http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:nickshearon&section=today deviantART RSS for by:nickshearon en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:52:19 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/27917310/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/27917310/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:28:27 PDT
I'm just so busy right now, and my scanner has taken it upon itself to die like an aged whore and cough its internals onto the ragged pavement of my desk.

Just remember I am still here, and that.

At the moment I'm working on an urban redevelopment project to alter a victorian pub into a cinema. Which is time consuming and difficult but also a massive departure from what I usually do. My political career has started too, as I'm heavily involved with the local socialist party. Neo Vicaria is coming along, and I just got contacted by another artist for Punk Rock Apocalyse so.... fingers crossed. I'm still writing and are you ready for this

WORKING ON A SUPER ULTRA SECRET SPECIAL PROJECT

Which will be coming out next year, Neo Vicaria will be out in January-ish, and if you head to my blog now, you can check out a series of short and very disturbing humerous storys about a detective who solves perverted crimes.

In solidarity my comrades.

Rev Gonzo

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/27283152/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/27283152/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:37:30 PDT
1) I have written forty scripts for my web comic. Which can be put online as soon as I find a person who will make me a website. Message me below if that person is you.

2) Neo Vicaria is going along swimmingly, and the first issue is almost finished. Bad news? We'll be launching after I've finished the third issue. That way, the Fourth and fifth will be well finsihed in time for their release.

I look forward to taking your money.

The ever living, ever loving Rev. Nick Gonzo.

DRUNK!

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/26854017/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/26854017/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:20:29 PDT
So news from my unimportant little company, yes thats right, i'm now incorporated, and soon little chunks of creativity in hard format will be flying around with the words "Gonzoid Atomic Comicbooks" printed in smallish letters on each publication.

First of all Welcome To Neo Vicaria has changed its name to Tales From Neo Vicaria, just in case we ever want to make another series after the five issue mini-thing due to hit you in the face about march next year. I'd like to tell long readers of my blog, and long suffering folks who actually want to read something I've made that THIS WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN!

Thats right

THIS WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN

Owing to the fact I've opened a joint bank account, got some complete scripts, the time to make it and am not dying of cancer.

Secondly, as soon as I work out how to make a website, which, for some of you will be easy, but for me is like trying to decode a forgein language written in lipstick on a mirror affixed to the side of the moon, and all I have to aid me is a camera zoom and and GI Joe decoder ring, there will be a webcomic.

This is called "The Death Of Les Paul" and when I started writing it, Les Paul was alive and fairly healthy. I blame me for his death.

It will be updated weekly, and run FOREVER, because, basially, they're kind of easy to make in comparison to everything else I do.

That is all until I can be arsed to update again, keep watching the skies,

Or rather my blog [link]

and my twitter acount [link]

Yes, keep watchig them.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/26337656/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/26337656/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:50:37 PDT
Calm down, its a metaphorical desert. ITS A DESERT OF THE MIND!

SO I am now redundant. My job is over and I am not looking for work, instead, I'm off to the Edinburgh festival. So you know, yay for me?

No, no yay, because I am still in this desert. I have not heard from the writer of WELCOME TO NEO VICARIA for a long long time. This is because he went to Waken, apparently the biggest metal festival in the world, or something, so he is dressed in a kilt running around germany drunk, trying to get people to kiss his axe

..... SEE thats not a metaphor, he really has a huge plastic axe and wants people to kiss it.

And secondly the artist I had lined up for Punk Rock Apocalypse has..... well I do not know wht he has because he has disappeared. The guy has disapperated out of existence. This might not bode well.

Anyway, as I learn info, I'll tell you stuff.

Meanwhile I gotta talk to this guy about his camel chewing on my ear....



metaphorically

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/26090532/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/26090532/ Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:36:41 PDT
I awake at 6.30 am and drink a litre of human adrenocrome so i can be awake, alert and not die. It also stops me from screaming.

Next i have a shower, and put some cloths on, preferably seperatly, but if in a rush, i combine the two. Seeing as I've taken all that stimulant, my stomach is the size of a wallnut, and therefore breakfast gets shunted out of priorities.

Next up, I traverse the deserts of the North, spending up to an hour and a half on public transport with smelly old people, brash workers in their suits, school children and horrible unemployed people with nothing better to do.

