http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:alteredworks&section=today deviantART RSS for by:alteredworks en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:55:37 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/26510860/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/26510860/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:21:05 PDT
So infectious that the perplexity of items I have to share is beautiful.

But you're not there.

I want to be in love again.

With you

I had a dream the other night. We are at a party. You know the type with awesome bass, costumes and fire.

We were distant toward each other, the feeling of tensions and incompleteness was strong.

And some how, some how. We came together, stepping closer like idiots dancing, paying to much attention to not step on feet.

There were these "I don't knows" and "Are you sure" being passed between us.

I don't know the moment we faced each other, or how the words played out, we kissed.

Such longing for this moment.

A beauty

Perfection

As I embraced the texture of your lips my dream was pulled away.

Alone

There I was, in my bed, with only myself for company.

We crossed paths that day. But only paths, never meeting in the intersection.

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Namaste

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I want to live with you. I want to create with you. I want to mary you and see your face grow old. I want to know what your smile will look like on the face of our daughter. I will forgive you for your tragedies. I want to stand in the center of the fire and be burned along side you for bewitching my soul.

You tell me you want this too. I make a choice. I choose to believe you and love you like you do.

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Out of all of this comes a torrent of art. A need that is felt deep within my ego to shape my id and push forward with new understanding and desire to evolve as a person. As I evolve so to will my art and my ideas.

There are people of whom I give the greatest of respect to over the last few months of my life. People that stood by me and held my hand through the hardest moments and gave me a push when I felt unmovable.

There is Colter who came into my life by way of a friend of a lover. We found within each other an understanding and built a great friendship.

There is Jaclyn who helped me to better understand myself and though suffered along side me in my misery, still had the strength to be my friend and extend her selflessness towards me.

To Josh whom helped me regain my insides and dwell not on the past but start making footsteps in the sand of my future.

And for Sara who had to break my heart to show me what I can be.

There are still an unsettling pile of questions in my life. I assume there will always be. But for now the pile is smaller, or at least appears to be. Hence I don't mind diving in so much now and trying to climb to the top. The in box is getting emptied and the out box is filling up.

My book is still being written. The pages of ideas are still being sketch. Software is still being learned.

There are others that have given me their love and patience as well. I have not forgotten you.

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Like a light bulb that just got a dose of high voltage one of the lattices grew bright and consumed his attention, swallowed him whole. He became nothing. He was floating in a white sea, water was touching his legs and Michelle came walking towards him from the ether of his dreams. She was beautiful and naked. Her skin was translucent and covered with images and interacting shapes like a divine language having a conversation with it's self. She spoke words with out sound. Heard them in the bowels of his mind like an echo "I love you. Give me peace. Here is our garden of life". And her skin became more translucent until it's transparency gave way to a mesh of vines twisting around like knotted up ivy. She was no longer Michelle but a tree growing into the ground. Branches moved forth and and traced feelings about him.

Grabbing one branch with his own hand he saw not fingers and palm but branches of his own. He was a tree. He was rooting, drinking water from the earth, basking in sunlight from the sky, a pillar between heaven and earth. Seasons came and went, birds danced in his head, bees drank from his flowers, spiders made webs in his trunks, snakes coiled under his shade.

And then his own branches became people, people he knew, people he didn't. He was the father of his own world and watched lives he did not know live and die inside of himself.

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Therefore you should stop poking around the edges of my life looking for teeth drowning in ashes of a creamated union. I know all the pain that is there and the need to know and the small voice that will not let go.

You can say I don't understand as much as you want, as strong as you need, but I do.

I understand. I've been in that city. I've danced with it's citizens.

I've burned bridges too.

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Why does hate lend more to success then love? ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/7967588/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/7967588/ Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:21:28 PST
the book is unfinished. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3789310/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3789310/ Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:02:37 PST
Well...

This Friday i will be performing some live poetry and showing some of my artwork at a show in Sacramento, CA. There should be a large turnout.

I'm still deciding what pieces to show. If you have the time to pick through some of my work here on DA please let me know which ones are your favorites as I need to narrow down what pieces I want to show. Your input is very valuable to me! I need to know by this Thursday.

