Ah it's good to be back here, sitting in bed at 1:40am, MacBook Pro on my lap, writing down my thoughts and musings... Then deleting them and rewriting them all over again :-)
I'm sorry to my faithful followers, who there are many now, I've had in excess of 5,000+ hits for my past 4 posts so I'm overjoyed, I've been spending far too much time on the podcast over on www.cerberusradio.posterous.com, which has also been racking up hits. Since the release of the podcast at 10:00am on tuesday, we've had at least 140 people listen to our 1hr 42minute podcast... so thanks to them. Apparently people enjoy our podcasts, I do them with two friends who I go way back with. One Mr Daniel Hird (or HirdyGirdy) and one Mr Andrew Berry (sometimes known as Panda or thelittlehobo). They're both extremely awesome people...
Anywho, enough of that. I assume you're here for my life I suppose, and what I've been up to. Well on Friday the 4th of February I won the Animation Category at the Kingussie Food on FIlm Awards which was great in itself, but the real highlight of the night was being told by two professionals (one of whom is a BAFTA winner) in front of everyone there that I was a Film-Maker. It was the second proudest moment of my life, the being Nominated for a BAFTA of course. The thing is that I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with my life. I want to be a film-maker but I can't ever quite see it working, except at moments like that. Also in attendance were two people who I am now working with on different projects but both for films. The first is Hannah Doughty, who has accepted the role of script-writer for my feature film to be filmed this summer, and is already well on her way to finishing the first draft. The second was Andrew Berry, as well as podcasting with him, we have decided to work together to produce regular YouTube videos.
So here it is, I am officially announcing that starting by the end of February, Andrew Berry and myself will be making a video every two weeks for YouTube, on the other week I will be putting out a tutorial usually relating to the last weeks video. So please encourage us in this daunting task and commitment by subscribing to Cerberus Films.
My time is becoming a very precious commodity these days with tutoring on every single day of the week, including weekends, as well as Showstopperz, podcasting and soon the YouTube commitments... I'm going to be a very busy boy.
I don't know whether I like that or not. I enjoy podcasting and working for showstopperz and on films but I also enjoy just relaxing and playing on the Xbox or STO, even just watching the TV. Unfortunately, all of these things are relegated to the very late evenings of a couple of days a week. At the moment I sleep just enough to not fall asleep until the next evening usually, but I don't ever get to enjoy a lie in really, because I know I'm only prolonging a massive list of things I should be doing that day.
Onto other news, my love life is officially confused... I wish social networking sites had an option for confused, not just it's complicated... but I won't bore you all with the intricacies of that.
We're pretty sure that one of our dogs has cancer... and a hell of a lot of it... he's covered in lumps but we've been putting off taking him to the vets as we really don't want our suspicions confirmed but my mum's going to take him this week. Oh you silly Bob dog... Well at least it isn't Pip again :-/ For those of you who don't know, we have three dogs, One is mine, Pip a golden lab retriever, 7-8 years old, my Mums dog is Ruby a Great Dane, 2-3 years old, and my Dads is a Red and White Irish Setter called Bob, 5-6 years old. We also have 6 horses (1 Stallion, 2 Geldings and 3 mares) and a Donkey called Flora. Oh and a Cat, very imaginatively called Blackie.
Had a crazy few days recently, all the pipes around the Bathroom Burst so we had to fix it all before turning the water back on. My dad decided to come home from Abu Dhabi to fix it but the day after he goes back (ie Wednesday) the hot water pipe burst again and the drain dropped through the ceiling... so that's what my mum and I spent the morning fixing.
I have had an interesting idea about my future education though. Moray Firth School are hopefully starting a 'twilight' school (and no not of the vampire variety) for people in similar situations to me. It's a private education thing where they will use their tutors (most extremely well qualified teachers) to teach small classes (no more than 10 people per subject) various subjects at Higher. They're offering all of the Subjects I was to take, save for one, Physics, Maths, Biology, Chemistry and English. If I can take those with Moray in the evenings for 2hrs per subject per week and then take Higher Music with Technology at Fortrose, I think it will be the best option for all parties (mainly me :-P )
I'm sure I came on to write something else aswell but seeing as it's 02:24am I should probably try and get some sleep, especially as I have English Tuition (the subject that takes it out of me the most) and I have to send off a film before Noon.
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Much Love my friends
Oliver V. Smith
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