http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Hatsumora6&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Hatsumora6 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:41:46 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/28714700/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/28714700/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:12:00 PST So, Thanksgiving was great and I hope you all had a great time as well. I spent it in Seattle with some family friends who I've known since....birth, pretty much. Great people, gotta love 'em. Of course, there was a tiny disaster while Maria and I were cooking dinner, and we didn't realize it until we SERVED dinner. This was the fact that there were absolutely NO vegetables. We forgot to cook them, even though we had them, as all of our attention was on the turkey and the movie we were watching at the time. (Meet Joe Black. Awesome movie. A real tear-jerker.)In any case, it was still a wonderful dinner.
Now I'm preparing for finals here at Gonzaga, then it's home for the holidays. I've already planned cooking/movie-watching sprees with my friends back home, and now I'm really looking forward to it.
Currently, I'm working on a picture of Richard Harris and Snake, from Metal Gear Solid (the latter is an Xmas gift for a friend of mine who loves the games.) Hopefully, I'll get around to posting them....

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/27731191/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/27731191/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:18:13 PDT Sooooo, of course I'm feeling tired, because I studied (and didn't study also, as I hung out with friends when I probably should have been doing homework and whatnot.)
OOOH! And I decided to double major in Classical Civilizations and Biology--which people think is really random until I tell them that I want to go into Anthropology during Grad School, then they're like, "Ooooh...Ok. That's cool, I guess." Occasionally I'll get, "What's Anthropology," at which point I just look at them funny until they go away.

ANYWAY, that's the random update. Got to go fencing now! WOOT

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/26938668/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/26938668/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:48:59 PDT Right now I'm working on a piece of Summer Glau, an actress and ballet dancer. She was in the movie "Serenity" which was based off of the television series "Firefly," and was also in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" the second season of which I am just getting into as we speak.

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/26384137/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/26384137/ Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:45:55 PDT I'm heading off to Gonzaga University on either the 26th or 27th of August--up in Spokane, Washington--and am very excited. Right now, I'm simply trying to be with friends and family as much as is humanly possible before saying a final farewell. But do not fear! I'll, of course, be bringing the ole sketch book along with me, and the internet is inescapable and ubiquitous, so DA will be updated whenever I find spare time in my schedule.
At the moment, I am doing a coloured pencil recreation of the TURANDOT poster, the art-deco/japonisme feel of which drew my attention. Hopefully, I'll be able to take a decent photo or scan and load it on up to DA.
OH, I've also just recently finished for the first time the entire AVATAR: the last airbender saga, and I must say that Azula is the most badass character. My friends--with whom I was having a marathon--were very annoyed, and kept telling me that she was an evil, crazy bitch. "Exactly!" was my enthusiastic reply. All those other characters are too, "Oh-the-world-is-such-a-beautiful-place-everything-is-perfect!!!!!!!!"
Excuse me while I puke...

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/25123171/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/25123171/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:49:30 PDT Sorry I haven't posted anything recently...I've been just a little bit busy with AP exams and finals and farewell ceremonies.
This summer, I'm not going to be traveling as extensively as last year, though I will be going to New York to see Guys and Dolls on Broadway, and to spend a few weeks in the Sierra's with some friends, and to visit my family in Maryland and Virginia later on. As for now, I'm simply counting down the days until I can get out of my house (parental pressures are becoming a bit desperate as i am to be leaving soon.)
And the weather up in Washington! Beautiful! I can't wait to have a near constant stream of cold weather! No joke, I adore rain and fog and snow and what others generally view as shitty. Not true! It's SO much better than those unbearably sunny days where even when you're wearing next to nothing, you're still stifling....At least when it's cold, you can just bundle up, or snuggle up to a good book or movie with a cup of tea or coffee...Yumm...

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/23652005/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/23652005/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:53:57 PDT I've been watching countless films with her in them, "Gone With the Wind," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Anna Karenina," "Waterloo Bridge," "Ship of Fools," and so on and so forth. My favorite by far has to be "A Streetcar Named Desire." I've already seen it before, of course, but this year I read it for my English class and fell in love. When we were watching it in class though, nobody but the teacher and I appreciated the acting of both Brando and Leigh. One girl, sitting next to me, kept complaining that Blanche was "annoying," and "ugly."
Vivien Leigh? Ugly?
After the third time of hearing that, I swear, I nearly strangled her. Kids today just don't appreciate those things that are good, and true. They've no dignity or respect. Makes me a bit ashamed to be a part of this generation, to tell the truth. Still, there are those few people who make up for it. (Shot out to all those who still have some sense of appreciation.)

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/22332820/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/22332820/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:11:14 PST
I've been doing a few pieces, but have just been too lazy to upload them (bad me...) Most recently, I finished up a version of the Hannibal cover, then decided that I wanted to draw a more flattering picture of Anthony Hopkins, and so I polished that one off last night (or rather, this morning at 3AM).

