I want to watch Aliens

I'm alone in my house

It's after dark.

I've turne don EVREY LIGHT in the Apartment.

Let see how far into the movie I make it.

I really need my brain checked but HOLY SCMOLY do I love Aliens.
More than I love sleeping apparently.



.. . I want Bishop fanart.
I should draw a comic where Bishop is the 5th Cylon. =P

I also paid 10.0 to have 100 icons. I FINALLY BROKE DOWN.
But I like my icon and I want to use them. And I like other people's icons and I want to use them (when allowed)

Just FYI: I will be ding a watercolor Workshop this Saturday in Dallas at the Portus Harry Potter convention.

Are you going?

If you are come to my Watercolor Workshop! Saturday, 4:30-5:50pm at Dardeneles Theater

I'll be going over various watercolor tips and techniques.

The focus of the workshop will not be how to go from a sketch to a finished painting because there are many tutorials like that on the web, and done way better than I could do. Plus you can't do that in an hour. What I've noticed though, in those tutorial, is something like using salt only gets mentioning if the artist used salt in their picture.

So what I want to do is to demo tips and tricks and show off what various things you can do and all the wild and crazy things that can be done with watercolor rather than focus on "how to make a painting"

This is more "things you can do with watercolor"

I hope this will give people ideas and a wider variety of skills to pull from.
'Cuase you know style isn't just how you draw characters, but how you paint, so hopefully this will give people ideas on how to use paint.

And it's applicable for anything anyone wants to paint: figures, still life,non representational abstract etc.

If you can bring your own supplies that'll be great. Due to cost I can only provide cheapo watercolors.

I just spent from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm working on the Hp Art Project.
*collapse*

Now I have to work on my Watercolor Workshop for Portus.
If I hadn't already worked on it, I'd almost want to pull out I'm so frazzled, but what the heck I can babble about watercolor and it'll be fun. It's mostly demonstration anyway. And I only feel like that right now because of STRESS.

I need to go buy the paper and chop it up and I need to make sure the cheap-o watercolors work will enough to have them at the demo to be played with.

I did finish some examples of paintings painted with specific watercolor techniques.
( Watercolor Technique Examples in the form of: Remus, Tonks, Lily, Snape, Luna, Neville, Ginny, and Sirius )

These are 8 separate pieces, and the originals will actually be fore sale at the watercolor presentation if you want one. They 10.00. at the workshop.

They'll 15.00 at the art swap (unless the Portus team determines they are not general enough, but hopefully they are ^^). Yes, yes I am kinda bribing people to come to my watercolor demo? Why?


Also, is anyone else gonna be in Swap at Portus?

Ok I don't have a lot of independent verification on this, but I thought I'd put a link up so those of you this might affect can dig deeper than I can at work (and hey for all I know this is already hot on LJ, I have a heavy LJ filter on at work and see less than 10% of my F'ist ^^)

Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom

I'm not a big proponent of illegal downloads, but sfgkdshgdfhgsd this does not make me happy. If real, it's a dragnet. Viacom needs to have specific accounts or names or videos or something. -_-

Esp considering the site is international.

Well i just made a critical mistake on the Hp-Ar-Project.

At some point around 11/24/2007 I started saying the art size should be 8 X 11 RAHTER THAN 8.5 X 11.

So now I have to work out how to fix this and how bad this is and I just feel awful because so many people are putting so much into this. *head desk*

I mean I KNOW mistakes will happen, but this is kinda a big one.

So Deviantart had a contest to create an anime poster for Anime Expo.

The winner was IMHO not the best but that I'm ok with. I just found it ironic that with all the bitching the DA admins have done about anime over the years they picked THE MOST streotypical and least creative look of all the entries.
But it was cute.

HOWEVER (cue the drama bell)
Turns out the artists TRACED the character in the poster from an official anime image and did not change it enough to not be recognized immediatly upon being posted as the winner.


This really underscores an argument DA has been having for a LONG time with its users. Are traced works acceptable? I can certainly see if you manipulate enough photos into enough different affrangements then it might be ok to do a trace of that unique arrangement. On the other hand, tracing one anime character so exactly from a poster that people recognize it almost immediatly upon it being posted? Seems a a bit skeezy to me.

Oh and btw I love all the 'OMG I took an illustration class and this TOTALLY would hve been ok' comments. Really? I took one and this would have gotten me bounced out of the art department. .

I get what they are saying, in some cases an illustrator can trace, but usually from ANATOMY BOOKS not . . . not like this.

At least I hope not. If we can I'm working way to hard on my art. I can just start tracing glockgal's artwork and recoloring the hair and changing the cloths and the winning the money with it!

