A Dragon's Future:

Kaila, my dog

Sat, 24 May 2008 14:50:51 GMT

My dog passed away today. She was having complications and we took her to the vet and all they suggested was to say your goodbyes.

I spent about an hour with her before I left the room, tears just rolling down my face, eh heh heh.... they still are I suppose.

I love / loved my dog, my Kaila so much.

His name is Dr. Rockso

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:41:35 GMT

kekekeke yeah!

Okay, it's 2:30AM, and I'm tired.... but I'm enjoying myself and I cannot sleep due to the blasted heat. Today was fun however, no complaints.

I went to see The Visitor in theaters, and then went to a lovely place called Burgoo where they served me some food I have never tried before but fell in love with it. The meal I had was called Zarzuela. I'll take a picture of the food if I go there again.

Finally got home late, drew a little bit and got back to my pitch for EA.

Speaking of EA, things are going extra-ordinarly well. I had the chance to pitch a new IP and they gave me great feedback and told me to do some changes here and there . . . and be ready to give a powerpoint presentation in 2-weeks time. Yipes!

So here I am, making sure the concept doc is all ready and the presentation is getting setup for the day. If things go well, I'll be pitching to someone big and important at EA who at the very least, will hire me as an Assistant Producer at EA and at the very most, hire me as an Assistant Producer at EA and get my IP turned into an actual EA game. That's how Playground came-to-be :)

I'm thankful tomorrow is a day off and then Tuesday will be me going with friends to see NIGHTWISH Yay :D

Probably will take a few snaps and post-em-up. Have a good night everyone.

Update

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:33:46 GMT

Okay okay, I got enough e-mail nudges to update. I'm not one who really keeps-up with livejournal, facebook, myspace, even my FA Journal. However, I'm running on some free-time and I can definately get back to posting now-and-again.

So, what's new with me? Well, I'm back at EA! But still a QA Contractor (Means I am working through a 3rd-party). However, I've been talking to the 'Powers That Be' and have managed to get myself into a round-table discussion of new game ideas and new games (Maybe I can swing a Assistant Producer job!). Don't get me wrong, QA is fun, but I want to move-up in the world and being stuck in QA isn't going to do that.

What else? Hmm... Well, my art has progressed quite a bit and is still progressing. I'm drawing every day and am trying to get more time to do so.

Today was a lovely mother's day; took my mom out for a lovely breakfast, then went out to buy her some plants for the garden. Among the stuff I got for my mom, I bought myself 2 small pots of Red Venus Flytraps because:
A) They look cool and
B) Sometimes the kitchen gets a small infestation of fruit-flies during the summertime and so why not give them back to Nature than using some crap-chemical?

Well, I'll try to update once-a-week, how about that? :) Makes it simple.

Okay, I'm off to some movie with my folks. Have fun everyone ^.=.^

Happy Mother's Day.

Don't read if you dislike Real World Politics

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:16:02 GMT

This made me extremely upset.

As Sourced by many news outlets, but this is copied from Amnesty International: Click Here to view Source

Military Commissions Act of 2006

Now Congress has passed the Military Commissions Act. Amnesty International will work for the repeal of this legislation which violates human rights principles. Among other things, the Military Commissions Act will:

- Strip the US courts of jurisdiction to hear or consider habeas corpus appeals challenging the lawfulness or conditions of detention of anyone held in US custody as an "enemy combatant". Judicial review of cases would be severely limited. The law would apply retroactively, and thus could result in more than 200 pending appeals filed on behalf of Guantánamo detainees being thrown out of court.

- Prohibit any person from invoking the Geneva Conventions or their protocols as a source of rights in any action in any US court.

- Permit the executive to convene military commissions to try "alien unlawful enemy combatants", as determined by the executive under a dangerously broad definition, in trials that would provide foreign nationals so labeled with a lower standard of justice than US citizens accused of the same crimes. This would violate the prohibition on the discriminatory application of fair trial rights.

- Permit civilians captured far from any battlefield to be tried by military commission rather than civilian courts, contradicting international standards and case law.

