Just don't go listening to any hardcore or emo music. The entendre would make your head explode with those genre's. Everything there is a metaphor or intended to say something other than it's obvious message.
I'm officially taking the first steps towards becoming a college professor. A lot earlier than I would have ever anticipated. I asked about why my old school doesn't teach marketing and design for non-designers and got told to start writing up the course proposal to teach it for next Fall semester. It still has to be approved and accepted by the school's board who makes all decisions on classes, but it's plain insanity to me that they aren't teaching this stuff, so I have a pretty good feeling that if I do a decent job of putting together this proposal, I've probably got a job teaching at least one class.
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ozoneocean wrote:Funny thing about Vocaloid videos… they actually made an anime of one. Blackrock Shooter, I think… Story doesn't make sense to me though… O_O
Lonnehart wrote:kawaiidaigakusei wrote:A movie was made about it too. I don't think it had anything to do with the song legally… They were just cashing in on the concept. It was low budget… Hahaha, I remember the plot now! The mum was actually a former porn star and their teacher actually worked with her in the old days. The boys (who are the film's proagonists) end up with a swag of porn feartung Stacy's mum, given by the teacher, and are satisfied enough with that to stop having a crush on her and start relating to girls of their own age group.
@Lonne–Wait, Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne was released ten years ago in 2003. The video is just as inappropriate because it takes the lyrics literally and Stacy's Mom is actually a stripper. My guess is that ten years have passed so it is fair game to be used in commercials.
So it was that long ago? I only noticed the song because I like the music behind it. The lyrics are what I find disturbing…
I sometimes like listening to songs to decipher what the lyrics are talking about. Like maybe this song…
"Love is War" English cover performed by Joy Dreamer (Original performed by Vocaloid 01)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc-WzsnB8GE
Near as I can tell, the girl singing is in love with a guy… who's with another girl. So the singer becomes determined to steal him from her rival?
time to go take some aspirin…. and something to cool my brain down. O_O
Or something…?
It wasn't a very good film. The best part was the cover.
I loved that song though. :)
Oh… and Happy Turkey Murder/Eati…. um.. *cough* Happy Thanksgiving from where America's Day Begins!!! :)
We spend half of the year here under the cover of snow, but somehow everyone still forgets how to drive after the first big snow fall (which was significantly later than usual this year). I spent two hours getting home today(including a half hour wait for a bus which is supposed to come every 5-10 mins), a trip which usually takes less than half an hour. Everyone seemed a lot more hostile than usual on the bus, too - a guy got on with two young children so I immediately got up and offered him my seat, and no one else followed suit. Not even the other people in the priority seats. It was very strange.
HippieVan wrote:You should move to where I'm at. It takes 10 minutes to an hour to get to where you want to go (depending on distance and number of cars on the road). And Guam is surrounded by beaches. Just some you need… good body armor to go to (Tarague Beach can really a number on the toughest of army boots while at Ypao beach the only things you have to worry about are the jellyfish (which are rare and are NOT the "box" kind) and the female Japanese tourists (mostly because any boyfriend/husband you bring with you or any ones here you're trying to catch will be eyeing them instead).
We spend half of the year here under the cover of snow, but somehow everyone still forgets how to drive after the first big snow fall (which was significantly later than usual this year). I spent two hours getting home today(including a half hour wait for a bus which is supposed to come every 5-10 mins), a trip which usually takes less than half an hour. Everyone seemed a lot more hostile than usual on the bus, too - a guy got on with two young children so I immediately got up and offered him my seat, and no one else followed suit. Not even the other people in the priority seats. It was very strange.
It's just about summer here, long, hot, sunny days and then the occassional rainy day where the drops pelt down like angry bullets. For those of us down in the Southern Hemisphere xmas is a summer event, but for some reason we still get xmas cards with winter scenes on them. We even try to eat traditional xmas fare on what is usually a smothering hot 25th of Dec.
Lonne wrote:Oh… and Happy Turkey Murder/Eati…. um.. *cough* Happy Thanksgiving from where America's Day Begins!!! :)"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." -Captain Kirk
"Or the one." -Spock
The Turkey's death is not illogical.
