If my web comic link goes to smut like it does for john sorry. It was not a link to that when i posted via twitter. I don't know how that happened : /

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. -1 Corinthians 13:7

It has been a less then pleasent couple of days.

Love NPR's This American Life!

Sometimes I feel like I have given up the light of day due to losing track of time while working on projects (or w/e) and bang it is morning

I may piss and moan about the slick conditions but I really love the beauty of the snow!

Boo slush and slick cement.

Yeah it does! Ping Fire is a go just like Twitbin!!

Does it work?

Early morning with snow in the valley. Got to go talk to the people at the Pro and see if they will do a quick tire change for today.

Got a flat tire. Having 'fun' waiting for a ride and the tow truck. Wish there was a spare to put on. Oh well...

Lets just say I'm glad there was nothing I needed to send or sign for.

Dropped by the post office and wondered why the parking lot was packed at this tiny one. Parked in the back of lot went in & saw the long line.

Ugh vapid fool...

I hate how hard it is to get ahold of the rest of my family. DX

Swung by and grabed your thing though John. XP

I dislike missng the mail/UPS/FedEx people when there are things to sign for. Twice just today. Saw the notices on the way out the door this morning.

And again the same side road...

There is a 2nd one on the fricken same road.

Where are all the plows? I've only seen one doing a side road in North Salt Lake.

Snow cleared from walks for tonight. It sure is cold!

Grrr... Ignorance.

The thing I h-a-t-e about winter is ice! Makes the ice cleats that slip on over your shoes I saw at LL Bean that much more great. Iced driveway 'fun'.

AFK more or less from the net for the next 2 or 3 days. Good morning everyone!

-yawn-

Random joy

Nova: What Are Dreams? Anyone else watching it? What do you think? Gotta love PBS!

Off to Rach's play. Now if the train would move.

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. ~Unknown

What a beautiful yet bitter day.

Who else is cold? I am!

People get use to hate. Try understanding, patients and love for a change.

It seem odd from the outside and just to revealing from within.

I think people start making less sense when they feel they can't say what they need to express.

http://ping.fm/F3Z2J NPR on Nerdcore.

http://ping.fm/Fuc4f For some reason this reminds me of old school Jason and that makes me chuckle (only the very best way).

How do I describe myself?

Imperfect, odd, eclectic and someone you want to know!

My mouth taste like i licked the inside of a old car tire. Nasty!

Still sick but i think i'm getting a tad better. -weak smile-

"Never needed to admit this before." -Thinkmemad of Six Word Stories LJ

Getting e-mail from friends and loved ones just make being sick that much easier and better. Love you guys ^_^

Happy birthday John!

Trains, trains & more trains.

Happy All Hallow's Eve!

Errands, errands, errands.

Good morning friends it is another cold one with the temp at 32 degrees. Hope you are doing something to keep warm!

Missing someone really does suck...

"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit"
(Translation: Everything changes, nothing is lost.)
- Ovid, _Metamorphoses_

Lol i open the car door to run errands & foxy came dashing out.

Woot woot!!! Was a great concert! 2nd group to hear their new single. Plain white t's new cd out in 2010 & they are coming back to utah then as well!

Intermission is long lol

Waiting... Start already.

Excited!!!

Love tons more then you ever could hate. Life is much to short to give hate any time.

"Sometimes at night i think too much, About love and life and music and stuff" -just Jack "Writers Block"

Next Saturday is the concert! Woot Woot!

Yeah errands with the chance of having the two books I ordered coming in the mail. Oh I hope I hope I hope so! ^_^

"The best fairy tales always have so much darkness in them. That's why they resonate so deeply."

"Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth." -Gandalf the White

I LOL'd 'til I cried

Ok not really but it is funny!

Errands & school.

Hate is such a sneaky poison.

Being the last one in your family to get the cold going around sucks. Oh well OJ and a book and I'm good to go.

Sometimes you have to walk through Hell to reach the light. Dante knew this we should as well. Light though is never far away.

Throwing stones

One thing that I do not get is the bickering and hate between Christians at other Christians and for that matter hate between people of all faiths.

Does any faith not teach love of our fellow man (and woman) and tolerance? I may be ignorant of the minute detail of other faiths and belief systems but from what I've learned through study and school in other faiths I believe that most do.

So for example how can you say that you are Christian when you are out protesting other peoples faiths?

One thing that boils my blood and brings out the hypocritical hate in me is seeing people downtown on LDS conference weekend yelling slurs and having signs of hate filled propaganda bothering the people that are attending this meeting in person.

