Good evening to you, my merry band of diamond doggies.

Tagged by ~draumstafur

SO HERE GOES:
1. You must post the rules.
2. Each person must post five things about themselves in their journal.
3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post.
4. Create eleven new questions for the people you tag to answer.
5. Choose eleven people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
6. Go to their page and tell them you have tagged them.
7. No stuff like "you're tagged if you're reading this".
8. No tag-backs.

FIVE THINGS:
1 - I'm part Viking
2 - I recently started drinking far too much coffee
3 - I can't dance for shit
4 - I'm lousy at filling these things in
5 - Apparently I'm silly.


QUESTIONS:
1. Habit you want to get rid of?
My champion procrastination tendency...

2. Biggest pet-peeve?
It would probably have to be people who're proud of being ignorant. That or people who think typing decently doesn't matter.

3. Favourite item of clothing in your closet?
Probably my ubiquitous black jeans

4. Song you hate, and will never love?
That 'Tonight's Gonna be a Good Night' song by whatever the fuck shit group play it

5. Favourite thing ever found on the internet?
Possibly that would be dA, and all the things it's led to be finding

6. Most recent wtf?
My girlfriend showed me a picture of a pizza with a crust stuffed with a sausage

7. Favourite flavoured yoghurt?
I don't really eat yoghurts, although I suppose chocolate would be my fave

8.  Cats or dogs?
Cats, definitely cats

9. Fish-tailed mermaid, or fish-headed mermaid?
Tailed, because I'm a sucker for classic mythology like that

10. Favourite mythical creature?
British folklore is filled with some pretty weird and wonderful (and nasty) faeries, pixies, sprites, and suchlike

11. Favourite word?
Possibly 'discombobulation', or something that sounds great in an English accent!


QUESTIONS FOR MY TAGGED PEOPLE:
1 - Insect lover or insect loather?
2 - Outdoor person or indoor person?
3 - You can outlaw ONE meme, which do you choose?
4 - Fantasy or sci-fi?
5 - Three words you hate?
6 - If you could visit anywhere in the Solar System (apart from Earth), where'd you go?
7 - Celeb gossip or political affairs?
8 - You HAVE to assassinate one world leader/head of state, who gets the chop?
9 - What'd you dream ride be? (not restricted to cars)
10 - If you could become a cyborg, with capabilities exceeding those of a human body, would you?
11 - Do you find it hard to come up with questions for tags like this?

I TAG:
~Tinoculars, ~LepidopteranMenace, ~Chi77y, !unexamined-life, ~PyroSikTh, =fighter-jet, !Sev-Tatius. And ~No-pretext has to do it or else he'll be tarred and feathered.


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A while ago I did a thing (thing = technical term) where whoever left a comment got a mini-feature. Here are the results of that thing for your enjoyment. LOOK AT THEM!

1 - *Herisheft


2 - ~birdalie


3 - ~Tinoculars
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4 - ~ZombieBoy14


5 - ~licencieux


6 - ~Dezenerate


7 - =DuncanJBerry


8 - ~Calacyria


9 - ~No-pretext


10 - =RCWikkydArtist


11 - ~Isaidthatsblasphemy
Global WarmingBy 2050,
he was knee-deep in water
but,
very well-informed about it.

12 - ~Chi77y

Good evening, my little droogs, I trust you've all recovered from your hangovers enough for me to wish you positive tidings for the new year. Yes, I know the world is going to blow up or something later on, but lets enjoy it whilst it lasts, no?

~ ~ ~

1. For each of the 20 first people answering this journal, I will put their avatar and the three deviations I like most from their gallery on the list!

2. If you answer, you have to DO THE SAME in your journal, putting the tagger on the first place. The idea of this is not to get a free feature, it is to spread art around for everyone!

GO GO GADGET COMMENTS!!!

1 - *Herisheft


2 - ~birdalie


3 - ~Tinoculars
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4 - ~ZombieBoy14


5 - ~licencieux


6 - ~Dezenerate


7 - =DuncanJBerry


8 - ~Calacyria


9 - ~No-pretext


10 - =RCWikkydArtist


11 - ~Isaidthatsblasphemy
Global WarmingBy 2050,
he was knee-deep in water
but,
very well-informed about it.

12 - ~Chi77y


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First off, I apologise for some of my old scraps occasionally appearing in your inboxes; I've been editing my entire gallery here and I've still not completely gotten used to the Edit Deviation interface they're beta testing currently.

