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Made by yours truly.
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Spotlight
3. Inside Out
4. Boy and the World
4. Boy and the World
5. Ex Machina
6. Room
7. Brooklyn
8. The Revenant
9. Sicario
10. Shaun the Sheep
What the hell is this.
1. Lateralus - Tool
2. Disposition - Tool
3. Spoonman - Soundgarden
4. Weapon and the Wound - Days of the New
5. Third Eye - Tool
6. Flight Response - Days of the New
7. Bring Yourself - Days of the New
8. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
9. Shelf in the Room - Days of the New
10. Wings for Marie/10,000 Days - Tool
2. Disposition - Tool
3. Spoonman - Soundgarden
4. Weapon and the Wound - Days of the New
5. Third Eye - Tool
6. Flight Response - Days of the New
7. Bring Yourself - Days of the New
8. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
9. Shelf in the Room - Days of the New
10. Wings for Marie/10,000 Days - Tool
"I am talking."
Cast is off. Hand is still...out of place.
Doc says I'll need some physical therapy before I have full use of it, so it'll be a little longer till I upload new stuff. Still feeling some pains. Main damage is in the pinky, but it's surprisingly impacting on my drawing ability. Just gimmie some time.
Midnight here. The big move out west starts today. Once I get over there (in approx. a month) I immediately plan to save up for a new computer (Windows 7, to be specific).
Till then, I'm in for the long haul on the road.
Fret not, for I have the following to entertain me on my way up;
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
My Steam games
World of Tomorrow (by Don Hertzfeldt)
Invader Zim
Bob's Burgers
Michiko and Hatchin
DeathNote
Arrested Development
Portlandia
Regular Show
The Amazing World of Gumball
Sonic Boom
Gravity Falls
and my current project, codenamed "Pmiy Riaf"
Till then, I'm in for the long haul on the road.
Fret not, for I have the following to entertain me on my way up;
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
My Steam games
World of Tomorrow (by Don Hertzfeldt)
Invader Zim
Bob's Burgers
Michiko and Hatchin
DeathNote
Arrested Development
Portlandia
Regular Show
The Amazing World of Gumball
Sonic Boom
Gravity Falls
and my current project, codenamed "Pmiy Riaf"
7 years old:
17 years old:
17 years old:
For those wondering who the individuals who inspire me are (which seem to be quite a lot of individuals, it appears).
These are people (or groups, or otherwise franchises) that have inspired me throughout my life (in no particular order). I will provide short explanations of how they have influenced me and my art. For those of you who don't know some of these, look em up.
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Bill Watterson
His dazzlingly intelligent take on cartooning provided me what is probably the biggest motivational push to pursue the field. Calvin & Hobbes continues to inspire me to this day.
Don Hertzfeldt
Living proof that complexity is not a requirement to tell a broad and even transcendental story, his quirky, dark-humored stick figures are absolutely spellbinding.
Hayao Miyazaki
Combining his immeasurable talent in art and animation and his dedication towards his work, Miyazaki has created such beautiful films that will be remembered for decades to come.
Jeff Smith
The indescribably creative mind behind the BONE series, I owe a great deal of my dedication as a cartoonist to his work.
M.C. Escher
A unique artist whose creations will continue to inspire future generations of artists to come, how can any aspiring artist not look up to him?
Days of the New
Having been introduced to Days of the New at a young age, Meeks' music continues to inspire my art to this day.
Tool
With each band member expressing such a vast intellect in their music making, and their beautiful songwriting being an inspiration tho all those who hear it, Tool have had a massive impact not just on my art, but my very perception of the world around me.
George Carlin
Observant, intelligent, and hilarious to boot, Carlin's rants are some of the most thought provoking messages I have ever had the pleasure of listening to.
Brad Bird
The mind behind such imaginative films such as The Iron Giant, and The Incredibles, Brad Bird is an animation guru.
Albert C. Barnes
Having a daring take on art and its place in museums, Barnes has greatly inspired my artistic views in the recent years.
Terrence Fletcher (Whiplash)
This character struck me like lightening. Pushing his students to their absolute limit to see them become something indescribable is quite inspiring. Some call him a brute, I call him a genius.
Pixar
Creator's of dozens of imaginative and visually stunning works of animation, I cannot leave this studio off my list of artistic influences.
