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What you see here is fanart for the action-adventure RPG video game, Mass Effect, which I have been playing pretty much every day for the past week. First fanart. First steps into accepting my new obsession. It's been a while since I've been this worked up over a game, but I couldn't help it. In a way I feel like Mass Effect just allows me to indulge in my eternal fantasy of being an astronaut,

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Don't you hate it when your soap takes itself too literally?

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I always thought that the idea of leaving a year behind was funny, as though the entire year was a burden on your shoulders that you simply shrugged off when the ball dropped for the New Year. When I look back at older pictures and blog posts from just the past year, back in January, February and such, it feels like I leave the months behind as they go because these times feel so far away. A year

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Today I watched Black Swan with a friend, and I was absolutely blown away. It left me in cold sweat, gasping at the end. I couldn't stop thinking about it, yet I couldn't bring myself to find the words to talk about it. Barring perhaps Toy Story 3, Black Swan is the best movie I've seen this year. Now, if you've seen the movie already (or just don't care for spoilers), feel free to click below

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Today while my parents and I were sorting through old shoes to figure out what to keep and what to donate to the Salvation Army, we came across a Vans box, with a brand new pair of Vans in it! I tried them on, and surprisingly, they fit very well and actually feel quite comfortable. I've never had a pair of Vans slip-ons before, so I decided to keep them. Because nobody has ever bought these, I

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I've started the 365 Photos project on Facebook, and basically you take one photo every day for a year, to show other people what your life is like. Well, 3 out of the 10 I have so far are of papers that I made in papermaking class just drying out at my house XD This is my life. I put it on my car!!! And that amused me to no end! Now I know I've gone mad.

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I'm a blog junkie. I love reading through endless streams of blogs on productivity, "life hacks," design tips, zen habits, and other things that could potentially make my life better, if I just did them instead of read them! In the day and age of sharing, where the individual and the community is almost one and the same over the internet, it's interesting to see how different people

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I haven't blogged here in... wow, just over a month. It's the same old song and dance: projects, studying, bits of social life, projects, projects, projects. But now the semester is winding to an end as the holiday season picks up speed, and you know what the holiday season brings? Snowboarding season. I had the pain pleasure of experiencing snowboarding for the first time this year, way back

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The past few weeks have been really rough on me. I've had too little sleep and too many projects with too many problems and, "Well, you see, professor, this happened..." too many tears, too many pent up frustrations that led to too many other negative feelings that I know too little about how to deal with them. But it's getting easier. It always does. I'm feeling a lot better, which takes away

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D&D collab with Kelly, book art for both Lauren and Heidi's NaNoWriMo novels, collabs galore on hitRECord, gettin' into the scene with ¡Vaya! zine, workin' with clients, Foppish Gentlemen comic calling me from the corner of the room... all in addition to advertising assignments (we're on headlines now), the double-band ring for metals (and the first project I still need to finish), the

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I consider myself an avid traveller forever stuck with wanderlust. I've been to plenty of countries around the world thanks to my military upbringing, and I've got plenty more on my list. Mexico has never been on that list until now. Growing up in the Philippines, Okinawa and Germany left me with little to no exposure to anything Mexican. Living in Southern California for about 9 years now

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via Brandstack.com Just look at this logo and tell me it doesn't just kill you with cleverness.

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Graphic for my good friend Lauren's NaNoWriMo '10 novel, The 11th Hour.Even though November is still 2 months away, I've heard what the story is about and read some of the character bios (available on her blog, Limitless Ramblings) and it sounds like it's going to be reeeeeaaally good :D

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Because we don't have to buy $100-dollar books or study long hours... Approx. $130 worth of supplies for two classes, to start—not counting the ~$50 I'll have to spend on more supplies down the road. Each class is 2.75 hours long, with 2 sessions per week. It takes at least 5 extra hours to complete work outside of class. I think it evens out. Also, this is nowhere near the $250 I spent on just

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One particular drawing really struck me and gave me inspiration for a logo design I'm working on The older the sketchbook, the more drawings and doodles there are ...and the newer the sketchbook, the more written notes there are (rather than doodles) ....so I used to draw a lot more and I used to be better.

