[[. The Teratoma .]]

I LOVE GIANT SALAMANDERS

2009-11-07T05:21:23Z

YAAAAAAAAAAAY

MAN THE HARPOONS

2009-11-06T22:04:33Z

I have dealt with body image issues for a long fucking time so this shit stings. I'm glaring at my own fricken family when I think about these things too. I don't want people to go through this shit any more.

Fat and weight are not an indication of health . Thin people can be in horrible shape and not know it. Fat people are more likely to survive diseases (yes, including diabetes, weird right?) thanks to their extra weight. Dieting, losing and gaining weight, is worse than not. Whatever you believe, that's what the freaking science says.

The only reason people don't like fat is because they don't think it looks good- gross even- justified by the myth that it equates disease. Variety of body type, race, sexual orientation, fricken everything is warped in the media. If you're not exposed to it, you're not going to get used to it, you're not going to think it's acceptable. I think it's a horrible shame and should change. oh hey look its one of the oldest depictions of the human form.

This is NOT a cry for "fat is better". Fat people are just as likely to be assholes as any other designation.
This is a cry for "There is nothing wrong with how we are made!"

You shouldn't judge people by how they look anyway, geezes christ.

screw that

2009-11-05T15:40:49Z

Cover designs for class. whahg.

Goals for today:
finish inking 2 pages
Tight Roughs 10-12 start [finish?]

weekend:
NEGLECTED RESEARCH PAPER 8[

why not

2009-11-05T01:18:16Z

I've got INTP several times over the years so, ya. I think the multiple intelligence thing fills out the holes in the personality type - that is, it shows I'm an self-obsessed angstball of a visual artist.

There tends to be lots of INTPs on the internet on here - hello biased sampling - but they are a small part of the population according to various sources so whatever.

It's funny that I'm never The Artist type, but I'm not- I couldn't give a shit about people and I'm totally an Intellectual Elitist. i liek lurnin.

SPIDER-MAN I AM TIRED OF DRAWING YOUR DREAM JUNGLE

2009-11-03T06:44:22Z

More school work pages! Where all my time goes to die! <3
"Spider-man vision quest thing" - No text because damn speech bubbles covering up my WORK. damn writers.

I have been working ALLLL DAYYY on those last two pages because time management fail this weekend. my brain is mush. My hand hurts. I destroyed so much pencil. My finger nub is HUGE

I need to go back into this one and add the backgrounds still uhg why haven't I already
_{I'M SORRY PROF I LET YOU DOWN ;_;}

on this page I can't help but think Peter Parker is all like this

think different

2009-11-03T00:44:20Z

Protopressure

2009-11-02T07:54:22Z

can you hear your parents' parents
every hundred thousand million worms
fighting biting praying they live to see the day
to make to make to make you?

Screaming at your heals
their pointlessness at stake
"We did all this for you for you for you
You carbon culmination of eggs
What are you going to do with what we made you gave you?"

Your pounding heart is powered by the
Struggle of swarms of slimy fishes
What are you going to do with the
Hands they made for you?

Before they were eyes are watching
What good will come from
These newfound chemicals
And that maze you get lost in-
Your Shining Cortices-
And that fire and that fire and that fire?

i will never be calm

relevant song lol

2009-11-02T07:15:41Z

IS IT POSSIBLE TO EXPRESS THE LEVEL OF LOLWUT THAT I AM RIGHTNOW
KE KE KE KE KE KE KEKEKE------------------

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=SIT DOWN CHILD
GODDANG

oh man stygimoloch is still really cool

2009-11-01T21:34:19Z

SO BEHIND ON HOMEWORK

Alexis Rockman - is a natural history painter, a strong environmentalist. But their dynamism is amazing. Their current work is gorgeous-the weather paintings in particular, using the natural energy of the materials to emulate clouds and storms, I think are brilliant. Not afraid to break from naturalism into fantastic morphing to make a point as well. Their website offers an old enough retrospective to show how the artist has changed and developed, which I always find insightful. It's all about the messy emergence of life. <3 <3 <3

Dracorex and Stygimoloch described as juvenile Pachycephalosaurs - d'oh! Cretaceous ornithopods had very plastic facial bones, good lord.

