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  • OllieOllie Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    The school I'd prefer to get into is the U of Toronto, as I used to live in Mississauga and still know people who live there, plus I'm a Canadian citizen. But still, researching these schools is a little terrifying.

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  • MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Six wrote: »
    I just like them - how does that make me a jackass?

    Wanting a car that handles nice, has a good interior, and has better reliability than a mustang makes you a jackass and unamerican. In this country we don't like turning.

    Mustangs are the biggest piles of shit ever made. People driving classic cadillacs, mopar, old mercedes and jaguars cars, and even one guy in a ford gt40 would wave to me as I drove my El Camino, as one classic car guy to another, but the mustang cocksuckers would turn their nose up at me. Driving a mustang is like being proud of having epilepsy and shunning everyone else because they don't know the pure ecstacy of flopping around on the floor like a peice of cooking bacon.

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  • PiousPious Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    From my 14 years of living in various corners of Texas I can tell you its mostly just fake friendliness and if they find out you are an atheist or a liberal then they become VERY not nice.

    Edit: The only redeeming quality of that state is the Tex-mex and the bbq.

    Edit2: In conclusion, FUCK texas.

    Austin is a pretty awesome place, but I have to agree with you on the "fake friendliness" for the most part (as with all places there are obviously people that aren't like that). Pious is right however, the mexican/hispanic community is pretty darned friendly. At least what I encountered with it.

    So I just stumbled upon Tom Gauld's sketchbook goddamn.

    Ha, you people hate texas so much...And I was talking about the Mexicans. I only met like 4 nice white people.

    It was in Pleasanton Texas, like an hour south of San Antonio.

    Ha, Kerville, we went swimming there.

    But like I said, its the people that make a place nice. So I was at an area with less white people, and it was awesome...Damn white people.
    Pious wrote: »
    Texas is just a nice place to live cause the people are more friendly...In my expirence.

    Article from my newspaper from TX.
    For my local newspaper, I do the microfilm research to type the little "what on this day on these years" sections, and here's one I pulled yesterday from 1984.

    25 years- Hitchhikers held as slaves
    KERRVILLE, Texas- Three members of a ranching family were arrested
    after six people said they were abducted while hitchhiking and held in
    chains as slave laborers, a police spokesperson said Saturday.
    Authorities learned of the slavery ring after a man who claimed to
    have escaped from there contacted police in nearby Commanche, Texas.
    Currently, investigators are checking a claim to burn the body of a
    man who died at the ranch.

    Pff, every states got some weird ass shit to attract tourist.

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Man, where the hell did you guys go?


    Texas is a weird beast; if you know where to go it's fantastic, if not it's pretty boring.

    Just hit up Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas, and you should be good to go. The only reason I put Houston on that list is because the people there really don't give a fuck about religion or politics, and there are some nice areas around the city.

    And the food is miles better than most of the states (and cheaper).

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    the mexican/hispanic community is pretty darned friendly. At least what I encountered with it.

    Hispanic people are the friendliest people on the planet. Who else would have a X-mas celebration where people surprise you up at 3:00am with music... and then the host willingly invites this very large group of morning carolers for food.

    AT 3:00 AM!!! ON A TUESDAY!!!

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  • PiousPious Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    the mexican/hispanic community is pretty darned friendly. At least what I encountered with it.

    Hispanic people are the friendliest people on the planet. Who else would have a X-mas celebration where people surprise you up at 3:00am with music... and then the host willingly invites this very large group of morning carolers for food.

    AT 3:00 AM!!! ON A TUESDAY!!!

    Fuck yeah! They have those cowboy breakfast things man. Like everybody in my town skipped work/school for that when I lived down there. Teachers and students lol!

    They also still sell *can't spell for shit* barabacora...? Anyhoo, its meat from the cow's head. I asked for that here in Oklahoma, and they don't know what the crap I'm talking about. Also, Taco Cabana down in Texas is furking awesome! They had one here and their beans taste like paper.

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    So I guess everybody seems to be a fan of the Tex-Mex, eh?

    Man I miss tex-mex.....


    And the fact that there's a steakhouse on every corner.

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  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Six wrote: »
    I just like them - how does that make me a jackass?

    Wanting a car that handles nice, has a good interior, and has better reliability than a mustang makes you a jackass and unamerican. In this country we don't like turning.

    Mustangs are the biggest piles of shit ever made. People driving classic cadillacs, mopar, old mercedes and jaguars cars, and even one guy in a ford gt40 would wave to me as I drove my El Camino, as one classic car guy to another, but the mustang cocksuckers would turn their nose up at me. Driving a mustang is like being proud of having epilepsy and shunning everyone else because they don't know the pure ecstacy of flopping around on the floor like a peice of cooking bacon.

    Well, I am like the opposite of those guys. Because whenever I see someone in a mustang while I am driving this, I don't wave to them. Mustangs are girl cars.

    I don't know, there is something about them that just bothers me. I even like a lot of the other older Fords.

    69 Fastback does get a little bit of an exception though.

    rts on
    skype: rtschutter
  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I just realized what a shithole my apartment has become. Looks like i'll be doing some extra cleaning duty tonight.

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  • D-RobeD-Robe Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    cakemikz wrote: »
    Well, I am like the opposite of those guys. Because whenever I see someone in a mustang while I am driving this, I don't wave to them.

    I like your car. And your dog.

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    Cheese.
  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    cakemikz wrote: »

    You don't belong to the Suzuki Aerio club!

    2005_Suzuki_AerioWagon_ext_1.jpg

    Edit: This is actually not a bad car! I've been driving it for almost 4 years and it has yet to give me any issues other than that time a jackass stole a tire. But really, you can't blame the car for that...

