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If I could only be half this good in photoshop.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/23893845/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/23893845/ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:49:26 PDT [link]

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/23722140/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/23722140/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:20:40 PDT

I have a stock account now: [link]
only a couple of things in there at the moment, but i am hoping to put up brushes and so on eventually. Sort made the new account because some things to me don't fit in the art or wallpaper category.

Just as i was putting this up, i heard on the news about the new low GI sugar. I have only one thing to say to the scientists who bred this type of sugar cane: LEAVE OUR FOOD ALONE!!!! Moderately good news is though that the price of corn has gone up, so finding something to eat lately hasn't been so much of a challenge. I have noticed that on packets of food they now have 'wheat glucose' specified for us corn-allergic people, which is a great thing. Though, to have a bowl of ice cream to me would be heaven. I won't ramble about food allergies for now though, everyone would still be reading this stuff for a week

Just to let ya'll know there is a site called [link] which has a load of free magazines to download. I am just looking at the latest one at the moment and will probably download the rest. Very slow downloading, but enjoy!!!!

Will speak to everyone soon ssssssssssssss

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/23207936/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/23207936/ Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:15:53 PST
While trying to go through 800 deviations, Luchare has decided to boycott NDD's - better known as Nude Daily Deviations. Every instance of looking at someone's beautiful artwork, a nude man in the DD's kept popping up all the time at the bottom of the page. Very distracting, let alone in her opinion, not artworthy unless seeking an adult site, but that's just her opinion.

Her other hates include:

1. People who boil up chicken carcasses at 600am in the morning. Luchare does not like chicken as it is, but trying to walk down the hallway of her apartment building while this dead bird smell drifts through her nostrils, is just beyond comprehension. At the end of the hall is the elevator to get down to street level. Quite frequently while smelling dead poultry corpses causes her to dry heave while pressing the down button.

2. People who continue to light fires even when the fires have just about burned themselves out. Is there anything left to burn? Last time Luchare looked at the news, there appeared to be black stick in a black ground with black smoke tendrils drifting around. There is nothing left!! So stop trying to burn bushes!!

3. People that decide to become 'fire experts' to give them an excuse to sightsee the destruction made by the fires in Victoria. Please, leave these poor peeps alone!! They have enough to worry about without looking out across the yard and seeing city people gawking at what they don't have left!!

This has been an official rant from Coopers Pale Ale.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/23113981/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/23113981/ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:08:15 PST
Latest weather - it's damned cold here at the moment. And windy, which is not helping the firefighters right now trying to put out the worst fires known in the bush since...who knows when. You see these poor people on tv saying that they lost everything, some of them not insuring their possessions or their houses and losing everything they own. Okay, not all the fires were caused by scum, some were caused by lightning strikes. But seems that someone handed over a videotape of some sort of one of the people who started one/several the bush fires. I know they should not 'ublicly' announce they have a suspect but a lot of Australians should be aware of this, seeing that the ones who did survive the horrible fires are now living in tents. All because of one or several sick fartheads that did not 'carelessly throw out a cigarette butt out of their car' - rather that it seems most of the fires were deliberately lit. Perhaps with a rolled up newspaper on a hot day, is my theory.

I apologize though, after a couple of beers and watching the news, I tend to ramble a bit. I feel so sad for these people, mostly farmers who struggle enough as it is during the drought, let alone have this happen to them. Someone told me that there was a farmer killing the few cattle that he had left because they were so badly burned that there was nothing he could do for them.

Hope is there though. There were so many stories and photos of koalas seeking out people for water, and there were a couple of pics I saw of people giving them water out of their bottles by hand. And there was also a bald cockatoo that despite having all of his feathers burned from him, he was still as cheeky as ever, trying to peck the camera.