Even when I ad my few years of falling out with the church when I cursed it in my heart this act of open hate made me furious. I wanted to jump out of my car and go at them with a bat cracking skulls are yelling hate at them. I just could not stand to see them spit their venom at people doing nothing but coming together in their chosen faith to worship and spread messages of love and help.

Most of these signs spread messages of Mormons being un-Christian well what does their act say about them and their church when they do these hate filled acts?

This is hate eating all of the people involved with this kind of crap from the inside out. What a shame that the only person walking within their heart on those days is not the Lord or Jesus but someone much darker and more tricky.

We all have hate and misunderstanding that we need to overcome but there is no way to do that or to promote brotherly love when this is the path you choose to do it by.

All faiths have truth in them and love and that is what we need to build on no matter what we believe. Not focus on the differences and hate that can linger in the voids between us.




What sparked this in my mind today was a leaflet for a band preforming in the park. I looked them up and saw that they are a Christian band which is cool by me. Though I thought formed in my head. What do other Mormons think of other Christian music and bands? Do they listen to them or avoid them for fear of the messages they send. I'd dare to bet that many do no know that several of the mainstream bands that they listen to started out as Christian music bands and first made it big on the Christian music circuit before they broke into the big time and more mainstream circles.

Groups like Switchfoot, Collective Soul, Creed, The Fray, Evanescence, MxPx. Two groups that I rather like but might not be as well known as the above are Relient K and FM Static.

On the other hand I know that there are several non-Mormon people that love and enjoy listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.




Anyway you have some idea on my opinion but, what do you think?

Night my friends.

Hate is losing a CD v2.0 and having your room eat it when you had it just days ago and now need it. >.<

Don't just sit on the sidelines and watch

Back from looking at places for rent. More errands to run tomorrow!

And then it began to rain! Yay rain!

Today is looking up! And you know what? It is more then fine to be hated. Just don't hate in return.

Being hated is not the end.

Sometimes you have to be hated to make things better. I'm okay with that. Well I have to be okay with that. Lets just say that I'm willing to wait out the storm as it lashes at my front door.

I know that after the storm is gone and the clouds clear that the stars will still be there. I want to make sure all the people I care for also make it through the storm. That they know that even if you can't see the stars through the storm that they are always there and will still be there when it is all over.


Sometimes the storm is outside and sometimes the storm is within. Thought the storm and all the trouble and pain is causes are not ever lasting.

Jesus was hated. He did not hate in return. I'm not anyway close to being as forgiving and as wonderful as he is but, I know that I can try and fallow his path. Stumbling and falling along the way as I do.

At least I have great company along the way. More friends to rough out the storm with me.

When the tempest tosses them I can try and be their tether and when the storm beats me down they are my life preserver.


I'm not the perfect friend. I've never pretended to be. I'm not the greatest person, in fact I'm a slaggen lump of lard that looks as odd as they come. Though I know that I deserve a great chance at life and so do the great people that I've met on my way. I know and thank God every day for the wonderful people that have come in and out of my life along the path. I really wish that some people would not choose to exit from our shared path. And sometimes I try and seek out the people that can cut the ties that bind us as friends. Sometimes it works and fewer times it doesn't. They are still welcome to share the dusty road I tred.

I'm a stubborn jackass. I just don't take the hint when people tell me to scat. Why would I? I'd rather be around them at their worst and hear them curse the stars that ever twinkle over our heads then not hear them share their pain. A pain I can't stand to see them suffer. I really want to take that pain and remove it from them. Remove the black cancer that consumes the light and joy in their soul. I don't know if I can but I want to try. If I don't try when what good am I as a person? How could I call them friend?


Give me your hate. Let it spew forth like the darken rain clouds that bring the beating storm. Let it fill the merky night. Let it drift off into the ebony black and be burned away by the coming dawn.

I'll be here with a rope and a hand to help you back to dry land.



That is if you'll let me be a helping hand. A hand just as beaten and calloused as any other that has see better days and knows there are more bad ones still yet to come.

-yaaaaaawn-

I had a big "DOH!" moment today. >.>

Got to love when cosmic wrenches are thrown into the machine of life.

"Repo! The Genetic Opera" coming from Netflix, eating chex mix and soon hiting the sack. Not bad for a late night hunting ebay for project supplies.

Tickets are a go!

WOOT! I'm so excited!

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes." - Doug Larson

"It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them."

