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deviantART: by:Odin-Lionheart http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Odin-Lionheart&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Odin-Lionheart en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:06:47 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Good-for-nothing jack-of-all-trades http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/28732932/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/28732932/ Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:12:49 PST Â

SO WHAT TIMES IS IT?
HOLLY YES, IT'S MOTHERM*RY DECEMBER!

*starts whistling christmascarols*

I really shouldn't be spirited. My life is such a friggin downer lately and everything about it is out of order, but everyone who pretends to know me are already very aware of my unreasonable loveaffair with Christmas. In fact, as soon as I am finished writing this I'll be switching over to my christmas-themed avatar and that zany webcam-photo I had last Christmas.

So skipping the Christmasy-clichÃ©s of "Has it been a year already" and "Pass the camera, uncle Bill had too much eggnog"
I'm a bit lazy when it comes to dA. For something I seem to check every day, I believe I've lost my dA-skillz. I even have stuff to show off, oh there are quite a bit of stuff. Packing-design has been awesomesauce so far, with having designed fopr luxurious catfood, vintage sugarlumps and a perfume for EA Games. I only have a missed ecofriendly juice and a package-series left in that course, with the letter having to be completed before the christmasbreak (in two weeks).
On top of that there's two website to make for other courses, though luckily one of them is more or less just to follow instructions. The other one will be for Lionheart Studios, which I recently went up and bought a domain for, which you'll eventually be able to reach at [link]

Women are quite bothersome, aren't they?

So what are all my christmas-celebrating friends planning? Anything fun? Or just home with the family? For the first time ever we seem to be having a pretty low-key one with just a bit of family, not the large get-togethers of years pasts (which is a bit of a bummer, I admit) mainly because our grandparents sold their villa and the only other place big enough is our house, and it seems my parents weren't up to invite people in time.
Eh, whatever, I guess I can give it a try. A bit of a bummer, though, since gathering a lot of the people you care about is one of the highlights of christmas for me. Maybe I should work on bringing in some new people; I am the oldest after all.
Oh yeah, I probably should ask about you people not celebrating it too, what are you planning? To you I'll also extend an invite to come and try celebrating Christmas with me at some point, hahah.

I really wish I could be like Gintoki, but I am even less reliable than he is. And I have no natural perm.

~ Jonathan ]]> =Odin-Lionheart Holy refuge in audacity, Badman! http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/28129587/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/28129587/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:18 PST Â

I hereby work undercover for the British Royal Family. I'm supposed to tell no-one, but I figured that writing it openly like this would be the best way to conceal it, since no-one in their right mind would believe me.

Now onto something less outrageous. November is cold.
I really couldn't have written two accurate statements in a row, right? That'd be insane.

Preceeding statements aside, I really wish it was not this week now. Along with being an extra-busy week with a project, more classes, early morning and whatnot, it is also preventing me from doing something I really want to do. So I do really wish for it to not be this week anymore.
Yeah week, you really suck.

Speaking of project, today I made a packaging for sugarlumps. It was all sorts of fun, especially the part where my project-mate's ADHD-ridden Pug puked on my chair. Or the sitcom-amount of troubles that arose as we were putting on the finishing touches. But, y'know, at least it looks friggin awesome. Read also: Photoshop is fun.

Now I have to go either play Tekken 6 or sleep. Both are about equally important.

Only most of the week left now, hahah.

/Agent Goemon signing out

~ Jonathan ]]> =Odin-Lionheart tvtropes.org http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/27860025/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/27860025/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:17:43 PDT Â

Time is no longer my friend. It's like this thing it has started with that all hours following 8 PM will go at trice the normal speed.
It's a development I am not that fond of.

3 AM here, and I have to go to bed (really) so that I will wake up in time for a class-appointment at 1 PM. There's something wrong with things if you're afraid of not waking up in time for something after noon, but I am incredibly stubborn when it comes to beds and having to get up from them. Whenever me and my body start our tug-of-war it usually end with my loss and another hour in bed.
I kid you not. I could write a book about it. And it would be pretty boring. Because after 3 pages I would start telling myself what a bad idea it was to start writing a book about getting out of bed.

I AM writing this journal though, because today I've been somewhat active and I felt like I was on a stroke or something. My illness have left a wake of not doing anything in it's wake, and I've spent a lot of my days living up to said trope.
I have been going to class for the last week though. That's not saying much, since that entailed one class and one radiobroadcast and not much more. I am, however, better. In the sense that I don't lie under the sheets all day and am actually able to cook dinner for myself again. All that lingers is a cough and a mild cold, so I think it's safe to say I am not dying, but I don't want to jinx anything, so here's an image of kittens: [link]
Adorable!

On a completely related note. This last week they started airing an anime-adaption of a manga I recently started reading: Fairy Tale. I was pretty psyched and liked it. Though some choices of colors were pretty batshit insane. I guess, though, if the main character's hair is gonna be pink you can just take the brightest version instead of picking, y'know, a fitting tone of the color. But I'm no artcritic.
Also, apparently I've watched enough of the damn things to recognize a voiceactress to the point it is almost ruining a character (for me). That has me worried. A lot. Maybe I won't be able to sleep tonight after all.

But that aside, my life is pretty dull at the moment. Being sick does that to you, but I kinda wish someone would just randomly ring my doorbell and drag me out on adventure.

*sigh* I really should get started on playing NHL2010 for that review. Tomorrow.

~ Jonathan ]]> =Odin-Lionheart Sick windows *update* http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/27626402/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/27626402/ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:27:52 PDT Â

Old journal, out of the way, I'm gonna throw you out of the window.
*picks it up but stops himself*
Oh right, I can't because they are being worked on. And open. For the third day now.

Sure, that wouldn't have been a bother, had I not been sick during exactly those days, and due to the fact that my bed is right next to the damn things, I can't stay in it. That's why I am writing this. To occupy my time as they are being finished. Then I can go BACK to bed, and rest, watching streamed children's cartoons to make my time go faster, since I'm not able to sleep more than just a couple of hours a day.

I am coughing, missing lessons, and am unable to work.

Hopefully it's soon gone. Just like the windowpainters.

Addition: Thursday, and I am still in bed. And I reeeeaaaally would've liked if my roommate could stop bringing people over. It's the third day in a row he has someone here, and given that the three first days I had to have window-painters here, there's REALLY not even one day I get to rest it through in peace.

~ Jonathan ]]> =Odin-Lionheart A joke without a punchline http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/27567300/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/27567300/ Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:26:59 PDT Â

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Since I woke up at 3 PM I have not accomplished anything today.
Well I did figure something out that is neither here nor there, and that won't really affect my life. Just something that dawned on me.

Other than that, I say I am pretty hopeless when I am not trying to be funny, aren't I?
Maybe I lost faith, or maybe I am mentally exhausted after last night.
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Today already ended several hours ago.

~ Jonathan

]]> =Odin-Lionheart Today I'll be honest about...uh, the color green? http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/27455970/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/27455970/ Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:06:25 PDT Â

Ok, I won't really be honest about the color green, like advertised in my title. And for that I am sorry, I know some of you clicked on that in honest hope that that is what I would be talking about. Yet such is not the case. I can't really be honest about the color green at this point in my life, and if I one day decide to come clean, I think my choice of medium will be different.
We'll see. That point is in the future.

Honestly speaking, though, lately I cannot help but feel...I feel...
No, my bad, let's not talk about such matters.

A week ago I spent all night working on my first project for school. It's a packaging-course. I didn't get in where I hoped to, though I was close as just 2nd reserve. But, it seems like everyone stuck there, so I'm out of luck.
But it's alright, I'll be taking this packaging course and two courses about web to keep me afloat this term. Then I have somewhat 3 weeks to decide what to do next term. Mma, they have the selection-process too early in the term, I only just started.

Anyway, packaging-course. It's interesting. The goal with each project is to make a packaging that looks like it would fit into the shelfspace of a store.
First project was a catfood-package, and after putting my heart into creating it this is how it turned out:
[link]
Sorry for the bad quality, it is still in school and that is just a quick snapshot I took with my cell.
Anyhow, just wanted to show you guys since it'll be a while until it is entered properly into my gallery.

That's...all for now, I think.

Stay afloat.

~ Jonathan

]]> =Odin-Lionheart A modern depicting of fireflies http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/27244673/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/27244673/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:29:51 PDT Â

I am tired lately. Maybe I have the swineflu.

...Or I am back at university.

~ Jonathan

]]> =Odin-Lionheart Questions of great success! http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/26849452/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/26849452/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:31:46 PDT Â

Stole this from

which I believe makes me a dirty thief, but the police will never take me.
Copy and paste in a response, even better if you take the time to answer them as well.

1. Your Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favourite Film:
5. Favourite Song or Album:
6. Favourite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of dA?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favourite memory of us?
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

~ Jonathan

]]> =Odin-Lionheart The sun warms me inside http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/26667726/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/26667726/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:26:18 PDT Â

Hello kids, to another segment of "Odin wastes our time by forcing us to read his journal and won't let us stop under punishment of no dessert"
Title pending

I am not so fond of the sun.
Well I like the sun, just not when it shines directly on me. Like it does here in my room in my parents' house.
It's literally cooking.
And I have to work.

Yes, work, how is that going, now when you've been supposed to work all summer?
*cough*
It's hard to do anything in the summer I've noticed, especially when you're trying to have summervacation at the same time.
Just this journal has taken two weeks for me to sit down and write.
But work is progressing, do not doubt.

As I mentioned I am working on my third webpage for the same client and this is the last week I am gonna work with the relatively easy webpage.
I am being deliberately lazy with it, because I am EXTREMELY unhappy with the client.
Why?
Because he has:
1. Refused to pay, after his thirty days of having to pay us for the first bill had ended, he calls my colleague and says that he doesn't want to pay. We take down the webpage I did for it, since he explicitly said he didn't want to pay for it.
But they solve everything and the client said he would pay (though money arrived some 1-2 weeks after he said they would be in.
2. One week after he first refused to pay he notices his webpage is down and calls me. I explain why it is down, which he doesn't accept and says that if I didn't put it back up he would take me to court.
And he was serious about it too.
3. He's a general bitch to my colleague.

Plus in a sign of ill-placed goodwill my colleague lowered our askingprice for the first bill, cutting 1/3 of the final price, which was quite a bit. Problem is he SHOULDN'T have done it, because even if our client had a problem with the price he missed the 30 days he had to take this up with us and we could just've taken him to a higher authority and file a report on him.

So you understand I am not feeling like working for him at all. The current website I am making for him is just a Wordpress-page (because it is undoubtly the best way for his page to work) with a rather simple edit to an already existing theme.

In any case, my stay here with my parents is reaching its end. Last week now, before I'll head back and prepare for university. Which is screwing up.
Since I didn't get into where I wanted.
And I don't have enough courses to make a full term.
Which most likely will affect my financial aid.
Unless I get into a place where I am currently set as reserve.

I love my life

At least I have gotten a new PS2 and PSP
Both slick silver.

~ Jonathan

]]> =Odin-Lionheart How nostalgic http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/26176056/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/26176056/ Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:15:29 PDT Â

This time the journal won't be brought to you by anything.
It's because no-one is bringing me anything.
Except maybe a cold.

Swinflu-chaos has come to Sweden. Papers are loving it. Expect that half the population could get infected.
I'll make sure to be clean.

So for little over a week now I've been at home, chillin' with my parents. Grandparens were here for less than a week until they left for the U.S. thursday morning. Visiting relatives that live over there.

Me, I am taking it easy. I work minimal, mostly due to the fact that programmers are on a holiday. But in the meantime client wants another webpage.
It's dedicated to the injustice fathers have to face in custody-battles, with the officials most often taking the side of the mother per default.
I like it. The stance he is taking. And it prides me to be a part of it. I am just a bit lazy at the moment, with summer and all.
We've been discussing it for quite a while, though, getting clear what he wants. See, he wants there to be a page where you can post stories about your own experiences, as well as a petition you can sign that can be turned in.
For this I figured out a blog would work for the posting of the stories, with a form you fill out that sends the story you want to add to an email. Then instead of a petition (I've NEVER seen a good online-petition that works well) I figured a Facebook-group would be better, be easier to spread and have an easier time to get picked up by media.
I looked up Wordpress for the blog and discovered that you could easily do all these things with a standard Wordpress account, with added features like customized CSS for a small fee. But he wants to make it so complicated and host everything on an outside-server and so on.

I've gone through with his wishes though, and used a version of Wordpress which allows you to install it on a remote server, where you handle everything yourself while keeping the basic interface. So far I kinda like it, and it does give me a lot more liberties than a standard Wordpress-account. Not that he needs this, though, since I could've pulled everything off with a generic account. But you know, as long as he's happy.

Weather is back and forth, which is kinda annoying. I just hope that this budding cold will go away.

Back at RO for some ungodly reason, but I got dragged back by an accomplice. This time it's a mid-rate server, so I won't have to spend even a fraction of as much time on everything as I would on the old ones I played at. Which means I can spend my time actually having fun on the godforsakened game, instead of day after day of grindfests that the lowrate-servers are.

Results from what courses I'll take this autumn arrived some weeks ago. Didn't get my first choice for the first time ever, which kinda annoys me, since for once I was excited over trying it out. I am reserve though so we'll see how it pulls through.

I want to buy a new PS2 and PSP since my PS2 is over 8 years old and my PSP is broke and I'd like a newer model. Need to find good deals on those.

Dunno what more to say than BWOK BWOK

~ Jonathan

]]> =Odin-Lionheart Lithuania is addicted to WoW http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/25593747/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/25593747/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:40:23 PDT Â

Today's journal-entry will be brought to you by Boomshine.

Heey old people, how is summer treating you?
Me? I am avoiding it like the plague doing things like work and playing Boomshine.
Working people should have summer. They should only work and do what little else they need to do to keep working.

Since the last time I talked to you lovable mongrels I've been working, if that had not become clear to you.
So far the website is done and I am hard at work with the framework.
Client has caused me A LOT of stress lately, with wacky ideas, misunderstandings and more wacky ideas. I firmly believe he is a madman.
[link]
For example, a while it seemed that he wanted me to structure the content of the system for him and such, but I told him that was not the job featured in a graphical framework. Plus many of his wishes makes no sense either.
But, I were on a meeting with him the other day and things have cooled since we had it. Got a clear grasp on what I still have to do before I can cash in my payment and start taking summer-vacation, though the problem is that I don't know how long this time is. Guess I'll need to keep myself occupied with Boomshine until then.

Things are pretty crazy. I want to excuses to do something else. Actually right now I can't do much practical work until I get response from my client, but I doubt that'll take long.
At least there were some talks about plans this weeks so I'll see what happens. If not, I'll go and paint the hallway in a bright pink or something like that.

Maybe I should play some Boomshine?

Anyway, I am not adding anything to my gallery before the job is done, but you can see the very swedish webpage I did at [link]
There might be an english version coming up. He said he wanted an english and polish version. Just need the texts from him then.

Romania is pretty

~ Jonathan

]]> =Odin-Lionheart Now with less crouton-y goodness http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/25279823/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/25279823/ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:37:29 PDT Â

Yoh

I hope everyone got the important message of my last post.
About croutons.
Yeah, let's skip those. Today's update is gonna be about bluetooth headsets.
Because they are sweet and I can walk around my room pretending I am important while making my important calls.

