The myths and adventures of our youth. Are they enough to share with the youth of tomorrow? Our youth? Do we need to raise the bar?
I don’t know. I watch increasingly bad pieces of modern pop culture and can’t help wonder about the overall quality of thought.
On the other hand, instead of criticizing the artists of our day, it is perhaps more useful to realize that if there must be a hero in our lives, it must necessarily be us.
Cheers.
Looking tough is occasionally it’s own advantage. Allow me to share this useful anecdote:
A man was bothering a friend of mine (Not taking no for an answer) so I told him to stop. This man gave me a look like he was about to pound me. “What are you gonna do about it?”
Since I had a lit cigarette (I hold one while talking to my smoking friends so they don’t feel weird) I put it out with my tongue and showed no reaction to the sizzling sound it made (I’ve practiced this with matches so I don’t burn myself, just sounds like it). Then I placed the now OUT cigarette behind my ear and looked him straight in the eye.
He paled a bit, and walked away. Good thing too, he would have kicked my ass.
Yeah I’m getting some weird spam comments. Sorry I haven’t updated in a while, been trying to concentrate on other things, but everything just seems to be going crazy.
Solutions will be found and wherever possible, acted upon.
In the meantime, so long and thanks for all the fish.
“If you fall down 7 times, get up 8″
“Never, never, never give up.”
Some good words to live by. Particularly in the harder times of life where we just feel the whole world coming down around us, try to crush the life out of us… It can feel pretty crappy!
Positive affirmation and visualization is awesome in strength, but it can be hard to put into practice some days. It takes a lot of belief.
But I think that taking the negative and turning it into the positive is an amazing trait. So that’s my goal. From now on, I’m not going to stress it when life gets tough. I’m gonna just make it to my advantage.
Cheers, and best of luck to you all!
It’s an interesting balance trying to find time in every day, it comes down to the old practices of making time, of managing your time. But in an increasingly busy world, how can we keep up with the flow of people going in and out of our lives? It’s important to remember the even older practices, of letting go, stress management and self-care of various kinds. Breakfast should be filled with good stuff, but doesn’t mean to skimp out on lunch!
As for myself, I’m spending my mornings in meditation and physical training, followed by a period of thinking and reasoning. Working out different problems (And occasionally making progress on moving into my room!) and listening to music, relaxing, figuring out how things could be done better. It’s good things for sure!
Anyways, I’m off. I’ll figure out the rest of this web design before too long. And there will be much rejoicing.
Good health and good luck.
Well it’s May 1st and I’m moving back into my old room. It’s a good room, and far better equipped to handle the unboxing of my things and storage of them far better then my old place (The corner in the basement)
Currently all my clothes are still a pile on the floor, I have a japanese fan (cheap rip-off I think, but I love it anyway) in front of me covering my pile of important paperwork. There are empty boxes everywhere (My bookshelves are holding their former contents magnificently I think).
And work on the comic I’m starting today… Well one can’t MAGICALLY do everything. On the other hand, since I’ll be trying to do so anyway, maybe I shouldn’t give in so easily?But in that case I’ll be putting that massive pile into nicely folded (Or well hung) piles and relocating them to my mostly clothing closet. Then putting up posters/ artwork around the house, forming a plan for more resources (The money in particular is in great need and desperately needed. Did I mention it’s in need?), likely in the form of either a job or freelance. That’s right, I’m not unemployed, I’m a Gentleman Adventurer (Hero for hire, Freelancer, etc..)!
Cheers, I’m off to mow the lawn and tackle this mess of property.
Conservatives should really learn to conserve resources rather then using them up as quickly as possible. Will it take the earth to reject us completely before they come to their senses?
On a brighter note, I solved my issues, and the website can be found at 365yesterdays.com. So the website is all set up with placeholders at the moment though, but I’m sure I’ll have a comic up by the end of the day. For now I’m going to go swimming.
Also I ended up using comicpress rather then manga+press. Mostly because it worked.
Cheers, as I’m off to go swimming. Excuse me while I kiss the sky?
Well, upgraded WP to 2.7.1 and forgot the spot for my twitter boxes AGAIN, so I’ll have to track that down and update it. Trying to think right now how I can update my website as a comic, and whether or not to have it as a seperate addy that redirects here or what.
What’s that, you say? Comic, says I? Webcomic, in fact? Why yes! I’m working on starting up an autobiographical comic about my life as a way of improving my art skills. I have a few different reasons, one of them is that I’m tired of having offline journals and what not, trying to keep track of them. Besides, maybe some people will even learn from my mistakes. It could be a nice possibility.
Still working on my video game (World of Trouble), not sure if I’ve mentioned it on here. Been interesting learning all the different parts of game design and programming. Not sure that I’ll continue in C# past this project though.. It’s taught me a lot, but I’m not the biggest fan of it.
