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by ~vhartley

Hey, good to see you've caught the knotwork bug... pun only slightly intended. This is your first major knotwork piece, correct? ...

Who Watches My Watchers?

Wed Mar 11, 2009, 9:54 PM
I just finished reading the Watchmen a few minutes ago and all I can think is, WOW. Ironically the movie was released around here last week and the Saturday before that I randomly bought the novel from Barnes and Noble. Go figure... I wasn't really certain what to expect but it was probably something more of the usual superhero flair. It's one of those things that I see and I'll try it and am pleasantly surprised. For example, while walking through Best Buy years ago I saw a copy of Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. It looked interesting on the outside and I randomly bought it. This was before I really knew much of anything about anime; the extent of my knowledge was Robotech (which I grew up on in the 80's), Record of Lodoss War (which I had only seen bits and pieces of), and probably Ninja Scroll (which was just a movie). Bubblegum Crisis kind of opened the realm of a lengthy coherent story instead of being episodic like so many other American cartoons and to this day is one of my favorite anime's even though I knew nothing about it when I went into it.

Anyhow, I wasn't expecting what Watchmen turned out to be, which was in depth by way of story and more importantly characters. I heard that some universities have it in their literary curriculum because it is so well written. (Then again, there is a class at MIT I believe that teaches Starcraft as a class) There are some really thought provoking moment while reading it. In fact I'm still contemplating the end. That doesn't mean it's light and fluffy and boring; there are some pretty hardcore scenes and situations that make you uncomfortable. So if you like reading and you like pictures with a massive helping of philosophy dabbed on top, this is the dish for you! We'll see how the movie lives up to the book but I can tell you already it cannot. It will be good, worth watching, and probably come closer that most book->movie translations but I just don't see it matching the book.

And as you may see if you watch me, I've finally got around to uploading something new to my gallery! I'm feeling... I don't know how to best describe it, I bit more like my normal, jovial self? It's just getting used to so many radical changes I've gone through this past year. Which when I'm feeling more energetic I feel more like producing art. Let's see, current project is working on the 2nd set of cranes with 400 left and will make time to finish them by next month. Past that, I see an origami clock or two as far as large projects go. For some reason I've not been doing any Celtic knots lately or drawing/coloring at all. Haven't even been filling out my personal journal.

Have been trying to keep up with you peoples by way of comments and critiques. Need to throw in some :+fav: love too. Have in mind to throw out a couple interesting (at least I think so) philosophical art rants in the future. Before you all are bored to death from a pointless journal lets leave it at; Everything is up in the air, let the cards fall where they may.

  • Mood: Amazed
  • Reading: Watchmen
  • Watching: Hikaru no Go
  • Playing: Blue Dragon

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  • Current Residence: Kentucky
  • Interests: Origami, Juggling, Celtic knots, Reading, Nikoli Puzzles
  • Favourite movie: Army of Darkness; Memento; Infinate Ryvius; Outlaw Star; Record of Lodoss War; to name a few
  • Favourite band or musician: Rush; Dream Theatre; U2; Collective Soul; Skillet; Third Day; Nobuo Uematsu; and many more...
  • Favourite genre of music: Rock; Classical; Techno; misc. Anime and Video Game soundtracks
  • Favourite artist: M. C. Escher
  • Favourite poet or writer: Robert Jordan / Ray Bradbury / William Gibson / C.S. Lewis / George R. R. Martin / Terry Pratchett
  • Favourite style of art: Celtic knotwork / Modular origami
  • Operating System: XP and Mac OS X Leopard
  • MP3 player of choice: iPhone
  • Favourite game: Final Fantasy / Ninja Gaiden / Advance Wars
  • Favourite gaming platform: XBox 360 / Playstation / DS
  • Favourite cartoon character: Jason, from Foxtrot / Wakko from Animaniacs / Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
  • Personal Quote: "Crap, that should have worked."
  • Tools of the Trade: Swiss Army Knife and Duct Tape in real life; Copic markers and technical pens for art. And paper.

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"Why greetings stranger, I'm not surprised to see your kind here."

How are ya Eric?

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-Tired Al
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Bah! I thought I responded to this a week ago... I was using browsing dA on the ol' iPhone and I guess I failed to hit send. Wondering why you hadn't replied to my reply. :)

Things go well, if not tiring here, which is right up your alley. I REALLY need to get back on to dA more often; I've been folding some Origami Tesselations from Eric Gjerde's book by the same name but not been doing much else in the way of art. How about you? I saw your Bird's of Paradise, which turned out awesome. Done anything with that origami paper I sent?

Hate to cut it short but it's 1:20AM and I get to wake up in less than 7 hours. Yipiee!

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
Aw, I forgot you had an iPhone. Heard they work wonders though. Also that they're really expensive~
Yeah.. if you had sent a message at some point, you'd see my reply within 12 hours or less usually~

Ah, great to hear things are going well O:

And origami tessellations? speaking of which.. I was just talking to my brother yesterday night about how annoying we found a book called "A wrinkle in time" to be when we were in elementary school and both had to read it at some point. I believe it had something to do with tessellating through time-space, dimensions, or something~ off topic, but yeah.