Work-update. I've been hard at work all week. Working on my client's website. The one he wanted me to do while I still did the graphical framework the prevented the programmers from working before it was done.
He wanted a working prototype for Wednesday, which he got after I sat up all night working. Then I fell asleep sometime around 1 PM. Was roused awake 2 hours later by my client calling and speaking about very minor alterations in text that he hadn't needed to call me about and just send me an email with (which he later did anyway).
Website wasn't done though. It could navigate and to the untrained eye it might've looked done, but it really wasn't, with several graphical bugs and details not working. I've been working on it since taking some time off recharging. Then I got a mail early Friday morning ( I had been up until then working and was just about to go to bed) where he literally asked for the website done the same day.
Hoping it was a bad dream and that my magnificent bluetooth headset would save me, I feel asleep.
It wasn't a dream.
So I called him (actually he called me, but I was in the shower and not even my bluetooth headset works in water...I think) and explained that it was simply not possible, and even the original deadline of this Monday was in reality a very short timeframe for a website (less than two weeks while having to work on more stuff than that). He understood and gave me the entire weekend (yaaaay

) to finish.

Also, CSS is a bitch. It seems it lacks some very basic functions. Like stretching div-tags height-wise to the full extent of the container it is in (most of you won't even get what I mean by that) and I spent hours to find out it was actually pretty much impossible. I needed it for my website-design because it needed to be scaleable in a correct way to account for people with small screen-resolutions (which I am told/guessing people in the construction-business are more likely to have). But I figured out a way luckily, which was literally my last hope before having to scrap a very important part of my design and what really made it stand out.

Enough about my actual work though (and perhaps more about bluetooth headsets?)
Being freelance under a tight schedule in the summer is boring. I hardly do anything but sit at my computer all day, working (or procrastinating/resting; which is needed, promise). No social interactions. Even my roommate is hardly at home. Meaning I am pretty much alone. And it is a bummer. At least my classes did let me meet people. But I can't even play videogames to take my mind of things since I have to work.
It's really dull.
And people I know here are going back home for summer (I know very few who are natively from here) so I can't use them as an excuse to get out.
Not even the radio.
I am kinda craving interaction with people

Also I am currently feeling sick. I am not sure why, but it's been back and forth lately. And only a bit.

Lastly, I'll end with something more fun though (could it be a bluetooth headset!?!?!?)
I ordered a shirt, which is a very unusual thing for me to do, but I did. It's a hoodie which took a long time to get here, and I got it from the Penny Arcade-store for you who are familiar, pretty much on the day it was made avaliable.
I had to, since it kinda spoke to me.
Check it out

Now why did I actually spend time doing that?
And why does it lack bluetooth headset?

I think I need sleep and to stop writing long journals hardly anyone reads.

~ Jonathan

]]> =Odin-Lionheart Lionheart Studios are a Go! http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/25149091/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/25149091/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:24:43 PDT Â

What up, happy people that I sometime fool into reading the propaganda that is my journal.
Today's wall of text is brought to you by Croutons the delicious...croutons

So summer snuck up on me a while ago, and I totally neglected to update my journal to rub it in peoples' faces that I was free from school.
In return, I will present this prime opportunity for people to rub it in my face that they will very likely have a lot more free time than me during the next few weeks.

You see, Lionheart Studios has its first client! And a box of croutons in the cabinet!

I am not sure if I remembered to mention this, but I collaboration with a company named RR Media, which is owned by a guy named Rasmus, which I got to know while studying graphical design. Very talented guy, especially when it comes to videos, but also graphical design. Producing for web and such is not his forte, though, which is where I come in and help him out with.

He's also a guy with connections (but sadly no croutons).

A company called EHD Nordica, which works within the building-industry, contacted him with a very lucrative job. He wanted flyers as well as a framework-design for a system he is developing and hoping to sell to other companies within the industry. Rasmus could handle the flyers pretty nicely, but when it came to the framework he directed the owner to me and I agreed to come in with Rasmus and meet with him.

This is were things turned a little...hm, I wouldn't call it "ugly" but very much chaotic. First it turned out he wanted a bit more than what he had initially contacted us about. Turns out he wanted several different fliers, a graphical manual and a website on top of what he had already presented to us. Know that more work would mean more money we of course accepted
Then he went to present the system he wanted me to design for

Let's sum it up quickly. It's a mess. I am pretty sure he is the only person who can navigate it, because it was windows here, windows there, several different programs, lists, forms, more windows and meanwhile they are all about stuff I had no idea about what any of those meant, or could make sense of.
Thinking I had to design every page and such I was starting to slightly panic (so did Rasmus) over the amount of work it would turn out to be, but luckily we got to our senses and realize it was only the framework; the basic buildingstones and graphics that I need to do. Of course, he told me, builders are technologically inept so I'd have to make it real simple.
Alright I thought, and spent a few hours after the meeting calming down

Then I went to have a "lunch meeting" while me and Rasmus discussed what we'd need to do. The website, he said, he wanted a working prototype on Wednesday (as in this coming week) so I figured I should start with that.
So during the following days I researched other sites for similar companies, talked with the programmers working on the system and made some sketches, thinking I was doing good time.

NOT SO. Talking with our client is a confusing event, I tell you. Turns out I'M supposed to make a logo for his system, which is not named, so I am not so sure how I'll pull that one off. But also my friday started with him calling, expecting me to have already started working on the system framework (despite his website needing to be done next week!) and even have something to present. No normal studio would at this time, so neither did I, but the client said that the programmers couldn't start working until I had finished and I almost facepalmed because that contradicted everything I had been told up to that point (Such as "What timeframe do I have to work on?" "The system is to be done in two months" and "How fast do you need the graphics?" "No rush, take your time") but I figured I'd need to work some on it so I started drawing up sketches for the framework and then sat down at the computer and started to produce two of those I had drawn, quickly having to figure out a color-scheme and the fonts to use.
After several hours I have two suggestions which I mailed him.

So it's a bit hectic, and we have to produce things in a timeframe that is much too short for us to work effectively. Still doing my best, though, even if I have to cut many parts in the process short.
At least this will pay. Terrifically so. And this is gonna be a fantastic addition to my portfolio. So this still tops doing schoolwork.
But at least while studying graphical design my teacher gave us a human timeframe.

Where did my summer go?
At least I have delicious c... ]]> =Odin-Lionheart Odin, now in technicolor http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24845649/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24845649/ Tue, 19 May 2009 19:05:15 PDT Â

Hey everyo-
Wait a minute here. Something feels...different. Odd, even. Like if something is different. Is it my hair? Well, yeah, my hair is shorter, but it's probably not that.
I can't seem to put my hand on it *leans on journal*
Oh! I know what it is!
It's the massive headache I always get whenever I dabble with the dark arts of CSS. Here's my new journal!

Yes people, a bit of change in design here. Now that I have my own graphical business, I got myself my own graphical profile. But even good things come and go, and my old CSS didn't cut it, so I had to change. It also happened to be part of my final project in Graphical Design.

Speaking of which, I finished that one last week, and sent in my files this Monday. Unless I have some glaring mistakes to correct I am officially done with that course. And today I had my presentation on my other final project, which makes me unofficially done for the term. Just have to turn in a one-page report by tomorrow. But effectively I am done, and it's a relief.
But less about that now, and more about:

My company is done, and decided. Thanks everyone for the feedback on my logo. It helped. And many reaffirmed my belief in which logo I should continue to work with (trust me, this one is different from the one in the previously shown list, even if you can't notice it). And I feel really proud over it. The graphical profile for it is great, if I do say so myself, and it received good critique when I presented everything as my final project. Don't worry, I'm gonna upload everything in the next few days.

Actually, I have a lot to upload. The checklist is as following
- 2 Graphical profiles (including logs, businesscards, stationaries and envelopes)
- 1 Guerrilla marketing-campaign
- 1 Guidebook-concept
- 1 Exhibit model (my second final project that I finished today)

They'll get uploaded once I figure out how I'll do it. Be sure to poke me if I don't do it, though. I might go super-lazy with SUMMER VACATION.
*cough* Almost summer vacation.
For today, though, I'll leave you with this new CSS and new ID.

As a last notice, turned 21 on the tenth and that felt very weird to type. 21 and still good for nothing. What will ever become of me?
Got money, which landed me a haircut and some new games. Amongst other I bought a headset for my PS3, so if anyone else sit with a black behemoth we can now play and talk together. Isn't that great? If you thought my typing was obnoxious, wait until I open my mouth.

Well, that's that, for now. I'll leave you Susan Boyle [link]
Do watch.

~ Jonathan

]]> =Odin-Lionheart What have I done!? *update* http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24555066/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24555066/ Sun, 03 May 2009 18:04:19 PDT Â

First of all I'd like to say R.I.P. The Daily Show and Colbert Report. For the longest time you were a steady source of entertainment for me and many of my brethren. But then something happened, and you killed yourself.

Yes, good people, two of my favorite shows, who up until a few days had gracefully aired their full episodes on their webpages, decided to become dicks and ban a large majority of people outside of the United States from watched their shows on the webpage. In a businessmodel fitting the day before internet and internet piracy, they decided that countries that bought their license (even if they don't even USE said license) to air their episodes (usually on cable, and even MORE usually airing episodes from several weeks before) should not receive access because that seemed like a good idea.
Sadly, the Daily Show is known for fighting injustices, and doing this lost them plenty of goodwill from their international viewers. Plus having a demographic that is quite prone to putting on eyepatches and peglegs whenever they want something, it's not like the license subsidiaries are getting any more viewers to begin with, since most of the people who watched the show online was because they did not like the local alternative, and will now turn to what is closest: bittorrent.
A small clap for Comedy Central for their dickish move that did not get them anything.
The full story can be read here [link]

age=1 With my own post (under the username "ShadowOdin") begin somewhere around page 8-9

That's not what I'm gonna talk about though. It's this:

Yes! My registration-papers arrived the other day, and I am now officially a businessman (sans suit). CEO of Lionheart Studios, if you so will, although I have not taken any steps of securing that name. Apparently getting website and likely trademark it (once I have the money) is the way to go, while the company is officially under the name "Jonathan Quist"
I'll be going with Lionheart Studios, though, because frankly I think having a name will allow me to stand out from designers just using their own names. Plus, I've already, as part of my last project in graphical design, started building up an identity around the name.

Now I need your help, though. First of all, the webdomain www . lionheartstudios . com ([link]) is already taken, so I'll have to find some alternative way to spell out, without getting easily mixed up with this 3D-modeling...thing. Suggestions would be nice to see.

Second of all, the above logo, while the card itself is complete, the font used for the text is not decided. I took one on a hunch just to show you how it will look. If you're very kind, though, please go to [link] and tell me which one(s) you like the most and will fit in well.

EDIT: Got some feedback on the fonts, and with the help of that I developed some logo-examples here-> [link] . Please tell me what you think about them, and which one you prefer.

Alright, it's crapearly in the morning, just because I've been working on the logo. Need to get everything finished next week since I plan on going home and visit my family over the next weekend, since it's my birthday then. But I have to present my work next tuesday, meaning I'm running out of time.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart lolhats http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24346066/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24346066/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:45:21 PDT Â

Not to be mistaken with lolcats. This is a lolhat [link]

Now for something completely different.
Pelicans, and why they are the most awesome animal on the planet.

[...]

Wasn't that exciting, people? I had no idea they could actually do that. Or that camels were their natural predators. You learn something every day. Except some Wednesdays.

Tonikaku (kawaii desu wa yo ne), today is Monday night and I begin by writing "anyway" in Japanese for no reason, just like I saw someone do on a message board, after writing a post completely in english. So I thought: "Yes, I also want to exchange randamu (kawaii desu wa yo ne) words with their japanese equivalent for no other reason than to show how hardcore I wish I had been born a son of Nippon (kawaii desu wa yo ne). Here's my sons, Hiro, Ryu and Schtolteheim Reinbach III."

Now that I have that out of my system (though it was never actually in my system). I'll let you know that I've just finished the 4th out of my 5 large projects this term. I haven't posted anything after my book, but since then I have done a graphical profile, a guerrilla marketing campaign, and lastly, what I just finished, a "guidebook" in the form of a piraty treasuremap over missable sights here in MalmÃ¶, marketed towards children.
I received my last assignment Saturday evening, which is...a lot larger than the previous ones. I need to pick a company (existing or made up) and for it do: a graphical profile (with logo, businesscard, stationary, envelope amongst other), a poster, something digital (website, banner or something like that) and something we've done before in class (this course, or the previous Original Production). Geesh, that's gonna tear. Won't finish that in one night.

But, as fate would have it, Friday I filed my paperwork for my business, so of course the project will go towards doing stuff for it. I'm not stupid. Although others had to tell me that I could do that since I didn't think of it myself..............
It's awesome, though. Just have to wait two weeks before I hopefully get a response. Also, technically my official name will be "Jonathan Quist" but that's because changing it the traditional way would only make it work for THIS REGION. Not the whole country. So I got tip of a good alternative way to go about things.

Uhm, girls are cute

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart One step forward http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24124225/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24124225/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:31:09 PDT Â

I'm running to class so I'm gonna be real quick.

I might be getting a freelance-assignment so that made me think I should finally take the plunge and start my own company. Since I know other people who have done it and they say it's not hard (plus that basically everyone working with Graphical Design have one.

In any case, I've been thinking about a name and whether I should get one other than my own name (since anything else cost me a sum of money. But frankly I think it would be more interesting, and, most of all, more fun to be called something different, like "I have fish in my pocket".

However, I need some feedback on names I've been thinking of and what to pick, or if you have your own suggestion I might use.
The names I have come up with so far is:
Jonathan Quist
Lionheart Studios
ShadowOdin
Odin
The Odin Company
Lionheart

Pretty simple, I know, but I figured I'd just throw out my first examples. Since Odin Lionheart has been an alias for so long, I'd think it would be nice to use it in my company-name.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Barnickles. Is that a word? http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24022531/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/24022531/ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:19:22 PDT Â

So yesterday was the first of April. I spent the day being more serious than I usually am.
For others, less serious individuals, there's this [link]

You know, I could spend this journal speaking about the things going on in my life, for example Resident Evil 5 which I ended up enjoying, or how friggin' amazing the Sega-collection (known as Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection to you crazy yanks) that I am currently playing really is (Nostalgia in a box).

Or I could talk about the Sci-Fi, game and film convention I went to this weekend to do a report for my radio show.

Or how I just burned my rice while typing this

But I won't. Instead I'll mention that I really like freshly baked bread. And since I've started to live on my own I've never, actually, gotten around to bake my own. Despite the fact that I love bread. And I love baking. So this makes technically no sense.

I guess that despite my hearthrobbing love for freshly baked bread I guess I lack a good recepy.

Do you know any good ones?

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart One night in banquet http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23639025/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23639025/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:27:11 PDT Â

Yoh

I could tell from my last journal that people thought I felt worse than I actually did. So I'll write a new one where I can end it more cheerfully, despite my current condition.

On Monday my catalogue arrived from the printers and I immediately went down to pick up a few to keep for myself. I can tell you, looking and holding in something real you've done feels great as a designer and I could literally look at each page and feel all the hard work I put into it pay off. Such a wonderful feeling.
Then yesterday it happened as such that I had a class in the same building as the expo took place, so I could see lots of people walking around with it, which really made me proud.

So for my work on it, I received a free pass to an accompanying banquet later that night. First I felt reluctant to go, buuut it was a fancy dinner, and as someone told me, it would've been a shame not to go. However, I ended up going alone, for my colleague could not make it.
Felt really out of place, even if I was dressed up like everyone else. But it was people from businesses dealing with real-estate, brokers, and students studying for it, which mean in profession and relevance I had little in common with them. But fortunately, I had good people at my table, and we could have interesting conversations, and even those who were interested in what I do as a graphical design (-student). Even got a business-card from someone, with the incentive to send my contact-information in case they'll need my services in the future.
Dinner was great. They deered to serve me dare as a first dish. It was delicious though. However, the main course was salmon and potatoes, and I hate both fish and potatoes. So I ate it under protest, because the dinner was too fancy to leave be.
We even had a comedian as entertainment.

