WOW! I was just reflecting on how LONG I've been on the internet, and one Point of reference I have for my time is when I created the Quilting bee. Some of you might know it. It's a cutesy little thing that expanded into a really big sort of social network. I created it Feb 18th 2000.
That is 10 ...nearly 11 years ago!
I remember having to give it up to people who could maintain it full time because I was graduating from high school and didn't have time to manage the hundreds of submissions coming in. The quilting bee being handed over to Kimi was one of my last real ventures with playful website making. I was well into making my comics, and we registered our first domain name for what would become our studio around that time.
But wow... It's almost 11 years old! blows my mind. I remember Geocities coming out and popping up websites all the time on there. If I recall correctly, I had around 6 websites on the go at any given time.
Tub Bunny, The itty bitty kitty trailer, Guru's magical pencil, CopyCat jail (vigilante justice!).. Oh those were the days! Tables, and iframes, and all that crappy html stuff that was so wonderfully fun to do :D
We recently found and old account dated (last update) 1996... HHAA! Bad anime omg :B
We used to scan all our sailor moon pictures from our comics and post them on the internet. I remember saying to my friends that there was a "serious lack in good sailor moon pictures on the world wide web". HAHA! Oh the irony, now there is too much! I also remember a nasty little hand held scan man scanner!
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: Windows 3.0
RESOLUTION: 100, 200, 300, 400 dpi
MAXIMUM SCANNING WIDTH: 4.13 inches
GRAY-SCALE LEVELS: 16, 64, or 256
SOFTWARE INCLUDED: ANSEL, Windows 3.0-based image editing/scanning software; also DOW-based scanning-only software with restricted features.
:lmao:
I remember straining to meet those requirements! LOL
It's funny how nothing has really changed about websites, designing and all that. It's just trending styles. Pixels out, reflections in. what trends will be next?
I've been LOL'ing for a half hour googling these things! I think i still have a ribbon from our dot matrix printer too!
I'm not old, Technology just moves fast, and having a Dad that was a tech junkie helped!
ANd going through DOS to play Duke Nukem
c:\run\dukenukem
something like that... I don't remember.
Bed time! :rofl:
Monday, 19 July 2010
Sunday, 11 July 2010
Staff show.
So last night was the staff art show. It was wonderful.
Jeri sold a few comics which was nice, and we got to see everyone's work. It was really neat :D each staff member had 5x8' of wall space to post our outwork however we wanted.
This is mine and on the right is Kitty's wall space. We each put up some art work and sketch cards. No one bought my sketch cards of course, but Kitty sold 5 comics! That was a nice little treat! We really only brought them to show them off a little, since that's where all of Kitty's art work really is.
I posted a copy of the DVD my animation is on, for some reason, HAHA!
There was also a table set up in the middle where we put business cards and things that couldn't hang on the wall. everyone took some buttons, and browsed through books and portfolios. Aside from the fact there was also food on the table (which I object to, as we just had tons of food, and we also had artwork on the table, and I found it really disrespectful to have people eating over the art), it was really neat!
We had 2 little sections set up with our books and business cards.
Kitty had comics, the World of stories book (we both have published illustrations in) a bin of buttons, a Tik plush, business cards, sketch cards and some Fan Fair Fest flyers.
Tik is definitely a talking point, HAHA!
I had less, just a copy of World of stories, some flyers, business cards and some of the Daqueran buttons that featured my drawing.
In the future I'll have more stuff to feature about my own projects, but for now, This is what I got.
I wont post pictures of the other artists sections because it's really not my place to display their art work without permission but I was particularly in love with Reetta's work, she had an Animation Background up and some nice life drawing, Margot had some magnificent textural paintings up. I just adore them! Diane has some phenomenal classic looking paintings with a nice modern twist to them. She's really a magnificent artist! Maria's Work I've always been in love with and I got to see some new pieces from her. Varian Had a neat little sculpture of himself pushing a frame off the wall. It was awesome! I was really impressed with everyone's work.
I'd do it again, with way way way less food next time.
Right now I have a pretty powerful headache I've got under control and I'm going to spend a minimum of 3 hours I've got a timer on celtx) working on my screenplay.. I've yet again re worked the beginning.
Jeri sold a few comics which was nice, and we got to see everyone's work. It was really neat :D each staff member had 5x8' of wall space to post our outwork however we wanted.
