http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:oddfeesh&section=today deviantART RSS for by:oddfeesh en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:17:23 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/26808013/ http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/26808013/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:46:45 PDT LA Irish Film Festival. Because that's when "The Secret of the Kells" will be screened...a really ridiculously stylised and pretty animation from Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon.

Since there's no way I'd be able to see it at the festival, I'll just have to keep hoping for an official U.S. release. Or perhaps distribution of a Region 1 DVD, eh Buena-Vista/Disney?

Go look for yourself, and see how gee-gorgeous this animation is:

Official "Secret of Kells" site
Blurb on Cartoon Brew

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If ever you find you have too much spare time, grad school may be just the thing for you. Oh my, yes. But it has its good points too; at least then you get to stay up nights slaving over a hot workstation for a subject you're actually interested in. Preparation for the workforce, what what?

Anyway, if anyone is curious, I'll be spending the next couple years hereabouts learning how to make fancy animation and thinking "I'll never be as good as such-and-such artist! Why do I even Trrrryyyyyyyy?" lots and lots of times.

On the positive side, my job is forcing me to learn a little website coding, and I'm actually starting to have some idea what (specifically) I want to do with the rest of my life. So...yay?


Heh, wow, I haven't been around here in a while.

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Never been to a con, before, and I've never tried cosplay before, either. Time permitting,(and if I don't chicken out) I'm going to dress as Azula for the Avatar event. Because, even though we look nothing alike, she's a fun villain and I'd like to attempt the bad-assery. Er...does anyone know how that cosplay business works, by the way? Do you brave the weather and wear your costume all day, or just bring it with you and change when appropriate? I know there will be a fan meet-up, but haven't heard whether it's scheduled yet.

I'm unphotogenic and socially-awkward even at parties where I do know everyone, but the awesomness of the con experience will be worth it. Hope I'll meet some of you there.


And if you are bored, the mechanical contrivium is usually good for a few laughs. For example:

. Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw Iroh into a volcano it would stop erupting.
. 68 percent of all UFO sightings are by Iroh!
. If you don't get out of bed on the same side you got in, you will have Iroh for the rest of the day.
. All shrimp are born as Iroh, but gradually mature into females.
. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are Iroh! <---'Nuff said.


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More things to see:

A couple of nice illustration resources, with artist galleries and stories.

Nocloo
Surlalune Fairy Tales

And we mustn't forget about these:



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Content? Er, ah, um.....well, here's a couple of interesting sites I ran across whilst researching illustrators:

Nocloo - A very nice resource on well-known illustrators of children's books, with a large image gallery of art and artist information scanned from the host's private collection.

Surlalune Fairy Tales - An index of fairy tales, and another excellent gallery of illustrations and artists associated with them.


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And we mustn't forget about these:



]]> ~oddfeesh http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/16852578/ http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/16852578/ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:21:22 PST That seems to be deserving of some journal entry, even if it is a silly rant.

It's mostly my thinking aloud. Consider yourself warned.

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I've always thought of myself as un-girly, and remember being annoyingly proud of that when I was younger. I played with plastic dinosaurs and pirate legos as a kid, didn't like pink, detested frilly things, built contraptions and suspension bridges out of household junk and read a ludicrous amount of comic books. Stereotypically boy-related preferences, y'know.

Soo...I'm clearing out my warehouse of a room, trashing the useless things that have accumulated under my bed and and been stuffed in my closet for ten years....and Lo, I rediscover many, many drawings and doodles of things from Days Long Past.

Most of them are cats. Or rainbow-colored horses. Or horses with big bat wings. Or anthropomorphic cat-people, since humans were @#$% difficult to draw. (They still often are.) And lots of these drawings look like those scenes in Disney movies where the two characters break into a romantic love ballad as they dance in the rain...i.e. stereotypically-cutesy/girly subjects. So much for my perceived self-image.

I don't know what I'm trying to say here; I've got nothing against cat-people and horses and Disneyesque dances in the rain...all those are very nice, and plenty of artists wiser and more talented than I make a grand living out of such subjects. I know I have some of them on my watch list, or in my favourites. I guess...it just makes me laugh to look at those drawings and see how my interests have changed as I grew older. Really, the biggest, maybe best, change is feeling less embarrassed about letting other people see the things I draw. Oh, I'm sure I'll always feel silly about some interests or some of the bizarre "Where the deuce did that come from?" sketches that I tend to flip quickly past in my sketchbook; that's just pride, after all. I'll look at those again someday and laugh at myself, and maybe someone else will, too.

Those particular cat-people of yesteryear, however, will never be seen by mortal eyes other than mine.

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Here's to another year of being inspired, impressed, and amused by the dA community. Cheers, all!


...now, somehow, somewhere, I must find the fortitude to look through the 800+ new deviations in my oft-neglected message box.

]]> ~oddfeesh http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/15752070/ http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/15752070/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:49:43 PST least two months? Considering most of my involvement on dA is related somehow to Avatar, I'd say that's rather sad. Confound you, school, for forcing me to spend my time on less-entertaining things!

In other news, I've finally started to try the new gallery features implemented by dA, like the folder system. These are, in a word, the Shiznit. Use them, friend. Love them.