Afterwards I was so tired that I pretty much went home and crashed on my bed after changing back into my regular clothes. Then today I had more trouble than I usually have getting out of bed. And by now I've figured it's probably because I am sick. Tired, weak, and dizzy. I am not feeling that well and I just want to rest. Dunno if I'll be up for going to class later.
At least there's nothing wrong with my spirit, though. *smily*

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart All journal titles are made after submitting http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23577875/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23577875/ Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:17:48 PST Â

Wosh, gone with you, evil depressing former journal-entry.
...
What? You want a piece of me? Come on! I'll take you on any day. Plus you won't stand a chance.
I can give myself superpowers, so HA!

...
Sorry about that. I've dealt with it now. Not the issues I had, mind you. Just the journal-entry. However, it took up 8 episodes of the anime that is my life. And I had to go through 16 different forms of it, while powering up and declaring that I am fighting for my friends and their pets twice as many times.

Anyhow, the issues are still there. But I figured I'd just suck them up and continue smiling like I always do, at least that is the one thing I know I am capable of doing, so I'll do it.

I've finally finished my second project for class. I just need to submit the digital pieces. But the presentation is done. The same goes for the catalogue, which is due back from the printers on Monday. And I didn't have to worry about any of the other materials, because the wonderful woman which I got the task from took care of it herself. So I am in a dead period up until I get my next assignment on Tuesday, which I am going to enjoy as much as I can (doing a half-assed job with it so far, hahah).

What more? Well after spending all night between tuesday and wednesday as well as both days without rest, working on my project, my other course was a total ass towards me, forcing me to wait 1Â½ from 7 PM to record a bunch of soundeffects while other groups did it making me even more tired, grumpy and wanting to leave early. Which resulted in one in my group begging, begging, begging me to stay. I am not unsympathetic even when I've been awake for two days and not in a good mood. But when I learned we were just doing soundeffects I felt pissed off, and remained so for the rest of the night. Which of course was made better by the fact that one of my groupmates got annoyed over how I acted and the fact that I considered abandoning them.

There, now I have it written down. No need to repeat it again. It's such a bothersome story, and it irks me every time. Oh what now?

I know. My latest poll of pure genius. What did you guys pick?
I need to know how many of you called me a fiend

Except for you, ~mikerothevagrant because I already know you're guilty of everything "calling Odin a fiend"ish in this world.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart My life is a lie! *update #2* http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23327752/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23327752/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:07:09 PST Â

So something or another. But I can happily announce that those who were turned into Penguins in one of my previous journal-entries will now regain their true form. Only you'll have a clown-nose now.

We have snow! This snow-forsaken city has had plenty of snow the last few days. So much in fact that the newspapers have stopped being surprised by it. It even remains on the ground now, which I find neat as well as very, very cold. My body has gotten used to the less cold climate we usually have so now it is just doing dandy at freezing whenever I leave my apartment. It just feels odd though. Last year we had snow once or twice, for a little bit. Now it's been for a week. And I kinda didn't expect it to come and keep having late autumn-weather, which up until I realized it was mid-winter, which I thought was how it should be

Something is wrong with me (except the usual, mundane, everyday-aspects of my life) because I've not felt like myself today. I get the feeling I've been really annoying to people lately, and for that I must apologize. I've either not been myself, or it has finally gone up for me how I truly am an idiot. Both options are possible.
I guess the latter is possible. What a life is it to lead when no-one takes you serious and when people more often laugh at you (and you laugh with them) than when people laugh with you to begin with?
Yes I think that is grammatically correct.

Also, on a completely unrelated note. Swedish girls, when they start university, automatically get a boyfriend. That's what I've concluded anyway. I think I've heard every girl I've crossed paths with this schoolyear mentioning a boyfriend at least once.
I now believe in magic

And this is, as far as I know, completely unrelated to my previous paragraph. But I don't know much about me these days.

Well I haven't been feeling healthy either the last few days. Like something is creeping up on me. Which is great, since I have so much I need to do right now. Monday the previously mentioned catalogue needs to be finished so I am going there tomorrow and hope that the other person working on the project has regained enough of her health to come help out.

By the way, have I mentioned I got my TV already? Or was I so lost in enjoying the HD-madness that I forgot it.
I didn't really think it would make that much difference, I really didn't. But I am happy that it did.

You can't even tell that something is wrong with me besides the usual, can you?

Edit: Turns out she couldn't make it, she had high fever. I have now barricaded myself in the workroom to get the catalogue finished for printing tomorrow. If worse come for worst, I'll be here until tomorrow, which I am fully prepared for.
It would just've been less boring with another person here.

Edit 2: Shit, shit, shit. The time is 4 AM and I've just returned to my apartment. Damn keycard stopped working when I was going down to get something to drink. I can't get back in, and my laptop, wallet and even my damn jacket is locked in. And no-one else in the entire damn building.
There's still a lot of work to be done.
Ugh, I guess it was good that I expected this. Brought my phone and my keys out with me. But that was the only things. I literally raced home in just a sweater and even if this place doesn't get as chilly as further north, not wearing a jacket and riding a bike on a winter night is not the most clever thing to do.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Where are all the white wymin at? http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23175933/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/23175933/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:24:23 PST Â

Hello gentle followers, devotees and people who like to keep their enemies under close supervision. It's Odin's "Writing long journal entry"-time again, a golly gee (

) do I have stuff to tell you.
...I just don't know what.

I recently finished quite a tiresome project for school where I had to make a book cover based of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde. Or did I already mention that? I dunno. Anyway, as I said, it is finished now after three days filled only with naps to get it done on time. I blame circumstances and not myself, since I am pure and precious in every little way. But the project ended surprisingly well, and it got good reactions from others. I'll be posting it either tonight or tomorrow, based mainly on fortune-telling and a bit on this week's lottery number. I don't know how I will base it on those two things, though.

Since that is done with we're moving on to the next one, which is to make a graphical identity for the division of out school we're in. For those not familiar with graphical design-work, a graphical identity is basically the way something is presented, be it a company or a city. Amongst others I will need to make a logo, a letterhead, an envelope, a business-card and then a document detailing how all of those are to be used. And it is to be done the beginning of March.

What also needs to be done then is everything for the exhibition/expo, so it's gonna be a busy few weeks. Main trouble is the booklet with all presented companies and general information in it. I am done with the skeleton for the whole thing, though, and someone else is working on the back and front. We're meeting next week to see how everything is going.

My other course on top of that has sent me all over the region looking at regular exhibitions and successfully taking my money after first asking me to buy half a workshop's worth of supplies. It's quite interesting, but bothersome to go a few towns over to do it. The plus is that the course is really fun, and not because it is filled with girls, but because I've already learned to do a model of a building, in scale, along with drawing the plans for it.

Radio is going well, but a bit stressful on top of everything. Even more so because people generally don't seem interested in seeing movies for free, and we haven't had one show so far this term where we haven't needed to fill the program with something. And on top of that no-one seems interested in reviewing videogames at all so I am completely alone on that. Not that there's been many new games at all so far this year. I've even had to resort to play Sonic Unleashed only to be able to state that the poor hedgehog shouldn't be made to suffer this much, when he really ought to have been put to sleep over a decade ago.

I've rediscovered my love for the games in the Warriors-series, mainly thanks to picking up a cheap copy of Warriors Orochi. Enjoying it so made me pick out the sequel and then hunt down Samurai Warriors 2 and Dynasty Warriors 5 & 6. And I am having tons of fun even though the games are so damn filled with stuff to do that I am still only on Warriors Orochi and have just tried Dynasty Warriors 6 a bit yesterday.

Flower got released on Playstation Network yesterday, and it is a game of pure awesome. Anyone with a PS3 should go buy it. But only as long as they have a soul. The game has nothing to offer to soulless people.

Btw, those two who made it all the way down here, should I do stuff on YouTube. I am not very fond of all the iRants going on that seem to get people popular. But I feel I would actually try to entertain people in some way. I just dunno how.

And lastly, tomorrow (or today) is Singles Awareness Day. The one day of the year where couples embrace love and singles rant how it is so commercialized. I am back to my old habit of being single on this very particular day so I am not sure what to do. I should've known last year was just an exception.
At least I got a card, from a very humorous young lady

Thank you for the chimpanzee in the red wig and lipstick.

That is all. My continued futile goal of writing moderate journal-entries is still just a dream. A dream that many wish I would realize, but still, just a dream.

And just because I love you all so here is [link] and http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22790559/ Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:25:08 PST Â

Hello little penguins.
Yes, that's right, you're all penguins starting now, if you've read this far. If not, then you did well in avoiding it. Well done.

I forgot a very important thing last update. Right before I returned to my apartment beginning of January I was in Stockholm to celebrate my grandparents' 50th anniversary. We celebrated by seeing The Producers, and being a fan of Mel Brooks and cheesy musical-style songs, I loved it. Speaking of liking cheesy musical-style songs, I've come to conclude that I also very much like musicals.
After that we went to eat a very unimpressive three-course meal. I don't know why people go to expensive restaurants when the food is eatable at best, but never really "Wow, this is awesometaste!". I also had my ear-problem, my tinnitus, give me trouble, because the speakers in that restaurant emitted a low piercing sound and gave me real head-pains, but didn't actually bother anyone else in the family, so I got absolutely NO sympathy from them. There was, however, a little kid there with the same problem. He had asked for earpluggs, and he told me about them, so I asked our waiter for a pair. It made a world of difference. I could then fortunately eat my cold, tasteless duck in peace.

The day before that was quite awesome though. I actually met

which is a very old friend of mine here on dA. Think I've known her for three years or something. Back when she was an indian living in Australia. Nowadays she lives in Stockholm, and this was my first chance to meet her since she moved here.
Finally managed to meet someone IRL that I met on dA.

Anyhow, back to now. School has started again and I am actually quite positive. Given, I was when I started my last two courses too, and they turned out "meh", but I've got a better feeling now that I know what to expect. Both will be plenty practical, where in one we'll learn how to make exhibits and will feature group assignments (something I've missed) and the other is Graphical Design, which is a follow-up course to Original Production which I took last semester. We've only had two lectures so far, but I've already picked up quite a bit on it which I did not consider before, so I think that one is going to be very healthy.
The latter gave us an assignment where we are to design a book-cover based on elements of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde.

I've been tinkering with the functions on my PS3. The thing just keeps unveiling functions to me which I end up loving. Latest in the row is that it will let me stream media from my computer directly without having to actually move it over to the harddrive on the console. It's not all, though, because while the PS3 is limited in the file-formats it will read, streaming it will allow you to view it in any format, because the program I use transcodes (as it is called) into a format my PS3 can read with pretty much no delay. Meaning it lets me view anything, even high-quality .MKV-files.

I wanted to try viewing anime this way. And yes, it works, and it is actually a much better experience on my TV. However, my television is annoying. Mightily so. Because it deviously stretches the image OUTSIDE the actual screen. WTF. This means any subtitles on it disappears. And, really, though I took japanese for a year, I'm not that good that I can watch it without subs. There's not even a setting on the damn TV to fix it, and the best I could do was to get everything visible on the side, but not at the top and bottom.

This got me to actually consider getting a new TV. The screen is quite blurry, and some texts on games can be hard to read. I kind a want a flatscreen with HD-capabilities. For several reasons. Like actually be able to use the blueray in my PS3, better overall experience while viewing, and even better experience when playing games. Most of all though? I want to be able to watch movies on my PS3 without the screen getting cropped.

So I checked online on different TVs, partly just for the heck, but partly serious too. I eventually found one I wanted to a really reasonable price. Roughly 400Â (won't bother with Swedish money since you don't have a clue), and 32''; just like my current TV. Which was a really good deal. And I even found two places with similar price around where I live. Hot diggity damn. I actually started to consider buying it, but 400Â is quite a sum and considering that I am not very fond of spending money (often I... ]]> =Odin-Lionheart In the restrospect... http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22599203/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22599203/ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:05:14 PST Â

How should we define 2008?
Over half of it was unproductive as hell, I only played Ragnarok Online and I also lost ended a friendship with one of my oldest friends. And my relationship ended.
...
Wow, doom and gloom? Great start. Rhetorical masterpiece. That's great.
Let's scratch that and focus on good things.
I got back on graphical design, learned tons of stuff concerning it only this autumn.
I picked up both photography and radio, both which I've grown to love.
And I met several awesome people irl as well as here on dA who I enjoy talking to.

So what are my thoughts about 2009? Is it gonna be worse or is it gonna be better?
Well at least I know I am topping my productiveness already.
I received a tripod for christmas which I am planning to put to good use.
I bought a tablet which I am learning how t use.
And I've just finished two exhausting projects for my courses. Each one teaching me a whole lot in the process. First there was a portfolio webpage where I learned how to properly use div-tags and css, compared to just using tables which is what I was taught in school only to have it go obsolete. But at least now I know I am able to properly code a webpage. I will upload it too, once I find some place where I can host the entire page. The one I have access to won't let me upload folders, which I find retarded.
Second there was a spread which I needed to make it look like it belonged in an actual magazine. It was tough work and just proof that I don't want to work on these things by myself because I just screw up. Like making it in tabloid-format when I needed to print it, as well as doing several small but annoying mistakes. It should be done now, but considering my trackrecord on this course it won't be. Since they fail the project and force you to fix it as long as there's even only one tiny error. One of my previous projects failed on one account because there were too many color-swatches in my inDesign-document. Despite those not even being used, and I hardly believe them to even take up any space. Yet they should've been removed. According to her.
Had it not been because the second term sounds a lot more exciting I wouldn't have bothered with the follow-up course. But it will be a lot more focus on graphical design than on printing, with actual discussions. Which is good.

I am also taking a course called Exhibit-design which I hope is gonna be even more fun. At least I think it will beat Image Making which, despite teaching me a good deal about sketching and photography, ended up being two pretentious teachers just holding lectures and sending us home to do our projects, then giving us highly subjective critiques. I'll share a bit of it once I post my portfolio webpage.

Oh, speaking of exhibits, I've joined this group in my school that works with graphical design tasks needed for different things, and I've jumped on board to help do some material for an exhibit that's going to be held in the beginning of March. Amongst others there's a catalog. This ought to be fun, since I haven't worked on an exhibit since back right before I graduated.

Hm, what more. Yes, I've been playing more PS3. Mainly Crash Commando and Puzzle Quest. Crash Commando is an excellent multiplayer game which I am getting tons of fun fights out of. Being one not to fond of action games in first person this is a great alternative. Plus it lets me play multiplayer.
And I am awesome with the grenade launcher.

Puzzle Quest though is potentially epic with a bejewled-type puzzlegame thrust into a RPG-coat. Choose a hero, adventure and battle monsters. By matching colorful gems. It's been around for a while, but I finally jumped on the bandwagon.

My PSP broke when I accidentally shoved it off my desk. Or at least the screen did. Which was a pitty since I discovered I can play PSX-games on it by streaming them from my PS3.
I had handheld Final Fantasy IX T.T
Luckily the screen is easily fixed if you have a replacement. OR SO SAYS YOUTUBE.

This is already longwinded. It's because I wanted to wait until I was back at my apartment (which I am now, btw, and have been for a week) and finished my projects. Which I have now.

So do I have a resolution for 2009? As I mentioned last journal: not really. But it is basically to grow better. I may be a no-good goof-off, but even I need to accomplish something.

