Darkness Aftermath

I didn't realize my friend Allen had intended to do a graphic novel version of his movie. I guess I didn't pay enough attention when one of his students (Sally) actually did a manga style book of his storyline, the middle third of the movie I think. So, my brother and I are going to hopefully start working on the first book of the three... I think I can still draw like this:

Hate being sick

Bleh. Thursday and Friday sucked. I woke up Thurs morning feeling like I swallowed a knife. I'd have flashes of delirium and throbs of pain in my stomach while I was trying to get up. Through the morning the pain moved around and lessened enough that I could get to work around noon but I didn't eat much the past two days. Most of the pain was gone by friday, but every once in awhile I'd get a punch to the abdomen to remind me I wasn't well.

I'm feeling better today... usually I get sick on the weekends when I don't have to work, so I guess that's a silver lining :P

Right now I'm working in photoshop going over the line work of the two little girls I posted awhile ago, adding some background and other stuff too. Should be done soon so I can post it.

Rambunctious

...no more sugar for you!!!



That's the 'Do Re Mi...' song from Sound of Music if you couldn't tell. Remember when you used to do stuff like this? Ha! Her smile at 26 seconds and at the end always makes me laugh.

WHAT?!?!?

Apparently, I need to apologize to any ethnic group who includes cauliflower as a main ingredient in their native dishes. Read this idiocy.

i are tired

Shant complain, things are dandy... but I feel the need to punch someone:

A fist is a hand that hugs itself.

I should write greeting cards.

On another note, I just added about 40 songs to my mp3 player for when I go to the gym, nothing special... ranges from 'Guess Who' to 'Tegan and Sara' to 'The Roots'. I'd had the same short list of songs for about a year now, just goes to show that when I like something I stick with it for a long time.

Also, who knew that the French tend to be the worst tourists?!? I'm shocked!! SHOCKED, I tell you!

Wheeee!!

Just another drawing attempting a cartoon style. I don't really draw much anymore and I don't practice this style much, it's starting to become more consistent though (see the flower picking girly below). I still need to adjust a few things... like the hair and face... I'm almost pleased with the rest of it as you actually get the sense that she's moving through the air.

I just noticed that my scanner 'squished' the image a little horizontally. Sweet.

Flower Killer

Oh, the humanity!

Car

This is my car:



Well, not really. I just bought a car exactly like this one (except for the shiny paint job) from my uncle's estate. I'll post an actual photo hopefully soon. It's a 1980 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am, and it's fun to drive! I've always wanted to own either a Jeep Wrangler or a Pontiac Firebird, preferably newer, but this one is damn cool.

...almost not kidding...

When I looked at my reflection in the mirror this morning, I noticed that it had been awhile since I had a haircut and trimmed my beard. I'm starting to look like Non from Superman II...

Cool Old Stuff

You ever wonder or imagine how stuff got done... waaaay back when, like how these Moai were created and moved about?

Bone to Pick

I recently heard an interview with Dee Dee Myers (former Willy Clinton press secretary) pushing her new book "Why Women Should Rule the World"... apparently, everything would be soooo much better if more women held powerful positions. "Women tend to be better communicators, better listeners, better at forming consensus,"

I offer Exhibit A to prove her point. Hmmmm......

Both genders are equally capable of atrocious acts. I've noticed that women also tend to remember mistakes and insults longer and 'more clearly' than men, not sure if that would bode well for world peace.

Deletion

I wrote a separate entry earlier, but I deleted it.

Sometimes people take things too personally, so I removed the post before anyone could read it.

It was about when to decide if something/someone is still worth your time and effort... and when to let it go and possibly throwing away years of effort. Stuff like that...

I even humorously mentioned the Cubs and Pop-Tarts, it was a real winner!

'Tude

Don't let the flip-flops fool ya...

Feeling Bleh

I stayed home yesterday. I just felt like 'bleh', literally.

Everything just seemed off all day, from my head to my toes, serious fatigue and lethargy had set in and I was just: bleh. I started feeling better around 5 in the evening.... just about the time I'd normally be getting off of work, hmmmmmm.....

'Blah'-gging

I don't blog much... so what?!? But, people are still kind enough to visit anyway... from all over the world!!

I get most of the hits to my blog from the post I had written about the Body Worlds 2 exhibit I saw in Chicago a year ago... people searching for "Plastic Humans" find a link to that post.

Now, I can assume that they are looking for information on the exhibit, or I can be realistic and acknowledge that they are probably really lonely and want some automaton lovin'.

Another post that gets quite a few hits is when people search for the words "jungle sketch", they end up clicking on the drawing I did as a concept sketch for a video game a few months ago. It's not a bad drawing, but people are probably looking for something worthy of being a desktop background which should have more detail.

It's nice to have visitors, most of them wipe their feet, which is admirable.

Letter Writing Campaign

I'm writing a letter... well a couple actually. It's not a letter to a representative or presidential candidate but to an individual. When I was in college I used to write letters to this person all the time, mostly just ramblings and humorous thoughts and I know they were appreciated. However, over the years we've grown apart through (I feel) nefarious circumstances which I am going to correct. My initial letter will begin my campaign to get back what's been taken from me. The cool thing is I only need 1 vote to win... which I'd better get!!!

I feel like I should be standing on a soapbox.

Four Kicks

This is a rough visual presentation of how my brain handles information... chaos one second then it freezes for awhile... only to begin again. Keen, huh?

Above the Fray

Well, doomsday came and went yesterday. I'm still employed, thank goodness, but I'm still going to look for other opportunities outside of the fields of technology and science.

Last Friday, my immediate manager guaranteed me that my name wasn't on the layoff list, I'm not sure whether he was just trying to put me at ease or not. He said his proof was that our boss' boss talked to him about how they can make me 'happy' in 2008, essentially they think I have too much talent that's being wasted just doing technical work. So, if the big cheese is mentioning me by name in reference to future work at the company then I'll still be here by the end of the year, how nice.

I spent a lot of time at work over the last two months saving people's arses with my artistic skills, needless to say. There's a technical conference this week for which they needed posters designed... I designed them... everyone loved them... corporate took them and hired an ad agency to tear them apart... they f'd up... I helped fix them the best I could... and this week they'll be presented. The company treats all the employees like this it seems, good work isn't trusted so they get other people to turn gold into crap and then require the work to be redone... so that they can take the credit when it works out in the end... when it doesn't they lay people off.

$3,014,170,389,176,410

This is the dollar amount being sought against the U.S. Gubberment for damges caused by Katrina.

Rediculous. These people will be the first to claim that you can't place a price tag on their losses... but they're more than willing to try. No one is going to deny that they need help, but this shows that they're going to hold their fellow citizens responsible for an act of nature. Sue the government for living in a flood plane that... OMFG... flooded. What the hell did you expect to happen when a massive hurricane hits the mainland, picnic weather? Citizens of Mississipi were affected by the same storm, yet they seem to be recovering faster.

I'm less and less inclined to sympathize when crap like this happens.

For fun...

My pirate name is:

Iron John Rackham

A pirate's life isn't easy; it takes a tough person. That's okay with you, though, since you're a tough person. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

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