I know that I have not posted a blog in a while. That is mostly because I wanted this blog to be purely about my art and funny observation of things that I see in every day life, like this:

But for the last couple of months I have been so wrapped up in political debate on facebook. Those political discussion turn me into someone that I'm not. Well, maybe I am, but I like to repress that side of me, but facebook won't let me. The most recent being the second amendment, Boston as a "Police State," what's wrong with the Republicans, West, Texas, CISPA, and other malduggery. Is that the word I'm trying to say? It just ruins me for artistic inspiration but I wrote nearly a novel's worth of comments and status updates voicing my opinion (facts :)).

In the mean time I HAVE been doing some creative things for school. Well, life goes on. I haven't written about them, but I still have assignments to do. I am working on an animation for my team production class. I have been entrusted with the last 4 seconds of the animation that my class is working on as a group. My professor pissed me off today because the 3 little drawings that he drew that I am supposed to go by do not give me any kind of detail as far as what the character is doing or which way she is facing. So basically I am just guessing at what he wants her to do. He wasn't happy. That's all I want to talk about on that subject. I am just so angry right now.

On a happier note, I am working on an animatic for a story that I have been working on for years. Well, I gave it a break and haven't really touched in a while. But I started it in 2003. I turned it into a 10 page script. After a couple of years I realized that not only was it too short for a script, the way it ended didn't make any sense. I kept the whole story but expanded it to something like an 86 pages along script with a full blown Conlang to go with it. All of that was completed in something like 2009. I haven't touched it since. Matter of fact, my full typed out script is on an external hard drive that crashed and I was quoted something like $1200 to retrieve my files. I will one day. But in the mean time, I still have the hand written story that I used to write the script. Currently, I am in my first portfolio class. In this class I am preparing to create an animation for my portfolio. This will be done over the course of 3 school quarters. 3 classes. This class, I am working on story development, storyboards and animatics, character design and modeling. I have taken characters and some of the storyline from my script and turned it into a approximately 3 minute short. And, while he had a few suggestions to make my story better, my animatic was well received by the aforementioned professor. 

Although he did not feel that I should be working on an "old" character/story. It's not like I have been obsessing over this constantly for years. I haven't touched this story since 2009. Unlike someone's story that I can't animate the way he wants me to that HE has been working on since like FOREVER!

I've also been reading a lot of stupid blog lists. Like 5 Horrifying Details Hidden in Classic Cartoons and 5 Recurring Movie Extras You Won't Believe You Never Noticed. Stupid but fun to waste your life reading. A nice reprieve, though, from the aweful, angry rants of people who think that the gubment is trying to take away their guns when really they are trying to take away their right to privacy (CISPA). It's so funny. 

Since we last spoke, I also added my twitter account to my website and I created another twitter account and added that, too. The second account is strictly for the funny stuff that I see and photograph. Well, that's what I use it for, mostly. And, while my first twitter account is for random stuff like my run tracker and getting birthday retweets from my favorite stars 

....my second...my God, it took me so long to log into this twitter account, zoom in on this tweet, print the screen, copy and paste it into paint, save it as a jpg and post it here, that I forgot what it was that I was going to say in this statement about my twitter accounts. So I said all of that because it was probably more fun and interesting then what I was going to say. Whatever it was. Oh, and then I followed myself. Is that pathetic? I don't know. But it can't be as pathetic as taking a Justin Tiberlake quiz because whoever posted it will follow you if you get 100% and then cheating on it! SMDH.

Shouldn't You Go To The Doctor For That?

So, I went to Home Depot today. I paint on wood. Either 2'X2' or 4'x2'. I almost always get it from HD. I may pick up some Gorilla glue and hanging hardware for my art. (I said that this is an art blog, didn't I?) Well, I was going down the plumbing aisle because apparently I need to do something about my toilet, and I found this. Do people really go to home depot for these issues? Shouldn't you go to the Doctor? I don't know...










So I was watching this video that a Facebook friend posted. And it got me all goosebumpy. It was awesome. I've seen other people do this. But this one has to be my favorite.

It is a video featuring a young man named Jon Cozart titled After Ever After. He has recorded himself in four part harmony singing various Disney Princess movie songs rewritten to illustrate what happens in the lives of the princesses after the Disney story is over. Not only is his singing beautifully arranged, but the writing is awesome and the timing is on point. He is also a very convincing actor. I'm not really good at writing critiques. I just wanted share this video.

Is anyone reading this from my original Down Off The Dragon blogspot webpage? If you have been around long enough to be aware when I add a new post to this blog, congratulations for sticking in there and thank you for following. That out of the way...because more than likely it is not the case...welcome to my new website.

 I decided to keep and post all of my old blog posts to my new website, despite the fact that it has not been updated in almost five years. I have also changed my theme. Previously, my blog was dedicated to talking about my writing and talking about things that I like to talk about, and talking about whatever came to my head randomly that I felt like talking about. Now...well... it's the same thing. Only this time I am adding my art. Talking about my art, writing about my art, posting my art...and whatever other random things come to mind.

 I will also likely post images of interesting things that I have found along the highway of my life. Because my blog is now linked to my webpage, most of my art will likely be posted there. My blog will likely involve making of videos, fun stuff I photographed along the way, video blog entries and whatever random stuff that comes to mind. Did I say that already?

 Oh, yeah. Also, the stuff that I won't put on Facebook because I have nosey relatives who will complain about the content not being appropriate for the eyes of older and younger relatives and everyone in between.

So, here is my WARNING: This is an art webpage/blog. There will be content created by a mind too creative to concern itself with censorship. What comes to paper is what has regurgitated itself from my head and heart and hands. There may be an occasional boobie, or penis or reference to such. There may be poop jokes and references to incontinence. I don not curse unless I'm mad so don't piss me off. And we will all get along just fine!!!

 So how has this all turned out for me so far? I mean, starting my website, that is. Let me tell you. It has been a big pain in the patootie. The website itself isn't the problem. It's been google and its products.

 A little while back I guess that all google products required a gmail log in, including youtube? Well, at the time, I did not have a gmail account and lost access to my youtube channel. Odd thing about it was that they did assign a gmail account to my youtube and my blogspot. But it was an account that I did not own so did not have access to. Somehow the phone number that they would send the reset code to was mine. WAS mine. So I had them send it. And then I called the number crossing my fingers, hoping and praying that who ever answered it wouldn't think that I was crazy and hang up on me. A woman answered. It was Saturday morning and she sounded as if she had been asleep. I told her that I needed the code that I had texted to her phone. She GAVE it to me!!!! I was very grateful, thanked her and hung up so that she may go back to sleep.

 I retrieved my account and prayed that who ever owns it does not change the pass word and turn me in to google. I checked the email, and it definitely is NOT my email. But it doesn't looked like it is used much at all. I am hoping that Mr. H (I have talked to the previous owner's sister. I promise that I am not lying about this account not being mine!) has abandoned the email and will never give me problems with it again. I am unable to change my primary account on blogger and I need to keep my good name!