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]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/22895388/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/22895388/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:26:28 PST
The owl thermometer had no response. It just sat there with its eyes upturned with a look of "Hey, I just work here." If my camera hadn't been stolen long time ago, I would have uploaded a pic. Seriously, you wake up in the middle of the night in that temperature and you are wishing somebody would pour a bucket of ice water on top of you. Then there is the issue with clothes when you have to get dressed to go to work in the morning. I don't have to wear a suit thank goodness, with my menial job task of copy and paste all day. You put on a pair of jeans and....well, even the clothes are hot. The water stinks when you first turn on the tap because of the water sitting in the pipes. The elevator in my building broke down in the heat. My pc is surviving at the moment while i type this, but I haven't turned it on for 4 days. Wouldn't dare try and do a render. The railroad tracks in the outer suburbs buckled (which is pretty wild looking). There ain't much you can do in 110 degrees. Now I know a lot of peeps are thinking: "But you come from New Orleans originally, wouldn't you be used to it?" Air-conditioning is a luxury item over here, and so electricity is starting to become a luxury too. I love it though when people blame the global warming boogie man.

Or as George Carlin so aptly put it - "The Earth isn't going anywhere. We are!"

People and moths are dropping pretty quick. Even though moths love this time of the year, a heap hatched and just died. There have been a few heat related deaths, and bushfires. Usually in the summertime you can smell the forests burning, but so far this year I haven't smelled anything, probably for lack of wind, or its going in the wrong direction. And this whatever it is, is headed to New Zealand, so I rang my mother to give her a 'heads up', but she wasn't at home, probably went to Antarctica

Hey I hope everyone is well, lots of hugs to all

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]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/22540035/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/22540035/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:22:21 PST

So now tagging -



8 random things about myself

1. Ditto for liking beer too much
2. I like anything that has a post-apocalyptic theme to it
3. I daydream alot, especially in front of people who waffle on too much about themselves.
4. I have an OCD when it comes to specials on products and clearance items.
5. I have to have books around me at all times (OCD on this too ).
6. Would love to travel the world and hunt for fossils.
7. Must learn everything! Though I think this is a typical Saggi trait.
8. Slowly trying to learn how to be non-materialistic and clear debts.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/21382090/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/21382090/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:30:40 PST Have gone over to redbubble.com
Got tired of viewing everyone's art with my browser crashing every 10 minutes, so I am not going to be in here. I think it's something to do with Mozilla but not sure. But I want to say, thank you so much in paying attention to my art over the past year (or maybe 2?) and giving me so much inspiration and multitudes of help, joy and satisfaction in looking at things in a unique way. Please, don't be strangers, okay? Sorry to be short and sweet but concentrating on a whole lot of things at the moment. Hugs to all, Nat. xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/20922501/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/20922501/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:36:23 PDT

Well, I have lost the ability to upload pics onto DA. Keep getting a blank screen. Since DA changed their site around I have had nothing but trouble. Firstly I thought it was just Mozilla but IE does it too - I upload a pic, and I get a blank screen. Now I know the Australian internet is damned lousy, but I don't think it's degraded in a few days.

I have taken three weeks off work once I discovered I have 4 months leave oweing to me. Thing is, I shouldnt be taking this time off because they are startng to lay off people from the stockmarket crash. Which in theory shouldn't affect Australia, but our parent company is in the US and there shares (plus the bank who owns those shares) is going down rapidly. When I left after work yesterday, they were starting to lay off people, beginning from the top dogs.

