Playing rockband with my new fingerless gloves is a great thing. Awesomeness. -eD

Turns out im unimportant in continentals eyes Considerin i was removed from my plane after i was in my seat. Now stuck in airport 7 hrs. Full rant 2 come... -eD

Just saw the flight attendant who hassled me from dc to pa board the plane. This is going to be annoying I can already tell... -eD

Figures the day i leave Pa is the first day of snow accumulation. Hope i get to the airport in time w/weather, also hope no flight delays or cancellations. -eD

i didnt Think i looked my age, then i shaved off my 4 month mustache & now i look even younger. Have to keep stubble on cheeks so they wont be pinched... -eD

Just found out bout the show Storage Hunters. Its quite addictive. Fun show like a mix of pawn stars, hoarders, & antique road show with an auction. -eD

Got a remote control helicopter from my uncle for xmas! Watch out LA i now have a mini ghetto bird! -eD

Update from pa

My flights home weren't too bad. During the flight from LA to DC when the flight attendant was going through the normal safety check, whenever he got to the air thing-a-ma-jig as he pulled it over his head and went to pull the hose to "open the airway" the piece broke off. He chuckled and said "I broke it" which made me feel even less safe than before.
Then on my flight from DC to Pittsburgh I got to sit in row 13 (aka row 14). But the most annoying thing was the flight attendant who spoke broken English who hassled me on take off and landing about having all things with an "on" switch turned off. I didn't even have anything electronic out and visible but she asked me multiple times if everything I had was off. Every time she asked me I said everything was off, but she kept asking me as if I was lying to her. I was slightly offended. Even the middle aged man sitting next to me was surprised at how she was acting about the whole situation.
It was nice to get back to pa, the weather wasn't so cold at first, but by Saturday it was quite cold, and has stayed frosty. It is interesting to drive in pa again though. I get to use my brights when driving at night, people know how to drive in the rain, though I do have to pay attention to speed limits much more because the roads don't always have other cars to pace off of like in LA. Movies are about half the price too which is awesome for everyone here. That and the specials that they offer like buckets of popcorn that you can bring back all year and just pay a few dollars to refill them. Pretty awesome stuff.
I also finally got into reading the comic Invincible, which is amazing. I've only gotten through about 15 issues but it is quickly becoming a favorite. I think I'll get back to reading those.

Merry X-Mas!
-eD

"Nostalgia" Paint work

Added the Reds & Grays

After 2nd layer on Red, black on glasses and nose hole.

After I get back I will be doing a bit more work on it.  Adding another layer of white, another black and then determine what else needs done to make me feel like it's finished...
-eD

"Nostalgia" update - Primer, Outlines, & Away We Go...

Spent some time in the Paint Studio the last few days, prob going back in tonight to add in the grays, the red, and possibly the black.  Then tomorrow I should be able to apply some finishing touches for 2011.  I may come back to it and fix/adjust some things.

Primed the area.  The glue from the collage didn't mix well with the primer and  the stencil may not have been the greatest way to start this off with all of the previous textural layers...

Penciled in the shapes and outlines

Used a paint pen to darken the lines and shade in the black on the glasses.  Will be going back in on those soon.  The glasses will also be black so I will have to think about that for the 2012 adjustments... 

Tonight, color, tomorrow another layer of white and another black for the glasses...
-eD

Whoopsy Daisy

Attempted to meditate on some projects that I've been working on and ended up falling asleep for a few hours in the middle of the day.  Felt pretty good though, I will admit.  Back to work...
-eD

Even though itis chilly out i still chose to wear shorts today. Less than a week before i freeze in pa so i might as well show off my legs while i can... -eD

A matter of time...

It was a rainy day in LA today, started wet, rained, continued raining and luckily the rain stopped before the walk back to the car after work. For lunch we walked in the rain to get to a burger place not too far away. while waiting to cross the street at the intersection I saw a large truck and realized what was about to happen. I knew there was no time to turn or shield myself so I closed my mouth and eyes as tight as I could when the truck past us and sprayed street gutter water all over us. Not quite a wave of water, but we were definitely in the splash zone. It was funny but very gross. I knew it would happen to me eventually, hopefully now my quota is filled so I don't have to experience it again...
-eD

Artsy Update

Haven't made it into the garage/studio much this weekend but I did get a lot of artsy stuff accomplished.  I cut the stencils for the skull for my first piece and I even worked up the vectors and stencil for my 2nd piece.  But enough rambling I'll just show you some pics and explain it all that way...

Full-size stencil print outs.  each piece is standard size printing paper

a somewhat better picture of the aged bg of the piece

Skull stencil

2nd piece concept vectors.

2nd piece stencil

I'm pretty happy with how the 2nd piece vectors/stencil turned out but I think I am going to rework some of it before I print out the parts and cut it's stencils.  I'm taking the rest of the day off... probably...