- Establish military commissions whose impartiality, independence and competence would be in doubt, due to the overarching role that the executive, primarily the Secretary of Defense, would play in their procedures and in the appointments of military judges and military officers to sit on the commissions.

- Permit, in violation of international law, the use of evidence extracted under cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, or as a result of "outrages upon personal dignity, particularly humiliating or degrading treatment", as defined under international law.

- Permit the use of classified evidence against a defendant, without the defendant necessarily being able effectively to challenge the "sources, methods or activities" by which the government acquired the evidence. This is of particular concern in light of the high level of secrecy and resort to national security arguments employed by the administration in the "war on terror", which have been widely criticized, including by the UN Committee against Torture and the Human Rights Committee. Amnesty International is concerned that the administration appears on occasion to have resorted to classification to prevent independent scrutiny of human rights violations.

- Give the military commissions the power to hand down death sentences, in contravention of international standards which only permit capital punishment after trials affording "all possible safeguards to ensure a fair trial". The clemency authority would be the President. President Bush has led a pattern of official public commentary on the presumed guilt of the detainees, and has overseen a system that has systematically denied the rights of detainees.

- Limit the right of charged detainees to be represented by counsel of their choosing.

- Fail to provide any guarantee that trials will be conducted within a reasonable time.

- Permit the executive to determine who is an "enemy combatant" under any "competent tribunal" established by the executive, and endorse the Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT), the wholly inadequate administrative procedure that has been employed in Guantánamo to review individual detentions.

- Narrow the scope of the War Crimes Act by not expressly criminalizing acts that constitute "outrages upon personal dignity, particularly humiliating and degrading treatment" banned under Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions. Amnesty International believes that the USA has routinely failed to respect the human dignity of detainees in the "war on terror".

- Prohibit the US courts from using "foreign or international law" to inform their decisions in relation to the War Crimes Act. The President has the authority to "interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions". Under President Bush, the USA has shown a selective disregard for the Geneva Conventions and the absolute prohibition of torture or other ill-treatment.

- Endorse the administration’s "war paradigm" – under which the USA has selectively applied the laws of war and rejected international human rights law. The legislation would backdate the "war on terror" to before the 11 September 2001 in order to be able to try individuals in front of military commissions for "war crimes" committed before that date.

Shock!!

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:46:34 GMT

Like, wow!

So here I am with my parents yesterday at "The Olive Garden" talking about stuff, then it turned to my mom talking about wanting to go to Italy. My dad picks instantly up on the idea and after some more talking, turns to me and says, "Why don't you come with us next summer and then, do some backpacking on your own? We'll go to Italy, you shall spend some time with us, we'll hand you an open-ended ticket after a few days and go off on our own. You'll get the transport over, but you'll have to pay for everything else while you are there."

My eyes grow wide as my mom nods in agreement. So, as it looks like, I might be starting in Italy next summer and doing some travelling over Europe. . .

Anyone want to come?

I love Sandpot

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:41:46 GMT

Seafood Sandpot and bubbletea at the same place? I'm in heaven . . . And I'm going back tomorrow.... Mmm

The Short and the Long of my Vacation

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:39:12 GMT

The short:

I was gone for two weeks. In that time, I met up with my good friend Sara and her husband, flew to Buffalo, met up with Silvy, made a few new friends, went to Feral, back to Buffalo, back to see Sara and came in just tonight. I had a blast.

The long:

Left early morning on the 29th to go to Seattle. Damned immigration. It caught a few passengers, forcing everyone (including myself) to wait; dulldrums. Upon arrival, I instantly went to meet-up with Sara, an old friend of mine who is trying to get me involved in starting a dessert restaurant in Seattle. So in the course of the next day-and-a-half, herself, her roomies and I watch a few movies (NEVER WATCH CUBE ZERO... CRAPPIEST MOVIE EVER) and on the 30th, I head out to Buffalo.