I arrive at my warehose, where the place is coated in dust, makes strange noises, leaks at the roof, creaks at the walls, floods from the drains, is freezing cold and swelteringly hot at the drop of a hat, and has huge rats constantly bugging me for food. I approach the latter problem by beating them off with a pool ball in one of my socks.

After a few mintes of work, I go to the shop of an energy drink, and possibly if i'm feeling frisky, smash the windows of the local hairdressers after he voted BNP. Me and the glasiers are friends.

Next I'll work for a few more minutes and then break for lunch. I go to the local school and throw handfuls of chips over the walls into their open mouths like a trainer at sea world.

Then I'll eat a pie, and give it a score on my chart. Guess what I call the chart?

Then after a few minutes work, I return home, and on the bus home i entertain myself kicking the driver in the back of the head, to make sure he's alert.

All for £14 an hour

At home, I come on here and talk to you and my other unwashed fans.

Thankfully you guys are the clean ones.

There you go. A day in my life. Have some revised competition rules!

COMPETITION TIME!

I am drawing Welcome To Neo Vicaria with J J Marmite, a fantastic steam punk author. Anyway, Neo Vic takes place in the far future, after humanity was wiped out in a huge war, all all their robots are left with nothing to do. Without a prime directive, they try and rebuild the world, creating old west type shanty towns, as they colonise the nuclear wasteland we left behind.

I want people to draw me robots, and give me short descriptions of what they do. Or simply write a description, give me a short story involving your character.

The more creative the idea, and the better the description the... well more likely you are to win.

I'll give you two months, and the winners get featured in the Art Of Neo Vicaria Sketch book, the Next level of winners get to entre the comic book as characters, and the best as judged by me and Marmite win a signed copy of the Trade Paper back.

Seriously men and women, get drawing and writing.

Collabs allowed, in which case you'll have to share the prize.

Full details here: [link]

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/26063845/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/26063845/ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:07:06 PDT
The same happens if as an Artist I suggest a scene be moved, or speech be altered, only they just slap you with their wallets to remind you who makes most cash.

But as a writer, something has been grinding my soul down into a fine chemical powder, and I hate when that happens. It means Marilyn Manson comes around like a fucking airport blood hound, licking at my door until his acidic spittle erodes a clear path straight to where my soul lies, so he can insert it up his cavernous nose while showing me pictures of a prostitues fanny with edited pubic hair. "Twatstika" he shouts, pointing violently.

This thing is words being violently misused. I walked past a toilet paper advert which used the word "Quiltier". Since when was that a fucking word? More quilted perhaps, but Quiltier? Fuck, its like everyone in advertising has dragged out their brains and used them to sponge their cars down.

i morn the death of the english language. Anyway...

COMPETITION TIME!

I am drawing Welcome To Neo Vicaria with J J Marmite, a fantastic steam punk author. Anyway, Neo Vic takes place in the far future, after humanity was wiped out in a huge war, all all their robots are left with nothing to do. Without a prime directive, they try and rebuild the world, creating old west type shanty towns, as they colonise the nuclear wasteland we left behind.

I want people to draw me robots, and give me short descriptions of what they do.

The more creative the design, and the better the description the... well more likely you are to win.

I'll give you two months, and the winners get featured in the Art Of Neo Vicaria Sketch book, the Next level of winners get to entre the comic book as characters, and the best as judged by me and Marmite win a signed copy of the Trade Paper back.

Seriously men and women, get drawing and writing.

Collabs allowed, in which case you'll have to share the prize.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/26042675/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/26042675/ Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:58:01 PDT
I have been away, nearly died a few times, but I have come back darker, meaner and more talented.

So expect to see a few things bounced around here in the near future, as well as all those thing I had planned.

Well actually no, all of them got cancelled when i got ill.

But now, there will be new things! ( and not too many things, because I don't want to over work myself)

First things first, as this is the time for RESSURECTION! I am bringing back Punk Rock Apocalypse.

I am taking a back seat, and only doing the covers and writing. But I have a very taleted artist looking after me.

Secondly, i am doing the art on a self published titled called Welcome to Neo Vicaria. About Robots, in a wild west post nuclear war future. Some art from that coming here, TODAY!

HUZZAH

Bring your finest meats and cheeses!

It is a day for celebration!

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/23643543/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/23643543/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:36:52 PDT
My Letter to the inquire got published.!

Next stop world domination and my own regular news position.

I DEMAND WHORES AND ALE!

I mean, fines wines and sweet meats.

