I read The Call of Cthulhu but I didn't really see what all the fuss was about. Maybe I just need to read it again.
You need to view the book in a mirror, using another mirror to look at that mirror and enable you to read it, and you need to be stood inside an Elder Sign scrawled on the floor of an Innsmouth warehouse, paying keen attention to the sounds of the whipporwills awaiting to catch your soul.
It pretty much comes into its own then.
Actually, CoC is one of my least favourite stories. I think The Dunwich Horror might be my fave. If you're wanting to give the books a bit more life, you should totally give the Radio Dramatisations produced by HPLHS a go: http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html
Every last friday of the month I provide live drawings for a local Poetry Slam thing. I draw the performers or scenes from their poems or just whatever I can think of, and it gets shown on a screen for everybody to see courtesy of an overhead projector.
I did it again yesterday, because we couldn't hold the poetry slam last week on account of a national holiday, and it was a big success. Everybody liked the drawings and I even sold a few to some of the participants. It was a lot of fun all around.
I also got asked to possibly do some cartooning for an annual cultural magazine thing some of the people in the local art scene put out. For free, since everybody there works on the thing for free, too, but still! It'd be a lot of fun to do, plus it'll help get my name out there for later.
I also brought my Judas Priest and Gorillaz albums to play on the big sound system at the local theatre during breaks and after the show was over, so the music was excellent as well.
Beavo, I just visited your website. You did three years of neuroscience at Dalhousie University? What?
Do you mind explaining?
she studied neuroscience for a while but then found she preferred art
Well yeah Tam, I figured it was something like that :P, but things get more detailed and nuanced from story to personal story.
Like in my case, last year I made a decision to go into pre-med. But the decision wasn't just like, "Fuck art. I'd rather be a doctor." It was more complicated than that. I love art; I was all ready to go to art school (probably animation, hadn't yet decided), but then some stuff happened. My grandpa (a great guy and my number one artistic role model) found out he had stage IV lung cancer. It was horrible, but with the help of his doctors, he has made an incredible recovery. The whole process was amazing to witness. And yeah, other factors contributed to my choice of pre-med, but that particular scenario was principle among them. My grandpa's doctors did great work, and it was very inspiring. My point here is: that's just a little part of my story thus far; life can get very complicated.
Beavo's story sounds interesting because she's obviously a successful artist, and it seems like she hasn't had the most typical background for being an artist. She does great work that I personally respect and love to look at, but maybe she didn't start out wanting to be an artist. Maybe her personal history has been more complicated than "she studied neuroscience for a while but then found she preferred art". People's stories deserve to be told, and details are the spice of life.
Also, two of my friends are going to school for neuroscience. They're not very deep into their programs, but they both seem to like it so far. For my own future, I'm not ruling it out as a potential career path.
Sorry if any of this is at all incomprehensible. I had an A&P lab final today, and I was up most of last night.
cool story!
neuroscience was sort of the "safe" move for me
i've always loved both science and art, science just happens to lead to professions (med) that make a lot more money than most artist positions can
I quickly realized (maybe not so quickly... it took me 4 years) that in order to be happy, you can't always take the safe route
and I've stuck to that mentality since
and it has gotten me what a lot of people call luck, what i call "stick to your shit, do what makes you happy, don't just follow what's popular and what people tell you you should be doing and good things will come of it..." throw a bit of good timing into the mix and it all starts to come up roses.
Nah. It was just some spinach and romaine (because I dont know how to build a proper salad), and a small amount of dressing. I washed the veggies. Apparently not diligently enough.
uuuuuuh how have you been feeling lately? Because I just read this:
Nah. It was just some spinach and romaine (because I dont know how to build a proper salad), and a small amount of dressing. I washed the veggies. Apparently not diligently enough.
uuuuuuh how have you been feeling lately? Because I just read this:
Oh god more than half of the comments for that article are incredibly racist
Yeah...I've decided to not read any comments made on any article I read...they're always made by the most ignorant, asshole fucks, and make me angry.
[edit] it also amazes me how many idiots think that every thing going wrong is genuinely Obama's fault. Somali pirates!? OMG OBAMA WTF. Stock market hit a downturn due to things going on in other countries? OBAMA.
by the way, if you hear about a masked vigilante dressed in a black and blue suit with light armor on it calling himself "the menace", then it's totally not me
Sometimes I think it can be pretty awesome to see what other people have accomplished...it's impressive...and also sometimes oddly motivating to me, like "wow, real people can do those things! And are doing them!"
