http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:in-motion&section=today deviantART RSS for by:in-motion en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:24:44 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/11866197/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/11866197/ Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:15:13 PST
The reason why? Well yesterday, I got in a car accident, and this time, I'll have to pay for the repairs myself. If the damage estimate is anything like last time I wrecked, then it's gonna cost me an arm and a leg. In other words, around $3000 to $4000 likely, although I won't know for sure until I get an estimate done. Right now I only have about half the amount I need, and the only way I currently have of getting the money is by earning it at my job, which is almost minimum wage.

You can see where I'm going with this. I've never needed money more in my life than I do right now, so if anyone out there is still interested in buying the desk from me then feel free to either leave a comment here, or if you want to be more private about it, email me at edge_0f_blue@yahoo.com . I'll have to do some minor touch-ups to it, since it's been sitting in my garage for a long time gathering dust, but to my knowledge it's still in pretty good condition. I will also have to decide how I'll go about selling it/auctioning it off.

Depending on the amount of comments and emails I get from people, I'll either set a price, or set up a way to auction it. Judging by the amount of people who read this journal though...it will probably go the first way, unless I figure out something else. So anyways, drop me a line if you're serious about it, and if you need to see photos then you know where to look, obviously. If I get any takers, I'll do the touch-ups on it, and then post new photos so you guys can be sure of its condition.

-Dan

EDIT: To clear up any confusion, I'm not charging $3,000 to $4,000 for the desk....that's just the amount it cost to repair my car. The desk would probably go for somewhere between $500 and $1000.

]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/9746124/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/9746124/ Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:18:58 PDT
I decided I will check back tomorrow and if I'm still having the same problem, I'm sending a message to an admin. Something I've never done, because I'm a lazy piece of shit that doesn't participate in the dA community, but seriously, this will not fly. lol. I WILL NOT BE STARVED OF MY LIFE-SUSTAINING ADDICTION. TO ART!!

Anywho, in other news, the new cell phone I just got like two weeks ago is useless now. The first one I had for a while (that most people have seen) went missing and I never found it back, although I suspect it's hiding around Cassandra's house somewhere. The replacement phone I got for that (a rather nice flip phone) got soda on it. To make a long story short, I went on a delivery for work last week, had to bring a large soda in a styrofoam cup along as part of the delivery, and put it in my cup holder. An unwound paperclip in the cup holder poked a hole in the styrofoam cup and started leaking without me knowing. My new phone was in the cup holder....you figure out the rest.

So yeah, until I cobble the money together for a new phone, I shall be phoneless for a week or two. Although I should still have the same number. Just a heads-up for all three or so people who read this journal.

I believe there's less than a month (right?) until college. For me. Not for all you losers who are stuck on the semester system. JUST kidding! Better get some last minute plans together before SCAD consumes my life again for 2 or so months... ]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/9011702/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/9011702/ Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:20:53 PDT
I realize I'm a bit late bringing up the topic, but due to numerous circumstances I wasn't able to see the movie myself until today.

Anyways, I'm not going to pin all the blame on Brett Ratner like so many other disgruntled fans have been doing, but (warning, spoilers)...





sorry, killing off THREE main characters, all in the same movie, just infuriates me. I'm still reeling from the fact that Charles Xavier was actually killed in the movie, and Cyclops was discarded like some cheap afterthought. Maybe they were thinking, "hey, if this is the last movie in the series, we can do whatever the fuck we want with it," but damn, the way they handled it all is insulting. And now that I think about it, the fact that the most emotional moments from the movie were the result of these characters' deaths seems really cheap on the writers' parts. Yeah, the drama of it all knocked me over, but I still feel cheated here. I heard that besides the big director switch, most of the same crew members were involved in production, so if the first two movies were pretty good, wtf happened? I may not be a filmmaker, but I mean come ON, couldn't this movie have been handled better? I didn't really have a problem with the plot itself...but it really should have been expanded on. Mostly everything is briefly touched on and that's it, and not much is developed for the plot's sake. Probably the biggest problem I had with the plot was the whole Dark Phoenix thing...but I won't go into that.

Just know that one of my most anticipated events of the past few months has been fucked, and the fact that this is supposedly the last X-Men movie makes it even worse. I'm sorry guys, but I'm totally and completely disappointed here. The eye-candy was all there and in abundance, but the heart wasn't. =/ In the end, this could have been SO much better.

Maybe other people with lower expectations will like the movie more, God knows I wanted to. Part of me still likes it, for the mere fact that it's there, and it's X-Men. The other part that appreciates a good movie....well, just forget it. ]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/8398551/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/8398551/ Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:17:08 PDT seenew tagged me with this, and I had to tell 6 weird things about myself. I'm not so great with coming up with random facts off the top of my head, but here it goes:

1. When I walk up a staircase, instead of going up one step or two steps with both feet, I usually go up two steps with my left foot, and one step with my right foot. Not always, but most of the time.

2. Sometimes I'll wake up, sort of, but I'll be completely out of it and not fully aware of what's going on around me, and then go back to sleep. When this happens I may hallucinate and see things, usually on the wall. It might be something on a poster that appears to be moving when it really isn't, for example. Once not too long ago this happened in the middle of a nap when Steve and Sam were in the room. I was half-awake and was staring at the image on Sam's Giger calendar and the babies in the image appeared to be moving...I pointed at it and just mumbled something...Sam and Steve were confused, and when I woke up later I vaguely recalled the incident and asked them about it.

3. Not sure how it happened, but I developed a habit of sitting down in the shower instead of standing, I guess because it's more comfortable. Am I the only person who does this?

4. If I'm driving down an empty two-lane country road, and I'm bored, I sometimes swerve into the opposite lane, and back into my lane, back and forth. I only do this if i'm at a straight part in the road, and there's no other cars around. So I'm not a complete idiot.

