http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:razimo&section=today deviantART RSS for by:razimo en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:25:59 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/27277647/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/27277647/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:44:14 PDT they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

Well, Google-freakin'-fail! Microsoft recommends a ' paid upgrade ' to ensure Photoshop compatibility with Windows 7. Oh really? NO KIDDING? THANKS FOR THE HOT TIP.

So, anyway - is anyone out there using Windows 7 with Photoshop CS? Does it work well, poorly, explode upon contact..? My other OS option is 64-bit Vista. Either option would be Swanky, so that I can get the most use out of this 4GB of memory that I bought!

Thanks in advance, dahlings! My gratitude overfloweth. I will draw you a pony, if you like!

cloud your head and push your buttons ]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/26646499/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/26646499/ Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:38:37 PDT they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

SO I was talking, the other day, to a Final Fantasy fic-writing friend that I hadn't seen in aaaages (Kit; whose story 17th blackbird is an illustration for.. for whose story, I drew fanart.. in which... anyway), and she had someone on ff.net ask her to beta a story. All well and good; Kit noticed that the chick was using a Very Familiar piece of art as her profile image.. e.g., something of mine. Without asking. Or crediting me.

I burst into laughter and said I HAVE ARRIVED!!!, finally my art is popular enough for people to take it without asking. I'm still trying to decide whether to say anything to her or not. She didn't claim it was her, but she didn't give me credit.

cloud your head and push your buttons ]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/26627523/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/26627523/ Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:38:10 PDT they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

I just want to go back to bed; it's a gorgeous Sunday afternoon and I am miserable. My boyfriend has gone to see a movie without me, I emailed a picture of a drawing I'm working on to someone yesterday and haven't heard a word - either she didn't get it or doesn't care, which would really suck, as the drawing is of one of her characters. I guess I'll hope for 'didn't get it.' My best friend, the only person I can actually talk to, has dropped off the face of the earth. Again. If there's someone she feels she can talk to when she's unhappy, that person isn't me, which makes me sad - I just want to help. I have damn near taken the tip of my finger off trying to clean my espresso pot, and friends, when your trusty coffee pot bites you, it's time to go back to bed. I couldn't work on a drawing (it's still worth working on if I care about it) without bleeding all over it.

Last statement is that dA's various 'sadness' smilies are making me smile in spite of myself. hee! I mean, who knew that so much whatever could be packed into 32 pixels? this one even has a wee white flag. *g*

cloud your head and push your buttons ]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/24943420/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/24943420/ Mon, 25 May 2009 13:25:10 PDT they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

and how you built a tower, tumbling through the trees

Mostly I just felt like updating my journal; is that so wrong? Surely not! I am having great fun with a technique that combines photoshop with actual, physical paint - something I've wanted to do for years, but I was pretty much just making it too hard, and it's easy!

I'll show you later. Maybe. I'm, erm, rather badly out of practice; the resulting painting isn't much to write home about.

It's fun to hide things in one's journal! (even if one's stupid website is down at the moment.. humph! Delayed sort of easter egg.)
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cloud your head and push your buttons ]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/24010237/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/24010237/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:12:59 PDT they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

Good times, and you know the art is going well when the worst critique you get is that the happy trail 'should maybe be knocked back a bit, because it's too bright?' I agreed, and said I'd get the wax. XD

People, you should always treasure the company of friends that understand you, even when you're being weird. Or rather, even when they DON'T understand - because you're being weird - they don't hold it against you!

Pretty scandalous journal title, all things considered, when the adult content isn't all THAT bad. Yup, that happy trail remark was it. Still, I'd hope you wouldn't even click, if you thought you'd be offended.

Also, as an unrelated side note, this journal CSS will need some fiddling-with, won't it? It's not mine, I got it from.... oh, crud, I've forgotten. It should be in the readme.. I'll update when I figure it out!

cloud your head and push your buttons ]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/23623451/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/23623451/ Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:31:43 PDT they're just words, they ain't worth nothin'

it's been such a lovely day
let's not let it end this way

Since when is it ever necessary for me to have a point to make a journal entry? Hasn't stopped me yet!

Mostly I am just feeling very chirpy, because it's getting warm outside, and the daffodils are coming up (are the daffodils where you live, my friend?), and although soon the mosquitos will be biting (to wit: gol-durn skeeters) they having shown their horrid little faces yet, and today it's lovely outside.

