http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Tarrigan&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Tarrigan en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:40:30 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/29082690/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/29082690/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:09:22 PST this is not healthy nor is it something i do.

i worry about my car because it never has any petrol and i never have any money to put petrol in it and every time i drive anywhere i have to weight the likely-hood of my breaking down on a lonely country lane at night in the freezing cold.
i worry about my application to college this year and getting it right... there aren't as many courses as i thought there were on film and animation.
i worry about having time enough to get my Christmas college project done and it not being crap.
i worry about my relationship... CONSTANTLY!
i worry about Christmas and the fact that i haven't gotten anybody ANYTHING! seriously nothing... and i have the total of 3p in my account right now.
i worry that I'm going to go overdrawn AGAIN and that that's going to affect my credit history or something serious sounding like that.
i worry about work and the fact that it feels like the most empty soulless job in the universe... and it's not even an easy job, it's hard and it's horrible!

it's just not a healthy thing to be doing... i never worry about ANYTHING!

i know i shouldn't, but i feel ill all the time and i haven't been eating properly.

but... other than that I'm actually quite good, it all comes in waves and in between those waves I'm pretty zen

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/28191933/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/28191933/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:54:27 PST
1) i am starting a small comic with some friends called Y.A.R.(R!) though if you're reading this journal you're probably interested enough in me to know that already. it's going to be printed and released probably bi-monthly, and any charges for the issue go towards production and distribution costs. I'm really excited about it, we have loads of material already!

2) i am learning the guitar : D it's sort of strange typing with the tips of my left hand fingers numb!

3) i've sort of started taking commissions! my first one was for my guitar teacher as payment for my lessons... so if anyone's interested I'd be happy to draw him/her your character (for a small fee ^^)

4) art college still KICKS FECKIN' ASS!

Peace out bitches ^^

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/27360426/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/27360426/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:13:16 PDT But that's not what this post is about, oh no.
It's about how awesome Art Foundation is, and how I'm feeling a little down and how i have SO MANY FECKIN' IDEAS IN MY HEAD I CAN'T DRAW THEM ALL AT ONCE!

So firstly, art foundation is so amazing, it's so so so amazing being surrounded by people who love art (almost) as much as i do! though i find i'm still classed as 'strange' and my clothes mark me as still being 'weird' which saddens me, because instead of being surrounded by paint spattered socially and fashionally inept borderline sociopaths like i thought i would be, i find myself surrounded by fashionable top-shop frequenters... who aren't particularly interesting to talk to.
but that could just be me being incredibly judgmental... so watch this space.
also AF has brought about a monster by the name of ' Petulant Mel' who has little inward sulks now that she is nolonger the best at art in her class. i joke about this but my ego is taking a serious battering, I'm so used to people going: 'OHMAIGAWD DID YOU DRAW THAT!?' here it's 'that's pretty cool *moves on*' it's not cool people, not cool!

Secondly, I find myself in a strange limbo of emotion, i expect it's something to do with being worked into the ground... but i feel sort of empty, not in a bad way, just in a strange way.

and thirdly i have so many things i want to do and so little time! and i need to sleep otherwise I'm going to crash in the morning driving to college and take three good friends with me.

ITS' PAST FECKIN' MIDNIGHT ALREADY!
FECK!

Peace out bitches.

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/26275825/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/26275825/ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:16:38 PDT this includes sweeping through my gallery and moving a lot of stuff into my 'scrapbook'.

nothing much has happened recently i'm still working like a beaver who has has contracted a feaver on the new Wheatus comic and though i'd love to be able to say i can see the light at the end, but there is such a huge amount of work yet to do.

Peace out bitches!

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/23869006/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/23869006/ Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:43:48 PDT *is annoyed there is no smug emote*

I always find it funny when people say 'omg I'm sorry i haven't posted anything for ages, I've just been so busy!' because i have never been too busy with ANYTHING so much that it got in the way of my own personal drawing sessions.
However now is the time to use that line.
I have been dead for ages and I'm feeling a little guilty but i do have an AWESOME! reason for this.

Last month i sent my all time favourite band Wheatus an email with my pictures 'American in Amsterdam' and 'Real Girl'. I got a response i did not in a million years expect to get... Brendan Brown (lead singer) asked me if i wanted to draw a comic for their up and comic EP ' Pop Songs and Death: The Lightning EP'.
If the download sales go well it will be published.

So yeah between pinching myself, looking smugger than i previously thought humanly possible and drafting out what is going to be A HELL 'OVA LOT OF WORK! i really don't have any me time right now.

Stay posted for harassment to download the comic when it's done.

(P.S guess who learnt how to use text linking URL today )

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/22510448/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/22510448/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:01:21 PST this worries me.
i am now off to make myself a cup of tea.

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/21398129/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/21398129/ Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:33:19 PST
Bill Henson, Art Monthly Australia, July 1996.

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/21270008/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/21270008/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:57:45 PDT I clicked on that button three times and viewed 96 deviations, (I then clicked the random deviation button to bring my tally up to 100)
Here are the number of:

Bad quality photographs of no significance or technological value:
13

Pretentious, self gratifying, amateur, uninteresting photography of the photographer themselves and/or cliched scenery usually in black and white or badly and shoddily edited, without description or explanation:
19

Bad quality art, consisting mostly of fan art:
21

Writing that needs to be on a LITERATURE site or other completely non art related material:
6

Uninteresting, unoriginal but technically skillful art:
11

Genuinely interesting art but nothing I would need to look at further than the display picture, a danger of it being pretentious or explained with '...':
26

Interesting skillful art:
4

so out of 100 deviantions, 37 of them were acceptable but only 4 out of these 100 would i have clicked on to investigate further.
this is a sad sad thing.

