Stray mailer - 29Sept05 - I reject your reality and substitute my own.

The top ten things that, on reflection, I probably
shouldn’t have said to my employers:

10. How do I do this? (x 2,412)

9. The best thing about Prague for me was that, with
my long dreads and bare feet, everyone assumed I was a
local and didn’t try to sell me anything.

8. If there still is an America in twenty years.

7. You know, I earned as much today as this time last
year I would’ve in a good fortnight. Mind you, I
really wasn’t earning fuck all this time last year.

6. (Singing along) Brothers with their A-Ks and their
9ms must first learn how to properly shoot them. Save
those rounds for the revolution.

5. Victory dance! (oonst oonst oonst oonst...)

4. Yeah, course I can do that. Give me ten minutes.

3. Ah fuck it’s all going horribly wrong!

2. I think the best way to do this is for each
component to be done in a different package, then all
composited together at the end.

And the number one thing that, on reflection, I
probably shouldn’t have said to my employers:

1. You still going to need me on Monday?



Okay, okay, it should be pointed out that this was a
pretty laid back little studio, that most people there
were usually sporting hoodies and listening to hiphop
on mp3, and I didn’t usually get that political other than
when we were sitting round in the evenings drinking
beer. And then I was generally agreed with.

All in all, I would rate myself in this as... adequate.

A solid five out of ten. The two thirds of
the time when I had any idea what I was doing were
pretty sweet, the other third somewhat stressful, but
educational for that.
And so considering this was not only my first ever
in-house 3d job, but was also my first ever real job
period, I think I actually did fairly well. I got the
work done in the time given, (cough) and it was
well enough received.

And after four weeks I’d earned enough to last me
about ten months. I think I’ll take the summer off.

It’s all up in the air right now. I’m back to Western
Australia in January, so it doesn’t really make sense
to try to relocate to Sydney until after then. I’m not
really filled with hope that there’ll be more 3d work
in Melbourne, so, I don’t know, guess I’ll go wwoofing
in Tasmania and hang out at festivals for the next
three months.

I don’t want to do 3d work as a means of artistic
expression. I pretty much knew this before this job
and the last month has confirmed it. 3d is something I
know how to do, enjoy doing as a job, and is an
excellent way of making money, but it aint what I want
to be doing with my life. I also, I suspect, don’t
really want to direct films, otherwise I’d be doing it
by now.
I love writing for film.
I love contributing creatively to a film.
Getting into a position to be able to do both those
things is hard, but so is anything else associated
with the upper levels of the film industry and some
people do manage it.

So I will still go to Sydney, and I will still be
seeking work there in 3d for film. But only for the
purpose of better understanding how it all works and
where I see myself within it.

Anyway.

I heard about a recent documentary on SBS based around
some new footage of the planes hitting the WTC towers,
showing that flight 175 (the second plane) had no
windows and therefore couldn’t’ve been a passenger
jet.

After having a good look on the internet and ringing
SBS I can’t find anything about it, but man there is
some weird ass shit surrounding 9/11. And here it is.

Flight 175 had no windows.

As I say, I can’t really find much on this. The only
relevant pictures are lo-res and you just can’t tell.
I’m still trying to hunt down that documentary.

(This does get more interesting).

Flight 175 had objects attached to its undercarriage.

There’s a bunch of photos showing the second plane
with what looks like a large podlike extrusion under
the right wing, as well as other cylinders and nozzles
that just don’t exist on conventional jets. Analysis
by a Spanish university has shown that these are not
optical effects. There’s also a bright flash that goes
off just before the plane hits, directly in front of
the pod.

http://www.amics21.com/911/flight175/index.html

However, I have seen breakdowns of the images which
show they at least could be plays of light and shadow.

http://www.questionsquestions.net/WTC/pod.html

The second plane wasn’t a 767-200.

But it was when it took off. I’ve seen it demonstrated
that the second plane to hit was actually a 767-300,
and I’ve also seen that disproven. It depends how you
do your analysis of the proportions. Flight 175
disappeared from radar for about twenty minutes,
though the records of this were later destroyed by the
FAA.

