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Every week I come home with a new injury.
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[21 Nov 2009|07:31am] |
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Today, I sat at Bryant Park and watched people ice skate while waiting for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sickvibrati0n to show up. I was hoping that somebody would fall down.
I was disappointed.
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[20 Nov 2009|02:36pm] |
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Ole (While watching me play the "Wolfenstein"* demo on XBox): Man, those Nazis have TERRIBLE aim! Perfect race, my ass!!
*I say "Wolfenstein" instead of Wolfenstein cuz, really, what the heck is up with that game? How is it ANYTHING like the original?
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| Evil Wing |
[14 Nov 2009|02:26pm] |
I made this last year.
Materials: Agate in pyrite and blackened sliver.
Pendant and design © Me
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| I'm a complicated man... |
[13 Nov 2009|01:14pm] |
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Alright. I'm not ditching my job. As meager as it is, it's a source of income. Working for my dad depends on how much work he's getting. Right now it's a lot, but later on down the road, I have no idea what's gunna happen. Not only that, my manager totally loves me and doesn't want me to go. He kinda guilt-tripped me like "omg why you leavin me baby?" and I was like "durrrrrrrrr.. ummm... uhhh." In all honesty, nobody's really done anything to piss me off so I guess I'll hang around. Many of my co-workers guilt-tripped me too, even though I didn't tell them that I might want to leave. They were like "omg I like you! you're actually helpful and fun to be around!" It's nice to be appreciated..
So my schedule changes.
Monday - Friday: School from 10am to 5pm
Saturday - Sunday: Work from 9am to 2pm for pocket change
Evenings will be reserved for groceries and helping my pops.
I'll have some time on the weekend afternoons to hang out (for all 1 people that actually WANT to hang out with the likes of me..). So I get to work 2 jobs, go to school full time and still have a couple of hours for socialization. Not too bad, yah?
On an unrelated, yet AWESOME note:
I mentioned that I'm learning metal-smithing to the Manga Without Borders people and they want me to submit a picture of a piece that I've made! HOLY FUCKBERRIES! They might feature my jewelry design as well as my artwork! My heart is totally fluttering right now and I feel like passing out.
I'll submit my "Evil Wing" pendant. Pictures will follow tomorrow so you guys will know what the hell I'm talking about.
.. dfubiwefhuasihdsaodjksfjliesofalidjsklfhksdfhiehdfflsdhfieohdiuwehdksjfhkd
*epilepsy of unimaginable magnitude*
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[10 Nov 2009|11:56pm] |
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I let a homeless man draw in my sketchbook on the train. It didn't come out very well. He started writing some random incoherent nonsense. That didn't come out very well either. His name is Rodney.
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| Bathroom humor and other such things.. |
[06 Nov 2009|01:15pm] |
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Customers are so dumb and NASTY.
Case 1: A woman goes into the fitting rooms with her baby and changes it's shit-ass diaper in there.
Case 2: The employee break room is right near the restrooms. A man changes his baby's shit-ass diaper ON THE EMPLOYEE BREAK TABLE.. WHERE EMPLOYEES EAT FOOD! The door says "ASSOCIATES ONLY" not "SHITTY DIAPERS ONLY." Ugh.
Case 3: A man takes his 3 year old daughter into the men's restroom. Seriously guy? You want to have dudes peeing all around your little daughter? I could understand if a woman took her 3 year old son to the women's bathroom because all of the stalls are closed.
Yeah... Nastyness.
And here's a random conversation with a co-worker.
Her: You draw really nice characters. You should totally give them their own stories and make comics and stuff.
Me: Yep, that's what I'm trying to do.
Her: Yeah, this one here , she's really pretty. You should make her a diva princess!
Me: Actually, she's a prostitute.
Her: ...... Oh. I see.
And school is still freakin awesome. Though my hands are now rougher than the very sandpaper that I use. I made a brooch, a pair of dome earrings, a small chain and I'm in the process of making a ring out of sheet metal, wire and a bead.
There's no sort of artistic liberty with the projects because they're all from templates at the moment. But that's good because I learn to work in ways that I wouldn't normally work. I'm also known to take on very ambitious projects that end up being half-assed halfway through due to time constraints. Working with set rules and templates eliminates driving myself mad and getting discouraged because I couldn't finish what I wanted to finish on time.
Somehow I got really good at sawing though I haven't sawed anything since the beginning of the year. I can actually saw something so straight that I don't even need to file it down. That's pretty freakin sweet. My soldering got really neat too. That means no having to clean up messy solder! I guess I can thank my shitty internship for that because the soldering teacher at FIT was MEAN and made me HATE soldering.