Thing is, once all this happened, I started giving the people I work with a 'heads up'last week, but only one person there seems to believe me. Honestly I was part of that group too: "I'm in Australia! The crash can't affect me!" Then I thought about it....the company I work for, their main branch is in the US somewhere. The I had a look at their shares and they were down to 18 cents, so yeah alarm bells everywhere. I only want one thing - my money. If they happened to make their way down to the little people and suddenly 'do not have any money left', I will cause a scene. So rather than sit there and watch the dominos fall down I decided to take a holiday in case I am left with nothing at the end. Or at least something 'told' me to get away for a while, and I never ignore that voice.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/20706265/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/20706265/ Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:48:22 PDT
Havent been drinking for a nearly a month now (except for one night when i consumed 4 beers while watching movies after being invited to a party that in the end my ride's car broke down so I couldnt go) and I feel damned good. I have been invited to a wedding tonight, but I told the person that is getting married: "Look, I will go to your wedding but not the reception, because I know when someone offers me a nice cold Coopers Pale Ale, it's going to be all over with." She does not understand - i.e. she drinks til she sounds like bagpipes, and her other half drinks til he passes out. Plus the reception is 6 hours on a boat, so it's not like I can just leave whenever I want to. Then after 6 hours of drinking on a boat, they are going to do more drinking in the city. But - today is Sunday. We are 3 people down at work at the moment so I have to be there. Explained all this to her but she's rather angry.

Then I have another friend who says: "What, you gave up drinking and not smoking??" One thing at a friggin time, I thought.

My whole point in this is - why is drinking so socially acceptable? I wouldn't say I am an alcoholic, but I did spend a fair bit of money on booze. $50 on 24 (sometimes more, it depends) cans of beer a week or less does not sound like a hell of a lot but when I stop and think about what I have to show for it....there is nothing. But I am wondering though with full-blown alcoholics that finally see the light and say: "Hey I don't need to drink anymore..." I have a feeling that they don't get invited to parties if they don't drink, perhaps? Honestly, I am not good socially around a whole bunch of people that I don't know (there will also be a couple there that I don't like, so what cures that problem? Alcohol!). To my second friend, well - and sorry if you are reading this - I know that smoking is a disgusting filthy habit that leads to tumors and death. But for now, it's my choice to smoke.

Enough of that crap though. Still haven't got the bond on the old place back, they are taking their time. You get to the stage sometimes when you are finished fighting it out with people.

Back in the DA world now - thank you all for the kind comments, and I am really sorry if I don't get to reply to everyone - usually what happens is when I submit one pic I am working on another one. Bryce is one addiction I hope I never have to get rid of.

Featured deviant




Please go check out his gallery, got some great stuff in there. And Tex, you cracked me up on your Lucy in Disguise With Simon title, I woke up this morning with it in my head and I am still singing it

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/20573818/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/20573818/ Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:54:48 PDT [link]

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/20323621/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/20323621/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:41:50 PDT
With the old place the owner 'has inspected the property and needs the following items attended to'....so I am reading the list and thinking: "Huh?" Apparently there is the usual 'cleaning' stuff. Okay, I didn't get professional cleaners in there to do it, I did it all myself. With renting over the past 10 years this is the first time I have had a complaint about my cleaning regime...except from this neurotic cow who has never rented out to anyone before. Isn't the real estate agent supposed to inspect?? Least it has been that way in the past with the other three places. But my main gripe is this: The neurotic owner gave us some furniture and a vacuum cleaner to use. So gladly we used it, and left it there when we moved out, as you do. But now she says that the furniture belongs to us and would like it removed.

So I wrote back to the real estate agent (would love to deal with the owner, but I guess this is not possible) and said pretty much as sarcastically as a Sagittarius can: "Cool! Does she want us to have it for free??"

What the main issue is, is that the owner wants the $1500 in bond that I paid when I moved into the place, sort of like a security deposit in the event I should do karate kicks into the walls or turn the place into a animal farm. Been three days and I still haven't heard back from the real estate when I asked her how much bond she wanted. Oh, and that if I want to dispute these things, to take it all to court.

Someone was telling me the other day that Jupiter (my planet) has been in retrograde over the past few months, but is supposed to come back on Sept 8 which is a few days away of course. I am beginning to think there is something in that...?