HippieVan wrote:the first big snow fall (which was significantly later than usual this yearAbsolutely gorgeous. I snapped this yesterday:
Though, waiting a long time for the bus, spending four times longer to get to the end destination, and dealing with grumpy passengers takes away some of the attention from the scenery.
Looks lovely. Wish we had snow.
Ah… some summer christmasses have been horrible- stuck inside with the family while it's sweltering, eating a hot roast dinner. But I wouldn't do without those dinners no matter HOW hot it gets!
Then you lie down for the rest of the hot day and melt.
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I sewed all evening last night while I watched most of series 2 of the anime Slayers (slayers Next), some Star treck DS9 and Futurama on TV. Excellent night!!!
Creating with your hands can be so fullfilling… it's not just that you can touch and hold the stuff in your hands unlike digital art, I think the main thing is that it's a finite undertaking: You make something and you can finish making it and then have the finished product there in front of you.
With digital art it's all open ended- with every line, layer and version it opens infinity posibilities of what to do next… You just get lost in possibility. It's so much harder to stay focussed.
People reckon all those undoos make it easier but it's the exact oposite! It makes it much, MUCH harder. If we had undoo levels in life we'd probably still all be children.
Over the years I've picked up various techniques at "undoing" things in nearly every medium I've worked with. THen there is also all the ways I've learned to fix stuff without undoing. Make the so-called "error" part of the project and work to incorporate it into the finished effort.
To avoid the infinte possiblities of undo in my digital work I usually keep the default number. If I muck it up that bad I often keep the original image around so I can start again or I make do with how mucked up the image is and take a lesson from my model-building and think "How can I fix this without undoing?" But that is born of a stubborn determination not to abandon projects because of how many I've abandoned unfinished in the past (looks at list of "my comics" and sees Go a Viking staring back… yeah I keep you there to motivate me to keep plugging along on stuff…)
limitting undoos is only part of it… you can work on infinate versions of any stage- do a variation, save it at that stage and spin it off to a new peice… Or erase a major section iand rework it infinate times because there's no pnealty to the materials like there is with solid work; you can only erase something or rebuild something a few times before you destry it of=r alter its character too much.
This site is sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwww… :(
I've finished the silver strips on my trousers and they look magnificent! It's very hard to buy trousers with silver metal (or gold) stripes on them like that. Almost impossible ^_^
ozoneocean wrote:
Jamey Sharp fixed the issue with the slowness!
Nooooooooooooooo heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee diiiiiiiiiiiiiiddddnnnnntttt…….. :(
(The site is being crazy slow for me now. I appreciate him trying, though!)
It seems to be running ok now. JNP has the code so he can fix it when it becomes an issue. :)
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Now that I have my definitive Hussar trousers done… maybe I should finally try and make a start on making the sabretache?
There are two borad styles:
1. simple leather, with a metal symbol stuck on it. With my style of outfit the skull and crossbones is the most appropriate symbol.
- I have the skills to make this one. This style is what they'd have for the field.
2. Wool facing with detailed embroidery done with metalic thread.
- I can mostly make this one, but coming up with a design is harrrrrrd, the bullion thread is expensive and actually stiching the design would be something I would have to learn as I go. I would love the chalange and love to learn new skills like that, but it would take ages and ages to make…
The other thing is that a proper embroidary design will invole more specific cultural appropriation (because I don't want to make a 100% fake one), which I'm not compltely comfortable with. The skull and crossbones symbol (totenkompf) is generic and was used by many units all across Europe.
BUT, I thill want my stuff to be as flashy and fancy as possible and for that you can go past a fully embroidered sabretache. :(
Totenkopf is overdone. Go for a stylish Z like the uniforms from the classic Hollywood Prisoner of Zenda.
Better yet an embroidered Oz logo. Tons to choose from or design your own. First Hussar regiment of Oz. Colonel Ozoneocean commanding. It is your adopted name after all.
Or your own intitials to look like the various cool royal initials hussar regiments used in the past. (few historical examples were: A, F, FW, FWII, GR, ER, VR, N, J etc) So an "M" in a wreath with a crown on top would be cool.