Bionicle
Mainly the massive lore behind the series being what catches my attention, writer Greg Farshtey and Christian Faber gives such incredible depth and complexity to each and every character, environment, and element in this series, it's as if they've created an entire universe out of Lego pieces.
These are people (or groups, or otherwise franchises) that have inspired me throughout my life (in no particular order). I will provide short explanations of how they have influenced me and my art. For those of you who don't know some of these, look em up.
___________________________________
Bill Watterson
His dazzlingly intelligent take on cartooning provided me what is probably the biggest motivational push to pursue the field. Calvin & Hobbes continues to inspire me to this day.
Don Hertzfeldt
Living proof that complexity is not a requirement to tell a broad and even transcendental story, his quirky, dark-humored stick figures are absolutely spellbinding.
Hayao Miyazaki
Combining his immeasurable talent in art and animation and his dedication towards his work, Miyazaki has created such beautiful films that will be remembered for decades to come.
Jeff Smith
The indescribably creative mind behind the BONE series, I owe a great deal of my dedication as a cartoonist to his work.
M.C. Escher
A unique artist whose creations will continue to inspire future generations of artists to come, how can any aspiring artist not look up to him?
Days of the New
Having been introduced to Days of the New at a young age, Meeks' music continues to inspire my art to this day.
Tool
With each band member expressing such a vast intellect in their music making, and their beautiful songwriting being an inspiration tho all those who hear it, Tool have had a massive impact not just on my art, but my very perception of the world around me.
George Carlin
Observant, intelligent, and hilarious to boot, Carlin's rants are some of the most thought provoking messages I have ever had the pleasure of listening to.
Brad Bird
The mind behind such imaginative films such as The Iron Giant, and The Incredibles, Brad Bird is an animation guru.
Albert C. Barnes
Having a daring take on art and its place in museums, Barnes has greatly inspired my artistic views in the recent years.
Terrence Fletcher (Whiplash)
This character struck me like lightening. Pushing his students to their absolute limit to see them become something indescribable is quite inspiring. Some call him a brute, I call him a genius.
Pixar
Creator's of dozens of imaginative and visually stunning works of animation, I cannot leave this studio off my list of artistic influences.
Bionicle
Mainly the massive lore behind the series being what catches my attention, writer Greg Farshtey and Christian Faber gives such incredible depth and complexity to each and every character, environment, and element in this series, it's as if they've created an entire universe out of Lego pieces.
Some have asked about my CD collection. Here y'all go.
Alice in Chains:
Dirt
Jar of Flies
MTV Unplugged
Beck:
Guero
Breaking Benjamin:
We Are Not Alone
Phobia
Butthole Surfers:
Weird Revolution
Cake:
Comfort Eagle
Dangerdoom:
The Mouse and the Mask
Days of the New:
Days of the New
Days of the New II
Days of the New III
Explosions in the Sky:
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Gorillaz:
Gorillaz
Demon Days
Green Day:
Dookie
King Crimson:
In the Court of the Crimson King
Linkin Park:
Hybrid Theory
Meteora
Metallica:
Metallica (Black Album)
MONO and World's End Girlfriend:
Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain
Nirvana:
Nevermind
In Utero
Pearl Jam:
Ten
A Perfect Circle:
Thirteenth Step
Pink Floyd:
The Dark Side of the Moon
Primus:
Frizzle Fry
Rush:
Moving Pictures
Shinedown:
The Sound of Madness
Smashing Pumpkins:
Siamese Dream
Soundgarden:
Badmotorfinger
Superunknown
Sun Kil Moon:
April
System of a Down:
System of a Down
Toxicity
Steal This Album!
