FallenRedNinja

FallenRedNinja, 18 days ago to random

Trying to explain to a production company that I, a blatantly genderqueer person, absolutely will not be attending a thank you event at a cafe run by TERFs

The last response was
I understand your concern but you could also be the more mature one and celebrate our successes

SIR
THEY LITERALLY SAID THAT PEOPLE LIKE ME SHOULD OFF OURSELVES NOT THAT LONG AGO

I. Fucking hell

FallenRedNinja, 29 days ago to random

Saw a friend from Rotorua today who looked at me and said “you didn’t get your day off. Or today off”

Which. True facts.

Work is busy.
And we’re in a lurgy surge, both covid and general seasonal fuckery, so I’m losing about 15% of my crew to sickness on any given day

Which across 73 shifts in 8 days is 11 folks to replace at short notice. When we are in both a skills shortage and a crunchy time.

Which is why I worked yesterday
And today
And tomorrow
And the day after that

geekmomprojects, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

I've decorated three denim jackets with LEDs to bring as an installation for the CETI institute in the #portlandwinterlightfestival . The CETI installations will be displayed in an abandoned GAP storefront, so this project feels particularly appropriate. Just got the basic animation working for the rain cloud jacket, and hope to find time to enhance it.

markwyner, 4 months ago to london

Live stage performance of Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away,” what?! Never wanted to see a play, but this may be my first if they come to The States. UK folks, they’re coming your way!

Source:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzjsjwqsR23/

#Miyazaki #SpiritedAway #StudioGhibli #Performance #London #UK #Japan #Theater

Clips from a colorful live theater performance of Spirited Away with large creatures and many dancers.

atomicpoet, 4 months ago to random

Mac fans: “Gaming on the Mac is awesome, and almost as good as gaming on Windows!”

5 years later

Mac fans: “God damn it! Apple just made a drastic change to Macs, and now compatibility is broken with all old games!”

FallenRedNinja, 4 months ago to random

Ahhh excited to see that Japan managed their moon landing in the wee hours of our morning!

Hopefully the lil guy’s solar panels will kick in over the next couple of days, before it gets completely cooked, and they can work through the next parts of the mission.

But even if not - it’s a great step in the right direction for JAXA’s planned mars missions.

🚀 🌙

FallenRedNinja, 4 months ago to random

Having a sort through a few boxes of books that have been staying with a friend for a while.

Have been a little dismayed at some of the books they lost along the way - mostly because my entire comic collection is gone, which included 2 complete Sandman sets, and a bunch of my weird indie comics.

But I’m delighted at some of the things that have survived. Like this copy of Oliver Twist I got for my sixth birthday.

Which reminds me of Mum going “oh. They don’t know you read big books huh”

FallenRedNinja, 4 months ago to random

Sometimes a good way to deal with your feelings is to tackle a thankless chore with loud music

So I present to you:
40 metres worth of warehouse cracks that have been weeded and mostly water blasted in the early evening shade
2 hours worth of mostly punk music
The 75 litre bin of weeds that I pulled, lightly compacted

Not pictured:
The front of the building which also got a frustrated weeding
The discovery that the parcel box has rusted away on one edge 😩
The cold soda I’m just about to chug

A long stretch of white warehouse wall Devoid of plant life util you get to the far left, where the weed bucket and a traffic cone sit

atomicpoet, 4 months ago to random

I played a lot of great games last year, and I thought I’d share a few of my favourites in one big thread.

Few of these are new releases, but all of them are titles that I very much recommend.

FallenRedNinja, 5 months ago to random

Tiny pocket pals

What’s your go to for post it note equivalents?

I’m looking for page markers and post it tabs primarily, but will need arrow flags again at a later date.

They need to be resilient, able to be stuck and restuck a few times, non-smudging.

The markers and tabs need to be available in at least 5 colours, ideally 7.
The arrows ideally in five, but honestly two would get me there generally.

And available to ship to NZ, or onshore ideally

FallenRedNinja, 7 months ago to random

I think the worst part of drafting a “go fuck yourself” email about a business matter is that you can not simply say go fuck yourself.