Which leads into the subject of this journal; my scraps. Previously I've used my scraps as a dumping ground for old images from my gallery I no longer deemed worthy of inclusion there, but I'm changing that now. From now on I shall be using my scraps as a place to dump interesting little artistic tid-bits, experiments, works in progress, preliminary sketches, colour roughs, and so on and so forth....

In a nutshell; if you're at all interested in my art then my scraps have become a whole lot more interesting, and are going to get even moreso as I submit more to them (so you might want to watch them ). I won't be submitting this stuff to my main gallery, as I desire to keep that for finished work (mostly).

~ ~ ~

The feature theme this time will be geometric architectural photography, since that was suggested twice in the last journal.

Are any of you like me; painfully lame enough to have a Twitter account? If so do share, and you might even want to follow me at [link] Sometimes I actually post interesting things, and I'm sure you do too!

Also, your Twitter experience can be massively enhanced by using the RockMelt browser, since you'll have a Twitter live feed integrated into the browser itself, so you can stay up to date without having to go check the site all the time.

Following on from my last journal, I'm featuring ~Queen-of-Spiders this time round. She has a small but perfectly-formed gallery self-portraits; excellently painted, highly interesting, and by turns vibrant, disturbing, and emotive. Go check her out!

My page is too uneven, so I wanted to make a short journal to even it out.

As you may have noticed, I like to do features of various sorts in my journals. I thought it'd be interesting to ask if you guys wanted to suggest feature themes and deviants for the next journal (and the next, and the next, and so on...). So, you want to suggest some themes/people in to me in this journal?

To encourage you to comment and suggest I'm going to feature ponies until someone says something different.

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~Tinoculars tagged me because she's evil.

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Rob
2. Bobbins
3. Rubble

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU'VE HAD:
1. CrimsonMagpie
2. You want to know my other online identities?
3. Go hire a private detective, bub.

THREE THINGS YOU'VE DONE IN THE LAST 33 MINUTES:
1. Drank Southern Comfort from the bottle
2. Read some of Watchmen
3. Shaved

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. The fact that I'm me
2. I'm far less squeamish than just about everyone I've ever met
3. The fact I type like a retard online

THREE THINGS YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My social awkwardness
2. My nose
3. The slight tan on my forearms

THREE PARTS OF YOUR ORIGINS:
1. England
2. Norway
3. Italy

THREE THINGS YOU'RE AFRAID OF:
1. I'm not really afraid of things....
2. I'd be afraid of sharks if I were swimming and one attacked me.
3. A hungry bear would be scary if I were camping without a gun.

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Ripped jeans
2. Boxers
3. Headphones

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Internet
2. Food
3. Insulin

THREE IMPORTANT OBJECTS:
1. Paintbrushes
2. Laptop
3. Goggles

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS:
1. Polysics
2. Randy Newman (not a band but shut up)
3. Talking Heads

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY:
1. Create decent art
2. Fresh air
3. Have sex

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. Ode to the Bouncer (Studio Killers) [link]
2. The Art of the Dress (MLP music team) [link] (shutup )
3. Spieluhr (Rammstein) [link]

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. Making money from art
2. S/M sex
3. Driving ()

THREE THINGS YOU REGRET:
1. Not making more time for socialising whilst at college
2. Being too nice
3.  

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. A female
2. Relationship stuff
3. Kinky stuff

THREE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU'VE GIVING TO THE WORLD:
1. Logic over emotion
2. My beautiful art
3. Torture porn

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in order):
1. You are a man
2. You are a woman
3. You are special

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
1. Unnaturally pale skin
2. Slim
3. Absence of body hair

THREE EMOTIONAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX:
1. Intelligence
2. Cynicism
3. How the fuck should I know these things?