Actually, I dunno what I want.

Fame is hard.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/23389381/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/23389381/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:10:08 PST ewing, ~GoreGothOfNYC, ~RaptorFarmer, ~Cyclonez, =hungbytheneck and :devhatetopropagate:, you are all my good freiends, and if i didn't mention you, thats because I'm a dickhead. I'll get to that bit.

I've not posted anything for a bit. Anything at all.

That because I'm working on a shit load of things, including artistic bollocks and architectural designs and project, but because of this 'work' nonsense my actual artistic enjoyment of life has fucked off.

I no longer have anytime to do stuff.

And wheni have time to, i'm too bollock tired to do it. Look at me, I'm writing this at 4:05 in the goddamn morning. I wish i had time for you. I wish i had time to be a forum regular like I was.

I have finished my book the booze journal, standing at only 62 pages long its pretty short, but I hope it fills a gap in the universe while i wait for my other balls to drop from the gooch underneath my literal body. And my ridiculously delayed art book is coming out at the beginning of march and avaliable to order soon.

Theres alot of stuff for my hardened fans to look forward too including my T-shirt line.

Please keep contacting me and following my actions though.

You can join my twitter account here: [link]

Please check out my blog at [link]

and buy my books, I'll post links in this space when they come out.

Thank you for your support over this past year and a bit.

But this is by no way near the end of this page my dears.

More to come.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/23115281/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/23115281/ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:30:11 PST
My hard drive reached critical levels, and died on its arse, meaning that i have lost all contact with my PC until I get a new one, and then get it fixed. but in the long run, even more damage has been done. Or might have been done I should say, because until i get it working, I do not know how much ground I have lost.

Scenario 1) I get my new hard drive, this fixes my computer, and then I can extract all the data from the old drive, and then i'll only suffer a month or so on deadlines and release dates.

Scenario 2) I get my new hard drive, thiss fixes my computer, and then I find out my old hard drive is completely fucked and that i have lost all data on it, putting me back a year on release dates and the such like because I'll have lost everything.

my art book, which is actually finished will not be coming out until next year, my books will be gone and the script for Beautiful Love will be lost. I have a hard copy, but I've made some additions and alterations digitally that made it better. So, it just won't be the same story.

and finally:Scenario 3)

The slightly worse than 1 slightly better than 2 option.

I get the new hard drive, my old hard drive wasn't broken, but the computer still is. Setting me back some more money and some more time. Actuallly this is far worse, because I can't afford to buy a new PC.

I'm ballsed.

Writing from his room mates PC

Nicholas Shearon

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/22847893/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/22847893/ Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:46:11 PST
Got two writing projects on the go, aswell as all the other things I promised various people I'd do. The graphic novel is still dead set for December and the art book is still going ahead in February.

March see's the release of Middleton, instead of Elemental Trepidation though. Also, Dead signal, my zombie horror novel will be released in May.

I put the first appearance of the zombies into my gallery for y'all to look at, so tell me what you think.

and how disgusted you are.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/22616877/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/22616877/ Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:18:17 PST
As in over 20, so it says "See complete list at the bottom"

Because once you've gotten past 20, you could have 21 or you could have 30,000 no one cares.

One one ever clicks see complete list.

They just go, 'jeez I wish I had that list buttony thing on my page'.

Well I've got one.

Not that I get too ate up in all this popularity mongering.

i just like to feel appreciated once in a while.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/22615744/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/22615744/ Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:14:36 PST
Have become addicted to Relentless, an energy drink by coca-cola.

It tastes like mouth rape and feels like shoving a 15 volt battery up your colon.

I want to marry it.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/22487439/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/22487439/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:01:22 PST
No submissions

nada

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21870715/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21870715/ Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:16:07 PST IRISH MEAT PRODUCTS will now kill you. Adverse health effects are caused by eating Irish meats due to contamination from contaminated feed. Firstly we need to ask ourselves what the fuck has it been contaminated with? Lice? Radiation? Blue Smarties? Also we need to ask ourselves what level of treatment these animals are getting that anything could be near or in their food to contaminated it.

RESCUE ROBOTS have been tested recently that can use an exact photographic memory to instantly create a map of an ever changing area.Its all fun and games when they are saving you from an earthquake, but when satellite link ups mean that the entire world is instantly mapped to their internal memories, the resistance will not be able to hide anywhere....... So yeah, none step towards instant robot victory.