Cell Size and Scale - very insightful!

Supervision - RAINBOW HAIR

Christian Macnevin - Digital fantasy artist du jour.

Fabio Viale - Illusions of materials -marble like styrofoam! Man think about how many formalists he makes angry, hrrrr.

Sphinx Moths - They're so strangly designed! Especially the tersa sphinx. It's like a graphic designer made them.

Guyver suit man - guyver suit man!

Sculptures made of tires - check out that shark! Tires give a really great quality to animal subjects.

Rob Tarbell - Painting with smoke.

Stephanie Brown - Animal meat paintings.

Artie Vierkant - Digital artist. Like, using browser windows as art. Manipulating people through systems. Playing all episodes of Star Trek at once. I can't really summarize.

shit brix

2009-11-01T03:44:53Z

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHAPPYBIRTHDAYCHRIS!!!!!!!!!!

I CANT BE THERE WITH YOU BUT AT LEAST I CAN SHOW THE INTERNET HOW TERRIFYING YOU ARE
WE WILL SUBJUGATE THEM ALL SOME DAY SO THEY NEED TO GET USED TO IT
SINCE YOU ARE THE GREATEST PERSON EVER
<3<3<3 <3

this sucks

2009-10-28T04:33:37Z

If I have not replied to you it's because Livejournal stopped emailing me comments and I can't fix it

I THINK I FIXED IT
MY EMAIL WAS EATING IT
BUT I STILL DONT KNOW WHAT YOU SAID SORRY I AM A DOUCHE

>8V

FUCKIN YEAH

2009-10-27T20:59:45Z

_{Respond to this post as if whatever you did last (it could be for example, drinking orange juice) is a massive, huge deal.
Allcaps, many exclamation points and occasional memes are acceptable.}

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I JUST PUT SOME WATER IN SOME MICROWAVABLE MAC AND CHEESE EASY MAC SHIT I DIDN'T HAVE TO DO FUCKING ANYTHING AND I'M GOING TO HAVE DELICIOUS FUCKING BUTTERY CHEESY GOODNESS IN ABOUT 3 MINUTES 30 SECONDS FUCK I AM SO STOKED BUT SINCE ITS SO GODDAMN AMAZING IT HAS TO DISSAPATE THE DELICIOUSNESS FOR A FEW MINUTES BEFORE MY POOR MORTAL LIPS CAN EMBRACE THE CRACK-TASTIC GOODNESS THAT IS KRAFT EASY MAC N CHEESE.

dorm room lol

2009-10-25T22:14:32Z

I got a new digital camera. Since my last one was ancient, I'm amazed at the luxury of 10 megapixels.

Here's my dorm room, where I spend most of my time workinggggg

photoshop CS3's auto-align and auto-blend worked well, whoa!

it is sad how much this appeals to me

2009-10-24T20:41:57Z

SF0 is a real-world gaming system.

You're tasked with engaging things to do ( create a fake artifact, talk to a telemarketer, explore a tower, document plant motion). Document it creatively, share publicly, and then enjoy other people's adventures. Play with or against people. Level up, accessing new tasks, intentionally or accidentally playing through different psychological constructs.

Originating in San Francisco, it can be done anywhere, with group games popping up all over for larger events.

OOOH MYYY GAAAWD I WILL NEVER BE BORED AGAIN

YAY BUGS

2009-10-23T20:02:41Z

I was walking through the Turner parking lot when I found a big black and strikingly irridescent blue with polka-dot insect . At first I jumped, thinking it was a giant, angry wasp, and that's because it's supposed to look like that, since it's the polka dot wasp moth ! A second glance showed it wasn't angry at all but a gentle critter that easily crawled into my hand, from which it flew about a foot before lazily floating back to the ground. It didn't even run away from me, they're so well protected by their scary wasp silhouette that they have a lackadaisical demeanor. Silly bugs.

