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Even though I had The Flu (but not *the* flu) for a while and I got a fever, I came out of it better than ever!

During the Last week of October I made myself a wicked Halloween Costume and marched in the New York City Village Halloween Parade alongside some giant puppets and other crazy costumes characters.

There is MUCH MUCH MORE to the story of my Halloween, but I'm going to hold off a little bit on telling the rest of my tale until all the official parade photos are posted on their website. I want to illustrate my experience.
(feel free to ask me about it, though)

Since then, I've done some comics and some paintings, but I don't have immediate access to a scanner or camera for documenting pieces, so you'll have to wait a bit before you see them.

I've done plenty of digital work, though.

In the last week or so, I got involved with a "sex swap" project initiated by
The premise is pretty simple, just do a self-portrait of yourself as a member of the opposite sex, and then tag your friends.
It's fun and easy (and not weird at all).

Here's a little line-up of the crew so far in opposite-sex form.

by , by me,
by , by ,

I hope that others will join the party, too.
(I'm looking at YOU)

Meanwhile, I've really gotten pretty big into internet memes, and I began incorporating them into my work.

Here are some examples:
*Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/27845214/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/27845214/ Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:11:14 PDT
I've had loads of ups and downs already, but I've generally held up my spirits in the name of "taking the adventure head-on."

But when you take things too head-on too quickly, you end up subjecting yourself to some pretty intense stresses.
That's what happened. My lack of sensitivity to my non-individuation needs had led me to end up with a deficit of sleep, food, and socialization, and my lack of time management skills began to hurt my schoolwork, and left me no time for art. In general, I wound up in one hell of a funk. Neither here nor there.

My family came to visit me this week, and that really helped me get back into the swing of things.
I learned a lot this week about where I can get food and when, about how I can keep track of my health, about how I can spend my time wisely and still get plenty of sleep. I got to hang out with my sister, which was great. In general, I worked this weekend to focus my inner compass just when it started to spin out.

However, now I think I'm getting sick. I've developed a pretty awful cough, probably from spending too much time out in the cold wind and the rain. It's been raining pretty much non-stop since Thursday. We'll see what happens, but by the looks of it, I'm afraid I might end up with the same kind of bad bronchitis/pneumonia that I had last October, and the spring before that. Well, looks like I'll have to fight it out.

All that aside, school is going pretty well for me now. Even though I don't have a single art class (*sob*) I'm enjoying my academics. In my "cultural foundations" class I'm doing a lot of comparative study of art and literature, which includes lots of myths and religion. That's my favorite thing to study, quite frankly. I'm taking a course on South Asian cultures, which is all the ideas behind Hinduism and Buddhism. In that class, we're reading a lot of Hindu texts (which remind me so much of Free Play) and having huge discussions. The teacher rocks, too. My India class is my favorite class, I think. I have a writing class where we have an assignment to watch a foreign film that we've never seen before without any subtitles, and write about what we think is going on. Hilarity will ensue! I'd gladly take suggestions for what movie it should be!!!

In my social foundations class, I'm actually kind of bored. While the teacher is a good guy, and he knows what he's talking about, he has the problem of letting the students talk too much. I used to not believe that there could be such a thing. I usually think there's nothing better than a class discussion where the children generate the knowledge, I.B.-style. But I was wrong. Sometimes, kids can be SO bad at critical thinking, that it's better to just ignore them rather than let them say something really dumb and ruin the discussion for the kids who get it. So, yeah, my social foundations class is slow, but it's also bearable because the work we do is all about PHILOSOPHY (glorious philosophy). So while the students are spewing out a lot of relativist nonsense in class, I can turn to the required readings of Plato and Aristotle for solace.

In other news, Sometime this month, I finished that PSA that the Crosswinds people wanted me to do!
[link] (I just made it available to the public today)
I've also joined this club of kids who are also doing Liberal Studies, but are tracked for film school, like me. We are going to produce some films while we wait.

My family also brought me my art supplies! So I'm going to spend some time painting every week, at least.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/27288225/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/27288225/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:12:48 PDT Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday day, dear human race,
Happy birthday to you!

I was walking down the street outside Weinstein Hall in New York City, and the place seemed eerily calm, quiet and... well, practically empty. I realized that for some reason, nearly half the population was missing. Then I realized that most of the Jewish kids (a huge part of the NYU student body) were missing. I thought to myself, "Hey, it's September, it's a new moon, and Jewish people have somewhere to be? Guess what day it is!"

Tonight is Rosh Hashanah, a holiday commonly known as the Jewish New Year.
But what’s the real deal with this most holi of holydays?

Well, it turns out, Rosh Hashanah (in Jewish thinking) is the anniversary of the sixth day of creation, AKA the day that mankind was made, AKA Adam’s birthday… So happy birthday humanity!

Because of the occasion, Rosh Hashanah is therefore YHWH’s favorite holiday. Do you know why?
“Is it because he loves humans?”
No. Have you read the old testament?

Think about it this way. Before YHWH made Adam, he had nothing going for him. YHWH was just another fish in the sea, another god in the sky. He was a boring, normal, average, every-day, run-of-the-mill celestial super-being. He had nothing to distinguish himself from all the other gods (of which there were many). And he was damn jealous of them.

But once YHWH created humans, he had a claim to fame. He gave himself a promotion that day. Because now YHWH could describe himself as something more concrete than “I will be what I will be (YHWH)” but now he could actually be The Lord of something, The Lord who lords over the chosen people.

So basically, Rosh Hashanah is when YHWH gave himself the authority to say “I am The Lord, your God” when Moses asked. It’s known as God’s coronation day.

But on top of all that, the MOST important thing about Rosh Hashanah is that not only is it human kind’s birthday, but it’s also the day that the human race has its annual “ performance review” with God. The idea is that on Rosh Hashanah, YHWH looks into the hearts of all the humans on Earth and decides whether to write their names into his “Big Book of People Who Are Alive” and if you are a bad person, he crosses you out of the book and you DIE (it’s like Death Note, but in reverse).

Luckily, it’s not so black-and-white. If you are neither good nor evil, but just kind of a bum, you have ten days to get your act together and do something either really good or heinously evil so that YHWH can sort you properly on Yom Kippur.

So yeah, it’s a joyous, monumental, and also very critical holiday. I almost want to be Jewish, so that I can learn a thing or two about the ceremonies.
…Except I could never let myself ignore the many useful gods, myths and ceremonies of the world’s other religions.

So, instead I’ll just send the night off by blowing the ceremonial horn


"Ketiva ve-chatima tovah"

May you be written on the list for a happy new year!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26887675/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26887675/ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:55:44 PDT
Start spreading the news: I’m leaving for college today! I wish to be a part of it (by which I mean New York, NY). My vagabond shoes are longing to stray through the very heart of it — New York City, NY. I look forward to waking up in a city that doesn’t sleep, and who knows? Maybe one day soon I’ll find that I’ve become the “king of the hill,” so to speak, the “top of the heap,” as it were.

My suburban (or “little town” ) blues are melting away right now. I plan to make a brand new start of it (by which I mean my life) in historic NYC. And I am confident for the future because, if I can make it there, the logical conclusion is that I can make it anywhere.

Allow me for a moment to anthropomorphize that city, and address it by saying: “When it comes to giving me the opportunity to succeed, it’s up to you, New York, NY!”

If you didn’t get that joke, I’m going to cry.

...

So I boarded the plane to LaGuardia airport carrying two dead raccoons...
The flight attendant looked at me like I was a freak and said, “sir, have you lost your mind? We only allow one carrion per passenger!”

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Oh BTW, my lion painting won both first premium and GRAND PRIZE at the state fair for 12th grade oil painting.
That makes me feel good.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26674821/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26674821/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:41:10 PDT
I am SO happy.

Also, I dropped off my lion painting at the state fair today.
It would be pretty cool to see it hanging there.
I wonder if it'll win anything?

I'm off to art class now, a late-in-the-day makeup class
(because last Saturday I was recording music with Spencer).
It might be my last one.

Then I'm going to start doing a documentary for the Crosswinds people.
And finish my project for Colleen, damn it!
And watch some movies.
oh... and put opening credits on my horror movie (I forgot )

This has been a good week!