Talk about the red-eye, I slept through most of it, save for my demented lay-over in Philly which lasted 6 hours on my account, as they needed a volunteer to wait for the next flight. (Bonus was, was that I got a free round-trip ticket to anywhere in Continental North America with no blackout dates). So, I found a kiosk for the Rosetta Stone (A learning language program) and weaseled my way into using the program for a bit and learned basic words in Chinese, Japanese, Punjabi, Thai, Korean and Latin. Do I remember any of it? Vaguely. Learning languages has never been my strong-point.

So, I arrive in Buffalo, and I'm waiting in excitement to meet Silvy, except, I got the wrong flight number from him . . . Oops! Ah well :) We met, I was fluttering, and calmed down as quick as I could, being in wait for his Sister. I swear, his sisters are wonderful :) Maybe I got the 'special treatment' but I doubt it. I can generally tell when others are masking their true feelings.

Come night-fall, we are delivered to Bandit's place, (A great guy ^.-.^) to whom I meet Bandit, Dragoth and StageLion, to which all three are great. Time passes and after a long drive up north . . . Feral!

Feral rolled right into view. Oy vey! What a blast. Cabin 4 was the best, no one can dispute it. Even with one guy who was consistently being picked on (I'm guilty as well), he seemed to enjoy the picking, except when he got flustered, but that was after he said that we were jealous of him getting some action. Hey, he set himself up for the fall.

So, after a long night of not really being able to sleep all too well, I oddly enough, wake up early. I enjoyed a brief shower and decided to go on the canoe trip with everyone else, except I wanted a bit of alone time, so I grabbed a kyack. D'Oh! I'm told, just as I ask the group as they disembark if I can join them, I'm told that the kyack cannot leave the lake area. So I turn about to see another furre (Hurk) and I ask if I can join him in a trip about the lake to which he happily insists that I do. So, I go about with him for an hour to make my whole trip time of 2 hours and head back to the dock to grab some lunch. Later I talk Silvy into going Kyacking with me and off we go.. tra-lah-lah, and five minutes into it, my kyack flips and I'm dead in the water, about 150 feet out. So, I get laughed at from some guy at the dock, commenting on how good the flip was, to which I just grin like a fool before laughing back. I was having a good time. Silvy finally notices me and the patrol boat offers to drag the kyack in, but unfortunately, I have to swim back. I disliked swimming with my pants on that decided to take in about four liters of water into it so that it felt like I was dragging bricks back to the dock, haha.

The food sucked.

Got time to draw :) Played a game of Betrayal with some cabin mates and a few others. Made lots of friends. Got my Web Design contract to Verbal, so I'm up-and-running ^.-.^ Success!

A few nights pass and I finally take out my El-Wire to which it was instantly strung over the cabin. It did look good. I then took out my Version 1 (Thanks again Yao-Chi!) El-Wire mod, wrapped it around myself and went to the dance. I tried to leave, but I was dragged back into it by Silvy, haha.. What a silly. Sweet and silly.

Finally, things were packed up and the trip concluded back at the Airport the following day to which I bid Silvy farewell. Ironic that as his plane started to leave, my mp3 player put on: http://download.silenthillfever.com/Lost%20Carol.mp3 Just post up the end credits of who the director was and the Executive Producers, then fade to black for the rolling credits. Two hours later, my flight departed with me on-board.

Got back with Sara and the following day, played Serenity, the pen & paper version. My character was just a 'stand-in' but it gave me a few minutes of play time. The next day, played some Vampire: The Eternal Struggle; I must admit it is fun and has some perks that Magic: the gathering rarely offers. The a BBQ, mm... And I got to talk to Sara's roommate who mentioned that he remembered that I was toting about my pencils and sketch book, and if I had the experience and wanted to move down, he could find me a job as a graphics designer. I was flattered, but told him to hold off on that offer for a few years as I want to get some schooling and more experience. He nodded and told me that it'll always be there. Sweet!

And so, I watched more movies, (WATCH THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION! YOU'LL LIKE IT!), and finally on Wednesday, the 12th of September, 2006, I headed home, to which Immigrations had one more laugh at me *groan*. But, now I'm here, finally getting my 3/4th perspective down after drawing it again and again for the zillionth time. To put icing onto this long post, and as a congrats for reading this far:

The recuiters!