On another note I will also be on the radio at 10-11PM PST, December the 11th (the night before my birthday). The radio station is 90.3FM KDVS. It's a college station from UC Davis California. You can tune in on line at [link] .

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That Sarah McLachlan made her debut on the record 'Manufactur - Terrorvision'.

Food for thought.

]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3763917/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3763917/ Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:57:40 PST ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3634771/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3634771/ Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:32:17 PDT Mood: Lazy
Listening to: Saul Williams
Reading: Genesis and the Big Bang
Watching: Meet the Febles

1> Bumper stickers that say "My kids on honor roll at..."

2> Those stupid little Christian fish, multiply my dislike by ten if they have a school of them

3> Anything that says hottie, princes or something of the like

4> Window stickers that say "Psychopathic", I think it's Psychopathetic

5> People that don't signal

6> Anything that says Jesus is Lord

7> Kids that wear bondage gear and spikes that they purchased from Hot Topic and then complain about people treating them 'different'

8> American flags on Japanese and European cars

9> Raw tomatoes

10> Feeling like I've lost all hope in my fellow humans

I'm in a good mood. Really I am. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3623853/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3623853/ Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:59:29 PDT
We are all going to end up in the capitol corporate driven system of life seen in Akira or Bladerunner.

Alone... ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3619815/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3619815/ Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:13:03 PDT Mood: Forgetful
Listening to: Jazz Butchers
Reading: Genesis and the Big Bang
Watching Super Size Me

Do you spend your time remembering your memories or do you spend your time imagining your future?

My tears are saltier than ever
My dreams more vibrant than life ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3610286/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3610286/ Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:16:50 PDT ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3598761/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3598761/ Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:10:12 PDT Mood: Wiped out and a little randy
Listening to: Wumpscut
Watching: Matchstick Men

I'm the Astro Van Man

I Drive a 1986 Chevy Astro Van that sports a 4.3L V6 engine, a small transmission fluid leak among other operating nuances.

It's two toned Royal Blue and Light Blue with a few randomly selected areas of oxidation. It sports a decent stereo system of which I've augmented with a subwoofer. It's a great machine for helping people move and for taking a crew of 8 to the beach.

You can often find me driving by jr. high schools really slow sporting a pair of thick coke bottom glasses waring a checkered flannel shirt and a bumper sticker that says "Bush Chaney 04'".

Of course this is just a tasteless joke. I actually have 20/20 vision, I tend to speed and I hat Bush.

I do drive an Astro Van though.

Which I just put $50 in the tank and it didn't fill the monster up.

Two things I dolike about driving the van is the fact I can see over the next three cars in front of me and I get to intimidate small compact cars.

Look out rice rockets there's a van that wont let you cut them off roaming around. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3596144/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3596144/ Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:56:37 PDT
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Title: Taste
Submitted: 2004-10-14 4:04:20 pm
Original Category: Photography: Art Photography: People & Portraits: Fetish Portraits
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"Please take heed of the gallery descriptions that are presented to you when a deviation is submitted or edited."

no fucking shit...
...and add macro photography back in while you're at it. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3590488/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3590488/ Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:50:08 PDT Listening to: New Model Army
Watching: Some bug crawl across the wall

Slowing down off the freeway and suddenly there is an explosion in my tail pipe. Whu? The Van has never done that.

And then it died...

...and wouldn't start.

I've spent the past few weeks trying to fix things that will not work such as my car, my printer, my camera, my life etc...

At least I got the car running, this is however after I've lost the skin on most of my knuckles, broken my stereo in the process, found out I needed a special tool to reach my spark plugs. Vans suck.

Now that printer! My wonderful new EPSON 4000 octochrome printer that is here to replace my dying laser printer works fine. The RIP software that allows me to print postscript files to it that costed a cool grand does not work. I spent all day trying to get a human from their tech support to talk to me.

Man....

I'm famished

*chews on pencil* ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3537998/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3537998/ Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:41:33 PDT
The one about making your own custom t-shirts.

Yeah, big fucking whoop I can do that shit at work too.

Recently for a skinny friend of mine I made one that says "I eat carbs.". ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3471943/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3471943/ Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:40:01 PDT
So, then... i'm thinking the people of Japan, China, and Korea must get tatoos of really lame words written in english? ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3430769/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3430769/ Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:18:17 PDT ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3424444/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3424444/ Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:30:46 PDT
I'm missing opponents... ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3399346/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3399346/ Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:47:51 PDT
I hate reverse engineering another designers poor sloppy work.

