03 July 2009
23 June 2009
20 June 2009
Trying out Ping.fm It lets you broadcast your blogs/pics/whatever to multiple social networking sites. W00t
23 July 2008
So tired.
I'm nearly done with another freelance thing for BazaarVoice, which really wiped me out after a half-day at Fat Quarter Shop. I'm enjoying having work after the long dry spell after moving to Austin, but oh Lordy, I'm beat.
19 July 2008
Updates
I finished the aforementioned samurai painting, although it went through some compositional changes. It's on my site at www.skotopoi.com, and you should go have a look.
Also, I put a couple of ink drawings on my flickr. The stream shows across the top of my site. I've still got another decent ink drawing to scan, and a painting or two I'd like to finish, but the sense of urgency has backed off again now that the art show is up.
I also read The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, which was definitely a girl-oriented novel but not in such a way that it stopped me from enjoying it immensely, and Snow Falling on Cedars.
I believe I need a new book now.
Also, I put a couple of ink drawings on my flickr. The stream shows across the top of my site. I've still got another decent ink drawing to scan, and a painting or two I'd like to finish, but the sense of urgency has backed off again now that the art show is up.
I also read The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, which was definitely a girl-oriented novel but not in such a way that it stopped me from enjoying it immensely, and Snow Falling on Cedars.
I believe I need a new book now.
01 July 2008
What's up...
I'm entering hell week. I wish I had some new art to post, but the (not so glamorous) web design work I've been doing is contractually protected and my paintings not even half-finished, and I've done little with lasting artistic value in the past couple of weeks. That should be changing a lot this week, as I enter a painting frenzy and generally bust ass trying to fulfill some promises I've made as a freelancer and a friend.
Side note: I recently read The Reader, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Crooked Little Vein and Snuff, all of which were highly entertaining and edifying to various degrees. If you're twisted, read the last two. If ecclectic, read the second one. If a fan of high lit, just the first ought to do it without bringing down your opinion of me too badly.
To do list:
Side note: I recently read The Reader, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Crooked Little Vein and Snuff, all of which were highly entertaining and edifying to various degrees. If you're twisted, read the last two. If ecclectic, read the second one. If a fan of high lit, just the first ought to do it without bringing down your opinion of me too badly.
To do list:
- Paint a samurai killing zombies with a guitar.
- Paint Godzilla, the hydra, and a robot toppling the statue of liberty.
- Paint an icon-ish tarot card of the magician, Gabriel, and the serpent superimposed on each other.
- Work on two websites.
- Do a bunch of ads for tanning salons.
- Keep going to work.
- Level my poor, neglected druid, Dirdge.
28 June 2008
Are you an average reader?
In response to Ann Pittman's stupid meme post.
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see.
1) Bold the books you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Star the books you're reading/have read some of.
5) Copy, paste, & repeat.
32. I'm toning down my previous message of disdain, because Mishi just schooled me on the reading numbers. Also, Ann's post was not stupid, as it was one of the very rare meme posts I've chosen to respond to.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (seen the movie)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis. *
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (seen the movie)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley *
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck *
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (seen the movie)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding (seen the movie)
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (seen the movie)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (seen the movie)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (seen the movie)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (seen the movie and musical)
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see.
1) Bold the books you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Star the books you're reading/have read some of.
5) Copy, paste, & repeat.
32. I'm toning down my previous message of disdain, because Mishi just schooled me on the reading numbers. Also, Ann's post was not stupid, as it was one of the very rare meme posts I've chosen to respond to.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (seen the movie)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis. *
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (seen the movie)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley *
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck *
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (seen the movie)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding (seen the movie)
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (seen the movie)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (seen the movie)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (seen the movie)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (seen the movie and musical)
26 May 2008
03 May 2008
Currently Reading
Uhm. Picked up comics today. New Ex Machina. Vaughan continues to be pretty spectacular. Everyone on earth should pick up everything Brian K. V. writes, although, I’ll admit, skipping some episodes of Lost is not necessarily a bad idea.
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. Haven’t read a page yet, but I’m phenominally excited. The last bit of Ultimate Human was good, the most recent bit of Black Summer ditto. The man writes some brilliant shit, but he’s definitely one of those spastics who’s on his own wavelength and writes at his own pace, damned if you can’t keep up, and damned if you want some more.
Also I’ve been following Northlanders by Brian Wood. It’s my favorite thing he’s done next to Channel Zero so far. DMZ is all good, but the politics and character elements don’t sit as well together as I think they might. CZ was raw youth energy, full of hellfire and brimstone, and brilliant artistic commentary on the state of media and clean culture. Northlanders is a mature character piece with a great viking revenge story to move things along. Everything in between is a collection of brilliant musings, but none of those have the same capacity to move as raw ideology and raw humanity.
BTW, I finally made some headway on my own bit, tentatively titled “Blank”, on Thursday. Maybe someday I’ll get to post some superposh art here. We’ll find out.
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. Haven’t read a page yet, but I’m phenominally excited. The last bit of Ultimate Human was good, the most recent bit of Black Summer ditto. The man writes some brilliant shit, but he’s definitely one of those spastics who’s on his own wavelength and writes at his own pace, damned if you can’t keep up, and damned if you want some more.
Also I’ve been following Northlanders by Brian Wood. It’s my favorite thing he’s done next to Channel Zero so far. DMZ is all good, but the politics and character elements don’t sit as well together as I think they might. CZ was raw youth energy, full of hellfire and brimstone, and brilliant artistic commentary on the state of media and clean culture. Northlanders is a mature character piece with a great viking revenge story to move things along. Everything in between is a collection of brilliant musings, but none of those have the same capacity to move as raw ideology and raw humanity.
BTW, I finally made some headway on my own bit, tentatively titled “Blank”, on Thursday. Maybe someday I’ll get to post some superposh art here. We’ll find out.
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