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:07:05 GMT

Dianetics is a very stupid thing that covers all of the crappy Scientology. Oy!

Here I am, at the PNE (A gigantic fair) and my dad comes up laughing at me and then shows me the stupid machine that the Scientologists use to measure your stress level.

Ovbiously, I love messing about with this crap, so I wander over to the booth and some guy asks me, "Do you want a free stress test?"

I'm like, "Sure, why not?" So the guy points me to someone else who asks me to sit down and tells me to hold onto two cans with wires extending from them. Ooohh ahhh, I figured instantly that all it was was a stupid machine that would send current from me through one can and into the next.

So the guy turns dials and knobs, tweaking numbers and up the meter goes to a certain spot and halts.

Owtch! I feel a little zap in my hand and I loosen my grip and to my surprise(NOT) the meter plunges down all the way. The guy then instructs me to hold on so that it gets a proper reading.

Then I have to think of something stressful currently in my life to @#%!ing see if I'm stressed. So, the grinning me is thinking of only two things: Smiley faces and Melted Butter by Popcorn. Whooosh! The meter shot right up and the guy tells me I'm really stressed. He then asks me what I was thinking about and I go "Oh, me fighting with my sister." And the questions ensue until finally he asks me, "Do you feel unhappy about bickering with your sister?"

"Sure" I reply.

"Here, read the back of this book and tell me what you think." And surely enough, he hands me a book on Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard. It reads on the back soothing messages like "Are you feeling down and unhappy? If so, this book is for you." And then I hand the book back, nodding, trying not to laugh.

Finally, I tell him I may buy the book later as a simple excuse to run away.

Before I could go though, he hands me two slips and tells me to go to these if I'm interested. I look at the slips, and one is where I can get a free personality test at their Vancouver Branch. The other one stated that there was going to be a seminar in a few days to where I could learn how to show friends and family members how they can make their lives better . . . for only 50 dollars! SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!

It felt nice walking away, only to break out in laughter.

Man, do I really fucking hate Scientology.

On a happy note: Tom Cruise has lost his contract with Paramount. Why? TommyBoy has been too evangelistic and Paramount doesn't want any bad press because of Cruise's ties to the bad-pressed Scientology.

It's all about meme

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:04:31 GMT

Okay . . . I do this for laughs.

[A is for age]
Tuh-onetee wun

[B is for booze of choice]
B.C. Growers Coolers, any of their flavors save Dry Apple (ew)

[C is for career of choice]
Writer / Artist.

[D is for your drug of choice]
Creativity (I can get big rushes if I am on a running streak with my creativity)

[E is for one essential item you use everyday]
My 'big man'

[F is for favorite song at the moment]
"Teardrop" by Massive Attack

[G is for favorite game]
This answer constantly changes. Currently: Shadow of the Colossus

[H is for Hometown]
Vancouver BC, Canada

[I is for instruments you play]
Piano, Synth Keyboard, Alto Sax, Baratone Sax, Bass Guitar

[J is for favorite juice]
Mango :9

[K is for kids]
My nieces are wonderful and I love them, but seeing my sister and brother-in-law, I'm sort of deterred from having them myself.

[L is for last hug]
Random Cos-Player at Anime Evoultion last night.

[M is for marriage?]
Uh . . . Hum . . . Currently Single and marriage isn't something I'm currently gunning for.

[N is for nickname]
Floru, Flo, Ebb, Greg, G-Unit, G-Man, G-Slice, G, Man, You, Guava (Thanks Davecko :P It's caught on), Sir, Dear, High-One, Mister, (etc, etc.)

[O is for number of overnight hospital stays]
2 months.

[P is for phobias]
Fear of extreme heights without being safe.

[Q is for quote]
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." -Henry Ward Beecher

[R is for biggest regret]
Don't ask, don't tell.

[S is for singing]
I was in a choir until I went into grade 7.