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To those who have nothing better to do than criticize other people's artwork - please use the time and energy to make your own artwork. Otherwise, stay off.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/19066465/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/19066465/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:58:18 PDT


Featured Artist
He has a lot of stuff that I really like.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18883780/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18883780/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:48:55 PDT


I love it when we have new management. I think we have been through one manager per year since I have been where I work (just over 10 years), and I tell you it just gets better and better with more incompetence. Yeah, I am going to rant here - I am what they consider a veteran in the company because no one stays there for very long. Hard to explain all of this but, it looks like the new management is trying to get rid of our department, even though we do all the work for them. I wasnt freaking out about these new people taking over, but now I am because now I am a target. But how great is this....no one knows who I am.....muahahahahahah!!

All right, I am having a Malibu and coke moment, let me explain a bit further. Seems that a data entry error that I did in August last year has somehow come to bite in the butt today. Why? New management! They have no idea what the company actually does and how it operates, but the decide to target ours, one person at a time. Looks like I am going to have to start wearing my '10 year' plaque around my neck again. So what they are doing to try and do something to our department (seems they cant spread the love anywhere else) is try and scrutinize every little thing that happens. Everybody is kind of scratching their heads though - something a year ago?? I wonder if anyone else has had this situation, and how they dealt with it. Problem is, where I work, they don't specifically go to the person involved, they just go skirting around the people who had nothing to do with the error (no idea how i made the error because it was so long ago, for all i know i may have tripped over my own foot and landed on the keyboard), and never come to the person involved. I suppose if they did confront me directly they know they will get abused. Looks like I am going to have to do some retraining

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]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18618904/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18618904/ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:50:04 PDT

Imagine my surprise when I found one of my images on a political Portuguese website. With the day I have had, to end it like that was, well disturbing. Now if it was only my art on that website, I would have tacked it down to experience and just kind of forgot about it - however there are a lot of other deviants art on there as well, some of which have 'rints available' here. That being the the case, I am sure that these artists would not want someone from another country being able to download these pictures for themselves without permission.

However - the thing is with this is that they have put the artist's 'name' underneath the pic but no linkback, they have not tried to pass off these works of their own. So would that be a gray area to theft, or is it even considered theft? Am I over reacting?

I did have a read of the theft forum but that didnt really answer my question. And some of the pics on the site do not have the artist's name underneath, so i gather that could have been taken from anywhere. What I could do is individually note these people to make them aware of it, but would that do any good? I would just hate for these people to be overseas somewhere and lo and behold, there's a print of their work.

I dont know, i dont want to cause an uproar or rock someone's boat or something, but at the very least these people could have provided a linkback.

Please tell me your thoughts.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18597835/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18597835/ Sat, 31 May 2008 18:00:31 PDT

If ever there was proof that the Sphinx was actually a dog, this is it:



Honestly, I could ask this dog any question about any topic, and the response would be correct.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18554140/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18554140/ Thu, 29 May 2008 03:14:17 PDT

Damn this Tesol course is hard. How do I put this? I haven't used my brain in 20 something years - my brain really clicks on words though, structures of words, phonetics and all of that. But when it comes to distinguishing between a dynamic learner and an innovative learner, my brain starts to put a an automatic wall up that pretty much has a sign written on it: "I don't need to know this." Why, I don't know. The brain should be open to anything unfamiliar in my opinion, but when it comes to relearning about compound words and idioms, my brain starts dancing around the room and sending 'joy' signals out everywhere. This other stuff...I really am stumped. Completely stuffed up one assignment, trying to work and do the test at the same time, stuffed that up too. Javacript went down, then I had that 'ohno second' when I hit submit and didn't realise that I hadnt completed one part of the course. I blame my cold, but I also blame the fact that I get too easily distracted by things as well. Tried Remedy Rescue and that works up to a point (just a few drops on the tongue) but wow, there is not a whole lot that sinks in.

My point is. what happened? Did my brain that used to pick up learning new things fall asleep with my boring job, and beer consumption? Or is it old age? Though the other part of me is saying: "Look, if you stand up in front of a classroom, are many people going to care whether they are dynamic or innovative? Has anyone else gone through this? Is it some sort of lack of incentive, or is the brain really like a muscle, and has to keep on the learning edge all the time? I don't know, I am going to be extremely surprised if I pass this course at the end.

