Sense and sensibility
It’s not true, obviously, none of my senses, even the comedic ones have improved.
Though I do find my tolerance for awful music has increased.
On the subject of good music however I am able to explain why Friday’s comic is appearing on a Saturday…
…I’ve been using the bank holiday weekend to animate a video for Britt Savage, and her band mates, Twang Deluxe… it’s for the song, ‘fingerprints’.
It’s been a tough process that’s taken me several months. I mean animating isn’t exactly a fast sport at the best of times, but for some reason I would get half way through the song and decide it wasn’t working… this happened three times.
In fact, it’s taken so long that I think Britt had given up on it ever appearing.
So what I’ve ended up with is the fourth incarnation… and I spent all of yesterday working on it start to finish.
I figured that something was better than nothing and that if things kept going the way they were, I could end up producing nothing.
And now, after many, many hours without sleep I sit here waiting for her to reply to my email saying that it’s OK… I can’t tell anymore, I can hardly see to be honest.
If it gets the thumbs up, I’ll bring it in to show you tomorrow… for now, however, I can show you some screen shots:
Philip J Schadenfreude on 
good job, it looks like some real quality work. i definitely don’t have the attention span to animate.
I love the song (it reminds me of a great video game, No One Lives Forever; play it even if you aren’t into games, it’s very funny), and the animation looks very interesting. Let us know if/when you put it up on Youtube.
The comic is great.
I have to wear contact lenses, or I can’t see, at all. Like looking thru steamed glass.
I notice that when my lenses are out and I am blind (legally blind), that I seem to hear better and pay more attention to textures with my feet, smell, etc.
From doing a audio engineering degree (half finished), I know for a fact that with our eyes shut and head turned down slightly, we can hear much better.
I can provide more examples about sensory deprivation increasing other senses.
I did find it funny, the comic that is.
About the video imagery.
According to a TV show I watched once, faces are like fingerprints. The way we recognise them is based on the spatial ratio/proportions between eyes and mouth.
With this ability impaired, it is almost impossible to distinguish faces, even faces you know, like your mother, wife/husband, etc.
Ppl who suffer from this disability use other means to recognise ppl, but this has problems.
I find the subject interesting, as I can’t recognise ppl or remember names to save my life.
Aparently, 1 in 10 ppl suffer some form of this.
I think you’re talking about prosopagnosia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia), though it’s not nearly as common as one in ten, I don’t think. I’ve only ever heard of it as the result of a head injury. There’s actually a specific part of your brain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiform_gyrus) responsible for this facial recognition.
Hmmm, well, I watched it on a tv show, so there fore, it must be true!
What they said was that it was initially thought to be rare, but they were finding that mild cases often already existed in ppl who had not experienced trauma.
The main case they looked at was a mid 20’s female who had had fairly serious head trauma, but no other lasting disability.
They did look at some children with mild to bad cases, and then went on to talk about how it was much more common then previously believed.
Most of what I took away from the programme was about how we recognise faces.
Farting is not considered comedic timing.
You are clearly not male!
or immature!
bah humbug
Ha. I’m doing a comic on this subject now… you three have convinced me of its comedic worth.
nyah nyah told ya’s it was funny!
*points and laughs at the girls*
*runs*
i think farts are funny
I think girls are funny.
I fart like a girl.
T: “He found his aroma lacked a certain appeal / He could clear the savannah after ev’ry meal.”
P: “I’m a sensitive soul though I seem thick-skinned / And it hurt that my friends never stood downwind!”
I was thinking Terence and Phillip until I googled the lines.
*giggle*