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+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/6112789/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/6112789/ Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:10:57 PDT jark and $spyed can't figure something out themselves it doesn't mean that they should pit us against each other or even let us be pitted against each other.

for now, I'm not supporting the "Yellow Day" or anything that Jark himself didn't come up with. Fair enough?

+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/5922613/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/5922613/ Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:25:30 PDT sleeping bulbs under the ground
so they're buds are red
with our quickening
and producing thorns, to stay unpicked,
they draw our fancy and our blood again
which stains the seeds
of another generation of roses
and this is how we live ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/5816638/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/5816638/ Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:30:48 PDT
1) Because I love to create
2) Because I want to make something beautiful that can stand apart from me in it's own beauty
3) Because I know I can make at least a humble living off of it as an occupation
4) Because I can let myself go when I do it and just imagine and explore like I used to be able
to do when I was young, playing outside
5) Because I like impacting people (especially through visual communication)
6) And recently because I think God desires for Christian media to be excellent, including in the
arena of graphic arts, and I think He can use me to that end.


However, tonight I doubted whether or not that's what I wanted to be. It was like it came out of nowhere. I just knew that if I came here and journaled about it I could remember why I love it so much. SUre enough, as I was typing that list above I remembered why I like it so much.

An Idea has just come to me.

I have been in another artists block for some time now. SO I have been seeking to find a new process for creation that will allow me to focus on a vision. I think now that maybe writing about what I want to communicate first will help me to focus on my vision. Indeed. I will give it a try now whenever I need to get the juices flowing. Maybe I'll even start with soe time of prayer and worship and meditation before hand, so that God's message will be my vision.

Be thou my vision
Oh, Lord of my heart.
Naught be all else to me
Save that thou art
Thou my best thought in the day
or the night

+joe

+Joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/5152979/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/5152979/ Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:38:10 PDT
there are nearly 800 actual deviants! wow!

+joe

]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4859396/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4859396/ Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:28:31 PST
someone has to know
we are so sick
and waking together is always a choking cough in unison

boys aren't going to be had anymore
and girls don't seem very enjoyable

(boys masturbate just to get to sleep)
(girls cry to have it in themselves)

what is this madness?

women are not what we thought they'd be
because our fathers painted them
all wrong and plastic spectacle

a man would rather jerk it than
love a woman because he can't

and the women see they're losing it
so they get all wrong
and it's a plastic spectacle

but we dont need a new model or a new breed

we need to be real, and to know we are loved

LOOK AT ALL THE PORNOGRAPHY on the web

women make themselves so low because they know nothing closer to love. so they let men masturbate just to catch some semen on their face. pleasing men is the number one, but it doesn't make men happy. theyre are millions of videos online, but they still make more because we arent happy yet. WE NEVER WILL BE! cant you see????

only God can fulfill you. only Jesus can show you love and let you love others.

+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4831188/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4831188/ Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:12:09 PST

+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4430064/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4430064/ Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:48:44 PST
to ~spat- check your email for some vectors. i cant work on them while im gone, so if you cant use them ill understand, but we will have to wait.

to darkmaverick - im sorry if you send me stuff and i cant work on it right away.

to everyone else, i love you!

+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4409916/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4409916/ Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:23:54 PST ---

when i drink cold mountain dew out of a can i breathe it. it's like air. like it's necessary, and gulps are breaths. maybe i should seek some counseling.

+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4390509/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4390509/ Sun, 23 Jan 2005 02:33:59 PST >>

ok, so someone i didnt know MSN messaged me. so i checked their profile. they were from dA so i went to check their personal site and it was a link to porn....child porn interspersed, actually. so i have officially reported it to law enforcement officials and have blocked contact with this person.

why do i mention any of this. 2 reasons.
1) so if you're stupid enough to link unwitting people to porn you bother to check what kind of porn it is you frickin idiot!
2 and more importantly) so that we all take a moment to think abou this. some of you may have experiences, painful experiences with this subject. for those of you who may or who are empathetic as can be for such people, think of just how little you hear of arrests for this kind of thing. when i think of a grown man taking a little girl (say the age of my littlest sister) and subjecting her to such acts, I could literally lift a freight car to stop it. my initial reaction is one of hatred and judgement. the truth is that when I was 10 years old I was as cognitive of morals and virtue as i am today. in short, i knew right from wrong and could be held responsible to some extent. when I was 10 years old i have no doubt i looked with lust once and again on girls my age and maybe even a year or so younger. what makes me any less guilty?