This is mine and on the right is Kitty's wall space. We each put up some art work and sketch cards. No one bought my sketch cards of course, but Kitty sold 5 comics! That was a nice little treat! We really only brought them to show them off a little, since that's where all of Kitty's art work really is.
I posted a copy of the DVD my animation is on, for some reason, HAHA!
There was also a table set up in the middle where we put business cards and things that couldn't hang on the wall. everyone took some buttons, and browsed through books and portfolios. Aside from the fact there was also food on the table (which I object to, as we just had tons of food, and we also had artwork on the table, and I found it really disrespectful to have people eating over the art), it was really neat!
We had 2 little sections set up with our books and business cards.
Tik is definitely a talking point, HAHA!
In the future I'll have more stuff to feature about my own projects, but for now, This is what I got.
I wont post pictures of the other artists sections because it's really not my place to display their art work without permission but I was particularly in love with Reetta's work, she had an Animation Background up and some nice life drawing, Margot had some magnificent textural paintings up. I just adore them! Diane has some phenomenal classic looking paintings with a nice modern twist to them. She's really a magnificent artist! Maria's Work I've always been in love with and I got to see some new pieces from her. Varian Had a neat little sculpture of himself pushing a frame off the wall. It was awesome! I was really impressed with everyone's work.
I'd do it again, with way way way less food next time.
Right now I have a pretty powerful headache I've got under control and I'm going to spend a minimum of 3 hours I've got a timer on celtx) working on my screenplay.. I've yet again re worked the beginning.
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
canvas roll WOUND
I dunno if anyones ever seen the large canvas rolls where you buy canvas by the foot? they have 150feet of canvas on them and some of them can weight... well A LOT!
Margot and I were trying to put one of these rolls up on the rack today.
of course it was a heavy weight (10 Duck canvas) and it was a monsterous roll.
so we got it on on the table, shoved the pole through the spool and we lifted it up alright, but when it came to getting it in the slots, we were both about 2cm too short, and we couldn't do it!
it slipped and dropped and I caught the pole as it fell through the middle, but my arm was leaning on the edge of the notch (which is an L shaped piece of metal) and the weight of the canvas roll pulling on my arms forced it down on the metal and it made a nasty gash on my arm.
It's only 1.5cm long but keep in mind it was created with PRESSURE on a BLUNT (but kinda pointy) piece of metal.
That's the kinda pain I don't like.
It looked Super nasty when it was new, and it was really deep. It's had butterfly band-aids on it for a while and wrapped in gauze. It looks much better now, but man it touches Everything and stings like a bitch.
Another delightful scar, in a few weeks. <3
Margot and I were trying to put one of these rolls up on the rack today.
of course it was a heavy weight (10 Duck canvas) and it was a monsterous roll.
so we got it on on the table, shoved the pole through the spool and we lifted it up alright, but when it came to getting it in the slots, we were both about 2cm too short, and we couldn't do it!
it slipped and dropped and I caught the pole as it fell through the middle, but my arm was leaning on the edge of the notch (which is an L shaped piece of metal) and the weight of the canvas roll pulling on my arms forced it down on the metal and it made a nasty gash on my arm.
That's the kinda pain I don't like.
It looked Super nasty when it was new, and it was really deep. It's had butterfly band-aids on it for a while and wrapped in gauze. It looks much better now, but man it touches Everything and stings like a bitch.
Another delightful scar, in a few weeks. <3
Monday, 5 July 2010
Stormy
Jeri and Mum took stormy to the vet in Surrey on Saturday and had her put to sleep. I'm feeling pretty guilty about it since she was so sick, but she was still mobile and stuff. it felt wrong. people always say "you did the right thing". How the fuck do you know?
Anyways, I've been live streaming like crazy lately. and I figured out how to manage my library, so all my multiclip files are all playing as one file now :) It's great.
Well, I made delicious rotini casserole today, cleaned some of the carpet, livestreamed 2 different things (copics and animation). I'm going to make dinner for Jeri before tackling DIP on the film :)
Anyways, I've been live streaming like crazy lately. and I figured out how to manage my library, so all my multiclip files are all playing as one file now :) It's great.
