Made my day.
03/01/2008
02/07/2008
01/28/2008
this will be short
I'll skip the words...onto the easy stuff.
#1: my Cockatiel Jenny, but vectored and not yet done. You can see bits of the actual image that haven't been covered. He's sitting on a bowl, with napkins on it, next to a hot pink mirror with balls. I'm planning to use this as my vox banner up top, replacing the wonderful Gary Lightbody pulling his strap.
#2: My entry into the Alhambra High School Badminton uniform shirt design. It's not great, but it's not as boring as it could be. See if they choose mine, then I'll get a free shirt this year. wo0t!
#3: This is a Weezer-chronology of their "work", like the actual sites..umm recording history. Had Karl wanted something more pazzazzy, then I assume it'd be along those lines. I saw the picture of the guys, I had already colored it and the effects, so I just turned it into a banner. Then I saw that it had good potential as a website. Nothing fancy, just a log of all history. I really need to take some web design classes.
And that's probably as far as my art life will go...for now.
Today I went to the park to play Badminton. Oh the muscles are gonna be sooo sore tomorrow morning. SO SORE. I'm a bit rusty at the game, and I don't know where the future will take me.
EDIT: The day after this post.
I am hurting so bad. The left arm, both ribs, back sides, and thighs hurt from playing Badminton. Yes, Badminton. Getting out of bed was hell.
Forgot to include this as "art". There's another one too, John Lennon, but I'll scan it later.
Mind the creases from the paper..This is a drawing of Eric Wareheim from Tim and Eric. I had to rush a bit after though for the stupid art club's pathetic title of a "gallery/fashion show" Overall, I'm proud of this one. :)
01/07/2008
how much do I love Conan?
A WHOLE LOT!
Just so awesome! I wish I worked in that studio now.
HEY! Jonny won the Critic's Choice for best Music, for There Will Be Blood! It was presented by Snoop Dogg. I wonder how astonished Jonny would feel if he knew Snoop Dogg just presented his award.
I predict, Michael Cera and that whole crew of funny men, who all are connected to eventually....Will Ferrell, are gonna make this year...and the next and the next pretty full of movies. they just keep getting all these comedy movies with the same actors..I question if all of their movies are going to be very funny. I know one thing though, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, AND John--especially John C. Reilly, AND duh, Bob Odenkirk all are related to Tim and Eric.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e8e4424115
Zach tickles Michael! ^
12/23/2007
12/17/2007
you can have it all, if that's alright
oh holy mother, my back aches.
oh lord. oh for the love of mercy. ooooh! my back rips in sorrow. and my head falls from the weight
So I have a school art show tomorrow night. I haven't finished many of the ones I wanted to present. I guess it'll be used for the Spring show. Oh well.
I have this World History AP study guide that is feeding all of my energy like a bloodthirsty beast. I've only defined eight people...from Gregory I to Louis XI and it has sucked out so much. I don't know how it is capable but that damn thing! from hell!
So, away from all the texts, I'm going to located English cities, and blah blah as another part of the study guide. It's all due on Thursday, and this whole hunk of cheese called the Middle Ages to the English Monarchy and France is on Thursday as well. Oh holy mother, I have good reason to say your name! He went over it with us...maybe for 2 weeks now...and the 500 or so years of history has been packed like rotten sardines in a tin can box in my head. so many Henrys and Edwards all at the same time.
I saw I Am Legend last night. It was too short for an epic you're alone in the world plot, and the end said god has a plan...basically. the book was TOTALLY different. book was more kick ass, the last words of the story was "I am legend"---perfect ending. Vampires could talk, the guy ate steak all the time, and killed vampires in their sleep in the day. Nothing like this movie version, in act the I am legend meaning is all different-he finds a cure so he's the legend, book version was last human ever--that's literally legend enough. I liked Will Smith's acting, but that's as far as it got.
Man, I'm still in Sweeney Todd whimsical land. those songs in the film grow on you, and when I hear it , I remember the scenes when it occurred. I think because I lost my cell phone, all full of guilt and disappointment, the movie cheered me up, at least got me distracted. I got to see five or six throats all right after the other, sadness in other characters, make myself feel happy. I do want to see that movie again. I well enjoyed it all.