"Following the path of least resistance is what makes men and rivers crooked."

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."

"Your conscious mind is very intelligent, and your unconscious mind is a hell of a lot smarter than you are" - Erikson H. Hilton

Power out. Fun.

I would love to be in India during Holi (Dhulheti, Dhulandi or Dhulendi). Their Festival of Colors. It looks so fun!

Folding clothes while watching a movie.

Watching movies on Netflix instanse watch. Got any recimidations?

Don't let your past hold you down. Don't let your present hold you back.

Little girl, keep your feet upon the trail. If you stray, you'll become a cautionary tale.

It is a beautiful day today. Just enough slight breeze to be nice and cool in the shade.

Sun Dried Tomato and Asiago Cheese Bread toasted for lunch is so good!

Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ~Author Unknown

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~A. A. Milne

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.” ~Maya Angelou

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire

My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant

Life is simple, its just not easy. ~Author Unknown

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen

We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t. ~Richard Bach

Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. ~William Goldman

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. ~Wally ‘Famous’ Amos

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Gandhiji

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. ~Anton Chekhov

Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway. ~ Steven Coallier

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~Timothy Fuller

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. ~Mignon McLaughlin

he most decisive actions of our life … are most often unconsidered actions. ~André Gide

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. ~John Lennon

"You must try to become the person you'd like to spend your life with."

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ~Samuel Butler

Ugh out on errands.

"I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.” -S. Harrison"

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."

Loves the rain & coolness!

Conceptual Design

I really love conceptual design and any design ideas really. I think it comes from both wondering how and why things are done by people (the sociologist and psychologist in me) and creation of writing and art. Both of the later are all about creating a thing, person or place for your audience to see. For a while there in my teen I also thought about being a architect, that is until I found out that it was math heavy any that is a weak spot for me.

Anyway I love watching documentaries and behind the scenes and how-toes on DVDs and such. You know the uber long Matrix package with all the back story stuff and how they did it and hod like days worth of extras in it. Well that kinda of thing is for people like me.

Anyone remember or know about the book "How things Work"? I loved looking through the copy John got when I was a kid and knew it forwards and backwards when it was used as a teaching aid in my 8th grade science class.


Anyway I digress into what I wanted to post about.

So I like concept and design I love seeing concept sketches and rough drafts. Things that let me get inside a person's head and see what first came to mind and how it evolved into the finished product. I also love when people use thing in a new and exciting way.

For example have to seen those car seat buckle belts that people have fashioned into regular pants belts and buckles?



First time I remember seeing them was on some skaters at school and then when I went looking for them (I do this a lot go and seek info out on things that intrigue me and catch my eye or mind) in a skate clothes and parts catalog. The back story on them that I found many years back was that some people had stolen airplane belts or extension belts and mad them into regular belts for your pants. Like these. Not something you see everyday and thus catches my mind.

So when I saw another blogger wearing his shoulder messenger bag the clasp caught my eye.







It is a car belt buckle clasp. Neat idea! They are made by Chrome. Also I love messenger bags. There are just so many neat designs.

Sad thing is it comes in limited colors and I'll be saying for it for a few months at this rate. *sigh*

Anyway I just wanted to share my intriguing find (hey you I see you rolling your eyes) and also have this act as a reminder for me (yes I do do that a lot with my blogs).

”What you do with your life is just one half of the equation. More important is, who you’re with when you’re doing it.”

'musing Muses

To bad skill and talent does not keep up with imagination and the scary muses with the cricket bats (...if you ask about them they will come after YOU!).


With all the free time and very little brain occupation going on for the last several months of my trip back from Hell's LA-LA land I have had more then my fair share of time to think, plot and play with ideas.

Sucks that my skill level is "moderate" and the ideal level for my ideas coming out the way I see them in my head is "great" it makes me sad that I can't just wander around the in the woods and level those skills up to what I would want them to be. (gamers joke)

But real life practice is a similar and yet just as mind numbingly slow and tediously hard process. Whelp back to having my nose pressed to the grindstone.



I leave you with my new (ok this is months old and posted on another of my sites for quiet a bit but new here...) favorite saying: Lack of skill is no reason to put your tools down!






I have a better and longer post coming soon but just don't fee like grinding it out right now. Cheers my friends!

Can't sleep so I'm up folding clothes and watching a show on Hulu.

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

Today is a new day. A new chance to mess up again and to try all over again. When the sun comes up there will be even more chances then as well.