Now I know why horses wear blinkers. Maybe I should start wearing those too

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]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18409723/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18409723/ Tue, 20 May 2008 04:34:33 PDT

Time I owed this to everyone, thank you so much for the messages, and please excuse the late replies. Plus I had to reboot the pc just now because the graphics card suddenly couldnt handle the thumbs of DA very well....but then i hadnt restarted the pc for about a week so that didnt really help

So everyone as right, I did get out of the last thing, or at least bought myself some time. I paid the rent, and am a bit lighter on the credit card It did though teach me a lesson to throw out some junk that I was hanging onto for no reason. I finally got into the frame of mode that told me that me and my flatmate were going to be chucked out on the street, even after I paid the rent, but after that whole thing of me blubbering 10 days ago, we got through it. Which made me wake up to myself. I enrolled in a TESOL course, something I have been wanting to do for a long time but never had the guts to do before. Only to find out that most countries need a bachelors degree to accept you. But I thought, "Stuff it, I am going to do this anyway."

Anyway, sorry back to the rent thing - I am a typical Sagittarius sometimes in that my stories evolve into another story that gets totally offtrack. Paid the rent, then the real estate agent said we didnt have to go to court. So I threw out a whole lot of stuff as well as gave away a whole heap as well. Books, clothes etc. Cleaned up everything. There's still some stuff i would like to get rid of but hanging onto it for now until I get back into the throw out mode. Now I will have to steal some money out of my flatmate's account to cover it....oh in about another year or so I assume.

Greatest thing is, after my flatmate rang up the rent people to hear the good 'you dont have to move out' news, they want to do a flat inspection on Wednesday coming up. I thought: "Ah, so you wait until I have boxes up to the ceiling, dust all over the floor from past archival belongings, clothes scattered all over the floor looking like a rug, and rubbish almost oozing itself out into the communal hallway, and you people want an inspection?????????" Yeah, I love people with a little bit of authority. And I get home roughly about 3pm, they want to do the inspection about 4pm. So much for coming home and having a relaxing beer in front of Bryce. I wish I was a guy - I could strip off to my underpants, put the beer bottle in between my stomach and the elastic, go over to the door when the real estate woman knocks on it and say: "How's it goin'?" And then fart loudly. Sorry guys, I had to imagine that.

The whole credit card story, well that's just another journal altogether. Seems that whenever I ring up a certain credit card company (coughcitibankcough), they seem to want to put me more into debt. "Oh you are so great and fantastic, can we offer you another $5000 to say thanks?" Uh yeah, I like to be put into debt more deeper than I am at the moment, sure certainly. "Oh and just for you considering to accept the $5000 would you like to accept another $10,000 for us to just say thanks for a limited time only subject to approval at a later date?" What the hell is wrong with these people. Who is to say that i won't escape overseas with a grand total of $23,000 and not come back? I am hoping for some long lost relative i never met before to hand over a wad of cash and say: "I have a remote island off some coast on an island you have never heard of with unlimited broadband - the fastest connection you have ever seen with your own personal supermarket and an infinite amount of renderosity dollars...." I would have flames shooting out of my butt i would be over there so quick.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18261571/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18261571/ Sat, 10 May 2008 18:05:09 PDT
As far as the rent situation goes - I was talking to a guy at work who used to do evictions in a past job and he told me that if they use my security deposit as rent, I will never rent again through a real estate agent. So I used some money out of my credit card to pay for what my flatmate didn't. Pissed off? Oh, you betcha, but if it prevents me from going onto the black list of the rental world, then i decided to bite the bullet and do it anyway. So that being said, we are officially paid up until the 26th of May - we have to go to a Tenancy Tribunal Court on Friday at 3pm. Have to state our case, why the rent wasnt paid etc. But get this - I was reading that after court they can kick you out anytime between the end of the court session up to 21 days. Hey, all I need is a decision from them, just to give myself a little more time to sell the furniture that i am still paying off the loan for. Of course if they kick us out on the same day, I am going to turn to my friend of 12 years and say: "Fluff you!" and go sleep under my desk or something.