Oh. If you want a DVD copy of my movie, now would be a good time to ask for one!
I envision the DVD as chock full of special features, with an audio commentary and behind the scenes featurette, deleted scenes, storyboards and sketches, and select pages from the script!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26556019/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26556019/ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:44:59 PDT

Monday August 17 from 2:00 to 4:00
at the Perpich Center for Arts Education
in the Performance Hall

They are going to play my Horror movie
Secret Places: A School Divided
on a big screen!
and everyone is invited!!!!

I am really freakin' excited!



The movie will be done tomorrow afternoon.
Months and months of working/not working are about to pay off.
ZOMG

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26491994/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26491994/ Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:14:15 PDT Michael came up to my house and we edited all the kinks out of it, and made everything that I had as perfect as it could be.
Then Mara came over and the three of us recorded an audio commentary.
There are TWO TINY PARTS that still need to be finished, and Mara and I are going to be working on that on Tuesday.
The movie itself will be ABSOLUTELY COMPLETE on Wednesday or Thursday. That's a promise.
After which point I'll be figuring out how to distribute it, and how to organize the extras/behind the scenes stuff onto an amazing DVD.

On top of that, my house has never been so clear of clutter. I'd love to have some more company in the coming weeks while this lasts!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26424820/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26424820/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:02:32 PDT I've got nothing to say, but 'It's okay.'"

I went out to Crosswinds yesterday and I got to see a lot of my old teachers. They've commissioned me to edit a video for them, a documentary about what makes the EMID district special (what doesn't make the EMID district special!?). It's not going to be anything particularly fancy, just a montage of interviews and some illustrative images. All the footage was shot by the Crosswinds Journalism class. It was nice to visit the people. Mr Luepker, my homeroom teacher from 6th grade, had me give a speech to his class to give them perspective about their own future, and the history of Crosswinds. It was a good day.

My only complaint is that I wish everybody would quit telling me that I'm "insanely intelligent."
I went down there and they treated me like a celebrity. That kind of flattery can't be good for my ego.

I'm going out to Perpich [edit] Tomorrow (It was closed when I went out there today ...At least I have time to make a plan now) [edit] so that I can get some extra footage for my film (finally!) and maybe say hi to some folks, if they're around.
It's SO cool that they keep the Arts High School open even during the summer. That's a great resource to have, especially when you haven't a lot to do over the break besides art. If not for Crosswinds, which is year-round, and Perpich, which stays open, I'd be at a loss. Not to mention the fact that both schools really enjoy visits from alumni.
Normal kids don't have such good opportunities.

"Everybody knows there's nothing doing
Everything is closed it's like a ruin
Everyone you see is half asleep
And you're on your own, you're in the street

After a while you start to smile. Now you feel cool
Then you decide to take a walk by the old school.
Nothing has changed, it's still the same.
I've got nothing to say, but it's okay."

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26350145/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26350145/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:29:13 PDT
[link]

"Who's always the one with the sneer on his lip?
Who's always the one fuckin' stealing jewels?
Who killed Michael's parents and burned down his town?
'Twas the work of Alistar!

It's a story of might, it's a story of love, it's a story of mystery!
It's a story of faith, but not a story of god, that will go down in history!
Michael lost his only dream, he wanted to play professional baseball,
But Alistar broke Michael's arm, and he couldn't play anymore!

I'd like to see you try, man
to steal that dia~mond
Just try to steal that Jasper diamond!"

I want to call attention to a great animator/videomaker on youtube. Owen Dennis. Very funny stuff.
He's like the brother of a friend of a girlfriend or something. He is a graduate of MCAD.
His stuff is quite legit.

Make sure to view these clips:

Dumpster Diving: [link]

Stop Motion Facial Expressions: [link]

The Greatest Ape: [link]

...And what some (but not me) would call his magnum opus,

What I Did Today: The MOVIE [link]

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26284067/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26284067/ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:36:11 PDT The thing is absolutely totaled. I thought it survived for a while, but while it temporarily came back to life, it then lapsed into a coma-like state of living death.

Basically, I'm going to have to replace my phone now.
There is a high likelihood that all the data stored on that phone was erased.
This means my pictures, my texts, my recordings, and all that could be gone. (Luckily I backed those up on my computer)

What I'm really of afraid of is, I'm afraid that my contacts disappeared.

If that's the case, then I don't know anybody's phone number anymore. So I'm in deep trouble.
Especially since August is the crucial time period for contacting/getting together with my friends before we all leave for college.

So... Tomorrow I'm going to see if the info can be salvaged,
but if worse comes to worse, if any of you (well, my friends) would care to note me with a reminder of your contact info (phone numbers, email addresses, the like) it would be dearly appreciated.

Knock on wood that I haven't lost any of that info.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26231647/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26231647/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:08:42 PDT I’ll tell you right now that I wasn’t having the procedure done just for shits and giggles, because it’s quite the pain in the butt. And the prep for it was just offal. I had to fast, slow.
One may feel scared shitless before such a procedure... and rightly so, you need to have guts to get a colonoscopy. However, despite the pressure I was very lax about it.
All in all, I survived.
Here’s hoping that I’ve seen the end o’ scopes for now!



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EDIT.
So, I actually learned a lot about my condition today.

Okay.
So I have a form of colitis called Crohn's disease. Essentially, Crohn's disease is where the local immune system of one's intestines goes crazy and begins attacking itself. Colitis is common in South-Indian and Polish/Jewish populations, and the best theory on the condition is that it is set off by a LACK of parasites in modern food. Researchers found that when they introduced antibiotics and clean-food technology to an African nation, the instance of Chrohn's disease skyrocketed. The immune system of the colon becomes bored with no invaders to kill and so it sets off into a civil war. It's like a neighborhood watch group that eventually becomes a militant oppressive force.

But that's not news to me, I've known I had this since I was 9 (exactly half my life). What INTERESTS me is my doctor's new theory on what's up with my colitis (which he stopped calling "crohn's" five years ago, in favor of "indeterminate colitis").

When I was little, I had something called Neutropenia, which is an immune deficiency caused by not having enough white blood cells. When I was first diagnosed, they thought the low white blood cell count was because of the colitis, but that idea has a lot of holes in it.

Today, my doctor suggested that it was the other way around. That because of the lack of white blood cells, my colon seceded from the union and developed Crohn's disease. My analogy is that it's like what would happen if the police went on strike and a neighborhood watch group of vigilantes rose up, only to go mad with power. Or to be duped by an ingenious cat burglar (AKA any REAL disease), like in the Simpsons episode, "Homer the Vigilante."

In 2001, I underwent Remicade treatment (a procedure where they infuse your blood with an artificial antibody) to fix my immune system. Afterwards, I have been very healthy and unable to notice any colitis symptoms.

Still, since the Remicade was not a cure-all solution, some of my immune problems would have remained.
This makes sense in light of the scare I had in 2006 when I learned that I have perpetually swollen lymph nodes in my neck.
And lo! upon the colonoscopy, we observed that while my IBD symptoms subsided by about 90%, there is still evidence of inflammation.
My doctor recommended that I continue taking my medicine (10 caps of Pentsa/5SA — which is essentially time-released aspirin), not because I necessarily need it to save my life, but because it is generally a good thing for all sorts of intestine-related problems and has been shown to prevent cancer and stuff.

Okay, so I'm a nerd about medical stuff, too.
Whatever.

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EDIT

While puns are funny, laughing gas does not lives up to its name.
Allow me to be more terse, FUCK LAUGHING GAS! It feels AWFUL.

So I find myself on the procedure table, right? People are sticking things to me and strapping things to me and telling me things. And they suggest that I have laughing gas so that I wouldn't feel the big scary I.V. (news flash: It's not like I haven't been stuck by a needle before, or a thousand). So I'm like, "what the heck, if they think it's that big of a deal, let them go ahead." They put the gas on me, and I thought, "hey this is kind of nice" and the nurses started asking me a lot of questions about my art and pretending to laugh so that I could go all loopy and happy.
Then I lost pretty much all the feeling in my body, so I thought, "cool, the gas is working."

But then I started feeling uncomfortably hot. It became hard to breath or think and I felt kind of sick. Essentially, it's that same feeling you have when you're about to faint, but without the relief of fainting.
And by that point, I was laughing from the chemicals, but not in a "ha-ha" or "that's nice" way; more like the kind of laughter you get when you bump your humerus on the corner of a table (exactly like that, actually), or when somebody is relentlessly tickling you but you want them to stop, or when you're in such a painfully/dangerously awkward situation... ]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26072436/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/26072436/ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:21:50 PDT

I am now an official submitting member of the deviantART film community!





