http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:ryu-industries&section=today deviantART RSS for by:ryu-industries en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:51:33 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/21573462/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/21573462/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:53:49 PST
Switched to a new account, have a couple pieces uploaded, and will upload there from now on.

If you want to follow me, than do it over here:
[link]

So long!

Edit: I'm going to completely strip the contents of my current gallery within a week or so. Just as an FYI.

It's old art that I don't want in my gallery anymore, but it's my art, it's traced my path here, and it means too much to me to truly part with it. I'm saving all of it to my hard drive.

So, if there's a piece in particular that you really, REALLY like, I'd download it now.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/21430627/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/21430627/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:26:28 PST
Tell me why, or why not, that cover would help you buy it.

Thank you, guys. I appreciate it. :3

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/21337092/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/21337092/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:47:29 PST
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Only the digital copy right now for ten, the CD version (12) is coming in December.

All I can say is I feel elated to finally release this collection of music to you all. And I thank each and every one of you that go ahead and buy this album of mine. What started as a seemingly impossible dream for me not even a couple months ago is now turning into a reality.

And I know I can make this bigger. For myself, and for all of you. So I need your help.

I want you to spread the word around. However you can. To anyone that might be interested.

I want to share this music with EVERYONE, and the only way I can is with your generous assistance. Vulp-Vibe encourages "piracy", so, if you buy the album, I want you to send it along to your friends. :3 I want you to advertise this in your journal. I want you to listen to this, get inspired, draw something and link back to this.

Every little bit helps. Thank you guys so much for making this dream of mine a reality.

Feel free to add me on myspace.com/fauxtrax . I'll be updating it more frequently now. <3

I love you guys.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/21275539/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/21275539/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:03:41 PST
Beware! will be up for sale very soon now. I can almost taste it!

$12 for a lovely Jewel-case physical copy, $10 for a digital download.

Album art's in my newest and in my favorites. Go check it out and imagine all those owls sitting on your desk glaring at you or in your iTunes, doing the same. ;3

And be sure to head over to my MySpace page, where you can listen to a couple tracks off of the album! Feel free to add me, too! [link]

Once again, thank you all so much for listening, downloading, and moreover ENJOYING the work I do. This couldn't be possible without each and every one of you, and I absolutely mean that with all my heart.

Thank you. <3

Jacket by the lovely

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Just a fun little test designed to see how well you can discriminate between colors. The lower the score, the better. There's no science behind it, it's really just for funsicles.

I got a four, discerning between purple and pink isn't my bag, apparently. XD See how you do!

[link]

In other news, I'm really kind've concerned over the fact that I draw cartoons but don't WATCH cartoons. It's been probably a year or two since I've actually sat down and WATCHED something on the telly, and I wonder what the trends are nowadays for cartoons concerning stuff like art direction, character design, color palettes, etc.

Basically, I guess I'm insecure and would like to compare my style (protip: I don't work in animation, but I would very much LOVE to one day) to what's on these days. Y'know, just to take hypothetical stabs at how other people could see my work and see where trends are going.

I take serious interest in cartoons lulz.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/20282106/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/20282106/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:03:03 PDT
Rediculous, terrible things involving MONEY.

Like buy a Wacom Intuous3, 9x12 off eBay.

I suggest you all run over and harass her and her beautiful, lavish illustrations.

<3

Go go go party time.

Once I get this tablet, my style's going to change DRASTICALLY. NO MORE laptop touch-pads for THIS GUY.

Stay tuned. :3 I'm both nervous and excited.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/20245285/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/20245285/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:24:41 PDT
Oh well. I just like FA more, they let you upload music. <:

Just wanted to post and get the LJ icon commission thing off my page.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19688444/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19688444/ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:32:46 PDT
Full/partial headshot of your character for $10. Leave a comment if you're interested!

Paypal = caseyjbuck@aim.com

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19543427/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19543427/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:25:07 PDT
Have a good'n y'all!

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19501137/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19501137/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:58:35 PDT
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Seriously though that websites cream-jean material. <3 <3 <3 I need all of that. NOW.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19483139/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19483139/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:25:29 PDT
My main goal in this lifetime is to become a filmmaker. I have a lot of high hopes and aspirations, and for the most part I'm doing more than most people would in attempts to realize 'em. It's just the way my brain works: I have passion for something, thus, I want to be as good at that thing (whatever it may be) as is humanly possible. Like most people though, I love a good puzzle. And what I tend to have passions for I typically see a problem or some other mysterious aspect of that passion that ultimately I want to solve.

I wanted to understand the mystery of music. It plays with emotions and feelings and can do quite an awful lot to a person. So I made my own, tinkered around a bit and sought out the answers as to why it does that. I still don't understand HOW exactly music can do what it does; perhaps it's just ingrained in our heads; music's just a completely natural way for humans to communicate with eachother. Spread love, joy, hope, pain, misery, sadness and on and on. It's helped me understand the world and the weird folks on it, however, the mystery still looms. Until I can reach full understanding, I'll keep making music.

The same thought process applies to everything I'm passionate about, which thankfully is quite a lot of things. Though all of them primarily artistic. I guess I'm more of an extrovert than I realised: I'm obsessed with our strange breed and the way we communicate, and all forms of art can be considered communication in their own ways.

This isn't new news, really, but remember: I'm senselessly ranting here. It's almost stream-of thought. My itch for communication at work.

But there's one language I've been extremely frustrated with for as long as I can remember, and that's the art of making films. Communicating via all other forms of art combined. You've got the actors from drama, the rules of composition from natural media, the soundtracks from music, the scripts from spoken language, the movements from dance, the effects from photography. The most fascinating element though, and the particular piece of this language I'm most passionate about, is the fact that all these elements come together to serve one single story. You're using every language from the world of art to express one of the most basic pleasures of us as social creatures: telling a good yarn.

