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Thats how many months I’ve seen, give or take a couple of days. I can’t actually remember two thirds of those months in any great detail, nevertheless, I’m sure my subconscious has got it all locked away somewhere; ready to be extracted were the memory ever triggered.

I haven’t managed to travel much in all that time, albeit outside of the country, or even up north come to think of it. I’ve been to Ireland a lot, but that couldn’t be called a holiday as the culture, although different, still originated in about the same place. My trips into mainland Europe only stretched as far as France, Belgium and Holland, and they were brief school holidays and touring with a local drum core (dont ask). This all means that I can’t really call myself a worldly human being. If anything it should make me quite a small minded and, perhaps, patriotic person; fortunately that hasn’t occurred. For whatever reason, I have found a curious interest in most of the things I’ve come across in life and gained insight through that curiosity, even if its been limited to a few hundred miles of the earth’s surface.

Television documentaries covering every subject and place on the globe mean that I have a reasonable geographic knowledge, just without the experience or understanding of having been there. I’m okay with that, seeing as there’s enough going on in England to keep me busy for a few more years. At the beginning of the 21st century the local music scene consumed my extra curricular hours, and has continued to keep me in a chokehold since. So I’d rather buy a decent valve compressor than spend a few hundred to stand on a different lump of earth.

Anyway, I’m not talking to you about that.

My work at the moment is with a couple of animators, although they will be working together collaboratively, at this stage they are working on seperate projects. One of them has delved into coding and is currently creating something akin to the tone matrix, using twelve samples on a grid covering sixteen beats, like a small flash based launchpad, though with limited capabilities. Still, having used a couple of prototypes and discussed what could be added to the user interface to provide more variation, it could set itself apart from other similar products.

The other is of a more artistic bent and has put his hand to cartoon animation on the popular flash website newgrounds.com, under the pseudonym MAJ1CK, you can follow the link ahead to his first animated short Do you?. Since he put that video out he’s moved on to a couple more shorts which I’ve dropped in to record the audio for, relying on friends with an eclectic range of accents for the voice acting and developing the scenes mainly through structured improvisation.

So I’ll be talking about these projects and whatever I’m doing really.

Yours, relatively speaking,

Sean