I've been alright, a bit busy with helping the parents with minor things, but other than that; I'm good I suppose. Tired, as always. Sadly. I haven't done anything with your paper. I was debating about folding random things (like experimenting).. but I was once again stopped by my...well I guess it's my Chinese instincts to not waste things.. like I'm still saving it for a model(s) that is finished/perfected. I don't want to get frustrated and end up creasing the paper too much and end up throwing half of em out experimenting~ Sorry to disappoint you there.

Ah. No worries with the short message. It's 2:00AM here. I'm heading to bed now.

Eee. You take cares, and thanks for taking the time to reply (again).~

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TAG! You're it~

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One must learn to read and write.
Keep a journal faithfully.
Know the present. Know the past.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.
Four Seasons in a year.
East, West, South, North.
In everything there is a purpose.
WOW your origami is so perfect and full of life! I'm amazed =D
Perfection is relative but I do appreciate the sentiment. ;) I've not had too much time to work on folding as much as I'd like to lately but at the same time I know this is something I'll be doing the rest of my life so I'm not in a rush. If inspiration hits I'll work on it though.

And thanks for the :+devwatch:. It's always nice to find new friends! Hopefully we'll give each other some ideas and can improve as artist, which is what dA is all about IMO.

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
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Happy St. Patrick's Day, God’s speed and many blessings dear friend

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St. Francis said,
“A man who uses his hands is a laborer. One who uses his hands and mind is a craftsman. He who uses his hands, and his mind, and his heart is an artist.”
Now that I think about it.. I should have added a ticking clock into the box of the art trade... I'm sure that would have been amusing to some extent.

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Yeah, the postal service would have a field day with that one... :)

A couple weeks ago there was an "incident" at the post office down the street. Apparently some customer got miffed at an employee's answer and left in a huff... and left their bag sitting there. Another customer or another employee noticed it and called in a supervisor who then called the police and bomb squad. They blocked off traffic and evacuated the building (mind you, the condo is a 2 minute walk away but I was at work then). The bomb squad went in, found it to be harmless, but blew it up anyway. It was a Dell laptop. :)

I cannot help but think the employee thought, "Hey, that annoying customer left their bag here! I'll teach them a lesson not to talk back to me..." OR a bomb squad member thought, "Well, we DID come all this way..." Really, America has got to have the most paranoid citizens around.

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
O: yeah. I figured they might have to check packages that "tick." xD

Oh? I didn't know about that incident, but interesting. Hooray for blowing up a dell laptop xD...

Great to be American. n_n

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how goes things?

and I had no idea you had a hotmail account. *just noticed*

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Oh, doing well despite the hellish 9 1/2 hours at work today. Sorry not to have written or responded for a while... I have no excuse. Besides work, a girlfriend, and video games... :) Speaking of which, I need to upload my Valentine's day gift to her; a dozen yellow/orange airbrushed Kawasaki roses in a clear vase with matching glass stones. Worked on that in my spare time over the past two weeks; pretty tough to keep it secret when L lives right next door and we spend LOTS of time together. In fact, these roses are one of those projects you work on with such intense focus that by the time you are finished and take a step back to survey what you have done, you're like, "Wow, I did that?" Have you every had that feeling before with a piece of artwork?

Yes, Hotmail... don't tell anyone else but that's just there so they don't know my good address, which I'm pretty certain you have. If not, I'll note or IM you with it. Really, gmail is much more functional and so not Microsoft. I prefer using the gmail now. However, this hotmail account was my FIRST e-mail... back in '97. I've grown attached to it despite all the spam it gets and lack of important e-mail.

And it's now 3AM and way past my bedtime. I need to update more often... didn't you mention recently you're on break? Hope that's going well! Enjoy it while you can; seriously, when you get two weeks of vacation a YEAR and work 40 hours a week, school seems like a breeze. B-)

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
Oh. That's a really long day at work... x_x I don't know how you manage that kinda stuff.

Aww and t hat gift sounds great for L. Ah ha, yeah it would be hard to keep something like that a secret project from someone who's next door xD

Well to be honest, no I haven't really had that experience before. Mainly because I'm not proud of anything I ever make xD. It's always "no where near good enough" imo.

Mmm I'm not sure if I have your hotmail, I don't think I have you on MSN, but yeah. No worries. I'll keep it secret.

I have to start remembering people live in different timezones. It's almost 1PM here. So I think it's that you're 11 hours behind me or something like that.

Yeah.. true.. that's really not much free time at all...well and most is probably spent on sleep. x_x; All work and no play.

Yeah, I'm on break/not in school till Fall. I'm just anxious to finish this giant friends doodle [link] then I can finally get to work on my manga. Sleep well! O: And hopefully you're able to find more time for yourself and whatnot.

My days have been really lax I guess. All I do is: get up at 8:37AM-ish, eat, brush teeth, wash dishes, start drawing or dA'ing or procastinating, and then it's dinner time at like 8:00PM-ish. Well and I usually draw until 12PM, then head to bed and try to fall asleep. Usually takes an hour or two to get to sleep.

Oh. And on many occasions, I tend to go do other stuff like cleaning or making some add-on to my laptop fort, or just browse around the net

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"Oh. That's a really long day at work... x_x I don't know how you manage that kinda stuff."

Once you get hungry enough you'll find yourself doing all kinds of crazy things. :) Ok, so it isn't THAT bad for me but I do have bills to pay. L, she works much longer and harder than I do mainly because she enjoys working. I have to twist her arm to get her to relax.

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
o-o Ah I see... o_o gosh. what does she do? D:

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