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  • Forbe!Forbe! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    General friendliness is based entirely upon your racial heritage, fyi.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2009
    fuck

    I need ideas, guys

    we're supposed to do four self portraits fopr my life drawing class

    all are head, neck and shoulders, although neck and shoulders can be indicated instead of detailed, depending on

    but we need to do one of each of the following: fear, humor, tragedy and heroism/romance

    and I'm in the thumbnailing stage, and i have about fifty thumbs drawn and need fifty more, and I'm running out of ideas

    I'm not asking you do to my homework for me, jsut give me a nudge to get me started again, I've hit a wall

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Rank, with all of this work load i'm curious to see if they even bother to sit down and check your pieces. I don't see how that's possible, seeing as how you have to do so much work.

    Do you just do the work, turn it in and that's it, or do they thoroughly sit down and discuss what you need to work on?

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2009
    yeah, they do

    sometimes it's jsut a grade with a few comments here and there

    but for big projects, we devote an entire class to group critique

    which is awesome

    also, those aren't ideas, fucker, spit em out. I'm dying here.

    Like, how do I portray tragedy with just a face shot? Especially in a thumb? What elements say tragedy in a composition?

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2009
    like, I've played with this composition a buddy of mine did years back

    scream.jpg

    (richardolmstead.com)

    and with the whole Oedipus gouging of the eyes and stuff, but I don't know what else really says tragic. Heroic and fear are fairly easy, and humor is a piece of cake, but a real specific thing like tragedy is tough.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Tragedy is this, Rank: it's a headshot of you lying dead in a gutter, blood caking part of your face, your eyes half closed.

    Or, you with a gun to your own head.

    Tam on
  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    cakemikz wrote: »

    You don't belong to the Suzuki Aerio club!
    2005_Suzuki_AerioWagon_ext_1.jpg

    Edit: This is actually not a bad car! I've been driving it for almost 4 years and it has yet to give me any issues other than that time a jackass stole a tire. But really, you can't blame the car for that...

    Actually for my day to day I drive a hatchback, the 55 chevy is a weekend thing. Just don't let Bacon know you drive one because he is a hatchback hating douche.

    rts on
    skype: rtschutter
  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2009
    Tam wrote: »
    Tragedy is this, Rank: it's a headshot of you lying dead in a gutter, blood caking part of your face, your eyes half closed.
    no, that's two weeks from now

    har har har

    if we could do full body, I'd just do one of me standing in the mirror shirtless, looking at my pouty little moobs I got growing

    fucking freshman fifteen ain't even a joke, and I'm goddamn thirty in a couple months

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2009
    also

    http://www.artnatomia.net/uk/artnatomyProgram.html

    this is the best fucking site I've ever come across

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Take out a mirror, remember that you're turning thirty and draw the expression on your face.

    Done!

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    142uglc.jpg

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  • D-RobeD-Robe Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Nice! I mean, tragic!

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    Cheese.
  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Depressed Tam?

    rts on
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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Just helpin' Rank out

    also yes

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  • PiousPious Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    but we need to do one of each of the following: fear, humor, tragedy and heroism/romance

    Fear-You got caught Masturbating.
    Humor-You got caught Masturbating.
    Tragedy-You got caught Masturbating
    Hearoism/romance-You...got caught masturbating?

    Anyways, a mirror helps. But really, its your face, you can add anything else you want to it. So like for heroism, Cool armor or cool clothes of some kind of hero, then tragedy...Dress like hamlet/romeo or some shit like that. Humor-your in bear suit. Fear, dress as death. Saying just dress the part.

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  • D-RobeD-Robe Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    What is it with you and getting caught masturbating?

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    Cheese.
  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2009
    D-Robe wrote: »
    What is it with you and getting caught masturbating?
    you know how they always say to write what you know?


    also, I'm trying to avoid the easy answers here, the gun to the head (at least three people I know are doing that already), etc

    just looking for other ideas

    thanks, guys

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  • NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    ma mouf id on FIER!!!

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    quick q about artists corner, is musical art something that belongs in here?

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  • D-RobeD-Robe Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Sure. Nap posts his stuff all the time.

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    Cheese.
  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2009
    cakemikz wrote: »
    Actually for my day to day I drive a hatchback, the 55 chevy is a weekend thing. Just don't let Bacon know you drive one because he is a hatchback hating douche.

    Tell me when they make an appropriately style-over-substance sexy Lamborghini hatchback and maybe I'll reconsider.

    Of course, maybe I shouldn't be talking because I happen to drive a car that has neither style nor substance, and is made by a brand that's soon to not exist anymore.

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  • CyberMonkeytron3000CyberMonkeytron3000 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Tam wrote:
    duckiss.jpg

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  • D-RobeD-Robe Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    That is horrifying.

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    Cheese.
  • rtsrts Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    cakemikz wrote: »
    Actually for my day to day I drive a hatchback, the 55 chevy is a weekend thing. Just don't let Bacon know you drive one because he is a hatchback hating douche.

    Tell me when they make an appropriately style-over-substance sexy Lamborghini hatchback and maybe I'll reconsider.

    Of course, maybe I shouldn't be talking because I happen to drive a car that has neither style nor substance, and is made by a brand that's soon to not exist anymore.

    Hatchbacks don't have to look bad...personally I think the hatchback version of my car looks a lot better than the sedan. Same with most bimmers.

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  • ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Tam wrote:
    duckissbang.jpg

    Now It's ART!

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    You guys are retarded!

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    everyone stop what you're doing and go watch the video on this site
    especially you, toasty. you will appreciate this more than anyone

    http://makemylogobiggercream.com/

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  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Think I've decided on a car. I'm excited.

    Six on
    can you feel the struggle within?
  • NibCromNibCrom Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Tell us what it is...

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