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Warren's Pub Table: [Closed] Saturday Night Open Mic (13Mar10)
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cheers, everyone. i kind of screwed myself tonight as far as company - everyone's out now for the rest of the night.
yeah, the diet has been kind of weird - i discovered i could make jiffy cornbread in the microwave and have been feeling kind of lazy as far as food goes :D
reading sweet tooth by jeff lemire is keeping me buoyant -
All hail fearless fancypants leader!
I got a new auditory cognitive neuroscience grant!
I think.
Or maybe I got a cognitive auditory neuroscience grant?
...well anyway....
Turns out you don't even have to know what the thing is called to get one! Ha HA!
I am doing things that involve motion capture.
And also things with gestural imitation of musical instrument performance (which means air guitar but generalised to other instruments - heh).
I'm nearly done a neural net module for a mapping tool to be used by my good friend the talented concert pianist Dr.X, when she creates a new gesture to sound synthesis mapping for the instrument demo-ed in this video:
(this actually ties in with the gestural imitation stuff)
Also I was given a Wacom tablet so I've been trying various things out like this:
And I finally made an etsy store, which will have more things in it as the various test prints arrive and meet my approval, but these two prints are a start:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Volkova
Smooches to everyone!
XOXOX
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@muse hick Sorry to hear about your Dad. I hope the evening progresses as gently as possible, and that you feel as well as can be hoped for.
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oh what the hell...
Good morning Whitecapel, hope you're all fine and frisky.
Been working a lot recently and have managed to make some money and see some fine scenery as i trundled down tiny lanes out in the westcountry in a little white 7.5 tonner.
Been feeling a bit inspired, countryside and sunrises tend to have that effect on me, don't have much to show for it yet except some miserable poetry but if the work holds up i should have enough cash to afford a week or two off soon. Could be good, might even make a start on some writing, got a few ideas for some stories that have been floating around in my head for far too long, about time i did something with them.
Went out to Nymans today with KK* and managed to take a few snaps, might try to post a couple up on flickr later if i'm awake enough, which i'm not now.
Right, time for bed!
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Good evening Whitechapel,
This week started off very stressful and then turned into a series of good news events. Had midterms this week so a lot of time was spent working on big projects and tests, things went well enough I think, hopefully I did as well or better then I think I did. As of Thursday night I am on Spring Break, 10 days of no school. Which is great.
But the big news is that on Thursday I finally got a job. It's dealing with sales which isn't my favorite thing, but the pay is quite good, and it can help me get a job I really want. I start on the 31st and I'm quite ecstatic about it. The news even came on the second gorgeous day in a row here, so I have even gotten to spend outside working out and enjoying the weather to boot. I've also settled on going back to the one night a week summer job I had last year, for a little extra cash. That and the boss has been begging for me to return for months now.
Beyond that, people seem to be enjoying the first issue of Make Something which is very good. Also I have 10 pages of content submitted for the next issue which is a huge weight off my shoulders, now to find a cover and fill the other 15 pages or so. And the bulk of next week will involve writing and filming for my web series, Zombie Conversational. Everything is productive and going well right now, hopefully it continues.
Now I shall return to watching the Wire, just started season 3. I am getting a bit tired of McNulty's drama, but I have no issues with any of the other scenes or stories, will avoid any spoilers as I know Cameron is still on season 1.
Here's a pic of me showing off my bad ass baby kicking skills from Zombie Day filming in October.
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I pledge allegiance to the web forum of the Butterdog Alliance of iJesus, and to the fascinations in which we sin, one clusterfuck indivisible, with liberal orgasms and jetpacks for all.
Heya all!
I'm in a wannabe English pub, drinking decent beer, hacking on my latest project. An ex-gf has decided to crash my productivity this evening, she's been sniffing around for sloppy drunk-ex sex, and frankly, NO! Aint doing it again! She's not getting the hint. I can tell she's lonely. But frankly, after losing weight and getting a bunch more sex from nicer people, I'm not going back there. Plus, she refuses oral sex both top and bottom, so life's too short for that nonsense.
Apparently Rebels won, and we just all sung the Cheers Bitch song. Need a seat where I can see the TV.
I picked up Crossed #9, Captain Swing and Brubaker's Criminal: The Sinners - have enjoyed them all. Crossed #9 is the way to end a fucking series - very much the Requiem for a Dream of Comics. Swing looks fucking excellent in that whole Ellis-Tech kind of way, and Brubaker should be mandatory reading for every fucking 13 year old. Stuck up brats that they are.