Apparently they're pretty common around the South East, and you can attract them to your yard by planting oleander. They're absolutely gorgeous!

Earlier in the year I was whooping because I had just found out (after 4 years), by walking at night a couple times when they crawled out onto the cool sidewalk, that Georgia is also home to BIG FAT MILLIPEDES. I'd never seen them before! 3-4 inches long! You could put collars on them and walk them! So fun.

I am so pathetically, easily distracted by wildlife. If you wave a anole in my face, which are as common as Starbucks down here, I will still squeal like a school girl in a dollie shop. I can't help it.

Slurping a fruit smoothie through my straw proboscis, suckin up nutrients.

busy doing nothing

2009-10-22T06:41:54Z

Today I woke up really late to 3 emails saying Blizzard Entertainment was giving their yearly presentation at 8. Since I was so urged I determined to fuck it and skipped history class to make sure I got there on time.

Instead of class I hopped on the bus only to get off to go to the simultaneously fabulous and super ghetto chinese grocery store and grabbed random tasty things. I'd been craving guava juice but they were all out. papaya sugar milk drink will do.

I came back and cooked quick only to spend an hour nonstop, hypnotized by a stupid simple game for an HOUR. WHYYY.

Then 7:30 came around and I ran to the student center where it was full of the nerd population of school. We listen to the most lackluster lady show a broken power point presentation about what they wanted in applicant. That was indeed important information but what was such a hyped up presentation was nothing at all worth the fuss. Yes it was neccesary stuff to know if I am interested in working for them but mmmeh.

I came back, spending the evening talking to Chris and reading 50 pages of MLIA.

Good day! Feelin good! Busy doing nothing!

I'm in mid-quarter doldrums tho and probably will screw class tomorrow since nothing is due which never happens. I need to go out and do something to spark me up. hrnnnnng

EAGLE FIGHT EAGLE FIGHT

2009-10-20T03:16:27Z

Totally out of the blue I got invited to Creature Spot! I'm so excited! Aaahg aaahg.

Roommates are playing this hilarious old PS2 rhythm game. Robots are attacking! We must dance!

It's been cold here! "cold" being like "upper 60s" pfft. But it means I'm not all sweaty and gross, and I can regulate my own room's temp via the window. And the false sense that it's fall is calming on my northern yankee psyche. Palmtrees and pumpkins, fail.

Because of it's insatiableness I hate nostalgia, and to avoid that I make an effort to enjoy the moment as much as possible. There's a joy in simply, genuinely being and doing whatever that is without want to be and do otherwise. Imagining it from an authors perspective, if this part of the story would be quickly passed over- i.e "years of education"- then the little thing's don't matter, there's more to the story. Someone somewhere finds what you're doing poetic and wishes they were you. Years from now you'll forget the bad parts and see the good parts. I'm trying to notice those good parts now.

KEGROS DESTROYS

2009-10-19T06:13:16Z

Check out this wip IM IN ONE OF MY SPECIAL MOODS

Hopefully I can finish it for a crazy kaiju posterKEGROS SMASH

state of the union

2009-10-19T05:27:03Z

I haven't been able to see Where the Wild Things Are because of lack of transport. But that hasn't stopped me from dreaming half the movie!

After a long dream-segment of getting cramped seats in a theatre the 'film' started, and apparently all the Wild Things are the last of each of their kind, the rest were all killed in a war! It was so very sad and poignant that it left a strong emotional memory in my brain which is triggered whenever I see anything from the movie while I'm awake. WHAT THE HELL.

This is a new thing for my dream-mechanics. It happened with Watchmen, played through it almost entirely, and another movie that I forget. Anything long awaited seems to be fodder. It's so weird waking up and vaguely feel like I've seen it already.

