Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost

[lukeottevanger]

Bad boy

(would explain his - and many other small boys' - adoration of Postman Pat*. But alas, our postperson is of the female persuasion)

*though he's more a Thomas boy, to be honest. Desperately unoriginal, I'm afraid.

[M forever]

OK, if it is not the mailman, take a good look around your circle of friends then. 

BTW, I don't recall you ever posting your own picture, or have you? It is always nice to have a vague idea of what the people look like we are corresponding with here.

[lukeottevanger]

OK, if it is not the mailman, take a good look around your circle of friends then. 

BTW, I don't recall you ever posting your own picture, or have you? It is always nice to have a vague idea of what the people look like we are corresponding with here.

Yes, I have, somewhere. A few pages back on this thread is a picture of me, though more than 11 years and a good few pounds ago!

[karlhenning]

BTW, I don't recall you ever posting your own picture, or have you? It is always nice to have a vague idea of what the people look like we are corresponding with here.

We probably need a more current photo of you & me in the MFA shop . . . .

[M forever]

I think I will work at the MFA* in the not too distant future. If I am correctly informed, they are building a new wing or building there right now which will also have an auditorium, and we will be putting in the film projectors and sound systems.


*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[karlhenning]

The renovations will take some few years yet; doesn't surprise me that they will involve equipment requiring your professional services!

[lukeottevanger]

Don't know if you managed to find it, M, so here it is again. I'll root around and see if I can find one that is both more up-to-date and vaguely humanoid, but to be honest that's asking quite a lot.

[M forever]

I just heard we are supposed to install the film equipment in December or January. But that is too far away to predict an actual timeframe. Typically, the construction part of most projects is behind schedule anyway. I just finished a new screening room for Harvard for the film studies school. That took 2 1/2 months. Not because it takes that long to install the projectors and do the sound system, but because between every step and the next, we had to wait for weeks for other elements to be finished until we could proceed. So I expect the MFA project will also take quite a while.

Yes, I have, somewhere. A few pages back on this thread is a picture of me, though more than 11 years and a good few pounds ago!

Is it the one labeled "while composing Processional"?

[lukeottevanger]

Yes! See above.... 

[M forever]

You are much younger than I thought.

[lukeottevanger]

Really? Don't forget to add on the 11 years - I'm 32.

[lukeottevanger]

Deleted - that photo was too horrible to inflict on you poor people!

[karlhenning]

Not really 'worse for wear', only a little en famille. So it ain't a publicity photo, so what? 

[karlhenning]

Deleted - that photo was too horrible to inflict on you poor people!

You overstate the horror a great deal 

[lukeottevanger]

You saw it, did you, in the half a minute is was up! 

[karlhenning]

Hey, the Outpost is one of my regular haunts here, what can I say? 

[M forever]

What do you mean, was up. I still see the pic attached to your post a few posts above this one.

[Guido]

The second photo?

[lukeottevanger]

Going through a period of feeling intensely disenchanted with my orchestral piece. Having not worked on it for a week or two, all the 'rush' I feel whilst composing is gone, and looking at it more dispassionately I'm really not at all sure about it for all sorts of reasons. But I have to decide what to do about this quickly, of course - something needs to be done by (let's say) November. I can wait it out and see if I grow to like the piece again - that's happened before. Or I can rewrite it, though at present I can't see how. Or I can start something new, though I like the basic premise of this piece a great deal and would write something connected to it. Not a nice feeling, this. 

[Guido]

Going through a period of feeling intensely disenchanted with my orchestral piece. Having not worked on it for a week or two, all the 'rush' I feel whilst composing is gone, and looking at it more dispassionately I'm really not at all sure about it for all sorts of reasons. But I have to decide what to do about this quickly, of course - something needs to be done by (let's say) November. I can wait it out and see if I grow to like the piece again - that's happened before. Or I can rewrite it, though at present I can't see how. Or I can start something new, though I like the basic premise of this piece a great deal and would write something connected to it. Not a nice feeling, this. 

Sorry to hear about this. On the one hand I am dissapointed that we wont be able to hear it sooner, but on the other hand I'm sure we all want to hear a work that you are completely happy with. Good luck with it.