I switch between feeling a little full of / proud of myself and feeling a crippling sense of failure (in any and all aspects of my life)
This past year I've slowly tried to force myself to allow myself some pride, just so I can pat myself on the back and say "you've got a lot going for you! You've done a lot of good things! You're pretty alright, dawg!"...and hope that I slowly gain more confidence in myself and don't feel like an ugly-loser-failure undeserving of respect or love from anyone
Also surrounding myself with dogs is a pretty good tactic here
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You need to view the book in a mirror, using another mirror to look at that mirror and enable you to read it, and you need to be stood inside an Elder Sign scrawled on the floor of an Innsmouth warehouse, paying keen attention to the sounds of the whipporwills awaiting to catch your soul.
It pretty much comes into its own then.
Finally finished All Quiet on the Western Front.
What'dya do spex?
I did it again yesterday, because we couldn't hold the poetry slam last week on account of a national holiday, and it was a big success. Everybody liked the drawings and I even sold a few to some of the participants. It was a lot of fun all around.
I also got asked to possibly do some cartooning for an annual cultural magazine thing some of the people in the local art scene put out. For free, since everybody there works on the thing for free, too, but still! It'd be a lot of fun to do, plus it'll help get my name out there for later.
I also brought my Judas Priest and Gorillaz albums to play on the big sound system at the local theatre during breaks and after the show was over, so the music was excellent as well.
I bought a fake plant.
I have arrived in the 21st Century.
Oh poor Kat, his was the most depressing end.
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I'm feeling pretty okay. Still out of whack as far as digestion goes but I'll pull through. I bough my lettuce from walmart.
Oh god more than half of the comments for that article are incredibly racist
Present-Me forgot about it and now it's a delicious surprise!
Yeah...I've decided to not read any comments made on any article I read...they're always made by the most ignorant, asshole fucks, and make me angry.
[edit] it also amazes me how many idiots think that every thing going wrong is genuinely Obama's fault. Somali pirates!? OMG OBAMA WTF. Stock market hit a downturn due to things going on in other countries? OBAMA.
argh
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For all of one week.
Kick-Ass was really good. It was less violent than some reviews led me to believe. Still had an 11 year old getting beat up, though.
It was a lot better than I had expected. It's even led me to designing my own costume right now ^^
Just for parties, I hope, because otherwise, it's a retarded idea.
nono, not gonna be a masked hero x)
by the way, if you hear about a masked vigilante dressed in a black and blue suit with light armor on it calling himself "the menace", then it's totally not me
Sort of puts your own life into depressing perspective.
and wow, i just had to congratulate you on some awesome illustration work
Exhale then hold it for as long as you can. Failing that, sculling a glass of water usually works.
:<
I just posted in there - sometimes its nice to brag even if most of the time you don't feel like you are worth it. Its the curse I guess.
^ This, also I find that inhaling and concentrating really hard on counting back from a 100 till you have to breath also works.
But some of those people are pretty awesome.
I switch between feeling a little full of / proud of myself and feeling a crippling sense of failure (in any and all aspects of my life)
This past year I've slowly tried to force myself to allow myself some pride, just so I can pat myself on the back and say "you've got a lot going for you! You've done a lot of good things! You're pretty alright, dawg!"...and hope that I slowly gain more confidence in myself and don't feel like an ugly-loser-failure undeserving of respect or love from anyone
Also surrounding myself with dogs is a pretty good tactic here
Making posts on the internet?
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This exercise isn't proving to be the ego boost I was hoping for.
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Your implication that I should move to a retirement home in Malawi in order to feel good about myself feels a tad short-sighted.
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Not fast enough.
I should have added an edit. They went away about 8 minutes after posting but it took a lot of varied breath holding/breathing/water drinking methods.
Also if they hadn't gone away then your advice would have been too late, I would have killed myself at the 6 hours of hiccups mark
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Haha, good to know that the hiccups resolved itself before the 6 hour mark then.
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For some reason, the eyes remind me of those dogs from Psychonauts.
That makes it even more awesome.
It was good.
So not that enjoyable.