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/20636995/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/20636995/ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:34:35 PDT Basically, as if the filters aren't enough to piss me off (I believe i have a separate journal rant about that) it's people who don't filter them properly.

for example, a couple sat on each others lap on a piano stool kissing (so far off from the camera I'd like to add, that you can't even see their faces) DOES NOT MERIT A MATURE FILTER! nor does a simple flash of breasts.
the filter is there for all out nudity... YES NUDITY! where you are exposed quiet obviously to EVERYTHING! not just the curve of a breast, for god sake there wasn't even nipple!
for the love of god, because she isn't wearing a shirt doesn't mean you have to class it as unfit for under eighteens, you see more in sex education classes!
okay so that's the nudity side of miss filtering.

thank god that's over i hear you say, but there is more, the violence side of it is done wrong too. oh no you cry in dismay, but to this i say it is the sad truth!
yes by all means filter it if it is a disturbing image of a small child feeding on the charred remains of it's mother. but DO NOT filter it if you've photoshopped in some flaking skin (and most of the time sloppily i am going to add) onto a slightly tinted body and drawn some blood leaking from the usual places.

it's a waste of time and it's boring.

maybe i just have a warped sense of what is shocking and what should be classed as mature. but seriously people, grow up and realize that people stopped giggling at the idea of boobies years ago and as a ten year old i saw more blood when i grazed my knee, it's okay, you don't have to filter it... click the submit button, and put the mouse down.

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/20321475/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/20321475/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:33:04 PDT but it also has something to do with the fact that i am going into my last year of school and i stayed up all night reading comic books ¬_¬
and I'm sure that my need to put something interesting and/or informative on here for once may or may not have been a factor.

my hair is no longer green but brown and waiting to be blackened... like my soul.
*grins*

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/19449149/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/19449149/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:42:08 PDT guess what colour my hair is!
it's RED! well, no it's green actually.
sorry, just thought i should let you know *grins and dances*

greengreengreen... *giggles* green.

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/18196538/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/18196538/ Tue, 06 May 2008 13:14:38 PDT with some all new designs!

i love how awesome making tshirts makes me feel *hugs self*

hura!

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/18037746/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/18037746/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:47:04 PDT my t-shirt range just went into local retail!
a shop in Gloucester called 4 Leaf Clothing agreed to buy and sell my shirts!
this is the begining of a beautiful relationship (yes i DID just quote the genie from Aladin i am THAT happy)

*dances*
FUCKIN' AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYE!

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/17847610/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/17847610/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:06:00 PDT
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]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/17817835/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/17817835/ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:57:00 PDT two guesses at who bought some plain white shirts today.
no, it wasnt santa claus.
nor was it that ugly but essentailly lovable charcter from the hunchback of Notre Dam (yeah i know ive spelt that wrong)
no i was I!
now its late and i must go to bed for i am entertaining guests tomorrow!
*hu i wish*
I'm only writing this because i am nolonger furious at photoshop CS rendering the current blog pointless.

wich just isnt cricket.
its late... letters are nolonger forming the words i require them to.
goodnight.

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/16657809/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/16657809/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:46:50 PST feeeeeeeeeeeeel my anger!
i spent atleast an hour looking for photoshop brushes that WEREN'T fucking CS.
DIE CS DIE!

how i hate them.
*sighs*

okay rant over that is all.

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/15719061/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/15719061/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:50:40 PST I CAN'T EVEN VIEW THE MATURE ART I HAVE IN MY OWN GALLERY!
i'm sorry but this is taking the whole 'wrap everyone in cotton wool' thing TOO far!
yes i agree that filters should be in place to protect people who don't want to see it, or can't for religious reasons or what not, but i also think people should be given the oppertunity to turn them off!
i am (for the purposes of this argument) an artist. art should not be filtered! why should my age be a limit!?
its just, so frustrating!
some of the most beautiful pieces of art include (oh my god shock horror) NAKED people in them!
dear lord we cant have that!
soon they will be putting ratings on art gallerys, you have to be over 16 to enter here.
please, please dont do this.
art is one of the only remaining outlets for freedom of expression.
do not filter it out.

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/14737692/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/14737692/ Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:43:15 PDT as a result i cant get decent quality pictures onto my computer.
but whats even worse than that!!!
is that even if i could i couldnt colour them, you know why?
because the trial period for photoshop ENDED! thats why!
THATS WHY!
*collapses into fitful tears*

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/13096695/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/13096695/ Sat, 26 May 2007 04:38:21 PDT Spiderman 3 is really good though the reviews of it sucked. dont listen to them what do they know!!!
the camera angles were bad ESPECIALY during the fight scenes, they are trying to be futuristic and dramatic with it but it just comes up as a jumbled mess *sigh*.
can, not, WAIT to go and see POTC 3 *squeak*

]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/12715975/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/12715975/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:16:36 PDT
]]> ~Tarrigan http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/12676635/ http://Tarrigan.deviantart.com/journal/12676635/ Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:30:18 PDT this site scares me but elfwood sucks ass so i have decided to swallow my fears and give this thing a go.
about to go out and meet a friend of mine (like your interested) but my contact lenses hurt and so does my heart >.<
im also hungry.
that will be all ^^

]]> ~Tarrigan