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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? ...

In Dire Need of an Update

Wed Sep 16, 2009, 7:32 PM
It has been WAY too long since writing or posting anything. It has certainly not been for lack of material but of time. And now I'm going to have a bit more time on my hands. Reason being, my girlfriend and I broke up Sunday. Ah, what a way to start a vacation. So yes, I'm half way through my 2nd week of vacation for the year. And instead of being depressed and moping the entire week I'm getting things done that I've been meaning to do for a long time, i.e. update the ol' Journal.

Monday Dad had bought a new soft top for his Wrangler so I went over there and installed it for him. Tuesday we wanted to test it out and I wanted to do a little hiking/photography so we drove down to Cumberland Falls. It's on the Kentucky/Tennessee border and has absolutely gorgeous scenery. It even looks good wet because that was how we saw it. The forecast said it was supposed to be cloudy so we went fairly early hoping to beat the rain but no such luck. I was hoping for a mile or two hike so we did get out in the rain and walked about but no trails. We ate in the Jeep, which the top was installed correctly, mostly, and is water-tight. Mostly, because the windshield railing is a tad loose and it whistled when the windows were rolled up and it was moving over 50 MPH. Which was a significant portion of the trip.

When we got home I was pretty tired since sleep has been somewhat elusive the past couple nights. But I find out that my friend in California had Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 pre-ordered, which was released Tuesday, and was planning on playing it with me. Well, this was the first I heard of that and I wasn't going to buy it till the price went down. So spur of the moment I decided this is going to be a good vacation, picked up a copy, and proceeded to beat up some super-villans with him till 2:30 AM my time. And then today I woke up at the crack of dawn (8:30 by my reckoning) fixed the usual coffee and cereal, watched some Ruroni Kenshin, and just chilled. There was another project I was hoping to accomplish on vacation so I set out on that when I was nice and relaxed. Seeing a photo would expedite the explanation process so I will upload one as well. Basically I have book shelves installed directly to the wall. They have no end caps so instead of using 20 sets of book ends I decided to take a steel bar and mount it the the sides of the shelving. It adds space and looks pretty cool to boot. The only thing was I had to pull off all 500 pounds of books and had to drill 18 holes through the said steel. It's not hard but it takes time and you get steel shavings all over the place.So that took up most the day.

As for the future vacation, tomorrow I'm going to organize half a ton of paperwork and miscellaneous doo-dads (read, office and art supplies, tools, boxes of old origami) and trash the trash and store the rest in the closet. Friday I'm going to clean the condo to where it will be uncluttered AND spotless. I feel I do a disservice to my brother's memory to leave it as it is. This was one way we were different. He kept everything... maybe not in order but he just didn't HAVE that much stuff. He was not a pack rat. I am. On top of that, I have tools like a Dremel for random chores, an air brush for art, frames coming out my ears for photos and art, and just all the tinkery type of items I collect. For example, you cannot have just one type of glue and even then you cannot just have one type of epoxy. You need your normal clear expoy, your epoxy putty for quick jobs, and your JB Weld for metals. And I know where everything is at, as long as I have a minute to look for it. Brian, on the other hand, left the condo perfect. When we first came in to get his stuff a few days after he died, everything was in perfect order. Take a minute and look around your place and imagine if you were to die now, this is how everyone would see it tomorrow. Not sure why that impressed me so much about him but it made a mark. No matter what he did, he didn't deal in the frivolous. No matter how busy he was, everything was organized.

And between cleaning I'm going to just relax, play some video games, read, watch some anime, work on some origami projects, etc. So I've never been good after the few times I have been in a relationship but now I'm strangely at peace. I'm tired because I did everything to make things work but I was just doing it wrong. I could punch a granite wall all day long and in the end I would just have bloody pulp at the ends of my arms. If I had a sledge hammer or a pick it would be just as tiring but at least head-way would be made. So what does a granite wall have to do with a relationship? SImply put, she had LOTS of emotional defenses and I lacked the tools, experience, and the know-how of getting through to her; she wasn't about to open the door for me. I cannot say much more since she isn't around here to defend herself. Mind you, I know I had my fair share of screwing up so I can only assume that's why she locked me out all of a sudden. We had some good times and I do not wish to sully those memories by being bitter. I did what I could and it wasn't enough. Maybe next time I'll be stronger and smarter, the defenses a little toned down. I just refuse to give up, much to the chagrin of all the other eligible women out there.

So expect to hear from and see more of me in the near future! And to all the people who started watching me during my off-period, sorry for the lack of updates! It's like seeing the tail end of a cool firework and then lighting another one but it just duds out. While I kind of feel like that, I've got plenty of ideas in reserve to work on. Hope everyone is having a better week than I! ;)

  • Mood: Anguish
  • Listening to: Rush
  • Reading: The Great Book of Amber
  • Watching: Ruroni Kenshin
  • Playing: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2

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Devious Info

  • 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: Snow 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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Comments


:iconalpharho:
Thank you for the fave and the comment! You have very nice works here.