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. Sing
2. Dance
3. Enjoy modern club music

THREE THINGS YOU MISS FROM YOUR PAST:
1. Not caring about life's woes
2. Not caring about money
3. Not caring about most things

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE:
1. A jet fighter
2. A decent centrefire rifle
3. An Arial Atom V8

THREE REASONS WHY YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE:
1. My
2. Life
3. Experiences

THREE OF YOU YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES:
1. Painting
2. Sampling fine ciders
3. Walking/hiking

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. S/M sex
2. Paint some anthro stuff
3. Read more of Watchmen

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. Commercial artist
2. Fine artist
3. Private military contractor

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR HOLIDAY:
1. Norway
2. Canada
3. Siberia

THREE CARTOON CHARACTERS:
1. Twilight Sparkle
2. Togusa
3. Bucky O'Hare

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Pilot an aeroplane
2. Become a successful artist
3. Make an artwork I'm 100% pleased with

THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ OR DIE PAINFULLY
1. ~Backsackandjack
2. *RockLou
3. ~gzegzolka

No features tonight, it's already past my self-imposed bedtime.

So `manic-cure started a tag whereby one compiles an unlimited list of Things They Like. :dev!OpiateTart genuinely wanted to know what I like, so she tagged me.

- Raindrops on roses
- Whiskers on kittens
- Bright copper kettles
- Warm woolen mittens
- Brown paper packages tied up with string
Ohwait-

- How ridiculously uplifting this song is [link] (listen to it whilst reading this list)
- Foamy bananas
- Painting & drawing, etc...
- Scrumpy cider
- [breakfast] cereal. I like this far too much.
- Aeroplanes
- All that crazy military hardware the Nazis designed but never built
- Makeup and body paint
- Big glasses of neat Scotch Whisky
- Seagulls
- Blood
- Torture & needles
- The English language
- Cunning linguistics
- English accents
- People who can actually use the English language properly
- Ponies!
- Unnaturally pale skin
- Cyberpunk
- Goggles
- Dartmoor
- Hiking, especially on Dartmoor
- Attractive female anatomy
- Doing things to attractive female anatomy
- Guns
- The half-dreamy state when falling asleep, when you're awake but your thoughts aren't fully under your control.
- Black clothes and accessories
- My '71 vintage bespoke gold Swiss watch
- The smell of wet pine forests
- Aviator sunglasses
- The planet Jupiter
- Weird sexual aesthetics that very few others find attractive
- Long bus journeys on cold winter mornings, zoning out with music
- Misty/foggy days, especially when out in the wilderness (or whatever tame place passes for a wilderness in England)
- 80s sci-fi films
- 80s sci-fi art (by far my biggest artistic influence)
- 80s music
- 80s fashion
- The 80s
- Cyborg girls
- Books books books!
- How things work
- Sadism
- Serial killers
- How elegant deer are
- Other stuff

Bonus thing I don't like:
- Cabbage

In other news, a good friend of mine let me know at short notice that he's suddenly got a spare ticket for the Beautiful Days festival, so I shall not be here from Friday until Monday evening. I'm just slightly worried that I do not currently own any wellington boots....

I was going to feature things pertaining to my favourite things, but instead this journal's feature theme will be everypony's #1 egghead, Twilight Sparkle!

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As you may or may not know, I've spent the last three years studying illustration at college, and a few weeks ago I graduated. Yes, I'm no longer a student, but technically a jobbing professional artist. Or a professional bum.

The point is, I thought to myself the other day, is that I need to start creating for myself a more professional web presence, and what better place to start this than the place I've already got the strongest presence; deviantArt.

Now, it has come to my attention that companies are not above hacking into, or simply checking up on, prospective employee's Facebook and other social networking profiles, in order to see what kind of person they are. As many of you probably know my deviantArt presence is far from professional, since I spend a lot of time here in the forums being a colossal dick to everyone. This is not very professional at all.

My gallery here is also rather sprawling and un-concise, full of scrappy stuff, and generally not the kind of thing to show any potential employer.

So I've been considering what to do about this, and came up with several options;
   1. I could make another account as a professional profile, where I act all businesslike. This profile would have no connection to this one. I would then get rid of most of the art on this one and continue to use it as normal.
   2. I could clean this account up and use it as a professional account, then make another account to forum with. Again, this foruming account would be completely unconnected with this one.
   3. I could do both of the above and have three accounts. I thought this because I didn't consider 'CrimsonMagpie' to be a very professional moniker, and wanted something slicker for my portfolio profile.

There are problems with these options though.... I've been foruming for a long time, and my post-count is quite impressive. Call me sad, but I don't want to have to start from square one again. I also have a lot of art here, including three DDs, which would disappear if I were to get rid of the art from here. I'm also scatty, and would invariably neglect one or more of these new accounts, or this one....

