As you can see, I only had 75 yesterday. That's still more than I've had on any other day before but I'm sitting here, stupidly waiting for the next 4 so I can go to bed.
All I can think to do in the mean time is write yet more self obsessed stuff about me that most of you with lives will have better things to do than waste time reading......I just checked....2 more pageviews to go....are you on the edge of your seat?
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I'm getting through all my messages slowly. Here are some interesting galleries I've found along the way:
Darrellburnet had only been at dA a couple of days - check him out, he has some well crafted and interesting deviations.
~huesosnegros has been at dA for a lot longer. His work is raw but faultlessly observed. Often political. I think he has been overlooked.
Mysterian......gotta love those smoking monkeys.
axis432. Another new artist to dA. Already has a DD. Works in oils and has a great command of his material and is mesmerising.
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says she wants to use Woman as vagina on her website vampirerave.com [link] and I've given her permission. I have no problem with people using my stuff (I wouldn't put it on dA if I was worried about it being ripped.) A link back to this page is the payment I ask. It is my work so give me the credit for it.
If you use my stuff and make money from it without giving me a cut, I will do everything I can to take you down.
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Competitions:

Two eagle-eyed visitors have won the Deliberate Reverse Hand Mistake Competitions.
vampirelust4115
spotted the badly drawn hands on Diets and Sore Throat
theevermorealone
spotted a crap hand on Untitled 4

Four Deviants so far have won a place in my Most Interesting User Name Visiting My Site Comptition.
~GoodLuckWithThat
~UkuleleOVERSOUL
=propagandhi
=sicsided
(If anyone out there enjoys science fiction, Iain M Banks writes some marvelous stuff. The names he give his ships are clever, inventive, ironic and funny. Delicious. [link])

Good work there to all the winners. It is unclear at this point what they have won but they are clearly the winners and well done to them.

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http://rizole.deviantart.com/journal/8315532/ Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:17:29 PST
I didn't get much work done today..I caught myself just staring at the screen and hitting refresh every ten or fifteen seconds with a blank look on my face and breathing through my mouth as the numbers crept upwards.

I took this shot a few minutes ago:


I'm not gonna be able to thank every one who has commented, visited, but will do my best to get round to everyone I can. Sorry if I leave you out - it is not personal.

(Having said that, I'd like to officially leave out meara001 on personal grounds. Please drop by his page. There is absolutely nothing there but he is a needy person)

I'd like to thank ladyo for the nomination. She is in so much trouble with me for bringing all this attention my way and I intend to make her life hell for many years to come.

Look what just happened:


Thank you all.

I am not responsible for your actions. ]]> ~rizole http://rizole.deviantart.com/journal/8295399/ http://rizole.deviantart.com/journal/8295399/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:56:03 PST I'm only posting this here because I havn't got a blog

Large amounts of council staff went on strike today because of the proposal to put up the pension age from 60 to 65 in response to the national pensions crisis. The library was closed with a skeleton crew everywhere except on the top floor. The top floor regularly has between three and eight staff at anyone time only one of which is an actual librarian. The rest consist of two Learndirect staff and the staff of the Learning Shop.

With no custom and no library staff (who are actually generally, quiet introverts inline with their stereotype) the five of us were loud, in high spirits and behaving like infants.

"Ask me something, anything, go on, I know everything I do. Punch me there, hard as you like. Go on, ask me anything.......no not that...ask me something else."

Some one tracked down a radio/cd player. We could only get one station on the radio and it was crap. Some one went to the music library and got a handful of CDs. The CD player didn't work. We threw balls of paper at each other. Steve tracked down some speakers and we dug out a laptop and hooked it all up. In went the 'Best 80's Album Ever' and out came Peter Gabrial, U2, Wham, Bonnie Tyler (I bet you can guess which one - that's right - 'Total eclipse of taste'. There went the harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder. Wham sung "Girl all I want right now is you....do do do." We all knew the words and if time had added a bit of a drag factor to our collective semantic memorys, we could all hit the high notes in the right place and with precision timing. I gave a faultless rendition of the last minute to 'Sledgehammer': "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, only you.....I bin feeling the rhythm..." 1986 that was out. Lindsay, the youngest there and the only lesbian in the library at that point was 8 when that was out.

I was never interested in old music. If it wasn't contempory I really couldn't give a fuck. Elvis, The Beatles, The Who, fuck off! Here, listen to some disco.

As I've gotten older this attitude has largely stayed with me and although I will listen to and have become open to a wider range of stuff and stuff that has been around since long before I was born, I'm only really intersted in stuff I havn't heard before, new to me stuff. What suprises me though, is that none of it is lost, the brain stores eveything that has been listened to with some focus and can reproduce it with clarity. Especially when it's pumping out at high volume in a very large, second story library room that houses shelves of books and over 40 public access PCs with 5 generation xers, 3 of which are nearing middle age. I'll be able to sing 'Kayley' by Marrillion when I'm 70 and by then I will have become the thing that I most hated when I was a teenager. An old person banging on about music thats been dead for centrys.

I was being inspected later by the Adult Learning Inspectorate (sounds like a cough mixture) for the quality of the training provision I give and so I was collecting my tutor pack and learner packs together and making a last minute check before I went off, had a dump and biked to the venue for the class I was giving, when it happened.

Just three notes opened it, played on a synth (probably a roland, who knows?). A simple three note melody, rising with chords overlayed. In come the synth drums and there goes the three note motif of the chorus and the song blossoms into life: "Sometimes, you're better off dead, there's a gun in your hand, it's pointed at your head. You think you're mad, too unstable........" And I'm off like a gazelle leaping accross the 80's savanah, gliding and trilling... "...call the police there's a madman around, run him down, underground, in a dive bar, in a west end town....." I sing it word for word, note for note. I'm almost not there, my body can do it with out me, the song imprinted on my biological systems with almost no input from a concious self, no need. Lindsay claps. She is clearly impressed by my recall and makes primate noises to egg me on.

No wonder everyone thought I was gay when I was younger

I am not responsible for your actions. ]]> ~rizole http://rizole.deviantart.com/journal/8084861/ http://rizole.deviantart.com/journal/8084861/ Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:31:27 PST

I used to live in Brighton in the early 90's which is where a lot of the pen and ink drawings come from in my gallery.

At that time I lived in the same house with Karen. She was doing a degree in Psychology and is now doing something to do with computers and living in New Zealand. She used to do these interesting and complex doodles and I was always facinated by the elaborate complexity of the stuff she did and the control and precision she did it with.

Turns out she still does them, useually in meetings at work. I said in passing once that I'd post some on my dA site and a couple of months later she has sent me these which, touchingly, she did just for me.

This work is more complex, mature and has a richer depth to the detail and ideas than the stuff I remember. The scans don't do justice to the quality of the final peice.

In the letter she sent with them she said;
"Thinking about how much I doodle recently, I start to wonder if perhaps my job doesn't give me enough of a creative outlet - like the doodles are my creative side sneaking out all the time."

Someone should get her to design a tatoo for them. Here are the doodles:

Next up are a series of developmental works from my son. These are in my scraps and represent what seem to be milestones in his artistic, cogntitive or motor development. If anyone knows of a site where these would be better placed, please drop me a line.

Groups I am a member of:

I am not responsible for your actions. ]]> ~rizole http://rizole.deviantart.com/journal/7757480/ http://rizole.deviantart.com/journal/7757480/ Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:59:24 PST