But I'm frustrated with it. And why? It's an amazing concept isn't it? You can literally appeal to ALL of us on this planet using this lone, everything-together mode of communication, and I'm frustrated with it. It's one of the most amazing concepts the human race has ever come up with, one of the lone bright-spots sprouting from our collective thought, and I'm still pissed off at it like it just kicked me out of my own house. Why?

Because I can't do it. I've been cut off from it, and rather rudely. Worst of all it was of my own choice when it all comes down to it.

My main passion, the most alluring peak I can see amongst the mountain range, the highest pinnacle for human beings as social, loving, passionate creatures, the finest, most lovingly wrapped present containing the things promising to bring us closer to nirvana, is effectively out of reach.

Everything else is right here; I can reach a couple feet over and start drawing. I can click an icon and start making music. I can read monolouges in the mirror. I can dance, and I often do, as if no one's watching.

But the language of filmmaking, is hundreds of miles away and hundreds of dollars unpayable.

Coming from the clouds a bit; filmmaking's a rediculously expensive art-form, and that's my main obstacle here at the moment. You need the camera, the editing software, the computer, the external hard-drive, the batteries the accessories and on and on. That could easily cost thousands and thousands of dollars. However, dollars aren't the only thing you're spending here. You're also investing a LOT of your most precious commodity: time.

As a matter of fact, you spend more time than money if you're speaking this language correctly. There's time spent learning all that equipment you just bought, time spent developing your skills as a director which can span a WIDE gamut, and most all of them are of equal importance and NEED to be present when communicating this way; such as composition, pacing, movement, lighting, atmosphere, mic positioning, directing of talent in that they may tell your story effectively, etc. And then there's actually finding the talent, the lighting, the locations -

- and above all, most importantly, finding the story itself. THIS is what you better spend the most time on if you plan on speaking this language AT ALL, in my opinion. If you're not telling a story, you have no business holding a camera: but that's beside the point.

As I just n... ]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19382485/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19382485/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:01:00 PDT
[link]

Feel free to add Faux on MySpace, too:

[link]

And thank you in advance. ^^

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19362019/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19362019/ Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:00:09 PDT
Until I figure out a way to make it as easy as possible for everyone to get the album, you can listen to some preview tracks on my MySpace. Feel free to add and download!

[link]

Take care all.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19255616/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/19255616/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:46:36 PDT [link]

Yes. Yes. A thousand times YES!

I'll seriously consider watching sports if they start broadcasting this.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/18915152/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/18915152/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:56:21 PDT

ANYWAYS, I'll more than likely not be on here or the messaging apps for the next ten days, returning on the 29th. I'll be too busy hanging out with loved ones I haven't seen in almost a year and attending my mum's wedding to the first decent man she's met since she divoriced my dad 19 years ago.

...HONESTLY that's MUCH more positive a statement than that reads, bielieve me. Anyway, love you all, and see you when I see you. <3

And yes that means that the commissions/trades are on hold AGAIN. Appologies, but they will get done after I get back. :3 Take care guys!

P.S. Sorry I haven't been more active here. Work's been...Killer. We'll see about getting back to interacting with you guys once the med-clinic gets through it's HSI inspections.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/18482166/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/18482166/ Sat, 24 May 2008 16:20:25 PDT
Being away for a month helped me step-back and look at my presence on this site objectively. And, having thought about it, I realize I made a mistake in leaving. Well, more than just one mistake, actually!

I just plain like y'all too much. <3

So, again, apologies for the false alarm. I had to leave just to see what I'd end up missing, apparently. Much love folks. <3 <3 <3

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/18044926/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/18044926/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:41:52 PDT
Well, it seems like the time has finally come, folks. Despite my efforts to the contrary; this place just really doesn't feel like home anymore, so I guess it's time to move on.

Maybe I'll come back someday, it really, really depends. But I wouldn't really hold my breath on that. I'm pretty certain I don't need to be here anymore.

It's been nice knowing all of you, and you know who you are when I say thanks for everything over these past six years. And I do mean everything. It's been fun, really, it has. :3

Y'all take care now, y'hear? <3

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17870023/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17870023/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:41:46 PDT is especially talented for someone so young, so I decided to give her (him? Hard to tell with you kids these days.) a mini-featurette in my journal. Go show her (him?) some love and oggle at the great character design and expression work. It's worth it.




]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17853612/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17853612/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:57:36 PDT


Spread it ALL on , for he deserves it so.



]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17840117/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17840117/ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:32:20 PDT
RULES:
1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, ETC on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5.Put this on your journal.


1.If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say?
"A Comet Appears" - The Shins
[I probably would say something like that. I need a new sense of humor.]

2.How would you describe yourself?
"Good All The Time" - Cambell Brothers
[This is a lie.]

3.What do you like in a girl?
"Beautiful Boyz" - Coco Rosie
[Holy shit. That was awesome.]

4.How do you feel today?
"Radio" - Pity Sing
[I guess I feel like a retard?]

5.What is your life's purpose?
"Bees" - Caribou
[I'm not overly shocked by this.]

6.What is your motto?
"Give My Love To Rose" - Johnny Cash
[Damn. Now I need to meet someone named Rose.]

7.What do your friends think of you?
"Pick Yourself Up" - Cheryl Bentyne
[My friends do typically think I'm a little hard on myself. Huh.]

8.What do you think of your parents?
"Animals" - Coco Rosie
[Lulz. How apt.]

9.What do you think about very often?
"The Well and The Lighthouse" - The Arcade Fire
[Maybe once I get to my more senile years.]