-_-



I almost wish though that this had gone up at anime expo. That would have been hysterical


DA represented by cheaply traced generic anime art.
Hysterical.

Tokyopop Releasing GHOSTBUSTERS

. . .
Yup that's right EVERYTHING is now Manga.

Ok personally I like manga, and can find the style interesting but after the abomination was the Star Trek manga(GRRRRR to that mess)I'm seriously worried about this.

The image of Dr. Venkman worried me even more. Ray look sok, Winston looks ok, Egon looks . . . sorta ok, Venkman WTF did they DO.


*sigh* I'll porbably go look at it and judge when I see it, but my pre-judgement is to be nervous. I hope the story is ok. I honestly don't think I'd worry so much if it was ANYONE other than Tokyoopop but Tokyopop's original releases have never impressed me much.

So I read an article online about the Indiana Jones moves in which some film academic spent 4 webpages explaining that the Indiana Jones films were not high on the intellect content and significance.

I'd make more fun of him except he began is whole thing by saying he was going to intentionally miss the point by a mile. I'm curious then why anyone would intentionally miss the point of a movie by a mile and then criticize it.

Indiana Jones and the Meaningless Void:
If You Really Want a Quest for The Holy Grail, Try Looking for Significance in an Indy Adventure

He also never really gets around to answering anything actually interesting. Like for example: OK so the movie slack intellectual significance, proper character development and are largely escapist in the worst (or best) sense of the word.

So then what causes the significance of the movies? You can't say there is none because if there was none then Indiana Jones would have ended at the first movie and no one would have cared about a sequel let alone a 4th sequel darn near 20 years later.

So clearly THERE is significance, just not in deeper meaning in the movies.

I also found this bit interesting for a fannish PoV:

"Star Trek" fans write. Harry Potter fans write. "Star Wars" fans play dress-up. And what do Indiana Jones fans do? They are the ultimate "Making of . . ." technical geeks, wanting to know everything about storyboarding, stunts, squib explosions, editing, matte backdrops, sound mixing and John Williams's musical scores. They almost never want to know about character development or theme

And then he writes this:

We entertain ourselves by entertaining you.
The biggest Indiana fans do the same. At considerable expense and with varying degrees of believability, they make their own movies and post them online (or sell them to one another), the further adventures of Indiana Jones, in which they cast themselves in the lead.


Sooo which is it? The Indiana fans are 'uncreative*' tech geeks or they dress up and make movies (which involves last I checked writing a script . . . and dressing up)



* hmmmm ok he could also be saying that there is nothing of value for the fans to jump from andwrite stuff far as Trek and HP fans do. But then . . how does he explain the A-Team fanfics? I mean I love the show to death but but it is pretty close to the Indiana Jones films in terms of escapist fun over intellectual content. But the fan s have no problem writing WAY WAY WAY more serious fics in rather large quantities.

Well, I figured because I devote so many man many MANY MANY hours to watchign this show, it deserved tome Fanart.

( Elliot Stabler: Pencil Sketch )

( Olivia Benson: Marker Sketch )

They are the best platonic couple ever on TV.
And if they ever become canonically romantically involved you will hear my cry of anguish froma round the world ^__^

Anyone ever watch a 80's cartoon Called "Dinosaucers" about evolved Dinosaurs from space?
I loved it. It was up there with Ghostbusters in terms of 'shows I must watch." Love it. Really loved it. (Ichy was my favorite ^__^)

Right so, I though HEY I look this up on Deviantart and see if anyone does any fanart for it.

Now I need some serious brains bleach because Lo and behold "Dinosaucers" it not a work safe search in deviantart.
Sarah Spencer of Earth,has gladly become the loving sexy slavegirl servant and pleasure toy to Dinosaucers (everything is covered but not work safe)

It ONLY GETS WORSE
Stupid fucking pervert fanboys GDIAF.


There was actually some decent fanart just not enough to warrant the trauma. *cry*

So I was reading wedding articles on MSN.com (yes I was HUSH) and there was one that had some things that just caused my jaw to drop and the sheer entitlement issues people had.
And for once I don't mean the Bride's. I mean the guests'.

( My rants and issues )

I think seriously the one I can't get over is the drink complaints.

Do you need amazingly wonderful art on your walls?
You know you do.

Wouldn't your rather have original art made just for you than b one of the thousands that owns that same friggen print from that commercialized art store down the road?

For a totally reasonable fee, andreanna can help beautify your home with original art!
See her commission info here

She's got a lovely lyrical style to her art, with gorgeous bright colors, and a unique figurative style. If you need something cool for your room/dorm/kitchen/living room etc go trade her money for art!

Seriously she's asking less for art than some people spend on a meal. And the art lasts longer!