Everyone (even you who fell asleep on your way to this sentence)! Let's have a great 2009!

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart The last of '08 http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22300588/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22300588/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:42:19 PST Â

So I'm gonna be nostalgic for a bit
...there, done.

Not going to be too long-winded (honest this time) and just get a word in before the new year comes around. Of course, someone may already be in '09 upon which I could make a myriad of jokes, but I won't. Ok I will. Durr durr, this is a message from the past. I hope that in the future we won't be overrun by evil geese.

My Christmas was very pleasant, with my grandparents showing up in time to celebrate the whole day. They've been here all week with their dastardly pair of dogs. They have a new puppy which is very cute to have around, and she gets really hyper at times.
Cats aren't that happy though.

I made pizza on Christmas. It was odd. My parents snapped up on a joke I was doing about the food we were going to get for Christmas and before I knew it I was roped into doing pizza for lunch to keep us going until the dinner, hahah.
Was pretty good though. Since I've been doing plenty of pizzas due to the low quality of them down in MalmÃ¶, it was not that tough. But the dough though, well that was an interesting chapter. We ended up using the same type of dough as in danish pastries ([link]) which is a lot softer than what you'd expect in a pizza. It was really good though. I'll no doubt do it again.

Presents I got! Main wish was a tripod for my camera, which I got, which means night-shots will be a lot more accessible. However, I already have a slew of night-shots to share with everyone once I get back to my machinations. I wanted a Dual Shock 3 for my PS3, but I really didn't wish for one. I've ordered one tough, and it will probably arrive around the same time as I return to my apartment.
I also got a CD with Enya.

Did get some money though, but I've pretty much used it up now. Partly on the Dual Shock 3. But also yesterday when I bought myself a kickin' tablet. Been thinking about it a while, talking with a person with knowledge about it and read some info. I ended up with a Bamboo Fun because the price at the store was really okay. It's just an A6-model, so it's not large at all, but considering this is my first, it is quite nice. So far it is a pleasant surprise and I am slowly getting a hang of it.
Can't wait until I get to start using it in my graphical-design work.

Won't be reflecting any over '08 yet. It's still too early. I mean, the year is not over yet. So I'll wait. Guess I should have some goal for next year though. I guess I could always aim to get a girl. But that would probably prove bothersome. I guess, I'll try and get a bit better in everything I do, move closer towards the best.

Happy Merry New Year, people, I'll see you on the other side of '09

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Tags? How bothersome. http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22266767/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22266767/ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:40:25 PST Â

I thought I'd do my due before the new year. Getting my tags out of the way. That is, all except one drawing-meme that someone thought was good to give to someone without real artistic talent. She will be tagged on ever single tag today. Kukukukukukuku *laugh like a japanese*

Creepy-factor aside, this won't be my last update before the new year. I won't bother with such things here because no-one wants to read it anyway. Now, tag is a go.

* * *

Muzak-tag

The rules are:
Choose a singer/band/group.
Answer using ONLY titles of songs by that singer/band/group.
Tag 6 more people (let them know they've been tagged).

I pick Nobuo Uematsu. Not a band, but a composer with interesting titles

Are you male or female ?
Maybe I'm a Lion [Final Fantasy VIII]

Describe yourself.
~~Daughter of the Great Summoner~~ Dancing Mad [Final Fantasy VI]

What do people feel when they're around you?
It's Difficult to Stand on Both Feet Isn't It? [Final Fantasy VII]

Describe your current relationship.
You are not alone [Final Fantasy IX]]

Where would you want to be now?
Distant Worlds [Final Fantasy XI]

How do you feel about love?
Bittersweet Romance [Final Fantasy IX]

What's your life like?
Jesters of the Moon [Final Fantasy IX]

What would you ask for if you had only one wish?
The Skies Above [The Black Mages]

Tagged are, hm,

* * *

The Second Music-tag

I'm really not equipped for the following, but I guess I'll have to whip up a playlist pretty quickly.

1] Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2] For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3] YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4] Tag three people.

It became video-game remixes

All answers are set up like this~
Song - Artist
[ comment ]

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY?" YOU SAY?
When All Hope Has Faded - Tyler Heath, zircon
[ Because I am an ass like that ]

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
The Corinthian - ???
[ [link] - elaborate, ornate; or according to Google - playboy: a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure ]

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Dragons of Paradise - PxFury
[ My standards are pretty high; I want girls to be able to fly and breathe fire ]

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Atonement - Darangan
[ ...That's why I am doing these tags ]

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Via - pixitricks, The Orichalcon, Tepid
[ THANK YOU FOR YOUR CLARITY ]

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Forgotten Language - nerv
[

Say it all the time. Very good excuse. ]

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Kefka Goes West - NoppZ
[ Western Kefka? I am touched. Deeply ]

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Chillout - SEDUCTiON
[ They have no hopes in me ]

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
Dies Irae - ???
[ "Day of Wrath" is so on my mind all the time ]

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Atop the Gathering Place - Matthew Russo
[ What is it doing there!? ]

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND(S)?
Final Fantasy/Christmas... ]]> =Odin-Lionheart Christmas-journal-thing http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22089851/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/22089851/ Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:25:31 PST Â

Greatings people, and the other guys.
How are you all? Depressed and down with the flu? That's great to hear.
Let me cheer you up with a little special something~

Photobucket

I am writing this from the not so sunny home of my parents. I arrived here yesterday after all my business was taken care of down in MalmÃ¶. Exam on Wednesday was easy enough, and then a christmas-special on my radioshow on the Thursday were we had Julmust and gingerbread cookies in the studio during broadcast. It was delightful (which reminds me that I need to take the time to put some of the photos I took then up on Facebook).

Wanted to be kinda lazy the few days before Christmas, but it seems the house is still in need of some cleaning. That hasn't even begun yet. I was made into playing family tech-support on their laptop. First they kept me up half night because there was something odd with their anti-virus and I had the computer invaded by an (most likely) indian techsupport guy who basically just installed a newer update for Norton.
Of course, had he told me that from the beginning it would've been much easier for me than waiting the two hours he seemed to take for such a simple procedure.
And it didn't end there. My sister's account suffers a blue-screen error that claims there's a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA which has kept me busy most of this evening up until midnight. I haven't even been able to fix it seeing as it has more causes than most fevers.
Why do I always end up sitting with problematic computers? I absolutely loathe working with them, yet it always seem to happen to me. I don't even know what I am doing half of the time.

Sorry for the lack of Christmasy cheers, good people. It seems my family is getting abandoned by the rest of our relatives this Christmas and my grandparents that were coming (and who happens to live all the way at the other end of this country), well, they said that their car broke down and they conveniently won't be able to get it fixed until Christmas eve. Which happens to be the day Sweden celebrates this glorious holiday.
So I am currently perplexed. I've never celebrated christmas with just my family, and no doubt that day is going to feel somehow...empty without all the relatives running about.
*sigh*
[edit]Seems my grandparents have gotten a hold on a rental that will let them get here and bring their dogs with them. They are apparently getting here by Tuesday afternoon. Guess all hope isn't lost

[/edit]

~~Anyhow, this is no time to be running around depressed. I need to pack all the gifts tomorrow.~~ Glad I have all the presents already. I feel too lazy being to run around in stores, hahah. No, personally I am quite ready to tackle this holiday already. So much that I can spend time playing my PS2 that I brought.
Btw, if you haven't checked it out already, go check this out:

Because I like plugging myself.
Oh, and if someone would like to listen to my christmas-special on the radio (despite it being in Swedish) let me know and give me your email so that I can send it to you, hahah. No shame here, no

Alright people, I won't be updating before Christmas again so consider this my holiday greeting to you all. Friends, don't let the spirit avoid you; and do get sucked into the holiday cheer. Frankly, I would've loved to be able to celebrate it with each and every one of you (even you, my dreaded nemesis), but that will have to wait until another year.

Merry Christmas everybody!

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Fontgeeks and MacCultists http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21852517/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21852517/ Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:00:39 PST Â

I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT MY MACBOOK IS OK.
Turns out there was just a hard-drive error, and that the new drive I purchased needed formatting.
But of course no-one could tell me this immediately and save me a lot of hassle. At least they didn't charge me for it, but still, damn, giving me half a heartattack at the thought I would have to buy a new laptop. That is money I could have a lot more fun with, like buying christmas-presents or something rad like visiting Estonia for no apparent reason.
Quite a zing towards a computer they say is soooooo "plug and play" and doesn't need installing. YEAH, well, SEEM like harddrives doesn't work that well on the Macs. Like for example how it for example needs a special kind of formatting or else it won't work on it (which, incidentally, majority of the external harddrives lack).
This is what you get for paying twice the amount of money for an inferior operating system and brand-hardware.
Yet anyway graphical designers are in majority MacCultists. It's a pity.

Vista is only slightly better. But not in the way that it won't accept my printer (which happens to be HP-crap) and the drivers I downloaded for the network printer closes mid-install. To differ from all my other problems, my internet does not say anything about it.

But let's get back on dissing graphical design. I want to get in on the topic of fonts. No, not a fontgeekery-rant, more like an anti font-geekery-rant. Finals are comming up and this time we'll have typography on the test. Meaning I have to study it, and to study it, we have a book, and this book is...ridicolous. Let me QUOTE it.

Typography is not an exact science, it is an artform.

What the hell. Who is this person and why hasn't been shot?
Typography is not an artform, it is an exact science. The only reason why it doesn't appear exact is because the same situation seldom appear twice because the variation in text and fonts.
Sure, you can do artistic things with typography, even I can admit to that, but you can do artsy stuff with boxes too, but a boxes wÃll not stop being boxes just so that they can become art. Get a grip Mr.Fontgeek-for-an-author.
However, using fonts for the pupose of anything artistic is not the major-domo in the world of typography. It's making a text readable in easiest possible way without putting much strain on the reader (however, not even well-done typesetting can help your utterly boring texts). For several reasons, that doesn't spell A-R-T in my book just because you have to go on your feeling to achieve said result. You have to try and fail to reach your goal, much like in the dawn of man; before we had nifty people writing down all their breakthroughs in a book.

There's also something humorous on how people today praise the "perfection" of the people who invented mechanical printing several centuries ago. Those people carved their letters out of wood. I can with full honesty say that I don't believe that when making a letter that they even spent a tenth of the time of what font-makers do today. My guess is that they pretty much went with it as it was, making the letters somewhat alike. Because people would have to adapt to what they did, so it didn't really matter. The people had read hand-written books up to that point, after all.
So what is my point? People's eyes got accustomed to those fonts, so my points are moot. Well not really, those fonts were made for paper, so to use them as an universal ruler of how a good font should look, and to praise them as perfect, seems odd in a day and age where text appears all over the place, not the least on the compurter which is unlike anything Gutenberg and the boys could imagine back when they created their "perfect" letters.
Times change, and there are reasons why people...no, you know what, screw this.
I'm not going to go there.

It's enough that every teacher in graphical design I have seem to be Fontgeeks and MacCultists. A few I could've handle, but all of them? This is too bothersome.

If you've made it through that I praise you, because I doubt many found that interesting, hahah.
Well, there's two weeks left for me before my holiday begins. Untill then I have, pretty much, 5 lessons, 2 radioshows and 1 exam. Then, during my holiday, I have to get my lazy ass to do a portfolio webpage as my final project in one course, and two pages to fit into an actual existing newspaper as a final project for the other. Which is all bothersome to no end. Plus I still have to finnish of a midterm-project and read some papers and write summaries on them.
Hahah, guess I need something to do for Christmas.

~ Jonathan

http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21737162/ Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:45:05 PST Â

...And this [link] is the PC Guy. He reminds me, in his looks, of and old friend from my high school years.
Also, this guy works for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

I have also been forced by the proper authorities to inform you that I am NOT a bear, as per this piece of evidence [link]

Anyway, I am tired today. I played Guitar Hero World Tour with people today. We had a lot of people playing so we were able to fill up all four instruments. What an interesting game, just too bad there's not too many very known songs, and trying to play "Sweet Home Alabama" (the LIVE version, which is around 1Â½ day long) without one of four people screwing up was not something we wanted to try after 4 fourth failure.

My life is steady progressing. We've started working on webpages, which was an eye-opener, because I totally did wrong on this one assignment we had. Was making a mock-site for NIKE and forgot kinda what kind of company they were. Well, I knew what they made, I just failed to see how they presented things. Meaning my site didn't recieve much recognition from my teacher despite being technically superior to all but one design.
It doesn't matter though, because it made me think (I am, after all, not always right). I'll most likely submit it to dA after making some changes to it first.

Now for the gist of my journal. My comp with Vista is working fine. I just had to learn that Acer's own Empowering Technology that comes pre-installed, has a habit of screwing up a lot of stuff. But my mouse works fine and I can run ObjectDock ([link]), so now I might just stick with Vista after all. I'll live...as long as I have Windows Blinds ([link])

My MacBook is another story though. After being told by Mr.Tech-guy that it was the harddrive that was faulty I went and bought a new, clearly superior, one. However, upon inserting it, I got the same result as before. So now I turned to a proper Mac-boutique and they told me that, yes, it could be something with the harddrive, but at it could also be the Logic Board, which would mean a cost of 900-1000 $ to repair. If it's the latter, it would mean that shortly after my warranty expired, the laptop which has more often than not remained on top of my desk without being moved, recieved damage that cost roughly Â½ of what it cost from the beginning.
Seeing as this was my graduation gift of all thing, this makes me very sad. It also baffles me, because I cannot see what was supposed to be so great about Macs, and the more I work with them the more I realize this. Not only was it unreasonably expensive for the specs it carried, Macs in overall perform "ok" but never really "Great!".
Still, it holds sentimental value considering why I got it.

However, Mac-fanboys (and I've never seen as many people with Macs as this term) needs to get that pole they have stuck up their rear and learn how to do things in Windows.

Anyhow~ A more cheerful subject. Tomorrow is the first Sunday of Advent, so I am officially beginning christmas. This means Christmas carols and Julmust. Hoh hoh hoh!

Edit: I thought I'd point your attention to this-

It's a flash-callendar I made back in '05 and from my own recollection, most of my current watchers haven't actually seen it. So if you want to add some extra spice to your holidays, then I suggest checking it out, because even if it got some years on its neck, it is still a timeless piece

Hahah!
Doubt I'll re-add the code that makes the days appear based on what actual day it is, like it originally had, but was removed so that it wouldn't restart each month.
I can trust people to not look ahead in a callendar, right...right?

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Clever phrase announcing my return http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21538607/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21538607/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:06:37 PST Â

Can someone please tell me some of the actual perks of having Vista. I need to be convinced why I should keep it instead of changing back to XP, because at the moment I have more trouble with it than things that actually work.

Yes, I am back, to those who read my last few updated journals. My computer, one month after returning from repairs, ran into some more problems. After dealing with the most infantile tech-support in the civilized world I had to return back home for a couple of days with two none-working computers so that they could pick up my stationary computer for service, since it must be such a bother to change the adress of where to pick up a computer.

Anyway, after little-to-no debate I recieved some funds (I.E. early christmas-presents) so that I was able to buy a new comp. Not another HP, but an Acer Aspire. It is apparently quite a killer in some way, but I'll be happy as long as it can run Photoshop+all my usual programs without slowing down.
Main downside is that it came with Vista. But I've decided to give it a try before switching back to XP. So far it's not going that well. Mouses always freeze upon start-up, and not all the buttons work on it. Plus, it decided to not run ObjectDock, leaving me with a less glossy alternative.

Plus, I need a new harddrive for my MacBook. I stand by the notion that Mac is a faulty platform.

Hate computers.

