http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Archfriend&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Archfriend en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:55:58 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28906166/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28906166/ Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:13:40 PST
Well, it's directed by the same guy who did the 1999 movie version of Alice in Wonderland, the one with Whoopy Goldberg as the Cheshire Cat and Martin Short as the Hatter. The movie had some great moments that reflected the genius of Lewis Caroll's writing, particularly Christopher Lloyd as The White Knight, but overall the movie missed the mark in so many ways it's not worth typing them out because I have better things to do with my time.

I ought to find this new one though and take a look. And of course there's the anticipation over Tim Burton's new version, which seems to re-write the story taking elements from Wonderland/LG-land and turning it into its own sort of mythology.

I still see no reason why the book can't be adapted word-for-word on to screen (in 2D animation of course), I really want to try it. What I really want to see is an adaptation that doesn't cross the two books together, like playing cards on a chess board. You don't play mahjong with domino pieces do you? You don't spray bugs with air-freshener. You don't fix clocks with butter, even if it is the best butter.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28875038/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28875038/ Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:33:43 PST
This is the bluray I've been waiting for my whole life! I'm actually waiting for Citizen Kane to come out on bluray but this is pretty cool anyway!!

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28710147/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28710147/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:31:56 PST
- The Sixth Sense
- Signs
- Unbreakable
- The Village
- Lady in the Water
- The Happening

Oh but wait, there's one more! Here is where my conflict lies; in 2010 M. Night Shyamalan will release his written and directed feature THE LAST AIRBENDER. If you don't know what that is, then I don't blame you. It's based off the TV animated show "Avatar", except the film can't be called "Avatar" because James Cameron has taken that title for his own original film being released December 17 (available in 3D) by 20th Century Fox. Paramount Pictures (along with their buddies Nickelodeon) were enjoying the success of their animated show that they wanted to make a movie out of it, and somehow enlisted one of my favourite film directors!?

Firstly, I have a disagreement with American-style anime, I have enough disagreement with Japanese anime as it is (although I do have a lot of anime on DVD, it's just a tip of the crap-heap that's out there), but even more-so with American anime. I can not watch that show, on principle (Paramount even gave me a whole season on DVD), and what I've heard of the story doesn't excite me too much either. BUT

Secondly, I'm going to at least give this film a chance, for two reasons. 1. It's written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and 2. It's a live-action film, which means at least I don't have to sit through awful pseudo-anime style animation. If I don't enjoy it, then this will be that one bastard film that I will not acknowledge as a part of Shyamalamadingdong's filmography repertoire chronicle chapter of the requiem. If I DO enjoy it, then I'm still not watching the TV show.

UPDATE - I meant to say that Avatar is being released on the 17th! Sorry to anyone who bust there balls in an orgasm to think that the movie was coming out next week!!

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28390562/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28390562/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:33:59 PST
]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28206154/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28206154/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:19:15 PST
For 15 days in a row I will have to draw one new picture a day, and submit them here regardless of quality or completion (hopefully the quality gets better over time). Most of them will probably be Alice related. The hope is that it will turn into a habit, and if I think I'm on to something I will extend the challenge to 30 days.

I don't know if I can make a habit out of something that gives me pain. Drawing pictures is hard for me. If I were drawing pictures like I breath I would be suffocating* right now. It's easy to make a habit out of leisure, but not when it comes to hard work.

When I think about it, I have made some hard habits; like waking up early, going to work every day, eating more fruit, reading books. Maybe this might just work out?!



_{*This reminds me I need to listen to the death-metal band Suffocation. Get on this later.}

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28143270/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/28143270/ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:35:57 PST
"Wheeler's Cloud" is something I picked up from the book "The Mind of God" by Paul Davies where he describes how it's possible for a god to be both necessary and contingent at the same time!* Since creating art is in its own way related to being a god (of your own world/creation), I thought this might be important to know.

The story goes like this: The famous physicist John Archibald Wheeler told a story about how he was dragged into playing 20 Questions by his friends one day. He decided to amuse them and join in, starting with the obvious "Is it an animal?" and so on. After some questions later he finally concluded "is it a cloud?!" and his friend says "yes!!" and then everyone but poor Mr. Wheeler burst out laughing. Apparently all of his friends were playing a joke on him where there wasn't actually any defined object to be guessed, but they were just making up random answers as they go along but to also keep consistent with the previous answers and eventually shape something from nothing.