ETA
bzzinglikeneon made me

IF YOU READ THIS YOU HAVE TO POST AN ANIMATED GIF IN YOUR LIVEJOURNAL BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE RULES!

( Picard VS Dearth Vader )

I'm sure this has been gone over a lot but what the hey.

( Thought's on What Hermione did in Book 7 to her parents )

So tried out the new printer.
( Boring rundown of my likes and dislikes so far )

In trying out the new printer/scanner I scanned some magazine images of Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict.

( Richard looking cute in a photo for an article about how he was shy AKA favorite topic of 90% of all articles on him ever )

( A pinup that works very well for some fic inspiration )

( Dirk kicken back in a chair )


And in other news:
So You Think You Can Dance

This season is blowing my mind. To we really have to send people home? They are all so damn good and I love watching their routines.

This show kicks American Idols ass. Singing shminging the Comic Book Character Dance last night alone was more entertaining than most of an AI season?

However . . . I can't stand Mia Michaels. She sets my artistic bullshit radar off big time. Plus, I often get the feeling she's sexist or something I don't know, but about 85% of the time I feel she's massively biased against the girls.

I LOVED when Nigel interrupted her and called her on the whole "fake smile" BS and then Cat asked the dancer (was it Courtney?) what she'd been directed to do and LO it was to smile just as she'd been smiling.

Anyway, nothing against her choreography. Her dances are damn good, BUT her crits make me skin crawl and I just think she's full of annoying artistic emo bullshit.

Aside from that, I really want Comfort to kick it up a notch. I love her and I want her to stay but yesh, she and Chris is it, do keep being weaker than the rest *sigh*

It's so hard to picka fave on this show though because they are all so amazing.

WAIT? WHAT?!

The Supreme Court on Wednesday cut the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million.

. . . .
US Governemnt, why do you continue to be made if fail?

The dun fucked it up. Make them pay.
Seriosuly, it's not like they do not have the damn money.

If THIS is the cost of lower gas prices, I'll keep 'em high right now, thank you very much.

So last night I organized all my financial records.
Fun times. Took forever. I'm horribly disorganized.

I find a check. And at first I think it's a "check"
You know, those "here have some more debt" checks credit card companies like to send, which promptely get shredded.

Upon closer inspection . . . it's a real check. Some kinda YAY you graduated and have thousands in loans type incentive check.
For about 500.00.
Made out 10/26/2006
With no warnings of being void in 90 days.


So uhhh yeah.
I'm gonna go depost it into my savings via ATM.
If the bank later sees the date and flips or the check is denied, then well, I have it in my savings and they can have it back. If not, I have 500.00 dollars.


I also have a really good lesson in why I should pay more attention to my mail -_-



Other than that.
I need to send art work to HP Art Project layout volunteers.
I need to send the last list of names to the last contact volunteer (no I'm not behind on getting lists out, I realized Monday night I needed one more person; I saw her acceptance this morning; list tonight)

I need to also get my cousin's art framed and matted.
And I need to print my father's poem out on nice paper and paint on that a little.

Which means I need to set up my NEW PRINTER!
YES! New printer! I no longer have as 5 year old broken Lexmark printer.

I now have a brand spanking new Epson RX595.
This makes my artistic heart gleeful.

I shall make bookmarks or something for Portus I think.



Actually, does anyone know how to make buttons?

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

( Folow the cut. )

On of my rats has a tumorous looking lump that appears to be hosting the black oil slick alien ooze from X-files.

No seriosly.

It's come from three masses on his tail, which I though, ok tumors. He's a rat, he gets tumors. He's old as sin for a rat too, so I wasn't worried that he had masses on his tail.

UNTIL THEY BEGAN TO BLEED X-FILES ALIEN OOZE *head desk*

Now we go to the vet because I need to know what this substance is before it posses me and forces me to lock myself in a room with a space craft.


Or you know in case it actually is something bad in real life *sigh*
(and if any other rat owner has an idea or has seen this before let me know 0.o)

I thought I'd share some Apollo/Starbuck sketches I did at work (yes I bring markers to work on occasion ^^)

All of them relate to starry_diadem's Fanfic The Mask Sequence

( A Variety of Masked Sketches + Comments )

X posted on bsgslash

See this link?" It goes to Richard Hatch's myspace (yeah yeah I know, but no it really is him).

Scroll down a little.

*CRIES*
MY BATTLESTAR COMIC.

Someone reassure me that is not the end of the world?

I mean he's so totally fan friendly and that comic is so totally is not the Starbuck giving Apollo a blowjob comic. I really should be ok.

It's just kinda . . . I DON'T KNOW *shakes head*

It's Weird!