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But that's not what I'm posting about. I've undertaken a new project - 3D models of weapons, mecha, and starships from the classic anime Gall Force. I can't believe with all the amateur 3D artists out there that nobody's undertaken this yet, I love those ships.

More on this later.

]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/19308512/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/19308512/ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:40:22 PDT . Egads I'm bored.

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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) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own journal so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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
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
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
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 W... ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/19256963/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/19256963/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:58:17 PDT , who stole it from someone else and so on down the line. Further information added where appropriate.

Info
[] I am shorter than 5'4. (6'1", fear my tall self)
[X] I think I'm ugly sometimes.
[X] I have many scars. (Nearly all on my hands due to a couple of bicycle accidents in my high school years)
[] I tan easily. (Unless freckles count...)
[X] I wish my hair was a different color. (Black, or maybe dark blue.)
[] I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
[] I have a tattoo. (I want some though... dragons wrapped around my arms, one on each arm from the shoulder to the back of my hand. Bonus points if you get the reference.)
[X] I am self-conscious about my appearance.
[] I have/I've had braces.
[X] I wear glasses
[] I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost
[X] I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger. (I've had a lot of girls randomly tell me I'm cute recently. I dun get it.)
[] I have more than 2 piercings. (Two exactly )
[] I have piercing in places besides my ears.
[X] I have freckles. (OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND!!!)

Family/Home Life
[] I've sworn at my parents.
[] I've run away from home.
[X] I've been kicked out of the house. (My mom's girlfriend was mad at me for doing laundry too late at night)
[] My biological parents are together. (Divorced when I was 12)
[] I have a sibling less than one year old.
[X] I want to have kids someday.
[] I've lost a child.

School/Work
[X] I'm in school (Almost done, two more quarters...)
[X] I have a job (Kennywood park in Pittsburgh)
[X] I've fallen asleep at work/school.
[X] I almost always do my homework.
[X] I've missed a week or more of school. (I missed two weeks for chicken pox in 9th grade)
[X] I've been on the Honor Roll within the last 2 years (President's list a few quarters ago, yay for that 4.0!)
[] I failed more than 1 class last year
[] I've stolen something from my job.
[X] I've been fired.

Embarrassment
[X] I've slipped out an "lol" in a spoken conversation. (I sometimes use it to mock people, and sometimes couple it with cats.)
[] Disney movies still make me cry.
[] I've peed from laughing.
[X] I've snorted while laughing.
[X] I've laughed so hard I've cried.
[] I've glued my hand to something.
[X] I've had my pants rip in public. (I was at work. It sucked majorly.)

Health
[] I was born with a disease/impairment.
[X] I've gotten stitches/staples. (Only a few stitches when I had my wisdom teeth out)
[X] I've broken a bone (Playing football, smashed my finger)
[] I've had my tonsils removed.
[X] I've sat in a doctor’s office/emergency room with a friend.
[X] I've had my wisdom teeth removed.
[] I had a serious surgery.
[X] I've had chicken pox.
[] I've had measles
[] I've had a serious illness/cancer

Traveling
[X] I've driven over 200 miles in one day. (Multiple times!)
[X] I've been on a plane.
[X] I've been to Canada.
[X] I've been to Mexico.
[] I've been to Niagara Falls.
[] I've been to Japan. (I wish v.v)
[] I've celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
[X] I've been to Europe. (Italy)
[] I've been to Africa.

Experiences
[X] I've gotten lost in my city. (Before I lived here, I did. Not since I've been here.)
[X] I've seen a shooting star.
[] I've wished on a shooting star.
[X] I've seen a meteor shower.
[] I've gone out in public in my pajamas.
[X] I've pushed all the buttons on an elevator.
[] I've kicked a guy where it hurts.
[X] I've been to a casino.
[] I've been skydiving.
[X] I've gone skinny dipping.
[] I've played spin the bottle.
[] I've drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour.
[] I've crashed a car.
[X] I've been Skiing.
[X] I've been in a play.
[] I've met someone in person from myspace.
[X] I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
[] I've seen the Northern lights.
[] I've sat on a roof top at night.
[] I've played chicken.
[] I've played a prank on someone.
[X] I've ridden in a taxi.
[X] I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
[X] I've eaten sushi. (nom nom raw fish nom)
[] I've been snowboarding.

