http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:gunslinger&section=today deviantART RSS for by:gunslinger en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:58:30 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/27140911/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/27140911/ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:33:29 PDT
SPHINCTER MALFUNCTION !!!

Knowing myself, discovering these useful little beauties is only the beginning of a heart-stopping ordeal before... catching it...
As a nature lover I'm usually unwilling to kill anything larger than a fly... mosquitoes I will gladly swat because, well, they steal my blood... but spiders are not only useful, they're about the only thing standing in the way of global insect domination, so they're on OUR side... but did they HAVE to be so GODDAMN ugly, and crawly, and fast, and have eight legs and eyes? DJEEZUS...

So I take a plastic cup and an empty envelope, ready to trap it... IT RUNS... OH SWEET MOTHER OF GOD IT RUNS... by now my heart is racing along with the spider, chills run down my back... finally I catch it and throw it out my window, two stories up.

*PHEW*

The one thing I've learned about spiders is, that when you make them fall, they spread their legs and hover down... quite fascinating... as a matter of fact, the further they are from me, the more fascinating I think they are...

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/27100949/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/27100949/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:00:19 PDT
If you haven't seen this series, I advise you to do so.
A wonderful storyline and brought by people making a very serious attempt at bringing hardcore fantasy to the little screen with uncompromising seriousness , this has been an enormously entertaining first season.

I'm just sad I ran out of episodes to watch...

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/27013663/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/27013663/ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:32:04 PDT riding a donkey to a party is very uncomfortable and generates ridicule...

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/26805557/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/26805557/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:25:51 PDT Today, for the first time this year, I'm actually enjoying it again...
I hope this signifies the end of an inspirational dry spell that has been going on for a long time.
It's 5.30AM and I'm submitting fresh stuff again... life is good once more

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/26204896/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/26204896/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:46:09 PDT Gothic Festival 2009 @ Expo Waregem was übercool !!!
3 days of beer, sun, music and people with extravagant clothing and haircuts.
Too bad I didn't take more pics and the ones I took are kinda crappy...
I won't upload them here.

Best bands I saw included: KMFDM, Diary of Dreams, And One, Diorama, Miss Construction, IC434, Client, Hocico, Apoptygma Berzerk.

Pièce de résistance was undoubtedly Hocico, the uncanny Mexican industrial duo.

I'm inclined to go again next year



]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/25688754/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/25688754/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:10:17 PDT Cool beer, hot women. Some Southern Rock on (Lynyrd Skynyrd will do just fine for now).
My phone should be active again later today, my rent is paid, 's all good

Thanks again to $Heidi, who held a little competition in dA chat. I won a 1 month sub so here's lookin' at you, kid

Been playing very well lately. for the past 3 weeks I've been playing either semi finals or finals and I won the weekly tournament in an affiliated snooker club here in town.

Went out and bought me a webcam thingy. Long overdue. Works great.
On the downside, yesterday it was about 28°C in my living room and my PC wouldn't boot... bummer.

Oh and I only slept for 3 hours...

Now I got to clean my appartment *BARF* but I'll be happy when it's done.

Have a good one y'all !!!
NAO GIMME BACK MEH BOTTLE OF WATER *YOINK*

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/25315047/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/25315047/ Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:28:34 PDT I'm going back for some education soon (PHP developer) and that will keep me going for the rest of 2009. If that works out I'll never have to work in IT Support AGAIN... EVER. Yay for me.
End of June I'm getting a nice tax refund, and that will help me get on my feet again financially, i.e. help me pay some bills that were overdue.

Things are looking up... finally...

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/24503456/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/24503456/ Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:06:52 PDT I got fired a couple of days ago. I have to admit that being late at work a couple of times due to insomnia and/or extreme fatigue doesn't help. Neither does having the odd day or three, four when I actually didn't even have the money to go to work. I had explained my dire situation to my boss but I have to say he never seemed genuinely interested in my personal issues. Not that I blame him personally.
It would be all too easy to point the finger at a person, in that sense personifying the true underlying problem that has crept into our society: only emotionless, financially sound and fully healthy robots without any ambition have a chance at making a "career" in the kind of IT support that I do.

I was contacted last week for a change of scenery by another company looking for someone like me. I hope they're interested by my resume and I can get starting again soon.
Situations like these tend not to help steer clear of certain financial doom.

They say it always gets worse before it gets better: well, it doesn't get much worse than this but in a way I'm less stressed out than expected, much to my relief.
To be honest even on this worst of days I'm actually happy I have a couple of days to get my thoughts together and get some stuff sorted out.