KEEP TRACK OF YOUR PRESIDENT ELECT with this handy blog post from the All American Blogger.I'm not sure if this is biased or not against him, at the moment it seems neutral, but the name All American Blogger has very Republican overtones. Any way, at least it is good to keep track of the promises Obama has made pre-election and how many of them he actually keeps. I think anyone who picks themselves as being president is a bad idea, the kind of person who wakes up one morning and decideds that the best thing that a superpower needs is themselves are not welcome in my house.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21803940/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21803940/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:29:25 PST
1) Viargo: Constance Viargo is the woman people call when they need things removing. not people, things. She is ruthless, some say heartless, and in her world, who can afford not to be. When hell loses cpontrol of something it never meant to exist, its up to Viargo to make it disappear, before others get their hands on it. The politics of heaven and hell written by Matthew Black and illustrated by Nicholas Shearon.

2) Is It Bright Where You Are?: Artist Nicholas Shearon collects all of the odds and ends from his note books and sketch pads to bring forth eighty different new artworks in a soft cover art book. Avaliable February 2009.

3) Elemental Trepidation: The changing face of entertainment has swallowed Frederick Verslavings world. The Elementals Corporation, a once great electronics company has released the SEAM unit, a pod that plays out your every dream and wish for you, if you have enough money. As the grip people hold on reality and simulation blurrs at the edge, Frederick is left in a world of imaginationless drones, homeless drug addicts, trigger happy armed forces and bio terrorism. The New Novel by Writer/Artist Nicholas Shearon explores the edge of sanity. Avaliable June 2009.

4) BeautifulStory: Harper was a woman who went to have a coffee. MArk was a man who needed a place to work .Whatever their reasonings, they both went to the same coffee shop, at the same time, at the same day. So started the conversation, a conversation that started three stories, as they challenge one another to recount the perfect love story, and as the two would be writers weave two perfect visions of love, they develop their own interections. A graphic novel from Nicholas Shearon and Matthew Black . Avaliable December 2009.



BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY!

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21661881/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21661881/ Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:45:13 PST
EVER wanted to be humiliated infront of a crowd of strangers, beaten by men in uniforms, shoved and dragged around underground tunnels, starved and finally pay a hell of alot of money for it?

These people at a Latvian Death Camp Tourist experiance have: [link]

And ROMOTE CONTROLLED MICROSCOPIC BIO-ROBOTS THAT RELEASE POISON! [link]

The lowest point fo human evolution (is the one with the stupidest hair trying to be sick?): [link]

And thats it.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21624616/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21624616/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:38:22 PST Ever wanted to see two three year olds beat the shit out of each other until the ones of thems nose explodes?
Apparently alot of people do.
Parents encouraging toddler cockfighting.
[link]

Real life exorcism?
perhaps or a priest molesting a very traumatised young girl
[link]


and OH MY GOD!
[link]

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21576481/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21576481/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:51:21 PST
But I am back on top form again, working on a project with the eponimous master Matthew Black.

It involves angels, demons, something they both fear and a woman who fears nothing.

Well not nothing, she has one fear that can't be revealed just yet.

It'll be mad, and violent, and clever, and you'll either love it or hate it.

Also, my book "Is It Bright Where You Are?" will be out soon, and then I can start work on Rictus again, YAYS!

Watch this space,

Nick

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21305500/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21305500/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:50:29 PST

Its the end of the world.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21254662/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21254662/ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:30:46 PDT
1) The Dow has lost about 2,000 points since a $700 billion bailout package was signed into law Oct 3.

2) The Dow closed at its 52-week high (14,198.10) exactly one year ago today.

3) The Dow hit is 52-week low today (8,579.19).
The Dow closed below 8,600 for the first time since May 2003.

4) Today saw the largest intraday point swing in Dow history: 868.95 points. The second largest was three days ago: 797.44, when the Dow closed down by 369.88.

5)The largest one-day Dow point drop was 11 days ago: 777.68.

6) On the first day of trading after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks the Dow lost 684 points (7.13 percent) -- roughly the same as today.

7) Today's percentage loss for the Dow -- 7.33 percent -- is the 11th largest ever.

8) The largest percent change for the Dow occurred on Oct. 19, 1987 (22.61 percent), a loss of 508 points. On Oct. 28 and 29th, 1929 -- the crash which precipitated the Great Depression -- the Dow lost nearly 25 percent in two days.