What I like about Wheeler's Cloud analogy is firstly how he came to arrive that it's a cloud, something that has no defined shape or form yet our eyes find shape and form as we see them. Secondly that the term "Wheeler's Cloud" is a Wheeler's Cloud! Thirdly that I like to think it relates to creativity in general, from nothing we can randomly plot rules as we go along then follow them (or break them, which is a rule in itself) to arrive to a created body of work!

This is of course just one method among many of creating work. Another method is to trace over other peoples drawings and sign your own name over it.


*I can expand on this if you want me to.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/27719079/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/27719079/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:58:10 PDT escape velocity (that is, the velocity needed to shoot something outside an atmosphere) becomes greater than the speed of light. Because light can't escape we can never see what is going on inside the atmosphere of the black hole, but only its halo around the outside (known as the event-horizon). Once you cross over the event-horizon then that's it, you're gone.

This is important to remember because

I've crossed over the event-horizon



of the soul.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/27303224/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/27303224/ Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:48:51 PDT you are going to ruin it!!!!! The last (and only) Ghibli film I heard in English dub was "Spirited Away" which tore at my heart like a rain of knives. It's worse than listening to a ballad by Britney Spears! _{(I was going to say "shards of glass scraping across a blackboard" but I concluded that that might sound pretty cool)}

So anyway, the movie, in its original Japanese...it's beyond words. It's what animation should be, and so much more, to the point of being excessive (which is a good thing). But what should animation be? Let me explain. Animation is about giving life to the drawings on your piece of paper. Animation should make you put aside your disbelief of what's real and what's not real - without you even realising it! This involves more than just illustration principles, there is also heavy reliance on sound-design, and also good story-telling. In this sense an animator is more like a wizard, a grand conjurer, a mage who defies the laws of energy-conservation and creates something from nothing. Hayao Miyazaki has shown with "Ponyo" that he is the grandest, most majestic magician alive. From the opening sequence of sea-life, watching hundreds of jellyfish moving across the screen all individually, and all of it drawn by hand!! It is absolutely captivating from start to finish. When Ponyo is running across the water, chasing the car, I was truly overwhelmed.

I love how Studio Ghibli is one of the last few Japanese studios to practice FULL animation. It doesn't associate itself with any of the other traditions and clichés that have befallen the rest of the market, which in turn has alienated the dedicated fans of the 80's and 90's pre-"Love Hina" anime who found something decent to escape into, but now is tainted with a system of executives and market-research to find out what "sells". Studio Ghibli still concerns itself with good, unconventional story-telling. The mood of Ponyo is like a rollercoaster that doesn't stop. All the characters are lovable, even Ponyo's father (who plays a bit of a villain, but not in a generic "evil" way). This is important, it makes me want to keep watching, knowing I'm in safe hands without awkward uncomfortable moments like heart-break and betrayal, the kind of Disney/Don Bluth stuff that rapes you and tries to hug you afterwards. Some people might crave that kind of stuff but I've been through it too many times, I'd rather a true sense of purity like a Miyazaki film, and then his own sentimentalities that come out (i.e. caring for the elderly and pollution in nature) have much more effect.

In summary, "Ponyo" was amazing. If you had any decent sense you would make it your NUMBER ONE priority to watch this film (providing it is in its original Japanese).


In other news I bought a scanner recently and I intend to use it.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/26973008/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/26973008/ Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:13:17 PDT

I've just finished reading the part about how mathematics is full of unsolveable problems, mainly in an area of proving something as "true" or "false". For example, consider the statements:

SOCRATES: "What Plato is about to say is false."
PLATO: "Socrates only speaks truly."

Then you have a contradiction in statements that both can neither be true or false. Things like this are usually called 'self-referencing'.

Then the following pages starts enthusiastically talking about this old computer game from the 90's or something (the book was published in 1992) called "Conway's Game of Life" where you create little pixels on a screen and they start reacting based on where the pixels are placed and where pixels are not placed, say if an empty space is surrounded by 3 neighbouring pixels, then that empty space will be occupied by a pixel in the next frame being refreshed, but any other circumstance leaves the pixel empty. In this game the pixels take a 'life' of their own and there are some shapes that self-reproduce themselves, but in contrived circumstances. It's all too complicated to explain briefly here but there's probably information about it on Wikipedia somewhere. It's basically an example of how living organisms reproduce themselves.