My videos are coming up on this site so fast.

OH, BY THE WAY, I NOW HAVE AN INVITATION THAT I CAN EXTEND TO INVITE ONE OF YOU TO BECOME A FILM-SUBMITTING TYPE, TOO!

WHO WANTS IT?

(fight amongst yourselves like hungry beasts, my children)

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25763482/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25763482/ Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:20:52 PDT Auguries of Innocence,
by William Blake:

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

A Robin Red-breast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
...
...

It is right it should be so:
Man was made for Joy & Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro' the World we safely go.

If the Sun & Moon should doubt
They'd immediately Go out.
A Riddle or the Cricket's Cry
Is to Doubt a fit Reply.

Every Night & every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn & every Night
Some are Born to sweet Delight.
Some are Born to sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night.

God Appears & God is Light
To those poor Souls who dwell in the Night,
But does a Human Form Display
To those who Dwell in Realms of day."

-


Yes indeed.

I saw many of the things I like to think about in this poem

In Blake's philosophizing about all of nature being within the tiniest part of nature, I saw some elements of the hermetic maxim that says, "That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing" and also the one that goes, "While All are in The All, it is equally true that The All is in All."

Basically, It's my idea of, "The little circle and the big circle." "The inside matching the outside." I like that.

I saw some talk of reconciling opposites and making them one (as in, "joy and woe"); And how the dualities of life are actually two sides of the same coin. That's conjunction. Harmony, balance and love. I like that.

There's some stuff in there about not doubting yourself, acting out of Human impulse (which, if you're a good person, results in good things). I like that, too.

I saw some talk about how the notion of a personal God is limited/unenlightened. I also like that.

It's all good stuff.

Blake was into mysticism, he invented his own mythology (invented myths are called mythopoeia, I learned recently). He was a poet and painter and he was considered prophetic. He was a great man.

There's all that philosophical, abstract intellectual rigmarole...

Then there's the quote, "A robin redbreast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage"
I love that line.

Now, technically speaking, it just means that disrespecting a small creature means disrespecting the universe... sure.

But also, right now I feel like a robin in a cage.

...

That's loneliness.

...

Now, I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining... but HECK, I'm a Crosswinds kid, for crying out loud. That means that ever since I was eleven years old, I have only once spent any longer than a month away from school/some other activity with friends.

And ever since my early high school years, even that one month period was always waaaay too long to go without substantial personal contact. At Perpich, I could get cabin fever from a single evening alone in my dormroom. I am not not not not not not not an introverted person.

So yeah... "normal school" 3-month summer breaks = hard.
"Normal school" 3-month summer breaks with the knowledge that I'm not going back to PCAE afterward = harder.

It doesn't help that my house is essentially a dark cave, where four incredibly neurotic people (myself included) go to hide from their woes and responsibilities. Hardly any life ever enters or exits my dwelling. And if it did, its only place to go would be the sprawling, sick suburbs that require everybody to drive ten minutes to get to any destination... and when they get there it usually isn't any good.

I'd kill (well, not really "kill," but definitely incite anarchy and rebellion) for a good coffee place/music store/book shop that isn't a Starbucks, or located inside a Mall, or both. Someplace where I could meet with friends and chill out (or better, do great works for the good of humanity!)...

And my friends shouldn't have to drive several miles just to meet me/vice-versa. Whatever happened to places one could walk to?


*sigh*

I'm going to be happy in New York. *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25725973/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25725973/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:27:06 PDT


spectacularly.

After formulating a plan on how to complete the final draft of my project... (draw it and scan it to photoshop for touch-ups)
then scrapping that plan and making a new plan... (do the whole thing in real life and photocopy it into book form)
then going to the bookstore and getting a book by Joseph Campbell...
then coming home and formulating a third plan... (Draw it in Pencil, then ink it)

then going crazy...

then abandoning all my plans and trying to draw my comic a fourth way... (on the computer)

I look up from my work and my worrying at 1 am and I find that I've finished two panels.

Two panels.

TWO.

PANELS.



FUCK.

my life.

TOmorrow morning I am saying, "fuck it" and just doing the whole thing in pen.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25704036/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25704036/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:50:56 PDT
Okay, not really. It's fucking great... but hear some of this.

Think about the kind of person I must be to have both written and drawn these things:

"Thomas swiftly and remorselessly unscrews the baby’s head, removing it. The baby’s eyes go from yellow to black."

"Thomas stands in a room with three autopsy tables, one with a Rabbi on it, one with a Tibetan monk on it, and the third has the pope on it. Their chests are cut open and their organs are exposed"

"Dialogue: When I improvise, my Lab becomes a veritable hive of activity."
"panel 1: Thomas runs around his laboratory, flailing his arms, smiling and saying, 'wheee.'"
"panel 2: Thomas is in the exact same flailing pose as before, but this time, he is frowning. There is a swarm of bees chasing him."

"Thomas is grinning maniacally."
"POV. shot from Thomas' perspective, as the little blue engine filled with candy carrying the barrel of monkeys crashes into the subway from gotham city and both explode in a firey wreck. the signs on the trains ('childhood' and 'send help' ) get crushed together to form the words, 'childhood'S END'"

"thomas pushes the plunger, detonating the six-way crossing railway track"

"thomas places the orb into a huge machine"

"Thomas(dialogue): 'Go, my children! Implant my ideas into the brains of every man, woman, and child on earth! None are safe!"

Yeah... I probably had the most fun today since Easter. When I came up with the comic book with the infamous line,
"Announcer: Oh, peepy-peepy delicious ducks, pleasure me the American(tm) way!"

LMFAOWRAOTFDOLMF!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25689344/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25689344/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:01:15 PDT
I was out before 1 AM, and I woke up from another musical dream, singing, at 6:30-7 o'clock.

I am now officially a diurnal creature.

This gives me time to work on/start/completely improvise in under 24 hours my piece for Colleen's big research project.

Let's fuckin' go!



]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25529127/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25529127/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:49:06 PDT Mara and I finished watching the first season of Pushing Daisies. As gifts I got some good films and some good books, a collection of old horror comics, especially.

For my birthday, I got the gift of legal rights from the govt. And also, draft registration (woo fucking hoo). I've often marveled at the silliness of ascribing all people equal legal rights at the arbitrary age of 18, when many people mature either earlier or later than that. Why is a common 18-year old more capable of signing away his life than a bright (or stupid) 17-year-old? Why do I get the right to vote at the same time as some of my peers, who may remain apolitical (or worse, generally ignorant) for decades to come?

The gift that I got from our culture that day was really induction into the great stupid constructed machine that is society built to venerate things that don't matter and worship false idols. (I watched Fight Club on Saturday)

But what I also got was Transformers
Now, I don't mean the toys
(well, actually I did get one or two... or three, but)
I mean the summer blockbuster movie-going experience!

At midnight that night, we went and saw the first showing of Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen on a 2400 square-foot screen.

--- (my thoughts on transformers 2... WARNING! may turn into a rant)

Set two years after the events of the first film, Sam Witwicky (Shia Lebouf) is about to go to college, when... suddenly crazy shit happens with giant robots again!

My reaction to the film can best be summed up by a quote I found on line.

"That movie was absolutely retarded...
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AND I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT!"

Truly, Revenge of the fallen is a really dumb, ridiculous, and ludicrously EPIC and AWESOME film.
There's something about giant robots fighting... cars zooming around... giant robot space mummies coming to blow up the sun (oops, a spoiler there)... girls acting sexy for no reason... and things exploding... that all makes the logical center of the brain turn off and the 'cool' center of it turn on.

And, actually. I thought RoTF was leaps and bounds better than the first Transformers movie. The over-the-top storyline suited the subject matter better and there was a whole lot of character interaction on behalf of the robots (as opposed to ZILCH like we had in the first one).

The events that took place (fights, choreography) were legitimately really cool, and even the most stretched parts of the plot make some sense (if you rationalize it for long enough).

My major problem with the RoTF is the lack of good storytelling techniques: The abrupt ending, the parts that seem very funky and non-transformers-y (a few certain non-transforming Decepticons that seem stolen from other movie series), the characters that were put in there only for cheap laughs and raunchy jokes (you'll know them when you see them) and the way it sort of clung to a sort of brutal, "realistic" filmmaking style that didn't fit with what was happening and what people were saying. I just thought that it wasn't a very well-directed film (the budget was huge, and the craft was spectacular, but the actual ideas... meh).

but Michael Bay doesn't make films... he makes BaySplosions.