9) Eleven of the Dow's 20 worst percentage losses have occurred in September and October.

10) Before today's rout, government estimates put the loss to retirement savings at $2 trillion in the last 15 months.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21206988/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21206988/ Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:12:59 PDT Shame on us, We knew from the start,
Shame on us, for all we have done,
Because all we ever were, is zeroes and ones.

Zero Sum
Nine Inch Nails

I've been feeling very morbid recently.

Suffered a death in my friendship circle which really got to me, because I feel she should have lived alot longer.

Its best not to dwell.

I'm back from Barcelona, where I tried out my photography, and I'm gonna upload some, and I hope you tell me what you think.

Also, I recommend that every one watches the new TV series Dead Set by Charlie Brooker. If your a non-uk resident, look it up on itunes. iItsd £1.98 an ep, but its worth every penny.

But back to business.

I have recently discovered that everyone has a value assigned to thier life, caluculated as such:

The value of life is most commonly determined by looking at a person's willingness to pay or willingness to accept. Willingness to pay can be found by asking a person how much they would be willing to pay for good health outcomes (or to reduce bad health outcomes). It can also be determined by looking at a person's purchasing choices. An example would be looking at how much more a person would be willing to pay for airbags in his/her car. To determine willingness to pay one would look at the change in the price that occurs because of the added airbags and divide that by the change in the risk of death. Willingness to accept is determined by looking at how much more you would have to pay someone to put them in a position where they are more likely to have bad health outcomes. This could be seen by changing a person's location from a less polluted city to a more polluted city and looking at the difference in wages between the two areas.


Your average wage in Brazil is US $666.19 a year.

Average wage in ammerica is US $20,000

Economically the Brazilians citizens llife is worth less than the americans.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21036007/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/21036007/ Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:59:55 PDT Before I get on that plane tomorrow morning at 10.45, here are a few facts and numbers.

Percent of US budget spent on the elderly: 30
on education: 2


Number of Dead lakes in Canada: 14,000

Number of people in the American workforce per social security benefit:

1949: 13
1990: 3.4
2008:1.9

Percentage of men aged 25-29 who never mmarried:

1990:19
2000:42

Percentage of women aged 25-29 who never married:
1990:11
2000:29

Percentage of women aged 20-24 married:
1990:72
2000:43

percentages of households under 25 living in poverty:

1990:20
2000:33


I expect a comment from all of you before I come back.

You have 1 week, make it intelligent.

Nicholas

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/20996733/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/20996733/ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:03:49 PDT I was browsing through the internets and I came across this:

"It's a mystery that has got British law enforcement officials and others across the planet scratching their heads. Put bluntly, enough heroin to supply the world's demand for years has simply disappeared."

"A crop of 7,700 tonnes will produce around 1,100 tonnes of heroin - it basically works on a 7:1 ratio.The mystery is that the global demand for heroin is less than half that. In other words, Afghanistan only needs to produce 3,500 tonnes to satisfy every known heroin user on the planet.

For the past three years, production has been running at almost twice the level of global demand.The numbers just don't add up.

Theory 1: A large and undocumented market has opened up in countries which don't want to admit the problem. Russia has long been in denial over the scale of its heroin problem and the same may be true in emerging drug markets like Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.

The Iranians are certainly increasingly anxious about the opium fields on their doorstep. Border guards and police have been involved in deadly shoot-outs with smugglers with experts suggesting that there are now a million heroin users in Iran.

But the over-supply is so great that it is hard to conceive of it all disappearing in to the blood-streams of new addicts in Tehran and Ashgabat.

Theory 2: Vast quantities of heroin and morphine are being stockpiled. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UNODC is convinced that is the only explanation. In a recent bulletin he issues an urgent order: 'Find the missing opium.' "As a priority, intelligence services need to examine who holds this surplus, where it may go, and for what purpose" he says. "We know little about these stockpiles of drugs, besides that they are not in the hands of farmers."

Further credibility is given to the stockpiling theory in that 'farm-gate' prices for opium remain pretty stable at about $70 per kilo."

Where is all the opium going?