My great grandmother had a say, "If you don't laugh you'll cry". I think it is a great way to look at somethings in life.

Is extreamly happy about today!

I really hope it rains as its been blowing hard all day!

Are we Human or are we Dancer?

This is a great song and it was filmed in Southern Utah!

In the song it says "Are we human, or are we dancer?" this was taken from a disparaging comment made by Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson meant that the US was making people afraid of stepping out of place and following their own beat. He was saying that people were only following the steps they were taught, and were also taught not to change them.

So very sad when people feel the need to play the puppet master and pull others strings in the dark, thinking the rest of the world can't see them acting as a puppet master.

Even sadder when people do it to their loved ones. I pity and feel remorse for such cold and unloving people. Even more for the people that are made to jump at the whim of these people.

I'm human! Flawed but very much human! No one pulls my string from dark places.


-Official music video shot in Southern Utah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6r4KT8-VX0

-Song:



I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought but I was kind
And sometimes I get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes
Clear your heart...
Cut the cord

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance,
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye
Wish me well..
You've gotta let me go

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Will your system be alright
When you dream of home tonight?
There is no message we're receiving
Let me know is your heart still beating

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer

You've gotta let me know

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human
Or are we dancer?

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Are we human
Or are we dancer?




Interesting that even Disney has the answer to this message...
But I'll get to that later. Night ALL MY FRIENDS!

Back to running errands. Will try to get pics up soon. Feels much cooler up here in the 801!

Been on the road for more then two hours. Everyone says hi!

Just testing

I'm going to try SpinVox but I HATE voice to text conversion. >.>

Anyone else that uses ping.fm to post via their cell having problems with returned text messages? Grrr this is frustrating!

Many ask why? I say why not?

I really need to punch something -_-

What is the point of elegant words if you use them not?

"Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean."- Pedro Guerrero

Lessons I have learned from this

....and am still learning.


I don't think I have talked much as of the last few weeks except in passing on how I'm doing with my DP/DR.

To be honest I'm still working hard at living next to it and ignoring it and getting on with my life. All parts of good advice I would pass on to others that have this hurdle in their own life or of someone they know. (Like I said those books are the best forty bucks I have yet to spend in my life)

But I can say I've come a long way and moved mountains to get here. Sometimes those mountains fall on me and I have to crawl out from beneath them and brush myself off.


A big part is staying firm in your own mind's stance of who you are and what you know is true. Very much harder said them done. Trust me this road will beat you down and then when you are laying in a ditch next to the road in a puddle of your own blood it will keep beating on you and kicking you in the most tender part trying to make you cry uncle and give in. It wants you to sat in that hole scared and in pain.

Well what it does not know is that it only has as much power as you give it. That means some days it is a raging Godzilla monster raging through the streets in your head and other days it is just a brat with a nerf bat beating you around the ankles screaming and carrying on throwing its tantrum.

In fact most days that you just get on with your life and say frak you you lil brat it is just that the fussy ignored lil kid carrying on wanting all of your attention and you just don't give a frak about its wailing and fit throwing. Even though it is still there in the back of your mind and you can still hear it you have more important and fun things to do with your time then fuss with the brat. (think the over stressed mother that doesn't get time away from all that mess. That is what you are when you pay it any mind.)



But I got sidetracked like I do and this post is meant to be on what *I* have learn from my trip down this long and rough road.

One of the things that I noticed even when first starting out in the worst crippling part of the fear and doubt of this was that I opened up more then I do. To me it felt mandatory to do this but as I got better I just kept on being open and more loving to my family around me. For example I have stared to give more hugs and glompers to my kid siblings! I've not really been a physical person when showing love in the past and there are some moment when I regretted this lack of free expression very much. My family for some odd reason just doesn't give hugs and say I love you like many families do. We know that we are cared for and love (and when we are not >.>) but the only one that has for the last almost decade that shows love and says it openly a ton it John. Yeah surprising is it not ^_^! John rox and he should know it! I hope he knows that out of everyone he has been there for me the most and it warms my heart deeply in ways that I hope he has seen.

This condition has let me see outside of myself in a new and odd light and so I have tried to gleam from this a better view of how I and other show emotions (inside and out) and how we get on with one and another.

Also I have to add and I hope you take this in the right light something that really helped me in the middle of the stretch of road I've come down so far. When I got the get Well card from you Craig it shown a light into my hazy world and let me know that even though I had been MIA from the web/IM and kinda secretive about me condition that you where not angry at me for it. Another thing you might see here is I keep my problems to myself until I can't and I HAVE to ask for help. Well I've learned that I can ask for help a lot earlier and not be ashamed that I can't go it alone in something in life and I am not less a person for it when I reach out.