I really do love soldering though... Playing with fire and melting/bonding metal is so fucking AWESOME!!!!! I actually wanna do some sort of video tutorial on soldering but I don't have the resources to do so. Maybe when I actually get my own bench and torch which I am vigorously saving up for.
That will be all.
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| A brief update as to what's been going on. |
[03 Nov 2009|10:22pm] |
-School is awesome, I will take pictures of the stuff I made once I get batteries for my camera.
-Work is a pain in the ass (but that was to be expected). I yell at my co-workers a lot because they're stupid and lazy. Maybe I'll make manager some day.
-My PC's motherboard needs to be replaced, but I haven't had the time to disassemble anything.
-As soon as I logged onto DA this morning, some idiot sent me a note begging me to draw some character that I've never heard of FOR FREE. Hahahah fuck you, idiot. No money, no draw.
-Siegfried somehow got bladder stones. He had surgery a couple of weeks ago and he's recovered nicely. I'm so happy <3 Though he is having a bit of a problem with his eyes, but that comes with age.
-Somebody was shot and killed 2 blocks from my house. That makes me feel so safe.
-I am so fucking sick of the Yankees. I heard the city was going to name a bridge after Derick Jeter. What the hell? Why couldn't they name the bridge after someone IMPORTANT?
-Fluffy is still very fluffy. I think he gets a little fluffier every day.
-With all the positive stuff going on, I've been doodling a lot more, especially on the train. Nothing worth showing yet, though.
-No matter what I do, every day I end up spending $10 on lunch (despite me telling myself that I need to save money.) $10 for a fucking salad!? How did it come up to be that much!? Last I checked, the box of lettuce said $3.25 and then I added salmon, mushrooms, cucumbers and olives and BAM!! Ten dollar salad.
-I could eat fast food but that's FAT food :( I considered Jamba Juice but even their 'light' stuff contains more sugar than I want to consume per day. I can't tell what's added and what's natural.
-I've been using Ole's old computer to play Dungeon Fighter Online. It is addictive. If anyone wants to party me, look out for one of my many characters: ELBadguy (Level 38 Asura), MagicMidget (Level 23 Summoner), SaintBeefy (Level 26 Exorcist), Tr0userSnake (Level 18 Ranger), OneManMafia (Level 16 Gunner). SaintBeefy is my favorite <3 Apparently exorcism means a big beefy man beating the shit out of your enemies with an oversized cross.
Well. That's my life in a nutshell.
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[28 Oct 2009|06:30am] |
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School officially starts on Monday.
I must say, it's been a while since I've had a brain hemorrhage from anticipation like the one that I'm having now.
School schedule:
Monday - Thursday from 10am to 5pm
Work schedule:
Friday - Sunday with whatever hours I get
I'm not going to have much of a social life for the next 7 months or so, but it will be worth it. I'LL MAKE IT WORTH IT!!!!!
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| Bio - Rough Draft |
[21 Oct 2009|03:22pm] |
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Biography for Manga Without Borders Vol 2:
Indira Jainanan is a self-taught illustrator who grew up on the mean streets of the Bronx. She's always been known as "that weird kid that sits in the corner and draws stuff." She was inspired to start drawing when she saw the works of Naoko Takeuchi and Akira Toriyama back in the mid 1990's. Nowadays, her favorite artists include Yoshitaka Amano, Shunya Yamashita, Ayami Kojima and Stephanie Law.
Indira's style consists of characters with extravagant clothing and lavishly decorated backgrounds. Her illustrations are usually drawn towards the fantasy, gothic or humorous genres. Her favorite drawing tool is the almighty pen. Any type of pen ranging from Micron to ballpoint to gel pen is her best friend. She mainly colors with markers, watercolors, colored pencils and gouache. Her favorite things about drawing include, linework, color, texture and details, details, details.
Her goal is to create her own series of graphic novels and manufacture her own line of jewelry.
About -OPIUM- (which is the picture that will be featured. If you don't know what it looks like by now.. I need to cap you.)
This picture represents everything that Indira wants her work to represent. It's elegant, eye-catching, heavily detailed, somewhat dark and has a rather unconventional use of colors with subtle tints and highlights. Approximate time to complete: 16 hours.
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Anything that I should change around? Or anything that you guys think I should add?
Hell, I bet when I look this over tomorrow, I'll be like "WTF THIS IS CRAP!"
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[19 Oct 2009|05:16am] |
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Work has been going pretty well. The worst part of it is that I keep getting the 6am shift which means that I have to get up at 4am and leave the house by 5am. The good thing about that is that I leave work at 12pm and get home by 1pm with plenty of the day left ahead of me. I would rather take a ridiculously early shift because guaranteed if I had a 5pm shift, I'd be sleeping in til like 2pm and be completely wasting perfectly good daylight.