In case is the LineSpire logo. It used masked gradients to produce the shading effects used in its appearance. I had to rebuild the logo to get rid of the masking effects and add in some spot color control. What program did they use to make the logo? For the love of god I hope it was not Corel Draw *projectile vomits*.

I guess I'm a little arrogant in this regard, but Illustrator is the best software for producing vector format files. It's made by Adobe, the people that set standard for encapsulated post script. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3391167/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3391167/ Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:10:09 PDT ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3361430/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3361430/ Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:51:48 PDT ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3357831/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3357831/ Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:39:05 PDT
If there's any one interested in coming let me know and I'll give you the skinny. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3257005/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3257005/ Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:14:29 PDT ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3253899/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3253899/ Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:33:58 PDT ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3217138/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3217138/ Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:47:32 PDT
I'll try to get some comments out if I get the time today.

I did get a new CD from the photolab who botched my scans only to find a more useless CD. I swear, is it really that hard to scan a black and white neg?

I'm going to see if I can get accesses to the photography department at the local paper. Since I used to work there and know the photo editor there's a chance they might let me use their scanner which I KNOW scans black and white negs just fine. If they do then I've got a lot of really excellent shots to share including some of my macro work.

8 page views away from 4000!!!
Kick ass! ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3174563/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3174563/ Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:28:40 PDT Listening to: Alton Ellis - Rocksteady

So I come into work today and some of the old metal rack shelves in my office have been replaced with much nicer wood ones. I have a new Epson Stylus Pro 4000 [link] coming next week to replace my dying laser printer. They gave me and a few long time employees cellphones to keep and use on a company plan. And... I got a raise!

Uh, yeah... It's been a god day.

Now I'm off to the photo lab. They're giving another shot to rescan the negs for me. They offered me a refund but the scan price was only 4 bucks so I don't really care. Let's hope they come out better

Cheers. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3159408/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3159408/ Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:02:55 PDT
I finally found a local shop that would do my black and white film. I took a roll of Kodak 400 T-Max Black & White film there to get processed today and they told me some of the shots were "hot" as in to much contrast. I've shot my share of this film at exactly this speed and while contrasty they still hold a lot of midtones, better than color film. I paid them to develop the film and scan it to CD. What I got back was a nightmare!

All the scans are almost pure contrast. No mid tones. No pleasant warm grays. Just black and white. To top it off there is so much noise in the scans you would think that I had used 3200 speed film! Im no pro, I've only been doing photography for a year now, but I know enough to realize I got fucked.

I did check the negs and there is plenty of image detail in them. On the edges of objets in my scans are strong contrasting light outlines as if an over excessive amount of unsharpened masked was used. If I'd used a specific film to get that effect I'd be pleased, but getting crap back from what is a really nice roll of shots pisses me off so much that god took notice of my toilet.

Stab in the back.

I dropped a color roll of 400 off at a different lab and I was let down. Not by the work they did because it was great, but rather the roll I had processed. Another random roll of stupid people getting drunk. And I did go out of my way to have them scanned to CD.

I thought I'd post a great array of pics tonight, but I'll only post one. Erg... Maybe two are three then re-upload.

None the less I'm going back to the photo lab manyana and demanding a fix. If they do not provide me with one then I will get them scanned somewhere els and give them visual evidence that I was screwed like a mounting racket for a tacky painting.

Ahh... *Finishes rant*

Ever notice that the difference between pleasant and peasant is one 'L'... ... Food for thought people, food for thought. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3139588/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3139588/ Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:10:14 PDT
But, I could use a drink. Make it a Martini, extra dry with Bombay Sapphire and two olives. Up, no ice, I hate it when I get ice in my martinis.

Good god it's a slow moving day.

I went to get some film processed over the weekend. Nothing special just a few rolls of color film I had on ice. I knew that one roll was from Santa Cruz for I actually took the time to label it. The other I swear was from SF and I knew there was some great shots on that roll... So I paid extra to have the negs scanned to CD. What I got back was one of my friends lame roll of shots and a CD full of their photos. How did that end up with my film? ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3115810/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3115810/ Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:57:17 PDT
*barf*

People used to make their own culture until MTV 'betamaxed' them out.

