The Magistrate's House
I stayed up late last night writing my true account of our stay at The Magistrate's House in Berrima, back in 2004.
I had planned to write the story back at the time that it happened, but time gets away you know? I plan a lot of things, but usually get around to doing just a few. I was worried that I'd forget a lot of the details, but as I wrote I began to recall a lot of fine detail.. far too many little extras to include in the story - details like just how frightening the dining room was at night, with ivy tapping and scratching at the grimy windows like something trying to get in.. and my deliberate attempt to scare myself at around midnight, by walking through every creaking room of the house without turning any lights on.
Reliving the experience as I wrote into the small hours totally took me back into the house and I was immersed in that fear again. Wave after wave of goosebumps like warm breath on my neck, so that I kept looking behind me. By the time I finished writing it was almost 3am, so as I fell into bed and tried to sleep, my mind was alive with images and memories, both real and imagined.
Anyway, the short story is the latest addition to my Stories page. I hope you like it, and yes, every word is true (hand on heart)! I highly recommend reading it at night to taste some of that fear I felt while writing.
Don't forget to check out the Magistrate's House website, linked at the end of the story. There you'll see some suitably creepy photographs of the stuff I described.
Uncyclopedia
I suppose it was around a year ago that I was flattered when fans created my Wikipedia page, but damn I feel extra-special now. Somebody recently brought my Uncyclopedia page to my attention, and it's a great read! All this stuff I didn't know about myself :D
I had planned to write the story back at the time that it happened, but time gets away you know? I plan a lot of things, but usually get around to doing just a few. I was worried that I'd forget a lot of the details, but as I wrote I began to recall a lot of fine detail.. far too many little extras to include in the story - details like just how frightening the dining room was at night, with ivy tapping and scratching at the grimy windows like something trying to get in.. and my deliberate attempt to scare myself at around midnight, by walking through every creaking room of the house without turning any lights on.
Reliving the experience as I wrote into the small hours totally took me back into the house and I was immersed in that fear again. Wave after wave of goosebumps like warm breath on my neck, so that I kept looking behind me. By the time I finished writing it was almost 3am, so as I fell into bed and tried to sleep, my mind was alive with images and memories, both real and imagined.
Anyway, the short story is the latest addition to my Stories page. I hope you like it, and yes, every word is true (hand on heart)! I highly recommend reading it at night to taste some of that fear I felt while writing.
Don't forget to check out the Magistrate's House website, linked at the end of the story. There you'll see some suitably creepy photographs of the stuff I described.
Uncyclopedia
I suppose it was around a year ago that I was flattered when fans created my Wikipedia page, but damn I feel extra-special now. Somebody recently brought my Uncyclopedia page to my attention, and it's a great read! All this stuff I didn't know about myself :D
11 Comments:
"In his middle school, Richard Nixon's Finishing School of Firm Knickers, he was approached in the middle of the night by strange celestial dieties who daintily dangled drops of dying diminutive dismal dried dates from their delicate dorsals, promptly abducted him and took him to Venus, where he was schooled harshly in the arts of calligraphy and painting"
Oh my sweet Jesus that's bloody hilarious.
ADAM!! Yur de man! One week ago I would kill to know in which program was "Open Season" created... when i red in yur news that yu are learning cinema4d i wanted to see what is so special about it, and then i saw that open season was created in it))) IM SO HAPPY!!!! THX to you now i know this program... and i will learn it too, as soon as i find it on internet for fre =P GOOD LUCK man.... hope il have time tommorow to read yur new story... sorry i didnt read it yet)
That's a scary story dude...but why haven't you told the darkest secret of all.....Who started the Jackie Chan fan club in Australia!?
i did a flashwiki.net article on you well the old one had like two words and wasnt right so made it longer sorry if mines not right either but i tried to make it as correct as possible.
i also live in australia and wish to become an as good animator as you and one of my friends knows
hey adam, i just wanted to say you had a minor typo in your story.. it's in the "the second night" section
you wrote:
"after breakfast we went went out for more walks through the village and along the river."
anyway, just thought u wanted to know! (i made my boyfriend read the story outloud to me)
-suzzee (sugrcuki in the forums)
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you like the story..
Dimon, Cinema4D is lots of fun so far, I've been doing power-tutorials all this week soaking up as much of the program as I can. Call me spongey :D
Noel, ssshh!!
Anonymous, thanks for the flaskwiki.. I'll go check it out now :)
Suzzee thanks for that, fixed now!
=P
Hey Adam! Today i wanted to make a female satir, and i hv done it xD))) Plz tell me if yu like it))))
also thx, cuz i used biteys colors.... sory for not asking yu =P
here it is
http://z7.invisionfree.com/Brackenwood/index.php?showtopic=7611&st=105
I love your stories Adam, please write more.
Hi Adam! I admire all aspects of your films: storytelling, design, colors, effects, sounds and animation. One thing I`d like to hear from you is about how do you plan your keyframes for character animation. Its very interesting your mix between fluid drawings for effects and few ( but very good ones ) drawings for characters.
Best,
Guilherme
Just wanted to say I think your brilliant. Today I browsed your whole blog and have found loads of really good tips. Also thank you so much for supplying the .fla's they have been brilliant sources for studying and I've learnt so much from them today. Ive also included you quite alot in my blog recently. I hope you dont mind, if theres anything about you or your work you would like correcting or removing just say. I don't think ive done anything that you may disaprove of but I would not want to assume.
Jarvis, one of many number one fans :)
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