http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:StudioOtaking&section=today deviantART RSS for by:StudioOtaking en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:20:50 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://StudioOtaking.deviantart.com/journal/21091577/ http://StudioOtaking.deviantart.com/journal/21091577/ Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:15:42 PDT 50.8 cm
41 weeks 5 days
Born 2008.10.21, 12:15


Big, slightly overdue baby. Mother is fine. Older brother appears to be adjusting as well as can be expected to the new comptetion for his parent's attention, and father has returned home to rest, and prepare to return to the grindstone tomorrow...

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Hopefully I'll find the time to put up some more artwork over the coming weeks and months. Fingers crossed.

Good luck arting, y'all.

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I hope to load them as they were drawn, as there is a progression of change in them. I think the phases can be roughly broken down into where I was, and what I was riding.

Phase 1: strongly influenced by a road reconstruction and interchange expansion in the outer reaches of Victoria, BC, Canada. The roads produced in this phase are general low-traffic, very wide, and curvy (conforming to natural shapes.) I was always in a car, mostly my own, but sometimes my friends'.

Phase 2: I lived for about a year+ in Seoul, Korea, with a couple of months in the countryside of Chiba, Japan. The roads produced are high traffic, narrow, and tend to ram straight through, over and under natural elements. I was mostly in public transportation, about two-thirds of the time in buses, and the remainder in subways.

Phase 3: After returning to Canada for about 2 and a half years (not much of any art was produced in this period,) I came to live in Osaka, Japan. I spent a lot of time commuting between part-time jobs, and spent most of that time looking out the window of elevated trains. I have ridden my fare share of subways, but aside from the occasional buried railway yard or crossover, the view from the window isn't that interesting. What has blown me the way the most in living here isn't so much the suspending of train lines in midair, but the suspending of entire expressway interchanges in the air! I think the roads images produced in this phase are the most complicated, as they combine road, rail, and sometimes even more than that.

Cheers, and I hope that you get some of the good vibes I got out of creating the roads images!

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