I also have been taking greater step in loving who I am... flaws and all.

I thought that I always love who I was even though I knew/know that I have a great many things to work on BUT, despite these flaws I am a awesome person and fried and that I need not hide that joy in my own pride and worth.

DP/DR stripes who and what you are away layer by layer and bit by bit. It is one of the reasons it is so hard to over come. When you lose you you lose all the strength you have and what keeps you fighting.

When you look in a mirror and know it is you but feel like you don't know that person and are a stranger in anther's body it is more disconcerting then I can ever hope to relate. \

I think that in one reason that after having over come most of the DP symptoms that I have taken a keen liking to my own face and picture/self portraits is that I'm happy being me again (more or less I still have a long road to be 100% but I'm glad I've made it this far ^_^). Like people have been known to say '...worts and all'.


As of the last month or maybe a bit more the biggest and oddest rough part of the battle has been the DR. When your brain tells you that everyone and everything is fake and that the life you know and the world you have known all your life is a figment of your ill imagination it is more then a lil disconcerting.

But I have been passing through this block and for the last week maybe a week and a half I ave had smaller and shorter spikes in this 'lovely' part of the condition.

Another example that taking your mind off the condition and on other thing helps lessen or temporary eliminate (and leads to smashing it to Hell all together) it is while I have been dealing with this mega painful and crappy ear infection ('swimmer's ear') have at time noticed that I am more or less symptom free from all the crap that DP/DR throws at me.

Pain can sometimes be a blessing lol.

There is more most likely but I can't think of this right now. Night folks *poke poke*

I have a killer ear infection! Went to doc now meds!

The rain! It comes again! ...now to find a way to share it with my southern buds!

We have rain!

T is for tired. S is for spuheling.

I love being up at night because it is so quiet and cool and I have time to research and write. Mornings after are beer-less hangovers.

This is me

Like it says above this is me. Don't be scared I don't bite...hard. Yeppers now you know who to put that mark out for the hit on me. Some of the pics I really really do like... and that is odd for me as I DO NOT like my picture taken. So are ehhh whatever. Still this is a rare thing for me to post up pics of me.

I always have a odd feeling like people will judge me for what I look like (and lets face that all plus size people have that tick >.> oh well lol) . Anyway take a gander.

So have at and enjoy or not. I do lol.









Yeah I just noticed I have a tendency to tilt my head and yes most are in the my car... that tends to happen when you are a taxi service to your sibs and run errands more then anything else lol.

Wish it would rain!

The SCHULTZ r lowlife, power grabing, shams of christian... Pathetic examples of the scum that should be avoided. Taking low roads with other scum.

Mornings bah who needs it...

Waiting is very boring

"in your whole life, nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. and the
limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit of abuse that you will tolerate from someone else."

"love is never wanting to lose faith, never wanting to give up, and never truly moving on.
love is knowing and praying in the deepest part of what's left of your heart that they feel the same."

"one of the worst feelings in the world is having to doubt something you thought was unquestionable."

The Dresden Files is an okay show but the books look and sound a ton better! Anyone else looked at them?

Hung out and watched what just might be the last 4th with fireworks at Sugar House. It was nice but shorter then the last several year. Still FUN!

Happy 4th of July!
If your close to Sugar House around 10 try and hit up what might be the last fireworks display there!

Coldstone icecream rox!

Walmart bomb scare? Police emptied the building. ...odd to see it that empty. Oh well i dislike it anyway lol

Anyone know a good lotions for dry chapped hands that is not oily or grease?

Looks like rain! ...i hope it does rain.

*dics not dicks.... who else can tell I'm tired >.>

Was working more on the audio project but now I need new dicks >.< so instead I'm going to forge ahead on my photo project for a lil while.

Errands, errands, & for a change of pace more errands. lol

Love the rain! Hate that it is pouring really hard while i'm driving in it & that it is trying knock the power out at home. Still love the rain though

....he is driving for errands today.

I'm scared! Why? Paul is drh

Some days you just have to play it load

Again working on a audio projeck.

Is bored...

Night night my friends

Found her! Blog with pics to fallow. Loving the rain! Who is with me?

Trying to find LILY GRAY

At frontrunner hub picking john. Now off to the postoffice then back.