Unfortunately, I do have to go to sleep no later than 10pm. The problem with that is my folks NEVER let me get to sleep on time. Example: my dad bothering me last night at 11pm so I can order plane tickets for my mom to go to Trinidad for her brother in law's funeral (please don't start going "OMG I'M SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS" because I never knew the man personally because he never gave a damn about visiting me whenever I went to the old country and he was never particularly a good man to begin with). Under normal circumstances, ticket booking would take a short time but this is my dad that I'm talking about. It's never easy.
Conversation went like this:
( Cut for ultimate retardidity )
And then I tried to book the flight and the damn website kept screwing up and giving errors in odd php error code. Tsk tsk. He had to call a travel agency this morning anyway to book the flight. You don't even WANT to know what time I went to sleep last night.
Not only that, the change of sleeping/eating schedule is causing my migraines to act up all sorts of horrible. I had to pop an excedrin this morning and cross my fingers. Like I said, I like having the morning shift, but there are downsides. My head bones don't like being up that early.
And now for something completely different...
I almost pissed my pants when I saw that a Michael's opened up LITERALLY on the floor above where I'm working now. I got to check it out today and OMFG SENSORY OVERLOAD!! So much artsy crafty stuff! So many BOOKS!! SO MUCH AWESOME!! Well... I know where my paychecks are going to end up every week, whether I like it or not.
I bought some storage containers for my ever-expanding Copic collection and I bought one of those books that has both lined and unlined pages alternating which will help for planning of graphic novel stuff.
I will be responsible with my money as I need it for school but I need to realize that I should reward myself a little more often, for morale's sake. I've been depriving myself of a lot of things (even going outside) for the past few months because I felt like I didn't deserve it and I've made myself feel like worthless crap. But I realized that giving myself positive things will give me a more positive mood and manifest positive things to happen.
I do need to buy clothes that fit me. It turns out that I'm not the gelatinous blimp of a being that I thought I was. I can actually fit a size 6 jeans with some room to spare. I gotta get rid of all of my size 10/12's (because that's how big I THOUGHT I was) and get pants that I can't take off without unbuttoning. I need new sweaters too because my old ones are so big and droopy :( Time for me to abuse my employee discount when the damn store actually opens up. Right now, we're pretty much building the whole damn thing from the ground up so it won't actually be open until the 29th.
Other than that.. I need to try writing up my bio for the Manga Without Borders thing. Oh man that's gunna be tough. When I'm done with the first draft, I'll let you all read it and see if there's anything that needs fixing. You guys know me better than I do. I also need to get a decent picture of myself. I hate smiling for pictures. My smiles are either retarded or obviously fake/forced.
Closing statement: I need food.
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| To tame the savage beast... |
[07 Oct 2009|06:58pm] |
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Music.
Though my tastes in music can be considered rather... questionable.. by most, I've realized that it is a much more important part of my life than I originally thought. It's been a pretty long time since I listened to anything. Primarily because my PC with all of my good music is dead and because I haven't been going anywhere to listen to music on the train. Not to mention, when I do go somewhere on the train, I'm too busy with my DS to care for my MP3 player.
So yesterday, I had to take the train to go to job orientation and I decided to bring my poor, neglected MP3 player with me instead of my DS. It was about a 25 minute trip, which is too short of a trip worthy of a DS. I set my playlist on random and I was shocked at how I felt when the sound came on. I felt pretty damn good, though I can't really explain why. It's not like there were any awe-inspiring lyrics or anything.. just a lot of sounds that touched my brain meat's special places. Why did I ever decide that music was a luxury and not a necessity?
I also realized that I haven't been able to draw because I haven't been listening to anything. Music makes me want to draw, not because I draw ideas from songs (because I'm terrible at doing so), but because it helps me focus on what I'm doing. If I'm in a quiet environment, I get bored of drawing after about 10 minutes and I do something else. If I'm listening to music, I can draw for hours without realizing it.
Right now I'm in the mood to draw. I want to draw something for halloween, but I have no ideas yet.
Also, I finally got my contract from Manga Without Borders Vol 2. I have to write a bio for myself. I find it really difficult to do, because I want to write it in a way where I will be taken seriously, however, my first instinct is always to make fun of myself and write incredibly silly things. This is going to require a lot of concentration and self-restraint.
I guess I'll write something about me being self taught and a little about what I like to draw and why. I'll also talk about my favorite media. I'm still going to use -OPIUM- because I haven't drawn anything that could possibly top that. I also need to take a picture of myself without breaking the camera. I COULD draw a picture of myself but a)I'd probably make myself look REALLY silly and b)I think it would be cool to use a photo and have some random stranger come up to me and say "OH MY GOD, YOU'RE THE GUY FROM TEH BOOK!!" somewhere down the road.
