| brian smart's brains |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|01:34 pm] |
Holy hell this week has felt long (what, it's wednesday??). On the weekend my dad had a seizure in his left leg and had to go to the hospital. They found brain hemorrhage to be the cause. As to what caused that, we still don't know. He hasn't had a concussion any time in the past few months, or even in years. He spent a few days in the hospital being monitored and having tests done, and expecting up until this morning that he would need brain surgery. But the tests showed that the fluid has begun reabsorbing so he was released from the hospital today. He can't drive for a few months, but that's so much better than getting a hole drilled in his head. I'm so relieved. aaaaaaaah
By the way I'm totally on and off the internet these days. I'm trying to lessen the time I spend on the computer and am only succeeding a little bit. Urp. |
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| pigsickness |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|10:50 pm] |
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| | friendship station - Le Tigre | ] |
So the city's all freaking out about the swine flu. Is it happening as bad everywhere else? Tonight I spent four fucking hours standing in line for a vaccination, half of which was spent outside in the cold. In a city of a million+ people, they're offering the vaccine at like... five clinics or something :I It's really retarded, my mom tells me that Alberta health care (she has worked for them) has been working on a fast response to pandemic for years, and this is what happens when something actually hits? Nice work, guys.
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| writin' in my journal |
[Oct. 27th, 2009|10:55 am] |
I'm slowly losing the drive I had to work hard at school. More and more I feel like I'm wasting time there, I don't think I'm accomplishing anything at the moment. So I've decided I want to take next year off to work on what really concerns me: getting out of the house and attempting to do shit for myself! I think part of the reason I feel stuck at home is that I have been a student my whole life. I love living with my family, but I can't help but feel like a kid here in my mom's basement. I'm prone to isolating myself here, which is another habit I want to break.
I'm really lucky to have a perfect living situation already available to me. My dad is now a landlord to my sister and her two roommates, and they are living in a house and area I am already familiar with (it was my dad's place for many years, and the room I'd be getting would be my old room).
My ultimate goal is to get the fuck out of Calgary, so this should help me prepare for that. When I get my head around the idea of moving out for the first time I mean. Stuff's not likely to change just yet because school is still taking up my time.
( A DRAWING ) |
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| my face looks like a duck |
[Oct. 21st, 2009|01:28 pm] |
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| |  too much coffee in me | ] |
I'm procrastinating so hard right now. I think I need to give the internet a rest.
Fuck, I can't do it!
http://www.thispeanutlookslikeaduck.com
...I'm going to start seeing ducks everywhere now. It'll be like that movie about the number 23.
Some doodles, special guest art by my siblings!
( click me ) |
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| that wasn't normal |
[Oct. 18th, 2009|12:10 pm] |
I can't seem to get in the drawing groove this past week. Been scribbling a lot and playing with string. I also went to the movies!
I saw Where The Wild Things Are yesterday, and was completely surprised by the way it was interpreted. I came in expecting another "cute" kid-friendly flick, and let me tell you, it was a lot more than that. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I thought of it. One thing I can say for sure is that it was original.
It was kind of long and drawn out, maybe not something I could see a little kid sitting through. Even I got a bit bored with all the super emotional pauses. But uhh, there were lots of things I really liked about it. The visuals were great, and they did an amazing job making it all feel like a kid's rampant imagination. Parts were so absurd that all I could do was laugh. My inner child appreciated that!
I'm still thinking about the movie, which is something to me. To say the least, it was memorable. And to quote my sister right after the movie ended, "THAT WASN'T NORMAL!" hahaha
I tried to forget I saw Zombieland after I did. LOL I don't know, I keep hearing it was supposed to be hilarious but I am so fuckin bored of zombies I felt like I'd seen it already. I didn't need to watch another Micheal Cera imitator get the hot girl, really. If I hadn't gone to the bathroom at the Bill Murray part, that probably would have made the movie for me.
( There is art attached to this entry ) |
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[Oct. 15th, 2009|10:10 pm] |
Today I got a thousand dollar scholarship for being pretty cool. Not really, but I still feel like it was handed to me (It was based on my GPA from last year). All without me paying attention to prior notice, it was pretty cool!
So now I've been thinking about my education more, how I've been uneasy about the direction to choose since I started last year. I've had some time to scope out the school and I'm still not sure about this place. Well, I'm not sure about myself. I first decided I didn't like the look of the design program, then had to think about the fine arts side. On one hand I find it exciting and on the other, I'm intimidated by the whole idea of exhibiting in a gallery.
As much as I love getting into media of all kinds, I think I'm just itching to draw some good comics, and to specialize in that. There isn't such a program at this school, but this is only my first art school experience. I came here because it was the school of arts closest to home and I wanted to get started somewhere right after high school. I'm still living at home, and putting off the eventual break-off from my family. As it stands, I really need them. I'm a kid in a lot of ways, I'm unprepared to go out on my own. But that's exactly what I need to grow up a little, right? To put it bluntly, I am socially retarded. This will be no easy task.