I've finished christmas shopping. I don't enjoy Christmas shopping. It's all me me me me my friends. :) I don't enjoy the whole presents thing really...I'd rather get my own thing...on my own. I'm sure others would too. Some put thought when buying gifts for others, but when others don't, and laugh as if it isn't important anyway--it's the "thought" that counts...what the hell? for someone to not put any thought into a gift for a person is just rude. Crap or not, at least put a smile on their face because they know where you took that idea of a gift from. Just candy....cookies? that's it? How about some cookies that have some important date, or say toilet to reference to that toilet you both saw somewhere...yadda yadda. Putting no thought..ruins it all.
Oh last saturday was Rose Parade making. they were more strict, frankly...less people from other schools the better. I hope next time I go there will be less people and less hard-asses.
Happy Holidays
11/28/2007
aha shake
ok so I displayed some of my art in the school library. Then I'm told someone, an aide for a student saw it, loved my charcoal curtain picture, and wants to purchase it. I'll elaborate more later. with a picture of it. I'm numb. literally it's freakin cold..the fans wind is hitting my wet hair. It's cold.
oh and bear for Kokua Lima sweatshirts.
finished it. I'll make more adjustments depending on whatever is needed.
Wasn't as hard as I thought it'd be. Took a lot of time though. All photoshop. First I drew it, put my drawing into the comp, traced it over with the PEN TOOL (so Jenny if you're reading this...I can only tell you what I used...it's hard to explain and teach you how to use these things, so don't ask me in detail--just play with the tools), stroke with black, brush size 2-4px, basic brush style (a simple circle), fill in w/ color. For the can, same thing, but when coloring, use the DODGE tool and BURN to add the effect. The text, "Loki Cola"? font from dafont.com, you with can wrap it as a text layer, OR RASTERIZE the text layer (right click "rasterize" which turns it to a reg. layer) and warp it by clicking (CTRL-T) there will be a wavy type of icon up there on the right, pull the corners the inside corners of the squares to desired "warp"
Man I'm cooooold.
10/30/2007
too many minutes too late...
MySpace Secret Shows
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An Evening with
Sigur Ros
featuring an extra special Black Curtain Screening of their new film, Heima
Thursday
FREE! / All Ages!
Doors @ 10:00 PM
November 1st, 2007
Entry is FREE and ALL AGES
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I HATE YOU MYSPACE SECRET SHOWS
The only time when I see a band I like offered here and I'M TOO LATE to even try to enter!
I get to see crappy band offerings and it's so close to my grasp, I can feel it. It's that good. THIS THIS@!!!~#$@
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!!
The day when I don't check myspace until the later hours you give me this!
THIS
How many people are really gonna go?
Why?
why?
bet you some people at amoeba were like HEY! free show? COOL. I'll go! Man, I'm so lucky I get to go to a free showing of some movie about some band. I got nothing better to do anyway.
Damn themmm damn them all dammit!
Music is just once of things I get excited about. One of the reason I live on, what many people do to live on. Keeps us entertained. there is no life if you don't have it full of expectations.
This my friends....although horrible, has just pushed me to like Sigur Ros even more.
Perhaps it's the..loss of something that would make me excited and happy that pushes me to prepare myself. So next damn time, I will know.
Currently listening to a live version of Radiohead.
HAPPY DAMN HALLOWEEN
10/27/2007
final fantasy ecstacy
So...yesterday night I went to see the band, Final Fantasy. It is a solo band, with Owen Pallat and Steph who moved transparencies around on a projector to add some flare to the performance.
The first pic is the wrist thing of the glasshouse.
The second is the ticket. only ten dollars...so that's good
on the way, we went to a mexican restaurant and it was decorated with halloween stuff. This parody is called The Moaning Lisa. Notice the obvious..but also notice a hint of..sin-like enhancement. funny ain't it.
Also, the moon was orange and HUGE that night and on the drive there, a truck was next to us, and a passenger was using a laptop. So...wonder what he's doing..bet you he's on myspace. This was a joke I said, and guess what? He effing was. Was he a little too old looking? 30 years old...later 20's. In a way...to a yes. He was watching a video with some blonde girl too. Apparently some people just check myspace in their truck.