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/21679506/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/21679506/ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:21:02 PST
Thank you, to my family and friends, for always being there.
Thank you, Grace and Emmett for being constant inspirations and the best role-models a girl could ever want or need.

Just some thanks for Thanksgiving! <3

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/21014451/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/21014451/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:04:52 PDT We're starting the Inferno of Dante in English--which is one of my favorite books, so I'm glad to actually be able to discuss it in a class.

Oh, and I almost forgot--I am no longer a Rocky Horror Picture Show Virgin. Oh no...And my first time--amazing. It was just two guy friends of mine and me and my house, them dressed as Rocky in nothing but golden underwear, and Dr. Frankenfurter in the whole corset, fishnets get-up. Weird movie, but I loved it anyway. And the music was great.

I'm right in the middle of a drawing of Phaedra. The original is an oil painting by Alexandre Cabanel. I wanted to draw his Cleopatra, but it didn't have enough contrast for me to render it successfully in pencil. (Great sigh).

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/20091891/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/20091891/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:14:12 PDT So people say that Senior year is sooo great, but it feels the exact same, so I'm thinking that's just BS. Really, I am dreading my AP tests at the end of the year, and the more demanding college applications.

Still, i'm excited. I am now taking 2 langauges--Latin and French, and am looking forward to both of them. There was some schedule problems in the beginning, but now, I'm all set.

Wish me luck!
(I'll need it)

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/19602090/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/19602090/ Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:51:37 PDT irk...I want to draw but left my sketchbook 6000 miles away at home.
Ah well, C'est la vie.

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/18963696/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/18963696/ Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:58:48 PDT Just drew a pic of Hatsumomo from Memoirs of a Geisha. Again, my scanner sucks, but I'll try to mess around with some photos of it as well to post. Hopefully, they'll be better.
Am reading Tale of Genji, atm. By Lady Murasaki Shikibu. Very good, I think. Great insight into a different culture. Soon, I'll be reading Geisha of Gion, by: Mineko Iwasaki, and The Tale of Murasaki, by: Liza Dalby. I'm hoping they're pretty good as well.
Lastly, from July 19-August10 I will be in Europe. I'll be visiting England, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, and the Czech Republic. OOTWAY! I'm stoked.

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/18390001/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/18390001/ Sun, 18 May 2008 20:38:18 PDT
I stayed up until 5:30 this morning watching the entire season 4 of Gilmore Girls. It was light when I went to bed. I can't sleep when it's light; what was I thinking? Well, I obviously wasn't since I woke up at 9am, unable to continue my slumber due to the enormous amounts of sunlight streaming through the window positioned conveniently next to my bed. So I got up, and did the only thing that seemed reasonable. I drank coffee. Lots of it. I was so awake, I had to clean. Me. CLEAN. I don't clean; at least, not of my own volition. I also did homework (which I do on a regular basis, of course, though don't enjoy it as much as I did in my euphoric caffeinated state), and downloaded a bunch of music. Beth Hart, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Yes, Big Brother Band, some more Blondie (I finally found 99 Ballons in the original German. score!)

and the title is relevant because I am starting to read Ulysses by James Joyce.

This man is....crazy. Crazier than I, and that is a feat. I try to just read it for the plot. Plot? Oh, you mean books are supposed to have a storyline? How novel.
Or, I'll try to just focus on the details--the references. But then, I miss the plot--which isn't there!

I am in a predicament. I don't know what to do. I think I'll just have to corner my english teacher (who lent me this god-forsaken tome. Damn the day her father even LOOKED at her mother) and force her to tell me what it's about. I mean, come on! Is Stephen Telemachus, is Bloom S&M? Tell me what in the world the kidney symbolizes, or so help me that green fairy they were talking about in Calypso is going down!

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/18247732/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/18247732/ Fri, 09 May 2008 19:44:05 PDT
More good news: School is almost over. THANK THE GODs. I also just finished my AP US History Exam--which was 4 hours long, by the way. 80 multiple choice and 3 essays. Fun. I almost broke a rib from laughter.

And just to put the cherry on top, I am going to Europe this summer. It is confirmed. I will be traveling to Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Czechoslavakia (oh, excuuuuuse me, it's "Czech Republic." Gods, I hate it when people correct me on that. I'm an old soul. I should have been born during WWI and lived through WWII, so I am entitled to say Czechoslavakia. So there.)

I also got, to my great astonishment, into French 3H. I have only been studying since early February, late January, and I skipped 2 years of French...I was thinking maybe ONE year. Sometimes I astound myself

I just finished a picture of James Blunt for my mother (as it is Mother's Day on Sunday, and she LOVES James Blunt), so I should be uploading it soon.

Hope everyone else is doing well.