Hopefully I'll be able to write a happier journal entry soon.
Until then, I wish you all a very good night.
Back to the studio.

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/23640755/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/23640755/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:23:46 PDT
pfff I'm so tired these days... working two jobs, getting SO little sleep, drowning in assignments and must-do's and still-have-to-do's and bills and... pfff

But in some sense, it's liberating to drown oneself in tasks and resposibilities as it gives you a valid excuse to decline further engagements and to genuinely enjoy what little free time one has to truly do the things that one enjoys the most: nursing a FUCK-ALL mentality towards everything and everyone.

I'll have to admit though that I (or rather: my body) will not be able to endure this for many more months to come. At some point a system-wide shutdown is to be expected, draining my mental and physical resources as I'm doing now.
It's like constantly running an engine on methanol instead of gas.
Let's hope it comes with a BIOS warning beep so I can reboot in safe mode and take it easy again for a while, once all the bills are paid and I'm out of the red

Soon, my flesh-and-blood chrysalys, very soon.

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]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/21339892/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/21339892/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:47:12 PST
In short, after two to three months, I was without the luxury of an internet connection. On top of that I moved to a new apartment downtown so in all it was a pretty busy and constructive yet tiresome couple of months.

Now, all of a sudden, I have internet again. Getting an appointment fixed with my ISP turned out to be tedious and fucked up: appointments got canceled on both ends and when I finally got it installed at my new place I realized that I had been wanting to format my system partition for a long time now, luckily I have backups.

Halfway, the restore process freezes. Funky errors fly about. Swearing like a sailor now. Must get online. Hours pass. AV license expired... FUCK, buy another one.
Having clicked 29 GAZILLION times "Next" and "Finish" on countless application installers, I'm finally kind of up-and-running again, the odd little tool still missing, but they get installed on a need-to-use-NOW basis.

At present, yours truly is once again sitting his ass down and enjoying the joys of both the internet and the illusion of control. It's a win-win situation...

Morale:

1. Windows isn't meant to be used let alone used for 2 years. Really. Take it from a pro who should have done a system restore 5 times in those 2 years.

/* Mental note to self: perform backup integrity checks regularly */

2. Moving sucks ass, especially when you're being forced out of a sold rental apartment. Moving to a nicer place is an added bonus.

3. Having internet saves you a LOT of money that you would otherwise spend going out.

4. I've been working for a decade now. Don't do it if you can avoid it. People throw away their lives going to work. Find another LEGAL way to get paid that doesn't involve work.
E-mail me once you've come up with something viable...

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]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/17107947/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/17107947/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:44:39 PST Apparently some "person" (edited out the more detailed description) has spammed the gallery with a single piece of "art" (a color map) and miscategorized it under vehicles > for land... :S
In itself this can only be described as annoying... but wait it gets better.

I'm the kind of guy who can get annoyed at miscats... but at +50 million submissions, I'm pretty sure nobody's clicking away his or her days checking for them and neither am I.
But when you submit a single piece a gazillion times in a matter of minutes, each time changing the name to random keyboard rantings, that's where I draw the line.
"Art" or whatever you want to call it is supposed to be unique. Submit any kind of idiocy if you like, I'm here for the sake of showing the world what I'm doing in my free time and my gallery also serves as an online portfolio of my work. Most people would agree that not all art gets as many page views as you'd like and sometimes the pieces that were the most time-intensive get little or no page views at all... we all deal with that.
You make art for yourself, and if in the process others find it pleasing, then that's good.
Best-case scenario you stumble across a handful of serious dedicated people who can actually make sensible remarks and advanced critique.
But one reason you're not supposed to be submitting for is to get attention just for the sake of attention.
Anyway... failing to find any related info on submission rules other than a page filled with legal mumbo-jumbo, I took to the #help chat room and asked if this was allowed...

AND IT IS !!!
The only reply I got was something along the lines of: as long as it's your own work you can do what you like.
...
... (me being baffled, followed by *quit*)

So if tomorrow I want to:
a. be a complete *ssh*le and submit a single piece 1000 times
b. fill up storage with duplicate work
c. phish for page views and comments even if they're negative, just to be a little attention-wh*re

then I can go right ahead and do that.
Doesn't seem like the kind of art community our founding fathers were aiming at.
But hey, I wouldn't want to spark a pointless discussion and I'm pretty sure that if there are no rules except for pr0n material, I'm pretty sure nobody cares...