10.What is 2 + 2?
"Gold Magic" - Portugal The Man
[Fair enough.]

11.What do you think of your best friend?
"Take Off Your Clothes" - Morningwood
[No comment.]

12.What do you think of the person you like?
"Vampire" - Antsy Pants
[LULZ I HATE PEOPLE.]

13.What is your life story?
"Hyperballad" - Bjork
[I agree. Life rocks.]

14.What do you want to be when you grow up?
"Between Awake and Sleep" - Faux
[I WOULD want something like that. Pff.]

15.What do you think of when you see the person you like?
"Tommorow Comes Today" - Gorillaz
[Hmm.]

16.What will you dance to at your wedding?
"Watch Us Work It" - Devo
[I am...not at all opposed to this.]

17.What will they play at your funeral?
"Apocalypso" - Mew
[Pretty intense funeral, I say.]

18.What is your hobby/interest?
"Fluorescent Lights" - Windmill
[I AM SO BORING.]

19.What is your biggest fear?
"Butterflys & Hurricanes" - Muse
[One of these is a legitimate fear. The other is not. I AM A MAN OF CONTRADICTION.]

20.What is your biggest secret?
"I've Seen It All" - Bjork/Thom Yorke
[It's true.]

21.What do you think of your friends?
"Going Steady" - Death From Above 1979
[Also true.]

22.What will you post this as?
"Feel Good Hit of the Summer" - Queens of the Stone Age
[Lol.]

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17839543/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17839543/ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:43:43 PDT
Reason being, I just moved to my first duty station here in Altus, OK.

It seems like a decent enough base, though desolate and without much to do. Luckily, I've always been pretty good at keeping myself entertained, which is why you'll probably be seeing more work from me in terms of music and artwork. So hurrah! Now I just need to save up for a violin and a decent mic...

And if you really wanted to pay me back for those doodles; just feel free to upload something to Dev and make sure I get a chance to see it.

IN OTHER NEWS! My shop has found this page, and I'll probably be catching shit for it, but whatev. I can take a joke. HAY GUYZ!

Have a good'n.

P.S. Before I forget, I have two new tracks (Let's Try This Again and Satellite) up on my music myspace. Go check 'em out and tell me what y'think!

Page: [link]

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17761577/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17761577/ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:17:13 PDT
I just WATCHED those envelopes get processed through the postal service. So NOW you can expect them sometime.

Came out to around 10 dollars for everything...God bless the U.S. Postal Service.

That is all!

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17704772/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17704772/ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:30:58 PDT in it.

Anyway.

Through the wonders of persuading people to give me little masses of wire with current running through them in exchange for green pieces of paper, I have done what for two weeks what I've only dreamt of.

Ladies and gentlemen, I write this to you from my very own portable internet viewing apparatus! (that really will be it's main application, sadly...)

Bow down, ye bastards.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17570278/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17570278/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:07:27 PDT
What I want to do here with these doodles, I decided, is to begin establishing a positive reputation concerning my work; by doing what I promise I'll do, and offering work that exceeds expectations. Under-promise, over-deliver. I also want to give off the implication that I can offer more physical, "human" inked-work alongside my comparitively "slick" texture-and-shapes digital work. I feel that this way, I can start generating more commissions. However, I can't really start offering these things until I verify that this trust between client and clientelle has been established.

Or maybe I can? I feel I havn't really established that level of trust with you guys yet, but I'd be willing to take a shot if you are.

20 bucks will get you a black-and-white inked piece with one character, and 10 bucks for more characters.

The money would ensure that there would be far less delay in mailing out the finished piece, by the way.

So, any takers?

(Paypal = caseyjbuck@aim.com)

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17522748/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17522748/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:43:56 PDT

Keep in mind though, that I refer to them as "doodles" because they're not ALL finished peices or completely focused in subject matter. Some of you WILL recieve a page full of doodles, and some of you will recieve a small piece of expression practice. Some of you will also recieve full pieces, on the other hand. It was pretty much luck of the draw as to what you got (except for Kim Buck, for whom an exception was made), so I hope you enjoy them regardless of what it is you actually get.

Besides, if you REALLY want a full, fleshed-out piece, you could always feel free to commission me for 20-25 bucks. Paypal's your friend! (caseyjbuck@aim.com)

Anyway, that's all folks. Take care of yourselves.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17448659/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17448659/ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:50:52 PDT
In other news, I'm doing swell. Fainted for the first time in my life on Thursday whilst giving blood. I was trying to get over my fear of needles and seeing large amounts of my own blood going outside my body, which was going fine. But then I saw a friend of mine go pale as a ghost, shiver violently, and pass out. Nurses rushed to his side. I didn't take that very well and so I decided to follow suit, apparently.

Didn't have to do PT the next day (SCORE!), but I'm definately not trying that ever again. Make your own blood, I'm keeping mine.

Hope you all are doing fine.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17104266/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17104266/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:42:08 PST
Anywho. THE LIST!

(100% Done.)
(100% Done.)
(0% Done.)
(100% Done.)
(100% Done.)
(100% Done.)
(100% Done.)
(100% Done.)
(0% Done.)
(0% Done.)

Bonus:
(Art-Trade In Progress)
(Art-Trade In Progress)

Have a goodn', folks.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17071198/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17071198/ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:43:53 PST On the inside.

Seriously though, I've been doodling quite a bit since I stole these awesome brush-pens from Office Depot. They're awesome. First ten people to put their adress in a note to me will get one in ze mail. There may be more, who knows.

If you REALLY want to see some new work from me, then this is the way to do it for now. LOL LAEM.

Have a good one folks.