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I created a new deviantArt account for these reasons:To separate work I did back then, from work I do now (as I'm under the impression that I am a different artist now than I was back then) To utilize deviantArt's new Portfolio feature as my professional graphic design portfolio To claim "theJollity" name on that site—it's my handle everywhere else, gotta stay consistent ;) I could have easily

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The greatest mistake I've made as an artist is ceasing to invest in myself. I used to be very obsessed with how I presented myself and my work—making sure my blog layouts were impeccable, keeping my deviantArt account up to date with my latest and greatest, making sure everything I did was in tip top shape. Somewhere down the line I lost a lot of confidence in myself and thought it was pointless

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Ever since my dad told me about the opportunity to learn how to fly in the Philippines I haven't stopped thinking about flying again. It was exhilarating the first time, but will the next time be full of self-doubt and second guesses? I sure hope not... I hope the feeling is still the same as that time I flew 5 years ago, feeling like I'm at home. The forces of the Universe must really want me

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Today my dad asked me if I still wanted to be a pilot and I just froze in my seat. Instead of answering, I asked him why, and he asked me again because he wanted to "make sure." And then he told me about this flight school in the Philippines that costs about 1/4th the price of flight schools in the US. It's internationally recognized, and people from around the world attend this school to become

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Today was the last day of summer class for me, and the reason why I couldn't go with my family up to San José for the past few days. Mika and my parents are up there so Mika can attend her freshman orientation at SJSU. How exciting! Bummer that I had to miss out. Now I'm all alone. Anyway, I woke up pretty frazzled and excited. The night before, I had gotten an email from a prospective design

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Particularly the professors that are at least 40 years old or so, because they still talk to us about how they learned design back in their day—how they used T-squares, rulers and French curves to meticulously copy and design letterforms for typography, the way they learned the true ins and outs of the printing process, the way everything was so much more hands-on and manual than it is today.

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I told myself that my life drawing skills were getting rusty, so I drew my reflection.Why I didn't think to put my head and body together is beyond me.

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The illustrator in me loves the way this stretched layout gives my drawings enough space to show off, but the designer in me hates the way text lines get ridiculously long. I need to learn how to code or something XD

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If you've been following my blog for a while, or at least read some archived entries, you'll probably know that most of my dreams are violent. If you asked me what I dreamed of just a year ago, I'd most likely say that I was either being pursued or attacked and that I was unable to do anything about it. My limbs would go weak like noodles or too stiff to move, stuff like that. Lately I've been

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Droppin' Team Fortress 2 lines like a BAWSSNick: SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR KNEECAPS CHUCKLEHEADNick: NOBODY CALLS ME SILLY AND GETS AWAY WITH ITMe: I WAS NEVER REALLY ON YOUR SIDENick: YEAH WELLMe: PREPARE FOR YOUR EXAMINATIONNick: NO Nick: THE EXAMINATION IS A SPYMe: ERECTIN' A SPYMe: whoa whoa whoa that did not come out rightNick: YEAH YOUD LIKE THAT WOULDNT YOUMe: THEY'RE GOIN' TO HAFF TA GLUE YUUU

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and full of ambitions.As the years went on, one by one those ambitions were crushed. Put away for another day, and then forgotten. I told myself not to dream and not to think: it's not going to happen. Not now. Just focus on what's happening now.I almost lost the ability to dream amazing things. I still have it, it's just lying dormant. Hopes, dreams, ambitions... where are they? Can I recall

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To think I had such high hopes for putting out a sketch per day on this blog. I gotta hand it to me though, I did keep it up for about 2 months. Then it started to intimidate me. I thought more about the quality of my sketches, and obviously I can't churn out something amazing every single day. I know that's the point of the whole exercise/challenge, but I'm just not mentally ready for

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Here's another comic done for the student paper, The Union. Since the last one was a little rushed in both the art AND the naming of the comic (Cephalopoda? Really?), I decided to both step up my game a little and make the comic relevant to the title. Doesn't have to be, but I thought it'd be cool. Enjoy~

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Here's a comic I drew for my school's student-run paper, The Union. Newspaper comic debut! Huzzah! It's pretty rushed and I'm retarded when it comes to shading, so please forgive.