Been loving the 2000 AD Remodel thread - we're getting some kind of critical mass on those threads and I expect a level up transformation soon.
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Evening, Space Rasputin. Hope you are good and have nurses on stand by for your every desire ^_^
Any-fuckin-way: Been feeling knackered a lot lately and it feels like I hit the brakes on all my ideas an projects. Still need to finish one more page of a 5-page comic I vaguely agreed to do for some guy's big-ass anthology. Wish I could get that outta the way so I can not give a fuck about it anymore.
Also have a new idea for a Space Shark swishing about inside my brain but like I said, just tired all the damn time this week.
I'm gonna try to get an extra day off because I only get Sundays and well I want the extra fuckin day to sleep and draw so the next day can also be for sleeping an drawing. One 12-hour window to get art done is just not cutting it ever.
Also: I have kept this to myself but I am little envious of Axe Cop's overnight viral success. I like the comic and it's cute that a 5 year old comes up with the ideas. I just don't know how to get THAT kind of attention for me and my fucking talking shark. Anyway, now that i got that outta my system I am over it.
what else. Oh, I set up my webcam this week on justin.tv and did a couple of live sketches. That was fun and I hope to eventually be patched through to Eliza's SWEATSHOP show an do something epic and/or Shark-y live on cam. She's been so awesome, I rly consider her a friend ^_^
Anyway, yeah I am really annoyed I am not able to be at ECCC or any other con at the moment. I am gonna wait for the California cons to start and make it out to all of them. And if I prey hard enough to the space squid I may somehow try to get to SDCC b/c I need to get rid of these 250 business cards I paid for.
also: I are stuck at mah dayjawb one more hour, rly wnna haul ass home to see my cat and start drinkin beer, lol
be well and have fun, WC. try not to get an STD this weekend!
PS: Ferburton told me in the IRC that he saw my books Mummy-Boy and Team Mummy Vol.1 at Mega Con today. Apparently the Ka-Blam/Indy Planet people had extra copies for sale at their table. This news blew me the F away and made my fucking-god-damn day. So yeah I have a con presence this weekend! Thx for that! -
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CommentAuthorAurora Borealis
- CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
I need to buy a gun.
A toy one, so that I can practice drawing hands holding them. I kinda forgot how to do that properly and I never was good at drawing that anyway.
If everything works out fine, I'll have a job for a couple of month. Already spent the money in my head, heh. I need to upgrade my pc (memory, graphic card, harddrives) and then buy some cheapo camera so I can start making vids for my music.
What kind of vids? I'd love to visually mix something like this:
with this:
As for my plans for tonight: I'll end up browsing youtube aimlessly for the next hour or two and then go to bed :P
As for a picture:
This is last year old, got nothing newer, webcam's borked (or rather the graphic card is and it causes issues with anything displaying video other than youtube). -
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Hail Warren, full of whisky, Ellis be thy name.
Right now I'm just sitting here nibbling on a chicken and mushroom pie while cackling at the internets and blowing half my paycheck on iTunes. I had the chance twice this week to go out and be social, but both occasions involved driving to Denver, and I am far too lazy for that lately. It's nice to sit in a quiet house that I can blare my music as loud as I want. I so rarely get the chance. I've thought about dating again soon, but I dunno. I always attract the craziest fuckers, and not in the fun, interesting way.
I uploaded my newest update to my shitball little webcomic with probably the shittiest strip yet, and so far I've gotten more responses from that one than any of my previous ones. Does. Not. Compute. Oh, and I haven't even gotten it uploaded to my hosting service yet, because the site is being schizophrenic as usual. I've just uploaded it to my LJ gallery and linked it in the usual spots. Ah, technology.
Oh, and this is what I'm looking like lately.
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Good evening, Whitechapel - quarter after 6pm in San Francisco.
Spent the day at a screening at SF International Asian-American Film Fest - INSIANG, widely believed to be the masterpiece of Filipino social realist filmmaker Lino Brocka. Liked it. Mused to the friend I met by chance at the screening that I felt bad about seeing only the Asian stuff and disregarding the Asian American films in the festival every year.
Case in point - donated a ticket to a locally-made documentary tonight to see a play's final performance. Granted, a dear friend and valued collaborator is in the play, and it'll be good to see her.
(Her first ever audition in San Francisco was for a play I directed three years ago - I gave the actors guns and had them yelling lines off cue cards. She was disappointed that her subsequent auditions in SF weren't like that. Ah well.)