Now, you'll njtice that I AM TOTALLY AGAINST CHILD EXPLOITATION. However, I realize that even those who are lost in their sins are children to God, and His heart breaks for their wicked ways. but the Lord can still love them as human beings. what does that mean? that means that while we can and MUST pass judgement of such crimes, we as individuals have no right to pass judgement on their human souls.

it's backward logic, i know. and that's why it makes sense.

let me ask you something. are YOU so wise and powerful that YOU are the one who knows best? let's be honest, you know that on your own you'll screw your life up, right? You're being prideful if you disagree (not that I can judge you for that). Well, I've come to see this is true. Only God can know what's right. Generally speaking, God's logic is the opposite of man's logic. and since I know HE knowws what's going on, I'll definitely follow his advice.

Peace and love and justice to all.

In His pursuit,

Joe Szczepaniak ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4365985/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4365985/ Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:17:16 PST
natalie portman >hank azaria - "Heat"
>hayden christiansen - star wars (eps 1, 2 & 3)
> peter scarsgard - garden state

Hank, Hayden, Peter are ALL in "Shattered Glass"

ok, now it gets obnoxious. if i've already used an actors full name, I'll now just use their last name, and this will go on from one list to another... also, the movie title in parenthesis after an actor/actresses name indicates the movie connection they have to the actor/actress listed BEFORE them.

portman> azaria>ben stiller (along came polly)> portman (Zoolander Cameo)


portman>azaria>ethan hawk(great expectations)>julia stiles(hamlet)>jude law(I love you, I love you not)> portman(cold mountain/closer)

portman>azaria>hawk>jude law(Gattaca)< portman
portman>azaria>hawk>stiles>clive owen(bourne identity)> portman(closer)

portman>azaria>hawk>robert sean leonard(dead poets society/tape/chelsea walls/etcetera)>stiles(I Love you, I Love you not)>hawk>azaria> portman

portman>azaria>hawk>stiles>matt damon(bourne identity/supremecy)>jude law(the talented mr ripley)> portman

portman>law>joseph fiennes(enemy at the gates w/ rachel weisz)>gwyneth paltrow(shakespeare in love)> hawk/azaria(as HER dueling love interests in great expectations)> portman

portman>law>rachel weisz(enemy at the gates)>gavin rossdale(constantine)>josie maran(the aviator)>jude law> portman

portman>robert de niro(Heat)>dustin hoffman(sleepers)> weisz(confidence/runaway jury)>hugh grant(about a boy)>kiera knightley (love actually)> portman (star wars "doubles")

OK. Now, this one is just silly, and it reuses people, but it was alot of fun. It's 14 degrees of seperation:

portman>de niro>hoffman>weisz>grant>gene hackman (extreme measures)> hoffman(runaway jury)> brad pitt(sleepers)>edward norton (fight club)> robin williams (death to smoochy)> hoffman("Hook")>meryl streep(lemony snicket)>liev schrieber(the manchurian candidate)>hawk(hamlet)>hank> portman

__________________-----___
There are many more connections out there. Even more in the movies i've connected. I do believe Natalie Portman is one of the best connected actresses in Hollywood.

+joe

*da-unreleased ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4315531/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4315531/ Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:43:17 PST Adam said, "A companion,"
"that I might not be lonely."
God gave him Eve.

God asked Solomon, "What do you request?"
"Understanding," replied Solomon.
"so I can rule your people."
God gave him that and so much more.

God asked you, "What do you desire?"
You said, "What you would have for me,"
"that is what I desire."
God gave you grace in all things.

God asked me, "What do you need?"
"Something that makes sense," I replied.
"that which remains the same."
God winked and nodded over toward you.

+joe

]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4258964/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4258964/ Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:35:17 PST lee25 so long as He doesn't find my vectors to be crap (which wouldn't be hard or inexcusable), and I've been trying to get some new vectors together for ~ shakeit so that he can have something fresh to work with. Hopefully I'll have that in just a day or two.

I just decided to force myself to put things together in the best way that I could. I really am not overly impressed with my newest piece. I think it needs a lot of color tweaking, and that's just the beginning. But at least it's something. Who knows?...maybe it will inspire someone much more talented to create something sweet. That would definitely make it worth while.