It's a well-known fact.
Just ask him.

I would love nothing better than to direct my own transformers film sometime in the future (that's what film school is good for). AT least I would like to see a reboot in about ten years (like they did with batman and the hulk) that is better artistically speaking. I would like to see Transformers become stylistically more "comic-book like," with some more melodrama, less frenetic action, but also more real storytelling. When I think of good films that stayed connected to an over-the-top and cartoonish origin, I think of Sam Raimi (who made the EVIL DEAD films) and his take on Spider-Man; I also think of Iron Man.

I see Transformers being a good cross between Men in Black, the Iron Giant, and Spider-Man... with maybe some Godzilla thrown in there for good measure.

What Bay's produced for us is a by-the-numbers mish-mash of the blockbuster genre. Created to make profit, but not lasting thoughts or impressions.
Stylistically, bay's franchise is a combination of Terminator, Armageddon, Aliens, some Indiana Jones, and Stargate (for number 2). All mixed together with the cheap teen humor of old drive-in flicks, like "my mother the car" and raunchy college humor comedies like "American Pie"... ]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25169341/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/25169341/ Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:27:00 PDT
Now I've graduated.

Our ceremony was the bomb. Cristaugh is the best speaker I've ever heard.

This last week I've had to come to terms with leaving the PCAE, I didn't know whether or not I was ready.

However, the more I thought about what Perpich is and what its purpose is, the more I realized that the school accomplished its mission. My work there is done. I am ready to go.

allow me to elaborate

ATTENTION! *LONG* THOMAS-STYLE ELABORATION/EPIPHANY/RANT/LECTURE AHEAD, PROCEED IF YOU LIKE TO READ THAT KIND OF THING!

I realized that Perpich isn't really about art. It isn't an art factory, it isn't an art academy, and it isn't a great big studio designed to give students the chance to accomplish all of their dream projects in two short years.

Perpich is designed to cultivate creative thinkers. Going to Perpich makes the young artists who go there more articulate, more intelligent, and it gives them the determination and the power to get their dream projects done, wherever they go.
Most importantly, it helps the students actualize themselves and become balanced individuals.

Perpich students undertake a metamorphosis at the arts high school. At least in Vis, anyway.

At the beginning of Junior year, kids may cling to something that doesn't matter. This may be a social group, an attitude, an art "style," a specific friend. They may become reclusive, or they may become obnoxious. By the end of Junior year, however, the student has learned to stop fixating and to move on. They have been broken out of their shells.

Another phase that students will go through is one in which they begin to think of "art" as a "high" concept. They begin to take art very seriously, and this is a bad thing! If a student thinks art is a grave, super-serious endeavor, they will have trouble creating things. either because they don't feel confident, or because they will have turned into a grave, super-serious person.

In the first semester of senior year, the classes you take teach you from many angles that art and creativity are products of play. They are fun. In order to create, you need to be silly. That doesn't mean that art is frivolous. But art can be sincere, deep, and important without being "serious." If you deny yourself silliness and playfulness "because it will damage the integrity of your art" then you are foolishly putting a stopper on your own artistic mind. By the time second semester of senior year rolls around, the student has learned this truth.

During their time at Perpich, the students are also constantly learning to think more and more symbolically and philosophically. They explore themselves psychologically, and they explore the world through research. They think about culture and society. They learn to analyze, they learn their impact on the physical and metaphysical environment, they learn their role as leaders, and they learn to articulate their increasingly complex ideas in increasingly effective ways. This process begins at the very beginning with the first summer assignment; it is greatly advanced by the second summer assignment; it continues through the entire two years due to academic classes that encourage students to challenge the status quo ("because the status is NOT quo").

Also, students are having to push themselves more and more to get to do the projects they want. I've often heard students (myself included) complaining that they need to fight the system a little bit to get certain opportunities. Sometimes students feel trapped and confined by limited options. When you are experiencing this in the moment, it is the most infuriating feeling in the world... But eventually, you learn to deal with it, you learn how to be assertive but polite and you learn how to get what you need, even if you have to bend the established rules.

By the last quarter, most of the students have internalized all the knowledge they need, and now they just need to prove themselves. They have broken out of their old habits, they have learned to have fun with their art, they have learned to think deeply and express their ideas clearly, and they have learned to fight (even against their own limitations) in order to realize their dreams. At this point a good percentage of the students are ready to go self-directed and accomplish one of their dream projects. The grant class is the class for those students. Whether this involves coordinating lots of collaboration, gathering lots of materials, buckling down and organizing a time table, or learning a new system unguided... These special students work and succeed on their own in a way they could only imagine at the beginning of junior year. And the ability to do such a project is the bread and butter of the artist.

In the end,... ]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/24468558/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/24468558/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:00:32 PDT
Now I am working on writing, storyboarding, and organizing a cast list for the big interdisciplinary horror film extravaganza that I am making for the grant class (oh, BTW, I got my grant!).

It looks like one's work never ends. *sigh*

I don't mind too much, I like having something to animate me every day, and I like working and collaborating with my friends.

Anyway...

I put my final project for stop-motion animation class up on both YouTube and Vimeo (I have an account there now).

You can watch it here: [link]

The retrospective gallery, of course, is still up. It's an overview of all the art I've ever done while attending PCAE, even some things not seen here on dA.

I'm off to script and storyboard some things, I'm going to start shooting first week of May, so I'm in a little bit of a rush.

WISH ME LUCK ON MY FILM!

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On Wednesday I woke up with a frog in my throat, and I learned that amphibians make very unpleasant tenants.

I sure picked a bad time to be under the weather, since eight inches of snow can amount to a lot of baggage.

I would say that I'm as sick as a dog, but I'm afraid that that comparison would be tantamount to animal cruelty.

I'm out-of-commission with bronchitis — again.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/23347769/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/23347769/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:28:24 PST
I had the honor of receiving two silver key awards for my visual art.
The first for a "graphic story," the other for my portfolio.

Two of my pieces, Jimmy el robot y los juguetes maravillosos and Why So Curious? can be seen hanging in the Minnesota College of Art and Design.

You can see them here, too!

The "Graphic Story," a Spanish children's book:


The piece I chose to represent my portfolio:


]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/22624003/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/22624003/ Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:22:12 PST
I'm proud to announce that both of my entries won silver key in the scholastic art awards!
whatever that means.
now that I've given the pieces (Jimmy the Robot and Why so Curious) to Karen, who is sending them off to the scholastic people, I'm a little confused about what is supposed to happen next.

My classes next semester are Children's Literature, Environmental Science, Forensics, and AP Art History. Right now I'm in the WInterim class, Arts Improv.

Expect new and interesting things. ]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/22314986/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/22314986/ Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:32:56 PST
On the way back home, we got into an accident, the car flipped over twice. I had blood in my ear, and gaps in my memory. Car severely damaged.

No concussion. I returned to normal eventually; Returned home this evening.
I'm still optimistic. The future looks good.

Happy New Year.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/22113683/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/22113683/ Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:35:45 PST
I hardly know where to begin.

First of all, I'm on Christmas break now! This means I can finally have some time to relax, eat peppermint bark, watch T.V., and spend time doing art for myself.

In the meantime, I'm going to be working on a great big Christmas project involving an old-school, gritty Santa Claus, a corporate bastard named Martin Luthor, and a little long-lost Christmas character known as Knecht Ruprecht (or rather, the Krampus)

I've finally earned some peace and quiet by completing a HUGE documentary project for Urban Geography class, and I will upload it to YouTube soon! Believe me, it's worth a watch, or several.

When it comes to art class at Perpich, things are going well. I have entered art to the Scholastic Art Awards, so wish me luck! My pieces include a portfolio as well as excerpts from "Jimmy el robot y los juguetes maravillosos"



I'm also preparing to take part in the big ol' Vis grant project.

On top of that, thanks to , I am now a subscriber to DeviantART!
You see, a while back I entered a contest she was putting out for original characters, and I won first prize thanks to my old friend Skeleton Boy!

I'm still getting the hang of all the new features I get from the subscription. If anyone is aware of anything awesome I can do, I'd love to hear suggestions!