Have your own style. Worship yourself and your friends. Idolize a god or deity. But please god please quit worshiping and idolizing pop culture icons.

Fan art. *dry heaves*




Oh yeah... Stop shopping at Hot Topic. It's no different than shopping at the Gap. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3106416/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3106416/ Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:10:36 PDT
One moment I'm working on a photomanip and the next I'm eating the floor.

The floor, that's where I found my self when I woke up this morning. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3103213/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3103213/ Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:09:06 PDT Mood: forgotten
Desire: Null

Art bleeds when you seem to be forgotten.
Dreams bead when when you try to stay awake.

like drops of passion they caress my brow.
salty
wet
real

the taste of tears crying forth from my skin
the burden of a close sun...

No, I am not in the best of moods. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3103096/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3103096/ Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:53:21 PDT ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3035882/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3035882/ Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:57:07 PDT
The weather was perfect and the sky opened up to meet the see in a stunning azure. Small roaming clouds like herded sheep dotted the sky here and there. Cranking out the polarizer for the camera yielded some navy colors in the sky and a patina in the sea.

The food. Oh god the food. My mouth still wets at the thought of the halibut I ate.

The drive home was no less of a wonder. Coming up the coast on highway 1 dotted with small towns and endless groves of strawberry patches was relaxing. I had the Ocean on my right till I made San Francisco.

This pisser. My Pentax Spotomatic some how got the film speed stuck on 1600!!! I ended up having to shoot everything using the Minolta 7xi. While the Minolta is an excellent camera the lens I have for it can't touch the quality of the Takumar lens I use on the Pentax. I was pist.....

But small beans. Photos to come, you'll see...... ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3034188/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/3034188/ Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:19:03 PDT (2) Are you happy with it? Yes
(3) Are you named after anyone? No
(4) Your nicknames: Mr. Pink
(5) Your screen name: AlteredWorks
(6) Would you name a child of yours after you? Not vain enough
(7) Then what would you name your children? Sage or Rosemary
(8) If you were born a member of the opposite sex, what would you have been called? Probably Jordan
(9) If you could switch names with a friend, who would that be? None of them
(10) Are there any mispronunciations/typos that people do with your name? All the time!
(11) Would you drop your last name if you became famous? Never, Vincint Price kept his.
(12) Your gender: Male
(13) Straight/gay/bi? Flaming Hedrosexual
(14) Single? Who wants to know?
(15) do you want to be? Why?
(16) Your birth date: December 12th, 1975
(17) Your age: 28
(18) Age you act: 20, 5 when I'm sick
(19) Age you wish you were: 21 for ever
(20) Your height: 5'7"
(21) The color of your eyes: Hazel
(22) Happy with it? Very
(23) The color of your hair: Brunette
(24) Happy with it? Yup
(25) Left/right/ambidextrous? Right hand on the mouse left on the keyboard
(26) Your living arrangement? Oddball roommates
(27) Your family: Within nagging distance
(28) Have any pets? No
(29) What's your job: Graphic Designer
(30) Piercing? Yes
(31) Tattoos? On the way
(32) Obsessions? Plenty
(33) Addictions? To many
(34) Do you collect anything? Martini glasses
(35) Do you speak another language? ...does slang count?
(36) Have a favorite quote? Shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which one fills up quicker
(37) Do you have a web page? No
(38) Do you live in the moment? Is there any other moment?
(39) Do you consider yourself tolerant of others? Yes
(40) Do you have any secrets? Plenty
(41) Do you hate yourself? Sometimes but not often
(42) Do you like your handwriting? No
(43) Do you have any bad habits? Aren't you perfect! Of course
(44) What is the compliment you get most from people? Nice eyes.
(45) If a movie was made about your life, what would it be called? The Birth & Death of An Ordinary Person
(46) What's your biggest fear? Just about anything that stings
(47) Can you sing? Only in the shower
(48) Do you ever pretend to be someone else just to look cool? Never
(49) Are you a loner? No
(50) What are your no. 1 priorities in life? To make it to the end kicking and screaming all the way
(51) If you were another person, would you be friends with you? I'd like to think so
(52) Are you a daredevil? No
(53) Is there anything you fear or hate about yourself? My need for distraction
(54) Are you passive or aggressive? Neither
(55) Have you got a journal? No
(56) What is your greatest strength and weakness? My intellect, my arrogance
(57) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? To pay my bills on time
(60) Do you think you are emotionally strong? Yes
(61) Is there anything you regret doing? Yes
(62) Do you think life has been good so far? For the most part, it's been more good than bad
(63) What is the most important lesson you've learned from life? It's a lot easier to clean up spilt milk if your not busy crying about it
(64) What do you like the most about your body? My eyes
(65) and the least? My teeth
(67) Are you confident? Yes
(68) What is the fictional character you most like? I have no clue?
(69) Do people know how you feel? Not often
(70) Are you perceived wrongly? I'm fairly blunt