Funny though how your mind goes both ways though, and I wonder if anyone can relate. Sometimes you are going through a problem or a struggle and you say to yourself: "Ah well, phuck it, the situation has me by the short and curlies so there ain't too much I can do about it." So you resign yourself to that. Other times, you wake up at 1 in the morning and for a split second, you feel like a normal human being, then it all hits you at once: "Oh what am i going to do now????" Not even sure if google can solve that one LOL.

As far as art goes, which this is terrible - I am just not into it right now. I know I will be once this is all over and done with, eventually everything has to come to an end, but for now I am looking up at Bryce thinking: "I just cant get it together." Got too much stuff on my mind at the moment. I am putting one up today, and I am really going to try and answer everyone's messages and look at art work but please, if I don't get to someone, just remember I havent forgotten about anyone. Just going through an information/situation overload right now, and my deepest apologies.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18182928/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18182928/ Mon, 05 May 2008 15:19:09 PDT



Hi everyone!
First of all I actually have some good news - I got included in The Best in 3D Manipulations Week of April 27 - May 4, 2008 [link] which is great for me because I've never been included in the best of anything before....ever....! But I have to say I thank especially 2 great artists and aka who let me pick their brains and helped me discover all sorts of things about Bryce. Without them I probably would not have worked out what the hell a mirror was, so thanks heaps again! And also a thank you to whoever mentioned that Room That Echoes should be included. When I was doing that I had the song in my head Room That Echoes from a NZ band called Peking Man, but I am not sure if they are around anymore.

Now for the bad news - probably going to get kicked out the apartment soon because sometimes some people that i live with don't realise what 'rent' is. There, I have said it. It's a little bit up in the air at the moment, so I explained to this person to ring up the real estate and 'grovel like you've never grovelled before'. But I will let everyone know what's going on - the 'due' date is 15 of May. Now I havent actually been kicked out of an apartment before so I am not sure what happens next - apparently according to googling that the 'notice to vacate' is kind of like a 'last chance' unless you can give a good reason. Secondly it has to go through a tribunal/court before they can actually put you out on the street. I have learned one lesson so far though - when you get a 'notice to vacate' it igves you a damned good reason to start throwing out junk. The thing that worries me is not having an internet connection. I mean I have one at work, but as far as uploading art is concerned I might have to take a trusty usb stick to the internet cafe every so often to help my addiction

Time to forget the bad news at the moment: I have been tagged!!!!!!!!!


Never been tagged before so I am probably going to completely stuff this up - that and i have a cold right now so my brain usually goes 'missing' for a few days.


* 1. Post these rules.
* 2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their self on their journal.
* 3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons on the same journal.
* 4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
* 5. No tag-backs.
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1. I am short.
2. I am allergic to everything that has corn in it, which makes grocery shopping fun.
3. My spirit animal is an owl.
4. I ask too many questions.
5. I wish I could talk to my past self (preferrably when I was about 12) so my future self wouldn't do so many stupid things.
6. I believe everything happens for a reason, whether its good or bad, usually works out for the best in the end.
7. I used to be a automotive journalist for antique cars.
8. I have a serious trouble making decisions.
9. I would like to teach English.


I got tagged by

RULES
1. Write these rules again.
2. Each person tagged has to write 8 things about herself/himself.
3. He/she has to write those things into her/his journal.
4. He/she will have to tag 8 more p... ]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18001054/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/18001054/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:07:37 PDT

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17917614/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17917614/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:30:55 PDT
gave me a great idea to include some freebie links, on her suggestion of [link] which is one place i forgot about, havent been there in ages, thanks!
Seeing I have nothing better to do sometimes than to surf the net at work, I have come across a whole lot of stuff. i will see how many i can remember and include here.