Onboard computers wouldn’t have allowed the pilots to
pull off those maneuvers.

It’s true. They wouldn’t. Both flight 175 and the
plane that hit the Pentagon were, just before they
hit, involved in turns that were in excess of the
safeguards built into the flight computers. Some
analysis shows that both planes were close to having
their wings sheared off by the G-force they were
under.
Even if you were able to reset the software, it would
take longer than the planes were in the air. And how
the hell does some guy with a few hours in a Cessna
pull of a maneuver like that anyway?

The Pentagon wasn’t hit by a plane at all.

This is the one that’s been bothering me the longest.
Why is there no plane wreckage? Why is the hole a
quarter the size of the plane? Officially the plane
lost energy by hitting the ground first, but there
isn’t a mark on the lawn.
And why is there security camera footage on the net
showing the wall blowing up with nothing hitting it?

Having read up on this I am prepared to accept that
under _exactly_ the right circumstances it could’ve
happened. Providing the plane hit just above the
ground level, both wings collapsed back into the
fuselage and some sort of high energy physics made
something unexplained happen to the big heavy engines.
But it’s a little unlikely. And it still doesn’t
explain the immaculate lawn.
I actually have some inside information on this. Last
year when hitching from Brisbane to Melbourne I was
picked up by the recently retired second in charge of
the entire Australian armed forces. I asked him about
the plane hitting the Pentagon and he said he’d seen
video of it happen the way it was supposed to.
So who knows.

What caused the destruction of the third WTC building?

Bet you didn’t know that there was a third building, huh?

The World Trade Center complex had seven
buildings in total. 1-WTC and 2-WTC were the twin
towers. At 5:20 pm, seven hours after the second tower
fell, 7-WTC (which is 47 storeys tall and has a
different structural style to the towers) also
collapsed, in exactly the same vertical demolition
style as the towers. The CIA (secretly) and the United
States Secret Service had offices in this building.
It was not hit by a plane or significant falling
debris. There were several small fires burning in the
lower levels, but if that is what caused the collapse
(which is the official explanation) then it is only
the third steel structured building to be completely
destroyed by fire in history. The other two being the
twin towers.
Not only that, but large pools of molten steel were
found below the remains of all three buildings. The
melting point of steel is about two and a half times
the maximum burning temperature of jet fuel.

The WTC debris was removed as fast as possible and no
forensic examination of the debris was permitted by
the FBI or any other government agency. Almost all the
300,000 tons of steel from the Twin Towers was sold to
New York scrap dealers and exported to places like
China and Korea as quickly as it could be loaded onto
the ships.


And this is just the more solid stuff. I’ve not
included any claims by eyewitnesses or any of the more
out there things I’ve heard over the last few years
(like the US spy who attempted to defect to Canada,
told his interviewers the date and specifics of the
WTC attacks, and was then reclaimed by the States on
charges of tax evasion.)

But I still can’t accept it was a conspiracy.

These things are just too hard to keep quiet. There
would’ve had to have been hundreds, if not thousands
of people directly involved in bombing the towers and
Pentagon.
I was quite happy with the commonly accepted story
that the American special services just didn’t see it
coming because Bush had told them not to follow any
leads that pointed at his mates the Saudis.

I don’t know. The whole third building thing is
especially weird, so is the fact that in every single
aspect of the investigation, any and all pertinent
evidence has been either lost, destroyed, or
classified.



In other news, I went to an acrobatics class on
Monday, followed by a trip to the osteopath on Tuesday
and an extensive lie down on Wednesday when I was
still too sore to go to the second class. But not as
sore as I thought I’d be after five years of not
getting that much exercise.

Tomorrow a bunch of us are heading off to Adelaide for
the weekend, Home of Poi (fire spinning related
website and general feral Mecca) is putting on a
get-together. Should be fun. I’ll be back on Monday,
by the following Wednesday I should be able to face
another acro class. It’s good fun. I’ve always wanted
to be able to do that stuff.

Will write more when back from Adelaide.

Love

Daniel.