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/17800309/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/17800309/ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:42:53 PDT Of course, I did bring it partly upon myself by taking a ridiculously difficult load...
French is getting better, though my writing is still considerably higher than my speaking; thank you Latin! Speaking of Latin, we're reading Cicero's IN CATILINAM speech; you know, "O TEMPORA, O MORES! SENATUS HAEC INTELLEGIT. CONSUL VIDET; HIC TAMEN VIVIT..."
I'll spare you the rest, as this goes on for....a long time... 16 pages of a word document, single spaced, multiplied by 33, and you have the first part of it. Then multiply THAT by 4, and you have a grand total of 528 pages! Yay!
o.O
Cicero talked too much.
Anyway! It's a good thing I only have to translate maybe 5 pages of that. Then again, I've seen sentences in Latin go on for 2 and a half pages. No joke. There is no such thing as a run on sentence in Latin. Now if only we could have that in English...Just plug in a few clauses here and there, along with a huge chunk of inderect statements, maybe finish it off with a bit of alliteration and a passive periphrastic. Heaven.

Edit:

Si quis, iudices, forte nunc adsit ignarus legum, iudiciorum,

consuetudinis nostrae, miretur profecto, quae sit tanta atrocitas

huiusce causae, quod diebus festis ludisque publicis, omnibus

forensibus negotiis intermissis unum hoc iudicium exerceatur,

nec dubitet, quin tanti facinoris reus arguatur, ut eo neglecto civitas stare

non possit; idem cum audiat esse legem, quae de seditiosis

consceleratisque civibus, qui armati senatum obsederint,

magistratibus vim attulerint, rem publicam oppugnarint, cotidie quaeri iubeat:

legem non improbet, crimen quod versetur in iudicio, requirat; cum audiat

nullum facinus, nullam audaciam, nullam vim in iudicium vocari, sed

adulescentem illustri ingenio, industria, gratia accusari ab eius filio,

quem ipse in iudicium et vocet et vocarit, oppugnari autem opibus

meretriciis: [Atratini] illius pietatem non reprehendat, muliebrem

libidinem comprimendam putet, vos laboriosos existimet,

quibus otiosis ne in communi quidem otio liceat esse.


That's one sentence in Latin. You thought I was joking, didn't you?

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16983989/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16983989/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:53:54 PST
Please excuse my French, it's horrible, all I can say are little things, titles, like Monsieur, or j'adore ton travailler, or de rein, or je voudrais, or je suis desole, regardez moi, and other stupid phrases. Gods know, I need to practice.

Au revoir

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16953565/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16953565/ Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:15:21 PST Sur les boulevards, dans les faubourgs,
On les voit traîner par centaines,
Leurs guêtres sales et leurs amours
Dans des chemises de dix jours.
Sous la lumière des réverbères,
Prenant des airs de Pompadour,
Ce sont nos belles ferronnières,
Ce sont nos poupées, nos guignols, nos pantins.
Écoutez dans la nuit,
Elles chantent ce refrain :

"C'est nous les mômes, les mômes de la cloche,
Clochards qui s'en vont sans un rond en poche.
C'est nous les paumées, les purées d' paumées
Qui sommes aimées un soir n'importe où.
Nous avons pourtant
Cœur pas exigeant
Mais personne n'en veut.
Eh ben tant pis pour eux.
Qu'è'qu'ça fout,
On s'en fout !
Nul ne s'y accroche.
Il n'y a pas d'amour
Et l'on sera toujours
Les mômes de la cloche !

Mais comme elles n'ont pas les toilettes
Qu'il faut pour les quartiers rupins,
C'est pas aux Galeries Lafayette
Qu'elles vont faire chaque soir leur turbin.
Le long du canal Saint-Martin,
Au Sébasto, à la chapelle,
On est toujours assez gandin
Pour le monsieur qui vous appelle.
D'l'article populaire, c'est pas du beau joujou.
'y a pas d' poupées en soie
Aux bazars à trente sous.
C'est nous les mômes, les mômes de la cloche,
Clochards qui s'en vont sans un rond en poche.
C'est nous les paumées, les purées d' paumées
Qui sommes aimées un soir n'importe où.
Tout comme nos ribouis,
Nous n'sommes pas vernies.
Jamais l'on ira
Sur la Riviera.
Qu'è'qu'ça fout,
On s'en fout !
Quand l'argent nous fauche,
On va faire quatre jours
Là-bas dans la Tour.
Les mômes de la cloche,
Elles ont vendu toutes leurs caresses.
Elles furent payées tant bien que mal,
Puis un jour, plus rien dans la caisse,
Vont se fiche dans l'canal
Et sans avoir comme un cheval
La pitié des gens de la rue,
On les emmène à l'hô pital.
La foule dit "ce n'est qu'une grue"
Et voilà comment nos poupées, nos pantins,
Lorsqu'elles n'ont plus le sou
S'en vont toutes à Pantin.

