http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:honestbrutality&section=today deviantART RSS for by:honestbrutality en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:03:13 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5798946/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5798946/ Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:18:55 PDT
Probably going to make my own web site. ]]> ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5509114/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5509114/ Tue, 31 May 2005 07:05:35 PDT
In addition to that, I recieved my supply list from the school of visual arts. Some of the materials that they're requesting is... pretty pricy, but regardless, i seriously love the courses that i'll be taking. I have 6 instructors in 5 different classes:

-Life drawing
-Concepts and Design
-Drawing On Location
-Inking
-Workshop

which means that i'll be pretty fucking busy for the month i'll be there. So much for coming home on the weekends to visit with Sarah. Additionally, i'll be having my own room (or so i'm applying for [and will probably get because of the two saturday semesters]), which makes me happy because it guarantees me silence and the comfort in knowing that i can snore in bed and stay up till 3:30 am reading or drawing and listening to music.

What else....

I'm reading 100 years of solitude, and realizing that i'd love to re-read it in spanish. I love the way that Marquez writes, with his strange and fanciful but somehow believable style. It's a book that shines with vividity, and truly gives you a sense of real charachters. I'd love to make a graphic novel version of it, although it would be rather difficult to take 400 pages of novel and compress it into graphic form... hmm... 800 page comic book anybody?

Maybe someday. ]]> ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5389684/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5389684/ Wed, 18 May 2005 06:51:26 PDT

I cant decide whether it will be my photo account or my visual arts stuff account. ]]> ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5386651/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5386651/ Tue, 17 May 2005 20:11:19 PDT

...Search is dead, i chopped off his head,
It's rolling on the floor, it want to be fed.
The blood keeps on bleeding, it's color is red.
It's getting late so i'll go off to bed.


New account is coming. I'm getting tired of spelling out honestbrutality to everyone.

Now, since search is dead, i need people to give me new words so i can compile a list. Think of words that are not trite, that look good, and that sound good when said out loud. Words not commonly used in every day language (for example, i'm thinking of using axiom since it was the name of this year's lit mag and it's a damned sexy word to write AND say. Saying that word is the equivalent of masturbating with one's vochal chords (no perverted comments/thoughts, please). It just SOUNDS hot. But anyways, if you know my style, knkow what kind of shit i like... Know that i'm waiting religiously for the next issue of juxtapoz magazine to enter the grip of my dirty little monkey fingers.... You know what kind of words i'm looking for.

On a final note, winner will not be announced.

And this time, i'm sorry, my deviantart buddies.
But it's total secrecy.

Getting arrested by paranoid cops who think i'm trying to sell drugs to their oh-so-innocent 14 year olds (who have crazy fucking drug/sex/alcohol parties) is not my idea of a good time.

It's WAY too late to be writing an entry like this. Goodnight buttfaces. ]]> ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5180447/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5180447/ Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:46:29 PDT

I'd really like to be able to edit 16 or 32 bit RAW files and do auto color matching for series. Trying to make New York City's gates all appear as the same shade of bright orange took me hours, and didnt turn out as well as i wanted it to.

Also, free canvas would be nice. Or some oils that you dont want anymore... hrm.... spray paint/caps... Really good magnum 44 (or any other kind of xylene) markers... A not so badly scratched up drawing board... Postal mailing labels... A silk screening kit? A winning lottery ticket?

Actually, just the last one will do....

But seriously. Seeing as how I am currently not allowed to get a job, and my summer courses at SVA are rushing up to meet me at 50 bajillion miles an hour, some free stuff would be kick ass. In the meantime, i have to get back to drawing at least 3 or four times a day. I've been getting complacent and rusty and sitting in front of THIS semi-idiot box instead of the old idiot box....

I watched the motorcycle diaries with Sarah tonight. It's a very very pretty movie which i reccomend to anyone. Beautifully filmed, well acted, and well written, too. It's like a documentary, but with a LOT of spice and drama and all that goodness, and shows alot about Guevara's charachter. Plus It's made me want to travel across south america on a beat up, shitty as motorcycle and start a communist revolution throught latin america....

...ahem....

But anyways, ellipses (and their four lettered friends) aside, It's nearly midnight, i want to finish dark tower VI so i can get onto VII, the last book in the series. Almost there!

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Fact: The average christmas present ranges anywhere from 10-40 dollars.

Fact: a one year sub To DA costs about 30 greens.

Myth: Sergio will not love you if you give him a 1 year sub to DA...

Coincidence? I think not.

I've been suckered into begging my friends to buy me a 1 year sub to DA by corporate capitalism marketing techniques, but damn, it feels good. Especially with these big ass thumbnails and the ability to look at so many images at once.... I dont think i've ever browsed through an entire category of images, but i plan on trying to over the next five days.... This is just too much of a kick ass opportunity to miss out on.