Davies mentions in a single sentence and does not elaborate at all (as far as I've read) how self-referencing and self-reproducing could be related.

I was thinking the exact same thing! Maybe our physical reality handles these self-referencing mathematical paradoxes by creating what we call "life" and by living we are designed to paradox ourselves by creating children, who are in essence the self-referencing of two contradicting people - the man and the woman! Maybe having children is reality's way of solving the uncomputable!!

This discovery could lead us closer to see what it would look like when robots have sex.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/26743843/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/26743843/ Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:45:51 PDT
]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/26684354/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/26684354/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:26:30 PDT [link] and type in anything you want to, and see what people around the world are saying about it right now. It's pretty interesting, really.

I only just discovered (thanks to twitter) that Sony just announced YESTERDAY that they are releasing the PS3 Slim in September for THREE HUNDRED CLAMS.

I'm talking about dollars here keep your mind out of the gutter.

I got my PS3 on a discount. It works lovely but I solely bought it for games that are still in development (FFXIII and new Project Ico game) and I barely use my PS3 right now because I don't have these games yet. If I knew the PS3 Slim would be coming so soon I wouldn't have spent so much clam-chowder on this thing. I should probably play Disgaea 3 more, but in my heart I just know that I'll never catch that dragon.


Anyway, I might go make some tweets. My Twitter is here--> [link]

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/26559299/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/26559299/ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:18:48 PDT film before it's finished, but doing that to a trailer and you just know the film is going to hurt you with its existence. It hurt me, though, because I do work for 20th Century Fox and they just happened to be the ones releasing this abomination (film). Well, it's not like I was going to stop working all because I don't like the film, I'd still begrudgingly send it out to the cinemas, because that's my job.

Well I can begrudge no more because I received an e-mail today with an updated release schedule for 20th Century Fox, and the noted change they had was "I LOVE YOU BETH COOPER - Not Scheduled". The powers that be recognised this feature shitfilm as a total flop and removed it all together! Thank FOX you don't have to sit through that trailer anymore, kids, because this film will never see the light of day, or light of the projector at least. I guess all the work I put into preparing that hex finally paid off! But that's another story all-together.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/26328953/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/26328953/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:15:57 PDT
Coming on to this website is like running down an endless spiral staircase with a tempting door on every level telling me to waste more time, but every day I have the grandiose dream of running back upwards until I reach the top - where you can not go any higher. The top of the spiral staircase is a metaphor for have no more messages in my inbox. But who will guide me?

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/25886054/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/25886054/ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:06:28 PDT
It's so shocking it's indescribable, you have to see it with your own eyes to believe it. I couldn't even make a new journal entry! I couldn't really do anything. I could look at pictures but I couldn't see any flash animations (Flash does work on the PS3 I tried it on other sites). None of the links work, the buttons don't work, nothing works! Why? Who did this? Was this intentional on deviantART's part or is this website just too weird to display on any generic browser? I looked up plenty of complex websites and they all worked fine.

You see, the thing is, the PS3 is more powerful than my computer. It watches youtube videos fluently and flash animations won't lag if they have any hint of blurring or other filters, or plays at a higher quality than the lowest quality. It would have been nice if I could browse dA and quickly shoot through these 1000+ deviations 100+ journals on my watchlist.

In summary: Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse and Meshuggah are the bulk of my collection.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/25662397/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/25662397/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:46:22 PDT [link]

I usually buy imported games regardless of classification, because the good ones are never stocked in gaming stores since they are mostly drowned in EA Sports titles and franchise garbageware nobody wants. Now the best I can do is look for games on eBay. They're not going to filter out eBay are they? If they do it would be hilarious, but I have a weird sense of humour.

I'm taking this news with a pinch of salt anyway, they tried this stunt last year but it didn't fall through, too much backlash from ISP's. In my opinion Stephen Conroy is the biggest irl troll in Australia, he just does it for the "lawlz"(sp?) or something.

