loopylisa123's Blog

"My Bank Was Great" Shock

2009-08-17T11:54:00.000-07:00

I recently had my entire current account and overdraft cleared out by fraudster b******s. I spotted the problem when I went to get a tenner out of the cashpoint and it wouldn't let me have any money. Then I got a little mini statement to check what was going on and found a debit of £520-odd quid. Fled into the bank (LloydsTSB), where the nice lady asked me some questions ("You've got pending payments totalling £1800 - is that right?"!!!) then got me to phone the number on the back of my debit card (what do local branches do these days?) and a few days later it was all sorted - the bank refunded immediately. I was penniless for a few days until I got a new card, but somehow managed to survive, and was ecstatically happy when I found a fiver hiding in my purse behind my Cafe Nero card.

Experiment No. 1 - Lipstick

2009-08-09T09:52:00.000-07:00

Ok - here's my 13 second stop-motion animation film experiment:

I tried to use the free monkeyjam software, but I think my images were too big for it to cope with. After my computer crashed a couple of times, I switched to Windows Movie Maker. I shot about 45 images and the actual footage lasts about 5 seconds, so it's nearly 10 frames per second.

Crazy Film Plan

2009-08-09T09:42:00.000-07:00

I've had a wacky plan to make a stop-motion animation. I say wacky because although I love stop motion, I don't know a thing about the mechanics of it. But I'm going to see what I can do with a digital stills camera, a tripod, some free frame-grabbing software and a lipstick.

Current stop-motion project:

"Lipstick"

Future stop-motion project (if the one above doesn't get me to put my camera away):

"The Proposal"

First Post

2009-08-09T09:33:00.000-07:00

This is my first attempt to blog in ages. I have another blog on blogger, but it was kind of just to go with my website so I could only really blog about one thing - I wanted a more personal one to record all my projects and plans and stupid ideas. So here it is!!