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Top: What you imagine will happen Bottom: What actually happens 90% of the time I do love snowboarding :P

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Hey guys. I know I haven't been posting sketches every day like I said I would, and I totally failed that whole thing. That happens to me a lot: I'm good at starting things, crap at following through or finishing. Story of my life. Anyway, here are a bunch of sketches and I hope it can at least make up for the days I missed in April. Last weekend I went to the San Diego Zoo with my family and

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I think I've tried a little too hard to make this blog "something," be it a hub for impressive, opinion+analysis type articles or daily sketches. When José told me that he doesn't see the point in broadcasting personal diary-like entries on online blogs, that it was kind of self-important, I got a little bit self conscious and didn't want to do it. I also read a lot of blogs every day and I like

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And I've only been twice!Yesterday's snowboarding trip was way better than my first. I didn't have as many bad falls and I actually got to get on some really nice powdery snow!I know I don't normally do personal posts about my days anymore, but I haven't been able to stop talking or thinking about snowboarding all day, so I'm just going to get it all out here.I went with José, Chad, Brendel,

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To take a break from the art and sketch posts, I'm going to talk about bento boxes!For those who are unfamiliar, a bento box is just Japanese meal-in-a-box. The most familiar kinds are the ones people bring to school or work, but there are some made for art and some made for home.I've been looking into bento boxes as a solution to my healthy eating dilemma, especially at school.Back in January/

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I know at least one person who will squeal due to this picture.

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He was wearing his glasses that I love so much and a fur lined jacket which is another big turn on in a male for me. Yes, I am very attracted to the things that a guy wears. I probably wouldn't be attracted to this guy if it weren't for the glasses anyways.via 365 ScribblesI'm sorry Jenny, it's so incredibly late and you deserve better, but I mustered up grandpa glasses today @_@ I spent a while

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It's not your fault and you've been good to meJust lately I've been feeling like I don't belongLike the ground is not mine to walk upon.Yeah anatomy boo leg receding back into space boo.On the bright side, I received my order of George Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy today! That makes four Bridgman books and let's hope I improve.

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Hello Medic again, and hello to Brendel (left) and José (right). Can you feel the Schadenfreude?! When I look at the way I drew Brendel/José all I can think of is "Young Hopefuls," hence the title, hehe. I only really included the Medic again because I couldn't properly crop the boys without getting Medic's quote in the way, and that bothered me lol

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So because my latest assignment has gotten me all crazy about Team Fortress 2 I decided to sketch some, let out that energy, heh. Somehow the Medic always struck me as looking incredibly menacing, even moreso than the Demoman... Demoman's more psychotic than menacing, I think XD I also drew a female version of the Scout, as many have done before me. Would you believe that I drew half of her

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I guest-posted this on my buddy Justin's blog and decided to share it here too.Hope ya'll like it! And don't forget to visit Justin's blog, Random Ramblings! He has a bunch of new content up literally every day!************I am an artist. I draw, I paint, I love to create. Hell, I'm currently challenging myself to sketch something (and hopefully post it) for every day of the year, the progress of

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What do you see?He's sittin' kinda funny, but at least he's rockin' a cool 'do. Apostrophes.

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I managed to drag myself out of it, into a whole year of doing the same damn thing. I missed a total of about 7 days (out of 31) for last month's NaBloPoMo, wow. I guess when it's sketching I'm just not as committed. I'll admit, you are not always going to see something pretty from me for the entire year. Some days I won't even sketch for the blog, I'll just throw something up that I sketched

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Start acting, start doing.I found this on tumblr and just ahd to put it up here, as a reminder to myself and others who constantly struggle with motivation.Courage is about doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared before you do it.It is your attitude of a task that determines success or failure.Don’t wait until people are dead to give them flowers.Don’t let

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Because I didn't trace, I used a reference image ;P

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Similar to what Jenny was doing in her posts, I decided to draw a girl in one of my classes. She was dressed in such a peculiar way that I just had to: hugely giant oversized sweater with a smiley face on it, dark grey leggings and tan Uggs. To be honest it was kind of annoying, because I rather hate Uggs and she shuffled her feet when she walked as if she were trying to be cute.But hey, I'm not

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Sadstronaut?

