moving castle etc). Also combined with a charity effort, patrons could purchase a bear outside cinemas to go towards children's charities. The production of the bears could be through local volunteer labour (its something fun, easy to get volunteers for). The bears themselves may even indeed become some symbol of protection, a reminder, for children they are given to.

Anyway, just an idea.

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  • Current Residence: Australia
  • Interests: Art, Rugby, Dominating the World, One Piece
  • Favourite movie: Cowboy Bebop, Crash, The Fountain, There Will Be Blood, Porco Rosso
  • Favourite band or musician: dido, Arcade Fire, Evermore, Moby, Yoko Kanno
  • Favourite genre of music: slow rock / alternative
  • Favourite artist: Artgerm (see deviantart profile)
  • Favourite poet or writer: I am illiterate :P
  • Favourite style of art: Stuff that takes you to another place
  • Operating System: Dell, Windows XP
  • MP3 player of choice: I-tunes, real player
  • Skin of choice: Soft with many hues
  • Favourite game: All the Zelda series, Wow, Conker's Bad Fur Day, SSBM
  • Favourite gaming platform: Game Cube! although 64 was best of its time
  • Favourite cartoon character: Dilbert, Alucard, Spike (Cowboy Bebop), Akira, Porco Rosso
  • Personal Quote: Vini,Vidi,Vici ; "Nothing is as it seems", "I'll sleep when i'm dead"
  • Tools of the Trade: Ball point ben, Pacer, felt tip

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Comments


:icongaresuka:
lol what beard?!

I should get into Design at COFA unless this new HSC Plus screws it up for me (I hope the UAI thingy doesn't up 3 points...) However I will get into COFA though, just which course I don't know for sure yet...

You don't sign into MSN for very long. I see the little message pop up and by the time I open it up you have logged off...

The anime scene is sucking of late. Foreign films is where it is at these days.
:icongremlin72:
You have been "tagged". You now have to post 8 random facts about yourself in your journal/blog. at the bottom of your facts, you must list 6 more unfortunate individuals of whom you have tagged, then comment them to let them know. :D

dun dun dun

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it takes 44 muscles to frown, 4 muscles to stick my middle finger up and tell em to Bite Me.
:iconljbcraigie:
i don't do chain posts

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Willing to embrace false idol that promises anime hair
:icongremlin72:
lame. you're just in denial

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it takes 44 muscles to frown, 4 muscles to stick my middle finger up and tell em to Bite Me.
:icongracie-is-evil:
ok so i have been stalking people whilst also stalking my friends.. I always have to ask this when i find it but does the 'One Piece' in your interests have anything to do with a kid named Monkey D. Luffy?
:iconljbcraigie:
ho ho indeed it does :)

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Willing to embrace false idol that promises anime hair
:icongracie-is-evil:
Are you up to date with the anime? and the New World arc?
:iconljbcraigie:
hmmm theres up to date, and then theres 'cultured', i'd say i'm more cultured :P i've watched all the greats, before they were cool, particular fondness of Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Vampire Hunter D and Spriggan

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Willing to embrace false idol that promises anime hair
:icongracie-is-evil:
teehee, the hsc has made me very up to date.. Anywho, i'm not that familiar with those ones, cultured but not to a great extent. Do you know a show called Trinity Blood?

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