Hey hey I've changed my account over to my new account name Veathn which will be accepting all of my new material, as well as a small backlock of older stuff from the last year or so, stuff that hasn't shown up on this account.
Hope you come and check me out and leave a comment!
Reading: Gibson and Sterling - The Difference Engine
Watching: Lewis Black's The Root Of All Evil
Playing: Metroid (series)
Eating: Toasts
Drinking: Gatoraid
Happy Holidays
Tue Dec 25, 2007, 8:14 PM
Getting those fingers moving again, working as a cafe barrista full time means that my hands are wet all day long and constantly moving. My manual dexterity has increased a great amount, but my sense of touch has been dampened quite a bit in the last six months.
I find myself pressing my fingertips together when I'm at home. This takes up a shameful amount of time before I fall asleep most nights.
Also, I drew a picture for of the Tabouli Brothers because I failed to enter his colouring contest in time. I hope this makes up for it. I'm going to see if Jason submits the graphic himself for greater credit before I run it through DA.
Playing: Contra 4 DS, FFIII DS, Gradius Galaxies GBA
Eating: Almonds
Drinking: Homemade wine... a Merlot.
Dice-modified Narrative Discourse
Sat Dec 1, 2007, 12:05 AM
Been working on some fantasy/adventure related stuff more recently, though I haven't abandoned my thesis work from school or LOW in general. Merely making room for other things that are, lets face it, more accessible. At this point, whatever gets you working most frequently is what is right, and 'Bleak' and building worlds is right up there.
I wish I could register the user name LOW on DA but it has been taken by someone who hasn't logged in in like three years!! Tryverb was a name I used back in 2001 to name some experimental wav sound edits with an ancient version of AudioMulch. It is still special to me as a name that produced paarul though, PAARU being a word in some arab language meaning 'to try to <verb> or try <verbing>' or something. When I was in highschool I liked the way it sounded.
Anyway. Pretty much all the work I've done since thesis has been about LOW, or PRISA or Lillian, all names used to describe a single character's many faces. I argued in class that LOW had come to represent an externalized aspect of my personality, reinforced with theory from Carl Jung's work on archetypes as well as some of my personality pantheon musings, which suggest micro-personalities working in tandem to form a whole. Like that movie Identity. I haven't seen it, someone ruined the ending for me and I was like, "Oh. Neat though."
So that is why I'm obsessed with LOW. She represents a few different aspects of my personality that I've wisely (foolishly) externalized into a character. I feel like a moth circling around and around a favorite candle. But I'm excited about her and have been for years. And longer than that, with characters and symbols that I now understand were proto forms and if that isn't a reason to continue as long as possible, I don't know what would be.
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Reading: The Left HAnd Of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Watching: Spaced
Playing: Etrian Odyssey (DS)
Eating: soup
Drinking: Green lemonaid
"Are you trying to seduce me?"
Mon Sep 17, 2007, 7:28 AM
I purged most of the older work from my gallery except for my own personal favorites. The idea now is that I have to fill it with new stuff, disconnected from the foundations of the past. I find that is often the only way to move forward once you've become disillusioned or forgotten why you enjoy doing this in the first place.
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