But then I drank some whisky, and found clarity; employers aren't likely to come to dA looking for artists. It's more a place where professionals can interact with fans more personally than otherwise, and if I'm going to direct any potential employers to a showcase of my work, then it won't be here. So, I needn't worry too much about being all neat and professional here.

And so to my solution. I have decided to keep this account as my one and only deviantArt account, but I shall be making some changes. I'm no longer going to be as much of a cunt in the forums, and instead want to be a more positive member of the dA community. I shall also be altering my identity on here slightly, and streamlining my gallery. But by and large this will remain a place where I can kick back, post stuff that might not be appropriate elsewhere, relax, and socialise.

I've also been mulling over how to create a professional identity for myself without forcing anything or having to create new profiles everywhere. I'm not going into particulars now, but suffice to say that after several days of thought I've come up with an idea that I'm happy with, and  shall be starting to implement soon.

I know I could have imparted the necessary information in there more concisely, but I wanted to vent. If you read it all then you deserve a cookie, and the feature below is for you. If you didn't read it then you're a big meanie and the tooth fairy will come to pull your teeth out with bolt cutters.

I've recently had an email from one Daniel Brueckner (head of marketing) asking if I'd be interested in submitting work to Artflakes, for a 'print on demand cooperation' as he'd seen my dA portfolio.

Have any of you guys received this email? Do you know for certain if it's a legitimate company or a ripoff merchant? I've searched for them but gotten mixed results, so it's be great if any of you guys had any firsthand experience.

The wording of the email is slightly strange, but he is supposedly German, and due to the rather shocking standards of English prevalent today one can find it hard to distinguish between poorly written spam and legitimately professional work offers.



And now, to offset all that seriousness, let's have a feature of some humorous and quirky!

I have been tagged, twice. ~ThereAreNoTurkeys tagged me just before I went to London, and ~Tinoculars tagged me just the other day, because she's mean.

~ThereAreNoTurkeys' tag:
1→You must post these rules.
2→Each tagged person must post 10 things about themselves on their journal.
3→You have to choose and tag 10 people and post their icons on the same journal.
4→Go to their pages and tell them you tagged them. (BULL FRICKIN' HORSE SHIT >:U)
5→No tag backs.
6→No crap in the tagging section about "you are tagged if you read this." You legitimately have to tag ten people.

ONE:
I can't stand beer, lager, or wine... I'm a cider and spirits person.

TWO:
I own a lot of books.  Apparently this is unusual. I find the fact that this is unusual unusual.

THREE:
I used to draw/paint a lot of fairies, inspired by Brian Froud. I plan on taking this up again soon, because monies.

FOUR:
My watch is a 1971 vintage bespoke Swiss gold plated Eterna thing, worth more than your car.

FIVE:
I'm passionate and proud of the English language, and it saddens me to see people raping it through laziness and ignorance.

SIX:
My room is apparently the most tidy student room ever (I live in a student house).

SEVEN:
I routinely carry enough drugs to kill a dozen people. No kidding.

EIGHT:
I eat like a famished horse and still have a stomach like a washboard, because I'm cool like that.

NINE:
Logic and reason pwn emotion and stuff.

TEN:
I've never had sex with a cow. Honest.

I tag:




~Tinoculars's tag:
1 - What song are you listening to right now?
Captain Beefheart, Moonlight on Vermont

2 - Where did you get the shirt you are wearing?
M&S

3 - Could you go a day without eating?
Not at all.

4 - Have you ever kissed anyone whose name started with a J or A?
No.

5 - Do your parents force you to go to church or let you make the decisions?
No to the first, yes to the second.

6 - How long does it take you to shower?
Usually around ten minutes, although sometimes I indulge....

7 - What was last thing you drank?
Coop cider.

8 - Are you "talking" to someone?
Indeed.

9 - What was for dinner last night?
Pasta and tomato sauce that I made myself. I'm a clever boy.

10 - Is anyone in love with you?
Um....

11 - Do you curse in front of your parents?
All the time. They don't mind.

12 - What girl(s) can you tell everything to?
None.

13 - Does anyone hate you?
Probably. I'd be surprised of no-one did.

14 - What are you doing tonight?
Watching The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers.

15 - Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance?
I think people should get as many chances as they need.

16 - Your phone is ringing, it's the person you fell hardest for, what do you say?
Either 'yes?' or 'what?'.

17 - Ever liked someone older than you?
I don't think so...