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"I loved how season 5's finale gave me an overload of mindf*ck through pure storytelling, but only just the right amount of overload to keep me sane. Any more and I'd be decorating my walls with mind-defecation instead of my blog...and it might just come from more places than the mind if you know what I mean."

It explains more about me than it does the TV show but I liked what I wrote enough to post it here. I could have even submitted it as a deviation but then it would lose context.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/24457079/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/24457079/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:21:22 PDT sometimes moving backwards can be good thing.


The case in moving backwards is appropriate is when you're moving forwards in the wrong direction. You make a mistake yet you glorify that mistake and start using it rather than learning from it. To me the idea of "progression" is to learn from where you go wrong so that you funnel down the path of perfection to the closest degree, then perhaps innovate even beyond that. Progression should NOT mean you carry on regardless of what mistakes you make, and keep making them because who cares anyway? It sounds silly but it's happening all the time in every aspect of the world around you. The most personal aspect to me is the animation industry. In these cases it's probably a good idea to take some steps backwards to when things were going right, see where mistakes were happening and learn from them, THEN move forward again.

I therefore declare this week "Backwards Thinking Week" where we take a moment to devolve and ...revolve?

Scratch that, I declare this week "Archifunkilus Week" named after how cool I am. (see? That's the effectiveness of backwards thinking!)

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/24333940/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/24333940/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:51:14 PDT
Here are two excerpts from a blog post I made last night after watching "Synechdoche New York", the latest film by Charlie Kaufman.

1st excerpt:
"Imagine a wheel turning and moving along the ground, and there's [sic] a wheel inside the wheel, turning as caused by the overall turning of the larger wheel, and another wheel inside the smaller wheel, etc. The wheel is an analogy of the plot."

2nd excerpt:
"...Another example is how Caden decides to assume the role of an elusive "Ellen", the cleaning lady of Adele's apartment, then in his play he casts a woman to play Ellen based on a portrait painted by Adele. Meanwhile Caden mentions when he has an affair with Tammie (an actress in a whole other complex twist and turn in the story) that he thinks if he were a woman he'd be better at it than being a man. In the play Caden decides he needs a new actor to play himself, the woman playing Ellen convinces him that she can play the role, but then a new turn happens when Caden decides he needs time off, but the role of Ellen (who he originally was in the real world) is open and that he will play her. So now the role of Caden is played by a woman and Caden is playing the role of a woman. It is after this turn that the whole story is now about Ellen, a woman who never really existed because it was Caden all along, but Ellen is being played by Caden, who is being directed by the woman who was acting as Ellen but is now acting as Caden. At this point I think the wheel has now turned into a spiral but I still haven't quite wrapped my head around it."


The rest can be read at [link]. I also like the part where I attempted to explain the complex narrative of Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind. The reason why I look at this blog as a reflection is because it was something that could have only been written straight after viewing the film, by now I would have forgotten most of it. There's just too many things in the film, it's an overload.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/24088122/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/24088122/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:00:42 PDT
Ouch. This is going to take me a while to figure out who to unwatch.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/23703802/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/23703802/ Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:52:19 PDT
But I guess it wouldn't surprise you how many "HOW TO DRAW MANGA!" books I had to plow through to find something decent. There is even an "Idiot's Guide To Drawing Manga"! What an apt title for a book! Probably the most useful book since "Idiot's guide to being an idiot".

But then I spent about $500 on CDs and DVDs...

A great start to the month I decided to save money.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/23579142/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/23579142/ Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:39:40 PST
]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/23327618/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/23327618/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:52:57 PST That's why I hate the whole notion of "style". It really should be renamed "blind habit". People should just learn to draw well and forget trying to have a style.

~John K.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/23186663/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/23186663/ Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:19:39 PST reaaaally feel like doing something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22984733/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22984733/ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:01:31 PST
[link]

I can't believe I even came up with that story because I can't remember anything about it at all..