In all I can only comment that I'm currently disgusted with this.
I would have hoped that the rules were a little more strict about this kind of situation.

I guess again one of my illusions just popped out of existence today: that DA is a well-organized and well-maintained community with sufficiently strict rules to keep it fun for everyone and where its 'leaders' maintain sufficient vision and supervision to keep DA true to its original goal: to unite artists and their artwork and keep a common-sense set of rules by which this can be achieved.

Guess I should stop typing here... and maybe stop thinking about it because the more I think about it, the more I get pissed off.

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/17043693/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/17043693/ Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:35:15 PST That might not seem to be much in itself, but nonetheless: I AM VICTORIOUS

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/17022385/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/17022385/ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:09:00 PST
SO umm... Vade retro, Satanas !!! LOL

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13678455/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13678455/ Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:06:26 PDT

Coffee, my loyal friend, got me through the night.
A friend of mine (ex-colleague actually), had asked me to make some flash banners to promote her new CD.
Now as I'm not exactly a Flash guru, it took me some time to rediscover the old tricks of the trade to get the job done, but apparently some positive comments have already come my way, so I'm really curious to find out what she thinks of them.
I've posted the first banner in my gallery.

I had also paid a visit to #thumbsshare, where GibbyGibson enlightened me on the topic of Fuzzles, apparently a cartoon creation of some sort that involves fuzzy ball-like creatures and funny / deep text balloons.
I didn't really know what to Blender (in between the Flash assignments) so I created -what I hope to be- a nice attempt at a 3D Fuzzle...
So all in all, a busy and caffeine-laden night

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13592670/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13592670/ Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:18:26 PDT Not in real life, for heaven's sake, only in Blender haha.
I'm eager to get the modeling done so I can start using some of the kick-ass textures I've stumbled across (and have aptly added to my tex-lib )

So watch my gallery for more posted work soon !!! ]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13548625/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13548625/ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:08:26 PDT
]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13533438/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13533438/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:11:47 PDT
Too late at the office, hung over, caffeine goooood.
One day to go, stay awake, look busy.

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13479201/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13479201/ Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:39:46 PDT
It took me a while to get to the location: 45 minutes of train, and my typical getting lost in a town I don't know.
Called the guy, he said it was allright. I arrived some time later on (about half an hour late).
I had two hours worth of interview ahead, the first of which was a test of some sort, doing HTML tables / CSS and a website design challenge in Photoshop.
Passed both with flying colors... cool.
The guy seemed to be rather impressed by the design I made.
It pretty much came down to creating a website design proposal with stock photos, photoshop and about half an hour worth of time.
It came out kinda nice, but it showed that it took only half an hour, but he didn't seem to mind.
Anyway, the real interview went well too, and after about two hours, I came out feeling both very confident ànd confused, because as much as I want to start working in this sector, this particular job offer is, imho, poorly payed. In any case too poorly to sustain my lifestyle in any sort of way, sadly enough.
I have rent to pay, and after all expenses, quite frankly I can't survive on a few hundred euros per month. A man's gotta eat.
I said I'd think about it, and I did, but I'll have to decline.
Still confident in finding a nice job though, this interview gave me just the boost I needed.
Fingers crossed !!!

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13415865/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13415865/ Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:33:54 PDT
...you review everything concerning html tables and css, because that's usually what is asked for or what is tested.
This is no different. Tomorrow I have such an interview and I dearly hope I'll do fine.

On top of that I have a nice little throat infection and a major fever AND I still have to make a splash screen/language choice design for a website tonight (preferably) so I'm really looking forward to tonight.......

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/11501598/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/11501598/ Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:14:25 PST Since last night when I installed it, I've been LOVING this equipment.
Productivity times... 100?
It's stylish, sturdy and of top quality.

Only the absolute positioning is somewhat tricky at first, since it requires distancing yourself from the approach to a regular mouse.
No doubt this will resolve itself quickly...

]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/5248611/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/5248611/ Mon, 02 May 2005 16:07:41 PDT
Anyway it looks like it's decent stuff, quality's good and all, so let's start scanning... stuff...

thank god I need textures to about everything to play with in Blender, so you can be sure I'll put my new assets to the test ]]> ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/3757438/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/3757438/ Fri, 05 Nov 2004 02:40:33 PST ~gunslinger http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/2056/ http://gunslinger.deviantart.com/journal/2056/ Fri, 24 Nov 2000 05:48:01 PST first entry, we set sail towards uncharted territory, laughing in the face of danger... ]]> ~gunslinger