DO YOU?
(71) Smoke? Yes
(72) Do drugs? Sometimes
(73) Read the newspaper? No
(74) Pray? Every once and a while
(75) Go to church? No
(76) Talk to strangers who IM you? Yes
(77) Sleep with stuffed animals? No
(78) Take walks in the rain? Yes!
(79) Talk to people even though you hate them? I can handle it, but I don't like it
(80) Drive? Yes
(81) Like to drive fast? Yes
(82) Like your voice? Yes
(83) Hurt yourself? No

HAVE YOU EVER?
(84) Been out of the country? No
(85) Eaten something that made other people sick? Yes
(86) Had sex? Yes
(87) Been unfaithful? Never
(88) Been in love? A couple of times
(89) Done drugs? Yes, see #72
(90) Gone skinny dipping? No
(91) Had a medical emergency? Yes
(92) Had a surgery? No
(93) Ran away from home? No
(95) Gotten beaten up? No
(96) Beaten someone up? No
(97) Been picked on? When I was little
(98) Been on stage: Yes
(99) Been so drunk that you know you're supposed to go out on a date w... ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2981189/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2981189/ Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:00:13 PDT
Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything.


You don't have to copy and paste it but you DO have to ask me. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2971855/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2971855/ Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:10:03 PDT ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2948585/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2948585/ Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:48:21 PDT
At 4000 feet above sea level Mount Diablo is the highest coastal mountain in California. At it's peak is a light house and from this vantage point you can see most of the east bay and a huge portion of California's central valley.

Lower down from the summit is an area of large sandstone outcroppings dubbed "Rock City". The sandstone rocks located there range in size from mere boulders to ruble the size of houses. Littered with carvings and tunnels dug out by the wind Rock City is a very strange and sometimes alien looking scape.

I did drag my SLR along with me, but mostly I shot slide film. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2790132/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2790132/ Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:50:50 PDT
But I forgot the art part of deviant art. To my surprise there's a web site called alteredworks . deviant . com.

I was a little pissed and amazed at the same time. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2689010/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2689010/ Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:29:14 PDT
I knew this was going to be a problem. I knew that the increase in quality would simply become expected.

I had 'talk' with my boss in regards to him wanting all of my artwork to look this good.

If I'm going to produce better artwork then I want a raise. It's that simple to me.

I work for a fucking asshole!!! ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2615715/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2615715/ Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:23:17 PDT
Cept.....

When I log into AIM all of my buddies are missing and there's damn near 100 people in the list I do not know.

What. The. Fuck.

I look at my buddy list window and it says "Buddy List; Jordan Price"

Great. Someone has been using my account on the mac and using my aim as their chat box. Never mind how pissed I get when someone leaves yahoo chat set up to login into their account automatically.

My account, my settings. My account, my preferences. Period.

So. After I trash the entire buddy list and make a desktop (wallpaper for you windblows users) theme that says "DO NOT USE MY ACCOUNT EVER!!!" a thought crosses my mind.

I go up to the preferences for AIM and look at it. Sure enough, some one changed my login prefs so that they could use their AIM in my account.

Oops.

I've just erased someone's incredibly large buddy list.

Fuck it. That's what you get for using my account.

*rant complete* ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2523791/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2523791/ Thu, 27 May 2004 19:44:08 PDT
Closed eyes, even open this setting was still dark. Only my hands could trace the difference of her face. Calluses from working the tools of my trade have reft the small subtle sensations needed to enjoy what I could only imagine is the satin shift of her skin.

