Tuesday, March 29, 2011

What to say, what to say….


Well, obviously I’ve been slacking at posting in my blog, though I’m not sure that ‘slacking’ is the right word. Since I had surgery on my mouth in late January I’ve been playing a fun game of ‘catch-up while not honestly giving a shit’. Mix that with a healthy dose of trying to learn things that I actually do want to learn in my free time and fiddling around in Fallen Earth, and… yeah…. No blog updates and no new writings.

 Heck, I haven’t even had much time for my art, but on the other hand, the work that I’m learning now [UDK being an example] will allow me to tell my stories in a much more dynamic way… assuming that I get to that level. This will be a plus since I don’t think my drawing ability is really up to snuff. I enjoy sketching out tribal designs, but mush past that and we get into pretty retched looking sketches. Granted, it might be kinda interesting to read a comic in which even the characters are drawn in a tribal/flamey way, but I don’t really want my work to be about aesthetics, at least not in a sense of trying to appear to be making some kind of existentialist statement.  


To practice my sound work, I’ve been putting together the weekend mash-ups for the podcast “The Morning Stream”. It’s been a little while since I’ve been on the podcasting scene, so it’s kinda nice to be back in it in one way or another. Of course the downside of working on these mash-ups is that I want to be podcasting again ^__^;

As for my writing, I’m still working on my giant ethics paper countering Singer’s early work. I’m probably going to self publish it after I let a few of the ethicists that I happen to know go over it and/or tear it to shreds. Of course, writing on the paper isn’t helping me solve my own ethical dilemmas, but I have the suspicion that it will simply take a mixture of time and circumstance to help me reach any conclusions in that area.
Side notes:

1)      I think I’ll finally get around to getting the tattoo that I’ve got drawn up. If I do, I’ll be sure to post both pics of it on the paper and on my back.

2)      I’m thinking about picking up a wood pipe. Maybe I should go to the local smoke shop and see if they have any ‘starter’ models. I’ve seen some stuff on Amazon and the like, but the cheaper ones all look like they were made in china, and have reviews saying they taste like plastic. I know it sounds funny, but I’ve been actively trying to keep from buying anything made there anyways. I don’t feel ethical buying products made by…. Well… I actually think I’ll leave that one alone. I just don’t feel ethically comfortable.