Now, last but not least, I think the most IMPORTANT thing to happen to me is this:
...
...
I was accepted into the Liberal Arts program at New York University!


While there I will take a bunch of fun academic classes until the summer of 2009, when, assuming I have a B average, I will be transferred to the Tisch School of Arts for Film and Animation!

All in all, with these events fresh in my memory, the Christmas season coming, and the outlook for next year looking good (*knock on wood*), I think fate has given me a really wonderful holiday gift!

What a week it has been! ]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/21330008/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/21330008/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:52:45 PST
Tonight on novemeber 4th, 2008, the American people elected a new president.

I, However, am not interested in presidents. In fact...

I, THOMAS BOGUSZEWSKI, OFFICIALLY DECLARE MYSELF KING OF AMERICA.

That's right, King.

As king, I will take the time to solve the world's problems in a way that elected officials cannot do: The right way.

I will not let things like voter approval ratings and party expectations hold me down. Instead, I will be a philosopher and a logician, I will figure out what needs to be done instead of just doing what people want.

Using the mind, one can figure out the answer to any problem in the world!

However, no man can rule alone. Therefore, I am open to any questions or comments that my people may have. Is there an issue that vexes you? Then bring it forward! Together, we can deduce the answer!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/21250658/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/21250658/ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:32:36 PDT
and it is going to be great!


On this most amazing of holidays, people everywhere dress up in costumes and pretend to be the spirits of the dead. Some children go door to door to collect candy. Ghosts, skeletons, and witches crop up in yards.

However, today many people have lost touch with what Halloween is really about. How can people observe a holiday if they don't know what it means? Where do the traditions of Halloween even come from?

Let me tell you folks a little about THE HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN.

Halloween began in Ireland, where the ancient Celts held a harvest festival called Samhain (pronounced saw-win). As the sun went down for the winter, the Celts would become occupied with some pretty dark, macabre thoughts. The Celts believed that November first was the one day out of the year where the "Otherworld" (the celtic spirit world) was closest to the real world. The Celts believed that spirits and humans often cross into each others' worlds accidentally, and so on Samhain, this phenomenon was very likely. Samhain was a day for remembering the dead and encountering spirits from the Otherworld. The Celts would build huge bonfires to let spirits into the human world, and they would drive their livestock in between two fires in order to symbolically cleanse them of bad spirits.

When Christians took over the world, they felt that the "dirty pagan" Celts needed to be converted. However, the Celts did not want to give up their holidays. Therefore, the Catholics created "all hallows day" or "hallowmas" to replace the ceremony.

Despite the Catholic's attempts to christianize Samhain, the Gaelic population continued to observe their traditions under a new "Christian" label. All hallows day was for going to church, all hallows eve was for remembering Samhain.

Since the old days, there have been a few new traditions added to Halloween. Most notably trick-or-treating and jack-o-lanterns.

Celebrations of Halloween traveled with the Gaelic people all over the British isles. In the middle ages, beggars in need of charity wandered from door to door, offering to say a prayer for the dead in exchange for food. this tradition was called "souling." Eventually the practice of souling evolved into "guising." Guising was like souling, except instead of a prayer for the dead, any performance or party trick would do. Also, guising involves wearing a costume. The concept of "trick-or-treating" (threatening to pull a prank on a homeowner if no treat is received) is a uniquely American idea. In Ireland, Scotland, England, and some parts of the United states, children are expected to recite a joke, poem, or other performance piece before getting any candy (in a sense, it's more like trick-FOR-treating).

Jack-o-Lanterns are simple lanterns made from carved vegetables. Jack-o-lanterns were not invented to be used for Halloween. In fact, the practice of making lanterns from turnips or gourds used to be a common one. Jack-o-Lanterns first appeared in connection to ghost stories in the United States, but not specifically to Halloween. Even though Jack-o-Lanterns were not created especially for Halloween, they became popular for the holiday because they provided light on dark nights and reminded people of ghost lights such as the will-o'-the-wisp.

When people dress in costumes nowadays, they often don't think about the traditions behind Halloween. I want to make this very clear:

HALLOWEEN IS NOT JUST A GIANT COSTUME PARTY, IT IS A DAY FOR THE SOULS OF THE DEAD AND OTHERWORLDLY SPIRITS.

If you want to go Trick-or-Treating, make sure that the costume you choose is something that could potentially come from the spirit world. This could be a ghost, a vampire, a witch, or even something unique of your own design, as long as it fits the tone of the holiday.

John McCain, despite the resemblance, is not a creature from beyond the grave. Bart Simpson, despite his impish attitude, does not constitute a Halloween spirit.

Now, don't think I'm trying to shoot down your fun. I have come to the personal conclusion that the "spirit world" is essentially the unconscious mind, like a person's dreamland or the world of imagination. Therefore, as long as you can come up with a costume that is surreal, symbolic and dark, it is fitting for the season.

Even if you don't celebrate Halloween, keep in mind that every culture has it's own equivalent. So use the autumn months to reflect on life and death. As the sun dies for the winter, so too must everything die. However, just like the sun, which returns again in the spring, a person can return to our world in symbolic form. As an idea, a mem... ]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/20696124/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/20696124/ Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:25:08 PDT best... job... ever!

Show your support for me and the many other friends you may have working there and come on down to the park at least once this fall!

Make sure that it's a Friday or a Saturday because those are the only days that you can see the fantastic "Hellside Farm" (where I work).
Wander among the cornstalks on this mysterious abandoned farm... only to find that not all souls have left for good, and these farmers don't care for outsiders 'bout their property!

The other attractions are awesome, too.

CarnEVIL is a demented fun-house filled with murderous clowns... in 3D! (I think....)

Chateau du Damné is a parlor filled with class, sophistication, and romance... not to mention the vampires and werewolves!

"Werewolves?"
"There! There wolves; and there, castle!"



The BloodShed is a gruesome slaughterhouse filled with bloody, disgusting (and I mean bloody disgusting!)and AWESOME corpses. Whoever runs that place loves their meat: Beef, pork, and human. Check it out if you like brutal things.

Carnage at Crimson Isle is like a pirate adventure on land. Do you have what it takes to survive a pirate onslaught? Be careful not to get seasick, matey. AVAST!

Blood Creek Cemetery is a quiet pathway in the middle of the park, with nothing out-of-the-ordinary except a few tombstones. That is... until sunset! At dusk the cemetery fills with fog and an army of random, strange and twisted characters emerge. Halloween is a night when the dead return and other otherworldly spirits appear as well! What amazing and frightening beings will you encounter on your walk through the cemetery? Only a trip to valleySCARE will tell!

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This weekend, I'm going from one park filled with extravagant costumed entertainers to another! After working at valleyscare on Friday, I'm visiting the renaissance fair on Saturday with my girlfriend. I forgot just how much I love to dress up and act silly, it reminds me of my childhood.

Speaking of childhood, at Perpich I am taking the advanced drawing class. This week, we worked to create drawings in the same way that babies scribble, we were "drawing blind" learning to master our medium through touch, rather than sight. We were supposed to steer clear of symbols and draw only by feel.

The problem is, I was drawing animals before I was four, so I've got to think waaaay back in order to find a moment when I wasn't concerned with the visual part of visual art!

what a week!

...I'm tired

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/20586417/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/20586417/ Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:07:42 PDT
I just want to take the time to make it very explicit:

I am THOMAS HUGHES BOGUSZEWSKI

and I wouldn't have it any other way.

If I had the chance to become somebody else and leave my identity behind I would NEVER take it, because I am who I am!

I am not perfect, and some people may not like me.
But I choose to see the merit in myself and others before I see the flaws.

Some people may be thinking:

"but OMG skeleton wut about teh STaLkerz!?!"

To this I respond, "would you worry about stalkers when you go to the park?"

If you worry about the internet, you should! Because the internet is just another public space.

When I go into public spaces, I EXPECT to have contact with other people, and I would gladly introduce myself to whoever sought me out. When somebody comes here to my page and looks at my art, they are seeking me out! I should be courteous enough to tell them my name.

A person's name on its own is NOT enough information to allow somebody to track them down and rape them. If a person puts in the effort to figure out my home phone number or my address using only my name, they would be able to find me by some other means anyway.

And even if someone could figure out my location, is that always dangerous? Should I worry about every individual in my neighborhood who knows where I live? No.

