http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:monkeymintaka&section=today deviantART RSS for by:monkeymintaka en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:18:08 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/28023013/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/28023013/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:18:56 PDT

So i logged on this morning for a mandatory DeviantArt glance-over and i had like 90 messages, which is about....76 more then i normally had I thought it must have been a glitch in the system until i found out i had my 2nd Daily Deviation. yay!

Very exciting.

Thanks to =161before for suggesting and ^Ikue for featuring

Later!

---------------EDIT -------------

Thanks so much for everyone comments, the good, awesome and that one kind of funny bad one.
Sorry i cant acknowledge every fav but im really lazy and it pains me to do it for 8 let alone 268. But you have all made me happy

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/27481001/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/27481001/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:16:16 PDT
Basically it said:

Hi!
I'm Back!
America was cool!
Thanks for visiting!
And watching!
I will be less lazy now I'm home!
Bye!

But with less (!)

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/26151649/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/26151649/ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:24:50 PDT
I have been SO busy with this summer camp job, i barely have time to phone my mum, let alone browse devARt. I am so diconnected from the real world, its crazy.

But i'm halfway though now and then im travelling! Im so excited fo the grand canyon.

Thanks to everyone who has visited or watched me, im such a neglecter right now.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/25289211/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/25289211/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:46:27 PDT
I have been so busy with work lately i havent even had time to check my messages. My deviations have been adding up. Like 658. Gar! I feel a mass select and delete coming on.

I have 5 days till i leave for america and my Passport AND Visa are still in the american embassy. Happyhappyjoyjoy. i keep telling myself everything will be okay but secretly i believe i will miss my flight or be refused or something.

The "head chef" aka loser doosh-bag was fired todasy at work. I have despised him since he started a week ago but today, i felt oddly sorry for him.

About the whole vexel/vector discussion. It seems everyone is getting WAY wound up about it. I agree with most of what people are saying but i dont see the big deal with it. Maybe im a tad idealistic but why cant we just make art, make friends and have fun?

And as always thanks to all my new watchers, visitors and fav-and-runs. Sorry for my lack of replies. Im a bad bad deviant!

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/25223773/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/25223773/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:14:37 PDT
Anyways... for all those who care, this is how i spent my birthday.

Got up.
Went to Exeter with my sister.
Watched DRAG ME TO HELL (8/10) Points for Justin Longage.
Spent too much money on stuff i dont really need beacuse "it's my birthday".
Went out for chinese my my family.
Helped my sister study for her Science GCSE.
Played Sims 3 until 3:11am in the morning because i'm a total nerd.
Updated DeviantArt journal.

Technically, its not my birthday any longer.

--------FOR ALL THOSE COMPUTER GEEKS------------

I'm getting a new laptop! Excited much!
Acer Aspire something or other
Geforce 96000
4GB RAM
250GB hardrive
2.4 ghz dual core processor
Shiny sexy black finish

Dude. Im pumped.

BTW: AMERICA IN 10 DAYS!

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/24201119/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/24201119/ Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:43:48 PDT
Also, i just brought tickets for a silverstein show in may. But they are only the support band. Jeeze, whats up with that? They are supporting The Blackout, an english band. Anyone heard of them? They are pretty cool.

Im hungry.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/24091994/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/24091994/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:18:06 PDT
So ive just spent 20 minutes google-ing her and i have literally 45 images. Now i just have to choose.

Arghh! I was never good at decisions. Maybe i will do them all

p.s For all those who dive or have ever wanted to see a giant squid or a great white plummeting through the water towards you.... today i completed my first open water dive!! It was so fun, and now im only 3 dives away from my certification!

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/23968707/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/23968707/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:34:11 PDT
I just watched Half Nelson, and i am now officialy in with Ryan Gosling.

Hmmm...i guess the ol' Notebook didnt do it for me.

Not since Requiem For A Dream has drug addiction been so sexy....

That is so wrong.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/23707851/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/23707851/ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:40:18 PDT
Its like, when i started a little over a year ago, every thing i did was new and exciting and i was like "yeah! I rock!" And now...i look back, and i kind of sucked

So, its all about the learning curve kids. And im sure, in another year i will look back and think i suck too! But thats all good, thats how i like it!

