Oct
18th

Today at work we had a 2-hour presentation and demo by the wonderfully talented and inspiring concept artist, Andrew Jones. He talked about his life, how he became an artist, what he did, his inspiration, his philosophy and it was super interesting and awe-inspiring with a hint of humor. Then he showed us his demos and tips in Corel Painter. The whole experience was beyond awesome.

He started out as a concept artist for a video game company, then him and his buddies started conceptart.org as a joint portfolio to increase traffic and it exploded into a web phenomom, turning into a major web community. Later on, they started a company called, Massive Black which does concept art, 3D-modeling, animation and a ton of other things for their clients and of course, it became a huge success as well. They also started doing artist workshops because they wanted to travel around Europe but didn’t want to pay for it! It’s funny how something so insignificant like that can blow up to something as big as it is today. Later on, he decided he wanted to do something new and different with his creativity so he started do live paintings for concerts and raves. All I can say is… WOW. I’m high on inspiration. I wish I had ambition like his then I could let my creativity go crazy. Unfortunately, I don’t… yet.

Anyway, their next workshop is in Seattle next year but it’s the same weekend we are going to Big White! I’m not a concept artist nor even an artist, but this is good inspiration and that’s all that matters.

Andrew Jones. Andrew Jones. ANDREW JONES. Don’t forget that name!

Anyway, when I was telling the Boyfriend today, he was like “OOOOH ANDREW JONES!” And I was like “oh, the baseball player?” (trying to sound like a smartass). Little does he know, I googled Andrew Jones earlier and saw him pop up in the results too. HAHA.

If you could travel through time, what era would you visit and why?

Ooh, I would totally travel back to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt when Nefertiti lived or to Cleopatra’s Ptolemaic dynasty. Or I would go back to England in the 17th Century. Hmm. That’s hard. :S

Oct
12th

• Tiny 6pt serif fonts. Anything under 8pt is way too small. I don’t even bother reading ESPECIALLY if it is red text on a black background (and a rock band/celebrity image as a header). I think some bloggers are purposely trying to blind visitors for their own amusement.
• People who try to sound smart but their entries are filled with spelling mistakes and signs that they have no clue how to punctuate properly. People make typos all the time, but it’s usually not that bad.
• Uh, you can use commas too. [edit] And paragraphs!
• No one has perfect grammar but combined with…
• When persons try to use voluminous terms but don’t know how to use them correspondingly in a punctilious sentence. I recollect this incongruous acquaintance who would always inquire in the thesaurus when writing anything and predestine the longest, most ingenious sounding words. It was too facetious and you could not fathom what the hell they are proposing to conjecture.God, what a tragic point (above). I don’t even know what the hell I just said but you know what I mean; don’t use words in the thesaurus just because they are there! They probably won’t work with what you’re trying to say anyway. And please don’t do this on anything professional and work-related because I’ve seen it… and it’s sad.

What are three words you would just to describe yourself?

artistic, shopaholic and bookworm.

Oct
9th

Can science and religion co-exist?

Yes because we’ve been co-existing for how many millenia? If there is one, there will always be the other because people will always be disputing.

We watched The Kingdom last weekend and I thought it was amazing and powerful because you know this is stuff that is happening today. The guys thought there weren’t enough action in the middle, which was partly true, but I thought it built the mood. The bombing scenes were really sad and horrific but they didn’t show any mangled body parts and such, to my disappointment. Just kidding… but not really (I’ve gotta stop saying that). The other two movies that I really really want to watch is Beowulf and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. I think if I never read Beowulf in Lit 12, I wouldn’t be interested in seeing that movie at all. The Elizabeth movie preview already kept me off my seat throughout the entire sequence so I can’t wait to see what the movie brings.

Oh, did I mention that Trieu and Nat both got new snowboards this weekend? His is white and hers is purple and they’re hot.  I want a new one now too!

They were not drunk. Drunk people don’t go “omggg I’m soo drunk!” They go, “omggg I’m soo fucked!” Who the hell censors themselves when they are drunk?

Hahahahahaha I love it and I agree. I think we all hate fake drunks, don’t we? Or those who act drunker than they really are!

Oct
2nd

Sep
17th