EDIT: I'm NOT mailing Brush pens to you folks. These are MINE damnit, get yer own! *clutches his precious' close to his heart*

I'm mailing DOODLES made WITH the brush-pens. YEESH.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17016597/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/17016597/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:03:04 PST
I don't know quite how, honestly. Considering I do the same thing every single day and that's usually a garaunteed all-expenses paid pass for the world to stop spinning. Time should be moving a hell of a lot slower.

It isn't, though.

What's happening here? What happened to my old perception of time? Did it improve? I guess it did. I think father time's showing mercy on me, knowing how dearly I hate repetition of any sort, in any scenario, and helping the days blur together so I don't notice so easily and get distracted with intense bouts of boredom.

That's awful nice of him. Must've taken a sick-day today, though.

I came THIS close to purposely failing an exam. But I promised myself and my family that I would do everything in my power to make sure things go positively for myself so long as I'm here, so instead I just blazed through it, at least attempting to circle the right answers. Readying myself for the potential consequences, should they arise.

I got an 80%. Pretty good for hardly any studying done on my part and my having a heightened sense of apathy for today. It would appear I know more about lasers than first thought.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I hate what I'm doing or where I am. Heck, it's not that I hate much anything at all here about me and the good ol' Air Force. I'm quickly finding out that there's enjoyment to be had here, albeit of different sorts to what I'm used to.

It's just that I hate repetition and I sometimes catch myself actively trying to quell it through...Perhaps more negative means.

I need to grow up a little more.

Things will change soon, though. I just have to keep that in mind. I have no regrets about joining; life is a story that ends only when your eyes shut for the last, and luckily it's turning out to be a very well-written, funny kind of tale thus far. I'm enjoying it quite a bit.

There just needs to be a little more character development, is all. The protagonist could be a little more positive, and the grammar could use some work.

I have a feeling the author knows what he's doing, though. I also have a hunch that he's going to have our hero doing some amazing stuff in the next chapter. I guess I just need to be a little more patient with his choice of pacing. It may be a little slow right now, but it'll pick up, I'm sure. It'd be a poor sport of me to put the book down now that I'm so deep into it, right?



-----

Just want to remind you all that I really AM doing quite well. I just like to write about the more negative bits to exercise and develop my writing style. Again, I'm doing FINE. Just trying to improve artistically here while I'm without a scanner or a camera.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16937420/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16937420/ Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:25:32 PST

Oh lawd. D:

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16921372/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16921372/ Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:10:17 PST
Walking here, walking there. Walking off base and on and back off again (the guards at the gate know me on a first name basis I pass so often). Walking to the spot to sneak a smoke and walking to the other spot to see if I can catch any other "friendlies" with a spare, just remembering that I forgot mine.

Walking to Target, walking to Starbucks (where the eight barristas and I identify each other with nicknames), walking to Wal-Mart, walking straight past Whataburger, walking to Starbucks again (The afternoon girl is cute). Seeing the sights, hearing the sounds, meeting the folks, and always walking.

Five o' clock rolls around, and I'm walking around suburban San Antonio. Always.

Walking has become something of a way to relieve the monotony. Problem with this strategy being; it's getting monotonous.

Maybe I just hate sticking around in one spot for too long. Maybe I feel a little lazy for not doing physical training everyday like they used to have us do. Maybe even I just want to get as far away from learning about the many different ways to check the capture velocities of industrial ventilation systems as possible.

You would too, believe me.

But perhaps I'm just walking back, trying to find the person I used to be. The happier, less serious, artistically inclined kid with the messy hair and the clothes that never quite fit right and the awkward smile who never could stand making direct eye-contact with that cute barrista in the coffee-shop down Hennipen that had the patio out-back that was always a pleasure to sit in, despite what the weather and common sense dictated.

I miss that kid. He was a goofy fella, kind've moody at times and had a strange sense of humor, but at least he was interesting to be around and I'd be damned if he didn't play a mean guitar.

He never got worried about his grade average falling below an eighty percent. He never got worried about what would happen if he was caught walking out from the wrong direction at the wrong time. He never complained about having french toast for breakfast every day. He never had to worry about checkings, savings, credit cards, or interest rates; because he was too smart for that. He never had to worry about dry-cleaning. He never had to worry about what could happen if he failed to recognize the colonel.

He was a good man, and now he's gone. And I keep on walking, hoping I'll bump into him again someday.
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Real entry:
I'm starting to like writing quite a bit. It's kind've therapeutic. And that above entry is true for the most part, though slightly exaggerated for artistic purposes. Really, I'm fine. Adjusting to a more adult life is a bit more awkward than I thought it would be, but I'm doing fine. Just hope someday soon that I'll be able to open Photoshop again...

...Which could've been today, actually. But Best Buy is a little wary about giving me their store credit thing. D: I figure it's because I've got no credit history and I haven't even filed my taxes yet (working on it). Oh well, it'll come in time. Gonna start building up credit sometime this month, I figure.. Getting a nice lil' laptop sometime and perhaps someday a tablet and a camera too. We'll see what happens. In the meantime, I gotta read-up on AFOSH Std. 48-20 for a test on Tuesday. So I'll see you cats around.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16792315/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16792315/ Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:36:54 PST
I'll be sitting at my desk. Or in the break room. Or in the atrium. And it happens without warning, hitting me like an unwelcome slap to the face.

Deja Vu. Always. At least once a day.

Perhaps it's a sign that I'm on the right track; that I'm supposed to be here. That I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing.

Or maybe the synapses in my brain are just misfiring more and more often. Maybe I need to drink more water.

I'd like to believe in the former scenario, though. I'd like to have confidence in trusting that my mind knows what my heart doesn't.

It's so strange here. Always just as comfortable as it never is. There's clarity and confusion; a mystifying haze both warm and welcoming in it's promise of depriving me of a clear view of the trail ahead.