Oh, yes, and that artist that I mentioned in my last Journal isn't Millicent Jenkins, but rather world reknown artist Millicent Tomkins. She was the inspiration for the cello/violin/bass looking thingy in my last submission and scrap.

Peace Out, G
+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4221946/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4221946/ Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:34:18 PST
man, i keep vectoring differnt things, but i just cant put them together in some manner that pleases me. I've scoured dA and all my usual art sites (not to mention artists' portfolio's) to find something I could do, but I realize that I just can't do that all the time. I need to come up with my own designs, even if they're trendy, but they can't be direct copies of this or that style all of the time. it's very frustrating.

I'd be totally willing to collab with someone by just sending them some vectors to mix together with their own stuff. Either way, I guess I could always just use them sometime later when I'm more creative.


MUSIC>>>>>> You might not have heard of her, but she's unbelievable=Jem

Art>>>Millicent Jenkins. I haven't found her on the net, but I own one of her prints and she's awesome. I got it at Goodwill for $5! Also, some landscape/architural imppressionist who signs his name "Stuart" with a big swoopy "S". I got a huge like 2'x5' painting original of his for $10

+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4188169/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4188169/ Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:35:50 PST
I know I'm a bit early, but I might not have time to put up a journal before the years end.


+joe

"I spent twelve long years on land..." ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4131485/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4131485/ Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:22:18 PST instead, they burn brightly until their appointed time, and then they let out everything that was ever in them, and when they are gone, the void cannot be filled. are we any different?

+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4092574/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4092574/ Sat, 18 Dec 2004 01:20:37 PST
man alive, is Chop Suey not won of the most beautiful songs in rock history? the piano and the wall os welling sound. that guys voice is beyond words, too.

but why is he so wrong about God? cant he see the beauty in his own life?

its a fact that the most prominent scientists of all time believed in God, but that the most prolific artists were about 50/50. why?

i have to ask God to forgive me for loving this song.

+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4088137/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4088137/ Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:45:28 PST
Definitely got to see my girlfriend last night.

Definitely got a couple of smooches

Definitely got the eternal cold shoulder from my best friend of 6 years.

Definitely NOT hungry after all that Italian Food!

Definitely Maybe

I'll do my best to respond to all comments and deviation submissions for those on my devwatch, but it remains to be seen if I will be able to hook up my computer to the internet while here, and this comp is supposed to be for my mom's work only. Anyways- Happy Holidays.

(I celebrate Christmas myself, but happy Qwanza and Hannukah[sp?]) Yeehhhhhhzzzzz. )

+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4023319/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4023319/ Sun, 12 Dec 2004 04:17:03 PST 's journal to see several listings of unknown artists with talent. You'll be pleasently suprised!


+joe
________________________________________ __________________________
* indicates already imitated, folowed by a link to the deviation that imitates them

Shiv* - Deathe of a Salesman - Redux
AdamPointer* - Informal Peach Revisited
DeanneCheuk* - Chicken Nugget Camoflauge
Delta
JasperGoodall
Chuck"NoPattern"Anderson
PatrickMorgan
RaySmith
JonBurgerman
TheBoyFitzHammond
CarolDelANgel
DomanicLi
GiulioIurussevich
AutumnWhiteHurst
KellyBoulton
JasonCook
CarlosSegura
NealMurren(student)
EllaTjader(student)

Eneone.com
Identikal
MagicTorch
Vault49
RedDesign
TwelveTen





+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4014657/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4014657/ Tue, 07 Dec 2004 20:39:46 PST
And, wouldn't you know, she can forget all about it and move on without caring, but I have to care, cause that's who I am.

but life is still good, praise Him

"Take this heart of darkness
I give it up
and all the emptiness I...
You fill it up
the times that i feel nothing
You bring enough
so i can live for something
You lift me up
and all these bad dreams
i wake up to the light
and when i cant see
i wake up to Your eyes
wake me up
there's a light up ahead"

-"Light Up Ahead" by Further Seems Forever ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4010276/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4010276/ Tue, 07 Dec 2004 10:37:35 PST
+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4008061/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4008061/ Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:36:06 PST

+joe

]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4004788/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/4004788/ Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:05:30 PST
What do you think?

Putin says we should do or say nothing. ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3838055/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3838055/ Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:14:45 PST
So here's how this works...

You, um, remove your hat, and I...