"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul." -Isaac Asimov

Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

Good morning my friends I'm off to the Frontrunner hub and errands.

I really dislike the neighbor that gives the evil eye & stares when ever we walk past

Good morning my friends I'm off to the Frontrunner hub and errands.

Night night interweb

"The feeling of being "okay" does not imply that the person has risen above all his faults and emotional problems. It merely implies that he refuses to be paralyzed by them."

My feet r sore but it was fun exploring SL cem in the rain!

Getting rdy to go explore SL cem!

Picked up john from the frontrunner hub now getting gas soon home to bed.

I never noticed how many social networking sites there are until I was setting up ping so I could bore you all with my mobile twittering.

Eclectic design and style

So if I was not such a BBW I would soooo be very much more strange, odd and extremely eclectic in my own scene of fashion.

Sure I dig mainstream but I also like to mix in things that stand out a tad more.

So anyway while I was looking for real life inspiration for the design and dress of my steampunk charter I came across these really neat and yes odd pants that are sweeping the underground fashion trends in the East and West.

I give you the "Tobi" pants sometimes called 'SteepleJacks'.

What are tobi though? well to quote Lastwear they are:

"....the Steeplejacks are based on the style of pants worn by Japanese construction workers known as Tobi pants."

Such as in this picture:



From this there has steamed a moment that is touching the niche markets and the hip trend setting waves of people (ya know the people that start the trends and fads or such).

Some examples are as fallows:

These are from a hip trendy shop called Shigoto.








These are less modern in their design but still none the less cool! Less baggy to compared to the hip version. Made by a guy called Marcus Stratus aka Weerd on DA or also he has a Etsy shop.




Weerd got the pattern for the pants from Lastwear Though he changed it a lil bit. Lastwear is in between what Weerd does and the hipsters in that they maintain more of the original design but also try and make then a tad more modern as well.










So what do you think? I love them and if I had the $150 to commission some from either Marcus or the Lastwear crew I would. Or the wallet biting $210-352 from Shigoto. But that is like buying name brand from places like Abercrombie & Fitch. OUCH!

Oh well. I still dig these awesome and yes eclectic pants!

Photos

So here are some of the downtown photos that I've been messing with. I have more that I want to do but that is neither here nor there.

Tell me what you think.








I really do enjoy black and white photo work.

Patch Poll 3.0 - Plz vote or comment!

So here I am again looking for some opinions on my patch WIPs and now the placement of the UCI and how you like the text I have chosen or if you have another that you think would work better.

Remember this is suppose to be a Steampunk-ish designed patch. And is suppose to have the feel of an olde (yep old with a 'e' if ya know what I mean) map or parchment or a book.

First up is the idea that sprang from my head and after working up the patch and trying this element out I just today decided that it was not going to work. Its a little bit to modern and doesn't meld well with the patches. I might try to fool around with it more free hand with pencil and try to get it working better with the new font and design. ...but for now it is scrapped pending a re-engineering (with similar format that is).



Am I the only one that feels that the above is similar to what a University emblem would look like? Hmmm.... I think it is. Thus to modern. *le sigh* I really like this idea. Oh well.



On to some examples of the final patches and the wording on them. Remember that the circle ones are going to be a circle patch (just on square 'paper' for ease of working with them). The half circle one will be a rectangle patch.

Design one (1) examples:

A simple design which would work well transiting to a patch.




Design two (2) examples:

More complex and I just like this one more. Very eye grabbing in my POV. (Yes Craig I know you think that is it to complex but I will try it anyway and see what the company says lol.)






Design three (3) examples:

The half patch or rectangular patch. Kinda fun might be made side project while working with the full ones. I dunno if I will get this done but might in the future but vote on it any way plz.





^ALL THE DESIGNS ABOVE ARE JUST EXAMPLES OF THE TEXT PLACEMENT^



Now onto the text placement options. I have lines in red shades place on the WIP patches with numbers next to the line. I would like you to give me the patch you like and the number line that you think the text would look good on.

EXAMPLE: I like patch 'A' and line 3!

If there is not a line on the place that you think the text looks best then say something like:

...I think it the text would work best and look good next to line 3!


Patch 'A'


Patch 'B'


Patch 'C'



Like last time plz leave comments on your ideas or your rants. All verbiage is going in to see how these are received and in working to improve them more.

Yes I'm odd, we have established this as well as my never growing up ^_^ MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yay and your done (...if you voted or commented that is >.>)!