aw hell has it been another week already? man
sorry this entry was a little late, i haven't gotten into the habit of working on the website when i'm home. completely forgot about making a new post until last night.
but i actually have something to talk about this week! i checked out a book from my high school library last week, and it's basically a collection of quotes from jim henson, his works, and the people he worked with. i blasted through it in about an hour, and i liked it a lot.
i've found myself really liking jim henson stuff, as well as just puppetry stuff as a whole lately. it started when the dhmis tv show released in late 2022, and it lay dormant for a long time until one particular wednesday morning last year when i decided puppetry would be my obsession for the week.
i've been wanting to get back into making youtube videos for a while now, as i was an amateur source filmmaker animator for a little while when i was younger. for as long as i've been wanting to get back into it, i've been wondering what kind of content i'd want to make now that i'm older and more capable. one day i had puppetry on the brain as i was thinking about it, and i had a brain blast: i could make videos with puppets. i was super excited when i had the idea, but i also had to calm down and remind myself that i don't have the time, funds, or space to just start making puppets, let alone puppet videos, so that idea's shelved for now.
but just because i can't do it right now does not stop me from brainstorming about it. at first i wanted to make videos where i would talk about my thoughts with a puppet of my (then) mascot, because before that, i wanted to make videos like that but with an animated version of my mascot. (animation proved to be very frustrating, and my eyes would get watery staring at my computer screen for so long.) and honestly, that's still a good idea. it's not off the table by any means, but i had a better idea.
see, reading the book i got from the library made me think about the lasting legacy i would want to leave. there's a quote in that book somewhere about how someone using their life to make the world a bit better than it was before is a pretty good life, and that resonated with me. so i decided that whatever i make with puppets in the future, whenever it might be, i want to make something honest and nice.
i could make a page on this site about my aspirations and half-formed plans for what i want to make, so i'll probably leave all the talk about it for that. anyhoo, sorry for the late entry. i hope you liked this one.