I like your signature, but I found that there are actually 101 kinds of people:

those who can count and understand binary,

those who understand binary but can't count,

those who can count but dont't understand binary

and those who neither understand binary nor can count
:iconorigami-united:
Hi! Just letting you know that you have been featured in our latest news article, Celebrating Origami Artists! 4 =D

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Be in at *Origami-United
:iconloduris:
Thank you very much for the :+fav: of my heart container! :)

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A stik!? I has one! :3
:icontired-al:
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't."

Well sir, I've finally started to learn a -wee- bit of binary. Took about an hour or so but I finally understood hex values and making the chart. I think I've gotten converting hex to dec, just not sure about binary to decimals. Still gotta look that up O:

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:icon1sand0s:
Well crap. Just just spent fifteen minutes typing out an explanation then realized I would just confuse you so I erased it. It's been a long day and I was getting ready for bed since it's past 12 and apparently my brain turned off for the night. I was going to point you to the binary wiki page but after looking at it, it would confuse you even more. It's fairly simple, especially if you already understand hex. It's simple to convert hex to binary since 2^4 = 16^1. You end up with 0-F in hex equaling 0000 - 1111 in binary. There are 16 possible sequences of 1's and 0's using 4 digits and each once corresponds to an equal amount in hex. For example, 1011 = A, 1100 = B, and 0010 = 2.

Ugh, I'm tired though. It's fun to think about though. If you REALLY want to screw with your brain, look up negative bases. BInary is Base 2, Decimal is Base 10, Negadecimal is Base -10. Apparently, decimal -11 = negadecimal 29. Yeah, they're ARE no negatives in a negative base... freaky stuff that.

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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
:icontired-al:
whoa. my bad. you didn't have to try and teach me xD

I appreciate it though, really. Thanks a lot~

O: aw. You must be super tired. Hope you got some good rest sir.

Yeah. I'll really have to look into the binary stuff today I figure. Well, if I find the time. I'm at school for 7 hours, probably 2.2 hours for bus times total (there and back).

o-o negadecimals.. okay that scares me xD I'll check it out though.

Thanks again, and good to hear from ya :D

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:icontired-al:
Well sir, I'm finally putting the paper to use. Making random things and experimenting. I actually turned one of those tiny two legged drakes into a four legged dragon O:! *is happy with that* I think it took an hour and a half of experimenting around. I used the gold paper to make it. Looks great. Uhh about 1 or 2 random goes at folding paper have turned out pretty sad. One sorta looks like a headcrab zombie from Half Life, another looks like some kinda crest. There's three grid pattern foldy things I worked on, and the rest (around 5) are just random old crafts from the book I recall from a small child, when I first started origami.

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:iconadyingnation:
Hey there!

I had a question for you. I go to UC Berkeley for school, and I am an active brother in Sigma Epsilon Omega, Berkeley's first gay fraternity. I was elected Fundraising Chair this semester, and as one of our projects I am creating a calendar that promotes Equality. Each month will contain a different representation of the word, "equality." Anyway, I have already had some submissions from DeviantArt users, and I was wondering if I could use your piece as well. Let me know!
:icon1sand0s:
Hello and nice to meet you. I certainly don't mind a piece being used to represent what it was made for in the first place. Which piece would you like to use, Ideal Equality, Real Equality, or both? I admit they lack a bit of polish, i.e. I could take a better/higher res. photo but they might suffice depending on the size of the calender. And if you do like both, I could easily splice them together. That is to say, I'll send you a better version for printing if needed, just let me know.

I will ask, is there anyway I could buy a few once the project is finished? One, I've never had anything of mine even remotely close to being published and two, I know a few people who may be interested in them. I'm guessing this will be a 2010 wall calender? However you set it up, I'm sure it will be great.

If you need to get in touch with me outside of dA, my e-mail is soul_flame@hotmail.com Looking forward to the final result!

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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
:iconadyingnation:
I'd love to use both of them, and if you wanted to submit a spliced one too, that'd be great. Yes, the calendar is a 2010 wall calendar. Thank you so much! You WILL be credited for your piece if it is chosen. It will be voted on along with about 20 other entries, so I'll be sure to let you know if yours is selected AND to let you know about purchasing calendars!
:icontired-al:
"Why greetings stranger, I'm not surprised to see your kind here."

How are ya Eric?

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:icon1sand0s:
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
:icontired-al:
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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:iconlucifer-ous:
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.
:iconcosmicwinds:
WOW your origami is so perfect and full of life! I'm amazed =D

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