I am secure in knowing that on the off chance that one of the people who knows me tries to hurt me, I can turn to the other people in my network of acquaintances for help (not to mention the police).

If I were all alone and nobody knew me, that's when I'd be a sitting duck for criminals. It's usually the little old ladies who never leave the house or tourists who go to far-off cities alone who get their money or identities stolen. This is because they have nobody to vouch for them.

If I were anonymous on the internet, there would be no proof that Thomas Boguszewski ever made any art!

Maybe these people are afraid of being "famous," maybe they're afraid of being "known" to too many people.

Well, you know what? This is an ART website, where artists PUBLISH their work and try to get other people to see it.

Art is a form of communication from the artist (me) to the viewer (you). This communication is meant to be seen and heard by all. If you don't know who I am, the communication loses all meaning.

Plus, the root of the word "PUBLISH" is "PUBLIC." If you don't want to jump into the public eye and be yourself while doing it, then DON'T PUBLISH YOUR WORK!

No person can live vicariously through their screen name. Everybody who looks at my page should know that it's not "Skeleton Boy" who is doing the art, It is Thomas Boguszewski.

I am Skeleton Boy's creator. I chose to use the character as a screen-name because the Skeleton Boy Saves His Skin project exemplifies the kind of work I love to do: Dark, witty, lyrical, original, somewhat satirical and heavy with cultural influences.

I didn't make Skeleton Boy Saves His Skin with the purpose of living my life through the character. I made it to tell a story. Skeleton Boy isn't my inner self, he's just a perfect example of what lives in my inner world.

Anyway,

A person should live without fear or shame
I'm proud of myself and proud of my name

I'm sorry for the rant, everybody.

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But it doesn't really make a difference! I DO get to work at ValleyScare this fall!
For a while I was whining about the part they gave me, but then I realized that whatever I do there, I'm going to have fun! So I've come up with some grand ideas to make it more fun.

Speaking of grand ideas, I wrote an ambitious treatment for a graphic novel over the summer, and now I'm putting my work into the gallery show at Perpich. So far I have about 20 pages worth of rough draft comics and a 33-page long story treatment.

The subject of our show is "gold." Sweet, beautiful gold. Yee-haw.

That's pretty much it for this week.

BUT REMEMBER, KIDS:

Halloween just around the corner (46 days to go and counting!) Start thinking about what your costumes are going to be. I know I have!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/20380538/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/20380538/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:17:08 PDT
My presentation went well last week, better than I expected it to. Now I can quit worrying and get back to drawing and homeworking and singing and dancing and stuff.

I've been doing some research into Salvador Dalí and his "paranoiac-critical method" of art. Plus, I've been thoroughly enjoying "Analysis and Criticism" class.

OH HEY! I've got some news! Tomorrow the Coen Brothers (directors of No Country for Old Men, O Brother Where Art Thou? ) are going to shoot a movie right outside my house! Something called A Serious Man. It's set in the '60s, so they chose my neighborhood because a lot of the houses were built in the 1960s.

On another note, Halloween is coming up, so I have to start designing a costume. I mean, it's already September!

I think I'm going to try to get a job at Valleyfair's "ValleySCARE" this Fall. I frequently find myself asking the question: "How cool would it be if it were Halloween every day?"

Hopefully I'll get a chance to find out!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/20189322/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/20189322/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:47:47 PDT
I'm actually really nervous.

First of all, I'm a little concerned about getting to know all the new juniors.
I mean, there are still lots of people in my grade that I don't know yet. I can only imagine how hard it will be learning a whole new generation of kids on top of that!

Then, one of my summer projects didn't go as planned, so I need to monopolize my time before next Wednesday in order to get it up to snuff.

Plus, I don't want to fall back into my bad habits. Procrastinating, sleeping in, etc. I have a lot of important classes now and I'm trying to get good grades for colleges.

But my biggest problem is, after spending three months alone (without a job or anything), whatever social skills I had are probably long gone (and I never really had any to begin with).

So here's my situation: I have no clue about how to deal with people, I'm surrounded by new people, I don't have the artwork to represent me, and I can't rely on my old habits to help me, because they screwed me up last year.

Man, what a week!

...

Still, I'm sure things will clear up as the year becomes more regular. There's always some "first week of school" issues. Nothing I can't handle with some help from my friends.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/19807405/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/19807405/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:21:35 PDT
I'm going back to my favorite city in the world, New York City!
We're going to look at some colleges, just like all the other trips. However, New York is special, in my opinion. When I go there, it's just got this "vibe".

Plus, I'm bringing a certain special somebody along with me!

---

Also, this trip is going to be an important one for my art. Not only do I feel greatly inspired in the city, but NYC itself is at the heart of one of my projects.

During the summer, I've been grappling with a very conceptually difficult project for Perpich. Fortunately, my grappling days are numbered! I've very recently created an outline for the artwork and I'm fast-tracking it into production.

Not to spill the beans, but this project revolves around the central theme of "travel" and finding oneself through travel. It deals with not just one culture, but world cultures.

I'm stoked, this is all going to be great!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/19294035/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/19294035/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:29:03 PDT
First, I visited USC and CalArts colleges in California. Then, as soon as I get back home, our family heads out to Illinois to attend a wedding!
I checked out Columbia college in Chicago and then Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design on the drive back up here.

What a heavy couple of weeks!

Now it's time for me to get back to all the projects I was working on. In particular, it's time that I finish the storyboard for the music video I'm planning with "GERALD" and finally get to the filming!

I've also got to do a self-portrait based upon a culture for school. But what will it be? Not to mention my other projects.

It sure looks like I've got a busy summer coming !

Still, I don't think I'm stressing myself. They say "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." But my "play" is working hard on art and making animations ([link]), so I'm actually quite happy.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/19011329/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/19011329/ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:59:28 PDT
HOORAY!

I got a book, the Animators Survival Kit by Richard Williams, and I'm going to want to study it extensively.

However, it's going to have to wait, because I'm going out of town for a few days! that's right, I'm going to be visiting USC cinema, Columbia, & CALARTS colleges this week. Wish me luck, everyone!

Don't worry, loyal fans (yeah, as if I have fans ). I may be away for now, But I've left you two beautiful new deviations for your viewing pleasure, one of which being (drumroll please)...

MY VERY FIRST DEVIANTID!

HOORAY!

so, once again, please wish me good luck on my epic journey; and I may very well bring back incredible spoils of knowledge (useless trivia) from my quest abroad.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/18715682/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/18715682/ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:27:57 PDT
now, for those of you out there who like seeing my work, don't think that I'm going to stop posting just because I don't have anymore schoolwork to put up! oh, no! this summer is going to be a big one for me, in my free time I plan on making a music video, an animation, another Jimmy the Robot book (if I can handle the Spanish without instruction!).

Also, I will be working on new 2 self portraits for the beginning of the 2008-2009 schoolyear!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/18486880/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/18486880/ Sat, 24 May 2008 22:52:07 PDT
well, I didn't get in to that 20 under 20 show. No major disappointment there, but the Walker Art Center just doesn't know what they're missing.

My art history project was a success! I made a giant storyboard about the history of storyboards, and everybody seemed to be impressed. the project can be seen in animatic form (a moving storyboard!) on youtube here: [link]

Now I'm working on tabling the results of a massive field study I did for Sociology class. I asked everybody at my school 20 questions, and so that's 300 times 20... 6000 data inputs!
I have 22 students finished so far, which means about 440 inputs... which means that I am one thirteenth of the way there!

I'm toying with the idea of making a Jimmy el Robot 2 (I have some sketches), and maybe a comic book or two, but all that stuff can wait 'till the summer!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/18366485/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/18366485/ Sat, 17 May 2008 12:00:46 PDT ) I'm working on some BIG projects that will make or break my year.

I'm doing an Art History project on the history of storyboarding, and I'm creating it in the form of one GIANT storyboard, utilizing the different kinds of storyboarding used throughout history to tell the story of how we developed the different kinds of storyboarding used throughout history. I've still got to write a creative choice essay and all that jazz.

I'm working on analyzing a field study I conducted for my sociology class and I need to figure out how to use Microsoft Excel. We're also beginning GIGANTIC class project on affirmative action that I have to do a reading for.