Thus an email that should have been about 10 words is heading towards a short essay about the ways in which they are wrong, and should contemplate their bad choices, and suggesting that we work together in a different way (which is to say far away from each other) in future

FallenRedNinja, 7 months ago to random

Reissued an invoice with a very polite email saying “hey, I think my invoice got lost amongst the handover mess but I’d like some money please”

And have received one back that basically says
Umm. Too late. Why should we pay you?

So my polite but frustrated reply:
Handovers and periods of change are difficult, but my hours were recorded at the time for (event names) in June so they should have been oncharged. If you didn’t, we can talk about it.

FallenRedNinja, 7 months ago to random

Anyway in much nicer things, I won an auction for a bunch of metal spikes to stick into fabric and there’s enough there for my possibly incredibly silly embroidery idea and then some

So fuck yes

What’s a rad thing that’s happened to y’all this weekend?

FallenRedNinja, 8 months ago to random

Please
For the love of all things holey (my gut)

If someone has requested a specific milk in their drink, and you’ve run out, don’t just sub another alternate milk in there and not say anything. Just ask.
Or at least tell

Related
This is a hell of a time to have run outta migraine medication and have a doc that’s refusing a repeat without a visit for a medication I’ve been on for a decade

FallenRedNinja, 8 months ago to random

I forget how healing a tattoo is like when I have a psoriasis outbreak

It’s itchy as fuck
If I scratch it, I just make things worse
I have weird potions that kinda help right up until I forget them
Sometimes it oozes a little
Itchy

FallenRedNinja, 8 months ago to random

Sometimes I really feel sorry for the people who have chosen to be my friends.

I’m staying with a friend in Rotorua for mahi. He’s a bit of a slob but his heart is good. This evening I have terrified him by saying

• it puts the hot sauce on the coconut and eats it all up (fake bacon)
• wash your dick hands before you touch the potato
• it’s cheese. We’re absolutely commitin to the shittin
• have you ever thought about how juicy fruits are neither juicy nor fruits?

FallenRedNinja, 10 months ago to random

There is an active shooter in central city #TāmakiMakaurau #Auckland

This is down by Britomart

The area is cordoned off and a request to avoid it completely has gone out. If you live in the area please stay inside if you can.
If you work in the area, not this morning you don’t.

RNZ and Stuff are posting live updates

FallenRedNinja, 10 months ago to random

Pleased to see that one of Aotearoa’s arts worst kept secrets had finally had his name suppression lapse, and I hope this means NZ media is going to name and shame Sir James Wallace for his predatory ways towards young artists.

There are so many more people that he preyed on who were too scared to come forward, or didn’t have the means.
So I hope they feel some vindication at this as well.

FallenRedNinja, 1 year ago to random

Obviously the most productive thing to do whilst sick and having trouble with screens above Faint Glow in Warm Tones is to think about emails I need to send when I can glare at things again.

There’s one I’ve been mulling over for a few weeks, and have honestly probably missed the window without it being weird but whatever.

Some things do genuinely need to be said

FallenRedNinja, 1 year ago to random

Finally managed to get to a barbers for a hair cut.

Got complimented on my hairline?
Also got complimented on the care I must take of my hair - “my father has the baby hair too, so hard to manage or look good”

And the final

“I didn’t think you would look good with mohawk like this, but it suits your potato head and baby hair. Keep it”

I. Uhh.

Thank you?

Tbf. It does look pretty good

FallenRedNinja, 1 year ago to random

A behind the scene photo of a #LightingDesign in progress - definitely a less glamorous part of the process though.

We’ve had the design meetings.
I’ve presented my palettes, both in words and in imagery.
We’ve talked about key beats to hit. Literally, this is a musical.

Currently I’m putting together a cue sheet, picking out important stuff that needs to happen for this week’s show before I build the big one for next week.

& building my OSC triggers for next week as I go

Photo CW: food

FallenRedNinja, 1 year ago to random

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.

What a fucking BOOK holy heck.
I’ll need to find a hard copy of it so I can devour it again and again, and inevitably lend it out and lose it forever. But it’ll be WORTH IT.

Up there with Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs for beautiful stories that split and twist like braided rivers before spilling back into the ocean.
Might have a new top five book ay

#Bookstodon #AmReading