Mezmerize
Hypnotize
Tool:
Undertow
Ænima
Lateralus
10,000 Days
(Vicarious Single: DVD)
Weezer:
Weezer (Blue Album)
Zero 7:
Simple Things
Alice in Chains:
Dirt
Jar of Flies
MTV Unplugged
Beck:
Guero
Breaking Benjamin:
We Are Not Alone
Phobia
Butthole Surfers:
Weird Revolution
Cake:
Comfort Eagle
Dangerdoom:
The Mouse and the Mask
Days of the New:
Days of the New
Days of the New II
Days of the New III
Explosions in the Sky:
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Gorillaz:
Gorillaz
Demon Days
Green Day:
Dookie
King Crimson:
In the Court of the Crimson King
Linkin Park:
Hybrid Theory
Meteora
Metallica:
Metallica (Black Album)
MONO and World's End Girlfriend:
Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain
Nirvana:
Nevermind
In Utero
Pearl Jam:
Ten
A Perfect Circle:
Thirteenth Step
Pink Floyd:
The Dark Side of the Moon
Primus:
Frizzle Fry
Rush:
Moving Pictures
Shinedown:
The Sound of Madness
Smashing Pumpkins:
Siamese Dream
Soundgarden:
Badmotorfinger
Superunknown
Sun Kil Moon:
April
System of a Down:
System of a Down
Toxicity
Steal This Album!
Mezmerize
Hypnotize
Tool:
Undertow
Ænima
Lateralus
10,000 Days
(Vicarious Single: DVD)
Weezer:
Weezer (Blue Album)
Zero 7:
Simple Things
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Download this game.
All worlds share the same sky.
Today I decided to take a visit to the Cultural Arts Center downtown. I used to take their summer activities as a kid. I liked it there, and I suppose I still do. But it seems to suffer the same issue that a large amount of other art facilities tend to. I browsed around the many galleries they had open and found myself to be mostly disappointed.
Granted there were a certain few pieces that I did like, but much of what I saw was the stuff of sellouts. It seemed as if every other piece hung on the wall was unimaginative, rushed, and overpriced. A lot of it felt more like a showcase of “look what I did” rather than art that was meant to be pondered upon or require the imagination of the viewer. Five thousand dollars for a solid orange run hung on the wall seemed quite off-putting to me.
It has always puzzled me how thoughtless blotches of random colors framed on a wall earned acclaim despite the obvious lack of imagination put into it. Nothing could be gathered from these sorts of pieces. They serve no purpose other than to occupy space on a wall. Then I started noticing that certain pieces were grouped together under the artist’s name.
Evidently, it doesn’t matter what the artist themselves came up with. If their name is attached to the piece, it must be valuable. For example, if some random child were to make a mediocre in a notebook, it would be deemed worthless. However, if it was, say, Kandinsky who was the child, it’d be worth millions. This worries me as an artist. It seems the art community is more interested in the artist, not so much in the art itself.
This is why I admire people like Albert C. Barnes. He didn’t care about who the artist was. He only cared about the piece itself and how valuable he deemed the piece. Not how valuable the price tag says. He even went so far as to refer to many museum collections as “a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution.”
So many modern artists are so focused on this idea of making money off their artwork that the first opportunity they get to make thousands off a single piece has them forcing themselves to create lackluster pieces in a rush in order to make their next dollar. This exemplifies how little they care about the potential they have and how little respect they have for their artistic capabilities.
Then there are the artists who earn fame and fortune despite their lack of imagination. Artists who earn acclaim from landscapes or portraits. Yes, landscapes and whatnot do require artistic skill, but there’s pretty much zero thought put into them. It’s simplistic cut and paste from nature. Sure, they can serve as good practice but they shouldn’t be the type of thing that gets in a museum.
The idea of visual art is to express your unique perceptions and thoughts to those who view the piece. This is why I admire artists such as Picasso, Escher, and Alex Grey. They don’t rely on the laws of reality. They defy them by twisting the common man’s perspective through imaginative paintings of that which cannot simply be seen in the world.
So again, it boggles my mind how a traditional painting of a field with a few tress here and there is hung in a museum and coveted by the art community, while a digital painting of a fantastical landscape is left to be critiqued by Internet geeks. More often than not, whenever I visit a museum, I’m never artistically or imaginatively motivated. All I see are bland and random pieces done by pretentious brush strokers working only for money.
They say art is subjective, but I feel that if people truly believed this, we’d have more variety in our museums. I honestly do feel kind of depressed when I remember that I have better luck finding pieces I like on the Internet than the museums. Especially given the fact that a large amount of the online art community is corrupted by possible basement dwellers uploading drawings of porn for a living.
As a cartoonist, it’s very difficult for me to find a fit environment that my art, added on with my potentially radical views on the medium, can feel it belongs. Cartoonists have a decent time on the web, but most communities on the web are mindless and objectifying, even. Museums see cartooning as “low art” despite most comic strips having more creativity put into them than a bland self-portrait. So, I’m kind of stuck in between here.