I was gonna rant about photograpy and how pretentious some photographers are. But I'll save it for now, keeping this shorter. Mainly because I am tired. Also because I can't decide if I respect my photography-teacher or not. I mean, at least the man knows what he's doing most of his time.

Well there was a pause while I was computer-less, but do believe I will get back to posting. I still have tons of different photographs I need to post now that I am done with the two series of portraits, and more have been taken, including a third series.
I dunno if the photos I've decided to post are good enough, so I hope people will tell me what they think.

Anyhoo; much love,

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Did you hear? *second comp update* http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21362249/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21362249/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:51:37 PST Â

...This guy called Barack Obama became the newly elected president of this country called U S and A.

*Fancy-Ultra-Update* I'm completely without computer now. The bastard thing broke down when I tried a system reboot. And after dealing with the easily worst tech-support in the world (why should they be able to allow people with cellphones to call them, eh?) I now have to send it in AGAIN for repair.
Only difference now is that I don't have a Mac to fall back on. No Mac, no Photoshop. Hell, I can just barely check internet on my PS3. I'm typing this at school.
This is ridicolous. I need my computers for schoolwork. I already failed to do my midterm project because of this.
*sigh* I'll be bringing the computers with me on a train this Thursday. I'll be missing a lecture and any chance to appear on the radio. But I have to get these fixed.

Anyway, this will be my reason to not be replying much to people. I'll get on any chance I get, but right now I have class and then it's back to the apartment to beat something (myself most likely) with a stick.[/edit]

*Update* So there seems to be something wrong with my computer again. Not the screen this time, but definitely something wrong. It gives trouble on start-up, I can't move icons, and scroll doesn't work in explorer. Small things perhaps? Well I am worried, the problems just appeared out of the blue. I think something is infected. Running Norton over and over again doesn't seem to help any though. I'm gonna leave it off and hope it's just heating up or something. If not, then I am fresh out of ideas.

Have I told you that my MacBook crashed by the way? Doesn't work anymore. Still waiting for my parents to find the papers on it (since I don't seem to have them). Hah! That leaves me without a proper computer and I've got schoolwork to do.
I love it.
Technology is hating me this autumn.
[/edit]

Also I finnished up posting my two sets of portrait photographs. I have some more, but those are of other people and should not be considered sets. But there is a planned excursion of mine for next week, but it involves several things, though ultimately I am pursuing another assignment for school.
After that I don't think I'll have the joy of taking anyone's portrait ever again.

I'd be happy if I could recieve more comments on my pieces, though. As far as photography goes I am still very green and I need any input I can get.

Anyhow, close call for the US. But it seems people used their brains and did not fall for the socialistic muslim terrorist they refered to Barack Obama as. Seeing as he is neither. And going by the accusations of terrorism, it would make McCain a much worse one.
That's what happens when you hang out with people behind Watergate.
The bullet they really dodged was Sarah Palin, though. I can say I have never seen such a shallow, oblivious politician in my life. Her being a woman is total bullcrap. It's not a testament to your ability. Sweden has several female politicians, several of them party-leaders. Each one of them being more compitent than her, even though I think the female lead for the green party is a bit lost in her reasoning (because making your entire policy a one-question deal and claiming to be neutral when you only side with the same parties over and over does not cut it).
But enough about the woman who almost got elected president of the soon to be former largest power in the world.

Viddjagames is getting awesome again. Besides my gig as a reviewer I have now Valkyrie Chronicles, Apollo Justice and, after a hellish long wait, LittleBigPlanet to play.
All of them awesome, and easily the best in the way of games I've played in a long time.
If you owe a PS3 then I demand you get Valkyrie Chronicles. I haven't played an as exciting japanese RPG in a long while. Even though it is a strategic rpg, and I played both Final Fantasy XII and Kingdom Hearts II this summer. This is just that good.
And LittleBigPlanet. I've only spent a few hours with you, but I can tell we will get along. Even though SackBoy jumps in a retarded way, the aestethics are just tingling me with excitement.
Want to hear more? Ask me and I'll treat you to my special brand of reviewing which I like to call "I talk about the game and then some"
With the italics.

As for deviations. I promise I'll post something not-photography tomorrow.

Lastly, I'll pay back my dept now

. Though through my use of l... ]]> =Odin-Lionheart Hello my lovelies http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21160193/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/21160193/ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:38:03 PDT Â

So an update, from Mr. J? I think so!

I come right from my friend's place. Kinda tired, but it was good fun. I don't get to see my old classmates that often anymore, so it was really nice. Too bad no people in my current classes are as fun.

But the classes go great. I have my midterm now on Monday. Been reading and sleeping in our large boring textbook. I always thought books for graphical design were an unnecessary thing. Still do. But there's some technical information here that is good, y'know, if it made sense. Reading about how you do stuff seldom work for me though. A more hands on approach would've been preferable for many off these things. Perhaps a class? I don't know. I just throw stuff out there.

The other one is more fun though. We've done quite a bit of photography. I know you people have seen some of my earlier works, but I think I've improved. We've done quite a bit of portraits, but static objects are a lot more fun to work with afterwards.
In any case, I have quite a few photos to upload to dA. Most of them (I'd say 90%) have gone through the first stage of preparations. There's just the finnishing touches left on those. But even though I'll finnish about everything before posting I won't flood your inboxes. I'll be uploading them in batches. Consider it a christmas-gift if you want. An early one. But it doesn't matter because my grocerystore have already started selling decorations for said holiday.

I really feel like I'm finally getting back to doing graphical stuff. I've done tons of stuff, and most thanks to my classes. I feel happy. I could almost use a smily.

There.
I've become quite liberal with using them lately.
Mostly awesome granny

Sadly I have some stuff hanging over me. Mainly texts that needed to be read a few weeks ago. These are texts about design. Boring texts that I feel no inclination to actually read.
Then there's what friends have written. I will read them, I promise, but I've gotta focus on the test and my assignments right now. Right after my test ends on Monday I will have my other class (no rest for the weary) where an assignment is due. We're using type (though fortunately we are allowed to include other elements) to make one image that describes us, and one that doesn't. These will most likely be uploaded. Somewhere, inbetween the batches of photos.

Also, toll sucks. They want me to pay stuff from PlayAsia I already paid for. Friggin' usurpers. Go catch a junkie!

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Hah! *Almost* Bi-weekly updates! http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20942033/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20942033/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:50:14 PDT Â

It's actually been over a week since my last journal update, so I am getting better at not telling people about what they don't really want to know. Though I believe I should do something to show that I am actually doing something with my life.
But then again, I have been posting deviations lately.

What is up with me, you might ask, and if you don't then this information will most likely seem very unnecessary.

First, let's talk about my classes. I had photography last Monday. And it was an experience. Not that I learned much about photography, or, for that matter, how to take photos ("Settings? Why should we ever go through how they work?"). Fortunately, I had taught myself that, or at least this is something I tell myself to be able to sleep at nights. Anyhow, the class spent 30 minutes taking photos, and then roughly 2Â½ hours talking about said photos in a very drawn out and roundabout manner. I mean, I didn't get any critique by this claimed photographer, because he jumped to the other side of the room right before it my turn to have my photos looked at. So I learned what others did good or didn't, but I have no knowledge about my own skill.
Teacher in question was new and we've never had him before. He was supposed to teach us Photoshop last Wednesday but he ended up forgetting we had a class. And considering how he talked about Photoshop while we had him on Monday I am not how to place.
I believe I have been studying graphical design long enough to know that some people in this business are pissants, especially older people. When there's roughly 4 billion ways to achieve a result in a program I don't want him to come sneeze at me just because I work using different tools. I don't believe Curves to be the answer to universe, life and everything. In fact, I like the more exact control I get from using the other settings.

Enough ranting about that. Now, I have finnished Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulation and there's still days before Apollo Justice arrives. What to do until then? I guess I'll have to start playing Final Fantasy IV for the DS so that I will be ready to review it. Meh.

Ok, observant people (excluding ~mikerothevagrant) might've noticed me uploading quite a bit of deviations lately. It's mostly stuff from my classes, but a bit of my own work. I figured I'd start using this gallery of mine, after all. There are even some pieces in scraps.
I'd like to draw people's attention to this:

Which has to be the absolute worst thing I've ever done.
And while I'm at it, also this:

Which rounds in as a strong second-place of the worst things I've ever done.
Fortunately I can't take any credit for the second one. Except bringing it to this world. But I consider myself an Igor in the vicious scheme of the Dr.Frankenstein that is my teachers.

Suffice to say, my journal should now be burned down by an angry mob of people wielding pitchforks and lanters, but it will be a happy burning, one spreading joy to millions of people all over the globe.

Also, I am terrificly bored these days, so if people want to talk to me on MSN I am all ears. Sure, in reality I have tons of stuff I need to do, but it still feels like I have an excess of free time where I am just lazy.

This is all, my kittens. I have avoided doing a kiriban for at least the third time, but this is simply getting too long. Another time, promise.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Verbal ambiguity may obscure the message *NEW* http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20710570/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20710570/ Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:00:09 PDT Â

I believe verbal ambiguity may obscure the message.
I'm sorry, if you don't understand that, I said that being unclear with what you're saying may make the meaning hard to understand.
If you got what I mean by this, then I love you. And if you don't, then I still love you. With the exception of you, ~mikerothevagrant, because being kind to you, my nemesis, will only bring despair.

All in all, the above is a boot in the rear towards the resent literature I've been reading with the purpose to teach me something. It is my firm belief that using the most complicated synonym for a word just because, is a not the way to go if you intend to share your knowledge.

Anyway, that is not the reason for this journal, though it is the reason for my continued grief and unhappiness. No, I update because of this:

The first chapter of "The Wayfarer and the Mercenary" is finally up after two weeks of working on it. I am hoping you will check it out and tell me what you think.

ALSO, MEGA MAN 9 WAS RELEASED TWO DAYS AGO
I LOVE YOU CAPCOM

I am certain these weekly updates are getting on peoples nerves, especially due to their length and the less and less replies I've started to get. That's why this journal won't be longer than this

EDIT: Ok! So I finally got my ~~friggin' sweet new bike~~ computer back today. My sweet dear old mother drove 3 hours to leave it off and help fill my fridge, which was very appreciated.

While doing it my mother dearest has given me a mission in replacing my Pepsi-habits with the ilk of Pepsi Max. A drink I had a horrid relationship with a few years ago. She bought me 12 bottles so I might as well give it a try. At least it doesn't taste as bad as I recall it.

After plugging in my new monitor and fixing the look with the wonderful program that is Windows Blinds, I now have to adjust to 22'' widescreen. An experience that has told me that my current journal CSS doesn't look that great, and I might have to widen the top image. If I just can find the original .psd

My time at the Mac won't be sorely missed. But its keyboard might, since the standard one adds +20 to my typo-penalty. This being on a scale from 1-10.
I am considering getting a replacement (in a while, since I haven't even used this one much).

I have yet tried to see how Photoshop looks on this screen, but frankly, I am a little afraid.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Whoever said Photoshop was better on a Mac... http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20607843/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20607843/ Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:37:45 PDT Â

...told a grievous lie. That's right, grievous. It's not a word I looked up and took because it sounded good.
No, it's a word I use because it's an accurate depiction of truth.

I do not expect, while I am working on something graphical in a program, that what I see before me is an illusion. That it is anything other than what I see right there on the screen. But apparently it is, at least on my Mac.
Namely, there's a function in Photoshop to compensate for the brighter screen that is on most Mac to make what you work on look like it will on standard screens (that are slightly darker in nature).
It's an excellent function, if you know it is there. But like with 90% of Photoshops hidden functions (like those for warming sandwiches and running countries) you won't know it is there, unless you've learned it from someone.
Therefor that it is the standard setting makes it very annoying when the image I am actually working on looks a lot brighter on my screen when I save it, especially if I try to match exact colors.
But it has all been solved now and I wish for nothing more to get back on my stationary computer and work on a PC that does not seem to be out for me sanity.

In any case, my week has been lax, to an extreme. Despite supposedly having two lectures and one class, it turned out to be one lecture and 1 1/2 hour of me playing even more in Photoshop.
I am still waiting for Originalproduction to get going.

The other class was off this week, but we had some reading assignments. Including over half of our coursebook.
It had been less aggravating if I didn't consider the book outrageously bad.
Not that I don't think the author and his 25 years working in graphical design lacks merits in his field. It's more that I think he doesn't know shit about teaching.
Problem with professionals in every field is that just because they are good at their field, they are also good at teaching. So they will write long-ass essays on things, using every faculty term or advanced synonym they can think of, and think this will somehow transmit their knowledge to others.
They are always very, very wrong.
The author of this book, called Design Basics, is one of those people. His order of teaching is outrageous. He starts with saying how he did not know how he would be able to teach such a thing as graphical design, a field that usually needs some hands-on teaching, giving the impression that he is somehow modest. Which is also wrong.
After a very meek introduction, he immediately starts the first chapter with printing dimension. Like asking people to consider the size on what they are working on, in accordance with how it will cost to produce and so on.
What...the...hell?
That's a terrible way to start, because that is nowhere close the first step you take while learning graphical design. If you don't know anything, it won't matter if the workspace is 11 or 12 inches wide.
But it doesn't get better when it reaches more graphical elements. It's way too much text and too few examples. Furthermore, it doesn't have examples on everything in the text, so when he starts talking about fonts you have no knowledge about unless you've payed muchos pesetas to buy, and there's no actual examples of how they look, then his teaching falls a bit short. Very, very short.
Then I also have issues with the fact that there's plenty of good examples by graphical designers that he uses to further his point at the end of every section. However, these seem to be from his friends, colleagues at his firm, and even himself.
They are also exclusively good. I've only seen him use one bad example. I believe that more bad ones could've been something worth considering, but what do I know? I'm starting my fifth year knowing how Photoshop work, to differ from his 25 years in the biz.
At least I, unlike him, don't believe computer monitors to be a form of texture.

Sorry, sorry, I just like ranting about my textbook. In actuality I could go on much longer than this, which is rather sad on my part.

Today I was on two seminars on videogaming. Mainly scripts and interactivity. They were very interesting, and now I do know why the scripts in games usually suck (which was also the title of the first seminar).
What made it awesome was that I was there as press (though there was no need for me or my colleague to get our press-passes). We went there because of our radioshow. It was kinda awesome when you think about it that way, but really, it just fe... ]]> =Odin-Lionheart This one is shorter, but not much http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20475234/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20475234/ Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:19:40 PDT Â

Okay, let's get that longer novel away from the frontpage. I am really sorry for writing that much; I can tell that people did not feel like reading through all that, but those who did were true awesome. You have my respect.
As well as Legolas' bow.
And Gimli's axe.

This week is not nearly as much to update about. Though, admittedly, had I written it yesterday you would've had to endure me ranting about people and alcohol and how ludicrous I find people who decide to sit outside and drink when we're beset with strong and cold winds.
But none of that today. No sir. I won't even mention anything about it. Not at all.

School has not been that drastic. One of the courses has basically just been lectures where I've known most of the stuff they talked about, as well as one practical session where we went through stuff I already knew how to do in Photoshop. The assignments they handed us were laughably simple so instead I made a little child who peaked out from behind a mountain. I consider it an excellent work of engineering from my part. Of course, all that serves to do is to show that I have no clue what engineering really is.

The other course has turned out to be more interesting, with one lesson actually not spent the entire three hours drawing stuff. I found it entertaining and bewildering
No, I really didn't find it bewildering, but I sure wrote it in a way that made you think I did. That really doesn't make me a liar as much as it makes me a person who did not find a better adjective to refer to it as.