18 - Did you get a full 8 hours of sleep last night?
In parts.  

19 - Have you ever been arrested?
Nope, I'm a good citizen.

20 - Do you wear the hood on your hoodie?
I don't think I even own a hoodie.

21 - Do you want someone you can't have?
No.

22 - Did anything special happen last night?
It might have....

23 - Who did you spend most of your time with last night?
~Tinoculars

24 - Do you believe what goes around comes around?
No. It's a fact of life that people get away with bad things.

25 - Can you handle the truth?
Yes.

26 - Last time you left your house, where did you go?
Coop.

27 - Is your bedroom messy or clean?
Tidy but not particularly clean....

28 - Do you have any unusual skills?
I'm a pretty good pistol marksman.

29 - When did you last have an 'Oh, I get it now!' moment?
I don't remember....

30 - What were you last embarrassed about?
I don't remember....

31 - When were you last jealous?
I don't remember....

32 - Are you in a good mood right now?
I'd say so.  

33 - Do you drink energy drinks?
Only when forced to through circumstances.

34 - Are you an alcoholic?
Only when I want to be.

35 - Is anything bothering you?
There is always something bothering me; I'm a tortured artist.

36 - Are you currently wanting any piercings or tattoos?
Hell no.

37 - If you could erase somebody from your life, who would it be?
Chavs, all chavs. Or Israel.

38 - Was 2009 a good year for you?
It wasn't great, but it wasn't too bad.

39 - Last time you said you loved someone, did you mean it?
I can't remember the last time I said such words.

40 - Do you think people think bad things about you?
Of course.

41 - Would you rather have long or short hair?
I'd rather have long hair, but my hair looks shit long. So I have short hair.

42 - Would you ever camp out on a beach, under the stars?
No, I'd rather camp in the wilderness; beaches are annoying.

43 - How was the weather today?
English and grey.

44 - This past summer, did you have a "thing" with someone?
Possibly....

45 - What was the first thing you thought of this morning?
That I'd got up late, and that I wanted to sleep more.

46 - Currently wanting anything?
My own aeroplane. Someone give me one?

47 - If you had to get another piercing where would they be?
Nowhere.

48 - Next time will you kiss someone on the lips?
Probably. (it turned out to be 'yes' )

49 - If you woke up in one of the Saw movies, do you think you could survive?
Yeah, I'm not a cunt like all the characters.

50 - Do you know anyone with the same middle name as you?
I don't know forshore, but I'm sure some people do.

51 - Are you missing anyone?
Not really.

52 - Is there anyone who doesn't like you?
No-one who makes it known to me.

53 - Who was the last person you took a picture with?
~Tinoculars.

54 - Where do you want to live when you are older?
Southern England or Norway.

55 - How far away is the person you miss?
What person I miss?

56 - Do you ever get "good morning" texts from anyone?
'Good morning' texts? Is this another lame social gimick that I've bypassed?

57 - Is any part of you sad at all?
My right eye keeps watering. Probably because I'm tired or been looking at a screen too long.... More likely the former.

58 - Who were you last in a car with?
My dad, I think.

59 - Do you think things will change in the next few months?
Yes.

60 - Were you single on your last birthday?
Yes.

61 - Is there a girl that knows everything or almost everything about you?
No.

62 - Last thing you did before bed last night?
I took a whizz.

63 - Did you see a guy today that made you smile?
No.

64 - What are you doing tomorrow?
I'm not sure yet....

65 - Will you be up before 7 am tomorrow?
Unlikely....

66 - Have you ever had a best friend who was of the opposite sex?
No.

67 - Will you be sleeping alone tonight?
No.

68 - Have you ever slapped someone in the face?
No, but I've crushed someone's windpipe.

69 - Could you go the rest of your life without smoking weed?
Very easily.

70 - How are you feeling at this exact moment in time?
Relaxed and a little drowsy.

71 - Are you a bad influence?
Yes.

72 - Are you wearing something you borrowed from someone?
No.

73 - Does it bother you when people respond with one word texts?
Somewhat, unless it's appropriate.

74 - Do you remember the first time you kissed the last person you kissed?
Yes.

75 - Would you go out in public looking the way you do now?
I think PJ bottoms and no top would get me an ASBO.

76 - Do your parents know everything about you?
Not at all.  

77 - How late did you stay up last night? Why?
Around 2:00, because stuff.

