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Name: Rich
Country: United States
State: New Mexico
Birthday: 11/4/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: comic books and shit
Expertise: the road
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
2/6/2003
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Gummo
By Wendall Carr, Charles Matthew Coatney, Bryant L. Crenshaw, Darby Dougherty, James Glass (II)
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the past few days have been odd. an art director came from the New York Times today, and gave me an honest critique. and Sam Weber stopped by too. its weird when one of the people who got you into illustration is telling you about your own work. but then again, its been happening a lot lately, and i'm grateful for it. but as always I'm infinitely disappointed in myself. i feel at this point there's no reason why i can't be amazing. i mean, i'm good for sure, but i'm not quite amazing yet. i think i'm too impatient, and i want to force growth.
on a side note, it was warm today, and i was sans jacket.
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| so my awards motif for the altpick awards was accepted so its just fine-tuning right now. i'm happy about that, b/c it gives me some more mental space to work on my Crispy Kid book for Marshall Arisman and Carl Titiolo's class. its tedious but well worth it, and its interesting what kind of layouts i find myself using. i don't know if it will be commercial or not, but i feel i'm going to be proud of it after all is said and done.
as i'm working on this thing, i'm attempting to passively watch Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I'm looking forward to seeing the new Indiana Jones movie. Shia Lebouf is in it, who i think is the new Michael J Fox. hopefully he'll be just as successful, minus the Parkinson's.
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| so i'm home right now for Salman's wedding. i'm gonna be in NJ for a couple of days working on some freelance stuff and on the book project for Marshall Arisman's class. i need the time away from the city. it feels good to be home with my family and my dog. its difficult sometimes to work in such tight space with a lot of people. you can lose perspective in a crowd almost as easily as by yourself. inevitably when i get too close i feel the urge to walk far away again. i don't know when i started doing that. its similar with women. there's something about geographic, emotional, and physical closeness that i can't figure out. i haven't felt a complete feeling of closeness in a while. its probably a handicap i thrust onto myself.
lately i've been thinking about the ugliness of ambition. i believe overt displays of ambition are distasteful and can create distrust, especially in an artistic field. however, i believe so much in having ambition that i display it, both purposely and unwittingly. i wish that creativity flowed forth like some fountain, and that my gut was bursting with beautiful things, but i don't feel its like that. i enjoy creativity as a mechanism for problem solving, and i like having my ideas appreciated. i don't really create things for myself, or completely selfish imagery. i enjoy the collaboration i suppose. at this point in my life, if i could make a living in editorial illustration i would be very pleased. however, i'm pushing towards more personal things, like my Crispy Kid project, so we'll see what the future holds.
its tough.
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| so they've finally released a high res pic of Brandon Routh as Superman.
i dunno man. am i the only one who thinks that superhero movie costumes are too dark nowadays? its supposed to be red, not fuckin burgundy man. and his shorts are cut way too low in my opinion. or maybe his torso is too long. i'm not even a huge Superman fan (because i'm a GINORMOUS Spider-Man fan). i'm not digging the small "S"crest on his chest. and i really don't like the mini-S on his belt too. i'm probably nitpicking, and it'll probably be a good movie because Bryan Singer is directing it. but Hulk sucked, so anything can happen. and Brandon Routh could've gained another 10 or 15 pounds to at least look jacked. his chest is nonexistant. he needs to visit GetBig.com. thats a good site for those looking to get unnecessarily huge.
*edit* i think the website exceeded its bandwidth limit. soooo... yea. you didn't miss much. also i concur with alex. Superman does need a much larger genital region; otherwise what the hell do i wanna pay 8.50 for?
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| i found a limewire holy grail. "Oh Yeah" by the Rottin Razkals from their Rottin Ta Da Core (1995) album. honestly, when i listen to it again the song is just 'ok'. the only reason they blew up is that they were the proteges of Naughty by Nature. but i remember them so well because i taped the music video from Video Music Box on channel 31 when i was 13 years old (not to be confused with THE BOX, which was also good, but got bought out by evil MTV to become the tolerable MTV2). thats when i didnt have cable. Video Music Box was the way that kids without cable got their music video fix. they played some crazy shit too. i remember Crazy Sam and DJ Ralph McDaniels (who eventually went to Hot 97). some gems i videotaped from that show were Flava in Ya Ear Remix by Craig Mack and a shitload of other guys, Da Bush Babees' Remember We, Ice Cube's Steady Mobbin, and Lord of the Underground's Here Come The Lords. i got some damn good early 90's R&B too. watching MTV now makes me realize how much that channel sucks dick. i think the closest thing to good music tv is probably Fuse. maybe Mun2 also (because they always have hot spanish chicks dancing on the roof). if any ladies remember Video Music Box tell me so we can hook up and make babies.
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