Call me a Grinch, call me whatever you will... But to me, Christmas is nothing more than a time for Corporations to get you to spend as much money as they can squeeze out of you.
I don't mean to be a downer, so I wont rant too much.
BUT I WILL SAY THIS;
Why not try and recycle some paper for wrapping, ie, use the Sunday comics. Reuse items! Thrift Shops is a great place to find items that your friends will love! Especially older items like comics, funky furniture, retro shirts. AND CHEAP, too!
So, I know it's supper close to the X day,.. but for those of you still shopping, look around your house for something you don't use/need anymore. Save yourself some money, and save the world from one more item consumed that never needed to be made in the first place.
The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the goal.
While he is perhaps being admired by others, he mourns the fact that he has not yet reached the point to which his better genius, like a distant sun, ever beckons to him.
- Ludwig van Beethoven from Biography of a Genius by George R. Marek
I've been doing pretty good with the pumping out or artsy things!
Might be because I'm trying to take my mind off other things, >_> But that is neither here nor there!
Nothing helps put me in a better mood than finishing up an image that I'm happy with!
Lately I've been doing a few photo manipulations. It really how I started with Photoshop waaayy back when PS2 was out. xD Years ago. I haven't done any for years, so getting back into the swing of things is not as easy as I thought it would be. There are a lot of tricks and short cuts that I can't remember anymore. But it's slowly coming back.
ALSO: (quote from Team America)
Guy in Bar: See, there's three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want us to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!