78 - Do you find smoking unattractive?
Yes, but not overly so. I mainly find it stupid.




Th-th-th-that's all, folks!

I said to ~WarthogDemon that I'd try to help out promoting the Speedgamers Charity for Tornado Victims, so they can raise as much money as possible.

_{(Copypasta from ~WarthogDemon's journal)}
For those of you who have no clue who I'm talking about, The Speed Gamers are a group of people who raise money by playing video games 24/7 for days (in this case from July 8th to July 15th) at a time. They do this via a live stream 24/7 nonstop where viewers can watch and donate money to ChipIn via credit card. Last year they were able to raise over $50,000 dollars for autism research. and this year they're hoping to raise money for Direct Relief International. The money sent to them will go directly to the support of tornado victims.

The stream: [link]

The community website: [link]

Wikipedia page: [link]

Unfortunately I'm unable to donate due to being a poor recently graduated student turned bum, but I hope some of you lucky people with jobs and/or money are interested!


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Feature:
~robrey is an amazing portraitist, creating wonderfully vibrant and energetic painterly images that are nothing short of visually luscious. He deserves far more attention than he currently gets....

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I'm going to ol' London Town to attend the New Designers exhibition as an exhibitor, because they know I'll make it at least 20% cooler. This means I'll be absent from dA until Saturday, I hope you can all survive without me for all that time!

~ThereAreNoTurkeys; I'll do your tag when I get back.

I have strawberry laces to eat on the train journey.

Info on New Designers here, if you're interested (which of course you are, very much so, right? ); [link]

First a small life update.

I've now officially finished my entire degree course; I handed in my final major project on Friday. The last few weeks were frantic and I managed to turn myself into a tense ball of stress held together with coffee. For all that effort I'm not proud, as my output was at times severely affected by apathy. I learned a lot though, and feel better set up for the rest of my life now.

However, the end of my course does not mean the end of work, nuuuu... It's the college Summer Show in a fortnight, and the New Designers show in London a fortnight after that, so if anything I'll be working just as hard in the next month as the previous. I'm actually looking forward to it though, as I currently feel no stress.

Due to my work situation over the last few weeks my inbox currently numbers about 10,000 messages, mostly deviations, so bear with me; I will look at everything that catches my eye. c:



And now something I've been meaning to do for a while.

Your favorite song - I Don't Remember, by Peter Gabriel [link]
A song that describes how you feel right now - Jean the Birdman, by Fripp & Sylvian [link]
A song that makes you happy - Where'd You Get Those Pants, by Fishbone [link]
A song that makes you sad - Dunwhich Beach, Autumn, 1969, by Brian Eno [link]
A song that reminds you of your childhood - A Hard Road, by Black Sabbath [link]
A song that reminds you of someone - Indiscipline, by King Crimson [link]
A song that reminds you of somewhere - Great Big White World, by Marilyn Manson [link]
A song that reminds you of a certain event - All I Need, by Air [link]
A song that you know all the words to -  Ringo Oiwake, by Hiromitsu Agatsuma [link]
A song that you can dance to - Atlas, by Battles [link]
A song from your favorite band - Kaja Kaja Goo, by Polysics [link]
A song from your favorite artist - Moja pt1, by Miles Davis [link]
A song you sing in the shower - I do not sing in the shower...
A song that makes you want to have sex - Prairie Rose, by Roxy Music [link]
A song that no one would expect you to love - Cutie Mark Crusaders Go Crusading, by the MLP FiM music team [link]
A song that describes you - Untitled, Niku Zidousha [link]
A song that you used to love but now hate - Harder Faster Stronger Better (or whatever the hell it's called) by Daft Punk (I don't like it enough to look for a link)
A song that reminds you of a boy/girl you like/liked - A&E, by Goldfrapp [link]
A song that you wish got played on the radio - The Great Nations of Europe, by Randy Newman [link] (or anything else by Randy Newman)
A song you love listening to when you can't sleep - Sax & Violins, by Talking Heads [link]
A song that you're embarrassed to like - Chaos Panic (and every other song from Naughty Boys Instrumental), by YMO [link] (so camp! )
A song that you listen to when you’re happy - Burning Down the House, by Talking Heads [link]
A song that you listen to when you’re sad - The Reflecting God, by Marilyn Manson [link]
A song that makes you want to suicide - Something Special, by Randy Newman [link]
A song that you want to play at your wedding - Pure, by Gary Numan [link]
A song that you want to play at your funeral - I Grieve, by Peter Gabriel [link] followed immediately by Pinkie Pie Myomyomyomyomyomyomyon!, by fuck knows [link]
A song that you'll always love - Toccata & Fuge in D Minor, by Johann Sebastian Bach (played by Albert Schweitzer) [link]
A song you would cover if you could sing - I Have the Touch, by Peter Gabriel [link] or Vodevil, by Marilyn Manson [link]
A song that breaks your heart - This is the Place (Naive Melody), by Talking Heads [link]
A song that describes your love life - Big Black Sea, by Gary Numan & Rico [link]
A song from your childhood - Anything by S Club 7 (no, no links )
A song that makes you cry - The Ballad of Bill Hubbard pts 1 & 2, by Roger Waters [link]



