I’m currently in California, and off to see Alcatraz in about 10 minutes. But I’ll update more about it and Animazement tonight, I promise.

Quote of the Day: “A fair price.Tell me, what is your soul worth? A fair price. Take in account the girl’s whole worth. A fair price. Everyone sells out someday. What’s your price? Keep the business going and I’ll pay Name your price. A fair price.”

-Molly, in her new musical

Random Linkage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw_xyDPLFpc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgoma.blogsome.com%2F2009%2F06%2F13%2Ftrailer-do-game-fat-princess%2F&feature=player_embedded Games are rather interesting nowadays

It should be noted I need to do Runaways fanart some time, but it should also be noted I need to do a lot.

For starters, AZ is in a week. A week from today, which is memorial day weekend. I have yet to finish everything (though the art is done in and of itself), and I have yet to make my prints (where, I do not know). I need to help Paige with her jewelry-making and prints, I need to get my origional art for the auction framed, I need to design the table layout, and I need to make the filing cabinet for the table itself. The table, by the way, going to rock this year (6 sellers at it).

This, of course, is all coupled with my lack of a job, so no cash. I’ve been painting a house with my brother for oddjob money, but it won’t be a lot. That, and my body seems to be falling apart. I have to go to the cardiologist tomorrow, then I need to make another doctor’s appointment, and I think I have two cavities (or one, or none- they may be stains or fillings? My memory sucks >.o). My brain is constantly railing against being ‘defective’ and that includes health maladies, of course…so that’s a fun little internal battle right there. But I digress, for Captain Crunch is ungdly in it’s deliciousness. *noms*Still, cerial-y goodness cannot overcome my car’s front brakes not working any longer. It sounds like my car is full of gerbils constantly squeeking.

Oh, for those who have yet to see it, Star Trek was pretty much off the chain- I saw it twice in a single weekend. Just a plain brilliant movie. I had problems with the villian, Nero, but they were minor.

On that end, Enigma Machine is a month behind because I can’t manage to get a proper web server- I have precious little money, so I’m trying to find a decent one for hosting without breaking the bank. Enigmamachine.com is taken, by the way, so I was thinking EMcomic.com perhaps, or something to that effect. That and I need to design the website, which is something I’ve never done. So….*dives into the unknown*

Quote of the Day: “My head keeps turnin’ turnin’
Like Russian roulette
Thoughts are like bullets
I cannot do this”

-Moby, Alice

Random Linkage: http://open.salon.com/blog/leeandra_nolting/2009/05/13/a_guide_to_the_douchebags_who_come_into_my_gallery Guide to douchebags who come into my gallery

Secondly, I have Enigma Machine:
My little comic is a little behind schedule, alas, but not too badly. I plan on purchasing the site for the comics to be hosted on as soon as I get another job- But back to the comic: 13 strips are done, some on story, some not. It’s hard to keep up a storyline…but I plan on doing so! Somewhat. A little. But no more inking of comics, I’ve decided. Just awesome pencils. >.>; For those of you that love Simon, expect to see more of him, and more of the black/white one-shot comics sparingly called “IRL”.

Third, we have Jobs:
I’ve re-applied to Loco Pops for the summer with the hope of working at least 18 hours a week if not a lot more: and if that doesn’t work I’m currently putting in some applications to a few other places and attempting to find any art/design/media-based internship I can. If you know of one in the raleigh/durham/cary area, hook me up? Word-of-mouth is my best friend right now. And I’m also doing freelance work, so please, ask me to design things or talk about me to your friends. I’ve done T-shirt and hoodie designs for walks and bands and schools and soccer teams: why not your little organization, too? I’m pretty cheap as well XD

Next (for now) Animazement:
I have purchased an entire table for Animazement in the summer. I will be sharing the table with a number of other patrons who which to sell their wares: hopefully the different styles of art, combined with some of out crafts, will bring in some money. I’ve been focusing on more Eastern stuff, and I’m beginning to color it (Aisha was an example), and I want to sell prints of my poster again this year (hopefully on better paper- no thanks Kinkos!). If anyone has any ideas of what to sell, such as characters/anime/manga that are -really- popular and in my grasp, just let me know.

Finally, Concept Art
Although I had a thing’ lined up with Ian, I do not have any future in concept art. HA! Just kidding. Turns out there’s a big future in concept art. Here at State there’s a teacher named Tim “Booey” (sp) who is the concept art guy, and who’se studio I can take [b]three times[/b]. I need to talk to him at some point, show him my stuff, ask what he thinks (even if it isn’t the best…or technically concept art XD). I’m just SO EXCITED that I can really go far with concept art in my major and I didn’t make the wrong choice. I’m squeeing, I tell you.

With those out of the way, I’d also like to sing the praises of AP Psychology with Mrs. Richards. Yet again, the things taught to me in that class have proven themselves worthwhile (this time in PHI240). On that note, I really need to finish my T-shirt for the MS Walk group People Taking Action (PTA) and email all my old teachers before the semester is over and tell them how much they rock’d (unless they didn’t). Whoops!

