Thursday, April 14, 2005

   Are any of you familiar with a piece of classical artwork entitled "The Garden of Earthly Delights"? Has anybody here seen it, or better yet, know what it's about? M.C. Escher did a reproduction of a close-up of one scene in the artwork (the part with the torso with the arms going into the ground like trees and the pair of ears in the background with the knife in-between them). His close-up was entitled "Hell". For those of you who don't know, M.C. Escher is my favorite old-school artist. And also for those of you who don't know WHO Escher is, he was the Dutch artist that drew this little ditty:


Anyway, I bring "The Garden of Earthly Delights" up because of something I'm doing with my manga. But you'll just have to wait and see how it ties into my manga. He he he, are you interested yet? ^_^
Anyway, any info on The Garden of Earthly Delights would be greatly appreciated.

If you haven't seen yesterday's post, please check it out. Lindsey submitted an AWESOME pic!

OK, now for some fun stuff! As you may or may not know, one of my hobbies is optical illusionary work. So I have a lot of really cool pics, puzzles and trivia that deal with illusions. For instance, check this out:


@_@ Woah...cuckoo crazy!

OK everybody, I'll be back tomorrow! \m/ ^_^ \m/
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Holy crap, guys. You're not going to believe this. I couldn't believe my eyes. Look at this:



Guess how many colors she used.
Give up?
2. That's right. 2. Lavender and gray. She used tints and shades of those colors, but not blacks, yellows, reds or tans. All the colors are shades of purple or gray.
I don't get it. How did she do it? I'm almost speechless, and I haven't even gotten into the other artistic elements.
Look at the folds in the cape. I'm still trying to figure out how I could draw something like that. The face, chest and hair were all done in exact proportion to Ed's height. And look at all the detail in the Auto-mail (Ed's mechanical arm)! It looks like metal. REAL metal, like I could reach out and touch it. Check out all the little glimmers of reflectivity and glare on his arm, and how it maintains its original radiosity. I can't draw a fist for the life of me, much less an Auto-mail fist. I could spend hours talking about the knuckles alone. Just to show you how detailed Lindsey (ElvesAteMyRamen) is, I magnified an image of the fist. It's enlarged, so its pixel rate is a bit dull, but it does show you what I mean:

Look at that. I just can't get over this pic. What more can I say?

By special request of MichaelsGirl91, please (continue to) pray for her friend Sandy. I'm not sure exactly what's wrong, but I'll find out.

And please also pray for Miyoko-chan. Massive car problems on top of being sick is never a good thing. Details on her site.

Here's the complete Prayer List:

My Pastor
Lindsey (ElvesAteMyRamen) (her healing and the art thievery)
MichaelsGirl91 and her friend Sandy
The Victims of the Christmas Day Tsunami
Akane the Fox, her friend, and her friend's boyfriend in Re-hab
Miyoko-chan's car and her brother Scott’s car
That Mikoko-chan gets over her cold/flu
SILVER TIGER
Honoto
jennifer92
My Grandmother
And Mark

Thank you for all your help with the crazed-look question. If anyone else has suggestions on how to draw that psychopathic, insane look that says, "I'm gonna' kill you!!!!", please tell me. Special thanks to EAMR for her help. b~_'

If you didn't see yesterday's post, please check it out. And if you haven't seen the new AMV on Living Doll's site, please check it out! It's an Evangelion AMV using Elton John's "I Want Love".
And Speaking of EVA, my buddy Josh (phantomlord882) just got a sticker for his back car window that says "NERV Parking Permit". XD That's awesome!

OK everybody, I'll see you tomorrow!
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

