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Told ya I'm cosplaying.


Silhouette Cosplay by ~zehntes on deviantART

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I'm proud of this shot! It's lightning. No bolt, but wooah. :D


Light Up the Clouds by ~zehntes on deviantART

One of my fave movies ever ever ever, Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981).



Can't forget that detox scene.

I want this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0590203207?ie=UTF8&tag=sticanddonu-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0590203207

And just uploaded this

Tuesday Evening Dreams by ~zehntes on deviantART

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And yeah, I should draw more. I did. But my scanner's not working so it would be a while before I could get it into the 'puter and color it.

So much for wanting to get into this overseas art school. :D

Ooh you've seen this everywhere!


Learn to spot the warning signs in time – you know you're becoming a design geek when:

1. You smile that spanking-kind-of-smile when you use the CSS property: padding-bottom.

2. You know exactly what I'm referring to when I say "Make my logo bigger".

3. Every now and then you go through a ‘herbal tea’ phase to try and reduce your dependence to coffee, but you always go back to the inky demon eventually.

4. You've caught yourself more than once hitting CTRL or CMD+N when you need a coffee refill...

5. Sleep and nighttime are no longer irrevocably linked.

6. You have woken up in the middle of the night your sleep and started recreating the dream you just had in Photoshop.

7. When getting up, you wish you had a healing brush/patch tool for those unsightly blemishes and undereye luggage.

8. Your keyboard could definitely be someone’s grocery list - you're eating there constantly.

9. You know several Photoshop shortcuts that require 4 fingers
(Shift+Ctrl+Alt+K anyone?).

10. Whenever you see fog on a forested hillside, you think, nature is making a gaussian blur.

11. You're sitting in the movie theater watching the movie titles, shaking your head at how badly they're kerned.

12. Your biggest fear is Papyrus becoming the new Comic Sans.

13. If you could go back in time you wouldn't go back to see the rise and fall of civilizations, you'd go back in time to destroy Comic Sans and Papyrus.

14. Your most romantic date was when you went to see Helvetica by Gary Hustwit.

15. You've considered naming your children things like 'Kern', 'Pica', 'Bézier', 'Nyala', and 'Serif'.

16. You are trying catch the post-it notes at your monitor with your cursor.

17. You know that, by default, if three designs are shown to a client, your least favorite will be chosen - or any combination of worst components of each.

18. You also know that if you ask for more copy it will be sent as a Jpeg; If you ask for images they will be sent as PowerPoint presentations; if you ask for a vector logo, it'll come in the form of a Gif – from their website.

19. You have an uncanny ability to automatically see when something is lined up properly without the need for tools or devices, for instance if a shelf is straight, and where the center of the wall is to hang a picture.

20. And as a direct cause, get an almost uncontrollable urge to adjust a painting that's tilted ever so slightly.

21. And when in doubt, you automatically think CTRL or CMD+;

22. When girls are picking up Vogue and Cosmopolitan drooling over the latest trend in eye makeup and trying to figure out how to accomplish the the same effect, you're drooling over the most amazing 2 page advertising spread you've ever seen - trying to figure out how to accomplish the the same Photoshop effect...

23. You actually understand this post and pass it on to your fellow geeks/friends.

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Can I add a #24? You're upset your film geek boyfriend refused to watch Helvetica because it's just a documentary about a font. JUST A FONT?? Dude.

Oh yeah, #22 also goes with the boys' Maxims/FHMs. I pointed out the airbrushed and liquefied parts. Not being catty or anything!

But I take good care of the laptop and I don't want to think of children. Eeek.

still got Vacation Brain. english and grammar getting very screwy. i'm getting the dumbs worse than ever.

PS another pile of rocks


Dead Span and a Long Way Home by ~zehntes on deviantART

Two good articles about happiness:

http://www.skelliewag.org/find-your-flow-and-the-money-will-follow-941.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2002-12-08-happy-main_x.htm

And I got here:





Oh, come ON. Of course it's what I really want - it's so win-win and everyone's happy. Besides, do we still need to pop MORE babies? Do you have scientific knowledge of why it "messes with marriage"? Like your own marriage is any good at all to begin with, old fart.

Also found it weird the ad is on a lolcat site.

Marjorie Faire - Waves
Fantastic song to make you ache for the summer.

Nena - 99 Luftballoons
Watchmen has a rather inappropriate soundtrack but I like this song on its own. I've been hearing this song here and there my whole life but never cared to look for it earlier until the movie used it, heheh.

Spinnerette - Ghetto Love
Brody Dalle's (The Distillers) new band. Fuck I'm addicted to this song.

Portal OST - Still Alive
Ending song of a game called Portal that I watched being played at friends' house. Left me nauseated afterward. Cute robot emoness. Thanks Mimi!

Ultraviolet Sound - Dead On The Dancefloor
I don't know where I first heard this but it's so, for the lack of a better word, catchy. I am hooked.

Tegan & Sara - I Know I Know I Know
Bittersweet. I love them.


More next time.

Yes I'm in HK now and everyone's panicking. They quarantined an entire hotel, guest and staff, and tracked down all airplane passengers of the flight with the Mexican carrier. Yet to find the two cabdrivers who took the unfortunate senor around.

They have it in Canada too. Funny, China seems to be keeping mum about their condition and we're going there next.

Check out what I found online: statement masks designed by Yoriko Yoshida. Heheh, viral marketing.

Picked bands that start with the letter S.

SMAP - kimi iro omoi
Akazukin Cha Cha!

Splashdown - Thunder
Electronica rock with Middle Eastern influence.

Spin Aqua - Unchained
Anna Tuchiya's old band.

Sonata Arctica - Wind Beneath My Wings
Progressive metal cover that is oddly good!

The Solids - Hey Beautiful
The How I Met Your Mother's opening has a full song.

Something Corporate - Punk Rock Princess
Don't know a thing about these guys but I like this song since highschool. Cute.

I miss blogging, even if I make a lot of errors and typos and skip words or glue them together. I miss sharing very random things.

And here, I just have to post this trailer. Directed by Spike Jonze, based on the children's book Where the Wild Things Are. Western release fall this year. Song in the trailer's Wake Up by The Arcade Fire. Weee!



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And here, have a Romanesco broccoli! Fractal yum.

Saw Slumdog Millionaire yesterday. I love it.

White flags to Lady Gaga.

We cannot escape them: the lss, the airplay, the videos appearing after every Akon, Lil Wayne, and Kanye. Might as well enjoy it.



But this guy making rock mixes of her songs is the buhnanaaaz! :D :D

Just Dance:



Poker Face:

If I would have a phrase tattooed, that would be it. :)

Shit! Piss! I want to go to the NIN concert. Me and friends were just discussing it ticket price and all.
I'm currently jobless. So are my friends--the chimneys have downgraded from Black Bat to...Fortune.


Johnny Cash covering NIN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

Here's the concert version of the same song by Trent Reznor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjwgYvzQWS4&NR=1

Both very moving. Really looking forward to seeing HURT live. If only I know the ticket price.