Great suggestions Bravo!
The totenkopf has apeal because it makes you look like a pirate, like Capain Harlock or something- but the connection with Nazi SS puts a really dark shadow over it. -_-
I like your initials suggestion because I could make that like a traditional design very easily - sewing will still be hard though.
The pirate idea is still so atractive… Maybe I'll buy a tottenkopf hat badge and some stainless steel and hammer out big sized replicas for a busby and sabretache to tide me over while I gather the bullion thread, wool etc and do the stiching for the initials version.
- wouldn't do an ozoneocean version, it's too contemporary… too anacrhonistic with the rest of the stuff.
Took my secondary in the game Neverwinter and invested the currency I had amassed (by logging in and getting the professions subgame going every day) and invested in a few things…
For one thing, since K'Tana Warblade is a Sun Elf, I got her the Sun Elf Regalia outfit, then used a couple dyes to recolor her threads…
And now her outfit matches her mount… a Dusk Unicorn (which is an accountwide unlock which means ALL of your characters past and future will be able to use it).
Now if I can only locate a matching sword… because Pink/White "Battle Princesses" are so overdone…
First on the agenda, I want to thank the Jamey/JustNoPoint tag team for jumping in and fixing server issues. How else would we be able to check the forums for the latest rants and rambles?
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So over the mini break, I was able to wash a ton of dishes. I am not only talking about the simple, white plates that can be easily loaded in a dishwasher, but the greasy awful pots and pans caked with burned crust and cedar planks stuck to the bottom that were used to cook a turkey, prime rib steak, and every other delicious thing at Thanksgiving. I did it without any reserve. I did it because I like it, LOVE it even! When I am in the zone, organization becomes as clear as day for me, where I see how everything should fit like Tetris blocks and I continue cleaning until everything is spotless. The endorphins I get from a whole night of cleaning go away the following morning when the kitchen gets dirty again right after breakfast.
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I just came back from a quick jog around the ice covered park. I would say that the snowfall could easily have been around twenty four inches, so I was actually running on top of packed snow. It was beautiful, nonetheless. I had one of those moments where I was staring at Parliament in the distance across the canal and I held up an invisible camera to snap an imaginary photo that I will only remember from memory.
That's awesome, JNP! I feel like DD has survived solely on the dedication of its people. : )
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I went to light a candle with a match yesterday in my room. Somehow I lit the match and broke it simultaneously, and the lit end went flying onto my desk (which is basically a mountain of papers). I managed to blow it out and then grab it out, but I had a panicked moment where I could just picture my whole bedroom alight. O.o
I ordered a bunch of American Apparel cotton shirts online a while back. Even though I like the fabric material, the off-white, cream colour never paired with my wardrobe's deep yellow, white, grey, and black scheme. Well, I decided to hand dye some shirts myself with extra turmeric I had in my spice rack and now I have two awesome mustard yellow shirts.
It is the time of year again, I picked up a new crochet needle and ball of yarn at the craft store. I want to make a slouchy beret for winter.
http://www.claudineko.com/storiesamericanapparel.html
Dude weirds me out a bit. I'm not sure how much of her story is actually true, but given how much gets written about the guy and his antics, I'm betting it's not too far off, and I'm always fascinated by how he manages to stay in business and out of jail. He's like a walking reality tv show without the cameras. The only reason I'm bringing it up though, is because I literally just found that article this morning before I saw this and the coincidence seemed too sublime to let pass.
@lba
I read that article previously when I wanted to know what brand I was sporting. More than half of my clothes come from AA and the other half is Old Navy. I am slowly leaning toward the sophisticated look of Anne Taylor/Loft (Ha, maybe in my thirties).
However, regardless if the CEO of AA is known for his eccentricity, questionable interactions with women, and open sensuality…I still support the product because: it is based in Los Angeles, the models are required to maintain a natural look (no excessive makeup or haircuts), it does not flash name brands all over the product, not made in a sweatshop overseas. I am also sensitive to fabric materials and the cotton feels better against my skin than synthetic fibers. Yeah, there are controversies surrounding their ads, but I feel that the photography is shot in a way so that what you see is what you get.