Since I was busy learning stuff I already knew about Photoshop I could not attend the broadcast of the radioshow. But this week the plan is that I should review Mercenaries 2, something I find increasingly hard as I can't start playing the game more than a minute before I get headpains. It happens to me with some games, mostly those which features mindless action without any real motivation, which is why I have trouble enjoying most first-person shooters. But it doesn't mean the game I play is necessarily bad, seeing as I got the same pain with Halo (which is apparently a very good game) and Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 (which is a very, very bad game).
But Mercenaries 2 has its charms, including the Swedish viking Mattias Nilsson, who has to be the worst characterization of a Swede I've ever seen. None of my countrymen act like that without being severely intoxicated or being me (Not that I resort to explosives as soon as there is anything taller than my knees blocking my pathway).
He's clearly so insane that he shouts "Tag! You're it!" when I smash his car into some other form of vehicle. But that's the way I like it. The game clearly has some of the best and pointless dialogue I've witness in any recent games without it being stock lines ("Prepare to meet your maker!") or being incredibly cheesy ("Gouda").
Why am I even talking about this?

Anyhow, my grandparents were by yesterday to pick up my computer which will be sent into getting repaired on Monday. Due to some obnoxious protocols they have to pick it up at the address that the computer is written on, instead of where the thing actually is. If they take it back here to MalmÃ¶ I will go "lulz" and then resign, because it is obvious that the paper-pushers in this country are too much for me to make sense of.
What this means is that I'm gonna be without a proper computer forever, and having spent the larger part of the summer on the microscopic screen that is my MacBook I am not pleased.
Especially since it decides to disconnect internet every hour or so.

Before I finnish this off I want people who have shoutboxes to tell me so that I can go there and proceed to shout in said box.
That is all for today, toudilou!

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart I do this to the tune of Pablo Francisco http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20379898/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20379898/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:38:45 PDT Â

This is gonna be a bipolar journal. I know that already. It's gonna be bipolar and it is not even my period.
Ok, not funny *serious-looking smily goes here*
Yeah, that one ->

I'm using smilies in my journal now. So I guess that means there's only 3 horsemen left.
But it's also going to be long (which I know from already writing it and checking) and adding this piece of text sure isn't making it shorter (logically). So, as the benevolent tormentor I am, I'll just warn you it might take some time to get through. Which might mean you won't read it at all.

Anyhow, first week has gone by, meaning my classes has gotten a chance to start. It started with Original Production, with middleplay of chinese food, and then Image Making in the evening. Original Production started with me being late. It's not that I wasn't there on time. I just couldn't find the place. If there's a large building with the name of my school on it that is divided from the rest of the institutions, I'd guess it was there where I was supposed to go.
No.
When enough time had passed to make me late I find out I was supposed to go to the building behind the one I was in. Gee, how stupid of me not to find my way the first time being there.
So I go there, right. I enter. Then with the help of no people at the receptiondesk, no map whatsoever or any help for new students who have never been there before, I manage to not find out where I am supposed to go. I do find a classmate just as lost as I am and together we try to make sense, thinking that they use the same system for rooms like they did in the other building I was in, which they of course didn't. A teacher helps us though and we even find another classmate in the right corridor, but of course he couldn't figure out whether or not he was to following the ascending or descending numbers from room 301 to 311 where we were supposed to go. Instead he obediently follow us who get to the right classroom. There we hear that our teacher doesn't intend to teach us as much as he intends to guide us (since you can't transmit knowledge, bweoheeoh). And I guess that makes sense in some way, at least if you are, y'know, a venus flytrap.
He was very blunt to the extent where I was wondering he was actually working there ("There might be situations where I refuse to answer a question.") but I don't know him yet. He might just be clinically insane like that people back at highschool.

Oh, this is getting long. I'll just speed it up a notch,

It was all good, though. I think I might enjoy it. I got an ID-card afterwards. They took my picture with a cheap-ass camera and I look like I am a druggie. I always do that if the camera uses a flash. I don't know why, but every time it seems like me and the photographer have this kind of conversation without me knowing it:
"Jonthan, please look high."
"k."

Going to Image Making in the evening didn't leave the same positive feeling. We had a very international class (credited to it being in english and all) but it seems like instead of learning a lot about a little, we will learn a little about a lot. Right now I don't know anyone in the class, and we're doing sketching. Making them dreary and long, since I suck at sketching. We began with doing motions already on the first day (while the other course just had us go through information) and I could state that I am terrible at what the teacher wants us to do. Crazy american woman who likes to draw. I came for the designing, not some woman telling me that if I can't pass this first stage, then I won't be able to do the rest later on.
Seeing how Photoshop is fully usable without me knowing how to draw squiggly lines to show what part of the body is under pressure while drawing a 10 second sketch, I find her argumentation rather weak.
We got homework. I had to go to a random place and draw ten people as they do stuff. Seeing how easy it is to draw people as they walk out of your line of sight, I thought the assignment absolutely charming.

Then the next class was all about drawing poses, lay-in drawings as they are called. Basically, we were drawing posable dolls, if you know the type. I am not sure what they are called, but you can pose them however you want and you see the joints and whatnot. Our assignments afterwards was to make 6 of those and a detailed self-portrait. Seeing as how I predict it will look ass, like portraits always do when I draw them, it makes me glad that apparently this course doesn't require any skills to pass, as long as you try.

Also fun abou... ]]> =Odin-Lionheart Like a girl's room, only it's me writing a journal http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20240177/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20240177/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:33:04 PDT Â

Dear

.
I don't really know how to tell you this, but our horoscope doesn't match. I think I realized it first of May in your camping car and I saw you ignore my best friend. I'm sure you're cowardly enough to understand that Extreme Home Makeover sucks. I'm returning the couch cushions to you, but I'll keep the results of your blood-sample as a memory. You should also know that I told my psychiatrist about the incarnation as an eskimo.
Greetings to your freaky family,
Jonathan

-<

Now, this is quite a way to start a journal, is it not? Do not worry if you're confused; this has absolutely nothing to do with anything. If you're curious as to what it is, I recommend you stay tuned until the end of the journal.
Devious, no?

I'm updating in what will feel like a very messy journal, which is making the pedant in me squirm. This is what happens when you add tags into actual journals, but I thought the concept of two of my journals in your inbox quite frightening. I could be considered an overstep on the fragile balance that has been established between me and you, and that is the last thing I want.
To make is easier, if you don't want to bother with the tags, just read what's inside the -< >-

Yes, as you can see I am once again partaking in the art of writing whatever falls on my fancy, which is an art in which I excel. Even the italic is back. A joy? You decide.

I am happy to announce I am feeling better, which I will attribute several things. First my friends, both irl and online (which includes you! and even you, random person who just decided to read a random journal). Then the change of scenery helped. It's good to be back at my appartment. I've bought 4 kilos of chicken (fillet and Buffalo wing). That's 8,8 lbs for you crazy people overseas who use different ways to measure things just because you can.

Some people wanted to know more about my haircut that I mentioned in my last journal. While it had been fun to discuss the age and interests of my haircut, the actual demand was a photo. I am terribly sorry to announce that I went along with these terms, and for those who have not checked out my latest submissions here is the photo which was supposed to show how I looked but turned into an actual submission, and the photo from which it sprang.

Lastly, I have something exciting to announce. A few people might recall me mentioning being part of the radiostation at my University last year. Sadly, due to Japanese and laziness I did not partake in it as much as I had desired, but hopefully now will be different.
I will be on a show this season with focuses on reviews. There was a show like that last season with movies, but our goal now is to widen our selection. While we retain movies, we will also expand into video-games, and hopefully other areas as well. But right now we have movies and video-games. This is where the fun start. We have a deal with both the local cinema and video-game store, which means that we will be able to watch new movies and borrow games for free. Me and this other fellow (who will be heading the video-game section due to being a local, while I live in the next town over) went down to the store to discuss matters and how things will work. I walked away with a copy of Soul Calibur IV for my PS3 which I now have until Thursday to disect so that we will have at least one review when the show starts. I am psyched and very fortunate. Hopefully this will turn out to be an exciting term, and hopefully one of my classes won't colide with the airtime.

This is all for now. Be sure to check my latest submissions. I'm quite happy with them. Also, classes start on Monday. And I can't change the smily in my journal.

>-

Here's something that hasn't happened in a while, tags. They would take me eventually, but I've tried my best to dodge the bullets. But because I want to clean up in my inbox, it's time to get them out of the way.

1-Post these rules.
2-People tagged must po... ]]> =Odin-Lionheart A few stones less of heavy *update* http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20117739/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20117739/ Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:22:57 PDT Â

Ah, so I guess I should give you a bit of an update. Things have happened since my last journal, and while I had sincerely hoped this would be a more lighthearted journal than last time I guess I'll have to postpone that for now.

It seem she made a move away from me, and I'll let it be with that. Clearly she doesn't want me back, and frankly, upon thinking things through, I believe we're better off apart anyway. Things will be a bit different, not talking with her about everything that happens in my life, but I believe that are old feelings lingering; I'll get past them.

Again, everyone, thank you dearly for your concern. It really feels a lot better being back on dA and speaking to you all again. Whatever got into my head that made me stay away from here, it as clearly quite stupid and I do not plan to listen to that voice again.

I'm going back to my apartment, tomorrow, so this will be the last night I spend here for a while. It's been two nice months here, but I need to get back to my actual life. My friends are back to Japan, so we're definitely meeting up again, and I got a bunch of new clothes and shoes, as well as a haircut. I am quite ready to start going back to school.

Hopefully, there will be a brighter Jonathan writing to all of you in a few days time. I believe I should take my time and listen to your advices.

*Update*

So I've arrived safely at my appartment with five rather heavy bags in tow (the only one that wasn't directly heavy was the camera-bag) and it feels good to be back. I got most of my stuff unpacked, though I didn't think I would until tomorrow. And I spent the evening catching up with my friends over a barbecue. Really good to see someone besides family again, seeing as all my friends from back home have run off to everywhere.

I currently have nothing for breakfast tomorrow, so I'm gonna eat cashews.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Heavy heart http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20058835/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/20058835/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:53:12 PDT Â

I can warn everyone now that this is not going to be one of those happy-trips that my journals usually are. You see, I think I just broke up with my girlfriend.
It wasn't really my intention; I wanted, and still do, to take a pause in our relationship to try and clear up a few bumps that has appeared lately. It was rather stupid of me, after all, considering that is just how her last boyfriend dumped her. But what can one do, right? I still believe I did what would be best.

I won't go into detail, but it started as a conversation that we don't talk as much as we used to. It led to several other points were we both disagreed, even to the point of what it meant to be in a relationship. I admit that I made some mistakes yesterday, and since she signed off I've spent my time thinking about it all and second-guessing myself. Falling asleep was a pain.

I don't even know what to write anymore. I was thinking about it earlier, but I don't think most of the things should be posted here. I harmed her, when I said I wouldn't, and I hate that. What has happened between us can't only be my fault, but even if I think it might make me feel better loading the blame on her, I can't do that. I was the one suggesting it, after all, that we take a break. Now I doubt she'll want to talk to me again. Perhaps it is best, or perhaps fate will lead us back. I am not so sure I would rely on a force which I do not entirely believe in.
Long-distance relationships are bothersome.

Sorry, everyone, for this depressing journal. I've been dazed since yesterday, and I thought this a good way to get some stones off my chest. It was partly my fault for bringing this on myself. I'll be back to my usual self in a few days. I just need to sit and look into myself for a little while.

Note: Every segment sans the last one today starts with "I". As a writer, I find that terrible.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart I believe I can fly http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/19939581/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/19939581/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:59:27 PDT Â

Title unrelated.

Hello gents. It seems that despite popular belief I am still here. Doesn't seem like I will be leaving, but I might be wrong. There are people after my life around every corner. Well that is a blatant lie (or I am just "unaware").

Jokes aside (though I can bet my left arm they will appear further along this journal). I do not know if my classes will claim me like they did last year, but I am not expecting another "Japanese"-incident. I am actually quite excited this year. I will be studying print (we call it "Original Production") and visuals (under the name "Image Making"; so delightfully clear). And the sharp might remember that I intended to study these courses last year but didn't do to a miss in my application, so I took japanese instead. Well this year I've been accepted to these and I am already psyched.

You might also recall that one of these courses would require me to buy a camera. Specifically one with the ability to change shutterspeed and aperature. Well that matter has been taken care of now that I've purchased a Nikon D60. A very lovely, albeit expensive camera, but I am very attached to it, despite not much use yet. I am still reading the manual and getting a hang of the settings, something I've never done before with a camera like this. I thought it proper I know what every button do before I blindly start pushing them and accidently hit the self-destruct button (see, there was the joke which I promised; albeit it was not good but I have no recollection of promising anything about that). Oh, and yes, I promise to post something. Not much fun to photograph at my parent's home as this is the place I've grown up at and I could not detect anything eye-catching here, because I have already seen everything to death.

Any other news you might wonder? Not much, I am still at my parent's house, as I believe I just mentioned, and I won't get back for at least another week. Courses doesn't start until the first September and I'll most likely return a week before then so that I have proper time to get resettled and purchase the other material I shall need.
What has happened is that I've watched Bleach all the way through, as well as Fushigi Yuugi. I've committed the heinous act of reading mangas on the computer, but promised myself I would not read anything I would be interested in buying. This is a good thing though, because this combined as well as walking my grandparent's dog has gotten my mind working on my ever-expanding world of Odin Lionheart and his life. This includes matters that are directly related to the sequel to "Water & Stone" which I have come to dub "The Wayfarer and the Mercenary" and I've started to work on a little.
I've also spent time with family that has been over for a visit, including taking my sister and one of my cousins to an outdoor concert/festival that landed in the next town over. Not really my kind of artists, except one of them who performed a very nostalgic song of his, which was one of my favorites as a child. But basically I just went there to look at cameras (this was a day before I bought my Nikon D60) and to treat my young relatives to chinese.

I will be uploading some minor stuff I've made this summer right after I am done here. 1-2 forum signatures I have made for RO-related forums, and a Bleach-wallpaper I made because I just couldn't find a good wallpaper for my Mac. Actually, I have two, but one of them have images from another artist here on dA, so I'll just feature that one as a screen of my desktop.

But my, my, this is all too much rambling on my part. I most likely forgot something, but if that's the case I will just update it at a later date. This is all for this time. Honest. I won't continue this wall of text. I speak the truth. Please ignore that I just keep on writing. Hope everyone is doing great. Enjoy the summer. Be careful when it is dark. And never trust Urahara Kisuke.

Edit: Also, music from Bleach is excellent.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Most likely an update http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/19326033/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/19326033/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:37:31 PDT Â

So I believe I was not the only one to pop up his browser and see that dA has recieved a completely new overhaul. It is in my highest belief I shall read at least one mention of the new design in a journal-update. But I have nothing negative to say about it, because frankly it allows me to check older comments and journals and that puts me in a state akin to happy. Perhaps I will get around and clear up my messages. Just perhaps.

Okay peeps, slow as I may be in every conceivable way (my current state can closest be described as zombie) I have now finally gotten around to actual start writing this journal to let my friends know I am alive.

The move from my old, nice computer over having to rely on this MacBook of mine has made it so that deviations, comments and journals have stacked once again. I am simply amazing at loosing bursts of energy and motivation for things lately. Shall I blame me studying Japanese for a year? It's most likely not the cause, but blaming things on that is just so convenient. You see people, that was a year of hell for me, school wise. Got lovely friends, sure, but the pace was simply not something I was cut out for. I don't want to cram things into my head without much chance to actually get to use the information we're supposed to learn. I don't work that way, and to study a language (much more such a complex one such as japanese) under these circumstances is not very favorable.