I find myself on the cusp of an intimate relationship with a woman who's been a good friend for four years. It'll be a non-monogamous one, and for that and other reasons I find the prospect conflicting. Part of me doesn't want to even go near it, and yet it's not like there's a line around the block of women seeking intimacy with your scribe. Just a vent.
Oh, and Warren: I know in December you joked that CRECY would make a great Xmas gift for mom and dad, but it really did. It was the first gift that Mom tore into Xmas late morning, and she talked it up big at Christmas Dinner. She was quite (pleasantly) surprised that a comic could teach her something. -
Hey W, Got your back if you want to start a ruckus at the pub.
It's been two weeks since my mom passed and two weeks till her funeral. My stepfather is not returning phone calls and generally continuing the dickery he has perpetrated for the last two decades. At least I got the memorial set up, so if nothing else, I'll have the memories of that. At least she died clean (160ish days!) after 25 years of substance abuse (of a veritable cornucopia of scheduled and unscheduled narcotics.)
Your research posts remind me to always be reading something new and noting bits and pieces for future projects. For that I continue to be convinced that you are a nexus of weird strange and wonderful information.
Tonight, I am procrastinating on package design assignments because I am wavering between depression, apathy, anxiety, and manic charging about with a large melee weapon and a black powder revolver shooting streetlights out.
Whitechapel is humming as always, a little lower frequency than a year ago, which was a little lower than two years ago. It's in another of it's transformation phases and will probably surprise me tomorrow or Monday with something new beautiful and utterly inexplicable.
No way in hell am I posting my ugly mug after a beautiful redhead like Dextra. Already toady enough as it is. -
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CommentAuthorcitruscreed
- CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
I pledge allegiance to the flag of Whitechapel, and to the loving madness for which it stands, one forum under Ellis, infinitely divisible, with vile hugs and arse eels for all.
*salutes*
*clicks heels*
*stabs a goat*
evening whitechapel, top of the early morning to you Mr Warren sir.
@muse hick - idk what to say really, just want to wish you all the best.
@finagle - good to see you again, sounds like you've definitely found a better place to be. Those perpetually bleeding wounds closed up at last eh?
@icelandbob - if the advert works out, maybe you could get a TV show where you just roam around breaking hipsters like twigs? There's gotta be a hungry audience for that.
@fauxhammer - any chance of us figuring out some sort of year-share thing on 2010? I mean, you can have it all if you want, I kinda had my eye on Thursdays though.
@chris g - congratz man! that is srsly cool as fuck.
exams in 6 weeks, bring 'em on.
everything is ok, pretty much, without being fantastic. Oddly, that feels desperately disappointing.
I've been reading Invisible, Inc. today - frickin awesome comic. Heist is pretty damn cool as well. Bravo Brendan.
Um, that's kind of it this week. Broke.
Here is me currently. The object in the foreground is my shiny BLACK disco ball but sadly it's too big to squeeze into the frame at the same time as my massive, frightening cranium.
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CommentAuthorEncephalo Ray
- CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
Hello, Whitechapel - Warren, I love thee so much that I got on a flight to London to come see your bearded ass. And I forgot to bring you Red Bull. Sincerest of apologies to you.
Tonight I get drunk and use my new haircut to attempt solicitation of sex from legitimate, non-prostitution girls. Well, one girl. I doubt that she wants anything to do with me, though. Shame. Wish me luck. -
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CommentAuthorFauxhammer
- CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
@citruscreed FIGHT ME FOR 2010
I WILL BITE -
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@muse hick
Sorry to hear about your Dad. -
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CommentAuthorsgrsickness
- CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
@Allen: CONGRATS ON THE JOB! :D
Also: I have ONE MORE episode of season 1 to watch, which I will before I sleep. Tomorrow Ill start season 2. McNulty is dreamy, dont bad mouth him in front of me ok :( -
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CommentAuthorcitruscreed
- CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
@Fauxhammer
promises promises :P
I'm not the fighting sort really
You can have it, at least, I'm letting you think that - to lull you into a false sense of security so that when your attention is elsewhere I'll sneak in and run off with a couple of loose Thursdays stuffed into my breeches. -
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@hank: I just got lucky and caught myself when I had done both hair AND makeup right on the same day. Right now I've done neither and have a couple of glasses of wine to turn my face the same color as my hair. Toss in some ratty old sweats and chunky glasses, and you've got one fetching creature. ;)
@citruscreed: I think your pledge is the best so far. I actually laughed out loud and hard enough to scare my deaf cat. -
@sgrsickness Thanks, and I'm not badmouthing him in general, just I tire of his relationship drama. I still like the asshole despite myself.