I've always considered myself an artist, although from outward exterior appearance I tend to look fairly un-artistic. >_>;
I don't get piercings, or tattoo ISBN barcodes on my neck, or anything else remotely in the direction of physical pain. I'm too delicate for that. ;___;
But I save the clear plastic cartons my organic eggs come in because they make great disposable trays for when I'm watercolor painting.
If I'm not carrying anything else, I'm carrying my sketchbook with me - which like myself is a very plain 100 page utilitarian beige hard cover spiral bound affair - at least on the outside. I like to think the difference between my sketchbook and flashier ones is that mine is my 15th - the other 14 are filled front to back.
At work I'm not very artistic - and usually I don't have any inclination to let people know I can draw. I don't know why.
Work keeps getting busier and busier though... and there is less time to draw. It makes me wonder what I'm doing with my life.
But anyhoo - what do you folks do as an artist that separates you from the regular "surface dwellers"? :X
And art can be anything - photoshop, music, dance, sculpture - I don't just mean drawing furry cat women in a sketchbook using ballpoint pens. >_>;
FAYETTE COUNTY -- An urban legend comes to life, and meets its death in northeast Georgia.
A boar weighing 1,100 pounds was shot and killed in a Fayette County neighborhood.
Residents say the wild hog had been tearing up their yards for years.
These so-called "hogzillas" have been spotted and killed in south Georgia in recent years, but the Department of Natural Resources is trying to determine if the pig shot in Fayette County this week is a state record.
People passing by the Coursey house are amazed by the boar hanging from a tree in the front yard. William Coursey, an avid hunter, shot the pig in a neighbor's yard.
Coursey says the boar is one of four that had been roaming the neighborhood, uprooting yards for seven years. He says the other three animals may have been killed previously.
He says he thought it was myth until now. Coursey and his son took the hog to a local weigh station, where it weighed in at 1,100 pounds. It's an estimated 9 feet long.
The Courseys believe the hefty hog may be the biggest ever, based on statistics they say they found in a local hunting magazine.
Experts say the large pigs are "feral," meaning they were once domesticated but now run wild. They can be dangerous, and the DNR urges that you call wildlife experts to remove the animals.
Poor hoggy - looks like he escape from sausage university a few years back. ;____;
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Collaboration - just set a password on your picture, and share it with your collaborator
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p.s., and if that's not enuff for you... (WARNING: not for the squeamish or for those who don't use headphones)
The tower records near the office has been going out of business for the last month. They are at 40% off now for most titles. I must say even though they are advertising 50% off for War of the Worlds DVD, I have no desire to pay even $5 for a Tom Cruise movie as of late.
The one I've got my eye on though is um....
$20 at 40% off -> $12. I'm waiting for the price to go down more, being the cheap hobo that I am.
Its been really boring out here traveling. There's nothing on the hotel channels except news and more news, and this week is pretty much devoted to the JonBenet Ramsey arrest.
I've been starting to watch YouTube as an alternative and to catch up with "The Daily Show". There's a lot of really freaky people out there. o__o
There's also a lot of really talented people out there as well, who put it all on the line to show you a song they are playing, a film they are directing, or even just some dance moves they know. Its extremely visible this dichotomy of haters and non-haters that you see on the internet. For every video there are people who applaud and give constructive comments, but also there are people who just seem to be trying so hard to find new and innovative ways to tell the poster that they suck. This has happened on Piggy Farm as well to some extent, but not so much since we care about that sort of thing.
If I could reply to every bad post made by some loser trying to hide behind the anonymity of the internet, I would say this:
If you've ever seen something that someone did, and while deep down in your heart your soul knew that it was good, but on the surface all you could say to that person was, "I've seen better", remember this very fundamental concept of the difference between creators and non-creators. We've seen better too - and frankly we understand "better" on a far more comprehensive level than you do. When we see better, we learn from it, adapt because of it, endeavor to grow ourselves a little more based on it. We don't stop, like you did. You may think you are being realistic, but we understand reality too - and that is why we keep working towards our dreams, no matter the situation or adversity - because we understand our reality is not set in stone, that we do have the capability to change it as opposed to let it change us. So next time those damnable words "I've seen better" start coming out of your pie hole, go eat a pie and shove it.
I am traveling this week, working in Tulsa for Williams Energy - they are a natural gas company.
The person I am working with brought her daughter to work for lack of a baby sitter. The girl is really cute and drew a polka-dotted house on the whiteboard with red, blue, and green dry-erase markers.
I really wanted to draw a piggy person living in the house and waving out of one of the windows but my *cough* professionalism wouldn't let me.
Now grandma came and picked the little girl up and I have lost probably my only excuse ever to draw a piggy in front of the customer.
I know its a little hokey for a guy who already does some stuff with websites to ask/consider this, but would a DeviantArt account make more sense than just say, upgrading my LJ account to be able to use the ScrapBook feature?
Closed on the apartment yesterday. I'm indentured to the bank for 15 years now. x_____x
Then again, I'm a homeowner now. o____o
Geh, my real estate agent was soooo lazy. She called to say she was having car trouble and couldn't make it to the closing. Jeezus - I don't understand some people - if you don't plan on going, just say so - wtf is up with grown-ups trying to pass off piss-poor lies? Maybe in some other parts of the world its different, but here in Boston its my theory that real estate agents are genetically mandated to lie - they just simply cannot tell the truth.
You're sugar-hyped, caffeine-hyped, and permanently genki-er than a whole busload of Disney characters on crack. You eat too much, you're a total klutz, and somehow this makes you an ideal candidate for saving the world. If you're really unlucky, you get to get naked in an embarrassing transformation sequence in every single episode, with only a few sparkles and pastel blobs to cover your dignity.
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