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I was getting ready to post a little ditty I sketched up in class today when I read a comment from Jenny stating that my characters so far are all wielding dangerous weapons.This is the sketch I did today....Heh!I'm totally not thinking about Left4Dead2 or anything, no... no. Maybe a little.Maybe I like chainsaws?But anyway, I realized the error of my ways and promptly drew this considerably

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Once again, I have failed to blog on not one, but two days of National Blog Posting Month. What've I missed, like 5 days now? I guess a part of me doesn't care since I extended my sketch challenge to a year.Oh yeah, I didn't even sketch on the past 2 days. I feel bad :(I did sketch up this character for Jenny:Somehow the phrase "corporate lumberjack" popped into mind and I just ran with it. This

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So my good friend Jenny and I are participating in churning out something creative for every day of the year. For me, it's visual art, and for Jenny it's writing. While I post my art on my blog (for now), she's posting her writings over at her FictionPress account, 365 Scribbles.I was happy to see her take on this challenge, as I believe that any person who practices an art should practice it

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As a tribute to the trend concerning fancy script typography with lots of loops, curves and swashes, I've sketched this up! It's true, I don't really understand it. They're so pretty and balanced, but they aren't entirely symmetrical. But they're so pretty...!Jessica Hische pulls it off beautifully.As does Doyald Young.

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I can't help but draw Cooper whenever he's sprawled across my lap.

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The thing at the bottom is how Cooper looks when he's all curled up on my lap :)

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I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before, but I am currently working on a comic with my boyfriend José and out friend G. They are doing the writing while I do the art (pencilling, inking and coloring). We formally started this last summer, but the idea for the comic was birthed during the summer before that. Back then it involved different people: other writers, other artists. Now it's down to us

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As most of you (all 2 of my readers) have noticed, most of my posts are usually posted very near the end of the day. I have a lot of near-misses, and about 3 missed days, and 4 without sketches. The whole "sketch-a-day" stint was supposed to help me, but instead it has become a chore, a burden, an obligation, you get what I'm saying. I'll end each day remember the sketch, rolling my eyes and

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I used the 30 Second Gesture thing on Posemaniacs.com and here are the results...I'm losing it :( I need naked people, STAT!

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Yeah nothin' to see here.So today I went to the Torrance Artist's Guild meeting, which is free even for non-members. As I mentioned in an earlier post, José's uncle was to demonstrate his amazingtastic watercolor skills, and he did! José didn't come with me, so I found another friend from the studio I used to work/paint at, and she introduced me to him. He's so nice and sweet!I swear, the way he

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this whole sketch-a-day thing is not doing wonders to my artistic self-esteem like I wanted it to.

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Aiyaaaahhh, I have officially failed NaBloPoMo. I've been hanging out with friends for the past few days, and also got to thinking that my sketches aren't really good enough to post. But as per request of Jenny, I am still going to post, even if it hurts me ;-;I actually sketched this one yesterday while at an okonomiyagi restaurant with buddies.Drew my friends in Star Trek (see the lens flares?

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I do not have a sketch for you today, sadly -_- Is any sketch worth posting if it isn't even that good? I dunno. But I'm still posting for the day because it's NaBloPoMo and I do that. Perhaps I'll have two sketches tomorrow or the next day to make up for today's lack of sketch.I usually like to blog about things that are neat and cool and relevant. Somehow I feel like NaBloPoMo, with the

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asdlkfjsd I was so busy cooking up pizza and tiramisu and business cards with my buddy Jason Lo that I neglected to sketch for today (I could have posted business card sketches, but you can't even tell what they are unless I was there discussing it with you). So here's a bunch of bananas and an apple, you can't really tell it's an apple, that's how crap it is and man I wasn't creative today

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So for a change of pace, I decided to render some clouds and mountains. I didn't finish the mountains though.Composition is crap, but hey, this was just a study, I suppose.I didn't actually finish the mountains, so here's a screencap of what I have so far. I may finish it, I may not. It's hard work painting in Photoshop.I thought that since I had taken an oil painting class and have proved to be

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It's disturbing how I can go by my day without sketching. To be able to post a sketch every day actually takes a conscious effort on my part, so I feel very obligated to do it. Better than nothing, right?José wanted Einstein in boxing attire, so there he is :PSorry it's another shoddy sketch/color work, I promise I'll put out something really good at least by the end of the month @_@

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All right, so last night's stint was a close one—posted literally a minute before too late! This time I actually got up off my ass and made something just for the day. Oy.Meet Gerard!He's the main character from a comic I'm working on with G and José. He's supposed to be 15 here. I really need to work on the tablet more @_@Oh, and you may critique this one. Normally I wouldn't want critiques on

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Crappy sketch/scan of Nico Minoru from the Marvel series Runaways.