Add a new Bryce brush:

[link]

Free texture maker that i havent worked out yet:

[link]ROFX

Blender resources:

[link]
[link]

Bryce Kaliedoscope tut:

[link]

Great texture maker:

[link]

freebie links, graphic resources

[link]

Handy-looking resource, non commercial use only

[link]

free fonts:

[link]

havent tried this free geometry program, but looks interesting:

[link]

reference materials for artists:

[link]

A few useful Bryce freebs:

[link]

HUGE textures site:

[link]

My personal favorite stock site:

[link]

Bryce spaceship textures - gives a little insight on DTE

[link]

HDRI shop - makes hdri probes for bryce among other things:

[link]

Bryce tut and resources links:
Please note, some of these have gone bye byes so get what you can

[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]
[link]


Various things:
[link]

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17856853/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17856853/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:33:51 PDT
meant to move one picture to another folder and ended up deleting the whole folder. So not sure what is going to happen now, i just hope everybody doesnt get a whole bunch of messages saying that their faves got removed. This happen to anybody else? (Slaps self).

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17856831/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17856831/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:31:30 PDT
meant to move one picture to another folder and ended up deleting the whole folder. So not sure what is going to happen now, i just hope everybody doesnt get a whole bunch of messages saying that their faves got removed by one. This happen to anybody else? (Slaps self).

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17740455/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17740455/ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:49:11 PDT
His fantasy/scifi renders imho are very cool. Almost makes me want to get Vue.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17615563/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17615563/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:13:26 PDT

gotta read this everyone, when you get the chance. Hate to be wandering around in the middle of the night and get hit by this thing.

[link]

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17484338/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17484338/ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:22:59 PDT
feels good to throw stuff out that you no longer use, the easter break away from work gave me some time to do that. trouble is my flatmate is a hoarder, will most likely bring back in what i have thrown out.....if anyone has the time find out about the bower bird. That's my flatmate, collecting shiny objects to decorate its tree cave LOL!

might not be around for a few days - my ISP gives me a measly account which has a what do you call it? you go over a certain amount and it slows you to dial up speeds. hopefully i have enough til the 4th of April but I doubt it

on a happier note - i discovered Groboto today....i think i am in love. Xenodream has taught me a lot about modeling as well as more about Bryce, and also thanks to all the people who use Bryce and who are so willing to give out hints and tips. So after using Xeno I no longer look at things and go: "Oh my God, look at all the tools!!!!!!!!!!"

I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter, it's Easter Monday over here in Aus so back to work tomorrow unfortunately. Had a great break!

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17433014/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17433014/ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:11:53 PDT
sorry i havent been around the past couple of days to do much, just to let everyone know i havent forgotten about anyone, just having a bit of R & R and doing some cleaning now that i am off work. should be able to start doing some noseying at everyone's work tomorrow - happy holidays to all

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17216955/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/17216955/ Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:05:11 PST
Almost a year and i got 1000 pageviews, woohoo! Thanks to everyone who took a look at my stuff, and boy has it been a great learning journey. Bryce has taught me a lot, and so has my What If syndrome. Before I started messing around with Bryce I was addicted to Dark Age of Camelot for 3 years, and i remember thinking at one stage: "Wow, how do they make all these beautiful places?" Definitely not at the stage of DAOC of course. Then of course there's Deathlands - sorry I know everyone is probably sick of hearing it, but those books helped me along my way too. Then I happened across a lot of Bryce abstracts that people made, and I was hooked after I made Somethin Wicked, opened up a whole new world for me, and the desire to get something better than the pc i started with that had a 64mb graphics card. Probably mentioned this before, but as soon as I got a new computer and saw Bryce in a 256mb Nvidia light, i fell on the floor. "Was that what I was missing???"

Still trying to learn textures at the moment, buying a whole lot of other people's and seeing how they do these things, seeing I am a texture whore. Bryce has got a great algorithmic texture generator, but...I want more!!!