I did pass the final exam though. Just barely, but it was enough to not let me have to retake it. I am someone who pride himself on intelligence and high performance, but not even I had the motivation to perform on something I was simply not cut out to do. But it's been an experience, and now I know how I shouldn't study a new language. Next time I'll figure something new out.

Anyway, concerning my life. As I mentioned in my last short journal I am back with my parents, and thus confined to my MacBook and less motivation to do things than ever before. My days are mostly spent playing video-games which I haven't done solidly since last summer. Mostly I've played sporadically, with my more intense gaming-periods dedicated to Ragnarok Online. Safe to say though, I am over the initial buzz of playing an MMORPG, with the drama I had to go through as a real killer. I now have little will to play it, and only will do it to help out some friends. I might pick it back up if the right circumstances show up, but at my parents I am almost unable to play, and frankly I am quite happy with that.

So instead I've been playing other things. Namely Kingdom Hearts II (completed) and Final Fantasy XII. A little late perhaps, but two epic games that I haven't been able to partake in as of yet. It's been fun. Definitely enjoyed KHII, and playing it has showed me that the fangirls here on dA are batshit insane as soon as they start their yaoi-coupling. They don't only take characters and put them in gay relationships (something I don't have a direct problem with) but they completely twist and changes the CHARACTERS THEMSELVES. As a writer you look upon it and facepalm (with an actual palm-tree, mind you) over and over again. They completely lack the skill to do an accurate portraying of the characters, their characteristics and how they would act, simply for their own pleasure of seeing male on male love. How do you justify that?

Ranting aside, though it would indeed be befitting to do a bit about Final Fantasy XII as well (which I will when I get further in the game), this autumn I plan on getting back to creating graphical stuff, and if I feel up for it, I might get back on writing. Last year, due to japanese, all I've done in photoshop has pretty much been restricted to signatures and avatars on forums. Speaking of which, it means I have something I could upload. Let's see when I get around to that. I have gone as far as downloading Photoshop for my Mac. I figured I have the damn license already, albeit for PC, so Adobe have already received my money, so it's not technically stealing.

This autumn I am taking two graphical courses and I am psyched, but much needs to happen before then. Mainly my roommate wants to move out so I need to find a new apartment. I just don't know to when I need to find it since the place we live in have interesting rules on how things work during the summer, and I have yet manage to get the guy who is actually IN the apartment to go and check with the landlords.

What more? I am currently watching Bleach. Almost gotten through all the episodes and I am positively surprised, just like I were with Naruto. Although fillers in Naruto didn't annoying me even closely as much as the ones in Bleach.

Besides all that, I am relaxing right now.... ]]> =Odin-Lionheart Not really an update http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/18994582/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/18994582/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:43:31 PDT Â

As the title says, not really an update. I just felt like writing to tell you all I'm going back home today. But a new journal has been waiting for itself. We'll see.

~ Jonathan

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Due to the fact that I don't have any tools to work with I give you until the last of September to see if we have enough contestants. If not, then expect another delay because this project is not worth doing until I have enough contestants.

Find more information regarding the contest at [link]

]]> =Odin-Lionheart So then that was done http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/17449495/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/17449495/ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:53:51 PDT Â

Yoh, people, so the time finally came. I just went through 300 comment, and to say I am exhausted would be to scratch the surface a little. I still have a couple of comments left for remembering purpose (though they did little use in the back of 300 comments, I admit) but I probably will end up deleting them as well. Why? Because I honestly believe that my stacking comments is what has been keeping me away from dA lately. Every time I opened the page the comments just felt like an obligation, and that is not how I wanted it to be.
So thus I beat through them all very fast. I replied to extremely few that was as old as January. Sorry to the rest; had I only been more attentive we would've had had many interesting conversations by now. I will better this in the future.

This just in: I passed 11k pageviews without realizing it.

Now, I still have journals and deviations (a whooping 182) to go through, but I am saving those for tomorrow.

And lastly we have this:
IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
*with snazzy Odin-like comments*

So, here's how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend your cool... and alot of the songs fit with the setting

Opening Credits:
Kanon - Miho Fujiwara - Florescence
Kanon ending theme as opening? Ok? Kinda soothing, but I was hoping for something more, upbeat. Perhaps my movie is a highshool drama. Damn it, my life is not shoujo. Or based on a hentai-game.

Waking Up:
Love Hina Again - Yuji Ueda & Yui Horie - Be for you, be for me (Keitaro and Naru ver.)
Wow, what a thing to wake up to. But an ending-theme again? Is this a premonition for something?

First Day At School:
Tenjou Tenge - Bomb A Head
Hahah! YES! Suddenly my life isn't cute and wonderful.

Falling In Love:
.hack//SIGN - Where the Sky is High
Heh, well that is how love feels, no?

Fight Song:
Dragon Ball Z - What's My Destiny
Damn epic, I love this. Only the song I have is in spanish. Makes me wonder what kind of battle this really is.

Breaking Up:
Final Fantasy IX - Long Journey Ahead (in some kind of remix)
Also fitting, if you consider the song being a remix (and the song giving you the same empty feeling when you listen to it as breaking up does)

Prom night:
Final Fantasy X - Omen
Now that is a foreboding title. Song is pretty nice though. Gives the feeling of something dramatic happening.

Life:
Jovette Rivera - The Crossrodes (FF7 remix of Cid's Theme)
I haven't listened to this before, but it apparently contains lyrics. I do guess life is pretty full of surprises.

Mental Breakdown:
Hunter X Hunter - Toshihiko Sahashi - Trap
Oh my, I DO want to know the mechanics behind how this tag works. It is eerie, to say the least.

Driving:
Wolf's Rain - Steve Conte - Stray
Am I to LAUGH at this, or what? I'm not that dramatic of a driver.

Flashback:
Chokotto Sister - Doki Doki! My Sister Soul
I know I am very intrigued by this series, and I absolutely love this upbeat and happy song.
But damn, that was just creepy for a flashback.
Also, get back at subbing this series.

Getting back together:
One Piece - We did it! Party!
Wait what?

Wedding:
Mooki - SONIC HEROES
Noooooooooo, that one was terrible, at least as far as titles go. Also, this song does not fit as a ballade. Don't want anyone wailing "Sonic heooeoeoeroes" on my wedding.

Birth of Child:
Tweek - Frozen Landscape (Buried in Snow)
Okaaaay, that is just sad. I would prefer to burying no-one. I might've actually been scared of getting a child if it would mean either it or my wife (since I am apparently married at this point) would die.

Final Battle:
Final Fantasy III Eternal Legend of the Eternal Wind - Nobuo Uematsu - Ebb and Flow (The Invincible, Matoya's Cave, Castle Hein)
Wow, dramatic speech and an epic medley of classic Final Fantasy tunes. Quite some final battle. At least it is not in spanish.

Funeral Song:
Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh
Sounds like little demons dancing upon my grave. Lovely.

Final Credits:
Sonic Adventure 2 - It doesn't matter
HAHAH! I love it! If the title is not enough, then for the sake of another laugh, look up the lyrics. This is probably the most fitting song today.

Okay, it seems my Mac has my collection of game and anime music added into iTunes. Well this... ]]> =Odin-Lionheart I am a horribly lazy man http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/17179716/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/17179716/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:53:37 PST Â

Well what do we have here? An update? By me?
Fine, beginning with self-referential humor. Hah! How original. It's not like I've mentioned my lack of updates before.

So what is up? Well, first of all, I am incredibly lazy. Like not being able to check my dA at all. I am terribly sorry for everything, checking deviations and whatnot. Most of all, however, I am way behind on comments, and I know that, which makes it even worse. But frankly, seeing that I have 300 messages to go through with 70+ deviations, it just keeps me detered. I'll get to it eventually.

It's not like dA is the only thing I've been neglecting. I have several new games I have barely opened (Shadow Hearts 2, Devil Kings) and much less played yet (Final Fantasy XII, Kingdom Hearts II and Devil May Cry 2). There are plenty of reasons for this, none of which is very good. I've been playing Ragnarok Online, and for those familiar with it, I just managed to go reborn with my character. I now have a Biochemist/Creator instead of the pretty little alchemist I featured in my recent updates.

When I don't play, I browse to server forums, or just chat with my guildmates. I never knew what an incredible social thing MMORPGs were. Truly amazing (is incredibly late to jump on the bandwagon). Of course, the genre holds some of the most ignorant and stupid people I have ever met, but I know people in my daily life that seem to refuse to grow up (not pointing any fingers at anyone).

I am most of all, however, very tired. I crash, sleep late, and don't seem to have that much energy.

Plus Japanese is a bitch.

It has struck me this term that I am so incredibly behind everyone else, and I think I know why as well. I'm having problem hearing what the hell the teachers say (most of them have gone over to basically only speak in japanese) and can't fellow at all. The amount of information we're supposed to keep in our minds is simply way above what I am capable of. I have a terrible memory to begin with, and with this high pace, you NEED to be able to remember everything.

I'm actually afraid that I will fail, and if I do, then my loans will be cancelled, and that's gonna cause some troubles with my summer. Yippee. This means I have to cram information into my head where it does not want to stay. And I don't like to do that. Fact is, I'm writing this journal solely to stall me from getting started on trying to learn all the kanjis from last term. Gonna need it for the test next week.

In other news, it snowing today. First time I've seen it stay on the ground while down here.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart And yes I was right http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/16332448/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/16332448/ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:07:46 PST Â

Not sure if you read, but a few days after my last journal J.K. Rowling announced that a new book is not out of the question. Though it won't be about Harry as main character.
...I kneeew it.

Anyhow, PS3 is awesome yadda yadda new God yadda. Nah, seriously though, it's great. Loving it. Plus Assassin's Creed and Folklore are awesome games. That and I also got myself an american and japanese account to download stuff, though BUYING is apparently forbidden. Thank you, the european shop is nothing compared to the american and japanese ones. Better games. So I made a sneak and bought Wild Arms. Wanted to play that game forever. Hardly cost me anything with the dollar so low.

Anyway, doubt there's anyone who reads my journal that has one, otherwise I'd be more than happy playing against you online. Don't have any such games yet, but there are some cheap alternatives (like the Timeshift demo).

Fine, I've bored Attie enough with this journal so far. So now comes a life-update.

Got word today that I've been accepted for my second term of japanese. Going to be my last since their method of study completely disagrees with me.

And tomorrow I'm heading back to MalmÃ¶. Which means bye-bye to my dear family and back to living as a student. Good thing I will get access to my computer again, and I intend on playing with Photoshop. Also, I've had some minor updates art-wise that I've forgotten to post, but I'm going to do a slight edit so that they will look better on dA once I get home.

Nothing more to add, still a while off before I start again, so expect hearing from me again.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart I don't think its her last book... http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/16142453/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/16142453/ Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:37:27 PST Â

There's a good chance there'll be more. Come on, she took her time to build such a vast universe. I dare her to leave it where she did. Of course, the chronicles of him are over, but there's a new generation to be thinking about after all. I would not be surprised if more books were to come.
Who am I talking about? J.K. Rowling of course.

Just remain with me, after the Potter-rant there'll be actual news.

In the daring move of not reading the book earlier I finally finished it yesterday.
My thoughts?
I noticed that she seems to have a trend to make children suffer. You know, take away their parents, loved ones, family, make them horrible. That jazz. Oh and before you start ranting, yes I know that.
Realism and all those things, right? War is never pretty. Know what? It still irks me. As a writer. But enough of that.
I did love the book y'know, it was great, and the above opinion cannot bleamish that. I might be sounding a bit sarcastic here, but I'm not. I really liked the ending. It touched me; it was genius.
Don't think I'll mind ending up like Harry did one day. Y'know, after I save the British wizarding world.

Anyway, leaving everything about the future and children behind we logically arrive to the question of how my Christmas was.
It was pleasant.
It's been better afterwards. We've gathered most of mother's side of the family at my grandparents so we really have full house. We're actually split into two camps.
Have gotten to meet the newest addition to the family. She arrived this fall and is adorable as a little child can be.

Having not received anything noteworthy (I really didn't, money, books (HP7 in swedish, only have in english and a cookbook from the same uncle who I think gave me one last year) and clothes (of the type that I don't wear much anyway).
Two of my cousins got a Wii (that's a whole other discussion; my entire family has been playing on it. Who would've thought? Grandma is lethal in bowling).
Made me want to indulge in something for myself. I'm a poor student after all, I tend to avoid buying stuff for myself (except pepsi, it's my coffee).
What did I get? A PS3. But after a long debate with myself. My wallet does not like me, but I figured, what the heck, how often do I really indulge myself? And it's not like I don't have money left, to differ from two people who owe me two months of rent each.
I also got two games, Folklore and Assassin's Creed, the obviously most exciting games available at this moment. And there's more to come.
Too bad I could not get a backward-compatible machine, since we only have the stripped version of the PS3 over here, which is a bummer (and quite idiotic, Sony). Would've wanted to not need to get a new PS2 since the old one does not work as intended.

Well New Year is coming up. Won't be making a new journal before then. Now I wanted to keep people updated.

What to expect of me for 2008? I have plenty of ideas, just you wait. I only hope I will have the time to put them into fruition.
Why does inspiration always strike me when I am unable to work?

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Meari Kurisumasu!! http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/16001397/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/16001397/ Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:03:42 PST Â

Hisashiburi! Yes, it has been a long time, hasn't it? There's two very good reasons to why I haven't updated my journals (despite my intentions of doing it over and over) and that is 1: I've had my final exam and 2: I'm lazy. No bigger secret than that.

Alright, Japanese. Final Exam. Spent a week studying with the best of my ability. Did fine once I get there and with some fortune I will have managed to pass. At least I think so. My teacher sent out a vague message that such might be the case. Otherwise I will need to retake it or else I won't be allowed to continue next term. Which would've been fine with me wasn't it the case that I promised to follow through the first year and the fact that I deleriously forgot to apply to any other courses incase I wouldn't want to follow through with japanese.

And that is not the case. I love studying japanese, but the pace we're going at...it's wrong. I mean, sure, some people are fine with it, but I' certainly not one of them. I don't have a perfect memory and can remember everything they just tell us once or with one glance. I need to beat things into my own head. Might've been able to do some of that, but the amount of homework we recieved kept me beat And just to illustrate how bad i can say that the amount of papers we recieved in half a year (homework and papers for self-study) far exceeds the amount of paper we recieved in total during my highschool years.

Thinking about skipping my homework next term and just focus on learning myself. Don't know for sure but I think it might help if I actually don't have to worry about the homework (which doesn't really help me learn at all) and instead is able to focus my strength on things I find relevant to my way of learning. Will not be skipping all of it, will do those things I believe I can really benefit from. After all not people learn in the same way. Want to know what you people think.

But let us leave this dreadfull subject and focus on something more merry (pun, bad as it may be, was intended). Christmas is about and I'm currently back home on a well-deserved rest from my student life. Lovely to see the family again and to be able to taste the wonderful food of my hometown (MalmÃ¶, when it comes to pizza and kebab, cannot compare). My Christmas-shopping is all done and on Friday we're once again heading north to spend Christmas (for the last time) at my grandparents house. They've sold it because they could not longer keep up with the house. Though it's gonna be great, except for one thing missing there. Macbook is with me so you'll still hear from me.

Gonna try and answer all the comments before Christmas eve. I know I've fallen behind on it, but I still blame japanese and laziness.

Anyway, if you don't hear from me again before the 25th this is my holiday greeting to all of you. Some of you might recall how much of a sucker for the Christmas spirit I really am, hahah.