Quote of the Day:

“Procrastination often seems like an habit that just can’t be beat. As they said in art school, “God didn’t create the world in seven days… he slacked off for six and then pulled an all-nighter.”
-Lars (Least I Could Do)

Random Linkage: http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html Putting a Trillion in context

Currently in studio, we’re working on a light project dealing with the elements and pheonoma of light- including shadow, color, reflection, and soforth. We have to make something that plays with light that is a sculputre for the Court of Carolinas. My origional idea was to make a flower form that would focus sunlight in the ‘petals’ and direct it at a center prism for the staymn, which would in turn cause a nice perismatic diffusion effect. The “flower for flower’s sake”, as Hernan put it, was turned down and as they liked the idea, they asked me to re-evaluate the form. Of course, the idea that form follows function worked with what I was doing- I needed a bowl shape with a centerpiece and adoped a flower for that, but the “over the top” ornate design was not looked well upon.

So now it’s a satellite dish/ampetheatre. It’ll probably change a few more times before the project is due Thursday, when I have to get my model critiqued, but I need to think of materials first (steel or aluminum?).

In Design in Culture, we aren’t learning anything new, like always, though we’re about to start a small assignment on an artist we admire. I plan on choosing an illustrator, since I’m not that enamored with any industrial designers, possibly [url=http://www.rkpost.net/]RK Post[/url]. We’ll see.

Deisng Thinking has been fun, though, currently thinking about my design thought model. We have an evaluation in March 31 in Leazar, where we need to deliver sketches for our idea. I have none, at the moment, but a blog [url=http://youknow4kids.com/samblog/2008/04/29/design-thougt-model-finished/]Walking with Christopher Walken[/url] from a NCSU ID student has really been some help.

More to come.

JAMES JOYCE

He was stupid
He didn’t know as much as me
I’d rather throw dead batteries at cows than read him
Everything was going fine before he came along
He started the Civil War
He tried to get the French involved, but they wouldn’t listen
They filled him up with desserts
He talked about all the great boxers that came from Ireland
Like he trained them or something
Then he started reading some of his stuff
Right as we told him to get lost
He brought up the potato famine
We said “Your potatoes are plenty good”
“Deal with it”
“Work it out somehow”
Then he said “America must adopt the metric system, it’s much more logical”
We said “No! We like our rulers, go away”
Thomas Jefferson said you always get the rulers you deserve

–Matt Cook

With that out of the way: “9″ looks awesome, check out the trailer. Also I saw Outlander, which was another awesome movie with Space-Viking Jesus and Hellboy in it: so quite enjoyable, really. I’ve been involved with Savannah and Paige with the making of some Animazement costumes- ones from the show Avatar: the Last Airbender. I’m going as Sokka, so that should be fun.

Finally, I’ve joined the Koala Wallop forums from Dresden Codak, and they’re rather awesome. I go by Pschovore there, so *shrug*. Check them out, I guess. Lots of transhumanists that are a bit sticky here and there, but decent folk who like a good joke and an intellectual romp around the block now and then.I’ve been posting my art, so here’s a few (plus my mech. lobster).

More to come, when I feel like updating o.O

Quote of the Day: “Ceiling River sees what you did there” -Savannah, on the last scene of Serenity

Random Linkage: http://www.reddit.com (how did I not know about this place?)

Simply put, when I scan a comic, I need to scan only one page. It makes detail oh so difficult, but *shrug*. I’ll get used to it.In the meantime, almost half done! Oh, and Paige and Savannah have jumped on the webcomic bandwagon. We’ll probably have a triple-comic site. Antics will ensue. As will pageviews. *competative*

School is going good- I hope I’m looked well upon in studio. I just designed and built my prototype mechanical trilobite/lobster tail. It works pretty well, but I need to re-design it with a pully internally for motion instead of the wire I have now. Sadness ensues in a number of forms. Also I’ll need to work with wood. Bugger on a cracker.

As for now: Comic!

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Quote of the day: “Aztec cannibal aliens? In my dimensional portal? It’s more likely than you think.”
-Nick, making a meme of his own comic

Random Linkage: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/human-clones-ap.html Human cloning!

ENIGMA MACHINE

Wonder what an “Engima machine” is? Well, here’s two ways to look at it. On one hand, you have the literal definition, that is a machine that either makes or is full of enigmas. Enigmas as:

So I once, long ago, took a comic class. It was only a week long, and I was in middle school. I designed some characters: a turtle and a bat with nothing connecting his head to his bottom jaw, and then had nothing to do with them. So I stuck them in a Dilbert comic strip; nearly word-for-word.

Then, come High school, I made a comic strip. Ramblings of a Madman. It was more of me spilling random thoughts into quick image form on the gimp, and was essentially wiggly stick figures either being totally random (Trans-Cheese-Formers), or essentially paraphrasing the work of a comedian I had heard about in image form (pierced livers!) I churned out 21 in all, though one saved weird and I only have the top half of each panel. It was printed, distributed to a small, small ring of friends at lunch, and discontinued after two years.

So here comes college. I’ve learned a bit from my past comic experience, but not a lot. I read webcomics, certainly, and normal comics, but when it came down to -making- a comic up to this point, I was torn between a lighthearted story (ala Dresden Codak), a banter 3-panel comic (ala Penny Arcade), or a more serious well-drawn comic (ala Pheonix Requiem). In the end, I settled on the Penny Arcade style, though after making two comics in that style, I’m actually leaning towards the Dresden Codak road. Which will I take? Both? Neither? Will I create a brand new comic form? Who knows. But what I do know is I’ve got a style down (ish) and got some characters and 2 and a half comics done.

So ha. A-Boof (as it is tentativly called) will  happen!

Quote of the Day: “I think Nick is a pretty cool guy. eh messes up internet memes and doest afraid of phail.” -Ginny

Random Linkage: http://frostedonyx.wordpress.com/ Blog of a Monster