Enough of my ramblings and bad grammar, thanks heaps again to everyone, and I have met some fantastic people along the way.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/16587287/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/16587287/ Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:15:14 PST , the fan is blowing around, and some rogue mosquito has taken it upon itself to make me lunch. I asked the mosquito: "Wouldn't you rather have a sandwich?" I didn't get a response, the ingrate. nothing like freddy freeloading insects to make your day.

still making freebie bryce stuff if anyone wants any at sharecg. seems like a lot of people have taken their freebs off because they aren't making money anymore from the downloads/pageviews. but hey, the hosting of the files are free up to 150mb, and really bryce files don't take up that much room. so everyone who uses bryce please help yourself, i would love if anyone makes anything out of them. and i should have more to come over the next few days.

off tomorrow as well, being australia day, so no doubt have more time to explore my favorite program at the moment - Imagely. great tool!

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/14174276/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/14174276/ Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:44:27 PDT . Would be nice for someone to save your life then whisk you away to join their own adventures. Figured I better read it again so i can read the next two, been a couple of years.
So yeah, finally bought another pc after 5 years. Miss the old one still, dunno why it is that machines develop personalities, but they do. I remember a time when computer cases were only in one measly color....white....and now i have a black one. Looks huge sitting on the table, like most things new. New things kind of take up the entire room until you get used to them. I give this one another 4 or 5 years before it no longer looks new. I imagine I will probably take the side off again during the summertime and leave it like that. Australia gets fantastically hot summers, only time when it's a joy to go to work and bask in the air conditioning. Getting finally close to springtime now, so really interested to see if this pc is going to freeze up during applications in the heat like the old one.
Really looking forward to Alizara's next J.B. and Alizara installment. I am wondering if it is going to be like the road runner and Wile E., devising ways of capturing him LOL.

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/13728681/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/13728681/ Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:03:10 PDT
Second, i must share this important fact from the internet -

Women who smoke are 7 times more likely to grow facial hair compared to those who don't smoke.

Who? What the! The beautician shops better not find out about this or they will go out of business! Poor people that go into the electrolysis place will be thinking: "Hmmm. To get rid of my facial hair, I must give up smoking. Therefore, the beauty salon has nothing to do when I am there."

Or, more horrifying - what if - i mean what if....it is too late by the time you have a cigarette! Maybe just one cigarette will cause one of your eyebrows hair to meander its way down to your chin! I can just imagine a poor lonely eyebrow hair sitting up at the top of someone's eyes going: "It's way to smokey up here. I must move down slightly. Anybody coming with? Lip or chin? Or perhaps some really weird place like the end of the nose itself?"

Personally i do not see what one has to do with the other. No joke, I read in a book printed in the 1920's that smoking does not cause lung cancer. Hanh? Said that the thing that causes cancer is cough medicine because it softens the esophagus . I guess we have to forgive those people who print those things, both that and the facial hair thing. Poor people who have cancer elsewhere on their bodies aren't exactly putting cough medicine anywhere near it.

Sorry thats my gripe for the day, i had to put up that thing about the facial hair. I just hope no one reads this and decides to go burn their facial hairs off with a cigarette butt. <hew!>

]]> ~luchare http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/13507140/ http://luchare.deviantart.com/journal/13507140/ Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:30:53 PDT and try to get it going to fight some bad dudes. Also trying to do some writing myself, but haven't got the oomph for it lately - i.e. write a few lines and feel satisfied with myself for a few days until weeks past, and then some compelling need makes me want to write again. So strange, because during last summer I used to write every day. I guess that's the creative life for you LOL.

Oh yeah, and on a happier note, i just killed the tiny little bug flying around my face. I wasnt sure if he was having a sniff, a look, or just a general fly around, but after numerous times of slapping myself, I got him in my hand. Nothing but a dark smudge now. Hate to kill things, but bugs....I am more lenient in my morals with those. Annoying damned things. They follow either me or my beer, and with my beer consumption, they must realise that my slap coordination is off.

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