Birthday • 1981-01-09 Gender •
Male Location • on Gaea, gazing at the Mystic Moon Member Since • 2003-08-30 Occupation • Don't Ask Real Name • Hal
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Achievements • None to speak highly of Anime Fan Since • Escaflowne aired on Fox. Favorite Anime • Escaflowne, Last Exile, InuYasha, Wolf's Rain, Rurouni Kenshin, Cowboy Bebop, and Full Metal Alchemist to name just a few. Goals • Learn to draw anime style pictures and to speak Japanese Hobbies • Anime, reading, writing, drawing, and music Talents • Special effects make-up
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Don't Let The Sound of Your Own Wheels Drive You Crazy
I'm sure a lot of you are wondering by now what the purpose of the last post's question session was about. Well, my primary intent was actually to stimulate your thinking processes. I hope no one minds that I won't be addressing individual answers, I just wanted to ask some things that were weighing on my mind. I do appreciate all the feedback, especially related to the username links. I think for now I'll keep them as is, but should someone turn their blog page off, I'll change their link to their portfolio. That will keep things sane for me anyway.
I'm not really sure how many people I mentioned it to on here, but I did promise some pictures of my tattoos as I got them, so far, this is all I got for you. Three cheers to the person who can tell me what that kanji reads. Actually, that outline is the unfinished tattoo. I was kind of jittery from having way too much caffeine when my sister's friend was doing it so I asked him to hold off on coloring it till next week when I'll be more sane and sober. It'll be filled in with a nice shade of blue, and yes, I'll post a pic of the completed tat. When that's done (and after some time), I'll be getting a dragon done, I'm still deciding if I should go with a regular piece of flash, or do up my own dragon for it.
I do have to say I learned something about tattoos, more importantly, the possible mindset of the people who have that kind of thing done to themselves. The physical pain is not all that tremendous, it didn't really hurt me all that much. Maybe I have a higher threshhold for it than others, I don't know. The challenge lies not with accepting the physical discomfort of the needle, however it lies in forcing the body not to react to what it knows is not normal. The body's instinct is to pull away from the discomfort, but the mind knows that discomfort has a purpose, so it refuses to let the body retreat. That balance is a tough one to find, but once you have it, there's no limit to what you can accomplish. I think I can apply that same mental methodology to my art projects. If I force myself to sit down and work on the art, regardless of my body's desire to get up and walk around, or whatever, I know I can get things done. I have one piece done already, a piece I didn't have on the list, but it's done having applied that method I discovered through having the tattoo being done. I certainly hope I don't have to get a tattoo or something every time I get behind in my artwork to get that spark of motivation to get things done.
I do have a special wish to put out there today, Kiki-tink's father goes in for surgery tomorrow. Keep her and her whole family in your thoughts and so on. Tink, I'm not nearly good enough with my own words when it's important to speak my own mind, but this is as close to what I'd like to say as I can possibly find:
If you need anything at all, you know how to contact me.
If you're asking about who I think you are, last I knew she was all right. I don't get over to dA as often as I'd like either, I had 50some things to take care of last time I was there a few days ago. Weather and ISP permitting, I'll get over there more often as I pick up the pace here again. I will try to get on here more often, and get updates out more often as well, my enemy this week has been the weather. Just today it kicked me offline at least twice so even getting this post up was a miracle.
Yeah, they didn't all come to me at once, actually I was going to split those three parts over three posts, but given my record of consistency here lately, I thought I'd better get them out of the way ASAP. I do appreciate you taking the time to answer them, and try some Chamomile tea for that insomnia.
Getting in gear isn't the hard part for me, I get inspirations for artwork and stories all the time. Staying in gear is what trips me up usually. I tend to be easily distracted by things, so actually, being kicked offline a couple times this week has been a help in getting me to sit down and work on some projects, though I have nothing to show for it right now, I should have something soon.
It certainly has been a while, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things here, and it seems I am for the most part. Thanks for taking the time with the questions. I appreciate all the feedback.
I'm well rested now, thanks for the concern. Yeah, it's been a while. I'm trying to get around to sites again as much as possible. I think I got to most of them that updated yesterday/today today, and maybe a few that were older, but still needed me to pop in and say "hey, I'm still kickin'"
You know, I have to agree with you there. I do push myself way too hard and wonder why I'm so worn out all the time. I think a day off now and then will actually help me get things done more efficiently. I will try to get as many of the projects online somewhere, be it here, my photobucket album, or on dA, whereever they are, I'll be sure to get links to everyone here because, I kind of like showing off my work, even if I don't think it's the best.
That's all right, it's sometimes smarter to put eggs in as many baskets as possible. I'm kind of going in five or so directions with that whole thing at the moment, so it's not super important that I get that info. More and more it's looking like I'm going to have to self-publish anyway. I don't really have the time or energy to deal with courting publishers and/or literary agents to promote or publish my work. Thing of self-publishing is, I'll have to wait till I have an income to do it.
I think for me it's the humidity that really saps my energy. That's a great suggestion that I'll consider. I do need to get myself into better shape than I am in, and I know what you mean, it doesn't make sense but a little bit of healthy activity does seem to boost the energy levels in the long run.
There's no time limit on these, you get around here when you can. I hope you had an enjoyable visit and your mom's birthday was full of good cheer. Don't worry about the answers, every one is a big help to me, and I understand you not being able to cover them all. Not eveyone reads the main page. Thanks for doing your best with them, I appreciate the feedback.