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Either someone fucked up, the sytem fucked up, or i'm just lucky and win things randomly, but deviantart just gave me a free subscription for an undetermined amount of time. And it doesnt say how long i'm subbed for. But hey. It's fun either way.

whoa.... You guys get footers? ]]> ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5095726/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5095726/ Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:36:06 PDT
I pop onto the internet a couple minutes ago and find 23 messages on my DA inbox, 15 comments, and a Daily Deviation for, what else, but Rusting Bridges.

Go Figure.

But coincidences aside, I'd like to thank everyone who favorited my piece, everyone who offered all the wonderful constructive criticsim, and everyone who caught all of those damned typos which I never got around to fixing. Most of all, I'd like to thank Sarah, who was the one who persuaded me to put it up in the first place.

Although I still think that it's not exactly a masterpiece, and it's most certainly not my Magnum Opus, I'm glad to recieve recognition for it.

Thanks again.

-Sergio Del Giudice ]]> ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5051567/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5051567/ Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:08:13 PDT ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5031918/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/5031918/ Fri, 08 Apr 2005 06:43:48 PDT
I've been having recurring dreams about trains, train stations, and things having to do with trains.

On another note, I've been practicing lucid dreaming.

Things are going well with Sarah, and my courses end tommorrow. Then, the long wait until my Summer SVA semester. woot woot.

I'm tired, and in journalism class, and i've finished my article, so i think i'll do my science homework and go to sleep for a while. ]]> ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/4954891/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/4954891/ Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:22:29 PST
The worst part is that this kind of shit gets favorites and high recognition on this site.

Ah, well, as usual, these sites always end up catering to 14 year olds who think they have terrible problems in the world.

Who cares. I've stopped bitching about my problems as of late, with the exception of my bitter mother constantly complaining about the fact that i "never practice", and "never apply myself". Oh please, just because you joined the workforce at seventeen doesnt mean i will, and, on a similar thread of thought, just because you never enjoyed a normal childhood, doesnt mean i can't either.

But pardon me, I digress. ]]> ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/4474209/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/4474209/ Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:54:01 PST ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/4384510/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/4384510/ Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:46:34 PST ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/3804753/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/3804753/ Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:40:56 PST
To wage war on art

To struggle with the petty battles waged in my mind in order to compose my art.

To wage this war on different grounds, be they different mediums or different styles.

This struggle can be very difficult at times, but the end result must be a direct translation from my subconscious to the viewer's.

I must fight hard to get the image I want to project out of my mind, and to force your mind to interpret it as I want you to.

And this can be difficult at times, for taming the beasts of my imagination enough to keep them from spilling out of my brain too quickly is a difficult task, but one easily over come.

I will not make this a diatribe on my spiritual connection with the universe and my oneness with "my artwork as a living organism which should be nurtured and grown". This is no diplomatic speech. I make no peace with art, and in the end, I take no prisoners.

I will keep cutting down every last bit of imagination until there is nothing left in my mind, and I lose, or until I can create as effortlessly as I can destroy.

The introspective battle will continue until there is only one clear winner.

The imagination, or the will. ]]> ~honestbrutality http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/3285080/ http://honestbrutality.deviantart.com/journal/3285080/ Sat, 04 Sep 2004 11:59:45 PDT Listening To: Explosions In The Sky- Magic Hours (at very high volume)

There's something about photography that I love. It's not just the wonderful simplicity of capturing a moment at the press of a button, because I realized that there is so much more to it than that.

Photography is about capturing essence. It's about waiting until just the right moment, when all the action moves in harmony, and then opening the shutter and allowing the essence of that moment to flow through the light and onto the film. It's about waiting patiently for things to occur and then capturing them objectivley.

Some people say that photography isn't an art form. That it's just too damned easy to press a button and have the art done for you with a machine. But there's so much more to it than just that. Because even if the camera does capture the moment, you still have to add a bit of your essence to that moment to truly make it beautiful. You have to pour the developer in at the right time and at the right temperature, shake it just right, let the essence which is now trapped in that film get angry, let it begin to rattle the walls and show itself, beautiful, ugly, but powerful regardless of which.

You have to take peices of that essence, and crop them until just the right amount is showing. You have to make sure that it's all visible and reproduced just as you want it to be. It's more than just the technicality of adding filters, of adjusting the exposure, of making test strips. It's taking the raw moment, objective and unclean, and refining it to perfection. And that's why photography isn't just as simple as pressing a shutter. Not as simple as shaking the tank, adding the chemichals, 1 minute of agitation and two sharp raps on a hard surface to get the bubbles out.

It's about magic, in a way. Like an alchemist in his arcane laboratory, you are infusing that essence with a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and adding the key ingredient: Yourself. Because if you don't add a bit of yourself, then photography does become that useless, meaningless trash. It becomes tourist snapshots and the countless album photographs that you find in your attic. Only some of them have that powerful essence which you can find so easily in a gallery. Those are the photographs that come from luck, and that only really mean something to those who took them.

When you want those photographs to speak to others, to thousands, to millions, you need to add some of yourself to them. Because just a drop of your soul is enough to make that photograph come alive.

Because just a drop of the living is enough to bring back the dead.

--Sergio Del Giudice-- ]]> ~honestbrutality