I went to a Youth Group yesterday! It was my first time there, so I felt a little shy, but it was fun! I thought it was going to be like my 8 years of tedious private school worksheets crammed into a 1 hour and 30 minute period, but it wasn't boring or anything. I hated Bible class back at my old school. We didn't talk about issues, we just did boring and pointless worksheets on Old Testament stuff that I can't remember a lick of any more. There is A LOT more important stuff in the Bible then how many horses King Saul had on his way to Nineveh or something like that. They would seriously drill us on pointless questions like that. But this group was great! But I was sort of disappointed at how many of the kids were there just because their parents made them go. They were a bunch of morons anyway, and all they did was talk. Plus there was this one couple (boyfriend and girlfriend) that did nothing but flirt and make out the whole time. I see enough public tonsil-hockey in my school hallways, so I certainly don't want to see it at church of all places. I really don't even want to see it anywhere else for that matter. It's so frikken' rude. They were freaking frenching each other while the leader was talking! And they weren't willing to hide the fact they were frenching, either. They let it all hang out, or, flop out, as of a better term. I was like (in my head), "Oh, sure, go on ahead. Not like you're here to worship God in the first place. So by all means, sit there and tongue stab each other where we all can watch", which was obviously sarcasm. I respect that they have a relationship and all, but please, don't make me watch you, and if you make me watch you anyway, don't do it at church. It's like they were rubbing my nose in the fact I don't have a girlfriend. People that are that rude really piss me off. It was absolutely disgusting. And they made sure to do it when the group leader wasn't looking. I wanted to throw something at them and yell, "Get a room!", or maybe, "Hey! Tongues to yourselves, people!". Geeze, stuff like that absolutely pisses me off to the bone.
Sorry, I just REALLY needed to get that rant off my chest. Thanks for listening. ^_^;

Speaking of being pissed off, I'd like to know what your pet peeves are. In case you don't know what a pet peeve is, it's something really small that gets on your nerves. Here are mine:

When people pick their finger-nails. (*shudder* >_<)
When people make out in public. (get a frikken' room, biiiiii-otch!)
When family members screw up your toothpaste tube and get it all crusty, sticky and capless.
When the batteries give out in your walkman at the best part of a song. (Exxxxxxxxiiiiiiiiit Ligt! Ennnnnnnnteeeeeeer Ni---)
When fast food places get my order wrong.
When my gay little over-restrictive parental block makes me miss the dramatic finale of an Inuyasha or Full Metal Alchemist saga.
When idiots see my doodles at school and say, "Is that Dragon Ball Z/Poke'mon?". (Anime is more then those 2 crappy shows, people!)
When my mom gets on me for listening to heavy metal. (Sure, Led Zeppelin did drugs. But guess who else did. Jimi Hendrix AND The Beatles, mom!!!)
People who think Metallica sucks. (You don't have to LIKE them, you just have to acknowledge that they have talent)
My brother
Slipknot ("AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". That's my Slipknot impression!)
Usher (he's an OK artist, but he's all sizzle, no steak)
Smokers (It's OK if you want YOUR breath to smell like stir-fried sh--, but don't waft that tar down my lungs)
Marcy (I'll show you attitude, biiiiiiii-otch!)
And reports on Communist China!

So, what are yours?

Anyway, please continue to pray for everyone on the Prayer List:

My Pastor
Lindsey (ElvesAteMyRamen) (her healing and the art thievery)
MichaelsGirl91 and her friend Sandy
The Victims of the Christmas Day Tsunami
Akane the Fox, her friend, and her friend's boyfriend in Re-hab
Miyoko-chan's car
That Mikoko-chan gets over her cold/flu/whatever it may be
SILVER TIGER
Honoto
jennifer92
celestialessecnce
My Grandmother
And Mark

I've got some new stories to add, but now I've got to collect the info on what's going on, so please check back tomorrow. And if you didn't see yesterday's post, please take a look. I spent a lot of time on it.

I'll see you all tomorrow!
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Monday, April 11, 2005

   Wooo, sorry about the lack of updates. I was doing some major stuff over the weekend with Josh. Regardless, please read the post below this one if you haven't already.

Man, that report on Communist China is due 2 weeks from now, and I'm having trouble getting started. I'm worried that I won't be able to put in a quality effort in this thing. I hate stupid projects like this. Though the paper is a mere 4 pages long (and double-spaced! That's easy!), I'm still stressing out. (*sigh*)

I've only gotten 3 or 4 comments on my new artwork (though they are excellent comments), so if you haven't seen them please take a look.
I'd like to thank everyone for being honest about my art. It's really helping me improve. I'm still trying to figure out why I didn't see that the legs were getting too thin until it was pointed out. Any other suggestions on how to improve? It would be greatly appreciated.

Speaking of art, I need some help with my expressions. You know that look somebody gets when they've totally lost it? Like that absolutely insane look that makes them look like they're capable of anything. Do you have any tips on how to draw that look? If you need me to see an example of what you mean, please send me the link via PM or comment. Again, it would be greatly appreciated if you have even the smallest tip!