Now then.. If you bothered to click on this at all and read this far, you deserve a present. Here you go.. sculpture I've been playing with, but have only shown to one other person so far ( ,ever tolerant and supportive!).

[link]

cloud your head and push your buttons ]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/23047945/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/23047945/ Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:40:05 PST you know it to be true

I refuse. I fucking refuse. I only get two - two! - nights a week to stay up until a decent hour of the morning, doing Arts until three a.m. if it pleases me to, and just generally do all of the sorts of things that I enjoy doing; so I just absofuckinglutely refuse to spend one of them sitting here feeling depressed and lonely and sorry for myself.

R-e-f-u-s-e.

I cannot fix the world, I can only be my own stupid self, and that is either good enough or it isn't. It breaks my heart to worry about it so much.

So, thus resolved, I am going to go try an' sketch out that silly idea I had for the 'Natives of the Lifeless Forest' contest at cghub.com, and see if I can work up the nerve to post my sculpture on one of the big sculpting sites, where all the people that actually know how to sculpt post. Meep, as it were!

they all depend on you ]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/22582989/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/22582989/ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:28:28 PST
Bright copper kettles,
and warm woolen mittens

Oh and this video on YouTube:

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XD Hasn't failed me yet. Bad day at work.. art going poorly.. general sort of rotten mood.. that one still gets a HEEEEE out of me every time.

... it's the trashy little puppet that gets me. Seriously, man, a puppet with a puppet, and the puppet-puppet is singing the about the dirtiest part of an already nasty song.. that's funny, I don't care who you are.

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/22451353/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/22451353/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:14:49 PST
Okay, thinking cap on.. *think*

*think*

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*whew*.. that was tough. No more thinking today, okay? Okay!

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/22348065/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/22348065/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:24:06 PST estered' isn't entirely accurate, but was too good to pass up. *boing boing* *arrggghh!* Bwah!

Anyway.

At work, the Friday after New Year's.. yes, my employer is a j-e-r-k, Jerk. [b]Jerrrrrkkkkk.[b/] Allow me to assure you that I am not a cop, or fireman, or a generous soul who cares for the elderly; no, I am someone who is at work for no reason other than that her boss is..... a jerk.

Do YOU have to work today? No? Lucky. Perhaps your employer isn't a jerk, or perhaps you just got the day off. Yes? Poor bastard. I feel for you.

Anyway again, I am trying to clean up around here; so if a bit of art that you liked disappears, it's probably just in my scraps.

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/21400145/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/21400145/ Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:12:45 PST
It's early, and I'm not likely to be coherent, but I can't talk about Christmas wishes without at least mentioning that I got one of them - I'm typing this from 's laptop! she lives waaaaaaayyy over there - *points towards the West Coast* - and I live waaaaaay over here - *points towards the Southeast* - so I couldn't be happier that it worked out that I got to hang out with her.

Ack! She also showers faster than I do, so it's my turn now, so I need to hurry.

Okay!

This is my wishlist, for , which is a Secret Santa, only for art! I've never heard of such a thing before; and I've been bouncing over this for days!

Well, honestly, I've been bouncing over drawing for someone else, not asking for something for me, because well.. I don't know! I never ask for art, but Julia-chan has told me that it's just awful to say 'Draw anything,' I have to be specific.

So. Specific. I'll try to make a.. broad list? Some easier, and some harder? ... giving presents should be fun, so hopefully there will be something on here that my wonderful, generous Secret Santa could enjoy drawing.

Dear Santa!

Merry Christmas! I have been mostly-good this year, better than usual, I think! May I have a drawing? Here is a list of things that I would like a drawing of.. thank you very much! PS - Santa, I'll edit this list tomorrow to add links, ok?

1.) A gryphon! Gosh I like gryphons. Any style.. yours, of course! Flying, by preference, just being free and happy.

2.) A Balthier! Gosh, I like Balthier too. And.. I.. okay, when I edit this to add links, I'll try to be more specific about him, too.

3.) Santa, would you like to give my OC a shot..? He's the redhead in my gallery.. once again, I'll add links a little later, but he's pretty hard to miss!

Anything like that would be wonderful.. and I'm sorry to rush, but I didn't want to be late!

Thank you very much!
Razimo

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]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/17528690/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/17528690/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:42:57 PDT She's a rich girl
She don't try to hide it
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

This particular subject line means even less than my subject lines usually do. It's not likely that you'll recognise it; if you do, you'll be.. I don't know, impressed? If curiosity moves you to Google it when you don't recognise it, (and I won't think less of you) you'll come back with renewed disparagement for my taste in music.