[T is for time you woke up]
11:03 AM

[U is for underwear]
White Boxers. I do have some boxers that are bright with a smiley face in the groin area with a message on the face saying "Lick Here" but I've never worn it.

[V is for vegetable you love]
Carrots... mmm

[W is for worst habit]
Procrastinating

[X is for number of x-rays you've got]
I forget >.-.<

[Y is for yummy food you make]
I tend to cook non-American food (E.g. Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Thai, East Indian, Malaysian, Jamacian, Polish [Big and hearty perogies are the best] and so much more)

[Z is for zodiac sign]
Scorpio

It's like, I'm done! Whoo..

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:51:34 GMT

Yeah, I got home last Wednesday, but I decided not to post until now. The tournament went okay, but I dropped out of it during the first day because of my poor record from bad hands and a horrible draft pool. The okay part was from the side-events that I went into and the friends I hung out with.

Next plans: Feral.
Departure time: August 27th
Return time: September 7th

I'm sure I'll update my LJ often enough before I head out.

Exit Stage Left

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:39:37 GMT

I'm gone from the 1st - 7th of August. If anyone wants me to phone them/whatever during the time of my absence, do tell me. I will gladly phone anyone, even if it is for a few short minutes.

Beyond that.. Cheers and well-wishes to everyone. This is my last LJ post until I return.

M:tg nationals, here I come

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:39:48 GMT

Travelling to Ottawa
Tue 1 Aug 2006

Seattle (SEA)
Depart 11:58 pm to Chicago (ORD)
Arrive 5:43 am +1 day
Duration: 3hr 45min

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Wed 2 Aug 2006
Chicago (ORD)
Depart 8:05
Terminal 1 to Ottawa (YOW)
Arrive 10:56 am
Duration: 1hr 51min

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Return:

Travelling to Seattle
Mon 7 Aug 2006

Ottawa (YOW)
Depart 4:41 pm to Chicago (ORD)
Arrive 5:45 pm
Duration: 2hr 4min

Chicago (ORD)
Depart 8:05 pm to Seattle (SEA)
Arrive 10:20 pm
Duration: 4hr 15min

Camp Feral!

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:19:40 GMT

Well, I'm going! Just have to wait until next friday for my pay cheque and then getting the ticket! Seems like I'll be hooking up with a guy whom I adore and love (Silvy) and his friends to which their names allude me.. Oh well, it doesn't matter :) I'm always one who enjoys meeting new people!

Oh, and Silvy wants to take me to Narnia, so that'll be fun! But I think.. I'll have to take him out somewhere too, before or after *evil grin* I wish I could post up what, but then.. I'm sure he is going to read this! *Grin*

And keep clicking on my battle card, everyone!

Ze cards are evil!

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:28:38 GMT

Well, I survived my 30-hour work weekend, ew! Still trying to catch up on all of the sleep I've missed. So, before I head out for the day, I must ask you all to watch me battle with cards!

COMBAT CARDS 2.0

watch Floru fight

CREATE YOUR CARD

New stuff!

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:01:17 GMT

Well, I haven't posted in awhile, so I'll give a scoop as to what has been happening with me.

I've recently taken a 3-week course in helping me to figure out what I want to do as a career, and it's landed in the "art field". ^.-.^ Yay!

I've made the position of a security guard, given locations to different places. My first placement though is the "Crazy, yet I chose to do it" placement. I'm going to be doing "Fire-Patrol." Pretty much in a nut-shell, I'll be patrolling once an hour for about 10 minutes, then 50 minutes doing ziltch. The Crazy part is that it'll be 15 hours on Saturday and Sunday (6:00pm - 9:00am) but it'll land me 300 dollars in the end, which will go only to one thing: Feral! Hah! Got some money for that now :) But in the end, the pay is $10/hr, no benefits nor over-time pay, but all that I make will be going to me. I'll probably be saving up the rest for money to help support myself when I go back to school.

Went fishing too. In the end, the current was too fast, the wind was too sharp and I got bit by mosquitos about 30 times.. argh! My arms are itchy :(

It's like a funny chain letter!