Aaaaand...I'm approaching 6,000 pageviews, so...just for fun, if anyone can get a screencap of that (or whoever can get closest to the mark; I'm not picky), I'll draw a little somethin' somethin' for them, by request. ^_^

edit: Congrats to ~Agnirei who got it right on the dot! All right, I'm off to draw things....

edit 2: I won a fan-club contest a while ago, and received not one, but two lovely prizes. Thank you, ~Vidar5!

Behold the funny!

When I Grow Up
Popularity




Only 24 shopping days until Christmas. Huzzah!




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really really ridiculously-good-looking groups I've been avoiding lately for really really ridiculous reasons:



]]> ~oddfeesh http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/15602207/ http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/15602207/ Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:04:22 PST Just a random thought. Anyway...

The worst is over, and I guess I've only got to tolerate a stuffy nose for the next week. We leave today, driving 12 hours to my sister's house for Thanksgiving, and won't be back for about a week. Good fun. How about you? What, if any, are your plans for the holiday?

Safe travels, guys.


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Seriously. Where did October go? It occurs to me that I have an inconceivable lot of things to do before 2008, and only two months remaining in which to do them. Gah! Now, I knew this would happen; I always procrastinate, no matter the severity of the situation. And yet, I was kinda hoping at this point I would be more prepared for grad-school applications. In other words, I'd best get busy finishing/starting some art, and packaging it all nice and impressive into a decent portfolio. I just completed the GRE (graduate record examination- a test generally required for grad-school entry here in the states, for those who don't know), a few hours ago. I'm still kicking myself for all the vocabulary I should have studied more thoroughly, the stupid time-wasting mistakes committed on the writing section, and for not finishing the maths portion. Argh. I haven't had to think about that sort of timed testing for four years, and my head still hurts from frustration. Hopefully, the scores will be acceptable and I won't have to retake the ugly thing.

Okay...that's enough self-criticizing rant. On the positive side of life: I now know why my car has died twice in the past week, and the problem should be easily fixed, without costing an insane amount of money I don't have. Also, recently I found a ten-dollar note in a parking lot. I'm saving it to buy myself something special. XD

And I'm very far behind on dA things lately, especially responses that I owe people. I'm sorry about that...hopefully I'll be able to catch up before this weekend, now that the GRE is off my to-do list.

Happy belated Guy Fawkes Day to all!

... I need a nap.

]]> ~oddfeesh http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/14662383/ http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/14662383/ Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:00:23 PDT and

The rules are:
1-post these rules
2-each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves
3-tags should write a journal/ blog of these facts
4-at the end of the post 8 more persons are tagged and named
5-go to their page and leave a comment telling them they've been tagged


1. I'm a quiet, very introverted person by nature. And yet somehow, in the company of friends, I turn into a sarcasm-flinging big-mouthed buffoon. Meh. *shrug*

2. I can tie a shoe with my toes.

3. I hope to work in animation - maybe storyboarding, or character design.

4. I tend to overexplain myself, especially in things like this.

5. I'm a fan of etymology - I could waste so many days on the internet looking up big words, and the meanings of names.

6. I'm really unphotogenic. You know that one person in your group shots who leans at an awkward angle, or looks like they have three chins, or has a weird squint? That's me...in every picture...every time.

7. I like plants - mostly the non-flowering kind with pretty leaves or herbs. Sometimes, they like me too (i.e. don't die immediately).

8. Я люблю русский язык, и Славянские сказки! (I love the Russian language, and Slavic fairy tales.)

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Woo. And it only took me...what, three weeks?...to do that, after being tagged initially? I'm such a procrastinator. Ah well.

Lo, I shall go forth and tag some people in no particular order, and yea verily, shalt they be tagged

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that's the most important thing I had to say. ah-yup. thanks for visiting!

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oh, and my lease ends tomorrow, so I had to drive back to college and clean the house with my roommates, hoping my passive-aggressive landlady will return my security deposit in whole as a result. I've scrubbed down the bathtub with about five different cleansers and it still has this scummy look to it. phooey.

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clubs:

who could say no to that face?
go join! it's fire-nation centric, and they could use more members
they're funny......-lookin'! (ba-dum-ching)

]]> ~oddfeesh http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/14042322/ http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/14042322/ Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:59:45 PDT I'm not ashamed to admit I did a really happy-squealy embarrassing-awkward spasm-dance right there in the front hall. I might have disturbed the dog during the process.

So much for cleaning the house today. W00t!

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Thank you again to for the gift!

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on fandom-related stuff, if anyone is morbidly interested:

Yep, I've seen the Avatar videos from Comic-con. Do I have an emotional response to certain character developments? Nah, though I am excited to see how the story progresses to that point. I'm MORE curious as to where Sokka got that crazy hat.

..and I finally finished Harry Potter 7. It felt a bit as though I was reading fanfiction at the end, there, but the chapter on Snape's memories and the post-book interviews with J.K. Rowling made up for it, I think. Overall, I liked it. And that's all I have to say.

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I thought I ought to put this up, as a few months have passed since I joined these lovely people. Who could say no to that face? ]]> ~oddfeesh http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/12329948/ http://oddfeesh.deviantart.com/journal/12329948/ Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:52:21 PDT
His two weeks are essentially one super-condensed studio class, and ought to result with some pretty nice artwork for everyone involved. Hope so. I could use some unusual portfolio pieces. His main website is, easily enough, georgepratt.com, so go check him out.

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