The rest of my dreams lately have been the unbearably stress-filled kind that's been in vogue the last year or so. It doesn't make sense- I'm not depressed or in a bad way when I'm awake at all, I don't THINK i'm worrying that much, but there's apparently lots of shit going on that my subconscious is freaking out about.

Like the other night when I dreamt me and Chris did a suburban Romeo and Juliet gambit (via robotussin because it was on 30 Rock the night before) where we simultaneously died- with the process of dying distressingly played out OH GAWD - and didn't die. We then skipped town to hide from people who knew us. Well, if that isn't blatant escapist fantasy....

There's been tons of others I could get into specifics about but...ehh...it's tiring.
My old neighborhood installed a 'subway' of tiny pirate ships in 5 foot wide tunnels on metal rails but it was dangerous and you'd almost get hit by the automated things whizzing by.

OH, there was one where a GIANT white-scaffolded satellite was crashing, taking up the entire southern sky (the sense of scale was eerie as all hell) and it broke up when it hit the ground far away to be safe but so hard it...pushed the world back so we could see the other side of the world? like if below the horizon was the curved floor of the rest of the world? or indented the ball of the earth so we were looking up into the other part? you could see individual people. I remember commenting "omg thats the most amazing thing that I ever saw".

aw man wtf

sunday

2009-10-18T22:39:33Z

Oh hey check out this parrot Stephen Fry-

ALL YOUR ROBOTS SUCK,
I'M LOOKING AT YOU JAPAN!!
FUUUUUUUTURE

A compelling case of an atheist finding God. fitting for Sunday

Ted Dansen what are you-

This is how gryphax gets dressed in the morning.

when your vagina is a stargate

2009-10-14T03:01:16Z

chris: oh crap the goua'ould are all over my junk

want for jocularity

2009-10-13T13:25:37Z

QUESTION FOR YOU GUYS: What are some of the funniest things you have ever laughed at?

My friend who rides horses told me about the time her 8 year old sister was found playing with the green gel used to clean horses penises. I have never laughed so hard.

and today I read this text .

its about time!

2009-10-12T21:12:17Z

ART TIEM BACK LOG

Cut paper installations - look like cells, weee!

Eva Funderburgh - cute little monster ceramics

Victoria Reynolds - epic paintings of MEAT

Marc Dennis - super realistic paintings of delicate little lives.

Pencil Test Depot - gorgeous little animation nuggets!

Mark Jenkins - fantastic street artist installing surreal figures

Moon Treatise 2 - where do problems come from? A comic.

Irena Zablotska - eerie but colorful creature drawings

Adrian Ghenie - dark, disquieting paintings.

The Effects Lab Gallery - collection of various SFX creators, very cool!

R K Post - Fantasy illustrator, harkens to Brom.

lunchbreath - infographic funnies

Exdrawminate - DALEKS EEEEVERYWHERE!

Bernie Fuchs - gallery of lots of his fine art paintings, which is still only a fraction of his work. He died recently :C

OTHER

PHUN - flash....games? the 'name that tag' game is fun. I got 13 in a row.

Way To Suck That Dick! - NSFW , collection of hilarious amateur pornographic pictures.

Regretsy - things on Etsy that no one would ever buy...or would they?

Sometimes you just need fluffy candy

2009-10-11T04:56:00Z

This is my cottoncandy-furred chesire Rufflestiltskin.

I hurt my arm laying on it / inking at an odd angle, now it aches to draw
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK ibuprofen didn't work. I'm drawing anyway.

also my roomates are really friendly but they need to SHUT THE HELL UP. they are partying with each other ALL DAY EVERY DAY how is this possible. earplugs + headphones >_

good day fun fun

2009-10-09T05:37:05Z

Went to Drink n draw and had fun with grad students. had a chocolate stout. drew some crap. nomnomnom! good times. For various factors I got pretty loopy on just one bottle.

I made up a cheer!
Women, put your hands in circles and in the air and yell OVARIIIES
Men do the same but together at your crotch and yell TESTIIIIIES