Ooh, and photobucket.com is no longer blocked for me! So now I can show you the newest of Lindsey's (ElvesAteMyRamen's) awesome artwork!



Just look at that! Check out the stars and all! This pic nearly left me speechless. It just looks so cool. Check out all the shading on the dragon's body. It's especially evident in the neck. Look at all the individual muscles and tendons up there. And the clouds on the Earth look wicked awesome to. She didn't do them as boring solid wavey-thingys like most people would. She made those awesome jet-stream patterns and made that cool fade-off line transition. I sure wish I knew how to do that.
Please visit her gallery and vote on this piece and please comment on what you like about it as well. ^_^


Metallica, baby!!!! \m/ ^O^ \m/
Rock on!!! 20 bucks to anyone who's metal enough to tell me the member’s names!

See you guys tomorrow!
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Thursday, April 7, 2005

   The Promise I Ask of You
Hi everybody. There's something that I've been needing to get off my chest. Now I know what you're thinking. You're probably going to say to yourself, "Oh, ghost-boy is just trying to cram his little story/manga into reality because he can't deal with the fact that real life is so boring". Well, it's true that my manga (entitled "Ghost Hunter") is in fact about demons, ghosts, Satan, God, Christ and the Antichrist. But, most of what my manga's about is based on fact and stuff that happens in real life. It's not the other way around. I don't think up stuff and then try to convince others (like you guys) that they are real. What I say I say in complete belief and truth, and I do it because I don't want anything bad to happen to you guys.

Here's the deal: I need you guys, all of you, to promise me something. I can't force you to agree to this, but please, I ask you as a friend to do something for me. If you value me at all as a friend or respect my wisdom or knowledge (however much or little I may have), you will please promise me one thing.

I want you to promise me that you won't do something dangerous. Spiritually dangerous. I ask you to please, never make yourself spiritually vulnerable. What will make you spiritually vulnerable? Stuff like screwing with Oija Boards and stuff. Tarot cards, Witchcraft, fortune-telling, self-healing by invoking spirits, all of these are EXTREMELY dangerous. I've seen people who mess with Oija boards and witchcraft and stuff. Bad things come from that stuff. Evil things. Dangerous things. Rape, murder, possession, torture, molestation, abduction, masochism, dermatographia, ritualistic abuse, depravity, necrophilia, substance abuse, and other crap. "It's not the intent of what you do, it's what you do". That means that if you're doing something spiritually dangerous, it doesn’t matter if you're doing it "for Satan" or not. What you're doing puts you in danger regardless. Please promise me you won't screw with things like that. When I say "fortune telling", I'm not telling you that you can't eat a fortune cookie. I'm just asking that you draw the line between demonic contact and "harmless fun". The title "harmless fun" is often a used as a name to sugar-coat something that really is dangerous. I can assure you for everything it's worth, a Oija board is anything but "harmless fun", and it leads a pack of stuff just like it (previously listed). So promise me this, if you value our friendship in any way; promise me that you won't screw with Oija boards or any of the other crap that I talked about. I know I sound like some Utah Mormon dude (which I'm not) when I say that. It's just like a drug: You MIGHT get hurt (in the case of drugs, you might get addicted), or you might not. I can’t prove anything to you guys, so you're just going to have to trust me on this. It's really important. Please promise me. Please believe me.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2005

   Hey everybody. First off, I want to thank everybody that's been there for me when I was depressed or upset. You guys have really pulled my sorry rear out of some sad times. I really don't know what I'd do if I didn't have you guys there to catch me before I fall. I don't know how deep I would have sunk into depression if I didn't have all of you to talk with about what I feel. Really, you're some of the only people I know who care enough to listen. I love you guys, you really do mean a lot to me.

I am in fact feeling a lot better then I was yesterday. I'm trying to strike a deal with my brother about computer time, and things are looking OK for the most part. Let's just hope everything turns out OK for me. Please keep me in your prayers.

But that's enough about my selfish problems, I need to tell you about the people who really need your prayer. You guys remember how SILVER TIGER and her cousin in the hospital were on the prayer list? Well, Kayla's cousin...well, passed away in the hospital. He left us on Easter Sunday (please visit SILVER TIGER's site for details). As you can tell by her posts, Kayla was really very close to him. he was like her best friend. I know it's sad that he left us, but it was his time to be called up to his Heavenly Father. Needless to say, Kayla is extremely sad. Please visit her and offer her support. And please do the same for jennifer92. We really need to help both of them out.