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:34:57 GMT

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There's at least 1 person on your LiveJournal that wants to date you or sleep with you.

So lets play........ FRIENDS w/BENEFITS

The rules are simple...

If you want to date the person who posts this, post a comment saying "I'm yours"

If you just want to sleep with the person and stay friends, post a comment that says "I'd hit it"

SCARED??? You ONLY live ONCE!

THE TWIST IS YOU HAVE TO REPOST THIS!!! & see who replies.
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Oh and you got to put it on your LJ too :P

Okay, I admit it: I like making Sci-Fi Pictures

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:27:54 GMT

If you can't see it, go to: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/122614/

My first sold art piece!

Mon, 29 May 2006 08:06:22 GMT

Walksfar reported to me that I had Odd SPace directly sold for 20 dollars USD. It isn't much, but it is something.

I got good compliments on Alien Moon and I didn't ask about the other two. So, art may lie ahead for me. I still need to get better with proportion for characters, etc. Still debating taking art in school.

Stupid inet!!

Wed, 24 May 2006 09:28:23 GMT

Okay, so it seems to people that I go deathly silent at times when I'm talking to some for a period of time. It seems that my messages just don't go through because my wireless is unstable. Sorry sexydwaggie about tonight, was messaging you many times without a reply but I take it you didn't get it.

I dislike wireless to the PC, oh I really do.. *sigh*

Nationals!!! And Art School?

Tue, 23 May 2006 05:57:15 GMT

Whoohoo!

Got into the top 8 bracket of winners at Magic: The Gathering Regionals this year, so I qualified for Nationals in Ottawa (Thought is was in Monetreal, but I was wrong). It'll happen between August 4th-6th, though I'll be there on the 2nd so that any other friend, or friends who want to tag along, have one final shot to qualify in the most brutally challenging trials called the grinders.

So the final time of trip: Augutst 2nd - 7th. I feel the $ fading from my pocket already, haha. It'll be great though!

Oh, and I am in the works of visiting someone else (You know who you are, my golden sunshine :] ) But that's still in the works. Still, I'm going to keep money for visiting him as well, as I really want to see him.

Art School? Yeah. I went to the Emily Carr Institue of Art and Design today to see the final day of the grad display with my dad. Like all art, I saw gorgeous and inventive designs and artwork.

One of the displays was a 5 minute 3D animation short for a possible tv show. Felt like it was from a mind of a 1930's sci-fi writer where all the tree have ceased to exist and a boy AND an Anthropormorphic (exo-skelleton encased) miniature Killer Whale. Wondered if that guy was into furry, couldn't tell. You don't have to be a furry to be into bipedular creatures.

Other displays were awe-taking and inspiring, like teapots altered and formed into bugs but other displays, like one where it featured odds and ends items with how much things cost and other odd notes sprawled about. I suppose I didn't feel anything for it, but the artist felt something.

Really wonder what my dad thinks. He knows I'm totally into art now, but if I was going to do art, he would want me to have the skills to apply my talent to an industry. Still, art is a ? But I love it and I draw every day. . . I wonder when I'll go back to do some digital.

To be contemplative

Sun, 14 May 2006 11:14:42 GMT

Thank whoever made blending stumps.. It makes dealing with charcoal soo much easier to deal with.

Anyhow, I don't know what to do with myself. I have two years of Game Design behind me, digital art out of the wazoo and some unbound determination. The only thing that is hindering me is: What to do?

I have been writing for many years and it is a craft I love to use, so I can right, wright? (heh) Writing is no easy street and you have to be damned good if you want anyone to look even cross-eyed at your stories, short or long.

Digital Art is my pass-time and it is quite enjoyable. I have also gotten into doing 2D pencil/charcoal work (See my previous post). If I got myself into an art school of any form now however (Emily Carr, Art University of San Fran, etc.) I would only be hindered by my abilities that have not shaped into something solid enough to actually set as a ground for me. I'd rather be standing on some nuts than sinking in some soup (Unless it was french onion.. mmmmmm) Am I right to be thinking in this sense? Also, Art is tough industry to crack as well, but there are many ways you can go with art.. still.