I've got some writings that for an independent study project, and some poetry, too.

and pre-calc... don't get me started!

when it's all over I think I'm going to take it easy for a little bit and get caught up on all the shows I've been missing. But immediately after that I want to get back to work! Because after finales come premiers (both in t.v. and in life) and I think I want to unveil some new projects. Maybe do a big 2007-2008 "sketch dump" as they call them. This summer I want to work on a movie with my friends and do some real portfolio building, I should try to do some animation as well.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/18147627/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/18147627/ Sat, 03 May 2008 11:14:45 PDT In particular the 6-color woodblock print based off of a song my friend wrote, and an ambiguous (optical illusion) dry-point etching with a face that is actually a family.

I've been trying to think about how my summer is going to go, how I'm ever going to get a handle on school. It's going to be difficult.
Meanwhile, it's free comic book day!

Oh, and before I forget, I have some BIG news:

A couple weeks ago I entered my artwork into a show called "20 under 20" at the Walker, and yesterday they Emailed me saying that my inner self portrait, Maskus Dottore, was accepted!

...but in the email they spelled the title wrong

We've got a junior show coming up at Perpich soon. In some ways I'm looking forward to it, in others I'm not, but that's life. Qué será será.

I wish there was a way to get my Walt Whitman song out to the public.

This week I learned the importance of taking the good with the bad.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/17946152/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/17946152/ Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:46:22 PDT
On Friday (Viernes) I scanned a bunch of the projects I did last semester in Spanish III.
I did a paper cutout of Skeleton Boy, a collage on a paper bag, and most importantly I wrote and illustrated the storybook, Jimmy el Robot y los Juguetes Maravillosos (Jimmy the Robot and the Marvelous Toys).

Jimmy is the story of a little robot boy who lives with his mother. One day, they go to the store and he discovers an aisle full of really amazing toys. However, Jimmy only wants the biggest and most expensive toys, and he doesn't ask for them at all politely, and so his mother gets angry and takes him home in a huff. When he is at his home, a pouty Jimmy refuses to use his imagination, but soon he learns what the power of imagination can TRULY do!

The book has some silly Spanish puns, and is fully illustrated. Check out my gallery to see these awesome Spanish projects!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/17590064/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/17590064/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:06:31 PDT
I spent the last week getting back in touch with my Crosswinds friends, talking about our memories and watching some of the movies I made recently.

Check the videos out on YouTube!: [link]

There's a director's-cut of my plague/sesame-street project (with less static scenery and more songs). [link] [link]
There's a fantastic amateur horror film that we filmed in two days, and I spent two years editing. [link]
there's a thoughtful music video/documentary I made using vacation footage from a family trip to Japan, set to "if I were a rich man" from Fiddler on the Roof. [link]
and many more!

Mara had her birthday party yesterday, even though her real birthday isn't until April. I came up with a really good idea for a present, but it should stay a surprise.

I had a good break for the most part. However, the scary part about this break is that I don't think I got any work done for school!
True, I did a lot of important things, like burning DVDs and building a portfolio, and finding out what my friends have been up to, and writing about psychology and philosophy in my spare time, not to mention exploring my soul and finding inner peace... But HECK I should have been doing homework!

My teachers will eat my soul.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/17243469/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/17243469/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:38:12 PST
I love these games.

anyhow. I've been tagged by


RULES:

1. Post these rules!
2. each person tagged must write 8 random facts about themselves...
3. and post them in their journal!
4. Each person who is tagged must tag, in turn, 8 more people.
5. They should be notified via comment and mentioned in the journal.

Facts:

1. I am devoted to bringing back the wonderful show that was "the 4400." It was unceremoniously canceled just before Christmas and we will not settle for it! [link] petition-->[link]

2. I am working on developing an eye-opening philosophical essay about the nature of the human psyche, the symbols and ideas we create, spiritualism, and how it is all connected.

3. I spent three years of my life utterly obsessed with H.G. Wells' "the War of the Worlds."

4. The two artistic passions I have are visual art and filmmaking, I go to the MN arts high school for visual arts and I hope to get into USC for film and animation.

5. I'm in a relationship with an awesome girl named Mara (~Therru-chan, who is ~Kiiro-chan's sister)

6. "Tim Burton's 'the Nightmare Before Christmas'" is my favorite movie of all time, I think

7. I've got a sister and a dog.

8. I went to school with ~Zeraga, and he plays a "slaughterable extra" in a schlock horror film I made.


PEOPLE I TAG:



]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/16557835/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/16557835/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:07:40 PST
over the last four years, scores of thousands have people have watched their stories...

the 4400 are here to save the future,
NOW IT"S TIME TO SAVE THEIRS!

Just before Christmas, USA network CANCELED this beloved show just before its final season, crushing the hopes of fans.

Each of the 4400 has a special ability, and each one of you has a special responsibility!

Go to SAVETHE4400.NET [link] to find out more and SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE THE 4400.

you can also write a letter to:

Bonnie Hammer
USA network
30 Rockefeller Plaza
21st floor
New York, NY, 10112

don't let Jordan Collier, Tom Baldwin, Diana Skouris, Richard Tyler, Kevin Burkhoff, and many more beloved characters disappear forever.

please

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/16450260/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/16450260/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:26:37 PST
My art history project featuring a plague/sesame street crossover is online!
It can be seen on Youtube, in two parts:

Part 1 [link]
Part 2 [link]

It went over really well at school, people commented on how it got the Sesame Street theme stuck in their head, and how good my friend Michael looks in drag. I got an A.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/16424464/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/16424464/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:29:11 PST El cuento es acerca un robot niño, llamó Jimmy. El libro tiene veintiocho páginas, con muchos illustraciones, y un página del autor.
Lunes, mi clase fue a un escuela primaria para leer nuestros libros. Pronto, yo teneré las páginas en deviantART. Pero, primero, yo necesito escribir una carta con un copia del cuento para los niños.

...

In addition, I am VERY proud to announce that my Art History project, "Welcome to Plague Street" is complete! I'm going to spend a little while showing off to friends and family, and then maybe put it onto youtube, if it goes over well.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/16293200/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/16293200/ Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:42:45 PST
that's right, folks. I moved into the dorms at the art school several weeks ago, and now my computer has joined me. I just plugged the thing in right now, which means that all the art you see will be made right here at perpich in a moment's notice.

the real reason I've brought Mr. iMac to the school though is because of my PLAGUE/SESAME STREET PROJECT. it's a movie, I have real puppets and I'm going to film them as though the plague came to sesame street. there's a deeper plot, but that's the general idea. the problem is, I'm not done, and I have to finish it by thursday. so the only way I know to get that accomplished is by bringing trusty iMovie and it's more god-like brother, Final Cut to the scene.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/15724272/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/15724272/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:45:57 PST at this moment, any of those of you who really enjoyed my internal self-portrait, "Maskus Dottore" you can get it as a print, check it out: [link]

I also recently rescanned "a Tin Gargoyle on the Roof" so it is a good quality now.
See it here: [link]

There's also an animation coming in soon, so stick around.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/15639626/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/15639626/ Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:19:16 PST
First, I'm thankful for deviantART, for being there for me to put my art out into the world. Because of deviantART, there are 3,753 people who have seen my artwork would never even have heard of me otherwise, and 180 artists who I've been able to help or encourage in some way or another.

I'm thankful for my chance to go to Perpich, the Arts High School is such a great community for creative students. It's like someone took Crosswinds and mutated it into some gigantic art kaiju that shoots beams of awesome. I'm very glad to get SO MANY opportunities to learn more about art and experience new techniques.

And last, but not least, I'm thankful for my wonderful girlfriend Mara: [link]
Mara has stayed with me for more than fifteen months and through hard times as well. She keeps me standing and she helps me get on top of things.
I love her very much.

...

Now that that holiday is passed, it's on to my next festive endeavor. CHRISTMAS!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/15535403/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/15535403/ Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:07:34 PST
On another note, our school's first ACTUAL gallery opened up this week. The opening day party was actually yesterday, but the gallery is still up, so why not come and visit? (google perpich)


in the spirit of putting up a gallery, and in noting that a LOT of people liked the work I had in my portfolio on Portfolio Day , I offer anyone who replies to this journal the opportunity to vote on an item from my scraps gallery to put into my regular gallery.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/15079165/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/15079165/ Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:34:22 PDT [link]

It needs to be VIEWED!

And after getting all that out of the way, I'd like to just say how comepletely and utterly STOKED I am for Halloween!
Yes, it's that time of year again, the leaves are turning red and orange, the air is turning cold, and the world gets ready for another installment of MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVER!