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22974705/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22974705/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:35:15 PST [link]

I got this from IMDB but I thought it was a great post.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22842593/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22842593/ Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:23:32 PST

I don't care I'm having one anyway.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22644383/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22644383/ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:02:58 PST done thinking about the properties of nothingness and infinity and how our fragile mortality is but a limited moment extracted from the void, from before we are born and after we die hence our minds are taken from and then finally returned. That's all last year's quandary. What's really making me wonder is the question that has plagued thinkers since the ages of last century when philosophical minds were at their peak: What if we were really in the Matrix? Would that make it OK if I killed you? That would just mean that your corpse would go through some mincing machine and then fed right back to me in a tube. We're all just pigs eating bacon.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22261420/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22261420/ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:26:01 PST
]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22149368/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22149368/ Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:13:38 PST compact discs, straight from the Czech Republic. Come to my house if you want to listen to them for sure, because

They say there is nothing!
There, on the other side!
They say there is nobody!
There, on the other side!

But We are living there!
There, on the other side.
Nobody knows that We are there!
There, on the other side.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22016199/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/22016199/ Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:51:24 PST [link]

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21974160/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21974160/ Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:47:36 PST
<sub>hello

lo..</sub>

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21688049/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21688049/ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:14:31 PST
[link]

^right here

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21494613/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21494613/ Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:10:52 PST
Yet to deny our impulses is also a display of free will, and to make the choice to deny our impulses is a sign of an evolved intelligence. To be "human" is to mean that we are merely a species with an inherent set of impulses to survive and live but ironically it is only humans who possess the intelligence to deny these very impulses. It's about making choices.

Neo made the choice. He could have let Morpheus die or he could let himself die in order to save Morpheus. This path was given to him by The Oracle, which he walked, and once he was revived from death he became "the one" which allowed him to be ready to take back humanity from the machines.

The machines farmed humans like how we (the humans) farm cattle, chickens or pigs. We force them to create new life under our control so we can use them as our source of nutrition, our own survival. We farm these animals as the lower species, for they don't have the ability to make choices, they lived off the impulse of running and hiding if they haven't the structure to overpower their predators. We are their predators, putting these lower species into a corner they can't run from and so their only purpose is to become our food.

Humans could not have reached the highest tier of the food-chain with our structure, it was our intelligence that allowed us to create tools, machines, to overpower the lower species. Where we are we could not be without the machines, so it was the machines who had the power over us. The machines were the ones who were really at the top of the food-chain. Our only purpose is to become their nutrition.

I guess the moral of the story is to eat your greens.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21439036/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21439036/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:39:30 PST


in the mind.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21422181/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21422181/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:03:12 PST It all returns to nothing,
I just keep letting me down letting me down letting me down.
In my heart of hearts
I know that I could never love again
I've lost everything
everything
everything that matters to me, matters in this world.

I wish that I could turn back time
'cos now the guilt is all mine
can't live without the trust from those you love.
I know we can't forget the past
you can't forget love and pride.
Because of that it's killing me inside.

It all returns to nothing, it just keeps tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down
It all returns to nothing, I just keep letting me down letting me down letting me down
It all returns to nothing, it just keeps tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down
It all returns to nothing, I just keep letting me down letting me down letting me down

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21391519/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/21391519/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:15:46 PST
I will submit a few things more and then probably scrap some other stuff and show work-in-progress of my current project which has taken me 20 years to make.

I'm really over 9,000 _{years old}

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/18137495/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/18137495/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:17:39 PDT
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]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/17569040/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/17569040/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:15:33 PDT here.

The tall guy in the stripy hat is worth mentioning.

It's great to see a large group of people gather in one public place so they can do this dance in front of a camera and show it to the world.

I want to live in a world where it is so cool for everyone to do the Harui dance that if anyone was found not knowing the routine they would be quartered and hanged.

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]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/17093877/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/17093877/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:17:52 PST
I got this quote from watching The Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card. Each day I am going to write down what I will regret not doing and make sure I follow through as much as I can.

Starting tomorrow.

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/16973144/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/16973144/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:11:06 PST smitten

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/16638378/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/16638378/ Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:00:52 PST
Yeah okay

ruin my dreams forever

;_;

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/16537814/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/16537814/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:16:13 PST Capitalism on the Internet is awesome.