The poor boy changes clothes and puts on aftershave
To compensate for his ordinary shoes

Otherwise, I came here with the resolve to update my journal, because it had been ages, but without any firm ideas on what to actually say.

Do you think, if you draw or write or imagine something enough times, that it starts to take on a life of its own?

It's entirely possible, of course, that I'm just crazy.

He's a poor boy
Empty as a pocket
Empty as a pocket
With nothing to lose ]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/14692083/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/14692083/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:27:24 PDT I don't believe in astrology
but you can read me my horoscope
I like to hear your voice

If you are so inclined, this is a very good recipe for beef stew:

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However, you may be like me, and when faced with missing ingredients, you get... creative.

*sigh*

I am here today to offer a warning: More beer does not make better beef stew.

Now, anyone that thinks that alcohol has no place in food obviously hasn't met my mom; she has a fridge magnet which succintly states, 'I Love Cooking With Wine. Sometimes I Even Put It In The Food.' ... and this is true on both counts. Mom has poured Chardonnay (Chardonnay. White wine? Char-don-nay...? White wine? ... White wine!) into all sorts of cooking experiments over the years.. where was I going with this? Hmm. I was attempting to make an observation on honesty in relationships... my Dad, whom she divorced when I was small, bought her the magnet; this can perhaps be taken as his opinion on the matter. My stepdad, Paul (Ickle Paul!) is her second husband and the man of her dreams; he makes no comment whatsoever on whether the vegetables were improved by the Zinfandel, but does make himself hash brown and eggs after she's gone to bed.

Now, the recipe.. it calls for a cup each of red wine and Guinness. The last time I made this soup, I'd managed to procure the red wine, but had no Guiness, because Oh Em Gee, do you have any idea how much a six-pack of Guinness costs? Like $9! I don't like beer! (Remember this later, it'll be important.) Slightly deflated but not defeated, I went home and pondered my options... ah! Manna from Heaven - Beers! Dustin's research parter (in crime) Lisa, drinks beer because she actually likes the taste. *shudder* She's a responsible soul who knows her own limits; if she takes the beer home with her she'll drink it, so she leaves it at our place, where she well knows that noone will touch the nasty stuff, and it'll be waiting for her at the next party. My choices, therefore, were Heineken and Corona.

Heineken is horse urine: no arguments. I just so happen to be a horse-person, I have cleaned many stalls, and the smell of Heineken is quite familiar. So ixnay on the Heineken, horse urine doesn't go in stew.

Corona, now.. I've had a Corona before. I didn't regret is as badly as I expected.. workable.. it's beer.. Corona it was!

So, red wine and Corona in the recipe made for a good stew; the recipe was deemed SUCCESS and added to my repertiore.

Flash forward to yesterday.. what with one thing and another, I'd discovered one of those frightening little discount-beer-and-smoke shops.. you know, the kind that you don't park your car in front of, for fear that someone will see it there? .. which sells single bottles of Gunness. (Huzzah!) It seemed a shame to go in a place that sold 40 different kinds of beer and only buy one bottle of Guiness for a recipe, therefore I picked out a Flying Dog something-or-other with a crazy name for myself. To, um, drink. You may remember that I said I don't like beer...

Wow, this is getting long...!

Long story short, I put the Guinness in the stew, it made a frightening smell and an interesting colour. The other beer was really, really foul.. I didn't want to drink it, but refused to pour it out.. dangit, it was like $2! Therefore, in the stew it went. My dear, tolerant boyfriend caught me pouring the beer in the stew, and looked very frightened, but said nothing. (Remember what I said before about perfect relationships..? )

Story shorter, two whole beers in one pot of stew makes for a very.... complex?.... flavour in one's stew. Boyfriend was caught dumping pasta sauce into his bowl of stew; I didn't have the heart to scold him for it. I am, however, eating the stew myself - unaltered! - just to put a good face on the whole affair. (Blech.. beer stew....)

Last statement is that the mark of a good stew is that when cold from the fridge, it can be demolded. A good stew isn't just thick, it's sculptural.

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/13244329/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/13244329/ Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:06:18 PDT I don't believe in astrology
but you can read me my horoscope
I like to hear your voice

Okay, so you are all likely to laugh at me, and honestly as a general rule I encourage that sort of thing when I'm talking to people, so it's alright.