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16814738/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16814738/ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:25:49 PST Suffoquant sous le soleil et sous la joie
Et j'entends dans la musique les cris, les rires
Qui éclatent et rebondissent autour de moi
Et perdue parmi ces gens qui me bousculent
Étourdie, désemparée, je reste là
Quand soudain, je me retourne, il se recule,
Et la foule vient me jeter entre ses bras...
Emportés par la foule qui nous traîne
Nous entraîne
Écrasés l'un contre l'autre
Nous ne formons qu'un seul corps
Et le flot sans effort
Nous pousse, enchaînés l'un et l'autre
Et nous laisse tous deux
Epanouis, enivrés et heureux.
Entraînés par la foule qui s'élance
Et qui danse
Une folle farandole
Nos deux mains restent soudées
Et parfois soulevés
Nos deux corps enlacés s'envolent
Et retombent tous deux
Epanouis, enivrés et heureux...

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16781288/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16781288/ Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:51:33 PST
Kudos.

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16714393/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16714393/ Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:25:52 PST Twice.
And had it for two weeks. It just wouldn't go away...
So I've basically been doing nothing but sleeping, and blowing my nose. (oh and warning: don't make me laugh, I still cough stuff up).
No new artwork, unfortunately...but I'm working on a piece for Latin Convention, so I should have that up in a few weeks (it's an oil painting, so it'll take me a while).
Anyway, I thought my recovery (knock on wood) required a change of avatar and signature.
Oh, and during the time whilst I was indisposed, every part of my body ached (as is common with the flu) but the worst part was, my eyes couldn't move outside of a 20 degree cone, or else they really hurt. And for a while, I was freaking out, 'cause I wasn't in my right mind and I secretely harbored the fear that I would go blind and never be able to read again and if that happened I would just have to kill myself. I mean, can you imagine? A life without....reading...a.....single....book???
*dies*

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16589759/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16589759/ Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:18:04 PST "What is her name?"
lol. So obvious, yet so delectable.
Anyway, the AP Junior Writing Examination wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. On the contrary, I thought it passed rather smoothly--like dropping a deuce after a night of eating Indian Curry with garlic Naan. (anyone who says Garlic Naan and Chicken Tiki Masala isn't good should be put through rehabilitation, becuase you have obviously been on something).

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16372833/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/16372833/ Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:19:55 PST Surprised? (Don't answer that..)
Back to school--and already I have a paper for my English Honors class, and in two weeks I have my AP English writing exam. If I don't pass with a 12 or higher, then I don't go on to AP English next year.
O.o
Not happy about that. Very nervous.
So I found the book "Ilium" by Dan Simmons, which I have already read and think it is awesome, but decided to read again. I have just recently finished the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.
Meh. I didn't think it was anything special. Rating is a 3 out of 5. And that means I'm feeling to generous to give it a 2, but too unimpressed to give it a 4.
As for artwork, I have finished a few things, but again they are just copies of others' work. I haven't had enuogh time to compose anything, and have just been entertaining myself with sketches and such. Latin Convention should be coming up soon, though, so I'll have to do another painting sometime soon.
I hope everyone else is having a good time in the new year.

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/15987397/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/15987397/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:55:18 PST I have been working on a few things lately, but unfortunately they are copies of other peoples' work, so I'll have to post them carefully and with reference to the original artist.
I've been thinking about drawing the Deck of Dragons from Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. They're like tarot cards, but not really...anyway, I'll try to stay updated.

Finals are finally over! Woooooooooot!!! Time for break.

Merry Christmas!

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/15616299/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/15616299/ Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:15:42 PST
Oh and I just discovered a new artist. Hail-YekoNasha, or something to that effect. Hilarious comics with chars from Super Smash Bros. Marth, Roy and Link are hilarious.

Happy Thanksgiving!

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/14468838/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/14468838/ Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:32:39 PDT As for school, junior year is already the toughest year yet, and I'm taking two honors classes and one AP class. I'm smart, sure, but I never said I had common sense.

More great news, two of my cousins from South Africa are staying with us for two weeks. I haven't seen them since I was seven or so, and the change is surprising. They are now smoking hot and have taken over my bedroom. o.O the best part is, they're actually second cousins, once removed, so I feel no shame in getting an eyeful and daydreaming every now and then.

Oh, and Ijust finished another Illidan picture. As soon as I get it scanned and touched up a bit, I'll be sure to post.

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/14230116/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/14230116/ Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:44:03 PDT *cry*

]]> ~Hatsumora6 http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/13528504/ http://Hatsumora6.deviantart.com/journal/13528504/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:08:43 PDT I'll be sure to take a picture of it though and post it. I'm also designing a geisha painting. Hopefully I'll actually finish them before the end of next month.

]]> ~Hatsumora6