Watch live streaming video from guruubii at livestream.com
Well, I made delicious rotini casserole today, cleaned some of the carpet, livestreamed 2 different things (copics and animation). I'm going to make dinner for Jeri before tackling DIP on the film :)
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
LiveStreaming and Good times
So, after watching Touched Venus's livestream broadcasts, I decided I wanted to do it myself. I've done several now, and it's very entertaining.SO far I've done 2 Marker walk through and animation walk through! It's much easier to broadcast from the screen than from the camera, that's for dang sure! Eventually (maybe this Sunday) I'm going to get a new camera so I can offer clearer traditional art videos. my Gcube camera just doesn't cut it.
So I've decided that I'm going to try to broadcast every Monday. Monday's my regular day off, so I really should have something to do art wise on that day every week, whether it's my animation or some traditional art.
The best part of it was how it forced me to focus. I wasn't constantly checking my email and twitter HAHA!
Anyways, here's my channel :) Watch on Mondays
So I've decided that I'm going to try to broadcast every Monday. Monday's my regular day off, so I really should have something to do art wise on that day every week, whether it's my animation or some traditional art.
The best part of it was how it forced me to focus. I wasn't constantly checking my email and twitter HAHA!
Anyways, here's my channel :) Watch on Mondays
Watch live streaming video from guruubii at livestream.com
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Markers and sick days
Hee, so we get 3 pay cheques in July, which means one is "free" (meaning we don't have to pay rent from it) and since it also sort of corresponds to the inventory sale at my job at Opus, it was a perfect opportunity to spend tons of money on markers. I have 44 Copic Markers on hold! Hee! I also have a cutting mat which we badly needed, a smaller drawing board (my big one has resin all over it, and cuts because we always cut on it, hence...cutting mat.. LOL) I got a couple Art Stix in white and black to do details on my markers, and ... what else....oh 3 Copic various inks, some colour Eno replacement leads, a couple Golden Fluid acrylics for painting stuff for the Convention ...and ... golly that must be it?...haha! Obviously the markers are my highlight. I haven't added them to my copic list yet, because I don't actually own them yet, but I'm going to list here what I have on hold :>
C0, C2, C4 - cool greys
W5, W3, W1 - Warm Greys
N5, N7 - Neutral greys
YR24, YR23, YR07, YR15
Y32
YG01,YG67, YG95, YG93, YG13
RV34, RV11, RV19, RV09
B00, B14, B06, B23, B34
BV23, BV31
R12
G02, G28
BG000, BG45, BG15, BG10, BG11, BG49, BG32, BG02
E02, E49, E21, E97
Phew~ I needed a lot of the BG colours because I only had a couple. I think I have almost all the ones we actually stock at my location right now.
That will bring me up to 133 markers! Long way to go, but you know.. It's a growing thing!
Yesterday at our staff meeting we got our choice of some free (slightly irregular or damaged) stuff that was in the store that we wanted cleared out before the inventory count. I managed to snag a big roll of Aquabee Super Deluxe paper, which is the same paper in my sketchbook that I love! I also got a couple sheets of Hahnemule 300lb printing paper that has a few creases in it, but can be easily cut out. I was excited about that too, since its pricey paper I wouldn't normally buy, but it was nice. I also got a bottle of Fluid acrylic that was half empty cuz it got squeezed by some idiots unattended child... Love my job! Lots of the other staff got some really nice frames and stuff as well! I pulled aside a frame for Maria that I thought she'd like too. I hope she does :) (Maria's away, so she didn't attend).
I woke up today with a migraine, but my Advil was at work. Not being the type to call in sick, I cried through my shower (making it worse) and got to work, and pretty much barfed my morning away.
So it took a long while to get Advil to stay down. I did manage to get a lot of section work done through the barfing though, and good thing I didn't even try to call in sick (not that I would have) because I wouldn't have been able to - someone else did. My only hope was to go home a wee bit early and sleep it off, but those hopes were dashed. Ann was pretty sick too but we all toughed it out through the day. We're troopers. I eventually got my migraine (which was more nausea and blurry/double vision and light sensitivity than pain this time, thank god.) to a bearable pain level and I sort of enjoyed the rest of the day. Thank goodness most of my morning is me being there alone before the store opens, so I can keep all the lights off. That helped I'm sure.
Also a good thing Ann anticipated that the other person would call in sick; She came in early, (her and Jeri were going to come in late, because they have to stay late to put up the sale signs for inventory sale). Without her there, It would have been just me and Reetta to open the store (Chelsey phoned to say she slept in but she got there before we opened anyway, so we were lucky about that.) Long day for Ann though.
