This is an image that i did as a test when i got my new drawing tablet. Alot of people say the hair is too dark, but that was intentional, there is a version without it that is more arty. Also disregard the gun, it its like a temporary prop that I stuck there and never changed.

The smudgey things on the side was the entire colour pallet that I used to make the image. Besides the blue underspray of course.

Lately I have been doing alot of writing and drawing. I’m basically making a visual story, sort of like a picture book or a comic or a graphic novel. So far it doesn’t quite fit into any particular such pigeon hole. The working title is “Deadlights”. Its all working out quite well so far, I’m doing some test painting and have written alot of bulk plot and some really gripping scenes.

I don’t really want to announce the details at the moment, but dam its hard to try to take on something like this by yourself. One part of me wants to try to attract some collaborators and another part absolutely hates that idea. Ahh well. Here is an example of some of my still-learning-how photoshop painting:

A list of my recent acquisitions, just because i know no you don’t want me to.

Ipod Touch
Landscape art diary
Grey set of brush pens
Large sticks of graphite
Batman HUSH
1000 Disk DVD case so i can finally get my 400disk and throw its not-having-enough-space ass out the window.
PANTS!
And some other random stuff.

Also, i forgot to play cosmic encounter with my mum, crap it all. We did play some cribbage and some 500 and other such games however.

Also, have you ever noticed how, on guitar hero, on the expert difficulty, some songs are just bullshit hard?

At the beginning of creation, the Evony gods did create 2 dark creatures of pain and suffering. In their painfully finite wisdom the first creature they made was called EDI. Oh people did tremble in the wake of his credit cards and turn from the truth into the silent obedience that only VISA can deliver.

The second creature was a mischievous scamp who was known by a million names and lived in a million bodies. The gods did decree that he was to be referred to in plural as DS, the creator of all that is hated. The Saviour of all that is circle jerked, he is the maker of disarray, the trickster, the disguised.

So i havent posted on here in ages. DO YOU REALLY CARE?

Anyway, ive got back into EVE ONLINE which is nice. Training my way into a command ship.

Also, as xmas is coming up, i should be getting a bunch of new movies, yay.

Peace,
V

Instead of swinging into movie mode I have swung into ‘new fad’ mode. Said new fad being warhammer 40k. I’m more into it for the modeling and painting at this point in time but the game certainly seems to be fun as well. Currently i’m painting up a necron army and Jess is trying her hand at the chaos daemons.

Still planning for that movie mode swing though, I might need to move my TV into my bedroom again or something for that to happen. I’ll try to upload some pictures of my necron dudes sometime this week. I’ll probably at least fix the site up some this weekend, even if I don’t start adding to my database yet.

I’m surprised that I still haven’t had time to complete the site. I find that my interests wander between video games and movies/tv. One month i’ll just play games the next i’ll just watch stuff. This last month has largely been spent on Age of Conan, I hit the lvl 80 cap, did a few raids and it got rather boring. Also Jess got pissed at me for playing too heavily. Seeing as I have so little time after work, and seeing as how MMOs take rather alot of time to play, I can see how this would have happened hehe.

For the last few days though its all been about the HeroScape (http://heroscape.com).
Heroscape is similar to warhammer in play-style but much more the hasbro chain-store throwback rather than the in-depth wargamer minor-details-matter type of deal. Still, the game play is very enjoyable, I haven’t had this much fun with a physical game for quite some time.

I’m assuming that soon enough i’ll swing back to movie mode and fix up this last part of the site and then transcribe the rest of my movies into the database.

So i’ve started messing with the site again, currently I have two blog installs (lame i know). But soon i will remove the old one and figure out the way word press wants me to add the other pages of my site. At which time everything will be combined and ill look at changing this background, and most of the other graphics. Next after that will be the last touches on the film database.

Haven’t been updating the ole site much over the last couple weeks. Working 9-5 seems to seep away so much of time, and I still get into the occasional game, which eats the rest. Currently ive been playing Age of Conan.

I’ve also been playing a new game, called Home Theater Addiction. Its where evil demons try to get you to spend all your money on things that have lots of bright standby lights and piano black finishes. To win all you have to do is not be a retard. Here is how much I suck at this game:

Recent Items purchased:
TH-50PZ800A Panasonic Plasma TV - $3000
PlayStation 3 (for bluray) - $600
Foxtell IQ2 Box - $200
Foxtell IQ2 moved into lounge room - $125 (bullshit yes?)
Foxtell Ongoing - $80 per month
Denon AVR 1909 - $1200
2x Mirage Omnisat Floor standing speakers - $500 each.
Mirage Omni S8 Subwoofer - $300

Even though I saved a good 2000 dollars off all that (the floor standers retail for 1k each normally) it still kinda hurts. But then i just stick a really sexy action packed bluray movie on and close the shutters and it all feels well worth it again (transformers and dark knight are both great BDs btw).

Also, I even have a long and horrible list of more shit to get:
Rear speakers from the Omnisat version 2 range, up to 4 of them - $300 each.
A center Ominsat - $500 approx. (not sure, really. but that would be a minimum amount id think.)
A Harmony One remote - $200
A media PC and/or a NAS box - (Cost is too variable, but $1000 would be a basic minimum, unless I scrape the hell out of my random PC parts).
Entertainment Unit to stick all this shit in - $500 approx. from what I have seen.
Comfortable chairs/couch - $2000 i expect (fucking hell furniture is expensive).

My new CSS looks quite decent and i’ve setup most of the features that i wanted to: http://www.vorpalsilence.com/

The database is moving right along at a steady pace. I’ve got good search code and good CSS formatted output here : http://www.vorpalsilence.com/filmcollection.php

I’ve got a nice, detailed, entry script here (password protected for obvious reasons so the link below is essentially wasted space.) : http://www.vorpalsilence.com/securearea/filmentryform.php

There are still some things to do, I want to add the output selector as shown here ( http://www.vorpalsilence.com/devdroppage.php ) into the search function. This will take some actual time to work out and decide exactly what part of the logic i should alter for this, i’ve been some what busy so i haven’t got to it yet.

The only other things to do are alter the index page of the main site to include these blog posts and then customize the look of the forum (if i even want to keep it) and decide what if anything I want to do with that gallery install. Oh, and also I still need to add the hundreds of movies into the database so the thing will actually be somewhat useful…. thats going to take awhile….