Sometimes it's hard to see where I am at all. But that's okay.

Things always work out in the end. They always do.

(Just checking in, felt like writing a short piece to describe where I'm at. Hope you're all doing well. )

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16481995/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16481995/ Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:02:42 PST
Also, pointing, and not just with your finger, but with your ENTIRE HAND, helps to punctuate any "Really?"'s you may throw out. Some of you'll understand one day, I'm sure. Find the nearest airman and have them explain it to you. Be sure to remind yourself to be easily amused and keep a good imagination on you, too.

Anyways, howdy folks. How've y'all been? What're you up to? I know it hasn't been TOO long since last I hopped on but heck I figured some of y'all might've done something interesting during the interim. Me? I haven't done much, really. Finally learned how to buy my own jeans though! And it took me two years and enlistment in the Air Force but I'm FINALLY getting the Tank Girl comics next week! And on top of all that, my testing's going well at tech-school! Hurray!

Er, I mean; Hooah!

That doesn't even belong to us, sheesh. Anywho.

However, I do have some bad news. It appears that my next duty station is in Oklahoma.

I am NOT OK with OK, catch my drift?

Hope I can swap with someone going to Grand Forks...Oh, wait, yeah. More bad news.

There'll STILL be no new art from me for a while.

*listens as he hears the clicks of a million firefox tabs closing*

And probably even less activity for me on here than previous. Studying's getting serious and this friggin' computer won't let DAmn work. *slap* I swear it's gotta be Vista or something. Oh well.

Let's see, anything important I need to mention...

Hmm. Well, I love all y'all, hope you can forgive my not being on and not contributing anything in the visual sense, and just letting you all know that I'm doing just fine. Now, if there's anything you need/want from me, let me know. Take care guys, much love.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16282476/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16282476/ Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:02:57 PST
We can all stop laying into Jean now, alright? He's got enough bullshit to deal with. Let him be; all's been forgiven.

<3

And hopefully there'll be no more bullshit from me. Damn folks, you all should call me out when I do stupid shit like that. XD

Much love y'all, take care.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16275992/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16275992/ Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:46:00 PST
]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16262398/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16262398/ Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:42:53 PST
Seriously.

I mean, think about it. We never really thought it'd work, right? Long-distance relationships over the internet hardly work out into anything resembling a real relationship anyway; and 'sides, I couldn't really expect you to wait HOW long for some guy you barely met who's going into the military and thus probably overseas for a long time? That was just not gonna work out, period. If it was love, maybe. But let's face it: we were just horny and didn't find the idea of being together an entirely revolting state of affairs at the time.

I mean, not that I wasn't willing to give it a shot or nothin', but hey, we never said we'd stay true to one another or anything, either. So I can't blame you, and honestly I'm not mad at you for what happened. Why should I be?

I mean, shit. I'd kill to get that movie-screen kiss one day, too. I'm glad you got to have that and I hope one day I'll have my chance too.

So honestly, I'm happy for you. Really, I am. And if what happened means that we're over (not that we really began, but regardless), then that's honestly perfectly fine. Hope we can remain friends at least.

I'm actually heart-broken that I can't carry that picture in my wallet anymore, to be perfectly, completely honest, but at least we can talk to each other again, right?

Basically what I'm saying is...You can stop ignoring/avoiding me now, dumkompf. I ain't THAT upset; I'm guessing we both knew this would happen. Now hop online so we can lulz at yiffers again.

To the rest of you: Have a good night, and don't mind that. Just me being stupid and tired again.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16165558/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/16165558/ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:23:06 PST
On that note, hi folks. I've graduated, I'm still alive, and I'm still the ryu you know and love. I can just run faster, climb higher and kill faster now.

But for serious, I missed you folks. I probably won't be able to come back to y'all on a more permanent basis until I can get myself a lap-top sometime in the next five months, but just know that I'm alive and well, and I hope you all are doing just fine for yourselves. :3 Seriously, how're you guys doing? Go ahead and post some links to your newest works if y'want, I'll get around to checking them later.

Wish I could make something. Hmph. Anywho. What else for news...

Oh! I'm not gonna be a spy, turns out. Yeah, I'm going to be a bioenvironmental engineer instead. Yeah, I don't know either. Google it.

Hah, well, I guess that's about it for now. Check you guys later and much love.

Especially for you, fag-boat. D:< YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. *points, unfs, runs away*

EDIT: IF YOU MADE ART FOR ME, LET ME KNOW PLZ KTHNX. Seriously that crap is like major morale boostage lulz.

No honestly I just don't have time to sort through 5000+ deviations at the moment. D: LAME.

I still love you all though. X3 <3 <3 OKAY BYE. *dash*

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15469741/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15469741/ Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:46:31 PST

So thank you for all the well-wishings and general words of encouragement. They mean a lot to me, and I appreciate them (and you guys!) dearly. You folks rule and I'll miss you all.

Oh, one thing though; THESE guys here:



Are now completely free to use as designs in your own work, for money or non. All I ask is that I'm credited with the design(s) in some small fashion and I get to see the works they appear in in one form or another. So, feel free to use 'em to whatever ends you see fit! Adopt them as your own characters! Write out their whole history! Make one a eunuch! Make one the person responsible for the creation of the worlds-first functioning time machine! Make one an astronaut tasked with killing the benevolent space-monkey that watches over us all! Kill them both off in the first chapter in a freak pencil-sharpening accident! I don't care! Just take 'em and don't even worry about what I might think; they're open-source for a reason! Woo! Yeah!

Well, that looks to be about it. After this I'm gonna pack up my computer for quite awhile...So all I want to say is:

I love you guys. Take care, and stay out of trouble.