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and I ALREADY dropped the ball lol!Forgive me.Meet Benny.You'll be seeing him around a lot, since I tend to draw him when I either have nothing else to draw, or what I was previously drawing was going way out of whack. In this case, it was the latter.Benny likes paisley scarves, bill caps, aviator shades, earrings (piercing not shown) and kickin' it old school.Also, yes I was serious about

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Today is the last day of the year 2009.It's been a mixed bag this year, hasn't it? All that craziness with the Iranian election, not to mention all the celebrities that passed away this year... I myself have struggled with many things, including my art, my beliefs, where I stand with others, and who I am as a person.For me, 2009 feels like the beginning of a change. I'm in my 4th year of college,

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...gets posted to the blog!Hey guys!It's been nearly a year since I last shook my fist at Las Vegas casinos, hounding "one more year!" And here I am, 21 and fresh-faced (if a bit pink) and fresh out of the shower after about an hour of slots.The family and I arrived here at noon and promptly went to our old family friend's house. We knew them from Germany, and some other Germany-era families were

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I recently came across this article, Childhood: Then and Now by the fantastic blogger who calls herself V. Like V for Vendetta. Are you getting chills yet?Anyway, she basically illustrates the differences between the carefree childhood she had back then to the joyless childhood most chilren experience now, mostly due to overprotection and fear mongering. Through her many stories, V lets readers

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I know, I know, it's only 2009 and I want to talk about the 2014 Olympic logo?What spurred me to want to discuss it was this article hi-lighting the two choices for the logo. It's new and fine, unlike Vancouver 2010 which is just around the corner, or the London 2012 logo, which... man, I don't even wanna talk about it.But anyway, here were the two logo choices for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi,

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This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. -Jimmy Carter Ever since I was little I've been fascinated by outer space. This went beyond squealing "Astronaut!" whenever someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I

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From the passing of Prop 8 in California to the strikingly similar ordeal in Maine, voters everywhere are helping to pass the law that denies same-sex couples the right to a marriage union, and all the legal perks that come along with it.Excuses everywhere are the same: They still get civil unions.So 'separate but equal.' Where have I heard that before?It will corrupt the minds of children when

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Ever since Pepsi's (terrible) logo change, I've been noticing logo and brand changes everywhere and the one trend that I notice is the popularity of thin, grotesk fonts.Pepsi went from this:To this:The circle and swish does not feel right any more, and the new logotype seems so out of place alongside it. I don't even feel excited by it at all. What was wrong with the old logo? It was exciting,

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So after three weeks of mentally treading through the tar and mud of my discombobulated flow of mismatched ideas, I finally got my graphic design project finished.Seeing as I haven't written here in a while, let me elaborate:The second project of my graphic design class was to design a spread for a feature article of a music magazine. I knew in a heartbeat that I'd choose to do an article spread

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Whoo, school's a doozy.I don't know if the classes are harder or I'm just not into them as much as I was in the Spring. Yea, that's it, I'm totally not into them as much. My art classes are fine, but everything else...? Not so much. I'm starting to wonder if the minor in Marketing was the best thing. If anything, at least I'll learn.I've got a bunch of projects lined up, and I'm wondering if

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All right folks, so I finally got my paws on Muse's new album, The Resistance! Because I can't contain my excitement, I'm going to post a running review as I listen to it for the first time, song by song. Here we go! It's below the cut, you know what to do!Update: Upon listening to it some more, I have more thoughts to add. So I just put them under the category "On Second Thought" after each

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I recently watched the movie District 9 and loved it. I went in only knowing that it was about aliens that are stuck on Earth for some reason or another, and loved every last bit of it.Some friends I've talked to about it have a some problems with the movie, so instead of telling them all my opinions one by one, I decided to write one of my 'reviews' on it.You know the drill, click below the cut,