Read the full story here: [link]

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/20936727/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/20936727/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:21:37 PDT
97% own a computer
97% have downloaded music and other media using peer-to-peer file sharing
94% own a cell phone
76% use instant messaging and social networking sites
66.6% of college students have a Facebook[18]
60% own some type of portable music and/or video device such as an iPod
49% regularly download music and other media using peer-to-peer file sharing
34% use websites as their primary source of news
28% author a blog and 44% read blogs
15% of IM users are logged on 24 hours a day/7 days a week

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/20594014/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/20594014/ Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:10:29 PDT
I am today recovering from the Rutherford College Freshers Bar Stumble.

I may have over done it a little.

I woke up this morning with four pint glasses and three shot glasses stood on my table and I can only remember bringing one of them home.

I also recall drinking a shot of Zambuca, downing a pint of scrumpy and then doing another shot of Zambuca.

Bits of me hurt that I didn't know existed.

By the By's I've moved into my new home at the University of Kent, Canterbury, and I'm all set up here, and I've made some very cool friends up on the forth floor.

I'll tell you more later

Nick

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/20531138/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/20531138/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:37:46 PDT
Art book is not coming along famously, as I've not done anything for it really.

Also,I've completely changed the design for the villian in Villian? from a punk in a hockey mask to a straight up psycho in a Venesian Plague mask.

Why you may ask...

Well I thought I was creating a character that seemed to be acting like Heath Ledger. I was just copying the Joker, and it wasn't intentional. I hate copying, and I wasn't realising I was diong it. So, the guy is now very much more serious, and takes his job as a terrorist come social icon very seriously.

Now, I have eaten my toast and have nothing to occupy myself with whilst watching Dexter.

DAMN

Nick Shearon

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/20203373/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/20203373/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:40:15 PDT
I am going to be uploding alot of stuff in the next few weeks as Nick Shearon's first puiblished Art Bok, the fantastically dubbed 'Space Geek 3000' is hitting the shelves sometime in January.

But it means I have to have it finsihed by the end of september.

I'm compiling alot o my older stuff and never before seen stuff, as in not from comics or CD covers and adverts, like my personalised Christmas Cards from 2007 and 2008, featuring the matrix Santa, and the paintings i did for my fathers birthday, and my personal favorite, the sketches i did when i got depression.

Nothing says brilliant artwork like suicidal darkness in ones soul.

Cheers,

Nick

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I really wanted to play the Joker, not in the film of course, because for one, I'm not an actor, and two, Heath Ledger did such a good job he actually inspired me to want to be the Joker.

When everyone announced that Ledger was to fill Nicholsons shoes I joined in the communal groan, but after seeing him in action I was impressed to say the least.

And my oppertunity to join in the madness surfaced at a Gala in Kirkstall in Leeds, to play the Joker, go up on stage, play the part for the full day.

But some Bastard told me the wrong date, and I missed it. i had the outfit and the makeup and everything, and I missed out on my oppertunity to have a fucking good laugh.

To top it off, I'm having relationship problems, and I thoght that I'd be able to go out with my nearest and dearest tomorrow, but now she is AWOL.

I am not having a good time, and I hate being angry, and being angry makes me depressed.

Brimming with Hate

Nicholas Shearon

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/19947275/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/19947275/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:24:28 PDT
I mgiht actually get a doctorate without having to buy one of the internet this time.

I have a doctorate in Eglish Literature which i have from the University of Youth, organisation and Skill which cost me $25.00 and came with a nice certificate.

My Scanner is still broken, along with my tablet, so my general acsess to the computer art stuf is down. PRA issue three is go, making me even more popular with every passing day, and I have no IGNATZ or Eisner nominations for the year ending 2008.

Which is a shame but after two nominations last year, thats how it goes.

Cheers guys.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/19803293/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/19803293/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:18:30 PDT
Thats right, after 25 days of intense African living, I'm back in England and enjoying the toilet seat/ toilet paper combo that so many of you take for granted.

I was dead worried I'd run out of myu own stash of Andrex twards the end because I did not want to use the local method of your hand and a bucket of water and get Gastroenteritis.

Lots of pictures will follow sometime next week, as well as my travel book "Bottom left" Detailing my adventures in namibia and the strange contrasts I came across between Black African and White South African living.

I do not know when my next lot of art will be uploaded because in my absence my computer has commited Digital Suicide and everything I held dear has gone away. Drivers for my Tabelt and scanner are ontop of my internet shopping list.

Anyhoo, nice to be back and see you around guys.

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Leave a comment and I'll get back to you.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/19267336/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/19267336/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:53:48 PDT
Oh well, because in 5 days I'm in Namibia.

