Wow... that Giraffe is a real bastard...

Any savvy web surfers (or ballot-spoilers/boil-spalloters) may wish to have their say in this years Webby Awards. As RedVsBlue puts it:


For those who don't know, the Webbys are like the Oscars for the internet, but the people who win Webbys tend to not be as attractive as the people who win Oscars (except for Peter Jackson, thanks for bringing those good looking Hollywood bastards down a notch).



Interesting nominees include CBC Radio 3 for best broadband and Whitehouse.org for best humor.

Also, here's a great news story. It's nice to know that those evil 15 year old terrorist troublemaking commie-nazi's drawings can't depict the Dark Lor... er... President Bush in a bad light. What does it say about children in a democracy when they *gasp* dissent against the goverment.

wow, this site is awesome

The Dark side of Toys R Us

Hey, D&D is 30 years old this year.

Here is some message board nostalgia:

8bit D&D

Hellion - try Suprnova

Alison - GF is geekfest. Beck already has enough wistresses... supplementary would be over the top. Although why he's using abbreviations and shorthand on a message board is beyond me.

Oh yeah, loved the movie... er... game Metal Gear Solid : The Twin Snakes. Voice actors (which were bothering me throughout the game) can be recognized from Spiderman, He-man, Pinky and the Brain (the voice of Pinky, actually), The Jetsons, The Tick, and many more. (That's right, I looked it up at 4 in the morning. Sue me.)

hey guys i download ninja turtle episodes from kazaa and i was wondering if anyone knew where to download the episodes on websites.also does anyone have the original tmnt episodes on dvd im lookin for the whole series.i have a lot of pc games so if anyone is lookin to do a nice trade give me a email. well the hellion is out of here.

um, Beck, a supplementary GF? Girlfriend? will Keri approve? ;)

and Tay, well, I can't say you're wasting your life... diversifying perhaps
and perhaps you're focusing too much on it, but never is art a waste
it's an integral facet of you and it would be terrible for you to abandon it
maybe you just need to rethink how you go about doing it.

Good day,
Just thought I would break my habit and finally make a post. I'm off to Germany tomorrow, so everyone have a good couple of weeks, and I will catch you all later. On the 14th, i'm having a drinking and watching Jackass movie night, so everyones invited

P.S. Pam, I still need those film canisters, so gimme a call

Par
Need help w/ SuSe
It's not loading
Call me

and about supplementary GF
Call me

wow... this place really dies when people actually have time to do stuff. It's almost as bad as the l1me.tk board. But not quite.

As for me? 3:30 in the morning? yep. Gotta get up at 7:00? Yep. Gotta work tomorrow too? Yep.


Internet junkie?

yep.

I seriously think the internet is ruining my life. It's so EASY to justify it though. I tell myself it's all productive... and I really do kind of believe it... but something in the back of my mind is telling me I'm just wasting my time. I tell myself that spending hours surfing art&design forums and graff sites is EDUCATIONAL. I'm not even a poster at most of them... just a lurker. Shit. But am I really actually doing myself any favours by 'schooling' myself in online artwork and art discussions? Would my time be better spent actually DOING it? I'm not sure. For the non-artist it would be easy to say "yeah, you can't learn by not doing it", but they don't know shit. In all honesty I find that being a better artist has almost EVERYTHING to do with learning how to 'see' things and relatively NOTHING to do with how to hold/move a pencil. But when I say 'learning to see' I mean it in 4 ways:


• 1. how to truly percieve observable reality (do you have any idea how hard it is to actually 'see' something as it really is? have often do you stop to notice what colour a shadow is?)



• 2. the understanding/conceptualization/internalization of other artists' styles/techniques through study of their pieces.



• 3. Focusing your mind's eye so that you can 'see' an image in your head and also manipulate it plastically and make transformations of the object in not just 3-dimensional space, but also 'imaginary/impossible' spaces. And not just a single object either, try manipulating the virtual space of the image itself. (ie: optical illusions/M.C. Escher's work etc.)



• 4. learning the universal canon of aesthetics. Islamic textual design, King Akhenaten's canon, a 'death's head' inscription on a 16th century grave marker, the 3D wildstyle burner on the side of a train, the cave paintings of Lascaux France, the Chrysler building... all of these are 'beautiful'. They seem to have so little in common... and yet there's something present in all of them that makes them innately humanly aesthetic. And yet it's so hard to KNOW that aesthetic. Is it the 'flow'? Is it the symmetry? Is it the emotion it conveys? It could be a billion things... but it's probably not just any of them; it's ALL of them. In fact, it's probably an incredibly precise ratio of them. Something so intricate that it cannot be taught through written word. It defies description. Either you know it or you don't. And if you don't, you keep looking. And slowly, slowly... you begin to wrap your head around it, get a FEEL for it... I don't know if it's possible to ever understand it completely, but as an artist you are nontheless compelled to try.



I've only ever attempted to write 5 or 6 graff pieces in my life... and those attempts span the course of 3 years. However, the 1st attempt could have been drawn by a 6-year-old whereas the last attempt is relatively skilled. How can a person improve so immeasurably in the course of 6 drawings? It seems impossible, doesn't it? And yet I'm faced with these perplexities, these miracles everytime I draw something. Art can never be learned by producing artwork. It can only be learned by exercising the '4 ways of seeing'.

And yet the question remains! While it's obvious that viewing art is helping me as an artist, would my time be better spent learning the '4 ways' through actual production? Obviously, it must be a ratio: one who only draws without reference is doomed to forever commit the same mistakes, but one who only views artwork can never consolidate the ideas through the practical application of commiting the concepts to paper... and to take it even further, how valuable to society/humanity is an artist who has spent a lifetime to master 'aesthetics' but has only produced 3 or 4 works of art? The fundamental question of quantity vs. quality arises.

But on the other hand, is fuelling this addiction for artistic perfection ultimately even purposeful at all? Maybe I should just give it up altogether... the daily all-night internet binges, the occasional 6-hour sketching sessions, the 4-hours of sleep per day... maybe instead I should just learn my university material for once.


What even compels me to continue doing this day after day for the last 20 odd years?



Maybe I'm just wasting my life.




Maybe I've already wasted my life.

Gemini: (May 21—June 21)
By this time next week, you'll be a living example
of what it's like to get blued, screwed, and tattooed.

huh, what does this mean?

blued? what? and tattooed? i don't think so.