Good on you with the clothes dying and the beret Kawaii!
For myself I tend to go for particular styles and quality of the materials rather than brands.
I wear a lot of dark colours these days… black long sleave shirts or really deep blue, or black with a thin grey pinstripe, different shades of dark grey trousers. It works well for me.
With that American Apparel guy, I don't think its simply about his own behaviour, but what people tolerate from him… and then report. If you have an understanding with a person where you comfortably talk to them while they wank in front of you, you normally don't excplicetly describe those encounters publicly, do you?
…Unless it's not a comfortable situation, then you take that to the police…
So there's more happening than just the guy being a 1970s style letch- people like that reporter are exploiting that aspect of his personal relations for their own objectives.
ie. the reality TV aspect isn't being driven by the man, but his followers.
Wow….
I was just watching the shows of Shark Week and one of them was about this place called Osprey Atoll. Apparently it doesn't fall under Australia's conservation law… yet. Now I'm hoping that the Australian government will move on it soon or the same thing that happened in the reality show "Jungle Gold" may happen there…
After the show Jungle Gold showed up on TV, illegal chinese miners descended into the country to mine the gold there. Now I'm afraid that hordes of fishing boats will show up at that atoll and fish up the sharks there for the main ingredient of Shark Fin Soup. And unfortunately it wouldn't be "poaching" because there's no law protecting the place.
I guess I shouldn't be thinking of things like this on the day we lost a great man…. :(
kawaiidaigakusei wrote:
I ordered a bunch of American Apparel cotton shirts online a while back. Even though I like the fabric material, the off-white, cream colour never paired with my wardrobe's deep yellow, white, grey, and black scheme. Well, I decided to hand dye some shirts myself with extra turmeric I had in my spice rack and now I have two awesome mustard yellow shirts.
It is the time of year again, I picked up a new crochet needle and ball of yarn at the craft store. I want to make a slouchy beret for winter.
I've just discovered the joys of arm knitting. Usually I get halfway through a project and then find some new yarn or a new pattern and get distracted, so I half a million half-knitted scarves and stuff in a box in my room. Now I just want to arm-knit scarves for everyone I know. : )
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Other than arm knitting, I am having a really awful day/week. Lots of stressful family stuff, on top of exams. And I sent my prof some research work I did for him and haven't heard back. Super worried that it's because I made giant mess of the whole thing.
I think that's a strong part of it, but he's also very much part of it. His company gears their advertising and image based on his decisions and personality. AA has a strange sort of cult of personality built around the guy, and it's well known in the apparel industry that he openly encourages his form of sexuality and is ok with his followers promoting and discussing him that way. Everyone just kind of overlooks it because AA does so well at what they do.
I personally won't print on AA apparel, but that has nothing to do with the company. They make excellent quality stuff. I just don't use their apparel because of the price. Most retailers outside of the high-end ones, like Urban Outfitters, won't pay the extra $5 per shirt that AA adds to my bottom line, so I've found cheaper, alternative sources for stuff that's still made in the US, but maybe doesn't have the same brand recognition and go with them. I have no problem at all with AA and their product. Dov Charney is a serious skeezbag on his own but that's not why I posted the link. I just thought it was an interesting read, worth sharing, and kawaii's post happened to remind me of it.
ozoneocean wrote:
Good on you with the clothes dying and the beret Kawaii!
For myself I tend to go for particular styles and quality of the materials rather than brands.
I wear a lot of dark colours these days… black long sleave shirts or really deep blue, or black with a thin grey pinstripe, different shades of dark grey trousers. It works well for me.
With that American Apparel guy, I don't think its simply about his own behaviour, but what people tolerate from him… and then report. If you have an understanding with a person where you comfortably talk to them while they wank in front of you, you normally don't excplicetly describe those encounters publicly, do you?
…Unless it's not a comfortable situation, then you take that to the police…
So there's more happening than just the guy being a 1970s style letch- people like that reporter are exploiting that aspect of his personal relations for their own objectives.
ie. the reality TV aspect isn't being driven by the man, but his followers.
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