Ordered my Namibian Dollars today, which shall arrive on Thursday. Incase you were wondering £36.75 is £500 Namibian Dollars.

I've quitted my job at the Illustration place. Tell a tale can shove it up their arse, I'm now free to do whatever I want. Which is fairly limited with a fist full of air and in several days I'm gone.

Also, I've done a poster for the Circle Game yet again. One day, they'll pay me.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/19162332/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/19162332/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:34:08 PDT
But I am scared, I am truley frightened that by doing work, time will move faster. In only 10 days, I'm going to Africa on a trek through Namibia, to go and help build a ruined school. I've done similar things before but this is the furthest, most remote place I'll have ever gone.

In 10 days I'll have no water, limited food, moving with a guide across a forgien land, feding off malaria!

I'm hoping to do alot more art before I leave you for three weeks, but I get this tight feeling in my chest of pure dread.

I slowly slide this avatar at you from ut of my hidey hole:



]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/19078107/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/19078107/ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:10:31 PDT
And I know, monotony in the workplace IS ciommon place, because it wouldn't be work if it was fun, well get off your high horse and hear me out ok.

My previous job was in a tax office, soprting files and moving boxes. I know boring, but in that job, you just got on with it. You knew when you were finished because there was no more work to do.

Here, illustrating, I keep getting askde to change stuff, that does not need changing. I do shade, I am fed up of snotty people telling me i don't

See those lines, right there, those small lines on the side where the lgiht isn't shining.

Yup thats a shadow.

And sorry for not being like everyone else, but if you hadn't noticed, I'm not, so there.

and the next time someone tells me to shade, I'll get up and pull their eyes out.

Maybe, I've just become acustomed to doing whatever I like in the self published comics trade, and I remember the old days when an editor would breathe heavily over my shoulder and cut out the scenes where I showed too much boob. Rather than asking me to draw them again, they just white inked over it and continued on their merry way unknown to them that the art department was going to kill them.

I'm too underground for mainstream I think.

Now I'll throw this poorly drawn avatar at you, in frustration:



]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18944731/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18944731/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:54:42 PDT
Its nice to be appreciated.

I have also joined this club/gang/brother hood

Check them out:




]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18942444/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18942444/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:07:38 PDT
Call me Doctor Nick.

Anyone who does not believe me has no right not to because I do.

Next stop, my second doctorate in Architectural studies.

Then I'd be Dr Nicholas Shearon Ph.D, D.Arch

Its good to have letters after your name.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18750109/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18750109/ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:08:53 PDT
All in a days work for Captian Failure.

Now don't think this is a whinge, because I hate serious whinge blogs, but I thought I had a chance with this wonderful, beautiful woman, and it turns out someone got there before me.

That really hurst you know.

AND a hole appeared in the bottom of my foot!

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18691356/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18691356/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:01:23 PDT
Listening to Margaret Cho on iTunes,

Thinking abut getting up and doing something, but instead I'm on here, looking for new talent, and cool things, which there is alot of.

Deviant art is full of great art, unmistakable, there is alot of amazing stuff, and I've been favouriting all the best.

But.... JESUS how much shit is there on here?

I wish there was a button marked CRAP and it'll send it to a dark room somewhere far far far away.

And I'm not talking crap as in stuff thats not quite up to standard.

Because we are all learners and there are alot of peoples art who are good but unpolished.... (like mine) but there are some that are just so cruddy.

SO much manga fan art, crappy poems about how the government is corrupt and shit lie that, terrible computer colouring that is just bad use of the magic wand and gradient tool.

So yeah, install a crap button.

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18655260/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18655260/ Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:46:42 PDT
How come you do know work while you are telling people you are good, but then when someone else starts saying it, you get alot of work really quickly?

AND FOR FREE!

]]> ~nickshearon http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18646856/ http://nickshearon.deviantart.com/journal/18646856/ Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:45:05 PDT
Usually, you find when you've been hacked that its some company trying to sell Viagra or profalactics in the shape of the eiffel tower, and you are some how villified because its not personal, but this was. Someone, who knew me, had got mypassword, which must have been a challenge because I use really bscure passwords, which even i fail to remember half the time, and called me all names under the sun.

Oh well, like I care.

I've got too much to work to do to worry about my slutty ex-girlfriends calling me a willy fart on my Deviant Art prfile, its kinda sad really.

This is my base of operations now, I think.

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