Moonbase Junior's been in hospital yesterday.
Severe asthma.
It's been a difficult 24 hours.
Here's his Spays Ships drawing he did here last weekend when he wasn't so poorly.
He's home now and breathing normally again. He's got an inhaler now too.
Six in September, he wants to be a paleontologist or work for NASA when he grows up.
What did you want to be readers when you grew up?
An Astronaut Woodsy.
ReplyDeleteDid you get far?
DeleteHope the little lad is OK, by the way.
ReplyDeleteCheers. He's on the mend ta.
DeleteMy best wishes of recovery to Moonbase Junior.
ReplyDeleteSix years already! How time flies.
I wanted to be Mr. Spock.
Thanks Arto. Did you dress up?
DeleteWanted Santa to bring me the Starfleet uniform (and a pair of pointy ears), but sadly my letter was lost somewhere!
DeleteIntercepted by pesky Klingons no doubt Arto!
DeleteHope your grandson will be okay!
ReplyDeleteSpay Ships? That's sad. Now they won't have puppies... ;)
He spells space as spays Scott. Sort of works.
DeleteAnd thanks Scott. He's recovering.
DeleteI didn't get anywhere in becoming an astronaut in 'reality' Woodsy, but did manage to design, build and fly spacecraft in 'fiction', for TV shows like Red Dwarf and Dr Who, although they mostly ended up crashing or blowing up as well !
ReplyDeleteWow Mish! Kudos! What a great job!
DeleteI've been lucky in that respect, certainly Woodsy.
ReplyDeleteLooey in Oz was a movie model maker too! Small world!
DeleteOooh! My ears are burning! I often wonder if my career would have been better or worse if I'd stayed in England. I do know that with the stronger unionization, I would had to have chosen a path and stuck to it. In Australia it was still Cowboy Country in the
ReplyDelete1980s and I was able to do a lot of different jobs without complaint.
I hope your grandson gets over his asthma, I was sickly child too, but it eventually went away!
Thanks Looey. Is Oz not so cowboy now?
DeleteNah, everything changed when The Matrix was being made and I encountered a new attitude. Before that, films were still pretty hand-made. The new Supervisor's attitude was we were making cans of baked beans, but people watched 'em instead.
DeleteI guess it was the only way to make the mega-productions we are now known for, but before that I saw myself as some kind of artisan rather than an occupant of a box..
Same here Looey.
ReplyDeleteTime was, I was a salaried BBC Visual Effects ' Design Assistant' and later a 'Designer'. Now I'm a freelance Senior SFX 'Technician' and, at best could become a 'Supervisor'.
The artistic input has been transferred to Art departments and we former effects creatives and artisans are now 'technicians'.
Today, Ray Harryhausen would be bolting the animation armatures together, not drawing the creatures or sculpting them.
Derek Meddings would be setting off pyros and operating smoke guns, not designing or building the Thunderbird craft.
It's a shame.
Sorry, that last one was from me.
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