11/21/11
Warning for violence, gore, and dark themes


1/31/11
incredible semi-grotesque psychedelic hand-drawn animation:
"The Music Scene" by Blockhead
http://www.youtube.com/embed/NhheiPTdZCw

1/11/11
A beautiful short film and discussion with its creators. Abstracted predator-prey death is involved, if that disturbs you.
http://motionographer.com/theater/shape-shifter/


11/21/10: Another non-deer animation I wanted to share:
"Hedgehog in the Fog"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRsXU4Q6a0Q

and also
"Old Fangs"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6sQTkt2xoU&feature=player_embedded

8/17/10: thought you guys might appreciate this, although it is not deer related:
"Between Bears"
http://eranhilleli.com/#524424/Between-Bears

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http://www.aniboom.com/animation-video/7352/Evergreen/
Alt link (youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjGlKMcEQk
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Edit: I realized I should add this link too for anyone who didn't bother to watch Fantasia 2000:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSTyWYGJ6E
(this is really the best one in the movie)

I had decided that my deer's name would be Kirjava, that means "mottled" in Finnish!
Then suddendly in an online game which my name is also Kirjava somebody asked me if it wasn't Will's daemon in Philip Pullman's trilogy of books! (Northen Lights, The Sutil Knife and The Amber Spy-Glass) And sure enough it was! I had read the series and really got into it but I never paid much attention to Will's daemon since in my opinion it was such a complicated name!
Do you guys think I such change my deer's name just for the sake of being original ar keep it as Kirjava? I just thought I'd share this personal discovery! ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY

but this is what cows do when ur not looking ^_^

...just pondering, would it be too late after this time to change my deer´s name?
Because I´m very un-imaginative, almost every character of mine in every game I log in is named "Spyrre", and it´s been bothering me a while. She shares many features with an old character of mine on which my user-name is based on, but seems like she´s not really a deer-version of him anyway... My deer wasn´t supposed to be very much a "character" anyway orginally, but now since she´s developed enough personality to have a biography and to even be played in few RP:s, it would feel better if she had her "own" name, wouldn´t it?

So, after all this useless pondering, two questions:
Should I bother change her name or not?
And if I should, what I should call her?
I know that it´s really up to myself, but I´m asking this from you all because if I think this just by myself to deside whether or not, I will probably end up doing nothing even though it bothers me.

Since I suck at thinking up names, I would also appreciate suggestions for her name, if someone is kind enough to share some. All I can think of are probably lame Finnish words, like "Risu" (=means literally a stick or a small treebranch, which her smallish antlers somehow reminds me of ^^; ) or "Viima" (=small breeze of wind) or stuff like that, but they just sound so stupid somehow. This is just the very reason to why so many of my "characters" are named the same way... <_<

I shall be deleting this blog later...
Thank you for everyone who may bother to comment and help me to deside what to do. <3