And on some occasions when I go outside (okay I admit it's only a few occasions) I've been noticing how the younger generation today are able to fake being good-looking. All it takes is a hairstyle and plenty of make-up, or lots of make-up, and small tight clothes. It can fool some guys with plenty of testosterone but it's not hard to tell when someone is hideously deformed (except in small thumbnail images). I'm not saying that I'm better looking than everyone else but I'm disappointed that there is a massive trend-rise of being someone you're not, losing sense of your own personality and instead filling the void with a fake personality to "fit in". You don't realize it but you are not supporting progress, you support back-tracking. The 80's died over 20 years ago get over it!

Everyone should just be themselves, that way everyone would be as lonely and miserable as I am. And they rightly deserve it! For all the years I have been rejected from the "cool" cliques and not invited to your parties. All that crap was boring anyway and nothing actually happened. Deep down inside you are alone. You are nothing. When the world weighs down on your shoulders you will be crushed like a little ant! No matter what size ant you are, you carry hardly any mass! And you mindlessly follow the path given to you as if that's all there is to do in life.

I envision a future where time is realized as a spacial dimension. One may move two ways in time, ie past and future. We will see new shapes form around us. These shapes will be beautiful, for chaos will cease to exist.

There will be no more need for sleep, either.

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Al Gore was right ALL ALONG...

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The other day I was in Cash Converters and I looked at the guitars. I saw a 7-string black shiny electric guitar for $600 and I drooled. I want a 7-string. I'd be like "BAM check it out guys I can go all the way down to B" although I tune my 6 string accoustic to B anyway but it's not the same.

If I had that 7-string I'd tune it to B E A D F# B E, but on some occasions I'd tune it to drop-A and put a capo on the second fret so it would be like B F# B E G# B F#

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Of course I'm not a very good businessman, so if you want to create a piece of work that everyone wants then good luck because you're not going to achieve it.

Note: "criticism" should not be confused with technical advice.

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CONTEST TIME!!!!

If you can beat my PANICMAZE in under a minute I will draw you a picture.

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EDIT: I came back I can't live without you dA .

]]> ~Archfriend http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/14836702/ http://Archfriend.deviantart.com/journal/14836702/ Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:49:54 PDT Firemane is cute check out that picture of her she submitted in her scraps

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is an imaginative young vixen who has a naturally macabre style, by "naturally" I mean "not trying to be, but is". I first found her dawdling around on The Friend Society (pre-dirty bomb era) and followed her profile to her deviantart account. With every one of my comments came a reply and so began a method of commune, which promptly ended due to circumstances such as me not being able to access the Internet for 6 months or so.

1. [link] - It is important to note that she started her account with text-based "art". This first one, "Amoral Mortal" was a nice example of perspectivism and other words I can make up off the top of my head. It also contains the word "dawdling", which I just used in the above paragraph. All credit for the use of that word should go to her.

2. [link] - One of her finer self-portraits. Self-portraits are an important addition to every artist's body of work, for it should be noted that artists tend not to stray from themselves when they design a character and develop their own 'style'.

3. [link] - Here is an image of her own character, Puck (the one with white hair), of whom she is a child of, apparently. It also displays a more "flatter" style, it is important for an artist to have variation. Well done.


is a wonderfully nice young short-haired girl (short hair on a girl displays strength, independence and intelligence) who I have not regretted being friends with on this everforsaken website. One can tell she is bipolar from the many times she has deleted her gallery, in my thesaurus "bipolar" is a synonym for "fun" and "love". Although our beliefs are polar opposites, it is easy to get along with her. She's of a Mormon family, but she's a cool Mormon like that episode of South Park. Now onto the thing

1. [link] - Sometimes she does surreal looking landscapes (dreamscapes?) and this particular one I like for its brave use of colour and curves. The style is of many contrasts and contradictions but all blend together which become relaxing on the eyes. I'm glad this is still in the gallery.

2. [link] - A novel idea of an ever-changing ID, buried down somewhere in her gallery. It will often change to varying pictures of herself, all showing persona, prettiness and pleasantry to the eye. And the ears and nose sometimes.

3. [link] - Kaferine draws many fairies and angels, along with fanart of the books she reads. This particular one "Aviator Fairy" is my favourite. I tried animating it once but gave up because I was doing frame-by-frame in 24fps and in total there were probably a few thousand frames to draw. At the time I was using a mouse as well. Let's talk about myself for another few paragraphs.

Where was I?

Oh yeah.

Bye

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