I tag anyone who doesn't like any of these songs.

~Tinoculars and ^kingmancheng have set up a contest, and as a judge it's only right that I make a journal about it. C:

So, the idea is to create an adversitement for a plain white box. It's up to you to decide what it's purpose is and how to sell it; you could advertise it as a building material, storage device, weapon... anything! This is a competition to challenge your ability to make people buy stuff, a skill that is cornerstone to our capitalist society, so don't miss out on this opportunity to hone such a vital life skill! ;D

Details of the competition can be found here [link]

So ~Tinoculars has entered a competition on Facebook to win a graphics tablet. The reason she's entered is that she doesn't have a tablet which isn't an ideal situation for an art student trying to do well in college and she doesn't have the money to buy one. . . The entry with the most comments wins, so all I'm asking is for you to leave a nice little comment on her piece, to give her a little more chance of winning. c:


Here is the link to her image [link] (you'll need to like the competition page to be able to leave your comment) so please help her out, jha?

Deadline is March 15th, so go go go!



In other news, I have 32 hours to turn 10,000 words worth of rambling notes into a finished dissertation, it's gonna kill me, YEY!


EDIT: apparently she still has until this Sunday, so go comment, GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!!!

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Clubs;

So I just recently spent £70 on a bottle of absinthe from France, and a spoon & glass to drink it with. I cannot wait for it all to arrive in the post!

My provisional driving license arrived over Christmas, and since my lack of ID meant that'd I'd purchased almost no alcohol in the past three months, I thought I'd use the all the money I didn't spend in that time to treat myself to something special. I have stupidly expensive tastes!


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Clubs;

I'm going through, a period of rather intense artistic self-doubt at the moment. . . I'm seeing so much amazing art everywhere and keep wishing I was as good. There's a strong urge to experiment with myriad different styles and mediums; "what if I try this? Will it make me better?", "will changing this about my technique improve my art?", etc. . . On top of this I have a ridiculous amount of ideas and inspiration at the moment, which is hard because I have to focus on college work, and many of these ideas are unsuitable for college or commercial work for varying reasons. So yea, I'm buzzing pretty hard at the moment and it feels weird. . .

I'd also be grateful for your feedback on an issue I've been thinking about. Is my art somewhat lacking in concept and narrative? I know that a lot of my images are simply visualisations of things, often with little story or meaning behind them, and even when they are from some narrative (like my mooncalf stuff) they're usually just isolated illustrations of specific things within said narrative, shorn of interaction within the story itself. Just pictures to show what something looks like, if you will. . .

To that end, I'm going to try hard to incorporate more interesting concepts into my work, as well as trying my hardest to really push myself technically. Hopefully this will result in a dramatic increase in the quality of my art. Or at worst, a small improvement.

Also recently I've gotten a strong urge to really do something with my mooncalves, instead of just random torture-porn and shit. Despite the pressures of college work I'd like to build them a proper, considered universe to inhabit and storyline in which to do things. This should mean things like history, physiology, anatomical references, other alien races inhabiting the same universe, character concepts, hardware designs, story illustrations and all that jazz. . . This will almost certainly happen at a slow rate, but after I graduate I'd like to spend perhaps a few months really going for it before I have to jump into the big scary world of getting a job (hopefully in the commercial art industry of course).



I don't think I've ever written a cathartic journal before, feels weird, but this is what happens when it's 02:00 and I've no whiskey.


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No feature right now, because I should be asleep already.

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Clubs;