Meanderings of an opera obsessed mind...

Came across a 'summary' of that dreaded POTO film on Tumblr and found the following exchange hilariously funny. Despite it being written as a summary of the film, it might as well apply to the stage musical.

FIRMIN: Whoa, check out the blonde with the headlights.

MADAME GIRY: Zat ees mah DOTTAIR.

FIRMIN: Oh. Well, what about the hot brunette?

MADAME GIRY: Zhe es LAIK mah dottair.

ANDRE: Hey, we’re all French, right?

FIRMIN: Last time I checked, yes.

ANDRE: Well, then why is she the only one with a French accent?

Lol, I love Firmin and Andre...oh, and Madame Giry too (the one in the original musical and not that horrible sequel in which she transforms into a creepy Mrs Danvers type).

Well, after several clueless moments reading a tutorial on the net and making sense of abstract things like layers, alpha colours, brushes, etc... I finally made a Photoshop like manipulation of a Sherlock Holmes screencap...

Going from this...



To this...


So I'm pretty satisfied with the result...being the clueless Photoshop/GIMP novice that I am...

Hahahaha...and I was only able to finish this at 6.40 am on a Sunday morning when I should have been finishing off my Ecobus and History coursework...

EDIT: It's now 8:05pm and I've made a couple of things since my first attempt at GIMP...(and the coursework situation isn't resolved yet but I'm working on it. Thank goodness History is due on Wednesday...although I better let Ms Mathieson have a final look at it before I submit it for good...and Ecobus, I just have to add a short section with graphs and stats and explain them. No biggie...lol.)

The fruits of my labours so far with GIMP...



Note that this Sarah Brightman desktop design is derived entirely from here and that talented graphic artist. I only tried my hand at it and added the random music notes, name, etc with brushes from that site: http://glinted.angelskies.net/glinted/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=332&Itemid=47

Two avatars...one SH and one POTO...

Haha...my mum seems so excited about our planned 5 day holiday to Sydney in July after my exams...and if all works out and there are no hitches in the coming months, we'll be staying in Sydney for a while during the holidays. I'm extremely looking forward to it since I haven't been abroad in literally YEARS...let's count like nearly a decade regarding how many years I've been stuck here in HK. -__-

I really wonder what Australia will be like but everyone says (including MC) that it's a fantastic, beautiful place so I guess it'll be enjoyable. It's funny that I haven't even started exam leave yet and we're already planning what we'll hopefully be doing after my exams...lol...but whatever and moving on...

And by coincidence, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is touring in Sydney from May 11 to July 20...!!! So, I might be finally getting my first taste of the stage musical first hand after nearly 2 years of being in the 'phandom'...=D Plus I checked out the distance from the hotel we plan to stay at to the theatre and it's approximately only 6 minutes by car...yay! Anthony Warlow (original Australian Phantom) will hopefully be still touring and playing the Phantom...he's not MC but he's quite good, I think...and any stage Phantom is better than being stuck with images of a certain movie Phantom groping the heroine...*shivers* [well, any stage Phantom APART from Colm Wilkinson, who was a great Jean Valjean in Les Mis but was not my cup of tea when he played the Phantom]

Haha, to imagine the look on richrose0107's face if she found out about this...and the possibility of me seeing Phantom on stage first...! [laughs in crazy, manic manner of MC's Phantom on the Original Cast Recording during the All I Ask of You (Reprise)]