In other news....i am SO making a portfolio website. I made two in college, and never put them on line, so thirds a charm

Thanks as always to my watchers and visitors. You make me smile.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/23519274/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/23519274/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:07:39 PST
So then i was playing with all my new features, but as a human (and creature of habit) i njust couldnt change it too much. It looked all wierd, even the cool sitback function disturbed me somewhat.

Am i wierd or what?

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/23357901/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/23357901/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:19:53 PST It was really fun and the guys i worked with were really cool and talented people: , and ! Thanks to everyone who voted

Also, im at 5000 pageviews! I hardly ever notice them but suddenly i looked and im over 5000. Compared to some peoples pages this is nothing, but i got excited when i hit 100, so you can imagine me at 5000

At the moment, there is like 4 contests i want to join and i have three image ideas in my head so its good im in South Africa with all this free time!!

p.s How are you?

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/22994772/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/22994772/ Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:38:40 PST
Happyhappyjoyjoy!

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/22774241/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/22774241/ Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:15:29 PST
I went to see Escape The Fate last night in Bristol. Oh my god they were cool. My ears are still ringing

I'm going to South Africa in 1 week and 4 days! Arrrgghhhh! Exciting. Its like mega roasting out there at the mo. I'm so looking forward to having a break and some fun. All i seem to do is work at the moment.

The VCB challange at vexelove started today and i'm the team captain! Scary Should be fun. Who likes the new profile layouts?? I have to play around with mine today, it looks interesting.

Anyways... oh, and my laptop died. again. Like for the 4th time. *sigh*

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/22035463/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/22035463/ Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:05:49 PST
Actually, okay... i can think of a few But its still up there with watching the sky darken after a sun set and ice skating without falling over.

Im not English. I think, even though im not american, i am truly americanised. Maybe its because ive lived in new zealand for so long or because i watch too many movies or because all my life ive loved america.l what ever it is, i like it. Tie-dyed preferably, with a moose attached.

P.S i went christmas shopping today and brought myself a CD to put under the tree for myself. Im looking forward to christmas now, knowing i have more then a box of choclates and a new luggage bag to open.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/21883304/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/21883304/ Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:39:16 PST
I spent £740 on a ticket to south africa today. And i dont know if i even want to go anymore.

Im a little bit in love with someone i work with. And he has a girlfriend.

and so far tonight i have spent 2 1/2 hours on deviantart. It went something like this...

fav. watch. browse. fave. oooh! fav. watchfav favfav favfavfavfav watchfavfavcommentwathccommentcommentfavfavfavfavfavfavwatchfavfav

journal.

What do you want for christmas?

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/21777181/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/21777181/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:53:07 PST And its winter, i love winter. Where i am in england, its really pretty.

The landscape ahs this watercolour quality and all the trees are bare and its just cold enough for the puddles to ice over and your breath gets all puffy and the christmas lights are going up. Its great.I even

Also, i finshed my NANOWRIMO novel! Yay, 50,155 words in 29 days
so now i can get back to vexelling. I actually want to break out and do something awesome and creative. So.... thats my plan.

To Get Crazy

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/21634324/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/21634324/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:08:07 PST
My computer died. It was a horrible sudden death. It didnt even say goodbye. I spent £50 for some computer dude to tell me he couldnt fix it. I lost all my photoshop files, all my photos, all my music and my 30,000 word novel.

I was slightly upset by this. I shed a few tears. And howled to the moon "why? Why have you forsaken me evil demon of windows."

And then, today it magically worked again. Im thanking santa for this, i think its all those christmas songs we have been playing at work, that i have been singing with gusto, even though its 2 months early.

p.s 4000 page views. Eeek! Im as excited as a 14 year old at a Jonas Brothers concert

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/21293593/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/21293593/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:21:13 PST
So It's November. Yay! Many will be wondering over my excitement for this paticular month and it has nothing to do with Thanksgiving. Novemember is National Novel Writing Month and i am going to write the coolest most awesomestmost best-seller-y ever book written. In one month.

But i am addicted to photoshop, so i will probably still do some stuff, when i should be writing. Just like being back at school!

I have been so busy with work (and lack of interweb)at the moment i havent been able to give as much attention to deviantart as i would like. But now i have internet. YAY! So im sure i will find plenty to browse and distract me from my novelling pursuits in the comming weeks.

Anyways.... as usual thanks so much to all my new watchers and visitors and your wonderful and constructive comments. I really appriciate it.

smiles!