If we started focusing more on the individual pieces rather than focus on how big the artist’s name is, we may find our galleries to be far more colorful. Art isn’t about fame or setting a high price on your name. It’s about expressing your thoughts, your emotions, your mind in a way that can be communicated through to the viewer. It’s one the most effective ways of two minds directly communicating their exact thoughts. But it’s sad to see these sorts of things stapled to a price tag and reduced to decorations on a wall. I want visits to the museum to be fuel for the imagination. Not a shopping spree for home decor.
Granted there were a certain few pieces that I did like, but much of what I saw was the stuff of sellouts. It seemed as if every other piece hung on the wall was unimaginative, rushed, and overpriced. A lot of it felt more like a showcase of “look what I did” rather than art that was meant to be pondered upon or require the imagination of the viewer. Five thousand dollars for a solid orange run hung on the wall seemed quite off-putting to me.
It has always puzzled me how thoughtless blotches of random colors framed on a wall earned acclaim despite the obvious lack of imagination put into it. Nothing could be gathered from these sorts of pieces. They serve no purpose other than to occupy space on a wall. Then I started noticing that certain pieces were grouped together under the artist’s name.
Evidently, it doesn’t matter what the artist themselves came up with. If their name is attached to the piece, it must be valuable. For example, if some random child were to make a mediocre in a notebook, it would be deemed worthless. However, if it was, say, Kandinsky who was the child, it’d be worth millions. This worries me as an artist. It seems the art community is more interested in the artist, not so much in the art itself.
This is why I admire people like Albert C. Barnes. He didn’t care about who the artist was. He only cared about the piece itself and how valuable he deemed the piece. Not how valuable the price tag says. He even went so far as to refer to many museum collections as “a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution.”
So many modern artists are so focused on this idea of making money off their artwork that the first opportunity they get to make thousands off a single piece has them forcing themselves to create lackluster pieces in a rush in order to make their next dollar. This exemplifies how little they care about the potential they have and how little respect they have for their artistic capabilities.
Then there are the artists who earn fame and fortune despite their lack of imagination. Artists who earn acclaim from landscapes or portraits. Yes, landscapes and whatnot do require artistic skill, but there’s pretty much zero thought put into them. It’s simplistic cut and paste from nature. Sure, they can serve as good practice but they shouldn’t be the type of thing that gets in a museum.
The idea of visual art is to express your unique perceptions and thoughts to those who view the piece. This is why I admire artists such as Picasso, Escher, and Alex Grey. They don’t rely on the laws of reality. They defy them by twisting the common man’s perspective through imaginative paintings of that which cannot simply be seen in the world.
So again, it boggles my mind how a traditional painting of a field with a few tress here and there is hung in a museum and coveted by the art community, while a digital painting of a fantastical landscape is left to be critiqued by Internet geeks. More often than not, whenever I visit a museum, I’m never artistically or imaginatively motivated. All I see are bland and random pieces done by pretentious brush strokers working only for money.
They say art is subjective, but I feel that if people truly believed this, we’d have more variety in our museums. I honestly do feel kind of depressed when I remember that I have better luck finding pieces I like on the Internet than the museums. Especially given the fact that a large amount of the online art community is corrupted by possible basement dwellers uploading drawings of porn for a living.
As a cartoonist, it’s very difficult for me to find a fit environment that my art, added on with my potentially radical views on the medium, can feel it belongs. Cartoonists have a decent time on the web, but most communities on the web are mindless and objectifying, even. Museums see cartooning as “low art” despite most comic strips having more creativity put into them than a bland self-portrait. So, I’m kind of stuck in between here.
If we started focusing more on the individual pieces rather than focus on how big the artist’s name is, we may find our galleries to be far more colorful. Art isn’t about fame or setting a high price on your name. It’s about expressing your thoughts, your emotions, your mind in a way that can be communicated through to the viewer. It’s one the most effective ways of two minds directly communicating their exact thoughts. But it’s sad to see these sorts of things stapled to a price tag and reduced to decorations on a wall. I want visits to the museum to be fuel for the imagination. Not a shopping spree for home decor.
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