Relationships
[X] I'm single
[] I'm in a relationship
[] I'm engaged. (Was once)
[] I'm married
[X] I've gone on a blind date.
[] I've been the dumped more than the dumper. (... ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/18623414/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/18623414/ Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:29:34 PDT
Second... for those of you who know SamBakZa's 'There She Is' flash animation - the cat and the rabbit - step three has just been released. It's a little different than the first two, but still very awesome.

[link]

]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/18367828/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/18367828/ Sat, 17 May 2008 13:35:22 PDT
Er, within limits. I'd rather not do porn or whatever.

edit: I suppose it'd help if I give my email address. divals [at] gmail [dot] com. TAKE THAT SPAMMERS!

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In other news, STAAAAAAAAAAARCRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFT TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/11359782/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/11359782/ Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:27:37 PST [link] so I found a pretty good deal on the Canon Powershot A540, a 6MP point-and-shoot (like I can afford an SLR camera, ha ha ha ha ha...). But unlike most point-and-shoot cameras, this one has a few lens extensions you can buy, thanks to a removable collar around the lens. I then went and found knockoff versions of these lenses (the Canon ones cost about $100-150 each) on ebay, $50 for the lot. So I'm happy

-Divals

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-Divals ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/9565229/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/9565229/ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:36:12 PDT
On the next several trips, more illusion women came to my room. Sometimes they were random girls I'd never seen before, sometimes they were Carla - finally the last one was a girl who looked like she was from the pacific islands somewhere and was probably about fourteen years old. When I got home from that trip I asked Carla about the illusions. Her response: "What illusions?"

At this point we were standing in the basement, and water was flooding across the floor around us. It was draining down into a hole in the floor. I was so shocked to hear that she had not been sending the illusions that I dropped the things I was holding in my hands - a styrofoam cup and a small metal object that looked somewhat like a medallion or something. As it fell, I realized that the metal object was what had been sending the illusions. I grabbed at it, trying to catch it, but Carla pulled me back and it was swept down the drain. She then told me it was my mother who had been sending the illusions.

The next day, I was to fly out again, probably for another week. I was in the plane with my co-pilot, about to start it up, when I realized that I had forgotten the keys to the airplane. I got out of the plane and ran out of the airport. I didn't want to fly again, so I ran into the woods and down a path. After a while the path disappeared, and I saw a river flowing nearby. I walked along the banks of the river until I reached a dock with a boat tied to it. On the dock was Carla, in the body of a fox. She told me we needed to take the boat to a certain street, so we got into the boat and started rowing downstream.

After a short amount of time, we reached an open lake. In the lake were signs poking up out of the water - street signs. We tried to find the sign for the street, but in the entire lake we could not find it. We started to row back, but about ten feet from shore the boat suddenly sank out from under us. We swam over to shore. Carla pointed out that the current was too strong for her to swim back upstream, so she was going to walk around and meet me at home. Since I needed to go back to the path, she released six snails into the water. These snails were carnivorous and could reverse the flow of the water (??). They had two mouths - one on the top of their body, ringed with six sets of teeth like that of a lamprey eel, the other in the front with pincers which would reach out in order to grasp live prey. Carla then started throwing shrimp into the water. When the snails saw the shrimp, they would swim toward them and reverse the flow of the river. I kept throwing shrimp ahead of the snails for a while until I was sure they would not change direction, then quickly swam downstream.

By the time I got back to the dock, the stream had dried up. I began to walk roughly in the direction of the path, and soon found it again. After walking down the path for about fifteen minutes, I came upon an old, broken aluminum ladder leaning against a steep dirt incline. I cleaned the vines and dirt off of the ladder and began to climb up the incline.

When I got to the top, I found a tarp on the ground. I pulled it back. Various items were under the tarp - a video camera, some CDs, some childrens' toys - in very good shape considering they had been buried for who knows how long. I heard some crashing behind me and turned around to see my little brother coming out of the trees. I greeted him and we began to look around the area to see if we could figure out why these things had been buried.

I heard the sound of a car engine and pushed aside a hanging screen of vines. Behind the screen was another incline going down, and at the bottom was the mobile home I lived in. My father's car was there, because he had come to pick me up to take me back to the airport. As I looked down, he was driving away. I didn't really mind though, because I didn't want to be a pilot any more. At about this point, I realized the dream was getting pointless and woke up.

-Divals ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/8997180/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/8997180/ Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:51:32 PDT
[link]

This is the final project for Digital Ink and Paint. w00t!

