I need a pie! But I will settle for pizza.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

See, even when I'm down I can get work done! The following of “my” sites got updated today, to say nothing of what you know alrady from previous posts:

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Continuing to paint

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

So I've been experimenting with encaustic painting (paiting with wax) as you can see below. Not that there aren't exceptions, but most of the encaustic painting I've seen, well, really sucks, so I've been trying new techniques and new formulations of wax, as well as new methods of application including applying it dry and “painting” with a heat gun.

There's still 20-40 hours in this painting potentially… it's either going to be one of the best things I've ever done (so far) or one of the worst. Ha. But I have invented a completely new method of painting (not shown here, but once I prove my “invention” I'll post it) that I'll need a little more hardware for but should be able to produce something wild….
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MAKE magazine mention

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Thanks to Keebie for letting me know I'm mentioned in the new issue of Make Magazine (Issue #6). While obviously I (and the author of this piece, who had far more serious difficulties than I) know how problematic magnetic implants can be, I had no idea that Steve had a chance to issue a recall since the current ones are experiencing an almost universal rate of failure, let alone bring a new product line to eBay (maybe this means a nice slow product cycle, which is good).

Anyway, thanks to my friend Quinn for including me and deciding I'm the only person in the article so famous that I didn't need my URL next to my name, ha ha. Or maybe I should be annoyed? I don't know. Either way, if you're the geeky sort, check out Make, it's a fun magazine.

Oh, and no, that's not my cock's shadow in the first panorama in the entry before this one. As if I'm standing out there with my bits waving in the wind taking photos. You wish, pervos.

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A bit good, a bit bad…

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

For those that follow the site, I just made some minor upgrades to UnderMars. You can click the picture below, taken at “Dreamland” in Falluja, July 4, 2003 (the US independence day for those of you who haven't seen the movie).

Other than that, I'm in the process of attempting a transition (under doctor's instructions and close monitoring) to Divalproex (500mg started last night). I have to admit that I feel really down and anxious right now. I don't know if that's because of the drug transition (since I'm “between meds”, it means I have only very low doses in my system, or if this is the wrong drug for me… I felt great on my previous concoction but both my doctors and my friends warned me of hyomania.

That said, I've been working so much and sleeping so little again that I may just be overworking and overstressing myself… So I have to take a long look at my life and seriously consider which projects I can stall or worst case, eliminate, for now, because I have to at least start getting sleep.

Oh, and those pictures above are panoramas (click them if you want) taken off my bedroom balcony with the V570 digital camera (recommended by Atom) for Jon so he could take fishing scene panoramas with ease. Anyway, back to work…
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My days are too long and stressy!

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

 

Well, the first of our “scheduled” updates is posted… I think we'll try doing tattoos on Mondays, ritual, scarification, and culture on Tuesday, experiences on Wednesday, piercing on Thursday, and members stuff on Fridays… Video I'll probably try and make a weekend thing but I'm not sure yet. We're still playing a bit of catch up, so the updates will be slightly smaller than usual this week. Thanks to the brilliant Wayde (mentioned for his skull and crossbones thumb scar among other things on ModBlog — which was also updated today if you're a reader.)

Also, I hate to be whorish about this, but over the last week our billing system has been malfunctioning (and thus always failing and telling people their cards didn't work), so some of you may have been falsely expired or had your attempt to sign up fail during that period. If you've been planning on picking up a membership to the main site, especially with adding the NAS and having to pick up a couple more pieces for growth, now is a time I'd really appreciate the help. Click here for that. It is genuinely appreciated.

Anyway, other than that I am in the process of transitioning my anti-depressant (about 95% out of my system now) to a mood stabilizer (ramping up the dosage), and phasing out my anti-convulsant (I have tremors, physical tension, and stress seizures). Right now it's a hard period because all my dosages are

 

so low so it's easy for some of the old cloud to return, but I'm staying on top of it. Plus I really have been through some truly through-the-roof stress over the past while, so I think even a “normal” person would have some trouble. Other than that, I watched Big Fish (again) with Jon and Saira (and Michael for the second half). I really love that movie, I feel I can relate to the “That's all I do, Will, I tell stories.” argument, as someone who loves telling stories about my life that I think get more and more exciting as I grow older, but still grow from a quite bizarre reality.


They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops. And that's true. What they don't tell you, is that once time starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

Then I made Jon watch Armageddon (he's never seen it), but he eventually walked out on it with fifteen minutes left in the film. I'm just finishing up some stuff (I plan on sleeping in if I can, at least a little) and continuing the bad comet apocalypse movie trend with Deep Impact.

Um, and I was thinking about how nice the bathrooms are at the Fairmont Kea Lani in Maui (credit to Rachel for that one)… If and when I eventually build or reno a house, I'm going to create one hell of a bathroom! Well, I think I'm going to go post a couple kit cars and crash out.

Oh, and tomorrow I'm going to start experimenting with encaustic painting (which is painting with wax)… I'm doing some experiments including using unusual pigments and waxes, and playing with non-co-soluable paints to create “vein” running through a transluscent medium… It should be interesting because it'll either make the painting I'm working on amazing piece, or it'll make it a nightmare to fix (or both I imagine, ha). That and video work and some programming.

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