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As you probably noticed, I've added a few new pieces to my gallery here, something I've been meaning to do for quite some time. Hopefully I'll be able to post new pieces and journal entries more regularly this year.

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I do have new stuff in the pipeline still. One BIG Halloween project which is nearly done and I should have posted in the next week... maybe. The other project is another sword which may also be done in a week. The sword might have been done this week, but it's been rainy so I stopped work on it cause I'm just about ready to start spraypainting it's components and I can't do that in the rain.

Also: the Doctor Who Season Finale fricken' rocked! But then, the good Doctor rarely disapoints!

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It all began in the 1890s when a young man by the name of Klaus emmigrated from Finland to the United States, specifically central Massachusetts. Eventually he bought an old farm in 1919, the farm I still live on today. Back then we just had wild, high-bush blueberries, but our berries were well known under the Bay State Blueberries brand which was sold daily at Faneuil Hall in Boston (when the berries were in season, of course). His son Andrew took over the business in the early 1940s, renamed it Blueberry Hill Farm and planted over 5000 cultivated high-bush blueberry bushes (cultivated bushes produce more berries and are easier to maintain than wild varieties). He also changed the way we sold the berries; no longer would we pick them and then truck them to Boston, we would now be a pick-your-own-berries farm. Those changes proved to be successful for the next thirty years. We were open seven days a week and many would come from far and wide to pick berries here.

My father Wayne took over the business after Andrew died in the 1970s and did his best to keep the business going. But times were changing and our customers were growing older. By the late 1980s, our loyal customer base began to dwindle as they began to grow frail and pass away. Their children and grandchildren didn't care to pay a little to pick their own high-quality berries, they'd rather pay a whole lot for inferior berries in a super market. By 1992 my Dad's efforts to attract new customers was failing and he was tired of trying so he closed up official opperations. In the spring of 1998 my Dad died after a two year struggle with Lymphoma Cancer. He had been depressed since I was a child and I was depressed to (Depression seems to have a genetic aspect to it, I've done research on it and various conditions and what not, but I digress), more-so after his death. I went to a community college, majoring in art, but I always wanted to revive the blueberry business and restore the farm to it's former glory some day. I made a few attempts, both with some help from a good friend and on my own, but things looked bleak, the project had gotten just way, WAY too big to handle entirely on my own, even with a little help from a friend. My Dad was just one man and he *just* managed to keep things up, but after and even before we closed, trees and vines and weeds had begun to infiltrate the rows of bushes and the nearby hay fields.

Flash forword to the Summer of 2007. We've had some financial problems and It was time to do something, either pull-up stakes and sell-out or try and make this farm work again so we could afford to stay here. I was really depressed at the prospect of leaving behind all we and my forebears had worked hard to keep and build upon for all these years. I would lose a great resource and the source of much of my inspiration and strength. My small but growing kadre of friends then offered to help in exchange for free blueberries. I agreed and now I have hope again.

That hope has been a powerful motivator. On my own, I might have been able to restore the farm by maybe 2017, if then. But now, with the help of my friends, we might just be able to pull it off in two to three years. To realize my dreams amongst the stars I've always known I'd need a solid foundation, but I wasn't sure how to do it. I thought for a while the answer was to restore the Studio my Dad built, but that will require more money than restoring the farm will take. So now I know, now I have a plan and I'm putting that plan into action.

The Restoration will take place in three, possibly four phases spaced out over the next two to three years. This fall the goal is to restore the infrastructure necessary to restore the rows of blueberry bushes themselves. This includes the roads, the parking lot field, the picnic area and the area surrounding the bushes. Hopefully my friends and I can get Phase-1 done this fall so Phase-2, where we prune the bushes and remove the trees, can begin early next spring. Currently I'm working on the roads by myself, but we've set a date for a weekend-long brush-clearing party in mid-October. I've gotten a lot done on the roads though and hope to have the main road mostly done before the brush clearing party.

As you can see, I have a lot to do. This doesn't mean I won't be doing any art projects, far from it. I need to be creative, it rejuvinates me and keeps me motiv... ]]> ~Weirdonian http://Weirdonian.deviantart.com/journal/13131113/ http://Weirdonian.deviantart.com/journal/13131113/ Mon, 28 May 2007 21:08:18 PDT
I look forword to making new props and costume items in the future. I've got a third of a sheet metal replica Witch King armor set I made for a friend in the fall of 2005, with his and his wife's help. Since we had limitted time, I wasn't able to properly finish the set, but I was able to get the helmet and gauntlets made (and some make-shift shin and foot guards, but they've kinda broken appart since I built them as they weren't very sturdy). I may post a pic of the helmet itself soon and then, once complete post the the full armor set later on.

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Feel free to join us if you like. We're just getting started writing again and the OOC "Dispatch Area" is abuzz with chit-chat.

As for artwork, I've got several projects in the pipeline I'll be posting as soon as they're completed.

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For now, my comic project has been put on the back burner. It's how I work, it'll come back to the fore in time. Not that I'm not working on it indirectly though; I've begun writing my first novel. I must confess, I started writing it a week ago and haven't gotten back to it since I got sick. I'm feeling better and have been but I lost The Groove, you know? I'll have to try and force myself to return to it, lest it get shunted back to the back burner again and if I want my first novel done by the fall or winter of this year, I'm going to have to keep it a priorety project.

So, just wanted to post here to ensure any concerned parties (if there are any, that is) that I'm not gone, just taking a break from the visual arts to focus my creative energies on my writing.

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I invented the character and the name about six months ago as the idea for Thunderbird started to gell. About two months ago I finalized his spheroid torso/head, but up until the "Tikot Sketch", I hadn't figured out how his arms and leggs looked. I knew I wanted him to be crab-like, but I wasn't sure weather I should make him a tripod or a quadroped. In the end, I decided the third leg would just get in the way, so I went the easier route and gave him four. His hands I was having trouble designing too. The trouble with alien beings, including alien robots, is just how do they manipulate things within their environment? It's tough to design hands that don't look human but are still believably functional, that is they can pick stuff up and push buttons and what not.

I'm really glad Tikot's design is finalized; he'll be a bit easier to write for now that I know exactly what he looks like. I can also design a 3D model of him now, too, but that'll take a while, I think.

As I said, I just love robots. From the cybernetic and dastardly Daleks, to R2-D2, the Cylons, Marvin, Bender, Helper, and everything in between. Besides my own creations, my all-time favorite robots would have to be Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot from TV's Mystery Science Theater 3000. Heck, I like em' so much I've been trying to build the two of them ever since I first saw the show when I was a kid in the early 1990s. My early attempts at bot-building were, well, amaturish at best and I used a lot of cardboard and duct tape, but my heart was in the right place. Today, I'm striving to make them as accurate as possible. I'll post some pictures of them sometime this year, unfinished and finished.

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I'm a world builder, that is, I use my talents to construct fictional worlds. Through writing and the visual arts, I've constructed a vast Sci-fi universe of alien civilizations, planets, histories, species and characters. I've been working on this huge project since I was 8 years old in 1988 and I look forword working on it for the forseeable future. I'm working on a series of books as well as a comic series.

The art I post here will largely be from that universe, but there'll be other pieces as well, such as photographs and landscape paintings. As this isn't my main blog, I'll mostly post articles about art and such.

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