New Yeared

Happy New Year to everyone! Been a relatively good year for me and I hope it was for everyone too. My NYE celebration this year has been quite sober compared to the other ones before. Just having a single glass of beer and hanging out with friends in this freezing weather. It's a far cry from that one year when I got so drunk I spilled beer on my tablet and rolled on the carpet while eating pork rinds. Not sure if that's entirely factual, but the beer on the tablet thing is definitely true.

Objectified

Watching Objectified was a pure treat. Not just because of the return of El Ten Eleven's awesome music, but I guess hearing people talk about industrial design is fun for me. Makes me wish I took up Industrial Design back in college. Or at least makes me wish I hung out with the people from that course.

San Franciscoed

Screw this winter. I'm moving out with roommate =scrotumnose to San Francisco a couple of weeks from now. I guess it's also an easy excuse to blast "California" covered by Mates of State while we're moving. Now I could finally see Mountain View again, which was where I got my first apartment and first job here in the states. I'll definitely get a bratwurst from the Japanese couple's hotdog stand in the Mountain View Caltrain station. If they're still there. It's been six years since I've had that food for breakfast.

DMC'd

Also been watching Detroit Metal City. That scene where Krauser "rapes" Tokyo Tower is pure genius.

Welcome to the N.H.K.

I've been interested in the subject of social withdrawal/ lately, since I seem to have been in the brink of being a shut-in these past few years. Or maybe I am. Probably a mild case. But I guess it's all part of freelancing from home on top of being a workaholic. I remember seeing a bit of hikikomori in "Sayonara Zetsobou Sensei", and watched the finely crafted short film "Shaking Tokyo". And "Welcome to the N.H.K." has been my fave so far. It does seem like a good mix of light and dark sides of being recluse.

Steam Sale

Man. Chicago has been sludge city these past few weeks. Everytime I pop out It's wet snow. And that's why it's been a great week to stay in and stay warm with some video games. And Steam's been having great deals these past few days. Grabbed Machinarium and Samorost 2 coz that brings me back to the golden age of adventure gaming back in the 90s. Reminds me so much of Gobliins. Been thinking of getting L4D2, but I've still got Dragon Age: Origins to finish.

New Sketches, Old Friends

Well, friend. And she's not -old-. Bit of disclaimer there. Sketched fellow illustrator in here:

And more random sketches here:


And hey, Merry Christmas to everyone! Happy Holidays too!


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PSA

My buddy ~quamp kindly brought to my attention some stuff about Photobucket using uploaded images for merchandise. I haven't fully absorbed the details of this, but I guess it's kinda safe to warn you guys to not upload there if you don't want your images to be used on products without your permission. More details here, if you wanna read more about it: [link]




Man. It's almost 2010. Almost time for the release date of Mass Effect 2. I'm kissing my almost non existent social life goodbye. It's too cold to go outside anyway. It's been a week and I think I still feel the death germs from my last horrible flu episode still creeping up behind me.


Borderlands

Man. This game is bringing out the OCD in me. It seems to be a much shorter game than I think, since =scrotumnose finished it in around a couple of weeks. But I keep on getting great loot and I can't resist selling each and every one of these things. Currently level 33 and probably 3/4 through the game.

Doodles

Been sketching more. After a long inspirational dry spell, I seem to hit something. I think it's called caffeine. Started this collab with my friend Michael and hopefully he'll model it in 3d later on.



Also found a great gallery here:


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Thank you very much to everyone who pitched in and reported the infringing item on eBay. I really appreciate it. eBay's VeRO program took notice this week and took it down this Wednesday.

Blood

I got the Blood Energy Potion from thinkgeek this week. Kinda expensive, IMO but I liked the taste. It didn't have enough caffeine punch as I was hoping it'd have though. Might get a few for my sister 'coz she likes gross stuff. I'm making the most out of it by filling up the used Blood packets with red wine. Now if only I could get an IV tubing...


Borderlands

I've been playing this game too much these past few days. I got a rare Eridian Cannon, but then it was taken away by an abrupt unscheduled power outage. 880+ damage with unlimited ammo. All gone. I managed to kill Mothrakk though.

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It ruined my day to see my Bayonetta drawing being ripped off by this guy from eBay:
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If anyone reading this has any experience or if anyone knows the standard procedure in having art thieves banned from eBay, please let me know. I'd appreciate any info about this.

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Haven't been posting much and haven't been streaming lately. Sorry about that. Been so tired after job hours. Got a rare chance to play Borderlands with =scrotumnose this weekend, though. Sweet diablo-esque fps. It's a refreshing change of pace from playing too much Torchlight.


Anyway, hope you guys are having a great weekend.