Stained for Life...

before i get to the gross stuff - have some pictures!

made a promise to myself to doing at least 2 Earthbound pictures this year - finally knocked out number 2! sort of a companion piece to this one.


finally got around to finishing one of the many drawings that came out of my Lord of the Rings marathon about a year ago... !
i thought it'd be cool to write my name out using some runes - as it turns out, in real life there are LOOOOTS of different kinds of runes - luckily Tolkien made up his own, so there aren't as many - and i found this cool runic translator thing. check it out.
from all the unnecesarry nerd-like research i did last night, it seems pretty legit.
sometimes i wish i was nerd-core enough that i knew the runic alphabet, but i usually try and keep my contact between hobbits, dwarfs, and other races that don't exist in real life to a minimum.


kay. time for some nasty pictures.. not that nasty, really. but about 4 months ago (jul. 18, 2009) a day that will live in infamy - i was a victim of a drive-by shooting, à la paintball. only one hit me, but it was my drawing hand covering my face..

"day 1"

kept oozing blood, wasn't sure what was paint, what was blood, or if paint had been injected into deeper surfaces of my body...

"day 2"this one's a few days later, i think.


"when the scab came off.. WEEKS later"

AAAAND here's the best part.
"4 MONTHS later"

so far it's looking like i'm stained for life.. cool huh.
victimized and marked by the act of stupidity.
could be worse.

i think what got to me the most was the shooters (most likely) didn't even know who i was.
i guess the real lesson here is hatred, pride, stupidity and things like that are always out there to mess with you - not caring who you are, and the more you become possessed by these things, the less likely you'll care about other people too.

Earthbound

not much is new.. still hunting for jobs and motivation. HOWEVER, i got me one of them fancy brown recycle paper sketchbooks finally, and on the front it says "earthbound." SO. i was inspired to do something in memory of one of the greatest RPGs ever fabricated by man. EARTHBOUND! great soundtrack too - go grab some free epic remixes over here.



also, before the Earthbound tribute - i had colored some sketch that's been sitting in one of my other sketchbooks for a while... basically, the idea was based on my belief that our statues are absolutely sissy-looking, and we should make cooler ones - even if that means giving a fake background with memorial plaques, thus enhancing the flavor of our ancient past using historical fallacies... heh.


been meaning to share some youtube treats i found as well:
Earthbound Saga - if you're a HUGE Earthbound fan, and you have some time to kill, check it out. 4 episodes, each around 10 minutes +. it's a lot like...
College Saga, except not as well made as college saga. either way, go watch college saga for some more live action RPG nerd fun!
Coach Hines has become one of my new favorite people! check him out, or i'll grind your body into a fine salt with my bare fists, which i will then use to season both kidneys i will have recently skewered out from your body on the end of a FLAG POLE!
Classic 80's songs in RAGTIME - he's good.
ALSO!
Matt Rach - insanely good guitarist. insanely. he can mimic Jimi Hendrix perfectly. perfectly! plus he does a lot of other stuff. turns out he's from Valenciennes too, which is cool - because that's the best part of France - the NORTH.