At school, I am doing a project that combines all my favorite death-and-macabre-related things, Halloween, Day of the Dead, Death Note, the Nightmare Before Christmas, and Danse Macabre prints (not to mention psychology and religion, need I say more?)

I am making a series of Sculpey calaveras, and I am also making several pen-and-ink drawings based on character archetypes from commedia del'arte and the Jungian Archetypes. I plan to make the statement that all acroos the board of the human experience, death is equal and all humans die, be they an all-powerful savior or a dirty pimp.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14889389/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14889389/ Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:57:32 PDT
Over the last few days I've been updating my gallery with lots of new artwork
and I'd really like anyone who hasn't yet seen them to check out my new work


First of all, my photo-manipulations:
[link] [link] [link]
Then there's my spanish poetry:
[link] [link] [link]
and finally, I fixed Maskus Dottore [link] so that it's a scan instead of a photo and it looks 1,000 times better.

meanwhile I'm still thinking about how I could make a good movie worthy of dAfilm (and without copyrighted music at that!)


]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14858938/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14858938/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:03:14 PDT
Now my favorite art website is not only a place to release my still artwork and GIF animations, but at last, it's a place to upload films and videos (and not just any films, but ones of artistic merit)

now... I just need to think of something I've done that's good enough to warrant an invitation.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14690329/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14690329/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:25:31 PDT
]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14678508/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14678508/ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:46:28 PDT
Already I've done two self-portraits, made a book, a comic book, and a mosaic (and all this in the several weeks before our actual "studio art" classes begin).

These projects were assigned to test us to see if we were worthy for Perpich, the book tested our craftmanship skills, the comic was part of a project to gauge how well we could follow a crazy prompt, and the mozaic was to measure our patience.

I passed all these tests and more with my incredible skillz.

Meanwhile, I'm learning to understand the deepest meanings of Shakespeare's work (which isn't that hard at all, really), I'm crafting haiku and love sonnets in Spanish, and coming up with a thematic musical extravaganza. It's hard, time consuming, nerve-wracking work.

And for some reason I want more.

I'm thinking of doing a project where I showcase the evolution of my "style" from when I started drawing at four years old until present day, I think that would be a neat thing to see. Also, Halloween is coming, my favorite holiday ever, so I'd better come up with something fantastically horrible for that night.

so very much to do...





P.S. the 4400 season finale was yesterday, and for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, YOU JUST MISSED THE FOURTH SEASON OF THE BEST SHOW IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND! And for those of you who do know, THAT WAS AMAZING! Tell me what you think!

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14506098/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14506098/ Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:08:01 PDT www. Veritaserum.com and I WON ([link]).

That was september 2005. Now, it's september 2007 and here I am at school trying to get to my deviantART page using Google. I type my name into the little bar and about three entries down I find this:

[link]

On a spanish language website put up this july

the article reads along the lines of:

"Tom Riddle versus Anakin Skywalker, According to Thomas Boguszewski:

Among the controversies that say J.K. Rowling stole from "Lord of the Rings" and "Star Wars" is the question of if Darth Vader and Lord Voldemort are the same thing, in that they both present us with the typical story of a hero destined to save the world from someone very similar to them, only evil. The answer to all that... In a mouthful from Boguszewski."

I honestly didn't know that my work was being used on this site, or any site other than veritaserum, but they gave me all the credit for pretty much everything, even answering "controversial questions" about literature I never even had in mind.
Plus, I want to say again that the website is in SPANISH, so that's pretty awesome.
In conclusion, there's only one thing I really need to say:



oh yeah, I'm world famous!

(P.S. I would like to state that I personally do not agree with the sentiment that any part of Harry Potter is a Star Wars clone, J.K. Rowling is a fantastic writer and mythology scholar and I am deeply satisfied with the Harry Potter series as being a wonderfully creative and original phenomenon)

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14430458/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14430458/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:41:16 PDT

Perpich is great, a school filled with other artists like me! The classes are designed to simultaneously teach us academics and help us to become better artists. Over the year the plan is to help us develope a portfolio of work that will help us with attaining college education and with our future career goals.

My classes are:

Spanish III,
Electronic Music
Shakespeare

(not neccesarily in that order)

and finally, THREE HOURS OF ART CLASS

45 minutes of art history, then two hours of studio art.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna like this school.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14319179/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14319179/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:45:30 PDT
Yesterday, I went out to the art highschool to visit my teachers and help my girlfriend move in. It's going to be a year full of all sorts of changes, and I'm both excited and frightened.

Still, I know that this year is going to be good.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14029111/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/14029111/ Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:24:19 PDT It all started back before the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" when the New York Times illegally bought a copy of the book and published it's ending in their newspaper. It was not a surprise to me that something like that would happen, especially from the likes of the New York Times, but I knew that this dispicable and underhanded trick would cause a major uproar.
I for one wanted to finish the book of my own accord when the right time came, as intended by Jo Rowling, but the internet wasn't a safe place anymore for anybody who wanted to follow Harry's journey from beginning to end on their own. Thus, to put a long story short I jumped ship, flew the coop, to use a common phrase I did a bunk.
It took me like a week and a half to finish the book, yeah, that's a little long, but I took all that time to perfect my mental images. Meanwhile, Mr. Hansen's film class was still relying on my help for turning Walter Dean Myers' novel "the Beast" into a movie. All the work we had done building sets and mazes would have to come together during that week.
I spent the weekend painting, because I needed a series of watercolors to depict scenes and characters from the book. Then I would show the skyline of the city and slowly reveal it to be the inner workings of an intricate maze that spelled "the beast." I drew the pictures, shot the footage of the mazes (which we had built in 3D) and cobbled it all together in iMovie to make an opening and closing credits sequence. Then, I directed and edited a scene in the film of a basketball game set to a musical montage of "We Will Rock You" and "Sweet Georgia Brown."
That monday Mr. Hansen told me some wonderful/terrible news. He was leaving Crosswinds to teach at another school, which just happened to be Perpich (where Mara and I are going next year). Then I realised that it wasn't just Hansen leaving, all of us tenth graders were graduating.
Friday rolled around and we said goodbye to the place we had been proud to belong to for five years, almost a third of our lives. I thought about how I would never see the place that I called my home ever again, and I was heartbroken for a few days.

However, life beckons and I have new things to do. We finished the movie, which I've watched over and over again all weekend. I discovered a tasty new sandwhich. And every last one of us promised to keep in touch through the coming years. Meanwhile, Mara and I are getting ready for a new school, which we know we'll now share with a great teacher we know, and I'm getting ready for a two-week long trip to Greece.

speaking of Greek, it's time to say goodbye

Adio, my friends (although you'll definitely hear more from me soon, once my family installs their new computer and with it, the SCANNER!)

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/13742964/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/13742964/ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:13:40 PDT
So for the time being, I just have to wait it out, which isn't bad. Just know that I have a bunch of stuff that's worth scanning, It'll just be a while.

]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/13579322/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/13579322/ Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:24:27 PDT
I've been into this franchise of transforming robot toys since I was four years old, and have since become a nerd of epic proportions. For me Transformers combined the aspects of puzzle, toy car (plane, tractor, animal), and action figure to create the ultimate line of children's toy. Over my years I have played with, drawn, and made stop motion films with my toys and I'm proud of it.

This movie is an event that will bring something I love (and have faced ridicule for in the past) into the mainstream. It will show people just how FREAKIN' AWESOME giant transforming robots who fight each other in an epic civil war actually are.

so please, if you get the chance, "transform and roll out" to this movie because it's going to kick posterior.
[link] ]]> *Skeleton-Boy http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/13449993/ http://Skeleton-Boy.deviantart.com/journal/13449993/ Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:25:36 PDT
After that's done, I can finally relax. I finished and turned in the large ink drawing of an art-deco building, so now my plate is open. There are a few more leisurely assignments left, I'm working on translating "Skeleton Boy Saves His Skin" into Spanish, and now I have time to devote to my Pokemon thing. But right at this moment I don't want to do anything but lie back and relax.

It's Friday, and it's my birthday tomorrow.


(after several weeks of illness, I've taken a turn for the even worse. I was thinking the other day that perhaps someone has been slipping me Dr. Kevin Burkhov's Promicin serum, and now i'm going to develope a 4400 ability)

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