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It all started with me flipping through my oldest high school yearbook (freshman) so I can see my freshman class, so I know what freshmen look like because I have to draw a freshman for a comic project. I kept either making him look too old or too young. I think I've got it now. Whatever, these are just sketches, God knows that anything I've worked on for longer than about 2 minutes is a damn

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Anyone that's heard me ramble about philosophy knows that the idea of truth-being-perception (or, the lack of absolute/universal truth) is rather close to my heart. One event that's good for me could be bad for you, and this also goes for people, ideas, things, etc. While surfing around the good ol' net I came across a book called Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find By

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But I sure do now.I never really wanted one before because I never considered myself a "hardcore gamer," and only the hardcore gamers owned XBoxes. Or just played games on their PC's. The reason why I want one now is because I'm becoming increasingly interested in games that are really only for the XBox, PC, or PS3 (like hell I'm getting a PS3, pfft). And I don't currently own a PC, so PC games

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I cannot stop listening to this song.Until I found out about MUSE, I never awarded any one band the title of "my favorite band" (well, aside from Queen). There was no band I ever felt the need to see live in concert, aside from Queen, and without Freddie Mercury it just ain't worth it, y'know? But I digress.The song above is a part of their upcoming album, The Resistance, scheduled to be released

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Within a week's time, I'll be back in Southern California.I have really mixed feelings about this, but to begin, let me just say that I'm glad we're not flying back.My dad, sister and I are driving, from Fort Worth, back to L.A., and stopping in Phoenix on the way! The fact that we're roadtrippin' it instead of flying back makes it seem like an easier transition, like going back is an adventure

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POURQUOII have added yet another site to theJollity Empire.I'm not sure why I was so averse to joining in the first place,but I think I know why.I'm afraid I'll like it too much.

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Unlike a good number of Harry Potter fans, I did not read the sixth book before watching this movie. I did, however, watch the fifth movie, which I think got me more on track than I would have had I read the book.I saw the movie today with my sister, and I remembered the parts of the book as they came up on screen: what part was different from the book, what was left out, etc. although some parts

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So my sister is trying to convince me to get a tumblr blog, or a tumblog. Our friend Ian has one, and he's got some pretty good stuff up, and it seems reeeeally cool... but man, I've got this thing already! XDShall I add this blogger, my Sans Raison, to the list of blogs I've left behind?I've toyed around with switching over to Wordpress before, but the fact that you can't save any custom layouts

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This article cites Robert Pattinson's (actor for Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies) thoughts on the Twilight books:"When I read it I was convinced Stephenie was convinced she was Bella and it was like it was a book that wasn't supposed to be published. It was like reading her sexual fantasy, especially when she said it was based on a dream and it was like, 'Oh I've had this dream about this

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So I recently Stumbled Upon a site called Omegle, which is basically a site for talking to strangers. There is no signing up, no screennames, no nothing.This, of course, provides perfect opportunity for messing around with people.Here's a hilarious conversation I had there:Stranger: heyStranger: asl?You: HI, IT'S VINCE WITH SLAP CHOP! YOU'RE GONNA BE IN A GREAT MOOD ALL DAY, 'CAUSE YOU'RE GONNA

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So I saw Transformers 2.I'm not sure if I should put my thoughts ("review") behind a cut for anybody who hasn't yet seen it, but... who hasn't yet seen it? XDI'll keep it under the cut for formality's sake.More...So Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen was destined to be the biggest movie of the summer, and that it was.Big graphics, big robots, big noise, big on everything except a sophisticated

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Life here in Texas has been pretty chill.Now that my mom has gone back to California and my dad back to work, my sister and I are left to our own devices during the day. Usually this means lots of TV, internet, and eating. Just like summer at home! Sans friends, that is.My sister and I recently startd to volunteer at the local Pet Adoption Center. We started yesterday, walking some of the dogs

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I just finished reading the manga series Hot Gimmick by Miki Aihara.I had started reading it in sophomore year of high school, but finished it only now (scanslations ftw). When I stopped reading before I thought I was getting tired of it, like I thought the plot wasn't going anywhere, and now that I've finished it... well, I've written my spoiler-filled thoughts below, so feel free to jump under

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