Here's the Prayer List.

Prayer List :

My Pastor
Lindsey (ElvesAteMyRamen) (her healing and the art thievery)
MichaelsGirl91 and her friend Sandy
The Victims of the Christmas Day Tsunami
Akane the Fox, her friend, and her friend's boyfriend in Re-hab
Miyoko-chan's car
SILVER TIGER
Honoto
jennifer92
celestialessecnce
My Grandmother
And Mark

I'll see you guys later.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2005

   If you haven't seen my 2 new pics, please check them out.

Well, I still feel like crap. I had a rough night last night. I was up late because I was so depressed. My parents have now decided that my brother can commandeer the computer in my room over the weekend, every weekend. The one chance I have to relax in the week is now under his control when it comes to being in my room and being obnoxious. I use the computer to enhance my creativity and head a frikken' Prayer Ring, and he uses it to play his stupid little Runescape crap and rot his brain. I think what I do is a little more important then what he does. I'm not even asking him to keep off the computer, just to let me use it when I want to. But no, that ai'nt going to happen. I hate my brother. If he was anyone else in the world other then my own flesh and blood, I'd have no problem at all never seeing him again in my life. He enjoys pissing me off, which ruins my creativity.
My parents SAY they're not biased towards him, but they are. It's so freaking obvious. Odd how it's always the good kids that behave right get screwed over, isn't it?

I barely slept at all last night. I feel like such a wuss whining about this miniscule crap when you guys are the ones that really have it bad. But what am I doing wrong? I'm being the best I can, and all I get is more restrictions and crap. I hate how my family works. It's absolute garbage. I don't get what else my parents could possibly expect of me.

That chic Marcy on my bus didn't help much either. Here's a synopsis of what happened:

Logan: (*sitting in his seat listening to music with his back-pack in the empty seat across the aisle*)

Marcy: (*walks up to the seat with Logan's back-pack on it, sits on his stuff making it creak, and sets her back-pack down*)

Logan: "Are you sitting on my book-bag?"

Marcy: "..."

Logan: "Please don't do that. If you need more space, I can move it."

Marcy: "OK." (*gets off his back-pack, picks it up and chucks it onto the aisle floor making it go "crunch"*)

Logan: "What the crap!? What'd you do that for!?"

Marcy: "..."

Logan: "Sheesh, Marcy. Why do you have to be such a bi--- about little stuff like this?"

Marcy: "'Cuz I'll be a bi--- if I want to."

Logan: "Geeze, I guess it's 'that time of month' again for you, isn't it?"

Marcy: "No, I just like being a bi--- to nobody 'cept you."

I wanted to frikken' knock her teeth out and tell her some more nasty crap, but I'd just be sinking down to her level. It may sound like I'm just throwing a pity-party and saying "I'm such a good Christian for feeling bad about this", but I sort of feel bad about calling her what I did. She deserved to be called that in my opinion, but Jesus wouldn't have retaliated like that.

Marcy thinks she's Queen Latifa or something. I don't mean to mention race as an actual thing with social meaning, I mean it as the way ignorant people view attitudes and personas. Marcy thinks she's sooooooo "black". You know what I mean by people who use their race as a mold for their attitude. Come on, fess up, we all know what a "wigger" and some of you what a "chigger" means. You guys are mature, so I can talk about stuff like this with you. Well, Marcy is African American in race, but she tries to make herself look big by putting on the "little Mrs. Thang" attitude. She thinks she's so "black" that the oil light will come on when she steps out of a car.

*sigh*, I'm not feeling to good guys, I really had a crappy Spring Break and now it's just going to get worse. I'll see you all later.

And I have a special request for you guys. jenifer92 is in a comma in the hospital, and she and her family really need our support. Her family will check her PM's, so please PM her with support.

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Monday, April 4, 2005

   Have any of you heard that song "She Blinded Me with Science" by Dolby Thomas? If so, do you have even the SLIGHTEST inkling about what it's about? The best I've come up with so far is that maybe it was about him dating some super-smart chic.