I used to own my own little Ice-cream/pop/chip stand when I was a kid that sold quite well during the Celebration of Light every summer that killed all of the ice-cream trucks that once drove by. As time passed, I moved on to other small ventures. I was thinkings business, but numbers bore me in the long-run, and even though my math skills were once and probably just need some smoothing now-adays, I am uncertain.

I recently worked on a film set and am being offered a small in to be under a script supervisor. If I accept, I'll probably be working 12+ hours a day on a tv show with some time off here and there. if I got into the union, the pay would be about 35 dollars per hour starting wage. However, long hours and it'd kill my time with others.

A friend recently also offered a few months back to get into a pure-dessert/medieval themed restaurant. That would take a considerable amount of time, energy and money to even ponder it being opened and she doesn't see it even being opened for two years at minimum. If I take this route, it'll be tough just getting it running, then running it for some time to get some net profit to come in and perhaps go to schooling then.. (Though I have someone who means dear to me and he already said that if he and I were to get togeher, he would not be able to support me, so I would have to thusly save up more money so that both he and I could live snugly.. not the best of the best conditions, but decently enough without sweating blood).

So many other possibilities....

I love the creative side of life as it may seem ovbious, jsut I don't know what I want to do with myself. Perhaps some wise words or some insight from anyone would help?

One small step for Floru...

Fri, 12 May 2006 10:02:42 GMT

Yeah, I know, this picture isn't the best. But hey, I'm back into drawing 2D with pure mediums. Leave any comments you want on this (My scanner isn't the best either, haha). No, I'm no pro, but I would love to get better at my craft, and as they say, "Everyone starts off somewhere."

May 30th scares me

Tue, 09 May 2006 09:58:54 GMT

Really, that date is making me lurch.

I sent Walksfar my art about two weeks ago (Stupid printing place took forever!) so I hope he has recieved it or will be recieving it. Would of asked him, but he was at Califur and I totally spaced when I was talking to him for a short while online during his time there.

So what's with art and the 30th of May? Bay Con. My art will be up on auction, and I won't even be there to say "Hello. This is my work, feel free to ask questions, blah, blah, blah." Instead, I'll probably be here, on one of my days off, twiddling my thumbs while thinking of how my art will probably be glanced at and then forgotten. What I really hope for is that someone just writes down one of my contact e-mails and just pops me a kind message at one point.

I don't know.. I look at my digital matte paintings and I go, "Hum.. are these any good?" Yes, I know, second-guessing is bad and wrong, but when you try to sell your art on a professional level (Even selling at small cons is big stuff) you just have to question what you are trying to sell, especially if it is your first time!

Am I wrong to be so concerned?

The Next Step

Thu, 04 May 2006 05:24:13 GMT

Well, I'm tired of this dishwashing/prep cook job. The top layer of skin on my right hand has been breaking down and tearing because of the constant dealing with the water and the harsh chemical that is mixed in with it while dealing with the dishwasher. Yeah, I had gloves, but it doesn't mean a few drops can not hit the ends and slip in, staying in my gloves for hours while I work away.

So, beyond that blah, I'm starting to look at film and my own backing. Last week on Thursday, I went to the filmset of "Rogue" starring Jet Li and the "Transporter Guy" (Geez, I will never remember his name) and it was the final fight scene where both of them were fighting one another. Anyhow, I worked under the gaffer (light tech) and was shown about to the other heads to ask questions on their jobs. It was rather interesting. My main interests in the end were: Sound Recording, Props Master, Set Coordinator and Continuity manager. There are out-of-stage jobs as well, like Picture Editor and Scene painter. Knowing all of this, I'm going into the Film Union tomorrow to see what skills I have to what is needed in certain sections.

I'm also writing and drawing a lot more and my art has been improving. Best hint of advice to people: Look for "Drawing on the right side of the brain." Second best tip: When you look at something to draw, don't think of it as an object, but as lines and pieces.

I see you

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:51:37 GMT