Hello 
I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.
Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...
The Inconceivable Stupidity Of the Mass Hoardes Of Dumbass Knobheads On The Internets
Alli Cat sent me a link to a rather interesting little video experiment: http://youtube.com/watch?v=I2MsDogV4g4
(You have to log in for it, some numpty has flagged it as inappropriate even though it clearly isn't)
It's a simple little thing — different rows of pixels with different time displacements from the original, making it look like the woman is twisting and distorting herself — that reminds me of some of McLaren's later work, and is just the kind of thing that I like. None of this bombardment of effect after effect, plug-in after plug-in — just a simple idea, executed (almost) well.
But I'm not linking to it because of the content. It's the comments that just screamed at me as noteworthy. Aside from all the "its not wurkin for meh" crud, there are occasional cries of "Fake!"
No shit. Really? You mean that's not some super-flexy woman who posseses the ability to wrap her arms around her body three times while her head stays still? My God, the internets are lying to me.
This one stood out more than most though:
Fake. Photoshopped.
Photoshopped?!
My dear, honourable, learned friends who live in the parts of the interweb where understanding of computers, image manipulation, and digital sorcery are widespread. We have bred a generation of knee-jerking, dimwitted fools whose immediate reaction to seeing seomthing out of the ordinary is to scream "photoshop!" and chalk every single interesting idea up to a combination of Kai's Power Tools and a piece of photo-manipulation software from Adobe.
The exceptional moronicness of such an accusation reveals the true nature of its poster — that they are an halfwitted fool who likes to think they know stuff about these machines that now dominate our lives, but in actual fact probably spends their life trying to plug ethernet cables into USB ports.
I find it staggering, not only that such imbecilic notions can exist, but also the misplaced arrogance that can overcome someone to the point that they post their blinding ignorance in a public space for all to see.
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Anyway, speaking of interesting experimental video-type things, while I was clearing out a load of gumpf from my hard disks earlier, I found a copy of one of the very earliest pieces of CGI. I'll go against my principles and rip it as an MP4 for yous to see...
Photoshopped
I think if it had been 'shopped, then it would be even more noteworthy. The idea that someone had taken a piece of video and painstakingly deformed it, frame by frame, using Photoshop would surely deserve credit!
Maybe the gits who cried "Fake!" are all related to Helen Parr (from The Incredibles) who, as we all know, can do that sort of thing 'for real'. 
FAKE! Sorry couldn't resist...
Wow, is that really CGI? It looked like puppetry on a black cloth. Interesting curio either way.
The Digital Summer Sound
"An evening of live cutting-edge digital sound art with internationally-acclaimed sound artist collective goto10." — at the Dukes in Lancaster tonight, from 7.30pm. (Free entry). I should, really, go to this, but I have a feeling it will annoy me
"When I saw the title I thought the dam had burst on your feelings on the trannyflickr discussion "
Snap. 
I've had a half-finished blog entry on the trannies on flickr thang for ages, it's impossible to get the tone right though, I was kinda hoping you'd solve the problem by beating me to it. 
And that video is obviously fake. There's no way her legs are that bendy!
Not as bad as the fake stuff you see at the cinema though. I went back-stage during a performance once, and there was nobody actually there :-O
Not Very Nice
I just saw two cars, in quick succession, drive through the same big puddle in the road, absolutely soaking a woman who was walking along the pavement. I can't help but feel that society is a considerably fucked-up ball of selfishness and disregard for others these days.
I was kinda hoping you'd solve the problem by beating me to it.
Hmm, I'm toying with it, trust me
I was walking down the road yesterday to meet up with a friend, only for some twat to drive by and quite blatantly splash me from a big puddle. The little shit riding in the passanger seat leaned out the window to point and laugh. Its a twenty minute walk back to my house to get changed agin. Not nice in muddy soaked jeans and humper.
Bastards.
I have a vague memory that it's illegal — get license plates and you can try reporting them, although it's hardly on the top of the priority list when you've just been soaked.
But sadly, yes, bastards all. Am I still allowed to blame Maggie for her infamous "There's no such thing as society" speech?
Oh God yes. Please do! Everything that is wrong with life today is a direct result of that insane milk-stealing witch and her flatulent cronies.
(Something that scares me, is that none of the 'younger voters' will remember that, and they'll start voting for that toff-faced twat, Cameron)
The "obviously photoshopped" video reminded me of Muse's Unintended video
Cool effect anyway
Serena Mayfly
Re the photoshopped thing. It's something that has been bothering me for ages — the curious idea so many people seem to have that the way to appear clever and experienced is to pose as some kind of purist. What on earth makes them think that?
What on earth makes them think that?
Ignorance. Unfortunately legend has it that it also makes them blissful — bastards! 
Yes, it's illegal to knowingly splash a pedestrian.
(And though it pains me to say I agree with Thatcher, solely on that point, I do — I don't support collectivism. But I'll save that rant for my own blog )
I don't support collectivism
You sir, disappoint me But then again, that's not what Thatcher was about. There's a difference between a stance against collectivism, and full-on Tory Greed.
The policies of the Eighties may have pulled us out of the depths of Seventies despair, but in doing so they left us with a historically, socially, and contextually isolated group of "individuals", who will be the death of us all.
That first video reminded me of the work of Daniel Crooks, an Australian Video Artist. He has done a series of works called Time Slice. All very nice and I think you may enjoy them -
http://www.dlab.com.au/timeslice/
Take care !
Peter S
You mean that was faked?!? Wow. I've had a few of those bendy moments...
I kind of liked it, and kind of didn't. Neat technique though, and I certainly admire the hours it must have taken to put together!
What's the thing with TrannyFlickr? I poked aorund Flickr, eventually found it ("Search"? Wozzat?), and then couldn't get in. And I was quite curious about the pics you've been complaining about, Siobhan! (I thought the same as others re the title of the post)
Carolyn Ann
(Am I the only crossdresser who doesn't take pictures of myself? :-? )
Possibly, Carolyn, but then how do we know you're really a cross-dresser?
@Peter — thanks for that, yes, right up my street In some cases, almost too up my street as it were — there was me thinking I'd invented stripes ...
Actually, some of the stills remind me of the work that one of my colleagues is doing — Ill pass it on to him.
Couldn't find any links to the moving images though — I'd have really liked to see how they looked.
'Cause I'm sitting here in a little white cotton nightie?
And it's 9:52AM. Serendipity? Or just the fact that my wife decided I'd been snoring lolling in bed long enough. Nightie or not.
Carolyn Ann
PS One day I will find that photo of me... It's out there, somewhere.
When I saw the title I thought the dam had burst on your feelings on the trannyflickr discussion
A very cool video — reminiscent of the Levi ads a few years back for their twisted jeans.
I think that one of my favourite quotes is something along the lines of "The problem with making the internet idiot-proof is that they start using it"