Small curses in the wind of my voice, to subtle to be herd, to unimportant to be needed, asked for light. A sliver of the moon looking in through a window or a glowing but of a cigarette to illuminate a balance between my numb hands, that promising smell and the refusing taste.

There was nothing. Just that smell and a taste, a fragment of lust. I could have been dreaming. I could be waking slowly into a monday morning waiting to be moored in work.

I try to imagine, paint a picture of her face in my mind so I might give some upheaval to presence. But, my imagination like my hands were numb, out of focus. My need for something more quickly became acute.

I found it in her breath. The sound of a hussy. It was rich with promise, yielding in exhales under the fumbles of lame fingers. I road it like a sailor sawing back and forth on waves of exhales and slow deliberate inhales.

I was sea sick, that damn taste of pills. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2521505/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2521505/ Thu, 27 May 2004 13:36:09 PDT
Usually I just leave the napkins on the table after paying my bill.

*rips drawing out of three ring binder* ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2513766/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2513766/ Wed, 26 May 2004 13:46:34 PDT
I log in...

Huh? What's this ad doing on top of my page?
Maybe it's just a glitch.
I scroll down....
Hey. Where the hell did the most recent visitors box go? Erg....
I go in to my settings.....
Hey there's no info here for that option & DA is running a little faster than normal. Fuck it.
I go and check my messages...
What the hell!? It's all ass backwards.
I glance up at my name and see the ~ in place of the *. Time to re-subscribe. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2504473/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2504473/ Tue, 25 May 2004 09:36:41 PDT
Right now, right here, this is where I know my soul is.

]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2498864/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2498864/ Mon, 24 May 2004 15:11:15 PDT
Let the red scrawls of this fading sharpie die. Pull back the sun bleached yellow fiber of this cheep office paper and ram your ink dripping roller ball through it's torn surface. Scratch lines of penmanship and sketches of crap. Force those numb fingers to do something graphic.

I don't even want to see the grayish smudge of a No. 2 pencil.

I only want to see black, and white.

*I need coffee* ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2443250/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2443250/ Sun, 16 May 2004 18:58:39 PDT
I just noticed that DAprints.com is gone. It's now been replaced by prints.deviant art.com. What a bunch of shit. The old web site was great. It was geared towards consumers shopping for posters. It was really easy to interface with and find posters.

Now it's just another extension of DA. It's once wonderful and consumer friendly design is now gone. It's ease of use has been replaced by the daunting mundane seachability of DA.

It does offer more exposure to artists, but I feel that most consumers will be put off by it's over simplistic interface and the fact that they have to search though tons of artwork that will most likely be of little interest to them.

It sucks. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2438474/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2438474/ Sun, 16 May 2004 02:45:53 PDT
]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2431168/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2431168/ Fri, 14 May 2004 22:41:13 PDT
Then read "Toeing Jehovah" by: James Morrow. You'll probably find it in the science fiction section. [link]

...read it. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2423654/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2423654/ Thu, 13 May 2004 19:48:09 PDT
My XP. No, not windows XP *shudders* but my Roland XP-50 synth.

I purchased this amazing machine back in 1996. It was top of the line back then. There was no better synth on the market. It did everything.

With this music tool I've created hours and hours of music. Mainly I've focused on *coughs* techno. I've made trance, house, jungle, drum n' bass, acid everything and just about any type of electronica you can think of. Yes, I even snuck some new age in there.

New age.

I was one of those dorks in high school that LOVED new age music. The first Sunday of every month you would find me in my room taping the heartbeats show off of public radio with it's host Lloyd Barty.

Synthisizers were the main tool used for this new era of music. Little did I know there was a whole other world of music waiting for me.

For years I drooled over having a Roland keyboard. It would give me the acoustic canvas to create my sonic imagination. But, at 17 how could I possibly afford such an expensive tool. Like all artifacts of creativity our tools to make art are murderously expensive and most of us are poor.

Jump a few years into the future. I'm in the punk rock scene. I wouldn't say that I was a punk rocker because I dressed like a ska boy. Fuck it. I had just purchased my Roland XP-50 music work station. I was itching to make some new age.