Much love.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15341366/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15341366/ Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:54:31 PDT
But seriously.

So it seems there's a problem with my camera, the tape I used, Adobe Premiere, or all three. I'm not sure.

In playback, even though it's playing back at a hundred percent speed, it looks slowed down and choppy. Upon export into a quicktime Mpeg4 file, it just looks like garbage. If anyone could give me some help or suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it. If you need more information, just tell me and I'll try and be more specific.

Also, I'm not gonna tell you guys I got a film made again until it's actually up here in my gallery. I figure it'd be better to do that rather then get you all excited for something that may or may not actually happen again.

Anyway, nothing much else going on. Well, I'm leaving in 8 days and a wake-up for the AF. Sorry guys, did my math wrong. But yeah, that's playing with my head a bit, making me nervous. I think I'm gonna walk four miles a day along with my sit-ups and push-ups until I actually get on the plane now just so I'm not as nervous for how I'm gonna do physically. Yeah, wow.

In other news, 's a big ol' fag-boat lulz <3.

Have a good one folks.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15304986/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15304986/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:18:17 PDT Just got done with principal photography and now I'm gonna lay into editing. X3

It's an artsy-fartsy film though, so JUST A WARNIN' to those of you that don't like/aren't used to narratives that hardly give you any audio indication as to where things are headed. ]8<

I don't know when it'll be up here. Hopefully soon. :3

Happy Halloween everyone!

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15294601/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15294601/ Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:10:10 PDT It's addicting, to say the least.

Edit: Haha, two of the pics I suggested for DD's yesterday are DD's...Today! Haha, that's so cool! I'm glad they got some recognition, if only finally. :3

And surprise surprise, I'm not going to get that Halloween picture done in time. Sorry guys, hopefully I'll start on it and get it up sometime before the 13th of next month, at which time I'll have to say goodbye to all you wonderful folks.

Gotsta go serve my country, after all! Or at least attempt to...

Let's see, what else is going on...

Um, my name was in the paper today? Yeah, apparently they screened one of my short films without telling me about it. Nice of 'em to do that, still would've been nice to know beforehand. D: I'd like to go to a screening of mine for once in my life.

That looks to be about it, so take care.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15222937/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15222937/ Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:38:40 PDT
I may upload the script if someone else would rather film it though. I think it's fairly funny, just needs some work. Let me know if any of you'd like to take a stab at it.

Anywho, in other news.

In lieu of any other art I have to upload at the moment, how's about some trance? Hope it doesn't hurt your ears TOO badly. Give it a listen and tell me what y'think.
[link]

Let's see, what else is going on...

Hmm, nothing much I don't think. Ah well, you folks take care and have a good one.

EDIT: HOLLOWEEN.
OKAY! Got my peeps. Now I just need refs from you all that haven't given me any and your choice of costume. Sorry folks, I might throw a couple more of you in if it's not done by halloween.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15094443/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15094443/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:16:57 PDT
Much love folks. I'll get to replying to the rest of your comments and favs and watches and other nonsense tomorrow when I'm not so ridiculously tired. Take care.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15091399/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15091399/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:29:49 PDT

There's a still from it, featuring yours truly in full-on ANU getup. (Awesomely Nerdy Uniform, for those uninitiated).

Now the question is: What will the plot be, and will it be on DeviantART?

The answer to the latter is HOPEFULLY yes.

The answer to the former...Is up to you!

Check mah poll I'm shootin' and editin' it and hopefully submitting it tommorow guh GEEZE. D:<

Much love folks.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15054168/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15054168/ Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:55:03 PDT by:

Go. Now. Spread the love.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15024311/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/15024311/ Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:10:59 PDT

This is simply...Wow. I don't even know what to say! Thanks to everyone who stops by today, comments, faves, and watches. I really, truly am thankful for everything you guys have done for me, and sincerely hope I can return in triplicate all the love you guys have shown me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

VERY special thanks to for finding "Evicted?" DD-worthy, for being an awesome GD, and for being an all-around fantastic person in general. Much love!

And special thanks to everyone in the IamAnthro chatroom for being some of the coolest cats I've ever had the privilege of getting to know!: [link]

I'll try and get around to thanking everyone personally over the next day or so. I'm gonna have a LOT of deviations I gotta comment on. Thanks again!

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14993419/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14993419/ Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:50:38 PDT
I've been getting into shape and making some work I'm really proud of though lately, AND I got $75 bucks from my parents, so I guess that's pretty awesome.

And I got this today from and !


Thank you so much guys, that was WAY too sweet of you both!

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14916531/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14916531/ Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:36:18 PDT ! If you're in this feature, you should go do this yourself with 20 others! (It'd be nice if you included me too, just saying. X3)

Okay, ready for this? Here we go! :3



1. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't bring this piece to your attention. This is a piece of art that really says a lot about the way we care for our environment; the character thrusts the plastic into the foreground, confronting the viewer with the incriminating evidence that should make us all feel like petty criminals. And it was awesome that he was able to inject that confrontational feeling into the work! Oh, the water effects are purdy too.
2. Here the artist really shows us his natural knack for perspective and composition. Having given such an incredible amount of thought to how to best display his subject to us REALLY makes the subject itself that much more reminiscent of "Reservoir Dogs", and captures the inherent coolness of that and other similar films. Great work.
3. Methinks the artist should be directing gangster movies! He seems to have a knack for making the subject matter work rather well, and this piece is no exception. Lovely composition, great characters, and a nice contrasting mood to it.