Everyone, please have a great time!

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart An actual deviantjournal update http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/15550413/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/15550413/ Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:53:46 PST Â

Yah, sorry everyone for the drought on updates lately. Haven't been much for writing. Mostly that is handled quite well by my Japanese course. They just love to keep their stream of homework steady, though also increasing.

On a much funnier note, getting more into the radio-channel I joined. Having a broadcast this Friday. Plus the newbie-course is more or less finnished. Yay for that.

So what else to update about? One month left? Yeah, 15th is my last exam for this term, then I am off the hook. That is, as long as I pass. Have yet to take the hearing-one I missed due to my illness. Teacher said it would be this Wednesday, but I would really appreciate a little more info. Will talk to her on Monday.

So what else has been going on? I've been reading Watchmen and The Life & Time of Scrooge McDuck. Quite a combo. The first a very thrilling piece of a narrative and the second representing everything I love of the Duck-universe of Disney's. It's epic on a level that is easy to grasp for everyone. Plus most of them I have already read in my youth, so it is a most lovely collection of nostalgia.

We've recieved a new store in town that sell a lot of imported manga, anime and a wide veriety of fiction. Used to visit it's sister store in Stockholm whenever I visited my aunt, and while that store is certainly larger, having one on a walking distance from here is very nice. That's the nice part of this town, everything is on a walking distance or just a couple of busrides away, even if it's the third largest city here in Sweden.

However, compared to back home, I have not been able to get one single pizza of any higher quality. Seems I left that behind me when I moving. Oh well, leaves me something to look forward to when going back next month after my exam.

What else to mention? Yeah, tried the new gallery-functions dA announced today. Worked rather well and I could alter my gallery without actually deleting anything. Plus the folders. Really, it's some neat functions, so people should try them out.

Speaking of galleries, I know mine has seen little improvement lately. Blame the blasted homework. And Ragnarok Online. But mostly homework. Once you're finnished with that thing you just want to kick back and relax the rest of the evening. I swear, I could've taken to learn everything at half this pace and find it adequate. Bah, just taking this course until summer comes and after that I am getting back into the graphics department. I actually have somewhat of a goal now, but it is rough and only for a couple of years ahead. Hopefully I can get back working more regularily on art before summer, though. Otherwise I'd worry.

Ah yes, and last to fulfill an old promise.
I made

a promise I would feature her in a clever ruse to get out of featuring three people. That would require effort on my side, something better spent on answering comments on a currently quite buggy deviantArt. Anyway, here's the three images I've choosen of her.

All of these are very recent creations of her, and that is because she's a growing artist and during the time I have known her I have seen her develop her skills, sometimes practically stunning me. With glory!

That is all for now. How you appreciated a once-in-a-blue-moon update from me. You never know when the next time will be.

~ Jonathan

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Sooo, I guess some of you might wonder how the exams went, and if you don't then just, y'know, bear with it.
Despite not being much prepared at all it still went rather well. I went there and I wrote on everything. Frankly, the week at school has been tougher than that and the frankly large amount of homework compared to free time that I've had. It ended with me NOT turning in everything on the Friday, because there was simply not enough will do finnish everthing on the thursday. Reason? Roommates.

You know, I've always had this odd feeling people cared about each other. That's what I thought we would be doing when I moved together with two of my closest friends. But I guess I was wrong. While they are a blast to hang out with, the thought of them taking any responsibilities is the closer to a joke than anything else. Sure, one of them give the impression of taking responsibility, wanting to have a schedule on when we clean the apartment, and being the first to show off how diligent he is when it comes to cleaning the clothes (he loves this shit). Yet he has not been able to get a new lamp for the kitchen since the old one is going bad and works only 40% of the time. I would do that myself, but the damn thing is stuck and the only one who knows that type is him. That and that he spends most of his time at home in front of his computer.

The other roommate does not care. His mother fixed everything at home for him so he has never had to bother with anything.

This is a problem when it comes to food, though. First few weeks we alternated each evening and it worked just fine. Then I got sick (the throat is still an issue, however) and they just kinda stopped eating. Yes, they have one meal a day, then they snack on candy if they get hungry. Catching my drift? When I now eventually started getting better (with the addition of being able to eat three square meals a day like any normal human being should) I try to get them back into the cooking. With indifferent results.

Let's just say I had to wait until 10 P.M. until the one who was supposed to make dinner (was going to make burgers; had already gone and gotten the buns) decides that neither he or the other guy are hungry, and by then he had know since several hours that I was really hungry. So when I ask him (he also decided not to tell me this himself, I just managed to overhear somewhat) when dinner is due he just shrugs it off with that neither of them are hungry and leaves it at that.

You know what? I'm just gonna leave this at that, because just thinking about it makes me riled. These people are my friends, close friends, but apparently I was dillusional when thinking that we would look out for each other. I mean, I once made dinner while I was not overly hungry and had to hurry to class. Still I prepared it for both of them and left it in the microwave. Apparently I was wrong in doing that, for it appears to be every man for himself. Not even the golden rule of "Do onto others what you want others to do onto you" seem to apply anymore.

Apparently I am just strange.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Oh joy! And irony! http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/15100510/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/15100510/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:39:51 PDT Â

Good news folks, I got the programs the other day, so now I finally have Photoshop and the guys under my command once again. That is not what the title is refering to. Not completely at least. You see, it is meant to be read in an ironic manner.

You see, I have been sick for quite a while now. Terribly so. Throat has been killing me. A lot of coughing and sneezing. Worst of it being the night when it has proven quite hard to fall asleep the last few days, and I've had this since Friday.

So it has only been for me to rest. Not ventured outside except for once when I visited the doctor's office. Nice little place that could not decide if I should go on regular meds or if they were to prescribe something. They went with the latter. It has not helped the least. Painkillers are working better for they have allowed me to at least function some as well as taking away most of the pain in my throat.

I've kept myself liquidated and tried to do as little as possible. Now that had been an easy task had this not been a very special week at school. Yes! This Saturday we have our first exam, meaning classes are off but we're supposed to be studying, and there's a damn lot of kanji one of our teachers thought it well enough that we know despite that he's not told us what they mean (something all the other teachers are quite carefull with doing).

As you might understand I have not been able to study as much as I had hoped I would. What is worse is that they scheduled a hearing-test earlier, namely today and despite steeling myself to go in case I got better, today saw no improvement. So I already have to retake that part of the test. I wonder what more parts are to come, for I am far from prepared to take it this Saturday.

I do what little I can, and in comparison that is more than what is expected from me. But this situation is damaging as well for I loath the fact that I am helpless and I just feel guilty for not studying. But getting my health back to actually be able to take the test should be my top priority.

I curse my luck of getting sick like this and I just hope my body starts showing some improvements.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Silly japanese, sharp knives and books of faces http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14901593/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14901593/ Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:10:44 PDT Â

A jolly good evening to you all, sans myself, because I have been ridicolously busy with homework this evening. Adjectives should not be conjugated, ever. The very least in japanese. I shall personally speak to their Emperor about this. That and the fact that our teacher wants us to conjugate words that we don't even have this week. Of course that is not completely unreasonable to expect on a university-level, but we already have 500+ things to keep track off.

On top of all this my roommate wants us to have a time of the week when we clean the entire apartment. NO! I do not want that. I clean when I have time, is not tired like crazy and don't have 50 kilograms of homework hanging over my head.

My roommates enjoy to spend their money instead of thinking ahead. I got in two months of delayed rent from the same as the one mentioned above. So there's a lot more money on my account now. Guess what? I am not spending them.

On a completely different note, I am finally getting myself a pair of japanese swords. Yes, that is true, a pair.

Yes! And this Saturday there is a party with the japanese-classes. I am attending. Not for the beer and booze that will most likely swallow our shallow youth but for the reason it is themed. Pirate vs. Ninja themed. Pictures, if they come, will be published of course.

Oh, and for all of those who are on the in. I now have one of those books of faces that is on everyones tongues. Quite a cheery place I admit. If you do have one (or seeks to aquire one) then you can find mine at [link] I am currently breeding a dragon as well as writing graffiti. I did not know it had so many unnecessary features. It's rather fun.
Warn you, though, I may come of a bit more swedish over there. It's hard to hide one's heritage on a place where information is published publicly to ones friends and fellows.

Subway 4ever

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Devious Journal Entry http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14901004/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14901004/ Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:31:48 PDT Â

Update comming in five

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart In case you're wondering... http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14789815/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14789815/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:11:32 PDT Â

YES!

I have finally ordered my Adobe-programs after a damn long time of waiting. Will be good to have them under my command again. It's been so long.

Dunno when I'll be getting to it, though. Right now my evenings are mostly eaten up with studies. Excessive studies.

Meanwhile my two roommates have all the time in the world. Homework, if any, is done in a few minutes. Mine take hours, and I always have it.

But at least I can say grammatically correct sentences in japanese now.

I am quiverring for the first exam.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Welcome to the Grandest of Tours! http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14647945/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14647945/ Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:09:41 PDT Â

Hello, loyal subjects, hello.

I believe I promised you some photos of my apartment. So I took up the cellphone which I exchanged with father and was able to upload them to the comp and then scraps so I am able to show you the place. Some of them is before we moved our stuff in, but most is from after. Featured the former because I wanted to give a pre-look of how the place looked.

Take note that it IS a cellphone so of course the quality is terrible. I am also very photoshop-less so there has been no editing with them whatsoever.

Before:

After:

I am also considering getting the Adobe-software I need by the end of the month. Want rent for the next month paid first and then recieve my study aid so that I am not left bankrupt. Want to get back to being creative.

Oh, and I am also joining the univsersity radio.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Finally settled http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14565307/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14565307/ Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:31:21 PDT Â

Yoh, all my little friends.

As you might've noticed by now I am back online and have been since Tuesday, I believe. Couldn't get my connection faster than that, so I am sorry for the delay.

In any case I am now settled in my new apartment and have been since last Saturday when parents took all my furniture down here. By Sunday everything was unpacked and I have now spent my first official week living away from the home I grew up in.

To tell the truth it all still feels a bit surreal, like if I will be moving back home in a couple of weeks. But I know that is not the case. A new chapter is beeing written and when I think about it, it all feels a bit strange. Like new grounds. Part of me would like to return back to the safe existance I grew up in, but I know that it is not an option. Or rather it is, but it is not something I would like to take unless I absolutely have to. I like the path I am on right now and I know that any feelings of insecurity that I have are supposed to be there, they are part of it all.

Oh and I have two roommates, good fellows Sergal and Mogge. Despite three people living here there's never any battle for room. Sergal and I who share the larger room have plenty of space to spare and the center of it all looks rather empty when you think about it. I have ordered an chair, though, so at least a bit more space will be taken up.

In case anyone is curious I will be taking some photos with the meager equipment and post sometime next weekend. Thought it would be interesting, especially since I have some of how it looked when I first got here.

Oh yes! And I started university. Japanese. Well we've been going full speed since day one and having to learn three different sets of symbols is quite a task. Have not had all my classes yet so I'll bring more information about it later on. But in case you're wondering, yes, I am enjoying it.

And yes, I am also very happy right now. Just thought I should let you know.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart A moving conclusion http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14418338/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14418338/ Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:03:19 PDT Â

I sit here now in my almost empty room.

Most of my belongings are packed by now and two bags are waiting for me to pick them up before I head off to the station.

My last night at home was chilly and not spent in my own bed. It's okay though, because I managed.

Train leaves in 25 minutes and I am going to get my keys as soon as I get there I hope.

Don't know how soon I am going to come back here.

Anyway, I am not sure how fast I will be getting an internet-connection and if it won't be this weekend I hope you'll bear with me.

See you all soon.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart The fellowship of the tags http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14398179/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14398179/ Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:04:18 PDT Â

You have my sword...
The one you can always trust

The Rules:
1-post these rules
2-each person tagged must post 8 random(... hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
3-tags should write a blogpost of these facts
4- at the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
5-go to their blog and leave a comment telling them they're tagged

A new variation of the old six weird habbits. I'll considered this one already done.

1-I found Pizza Hut to be to my liking. Great breadsticks.
2-I knew most of the facts of the person who tagged me.
3-I've practically been sleeping until noon most of this summer. Such a relief.
4-Now that I am about to move, most of the things I am taking with me consists of books and games.
5-Shameless parodies are all the rage, but I also like it to have a working story.
6-I really, really dislike the people who comments at [link] because hardly anyone there can spell a full word.
7-People who download games to their consols are really bothersome.
8-My first visit to Pizza Hut ended with me smuggling two pieces of breadsticks our with me.

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...And you have my bow...

List ten things about your art, then tag ten people to do the same.

1) What art?

2) Oh, that one.

3) I am really skillfull at hiding my lack of artistic talent.

4) Three years studies about graphics puts its prints on you. Try not looking at a flash-movie and wonder how it is made. For me that is almost impossible.

5) I am learning.

6) It's really nothing special.

7) I don't like to be forced to work. First internship as a designer was kinda like that with someone looking over my back. Hated it. I prefer working in a free environment where I can slack off every now and then.

8) Good equipment is important for me. I don't want things lagging because that will only decrease my wish to work on it.

9) When I write I can sometimes put myself on auto and the writing goes much faster. Though I am never satisfied after.

10) I tend to find alternate solutions to things, which is one major thing my graphics-teacher complimented on me. I was the individual in my class; the others kept on following directions.

Ten people now? Well I haven't tagged in a while.

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...And my ax...

Rather sure I've done this before as well.

1.) Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.
"dem hade skrivit till honom pÃ¥ hela sommaren, trots att Ron hade"
/Harry Potter och Hemligheternas kammare.
Believe me... ]]> =Odin-Lionheart NNJ: Recon-mission http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14342529/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14342529/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:01:19 PDT Â

A quick journal-entry because I am going down in an hour or so to check out my appartment. Won't be back until Monday evening and on Tuesday the hardcore packing shall commence. It's all very exciting.

Anyways, I just thought I should tell you.

~ Jonathan

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]]> =Odin-Lionheart Change of plans http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14229711/ http://Odin-Lionheart.deviantart.com/journal/14229711/ Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:10:22 PDT Â

Rewriting this because dA is the equivalent to medieval torture. By the way, thanks for moving the BETA-version of my CSS to the completeCSS category and completely banning the one I made for Attie to be submitted under any form of CSS-category at all. Feels nice that our admins donÂt know what the hell they are doing.

In any case, I wish for you to disregard my last journal. Due to a twist of fate it seems like I am going to be taking Japanese after all. That means no Image Making and Original Production until earliest this spring.

After the second results were announced it turned out that I had been accepted into Japanese(2nd) and Image Making (1st), which is as much as I am allowed to study for one term, so they dropped Original Production. Of course, being set on taking graphical classes this fall, I was taken aback, but it turns out this might work out for the better. A friend might actually be joining me in it (he will be staying with me and my roommate for a while) and it will push the expense of the camera until later when I might have acquired a bit more money.

I dropped Image Making because it would simply not work out. Classes would be overtime as well as located in two different cities. No, I have the time of my youth ahead of me, no need to rush.

Can hardly believe that I will be moving in two weeks time, though the gypsy itch is affecting me badly right now. Actually, thereÂs a bit of uncertainty about that, but most likely it will be fixed by next weekend since my future roommate and I plan on going down to take a look at the apartment.

In any case, IÂll keep you updated. Oh, and keep a close eye on your inbox next week, because there might just be something popping up there.

Anyway, I think that was about the gist of it. Feels like I forgot something. Oh.

Was sick for a while, had to take pills, became very tired. Add to that a very high degree of humidity in the air and you just get hell on earth.

Just wanted to say.

~ Jonathan

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