It was around 7:40...and we were supposed to be late, but they didn't open the gates only minutes after we had arrived. The line wasn't long....it was gonna be a nice show, for us at least. Hopefully the bands weren't disappointed that there were so little people.
First there were 3 opening acts. The first one...(I don't have any pics or video) Nifty was a man who made tons of mixed sounds...very loudly...and morphed his voice in repetition etc etc. Was it any good? It was so loud, I couldn't really judge anything. It has potential to be something tolerable, if it wasn't so damn loud. Given, I was in the front though. He played the bass so loudly...it shook our clothes, and around the set of Owen's... all of us had some stomach aches. I'm thinking, that bass affected our bowels or stomaches. It was horrid.
(Please note that my camera LCD? screen has broken, therefore I do not know what I am filming, part from using the viewfinder. So, quality is bad...sound good, but this is SHORT, bad representation of this band as a whole)
The second set was better. I liked them. :) I just don't know their name. The Bassist was in a beard, ripped shorts, wearing a plastic lei, the keyboardist (whose keyboard was going funny, making Owen let him use his..very kind lad) had slakes that kept falling, with blue eyes gazing, and the drummer was the nerd with big glasses raising. I just tried to make it rhyme. I unfortunately didn't take any pics. Only very very short videos of their set.Rather good, the bassist (who would also switch off with the drummer in instruments)was really performing.Jumping around, going WHOO, shaking his head, he did give us some nice laughs.
The third set is called Cadence Weapon. Hip hop man with his DJ. He was probably the best at exciting you, really pumping you up. He kept moving, jumping, there was a lot of emotion in his face when he was rapping. The DJ was funny to look at. Long hair with beard and when he'd put on his headphones, his hair would go upward...because the headphones bent them upward.
Then...Final Fantasy.I was only able to record one song and one scene of the whole art
part. As the show progressed, it got better. It is like a music video,
it shows a story, and emotion to the images with his music.
Very very very good violinist. He's an accomplished man. He's very shy though. When we waited for him.. he came in..everyone was very timid, including myself. Frankly, I didn't know what to do, as well as the other people. So my friend's friend's mom said hi, shook his hand, and he goes to her first. Most funniest thing really. He's nice though. :) He deserves to be praised.
After the show, I met him (this was the first time listening to his music, by the way, I don't regret it. It was a great concert) and bought a shirt and a poster. Owen signed the poster with a pac man ghost. He drew little drawings for every person who asked for an autograph. Makes it unique.
There are two videos of Final Fantasy. The other one not posted...will be posted in my videos soon. It's too long to uplod here on vox. I might have to break it up to pieces. In that video, he plays the violin. It shifts to different melodies as it goes on. It's not the best song I heard there, BUT it does show that he does know his instrument. I wish I learned the violin now when I had the chance.
And today...I went to Costco. Well, at least I bought beef jerky.
I have a problem. Should I...do some art or do some homework? I might never know....I think I'll have to do some homework though...I haven't started this study guide for World His. AP. About the Romans. It's a big chapter on this society. Mannnnssszz
My birds are also mating...so the blue female(Sugar) is pooping out eggs every two days. The thing is...she doesn't care about her eggs so she just lets em gooooo and sometimes they break when they fall. The white male (Sam from Lord of the Rings) doesn't care about the eggs either and he should be a defensive little birdie when it comes to his eggs. The eggs that do not break aren't cared for by the parents and my Cockatiel picks the eggs and...throws them. Damn jenny (I call him Jenny)
So I have two eggs that are somewhat alive. We have to keep them warm...and take care of them ourselves..
these birds should have natural instincts to care for them. She's obviously making these eggs for a reason, why isn't she raising them?
The first pic is the wrist thing of the glasshouse.
The second is the ticket. only ten dollars...so that's good
on the way, we went to a mexican restaurant and it was decorated with halloween stuff. This parody is called The Moaning Lisa. Notice the obvious..but also notice a hint of..sin-like enhancement. funny ain't it.
Also, the moon was orange and HUGE that night and on the drive there, a truck was next to us, and a passenger was using a laptop. So...wonder what he's doing..bet you he's on myspace. This was a joke I said, and guess what? He effing was. Was he a little too old looking? 30 years old...later 20's. In a way...to a yes. He was watching a video with some blonde girl too. Apparently some people just check myspace in their truck.