I had the oddest idea for a drawing today, only it isn't actually all that odd just to describe it, but it would certainly be odd if you saw it the way I was seeing it in my head:

I have this idea... artistic equivalent of a very odd little plot bunny... for a drawing, and - this part will really shock you, are you sitting down? - this drawing will have Balthier and Fran in it--

ZOMFG NO WAY

--yes, way! I like to draw Balthier and Fran.

Anyway, this drawing would be THE HEROES OF RABANASTRE, and it would be the statue that I'm SURE was erected in Rabanastre in their honour. (I mean, there had BETTER be a statue, they 'died' to save the joint after all! Pretty damn heroic I'd say! Heroism deserves statuary!) Okay: Balthier and Fran would be sitting there by the statue - quite alive, of course, and looking smug. Now, the funny/odd part is my vision of the statue, it would HAVE to emulate that old, original Star Wars poster:

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Fran would have boobs out to here.. it isn't as if she could be wearing any less than she already is, so no worries on that score.. clinging dramatically to Balthier, who would be this towering Fabio who is somehow shirtless, but nonetheless with his trusty Altair.

... okay, I didn't promise grade-A hilarity, here, but in my own mind it's rather funny.

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/13067620/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/13067620/ Wed, 23 May 2007 18:57:32 PDT Everything in its right place

I haven't painted since December. I haven't wanted to; I barely know why. Painting is the major I chose because it was the only thing I really thought I was good at. I drug out my brushes and paints a few weeks ago to touch up scuffed edges on paintings that I hoped to sell; the familiar smell became a near-audible keening that I ignored. I had forgotten it...

I knew that I wanted to paint today when as I was driving home, everything I saw turned to paintings. The trees turned themselves to charcoal and washes and spattered and scraped-off paint, scrubby heavy textures and the kind of brilliance that everything needs when it's time to paint it.

Rufus Wainwright was singing Why must it always be Chaos? Why must it always be wanderlust? Do I disappoint you? and the trees turned to inkwash and quinacridone gold. Lucky for the people in the other cars that the effect is intermittent.

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12955477/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12955477/ Mon, 14 May 2007 16:06:11 PDT Everything in its right place

OKAY! Do you remember last week - or whenever it was - that I said that I'd begun updating my journal with the intent to convey meaningful information, and promptly forgot what it was? (For the record, it was Juliachan that was distracting me - she's fun to talk to! - and she found out yesterday that I, too, am capable of reducing someone's productivity to next to nil. Just a sketch.. a scribble, really.. with a nekkid!Obi-wan in it, can't imagine what she found so very sidetrack-worthy about it. )

WELL, I remembered what it was! I remembered last night, and forgot again, but this time I've remembered!

*dramatic pause*

I am going to update seventeenth blackbird with the thankyous and references it should've had to begin with, but that I felt too lazy to tack on, as I think I posted it at, like, 1am!




..... awww, c'mon, don't look at me like that... I didn't promise that it was something Awesome that I'd forgotten, now did I?

Addditionally, I've decided that my current sig-file-bit-thing really IS too emo to be believed - would it help if I told you that it's from a song which is actually rather hilarious, not emo? No? Well.... no pleasing some people.. I am going to change it, though - and honestly, if anyone's gotten this far then they deserve some manner of medal for 'Maintenance of Attention Span in the face of Razimo, when she's Rambling.'

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12832934/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12832934/ Thu, 03 May 2007 20:14:18 PDT One time I tried to sing
About Spring, and a Storm,
but you know
how it goes....

It really is raining outside, or any rate it Was, so I rather thought the song - Spring and a Storm, by Tally Hall, and you should Totally look them up! - was apt.

Mr. Moon! Tell us about the sky!
The sky is deep, and dark, and eternally high
Many people think that's where you go when you die
.. Do you?
Well, I think to return to obscure
Or whatever you were before you were
But I won't let you lose yourself in the rain

OKAY, 'NUFF RANDOM SINGING AT YOU!

.. do you know, I had a reason for doing the whole journal update thing? Honest to goodness I did. I've since forgotten what it was, though. Well... anyone who's got more than a passing acquaintance with me rapidly uncovers this facet of my personality. Some find it annoying, some find it charming, my boyfriend is almost always able to tolerate it with good grace, and why else do you think he's my boyfriend?