I'll have to contemplate the idea of switching schools more. I know I'd have to move to the USA on my own if I wanted to study sequential art as a major. That would be a big scary change for me. My anxiety might just kill me.
In the next year or so I spend at ACAD, maybe I'll work on growing a pair. There is still an unbelievable amount of cool stuff I could be doing at this school so fuck if I know where my life is going. I think I'll stop writing....... here. |
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[Oct. 14th, 2009|11:56 am] |
I gotta do a series of drawings on an issue that concerns me, so I've been watching videos on that giant patch of floating plastic in the ocean and all the dying animals and adgljhpgiuahdfsgu I feel like a plague on the world now. Guess I'd better go put that guilt on paper. Here's some stuff to look at
( doodloodloodles ) |
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| glass blowing is the shit |
[Oct. 4th, 2009|12:46 am] |
| [ | music |
| | harelip - Tomahawk | ] |
Aw, Seymour is getting old and mangy. The end of his tail is going dead, and he's looking pretty skinny and has a bald patch. Two years is a pretty good run for a mouse, so I'm not surprised or anything. He's a cutie and I'll miss him for a bit :[
Is it bad that I want his skull already?
A little bit, I think.
Okay, on to pictures
( drawings and glass! ) |
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| freakshow hotel |
[Sep. 24th, 2009|11:51 pm] |
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| | in the morning of the magicians - The Flaming Lips | ] |
I'm going to write down a few ideas for the story forming in my head, to help put stuff together and such. Here are some notes about the story those freak characters belong to.
I hate to use the word "steampunk", since that's getting overplayed these days, but that's kind of what I have in mind for setting. Not, you know, crazy fucking steam-driven monsters steampunk, but an industrial revolution kind. Grungy slums, hazardous working environments, lots of orphaned kids and an exploited lower class, that kind of thing. Also it is in the future or something, not to be explained. It's to be assumed that this is the future of earth, so far along that there isn't much left of it. Humankind has for the most part died off or migrated elsewhere (space stations, other planets... blahblah science fiction). Still behind on the planet though, there are people who never left and kept society going. Mutations multiplied in the genepool as generations continued to live on a planet polluted by societies before them.
Anthony is a very severely mutated specimen that has been adopted and employed by a hotel owner... and a collector. He is only one of many curiosities brought into the "family", but what a gem he is. The old man who owns them has only to wait for one of his "children" to die, and he has another fresh item to preserve and display in his museum.
whew, it's good to have this all out of my head and in front of my face. |
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| kitty |
[Sep. 17th, 2009|02:52 pm] |
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| | united states of eurasia - Muse | ] |
One of my sister's roommates got a kitten, I took pictures!
There are also drawings in this post
( checkitout ) |
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| ink doodles |
[Sep. 9th, 2009|12:51 am] |
| [ | music |
| | birthday - the Beatles | ] |
I'm happy to be back at school. Really happy. School. I am happy in a school.
Oh my god, I can't get enough of saying this sentence. I am making a fuzzy felt cactus, eeeee!
Wait fuck, I can't stay up this late when I have school. Oh well.
( look, me and my sister drew some interesting things ) |
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[Sep. 1st, 2009|04:38 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | spinal meningitis - Ween | ] |
Art block... perfect time to go back to school, I suppose. My first day is tomorrow, and after that I am going to try to limit the time I spend on the internet. Ummm, here's a bit of junk to look at
( no really, it's junk ) |
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| skool |
[Aug. 28th, 2009|08:35 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | new genious - Gorillaz | ] |
Back to school for me next week. I screwed up my timetable majorly, and don't know how easy that will be to fix once I can talk to a councilor about it (guessing it will be difficult and confusing, as I'm missing half the classes I needed). But other than that bit of anxiousness, I can't wait to be back. I need to be pushed if I want to make anything impressive, and this lazy summer has been proof. More motivation, more inspiration... yeah man, art school. I've never been this happy about the end of summer.
Of course, I am going to have to try even harder this year to figure out just what I'm doing there. I think fine arts + drawing major is the way to go, given my strengths and my interests, even if my dad's fiance thinks I will end up driving trucks.
I will be trying a variety of new things at school though, so who knows what I'll go with. I'm taking this education thing slow... |
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[Aug. 21st, 2009|02:03 pm] |
Poll #1447025 this may or may not affect who I go with, but...
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13which characters are you most eager to see in a comic? |
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| styrofoam stew |
[Aug. 20th, 2009|12:28 pm] |
Back from another camping trip. Had fun!
I really want to see Ponyo! My buddies went when I was away and my brother ditched me when I asked him to go with me today. It's hard to get anyone to go to animated movies with me :[ Poooooop, nobody wanted to see Coraline either. I still need to rent that, I've been hearing so many great things!
Speaking of animated movies, I finally got to see the Triplets of Belleville, which came out yeeeears ago (I live under a rock, you see). Such an amazing movie <3
( some drawings and a few photos ) |
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