1. Ever since I've known the guy, ~pixelisedmind's pieces have always been phenomenal and've always had a certain sense of wonderment and tension to them which makes them hard to ignore. This piece, is no exception. The artist's coloring style is built on solid foundations and he's really starting to develop his own, ridiculously slick and stylish coloring language. And I love the way the girl pops out from everything else!
2. Here the artist really shows his skill for switching up styles within the same context: Using cell-shading and truly bold, vibrant colors on the character to make him really "pop" from the background, but he still manages to blend him into his more subdued, soft-shaded environment. Great work here.
3. This is a truly, truly inspired coloring job. Everything is simply perfect in all respects and the artist seems to have really stretched his abilities here into something truly from the heart. Hire this guy if you work for the comics biz, folks. Seriously, do it now.

http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14910840/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14910840/ Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:05:14 PDT !

First 20 people to comment get three of their pieces featured and I'll tell you what I think of your stuff! Get to it!

The ONE catch is...You must do the same thing in your journal. ;3

EDIT: Sorry! No more spots left. My fingers are gonna fall off with the load I have as is. I should be able to get everything done and commented on by tonight, assuming my keyboard doesn't melt first. X3

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14905859/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14905859/ Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:35:36 PDT

What I want all you folks to do, is to go pay these folks a visit for being so kind as to draw pictures for me. They're great people, great artists, and deserve all the love you can give 'em. So go love 'em a little, or a lot. It's up to you, really, but I prefer you choose the latter.






Much love you guys, Y'have no idea. And if I forgot a piece you did for me, be sure to remind me so I can put you in and hang myself for forgetting. X3
__________

Project 31st:
~DavidStrife=Galadrex=arionic~Thumpity=Beeejaay
=LeonaWindrider*ryu-industries=Kellisanth^cooley~Solidfox07
*krhainos~Negativefox*noben*pyro-blaze-jaguar

If want off the list, say so.
__________

Commissions = OPEN 24 HOURS D:
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PRICING:

Single Character, Simple/No Background: $15
Single Character, "Full" Background: $20
2 Characters, Simple/No Background: $25
2 Characters: "Full" Background: $30
Badges: $10

Add another $5 for additional characters.

PAYMENT:

Note me, and we'll dis... ]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14893286/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14893286/ Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:36:54 PDT

I know dead-pan humor doesn't carry over the internet so well. Cut me some slack, I'm tired.

Anyways, you know who you are, and I need to say it again: Thank you SO so much. You rock man, for reals.

Oh, and I'm finally done with 's badge commission! So go give that a gander and tell me what you think.

Now I'll be starting in on *pyro-blaze-jaguar's commission. This should be pretty fun.

Have a good one folks, I'm going to bed now. I'm gonna have to find myself a decent CSS layout tommorow...
__________
In OTHER news:

Project 31st:
~DavidStrife=Galadrex=arionic~Thumpity=Beeejaay
=LeonaWindrider*ryu-industries=Kellisanth^cooley~Solidfox07
*krhainos~Negativefox*noben*pyro-blaze-jaguar

If want off the list, say so.
__________

Commissions = OPEN.
__________
PRICING:

Single Character, Simple/No Background: $15
Single Character, "Full" Background: $20
2 Characters, Simple/No Background: $25
2 Characters: "Full" Background: $30
Badges: $10

Add another $5 for additional characters.

PAYMENT:

Note me, and we'll discuss details.
__________

IN PROGRESS:
- Website layout: (Done! :3)
- Krhainos Royale: (Done! :3)
- Fursona Badge: (Done! :3)
- Py and Koorii (0% Done.)
- Solid 'Sona (0% Done.)

Here's to hoping I hear from more of you!

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14608837/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14608837/ Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:24:05 PDT Tagged by


Here are the Rules:
1. post these rules
2. each person tagged must post 8 random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
3. tags should write a journal of these facts
4. at the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
5. go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged

1. I'm a two-time national award winning film-maker and have had my work in many festivals throughout the U.S., and I'll never show anyone those two particular films as I've lost the original copies. I will be making something for DAFilm though here eventually...
2. My friends and I created a rap song last year that got actual radio play in New York and Los Angeles, along with some internet radio play in Chicago. They probably played it as a joke, and that's exactly the way it was supposed to be. :3
3. Me and my step-brother played a pick-up game of basketball with a couple high-profile Crips sometime last year. We almost won.
4. An anonymous quote I left on a post-it note inside an Arts Institute in Minnesota some years ago was used in congress to help gain more financial support for the arts and arts education in Minnesota.
5. I'm one of those folks that really can survive off of nothing but coffee and cigarettes.
6. I got to talk with Michel Gondry.
7. The most beautiful thing I've ever seen was in the middle of the night, with the moon full, my car parked on the side of an abandoned high-way, and thousands upon thousands of fire-flies were silently dancing around me with nothing but the crickets acting as the orchestra for this moon-lit ballet for no one. This sight is beyond anything else I can even imagine.
8. I would die a happy man if I had a pet chicken.

I TAG THE FOLLOWING!:


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In OTHER news:

Project 31st:
~DavidStrife=Galadrex=arionic~Thumpity=Beeejaay
=LeonaWindrider~ryu-industries=Kellisanth^cooley~Solidfox07
*krhainos~Negativefox*noben*pyro-blaze-jaguar

If want off the list, say so. ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14600667/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14600667/ Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:59:52 PDT
I was back at my old High School, reliving a beautiful day in a fall that never happened. It was me and a number of my good female friends, chillin' on the roof-top dining area and patio. (Note, Perpich doesn't actually have anything like this.) And everything was going just like it would have, had it actually happened. But something was different: I had this mask that I could put on, and it would mend itself to my face and change my entire physical appearance, from head to toe. All of my friends had one, actually, each different than mine, but I couldn't describe them to you except for my ex-girlfriend's, who's mask I remember being that of a dog, heh.
My mask though, was black, feathery, and had quite a beak protruding out of it: It looked just like Corbin. So I put it on, do this entire physical transformation in literally the blink of an eye, and no one seemed to notice or care, apparently being used to jarring physical transformations occurring to their friends. I stubbed my smoke, waved at my friends and headed inside, and the school administrator asks me "Where's that alarm coming from?" And as soon as he said that, I was awakened by my phone's ringing.