5. I sometimes associate songs with strange visuals. Not like synesthesia, but the elements or mood of a track can make me think of certain things. Ex: "Kaleidoscope" by Trafik makes me think of a funkyass breakdancing robot The beginning of "Fundamental" by Sasha...sounds like a bullet train leaving a cold, dark station, and as the song progresses it's like being inside a huge robotic factory with moving mechanical parts everywhere.

6. I have a lot of trouble remembering to clip my toe nails. I'm getting better about it because I'm wearing sandals more often now, but there would be times a while ago when I'd sometimes go for like two or three months without clipping them, and my mom was the one who would tell me to do it. lol.

And now I get to tag other people with it! I choose:

~DRKPR0PH3T (Sam)
~vergeofsanity
~kittiekat ]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/7368670/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/7368670/ Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:08:55 PST
Heh, sorry, had to blow off some steam there.

Not really a worthwhile update....the first entry in more than a year. I promise I won't be pissed off in next year's annual bullshit journal entry. ]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/3943271/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/3943271/ Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:24:26 PST
One of these days I will get crackin.

Oh yeah, dzihan & kamien does some funky fresh music. ]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/3152021/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/3152021/ Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:14:36 PDT
These past few months have been difficult for me, artistically. The summer began promising enough...I thought I would be able to run with new ideas and get my creative juices flowing. I had found a new obsession during my senior year and thought it looked promising, and that was comic art. Perhaps I had been living in a cave the whole time...it's a bit of a shock that it took me this long to dive into the comic world. Many of the comic artists I've come across have had a passion for it since childhood, but I never got outside of my shell and did a bit of exploring until now. What I've discovered makes me wish I had found the American comic scene a long time ago.

It's very frustrating when you feel inspired and want to be productive but the ideas aren't flowing onto the paper. Maybe I'm just a slow learner, but things aren't coming easy to me. I see all the young artists on this site who try one new thing after another and succeed in everything that they do, whether it be CG coloring, inking, photography, etc. That's probably a big assumption for me to make. I'm sure we all make failures, some more than others, and we only selectively post our more successful attempts here on dA.

My lack of progress has gotten me to reconsider my future as an artist. Maybe what I really need is a bit of guidance, but I feel way too inexperienced to be going to a major art college. Hell, I never even submitted a portfolio to the people. The bad thing is that I got in on academics alone, they haven't seen a shred of my artwork other than the time I came down to visit last February. I feel guilty in a way for going to SCAD when there's way more passionate and talented artists out there in what they do, who have to settle for something less when they deserve more. Why should I, a guy who's barely stepped into the pool of comic art, much less any other genre, be going to a private art college to be planning my future? It just seems unfair to me (and others). In addition to this I feel like there's more pressure on my head not to fail when everyone's encouraging me and stuff upon hearing my college plans. Also a few people telling me how lucky and privileged I am to go to this school when they aren't able to...only makes me feel more undeserving inside.

DeviantArt is definitely one of my favorite websites/communities, if not THE favorite. I love having so many talented and different artists in my watch. But the whole mentality of comments, watches, etc. makes me feel more like I have to please people and live up to their expectations. This is only counterproductive to my creative growth, but I can't help but feel this way sometimes. I don't know if it's just me or not. I probably shouldn't let it get to me but it still does. There's so much pressure riding on what I do that if I screw up it makes the situation feel more hopeless.

So the reality of it all makes me question where I'm headed. Maybe this just isn't what God wants me to do with my life. It saddens me to think if I don't follow this path, I'll most likely end up with some boring mundane 9 to 5 job like on "Office Space" (lol). But hey, if you plan to make a career out of this stuff, you MUST have the passion, the skill, the determination....all those things that you need to be successful in what you do.

In conclusion, I really don't want to give up. I want to think there is still hope for this little dream of mine. I will still go to SCAD for a while...see how things pan out over there before I make up my mind. But please, if you have anything to say, feel free. I haven't talked to many people about this....other than mentioning my situation a while back in my journal. It's past 3 AM now and I should get to bed. I feel relieved to finally get this off my chest. There's still a few things I need to say that sort of tie in with ~coxi's latest two journal entries (which you should check out if you haven't seen them already!). I'll save those for another time. Thank you for listening. I'm going to be praying and asking for God's guidance.

-Daniel ]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/2635870/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/2635870/ Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:28:14 PDT
Next week I'll be in Minnesota visiting relatives. I'll probably draw up there as well, so check back soon. That is all. ]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/2429179/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/2429179/ Fri, 14 May 2004 16:58:40 PDT

I'm also happy to say that I've had my art teacher enter a drawing into a local art competition (Arts in the Park), a drawing that I am really proud of and that's personal to me. I hate to appear greedy, but I'm hoping to win one of the cash prizes cos it looks like I won't be getting a job this summer after all.

Worry not...I'm not actually dead. I only update this thing when I feel I have something worthwhile to say.

Anywho, expect a healthy upload sometime soon. Also, pray that I don't get too lazy this summer in the absence of a job so I can produce some new stuff! ]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/1807624/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/1807624/ Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:02:24 PST ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/1495957/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/1495957/ Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:13:21 PST ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/1125867/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/1125867/ Wed, 03 Sep 2003 19:14:01 PDT
now if only I had a Gamecube. ]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/722236/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/722236/ Wed, 14 May 2003 15:16:16 PDT
Thanks goes out to whatever few people took the time to comment or +fav my stuff. ]]> ~in-motion http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/646260/ http://in-motion.deviantart.com/journal/646260/ Mon, 21 Apr 2003 20:24:39 PDT I'm currently working on something involving chalk pastels for art class. Expect some new stuff soon. **heads out the door**. ]]> ~in-motion