-eD

Whoops

It sounds like I accidentally had a hand in getting my roommate addicted to caffeine (like most Americans).  We work together and every morning I start my day by getting coffee at work before I go to my desk and start the day.  After a while he started to make it his routine to get cappuccinos in the morning when I got my coffee. As anyone who starts drinking cappuccino's because they don't like the taste of coffee will know, it is the gateway caffeine drink.  I believe this because of it's lower levels of caffeine and it's downright tasteyness (I know it's not a word).  Then once you feel like you "need" the caffeine to function properly they will graduate to actual coffee, and then quite possibly the dreaded espresso.  Anyhow during the last week he was complaining about headaches in the morning.  It started last weekend I think and I just jokingly said he was going through caffeine withdrawal and to drink something caffeinated (because I know it sometimes helps me).  Turns out it worked, then whenever he would get a headache the next day the caffeine helped again.  But even though he now knows this he still continues with his cappuccino's in the morning.  Now he join the masses of the caffeine addicted...
-eD

Rockband & def jap rapstar w/the projector is spectacular! Sang w/just the mic on expert & rocked some 90%s. all after goin out 2 bar w/some friends. Ended up playing till about 430 am, then couldn't sleep and slept in way too late this morning.  Lost a decent part of my day, but my dreams wouldn't allow me the peace of mind to just stop them and start my day...
-eD

Gross-ness

When I see someone has left a drink in a public bathroom it takes tons of willpower for me not spit into it. It's gross, I know, but so is bringing something that you would drink/eat into a bathroom of any kind let alone a public restroom. it disturbs me that someone would submit something that they will imbibe to all of that poo gas.  As long as you wash your hands right?
-eD

Humble Mumble

I know I don't talk much about work on this, but that's because there's barely humor at work.  I'm usually just too busy to let my mind wander about the randomness that goes on in my head.  I've been pushing myself at work to be as efficient as possible.  I don't let myself wander around on the internet very much, which it could be said it's because I don't want people to see me on the internet, or because I am that dedicated to my work while at work.  I prefer the latter, if anyone asks...  Every once in a while I get complimented on something that I didn't think twice about doing and just smile, say thanks and get back to work.  Today the project lead and I got pulled into the directors office and we were introduced to the owner of the company.  Then the producer and director talked about how great we were and how much we helped out on the project.  I think it was the first time I blushed in years but I'm not sure.  I felt myself about to do the "aww shucks" foot twist while looking at the floor but I stayed in the game.  Then afterwords I got another acknowledgment of always being on top of things and not wasting time on the internet like other people are doing (I guess).  It looks nice when people walk past and see us toiling away, especially when there's tours.

If anyone comes to LA I could help them up with a tour...

Oh crap, I almost forgot...
I saw a bird fly into the window one window away from where I sit.  It was plain crazy.  I usually catch things going past the window in my peripheral vision but I hardly check it out.  This time I did.  I saw a light brown blur comin... "Boom!" Then it drops at an angle and in a blur rights itself and swoops away to safety.

I don't know why I didn't text that here.  Whoops...
-eD

P.S.  Saw some guy from the Steve Blake from the Lakers yesterday at Carl's Jr while at lunch.  He just looked like a gangly gym guy in his work out clothes to me, then some woman asked for his autograph and I figured only a basketball or maybe baseball player could be that lanky.  I don't mean to insult but that's the best way I could describe him.  Didn't feel like looking up his stats...

and now it all comes back to me. heh...

and that is the end of this R.A.P.!  
(RAP = random-ass-post)
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My knees were starting to hurt when standing or going up steps so i figured i would just ice my knees for tonight. I could diet but wheres the fun in that? -eD

Art Piece Update...

Here's an image of the aged background

Here is the idea of the piece

I fleshed out the skull and glasses to a finished version today.  Been messing around on my iPad with a vector program.  Then separated it as parts and Frankenstein'ed it all back together in Photoshop on my PC while watching Muppet movies.  My printer ran out of ink after I printed 2/3 pages for the stencil.  It said I needed Yellow when I was trying to print black and white.  Darn smart printers that won't let you do things you should be able to do anyway...  Guess I'll work on some other projects then...
More Vector fun before TV time on the projector!
-eD

On Thursday I finished the DVD set of Chop Socky Chooks cartoons while exercising.  Now I move onto some Fanboy & Chum Chum.  I like watching cartoons, so it helps me think less of my straining muscles.  Friday my roommate Ben got all the pieces for his new projector setup for the living room and installed it.  It is quite the sight I must say.  I am going to get so snobby with movie viewing now.  

The "Normal" television was like 42in or so the projector screen is 100...

the quality it amazing once the ambient lights go down

It was an easy decision what to watch first... 

Saturday I went with some friends to Unique LA (which is like a arts and crafts show, a lot of t-shirts and recycled stuff which was neat).  After that hung out with Rich for his birthday then had a games night with a nice amount of people filtering in and out.  Played a Pictionary card game like it was destiny to finish it, then after changing teams multiple times, and splitting the winnings into the final two teams counts it was a difference of about 2-4 points.  It was a lot of fun.
Now I have to get back into a few things and get enough done so I can at least start painting sometime during the week, if I can't get to it before our screening of Dexter tonight on the new projector.  This is going to be awesome!
-eD

Forgot 2 turn my phone 2 vibrate when i got 2 work yesterday. after bout 30 mins i get pocket dialed from a friend i havent talked 2 in ages. Twas loud... -eD