Oh, and Siegfried is doing a lot better. He got the tube from his nose removed and his nose is healing nicely. The doctor didn't charge me for the visit because he totally had the hots for me... or Ole. I couldn't really tell. But he said "since you're such lovely people, I won't charge you for the visit." When we brought Roy to him, instead of seeing the other doctor, he didn't charge me, either. Oh and we also got free extra medicine too. Rawk on.
Closing statement: Boots are cute on a newt eating fruit with a flute.
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[22 Sep 2009|12:11am] |
Once upon a time, there lived a husband and wife. Every week, the husband would give his wife some money and say "Keep it safe for when hard times roll around." And the wife would say "Yes dear" and store the money safely under their mattress.
It just so happened that one day, a neighbor overheard the husband telling the wife to keep the money for hard times. The neighbor got an idea.
He waited for the next morning when the husband left for work and the wife was all alone in the house. The neighbor knocked on the door and the wife opened it.
The neighbor said "Hello, miss. My name is Hard Times. I believe you have some money for me..."
The wife quickly rushed to her room, pulled out the stack of money and gave it to the man.
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| All in all it's just another kick in the balls. |
[02 Sep 2009|12:06pm] |
So maybe you've noticed that I haven't been around in a while. Probably not. Whatever.
Well you remember that big-ass thunderstorm from a couple of weeks ago? Well it totally fucked up the power supply in my PC. And by fucked up, I mean that it is shot to hell. And by shot to hell, I mean it no longer works. And by it no longer works, I mean I want to throw myself into a ditch full of C4. And by I want to throw myself into a ditch full of C4... well you get the idea.
Is it sad that I'm so used to shit like this happening that I'm not even surprised or going to cry about it? Why is it that anything I build dies a premature death through no fault of mine? Seriously, I built that damn thing from scratch. Even got a nice pink case for it. It made me happy.
I still haven't gotten a new power supply as it's out of my budget at the moment. For the while, I've been using Ole's computer for work stuff.
Anywhoo, I bit the bullet and hooked up my old, shitty mac. This thing drives like an old junk mobile and my programs don't even work properly anymore. But whatever. It'll do for the moment til I get some more cash. I'll tolerate hitting the refresh button seven times just for google to load for the time being.
lefthooktohead I am so sorry about sending the commission out so late. It's been finished for WEEKS but I didn't have your address to mail it out. Well it's out now and I sent a little something extra ;) Good thing I logged on to DA today to see your new address >.< Sadly, I couldn't scan said something extra because my scanner only works on my PC. Anyway. It's all out in the mail now. Sorry about the long wait, bro.
More updates:
-September classes for Studio Jewelers are full. Poop. I have to start on October 5. Yay! I get to feel useless for another month.
-I'm not getting as much financial aid as I hoped because the measly amount of money that I'm making is apparently 'sufficient.' Seriously, there's no way in hell someone could survive on my paycheck AND be able to pay for school AND buy jewelry making supplies (particularly gold, silver and precious stones). Seriously, how broke does a man have to be to get a little help around here?
-I'm searching for a second source of income. I don't care if I end up having no life and I have to go to school 4 days a week (then help my dad when I come home) and work another place for the other three days.
-Ole accidentally punched me in the head a few days ago. Coincidentally in the spot that hurts most when I get migraines. My head hasn't been the same since.
-I've developed an unhealthy addiction to Puzzle Quest.
-I have a head cold that refuses to go away. Had a bad migraine that lasted a few days a while back. Somehow that led to a cold/inflamed tonsil that lasted a couple of days.
-I need a haircut bad but I'm terrified. I have split ends like crazy but my hair has gotten really long (about down to my elbows) and that's the longest it's been in a while. I'm scared of how much needs to be chopped off.
-Fluffy sneezed in my chai when I let him sniff it.
That will be all.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program.
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| Bird of Paradise |
[13 Aug 2009|06:53pm] |
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Started this a month ago, forgot about it and finally finished it.
It's like... tribal meets industrial or something like that. At least that's what an artist lady on the train told me.
Hello Kitty gel pen and .05 mechanical pencil.
Image © Me.
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[05 Aug 2009|03:45pm] |
So...
I was watching the news this morning and there was a brief mention of an iPhone app that lets you see where sex offenders live so you can stay away from that area. Like.. it actually tells you where they live, shows you a picture of the person and gives a description of their crimes and what have you.
Am I the only person thinking that someone will use this app to locate all of these people and kill them?
Hell, if I had an iPhone, I would totally make a game out of it.
Good times :)
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