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/21107210/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/21107210/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:45:08 PDT

Also, it turns out deviant art popped my daily deviantion cherry and gave me my first DD. Yay. I had a lot of lovely comments, but i would have to agree with some of the harsher ones too I was really suprised that the pic got a DD as it isnt one of my best by far. But still, it was an honor and thanky ou to all my new watchers and everyones comments and encouragement. may your days be filled with rainbows and chocolate and your nights with dreams of wonderous places.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/20357694/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/20357694/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:47:10 PDT
When i get home, the first thing im going to save for is a new laptop. Im thinking....macbook! But no! surely i cant abnandon the PC, my friend, my mentor, my lover in the computing world.

We get along like peas and carrots, and while the macbook is super sweet and sleak and shiny with its little apple and bedroom eyes its come hither iPhoto program, i just cannot do it.

In other news....i am vexelling that dude from that movie with that chick with the lips who stole that friends man who played that devil in that movie where that chick or was it the guy who got run over by the bus. You know the one, james mcavoy. Mmmmmm.....

that is all i will say.

Anyway...thanks again to all my watchers and visitors. You are all awesome! and have grat taste

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/19984731/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/19984731/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:27:20 PDT
Cant wait to travel though...tomorrow im seeing my first BOSTON RED SOX GAME *squeals in excitment*

And...i am like 1/4 way through a new dev. Maybe i can get that finished on the road. I miss deviant art

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/19240361/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/19240361/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:50:04 PDT

The shift, space, a and n on the keyboard are stuck. You have to bang them hard.

that annoys me.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/18944559/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/18944559/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:42:57 PDT SoftSpirit118's journal and commented. So i guess that means i need to join the game. Um....


"The first 10 people to comment I'll go through your gallery and pick out the 3 pieces I like the most and feature them on my blog (journal).

The catch is, if you comment, you need to carry this on also... so in turn, you end up writing a blog and featuring 10 people and so on!"

So, yay. Can i like, feature people? You dont have to be special or anything do you??

Hey!! I AM special!

Okay.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/18922129/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/18922129/ Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:17:17 PDT
I actually just realised i have been a member of DA for just over a year. Wowzer. Time sure goes fast. And i have 2000 page views. Yay for me. Considering i havent actually done anything for like 5 months

And...im oing 6o amwrica in 3 days baby! For 5 months rto work at a summer camp and travel, so i prbably wont be doing any more computer stuff for a while, but i figured this would be the perfect time to brush up my actuall traditional art skills. If i have any left after 4 years of computering

Thanks to all my watchers and visitors, if you dont hear from me for a while, its coz im deep into the american outback.

wait. Does america have an outback?

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/18750831/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/18750831/ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:50:49 PDT
On the DA side of life, im trying to decide what to do next. Something....different. It will surely come to me in a dream.

Clubs im in:



]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/18682040/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/18682040/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:08:39 PDT
Now, i havent been to london since i was 11, so my memories are a bit blurry. But i did remember trafalgar sqaure and my mission for the day was to see it.

After navigating the underground (hectic) and walking a billion miles along oxford street (frantic) i turned a corner and all of a sudden there it was.

And it had been raining all day, foggy and quite crap really, but it made everything so much prettier. And all the marble coloured stones and the white columns and the huge lions just kind of glimmered. and westminster abbey like, rose up from the shroud of fog. and nelson whatshisname like really high up on his pillar. it was just too cool. And then...THEN

i went into the national gallery, and man. It was amazing. I honestly saw like 30% of every famous painting i have ever seen in a book or watched on TV or learnt about at school. It was flipping amazing. After a while of gazing in awe at these timeless pieces of art, it became a bit oppressive though. Just thinking about the amount of history in ONE building blew me away. So did an express tour and went to watch a movie. And then i almost missed my train home.

Good times.

So, that was my trip to london. Also, i have been engrossed in learning how to vexel. It is fun. It is harder and easier then i expected. But im kind of tired of copying things. i want to CREATE stuff. So thats my new goal. to be a creator. What am i going to do withought my computer for 4 MONTHS when im in america?? I dread to think.

This is a really long entry. If you read this far you are now officially my new best friend. Congrats

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/18220826/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/18220826/ Thu, 08 May 2008 01:34:54 PDT
]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/17717403/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/17717403/ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:40:03 PDT
Im SO getting back into vectoring...jeeze! I have had no motivation.