It was around 7:40...and we were supposed to be late, but they didn't open the gates only minutes after we had arrived. The line wasn't long....it was gonna be a nice show, for us at least. Hopefully the bands weren't disappointed that there were so little people.
First there were 3 opening acts. The first one...(I don't have any pics or video) Nifty was a man who made tons of mixed sounds...very loudly...and morphed his voice in repetition etc etc. Was it any good? It was so loud, I couldn't really judge anything. It has potential to be something tolerable, if it wasn't so damn loud. Given, I was in the front though. He played the bass so loudly...it shook our clothes, and around the set of Owen's... all of us had some stomach aches. I'm thinking, that bass affected our bowels or stomaches. It was horrid.
They were great, with the exception all the indie kids were not very..lively.
Very very very good violinist. He's an accomplished man. He's very shy though. When we waited for him.. he came in..everyone was very timid, including myself. Frankly, I didn't know what to do, as well as the other people. So my friend's friend's mom said hi, shook his hand, and he goes to her first. Most funniest thing really. He's nice though. :) He deserves to be praised.
After the show, I met him (this was the first time listening to his music, by the way, I don't regret it. It was a great concert) and bought a shirt and a poster. Owen signed the poster with a pac man ghost. He drew little drawings for every person who asked for an autograph. Makes it unique.
There are two videos of Final Fantasy. The other one not posted...will be posted in my videos soon. It's too long to uplod here on vox. I might have to break it up to pieces. In that video, he plays the violin. It shifts to different melodies as it goes on. It's not the best song I heard there, BUT it does show that he does know his instrument. I wish I learned the violin now when I had the chance.
And today...I went to Costco. Well, at least I bought beef jerky.
I have a problem. Should I...do some art or do some homework? I might never know....I think I'll have to do some homework though...I haven't started this study guide for World His. AP. About the Romans. It's a big chapter on this society. Mannnnssszz
My birds are also mating...so the blue female(Sugar) is pooping out eggs every two days. The thing is...she doesn't care about her eggs so she just lets em gooooo and sometimes they break when they fall. The white male (Sam from Lord of the Rings) doesn't care about the eggs either and he should be a defensive little birdie when it comes to his eggs. The eggs that do not break aren't cared for by the parents and my Cockatiel picks the eggs and...throws them. Damn jenny (I call him Jenny)
So I have two eggs that are somewhat alive. We have to keep them warm...and take care of them ourselves..
these birds should have natural instincts to care for them. She's obviously making these eggs for a reason, why isn't she raising them?
10/04/2007
this bird has flown
I've been gettin Beatle flu today. During the morning of school, my teacher said something around the lines of "To know her is to love her" to one of my fellow victims of him damn class. My mind quickly, mixes some words, and I start singing "The know, know, know her, is to love, love, love her." Then I sing the melody because I don't remember the lines after that, and then go "and I do, and I do, and I do and I do and I do" Singing for the background vocals as well.
Then another song got stuck in my head as the time passed. A partial part of Lady Madonna...and various things when I saw the damn Across The Universe trailer, etc etc. In fact so many songs...clips of the songs I could remember played all day. When I walked home...I had a Beatle song I believe. I just can't remember what. It was one of those songs to me, where I wasn't a big fan of, but it popped out of nowhere and started playing. I went home, saw "My Yoko" by John Lennon on my Itunes, and heard "Oh Yoko" in my head. Remembering about the video with the foggy forest. Then I practiced the guitar with....mostly Beatle songs. I also wore a Beatles shirt that day as well. It's all subliminal messaging. :) Now, I am currently listening to non-stop Beatle. Just because I can.
Even though today was depressing, I think the Beatle moments were little pieces of heaven. As if I had an ipod to escape to...
Oh, I might just get the Radiohead discbox. I just have to swear I can't complain my brother never buys me anything anymore. (He's missed my b-day & X-mas many times. either one or the other or both)
So, a Beatles hello goodbye (eh!) to you.
And The fart from "She's A Woman", it's in the Artifact cds..Someone there made a fart sound!
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