OH! Over on my facebook page I’ve been working on a 365 days of self portraits using my camera, been a lot of fun so far. Hoping to continue that, but I might move it over to Flickr or something so that I can post something about it here.
Back to the webcomic for a moment, it comes with it’s own theme. I think I’m going to give the plugin and theme a try, maybe have to look into making my own theme some more. Funny that now that I’ve started pulling away from school (For various reasons) I’m finally starting to get a real education. Maybe I’m just the type to learn better from doing… Then again, aren’t most people?
On a personal note I’m looking at restarting a DND group for the amount of time a good friend of mine is in town. And my physical training is shaping up well, even though I’ve yet to go swimming today. Maybe after that belly dancing student night tonight.
EDIT: Well bloody heck. I keep getting an error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/corbinis/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mangapress/includes/mangapress-classes.php on line 41
Problem is that when I load the file in question up in Dreamweaver, there is no T_STRING anywhere on line 41. So there are bugs and issues to sort out. Hopefully they help take care of themselves, or I manage to solve this before I start uploading comics. To victory over the machine I go!
EDIT the second: BAH So it might not be a manga+press issue after all on account of the fact that I loaded up version the first (Manga+Press 1.0) and got the same results. Bah. BAH!!! So I think to fix this I’m going to have to reinstall wordpress ALONG with everything else… but I need to figure out how to back up my entries first. I suspect this will be a “Later this evening project” on account of all the swimming and bellydancing I need to do.
-What’s up me hearties YO HO!
Well lately I’ve been drawing inspiration from a great many sources. But I am writing here for a few reasons. The first is that while UI’ve just upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.5 a couple weeks ago, I just had to upgrade to wordpress 2.7 today. But I’ve become a bit of an old hat at it, so it was quick and relatively painless.
And I like the new wordpress interface, I think it will be fun when it comes time to work on my theme.
On that note I’ve also been catching up on most of my projects. Especially Net.Art, though I’m still behind, I’ve picked up a lot on CSS and different ways of using it. I still need to study layout and design options as well as how to achieve them, as it hasn’t quite sunk into my brain yet.
Working on applying for my internship and setting up my portfolio, so also reteaching myself flash. There is my animation project that I’ve been slaving over in my mind, so hopefully I’ll be able to finish that (Though I’m going to try to develope a purely digital process of working on it, so that I can work on it in more places).
Also I have links to write about before I get into my project in detail. I’m certain they are all Visual Inspiration links:
First is Newgrounds.com, an older net site hosting tons of flash videos and games. A great time-waster and at the same time reveals many unpolished gems. Lots of addicting stuff too!
Next up is Questionable Content. This website is one that I check almost daily. Though the humor is not always SFW, I find it cheers me on and encourages me.
Following that is Youtube. A great place for finding instructional videos on almost anything as well as for listening to music almost anywhere, a must have for checking.
One Manga is a comic site for translations of japanese comics. The sense of flow in many of these is amazing, there are a few such as Bakuman that I turn to whenever I need inspiration.
CSS Zen Garden is a relatively new discovery for me, but has been a huge aid in learning CSS through examples.
ImagineFX is similar to Deviantart in that it is an artist community, but rather then the catch all approach that DA has, IFX has a more narrow focus towards Fantasy and Sci-fi art. While these are not only my favourite genres, IFX also has a great collection of tutorials.
On now to projects…
One of the major problems I had with these projects was to learn CSS. When I was first taking Net.Art a few years ago, tables was the norm and CSS was just this new thing that people were trying (as far as I knew). Now CSS is everywhere, and it’s hard to imagine how I ever got more then a stone’s throw away while learning how to use it.
After spending days fooling around and playign with code trying to get it right, only to give up in many ways due to time constraints (But I’m still learning, might even come around to work on it some more later). Other difficulties included not throwing the monitor out the window when things got to frustrating.
All in all, it has been a valuable experience, though I’d do it differently if I have a third time around.
Today I have added two new Technical Resources.
First up is W3Schools, a link I’m sure anyone teaching themselves flash has found extremely useful. It’s a collection of step by step tutorials on how to do things (Not just in flash but in other areas as well).
Second is DevX, Which is similar but tends to focus more on explaining the concepts used in different web languages. It also has sections on programming languages.
Now that links are spoken of, I’d like to bring up the topic of focus and determination again. Seeing as I’ve set myself the goal of having the new version of wordpress installed on my blog by tomorrow night (Along with other goals of mine), I have a lot of work to do ahead of me! Especially since I don’t want to lose the work I’ve put into my current style. SO I shall have to move ahead on making my own style for this blog.
Among the advantages of such, this will allow me to better establish my unique web identity (Much more so then my current variation on the default style). And it’ll be a useful learning experience, particularly with the work I need to do in learning various web technologies. It’ll also allow me to better keep a finger on the pulse of what’s hot and cutting edge on the net, which is always a plus.
Until next time!