Anyway, I am feeling better then I was yesterday, thanks to all your support. I'm really glad I always have you guys to fall back on. But, I'm starting to think it's kind of selfish of me. Sure, it's important to have people you can go to when you feel down, but that doesn't make it right for me to dump all my problems on you guys. I'm sorry if it seems like I've been doing that lately. My selfish little problems pale in comparison to the stuff you guys put up with/have put up with. You guys have made mw thankful for what I have, and I'll try to remember that in the future when I start thinking about wasting web space with some pity-party rant.
I get comments and PM's every so often about how people think I'm "such a great friend". I'm flattered by this thought, and I of course don't think that such messages are lies or anything, but I think I'm getting a bit too much credit. It's you guys that deserve that kind of recognition, not me. Some you have come to me seeking advice and prayer, and more then once have I selfishly put it off for my own reasons. For anyone that's included in that statement, please forgive me.

But I won't end this post on a sad note, because you guys have made me happy again! ^_^ So on to the fun stuff!

Updates :
In case you didn't notice, Flogging Molly is now blasting the day away with the new song of the week: "The Kilburn High Road". So listen to the sound of dead men dying and relax with the combination of Celtic music and heavy metal!
Also, there's a new quote of the week up, this one being from a Metallica song. If you missed the last Quote of the week, it was “Science + Beer = Good!”, quote Adam Savage from MythBusters.

Blurbs :
*The Yuki Fan club results are still on EAMR's site! (They're on yesterday's post)
*There are some new features added to My Otaku! I've already seen the "Who's Online" marker, and I can't wait to check out what's been revamped with the Buddy-List!
*It seems that videodesk.net has added a new feature as well. Now music files have a built-in scope view!

Please check out my latest artwork addition. It's a pic I did to thank Miyoko-chan for being there for me as a friend. I think I goofed-up her face a little. -_-' What do you think? And please forgive the amateurish attempt at adding computer text. I had no idea how to add text other then MS paint. Does anyone know a program that can be used to make text adding easier?

I've got to do a report on "Communist China" before the end of the month. What sucks is that I have to wait a month between turning in the paper and giving the presentation. -_-' I want to get it over with!!! ^_^;
Anyway, if you guys happen to know any sites that contain good info on communist China or have any interesting little tidbits of info, I'd greatly appreciate it.

I've got some work and editing to do, so I'm off. Thanks for your time, guys, and I'll see you tomorrow!
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Sunday, April 3, 2005

   Alright, everybody. I'm still confused, but I THINK xSakurax is OK. I'm not completely sure about it, but I think those posts on xSakurax's site were written by her dead-beat friends. If that's the case, then freakin' shame on them for making us worry like that!!! Those JERKS!!!
Any who, regardless of its authenticity, thanks to everyone that posted on their sites and prayed for her.

Blurbs :
*The winners of the Yuki Fan Club contest have been posted! Check them out on ElvesAteMyRamen's site!
*There's a new AMV on Living Doll's homepage! (I'll post an AMV review soon)

I posted a pic for Miyoko-chan to thank her for being there for me when I was down. Please check it out.

Well, my little brother's birthday was yesterday, but since we had our family over (everything went well, by the way), we're celebrating today. And of course, my brother expects to get everything he wants, and my mom makes sure of that. -_-' It always seems like one or the other or BOTH are always riding my rear for something. My dad is the only one that even comes close to understanding me, and he's controlled by my ever-so-moody mom. I hate being here with my family. But, Lord knows that a lot of you have it worse, like Vankalla 86 and definitely xSakurax, not to mention Azura623 when she was living with her mom.

(*sigh*), regardless, I'm still feeling down. My parents don't give a crap how I feel as long as their precious little psycho is happy. He's just a deceptive, obnoxious little jerk. I work, and study, and obey, and he still gets more respect. He gets trust and attention he doesn't deserve at all. I'll never be respected by them if things stay like this. I feel like crap, and that's how I'll be treated until I'm out of this house. Way to go, mom and dad.
It's my last day of Spring Break, and the whole thing has sucked. It'f absolutely beyond frustrateing that my one week to focus on my art was ruined by my stupid family. This sucks. I hate this. This all a bunch of BS.

I'll see you guys later. -_-'
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Saturday, April 2, 2005

   HEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!
I don't have much time to post, my family is going CRAZY right now. But please, visit xSakurax, it's urgent!!! And please post a message like this on your site!!! Why of all the times does my family have to keep me off the computer NOW!?!? Please everybody, it's an emergency!
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