-Divals ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/8728455/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/8728455/ Wed, 10 May 2006 08:53:18 PDT
[link]

ivals ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/8221987/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/8221987/ Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:29:34 PST Then it turned out to only be a dream
I made a point to burn all of the photographs
She went away and then I took a different path
I remember the face but I can't recall the name
Now I wonder how what's-her-name has been.

Green Day - some call them sellouts, some call them musical geniuses... Either way, they have made a huge impact on music.

Maybe you're what's her name. Maybe you're what's his face. Maybe you're the Jesus of Suburbia. Maybe you're none of these. But chances are, you've loved someone in your life, someone who meant a lot to you, and maybe you don't love them anymore, or they don't love you.

But if that's true, you owe it to yourself - don't forget, don't shut the memories out. Because love is based around happiness, not angst or depression. Always remember the good times and bad - what's the point of loving if you don't get anything from it? Learn your lesson and move on if it doesn't work.

Don't let life pass you by.

=Micah

PS: Carla and I are fine. More than fine actually. Time to go snuggle :3 ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/8185652/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/8185652/ Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:09:29 PST
=Micah ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/7320387/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/7320387/ Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:09:02 PST
Seriously, I've been wondering this for a looong time. Like a couple days (that's a long time during finals week. Oh god the burn...). I've just started seeing stuff around like 'happy festivus!' and such. Is it like a non-religious christmas thingy?

Mrow.

ivals ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/7010762/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/7010762/ Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:59:22 PST
This isn't exactly an easy task, as most of the music is copyrighted, and I deleted the original editing files to save space on my hard drive. Which means I would have to do the entire edit over again.

But the edit sucks anyway, so it's all good.

The current release date is the end of March, at Tekkoshocon in Pittsburgh. After that time, I'm going to try to put it on my web site so peoples can order it and such.

I'm currently trying to find meself some reasonably well-known site to put up the trailer I made for it. 'Cause, you know, it's good for people to know what they're watching. Or something.

But yah so that's that. ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/6945949/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/6945949/ Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:16:06 PST
And a new art thingy to celebrate. Well actually it was homework but whatever.

=Micah ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/4886367/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/4886367/ Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:43:33 PST [link]) flash animations, do so now. The site is in Korean but it's not hard to find your way around. Watch 'There she is!' and 'There she is! step 2 - Cake Dance', in that order. You won't regret it.

=Micah ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/4483743/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/4483743/ Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:26:40 PST
Honestly I don't think she's that fat, she looks pretty thin to me. But a belly hanging over a girl's pants does funny things to some people.

Well anyway, there's a couple reasons why I drew her like that. Firstly, it was a request from some people in a chat room, and I've been wanting to for some time now anyway, as that was how I had originally envisioned her when I created her character four or five years ago.

Secondly (and this is the one that will tie peoples' panties in knots), I wanted her to look attractive. For those of you who still don't quite get it, big girls are attractive. Well, to me at least. I've just never drawn girls bigger because I had no self-confidence in my abilities. If I screwed up on a skinny girl, eh, she's a skinny girl, it's not such a big deal. But if I screwed up on a fat girl, that's like putting a smiley face on your wedding ring. Yeah, that bad.

Soo, anyway... now that I'm out of the closet (so to speak... and don't worry, there's still more skeletons in here that I haven't mentioned yet, more amusement for days yet to come), back to the subject at hand, Ms. Neko.

The picture is titled 'Series One', because I plan on doing several different series, of different stages in Catty's life, focusing on her teenage and 20-something years, each series as a different time period. Yeah.

=Micah ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/4113872/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/4113872/ Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:44:31 PST

I drew it at work today, edited it when I got home (after a furious round of Halo on Legendary with my brother), and posted it. ALL WITHIN THE SPACE OF ONE DAY! I feel so proud.

Micah ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/4111262/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/4111262/ Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:21:44 PST
Oh, and by the way... due to the decreasing levels of suck in my artworks, I have been accepted to the video game art and design program at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Yay!

Divals ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/4073945/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/4073945/ Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:21:49 PST
And I promise I'll have something cool up before Christmas. Really!

Divals ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/3945417/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/3945417/ Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:04:26 PST
Micah ]]> ~Divals http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/3782514/ http://Divals.deviantart.com/journal/3782514/ Mon, 08 Nov 2004 06:42:31 PST
What you see on here will be a mixture of utter crap and cool stuff... I'm not going to presume to say which is which.

Divals ]]> ~Divals