I actually felt around for a beak when I woke up, and was relieved that it wasn't there.

I think I need to purchase a dream dictionary if weirdness like this is gonna keep happening at night.

Anyway, hope y'all are doing well, I got a new photoshop piece in the works, so stay tuned for that, and take care of yourselves.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14570953/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14570953/ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:10:23 PDT cooley rendered my Corbin character. Seriously, go have a look, it's beautiful!

[link]

How bomb-diggity is THAT?! What a way to start the morning, the week even.

Go spread some love for ^cooley, or any of our Gallery Directors in general. They're the good people, folks.

And also, thanks a-lot, folks, for the flurry of activity that's been going on in my in-box as of recent. I haven't seen activity like this since I got that DD, which was what, two years ago I believe? Now I remember why I liked DA so much in the first place: The community love is amazing.

Much love to y'all, stay classy!

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14526559/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14526559/ Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:08:42 PDT
So I guess I have a music video I'm supposed to do. Some band from Chicago. Good sound though.

Check 'em out:

[link]

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14524358/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14524358/ Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:15:37 PDT
[link]

I'm both extremely giddy and extremely nervous about this.

If DA turns into YouTube, I'm gone.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14490678/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14490678/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:28:52 PDT
Wrong.

My question is, why? Why don't you people share these more? Use these as inspiration? Plots for stories? Subject matter for paintings? Why just dream the dream and then throw it away like a used condom? This is your brain generating what basically amounts to a HALLUCINOGENIC VISION QUEST almost NIGHTLY for goodness sake and you're just gonna stuff it in the back of the closet, leaving it there to be lost and forgotten for the rest of perceivable time?

This doesn't make any sense to me.

I'm someone who almost never remembers their dreams. Never.
If I'm lucky, I'll be able to construct a very vague sentence describing what MAY have gone on in one part of that night's dream once every couple of months. But usually my luck with dreams isn't even THAT good. Most of the time, it's just going to bed and waking up again. Nothing in the middle.

But last night was different.

For once in my life, I remembered my dream concisely, and I can even still see it in my head. It was a beautiful dream, but beautiful in the way a Miyazaki film might be if they had the writers from A Softer World. ([link])

I'll just describe it to you and see what you think.

Imagine a house on a cliff next to the sea. The house isn't much of a house, it's much more aptly described as a home; there's lawn ornaments and other charming trinkets strewn about the place with a vegetable garden in a corner of the lot, and the whole property is surrounded by a lush green forest. I live here. I live here with my little brother. He came to stay with me after he got out of the mental hospital. The reason he was in there in the first place was because he grew up with an imaginary friend whom he couldn't get rid of. When the other children mentally matured and got rid of theirs, he became extremely self-concious and worried about still having his, and when he tried to get his friend to leave, he wouldn't. This lasted into adult-hood, where he checked himself into the mental hospital, and now he's "cured", the doctors say.

I was roaming in the garden, checking on the tomatos, when I see my little brother leaning against one of the support stakes.

"How's it goin' Jay?"
"Listen, you can't tell mom what I'm about to do, okay?"
There were tears in his eyes.
"What? I don't understand, what's wrong?"
"I'm sorry Casey, I just can't do this anymore..."
And with that, he ripped the stake out of the ground and stabbed his heart and his right kidney. He was stunned by what he had done, not realizing it would hurt so much, I guess. He fell on his back into the sunflowers.

I, panicked, rushed into the house and called 9-1-1. When I finished the call, I ran outside with one of mom's quilts to console my brother and tell him everything will be fine. I felt that death was imminent and I wanted to make sure he went out warm and peacefully.

But, when I got outside, I saw something amazing.

It turns out my brother wasn't crazy after all.

There, laying on-top of him, weeping and trying to stop the bleeding, was his imaginary friend. This magnificent, winged, ancient and wise creature who's been with my brother (presumably) since birth. Just as he rendered him in crayon when he was six, and just as his psychologist described him to me a few years ago. There he was, real and alive, trying to save my brother.

And then I woke up.

It was weird, to be sure, but the beauty of it is what sticks with me. I never knew, also, that in dreams, you could have memories that have never happened. That was mighty strange.

Well, goodnight y'all. I'm gonna see if I can go make a repeat performance.

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He offered no context, and I didn't ask. He just said it very matter-of-factly like one would speak about water being wet or the mountains being big.

WTF Gramps?

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14314598/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14314598/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:53:33 PDT 2: Enter the following into the address bar, minus the 'OOO's:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=OOODI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=OOODI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

3: Press enter.
4: Enjoy.

Advanced user tip: Try this on the Google main page. It's fun.

]]> ~ryu-industries http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14295815/ http://ryu-industries.deviantart.com/journal/14295815/ Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:20:39 PDT
In the past couple days I managed to churn out:
Voln and his (alleged) mum, a Norwegian Sea Captain, and a kamakazi orange battling apples (which I havn't uploaded yet). And after tonight, I'm supposed to be making a zombie on a go-scooter wallpaper or something.

I'm just finding myself in this torrential whirl-wind of productivity feeling rather good, but still kooky. Afterall, I've never been this productive when it's come to drawing before.

So, with that said, if you got a character (or two) you want me to doodle, hit me up! I'm cheap (read; free) and unwilling to let up on this newfound spark I managed to catch!

Peace!

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