...otherwise, ah, Art? I need to find another Really Awesome FF XII story to inspire me to illustrate; if that makes me an Odd Artist then Odd I Am - I'm never having more fun than when I read something that creates such an intense picture in my mind that I simply MUST try to put it down in a form that other people can see also.

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12487836/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12487836/ Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:45:14 PDT you turn me on
you turn me on
You have to know

Okay, now that I am all paid-for*, subscribed.. one might even say legitimate, there are now all sorts of extra boxes available to me on a Journal entry! Therefore, I am putting snippets from Rufus Wainwright songs that kinda remind me of Balthier and Fran in them. Seems a decently elegant solution.

Complete and utter distraction aside (man, I'm Wild when I'm tired!).. I am going to use part of this Large and Wonderful space to tell you that Julia is my very best friend. I couldn't even tell you why (it'd take pages to even try); although we theorise that it's because we're known each other before, and were best friends then, too.. how else could someone be so perfectly familiar?

*My totally awesome Legit Status was my Chrismas present from her, although it was supposed to be a surprise, and dA ratted her out.

Anyway, if you happen to be a fan of Tolkien fanfic.. and honestly, I really DO think that 'Directed Experiments in Literature' is apt, here.. I mean, you don't just drabble on the theme of the Silmarillion, you know? Holy Cow!' .. let me know, and I will use this as leverage to get her to tell me where she's keeping her stories these days. She does write in other fandoms, but might injure me for mentioning them.

.. and where on earth is THIS going to go? I mean, I know what a footer is, but .. well, it'll be a surprise. Let's see.. I'll hide something super-secret down here. Oooh, I know!

[link] ]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12350156/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12350156/ Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:20:51 PDT

Right.

In other news, I do feel somewhat less surly now; I've had a bowl of soup, I've bandaged my thumb. (Is there a good smiley for the unique combination of pissed off/surly/but getting better?)

I've officially had it up to HERE! with these damned stretcher bars; whatever convinced me to attempt to build a 4'x6' (yes, four FEET by six FEET) surface the hard way (from scratch, starting with lumber and quarter-round and wood glue) is utterly beyond me.. oh, wait. That's right. Say it with me: Because I Am Getting Paid, That's Why.

Sigh...

I would much rather be working on my newest bit of Balthier/Fran naughtiness; as I cheekily said in response to a comment, this one finds our intrepid Viera Heroine up against a wall, not that she minds.

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12309140/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12309140/ Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:51:34 PDT
Oh well.

Actually.. isn't it possible to update bits of art without actually deleting and reposting them..?

In other news, now that I know I have the option it may be that my Mood is *always* Pirate.

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12271077/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/12271077/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:30:20 PDT
In other news, ARGH. PAIN. I cannot feel my thumbs. Why the hell do I agree to do crap like restretch canvases? It is a pain in the ass! I Don't Like Doing It!

*sigh* Because he's paying me, that's why. Dude bought at least one and perhaps several my paintings; what might amount to a four-figure investment on his part, and as such I find myself willing to undertake little chores that I otherwise wouldn't freaking touch - Hobby Lobby sold him frames 3/8" deep to go on paintings with stretcher bars almost 2" deep - gods, it looked awful! Thus, I am restretching the paintings on 3/4" bars, and if you've never tried to restrech a canvas that has a freakin' pound of acrylic paint on it, lemme tell ya - It Is A Pain In The Ass.

Well, I shall just keep right on reminding myself that I am, after all, being paid; and how long would it take me to earn the same amount of money working on my menial job, etc.

In other news, 'softest bullet ever shot' and I are about to start Round 1 in Photoshop.. let's see who comes out ahead, eh?

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/11979272/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/11979272/ Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:05:19 PST
It will be found to be statistically impossible to be sad whilst listening to the Banana Man song - give it a shot! Tally Hall, Banana Man. I'm listening to it right now, and I'm happy inspite of being two hours in to a losing battle with Corel Painter X.

In other news, hey! People liked my pitiful scrubby dirty bit o' lineart - that rocks!

This banana for you!

]]> *razimo http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/11898667/ http://razimo.deviantart.com/journal/11898667/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:42:47 PST
Oh well!

I recently graduated, and like many (most?) people who have recently graduated with a BFA I am SCARED OUT OF MY MIND, trying to figure out just how in the hell I am going to support myself. Er, eek?

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