I take your hand in mine, yes just like this, and then we begin to dance! ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3830896/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3830896/ Sun, 14 Nov 2004 06:36:37 PST ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3814298/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3814298/ Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:00:21 PST No end to the miles below
I'm sorry there's no end
There's a gateway in between
there's a gateway in between
where I end and you begin

I can watch and not take part,
where I end and where you start

Where I end and you begin. ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3779529/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3779529/ Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:09:44 PST ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3729974/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3729974/ Tue, 02 Nov 2004 00:09:37 PST
Same goes for DA.


Why can't I find all the good art in one easy section? Obviously, "good" art is relative, but I mean art that I would enjoy! I can never get enough of it. I just try to follow links from personal site to personal site, and favorite section to favorite section, looking at the galleries along the way. If only, if only.

+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3660173/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3660173/ Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:16:02 PDT my night is colored headache gray
don’t wake me with so much
daysleeper.



funny song for 4:15 am


I can't fall into bed because it's lofted


6 feet off the ground.

strange?

well now you know why i don't sleep ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3576332/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3576332/ Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:31:14 PDT Hold! The technique. The Form.
The value, so highly valued.
I cannot sidestep her eyes
I'm too close
& goodness me, she's seen
O! God I do confess
You've got a knack for this
And you're my favorite artist,
but she's my inspiration
and ever shows to be
Your greatest work


+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3361393/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3361393/ Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:46:24 PDT VITAMINS A & D * LOW IN CHOLESTEROL
___________________________________
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 cup (240 mL)
Servings Per Container About 8
___________________________________
Amount Per Serving
------------------------
Calories 80 Calories from Fat 0
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Total Fat 0g 0%
Saturated Fat 0g 0%
--------------------------------------
Cholesterol Less than 5mg 1%
--------------------------------------
Sodium 125mg 4%
--------------------------------------
Total Carbohydrate 12g 4%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars 12g
--------------------------------------
Protein 9g
___________________________
Vitamin A 10% * Vitamin C 4%
---------------------------------------
Calcium 30% * Iron 0% * Vitamin D 25%
---------------------------------------- --------
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000
calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher
or lower depending on your calorie needs.




*Don't forget to flush.






+joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3189448/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3189448/ Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:45:48 PDT
oh-- and thanks to everyone who commented and/or favorited gethsemani. i really was happy with that one. anyway, still dont have my own computer here yet, so who knows when we shall meet again.


God bless


-joe szczepaniak
humble servant of the Lord Jesus Christ ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3169156/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3169156/ Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:22:32 PDT
I'm leaving for college today...

Oh, fine, if you must know, I will be attending the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) to study Graphic Design or "Visual Communications". I will not, repeat, WILL NOT have guarenteed access to the internet for as much as 1 & 1/2 weeks! So I apologize to anyone who would need to speak with me. I will try to check DA once a day. Who knows? maybe I'll be able to get on easily.

Anyway, enjoy my last 2 deviations as I may not update any art for a while.


Maybe my poetry will blossom in the mean...

nah


-joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3120695/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3120695/ Wed, 18 Aug 2004 02:42:49 PDT ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3113177/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/3113177/ Fri, 13 Aug 2004 02:39:29 PDT ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/2996297/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/2996297/ Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:16:20 PDT ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1788865/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1788865/ Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:20:44 PST
-js ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1774912/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1774912/ Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:05:58 PST
-js ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1741863/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1741863/ Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:26:06 PST
-joe ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1654197/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1654197/ Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:58:49 PST
-js ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1615082/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1615082/ Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:59:28 PST It's been over me for some time now,
but no longer

Thanks to God, the Father in Heaven
and Bridegroom of the faithful

-js ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1572495/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1572495/ Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:56:58 PST I've been thinking about getting out there and commenting on some peoples things. I just don't. I think it boils down to two reasons.

1) I don't feel I have anything of worth to say to anyone about THEIR own art
and
2) I don't want to get stuck in one of those circles of friends liek last time, where everyone just comments on each others stuff.

I want someone to love my work for what it is, of their own volition. I want people to comment and favorite it without any thought of me returning the favor (which I would probably do). I want to be the best, and I really think I could be if I freed myself to be so, or rather, if God freed me in such a way. He gave me the desire, and I put in the work. What child could this bear? ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1495008/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1495008/ Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:27:20 PST
-j szczepaniak ]]> ~pocketpins http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1275902/ http://pocketpins.deviantart.com/journal/1275902/ Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:52:31 PDT ~pocketpins