I'm hungry now. I put off eating all day because of the barforama morning, but now I'm all starved, and Jeri won't be coming home 'til later. Tomorrow is the first day of the huge inventory sale at work as I mentioned before, so we have 3 days of massive crowds of people clearing out our stock at Opus! I'm pretty glad for the break in doing stock transfers, that's for sure. I'm excited to be doing Data entry instead of counting this year. It sounds boring I know, but it's nice to do something slightly different. ROFL. Hope I don't make too many mistakes.
My mamabear (Viddies, my cat) is being super cute right now, sitting in my lap bunking the top of her head on my chin and looking up at me. I always love when animals come and deliberately seek your attention without wanting food or water or something. I know she's only here for the cuddles. There is something awesome abut having a connection like that with a different species. Kisses for Mama Bear <3
C0, C2, C4 - cool greys
W5, W3, W1 - Warm Greys
N5, N7 - Neutral greys
YR24, YR23, YR07, YR15
Y32
YG01,YG67, YG95, YG93, YG13
RV34, RV11, RV19, RV09
B00, B14, B06, B23, B34
BV23, BV31
R12
G02, G28
BG000, BG45, BG15, BG10, BG11, BG49, BG32, BG02
E02, E49, E21, E97
Phew~ I needed a lot of the BG colours because I only had a couple. I think I have almost all the ones we actually stock at my location right now.
That will bring me up to 133 markers! Long way to go, but you know.. It's a growing thing!
Yesterday at our staff meeting we got our choice of some free (slightly irregular or damaged) stuff that was in the store that we wanted cleared out before the inventory count. I managed to snag a big roll of Aquabee Super Deluxe paper, which is the same paper in my sketchbook that I love! I also got a couple sheets of Hahnemule 300lb printing paper that has a few creases in it, but can be easily cut out. I was excited about that too, since its pricey paper I wouldn't normally buy, but it was nice. I also got a bottle of Fluid acrylic that was half empty cuz it got squeezed by some idiots unattended child... Love my job! Lots of the other staff got some really nice frames and stuff as well! I pulled aside a frame for Maria that I thought she'd like too. I hope she does :) (Maria's away, so she didn't attend).
I woke up today with a migraine, but my Advil was at work. Not being the type to call in sick, I cried through my shower (making it worse) and got to work, and pretty much barfed my morning away.
So it took a long while to get Advil to stay down. I did manage to get a lot of section work done through the barfing though, and good thing I didn't even try to call in sick (not that I would have) because I wouldn't have been able to - someone else did. My only hope was to go home a wee bit early and sleep it off, but those hopes were dashed. Ann was pretty sick too but we all toughed it out through the day. We're troopers. I eventually got my migraine (which was more nausea and blurry/double vision and light sensitivity than pain this time, thank god.) to a bearable pain level and I sort of enjoyed the rest of the day. Thank goodness most of my morning is me being there alone before the store opens, so I can keep all the lights off. That helped I'm sure.
Also a good thing Ann anticipated that the other person would call in sick; She came in early, (her and Jeri were going to come in late, because they have to stay late to put up the sale signs for inventory sale). Without her there, It would have been just me and Reetta to open the store (Chelsey phoned to say she slept in but she got there before we opened anyway, so we were lucky about that.) Long day for Ann though.
I'm hungry now. I put off eating all day because of the barforama morning, but now I'm all starved, and Jeri won't be coming home 'til later. Tomorrow is the first day of the huge inventory sale at work as I mentioned before, so we have 3 days of massive crowds of people clearing out our stock at Opus! I'm pretty glad for the break in doing stock transfers, that's for sure. I'm excited to be doing Data entry instead of counting this year. It sounds boring I know, but it's nice to do something slightly different. ROFL. Hope I don't make too many mistakes.
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| Mama bear Absorbing sunshine |
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Who's Bad
My Mum and I went to see Whos bad at the River Rock Casino yesterday!
It was really amazing! The performers were very passionate. There were 2 big screens on either side of the stage that played various clips of the real MJ including Captain EO, The Wiz, and moonwalker as well as his videos and some stuff I suppose they put together.
The whole thing opened with a video set to Oh Fortuna which was epic. It's actually on the Dangerous Short Films DVD as well.
I posted a Pile of pictures on facebook, and I'll add more videos later.
I even got a video from when he dropped the Mic :P
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