I went to a rave.

This was in the early stages of raves, before it became candy ridden with teenagers sucking on pacifiers. No, I did not do any drugs (cept nitrous), but I did smoke a few packs of cloves.

Hooked.

Where had I been. Where was this music hiding all my life. I switched from new age to techno. One of the things I like the most about techno is how elastic it can be for creativity. It was like new age with a beat.

8 years later and and tons of techno made with my synth, like me are showing it's age. A good friend of mine works at a local music store and recently brought home for play Roland's new top synth. When I bought my synth it did everything I could imagine. After years of making music I became familiar with it's short comings. Now, everything I want in a synth is in this machine. It costs only a mere $2,000 bucks.

Let me see. Paint, ink, canvas, film, lenses, audio gear, etc... I don't see it on my list soon. But, god, I want one.

For those of you that hate techno you should know that it's not all that happy bouncy stuff. It covers everything from hip-hop to house, trance to drum n' bass, trip hop to synthpop. You all listen to some form of electronica in one way or the other, that is, unless you've been listening to nothing but 60's music for the last 4 and a half decades. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2412863/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2412863/ Wed, 12 May 2004 11:13:52 PDT ...like fat giant on a banana peel.

And then there's that thud when the weight of his burden comes crashing down on your life. Gasping harshly for air until your lungs bleed fire you struggle beneath his girth. You fingernails buckle and brake apart as you claw desperately from under him. You think to yourself 'No, not like this. I have so much more to do.'. Then you peek the clock just beyond your reach and it's time to go home from work.

Suddenly the giant stands up brushes himself off, turns and asks if you are alright. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2405557/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2405557/ Tue, 11 May 2004 09:55:28 PDT
No, I'm not talking about IBM. I'm talking about my Van. In desperate need for a car I finally got one.

Cheap.

I mean really cheap. It was a steal. It's a late 80's Chevy Astro Van in blue, complete with calico spots of fading paint. It runs great and gives me the freedom to get out and shoot more photography.

Gas.

No, not from dinner but in the tank. It FUCKING! eats gas. Out here in Cali where gas is running 2.35 cents a gallon it costs me 60 bukcs to fill it up and it goes fast.

Well, at least it's fun to drive. ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2101954/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/2101954/ Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:04:36 PST
Let's see, I've not done one DA thing in a month!!!

Though I have shot 8 Rolls of film.....

]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/1953190/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/1953190/ Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:08:18 PST
Finally I get a little bit of down time to upload some of the photography that I recently have been doing. Life has been ever so distracting. I "cofounded" a photomanipulation page with Anna and I've yet to really return. This is due to a total lack of time and also because I'm currently not in a photomanip mood. It's always something creative, but it's ALWAYS one at a time. Good god my messages as it is reads 1H | 5M | 41C | 38D | 17J | 1N . Erg!

Well, I was going to do an open mic for a poetry show in Vallejo, CA this evening, but seeing how I forgot.... Huh? Oh Yeah. But since I forgot I'll simply put it off. It WILL be there in the future.

And I will hopefully be buying a car at the end of this month, a Toyota Camery. If I do I'm going to head down south and say what's up to *skantfa.

And since I got so few people wanting tales I'll keep it heads up.


God I'm horny tonight. -J ]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/1895956/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/1895956/ Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:44:26 PST
There is two sides to every coin. Ever wonder what I have for tales?

]]> ~alteredworks http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/1861124/ http://alteredworks.deviantart.com/journal/1861124/ Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:06:26 PST
Some times you get so used to looking at the ground you forget how beautiful the sky can be. You hurry your burdens with the falling weight of each heal on the ground. Your shoulders hang low and try to caress your lower back while your eyes only look inches in front of your falling footsteps.

You look up and see the sky in it's beautiful cyan and the clouds painting the dome of the heavens that you can never quit reach. There are people there, friends, family, foes.... And you wonder how long you've been walking around dragging yourself along like a ritalin riddled child.

Then you remember that you have to push on. That each step you take forward requires a trust of your feet, a trust in the ground. Then maybe you can look up at the sky just a little more often.

Because, you never make it very far if you're always looking only at bare inches in front of your feet.

]]> ~alteredworks