Firstly, firstly I’m going to direct you to one my newest
projects! As stated earlier, it is the Halloween season and so I decided to do
a little Halloween-related project for /AMP/, thus “This Is Halloween” the MOT Song was born! Ain’t it just the purdiest darn MOT song y’all ever dun seen?
So, to break it down, I took the lyrics from the song “This Is Halloween” from
the musical-movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and mashed them together
with images of anime characters dressed in Halloween attire. I tried my best to
keep each role in the song with certain anime characters. For example, one
might notice that every time the Mayor of Halloween Town has a solo-part in the
song the corresponding MOT has Azunyan in it; because what town wouldn’t want
Azusa as their mayor, right? A few others off the top of my head are Gintoki as
the Werewolf, Fate as the Monster Under the Bed, Luka as the Monster Under the
Stairs and Yuki-Onna as the Clown with the Tear-Away Face. For those of you
interested in how I actually made the Motivational Posters, I’ll tell you! I
started by obtaining the raws, half of them were from zerochan and the
other half were provided by the folks of /AMP/ when I asked for
Halloween-related raws. I then proceeded to make the base MOT with the
super-awesome and super-simple generator wigflip.com. After I had all of the
images with the boarders and what-not I imported them toGIMP where I re-did
the text to give it the cool look (the font is called “You Murderer”) and then
I was finished! And just because I like people seeing my stuff, here is a
link to a collection of imgur albums containing my work, which includes my
other 10 MOT songs. As a side note, the version of the song from which I got the lyrics is a bit different (CD versus the movie version) so at one point the MOT has "Halloween!" repeated six times and the movie version only has it repeated four times.
Okay, now for a new feature that we’ll be seeing around here
from time to time. It’s not really anything just for rambles, but I figured I’d
start sharing the new videos from /AMP/’s YouTube Channel just to try to
spread awareness. And so, here is this week’s new video: Anime Motivational
Posters: Smaragdos’ Picks - “CODE RED; extra”:
Sure, I share these on Google+, so if you have me circled
you might have already seen this, or if you’re from /AMP/ you’ve probably
already seen this too, but a little extra exposure never hurt anyone right?
Unless it sun exposure, then you can get sun burns and cancer and stuff. I
guess radiation exposure is bad too…
Oh, a little extra bit, I haven’t really rambled about it
since returning from my break, but do you remember my quest to collect
Companion Pets in World of Warcraft? Well I recently put on my safari gear (not
really, but I do hear that in an up-coming patch we’ll be able to get a
safari-hat that’ll increase Pet Battle leveling) and headed out into the world
(of Warcraft) to get me some new pets! And even though the connection between
the in-game Pet Journal and the one of the Armory is a little off, I collected
my 403rd pet last night (the Armor says I only have 398, but I really do have
403, please believe me). There are some pets that I’ve obtained that were a bit
rarer than others, like the Baby Ape and the Arctic Fox Kit, which only appear
with certain weather conditions in certain zones. Then there were a few that
were lucky drops and/or rolls like the Darkmoon Rabbit and the Aqua Strider;
the Darkmoon Rabbit was won off of a boss on the Darkmoon Island (I rolled a 98
out of 100, woot!), which is only there for one week every month and the Aqua
Strider is a rare drop off of a rare-spawn, so those were both lucky gets. I
still have quite a way to go before I can obtain the Zookeeper title, but I can’t
get that until next summer anyway because of a pet that only spawns in summer,
but I should make it so that that certain pet is the last one I need!
And last but not least, we have “The Creator’s Corner”! Just
yesterday I started a new daft of “RE:Inspiration; Titan III” and even though I
haven’t sorted out some of my existing problems I think this new draft is
taking the story in a new, and in my opinion, better direction; especially with
the sub-story that starts to take place among the crew of the Windsor at the
end of part three. So all in all, other than a new draft and possible new
direction, I haven’t really progressed too far in the past week. But I will
start talking about “NEw” (name subject to change) and how I’ve recently been
Storycrafting that story and how it’s changed from what it was a few months
ago. I still don’t want to release many details, but a lot of things have
changed since I last talked about the content of the first episode/story/arc/book
of “NEw”. I can tell you that it starts right after a big battle; I can tell
you that, unlike the “Titan” story, it takes place in an “Old Western” setting;
and I can tell you that, while it is somehow connected to “Titan” and “Eleven”,
the first part of “NEw” has absolutely nothing to do with “Titan” or any of its
characters. Jeez, I really want to talk about “NEw” but at the same time I don’t
want to give anything away! Focus brain, focus! Okay! I’ll stop here before I
decide to spite myself and share any more information. But perhaps I’ll do a
small teaser type-thing after I’m done with the “Titan” series of
short-stories, because at the rate I work at “NEw” will take a long time to
finish…
Anyway, if you're interested or want to share them, you can find both "RE:Inspiration; Titan" and "RE:Inspiration; Titan II" by following this link.
And that’s all of the crumbling that this cookie has to do.
I think I’ve used something like that before, oh well! And so, here we are, at
the end of a ramble with only one thing left to do. That’s right; I’ve still
got to give you a song to listen to! I don’t know if anyone actually
watches/listens to the songs that I post, and I don’t really care, I like having
something other than just text in here, you know?
Yup, it’s just “This Is Halloween” from “The Nightmare
Before Christmas” if you want you can queue up the video, open up the link from
earlier in the ramble and listen to the song while you read along with the
MOTs, just sayin’. Anywho, I feel a spur of inspiration coming on, although it
just might be my stomach telling me it’s near lunch-time, but either way I’m
going to end it here; so if you’ve got any questions, comments, tips or
concerns you can leave a comment below or you can e-mail me at
Semajj07@gmail.com. And remember kids, staying in school is uber cool!
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