Ellie Coral's online workbench… mind the mess.
It’s still early in the new year but I’m feeling something different about 2026. A cleansing, a disappearing, a vanishing of something that’s been hanging around my psychic space like an albatross for the past two-ish years. But it’s gone, or at the very least, rapidly fading. This may sound like a big mystery for…
It’s a short, but working on this made me realize something: the camera also contributes to action and emotion. Here’s a GIF of this animatic, at the full resolution: Your eyes don’t quite know where to land, do they? This was going to be the video itself, but something told me to use a camera…
The YouTube algorithm sometimes gifts me random videos that bring joy or new project ideas. Recently it started feeding me collective tarot readings. Or “collective readings”. Well, they’re more like vague horoscope readings with performance antics and glitzy imagery, but that’s probably a rant for a future video essay. Anyway, the idea stuck with me.…
Motherfucker this semester is finally done these ivy league wannabes can suck my nonexistent nutsack Well, this certainly was a trying semester, but I’m sure this will all be worth it when I finally become a professional whatever the hell it is I’m trying to become. Seriously, there’s a need for what I want to…
Or Short Timewasters for Librarians to Appreciate In Between Their Various, Soul-Crippling Tasks In between my own various, soul-crippling tasks (coursework, internship, the grind of mundane living), I manage to complete two shorts. I’m debating working on a fourth before making that channel go live, but that sort of feels like a delay tactic. I…
I could go into excruciating detail about my first conference trip, but most of it’s pretty academic and therefore sand-blastingly dry—trust me, you don’t want the blow by blow—but Board Game Academics was possibly the best first conference I ever could have had. Considering I was the only librarian/information type person among 75 people, I…
Don’t get me wrong, it is nice in a way to return from a four-day trip and find familiar sights and experiences waiting for me. But all at once… Such a nice, blustery, tropical stormy day. There goes my intention to experiment livestreaming with my iPad. I could give it a go, but then I’d…
Lately I’ve been doing an audit of my websites—well, more like glancing over them and thinking random things such as: “I need to revamp this layout.” “I should add a Twitch alert.” “When did I buy this domain, and for what purpose?” Yes, you read the Twitch comment correctly. I’ve started streaming, and in a…
This conference takes place in October, so I have plenty of time to psyche myself up. I’m having a harder time doing the same for a trip to Florida next month.
One of the few joys I get from living in a rural area is coming across wildlife. Finding tree frogs in the smallest of spaces in the backyard is probably my best recent memory. A couple of times, I even managed to put a finger inside and gently pat their squishy little heads. I’m sure…