I find it funny that i was vectoring the most when i had assignments due! But i have been inspired of late, so hopefully i will upload something soonish.

so...apart from that, ive been working in an english pub. Blimey! And seeing the sights. England is....interesting. They say crisps instead of chips which i find HIGHLY annoying. And everyone calls me darling or love or sweety instead of my actual name. So, im kind of homesick at the moment.

Thats it until next time deviants!

CLUBS IM IN:



]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/17040705/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/17040705/ Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:31:01 PST
Damn. So i have no means with which to vector. Im having withdrawl symptoms. I may even sink as low as ms paint. Oh the horror.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/16732173/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/16732173/ Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:58:53 PST
Anyway....i leave for the UK tomorrow. Yay, but to the mother country. Until next time....

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/16632005/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/16632005/ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:43:19 PST
So its 3 days till i leave New Zealand

Yes, im happy and sad. Hmmmm.... so my computer gets brought/picked up tomorrow morning so i have been trying to finish this new vector of sweeney todd. so hopefully will have that up before i go.

When i get to england i will have to buy a new computer or steal one as i simply cant live without a digital output.

Thanks to all my watchers. And hello to the new ones

I would do that thing where you get all the little icons up, but....im rather lazy right now.

Ok, bye.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/16348422/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/16348422/ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:30:03 PST
Where was i?...oh yeah.

Oh my goooshhhh!! Only 8 pages views till i hit a thousand. Not that i, counting. But lets just say i noticed.

Anyways...not much to say. Um...i want to sneeze. OOh...and watch i am legend. Although im pretty sure they destroyed the whole book. Is richard matherson dead? if he is, he is probably turning over in his grave. I mean...man eating l;ions? will smith? block buster explosions? Yeesh. But still, i want to watch it.

Ok bye.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/16306070/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/16306070/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:31:42 PST
I leave for england in 25 days. v. v. exciting!

Anyways...that it


working on my first vector landscape. its hell.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/15867187/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/15867187/ Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:05:57 PST
This is my first day off from work in 12 days. I should be at the beach.

I graduate in like 4 days time.

I dont really have much to say.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/15595548/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/15595548/ Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:10:56 PST
Mohahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Yay, now i can get back to important things

Thanks to everyone who visited in my absence, im looking forward to getting back to vectoring. Its gonna be good.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/15006428/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/15006428/ Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:35:30 PDT
So I am trying to stay away from un-school related projects for the while. Sigh. Its just not fun to do stuff when you HAVE to!

But yeah, I will probably end up making another vector when i should be doing something else. Thats just me

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/14609662/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/14609662/ Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:40:53 PDT vexelove.
Well, I asked anyway. So now i can enter competitons, a little competitve spirit never hurted.

I have been getting into my new digital camera lately taking the most random pictures and messing around in photoshop with them, so i might add some different stuff.

The problem is, I have so many ideas for vector pieces but no one to model for me So it looks like i'm going to have to stick to the rich and famous for a bit.

I also got this person i work with to join deviant art, but she is into watercolours which arent really my thing. But i am spreading the word

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/14034026/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/14034026/ Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:03:10 PDT
I have spent the last 2 weeks procrastinating with style, and have hardly done a thing towards my assignments. But see, this was my plan, because now im starting to get a little panic-y and will get into full on work mode. I hope.
Please gawd, make me work.

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/13629501/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/13629501/ Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:51:15 PDT
And being able to watch a TV program other then Coronation Street, and not having to pretend i liked my mums really gross beef stew and being able to sleep without a dog or cat or random other animal jumping on my bed and slobbering all over my face.

Anyway, enough ranting. for now.

A big thans to anyone who has visted and commented! And thanks to my new watchers! I never knew being watched could be so fun.

p.s How do i do those links that i see everyone doing?

]]> *monkeymintaka http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/13493640/ http://monkeymintaka.deviantart.com/journal/13493640/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:10:37 PDT
So....I have no flash for 2 weeks. What ever will I do?? I might convert to Illustrator, I havent used that for a couple of years so it should be interesting!

A big thanks to anyone who has visited or commented!

This is all very exciting for me. And i'm not even being sarcastic right now.

Honest.

]]> *monkeymintaka