dubiouslog

Have a look at this and this and, if you feel like it, fill them for me. I’m not really one for these social thingies but I saw Nelvis’ one and wanted to give it a shot, so.
Also, the main site has a lot more to offer. If you like random word generators, you’re bound to like the Prior-Art-O-Matic, to say one. I don’t know, just have a look.

yeah I know, stuff to write. Would you like to read first about that anime and manga rant, CSS ideas about fixed backgrounds or my latest musical discovery? I told you I had a variety of topics to write about. :O

you know what? Ubuntu is a great system and stuff but its scanning utility simply sucks. And if someone tells you that’s just “difficult to use” is lying. I know how to bypass horrible interfaces, I mean, I was using The GIMP five years ago when it had the most confusing interface ever conceived, and even like this I often ended up fine-tuning everything until I had a perfect preview only to get an ugly mess of an actual scan. In the end I gave up with setting everything up before scanning and had to retouch everything afterwards, but doesn’t it defeat the point of having, you know, scanning options?
The funniest part is that this utility’s name is XSANE. yeah. talk about my mental sanity.

Now with the artwork:

Let’s start from the artworks I made for this exam whose results I’ll get to know on Monday. This was supposed to be a background for some cartoon. No, it’s not really going to be used in a cartoon, but still :B

A cartoon-esque Death Valley. This was made on black paper, so you know why the colors look that way.

Another idea for the Death Valley. There would be more sketches but they’re not really worth looking at, so.

The final work for the exam was about choosing a song and making some evocative backgrounds inspired by the lyrics. My song of choice was Pearls of Light by Within Temptation. Tons of better songs out there, but you know how it goes, its lyrics were short enough to have each artwork match some part of the song and they setted both the scene and the mood, so.
This one matches the first part of the song: “After the cold, the darkness in the heart of the forest”.

“Where birds are singing for the newborn sun”

“In the womb of the leaves, on the branches of the trees
Lies the treasure in the morning, the pearls of light”

“Carried away by the traculence of my world, I got lost in the search for the enlightment
The blue rain covered my roots and I forgot where I came from”
quite my favorite. the teacher liked this one better than the others too. Her only critique was that the huge difference between the lighter drawings and the darker ones could make people for which I could be working in the future object that they don’t look like works from the same person. Well, here I was experimenting a bit with techniques, but she’s right. I need to work more on consistency.

random doodles ahead
(hi there Flareon)

PARASOL WADDLE DEE

I’m in ur interwebz
maeking ur teeth rot

Do Sparkies look like mice? VG says they do. I’m not really getting it.

you may be forgetting something Meta Knight
aren’t you forgetting something

I don’t know if this should be cute or scary
By the way, up until now I thought Kirby was the one fandom completely porn-free. Well…I was wrong. Now I want to poke my eyes out for what I saw/read because seriously. Kirby porn. What may be next? Smut involving a phone and a cube? D:

AND NOW, FOR THE MONOCHROMATIC STAINS ANIMATION PROJECT
HERE COMES THE MAIN CHARACTER!
who is way too handsome to die after only three minutes. :( I’M SORRY

that’s it
oh and I’ve added a link to JaN aka K aka Kane aka … ’s blog. :D

Should post later and should post more. I’ve got a few issues I’d like to write about. Also read: you’re going to be bored. :B

Guess what me and VG have been doing today

THIS IS A MAJOR WIN FOR US.
well actually it was mostly him doing all the hard work like cooking the rice and rolling the sushi but hey. not like he would’ve let me do the important stuff anyway.
Also, if you think making sushi is easy, think again. Sushi makes Sachertorte look like a beginner’s recipe. Preparing rice alone takes two hours. ANYWAY!

OVERSIZED SUSHI ROLLS with smoked salmon and avocado! and didn’t they look good. they tasted fine too, though smoked salmon didn’t go very well with soy sauce. not that we were going to buy a whole salmon only for these, lol. we were using some pre-packaged fish used for tapas and we had already used all of the tuna and trout.

Second batch of rolls, with smoked halibut and avocado. In the middle, my goofy attempts to make some use of the remaining halibut. These tasted exceptionally good, though some of them didn’t look perfect because of me overstuffing the roll. B:

TO SUM IT UP, THIS WAS GOOD. VERY VERY GOOD. I WANT MOAR.

so I got a new hard disk and decided to install Ubuntu as my main OS, leaving Windows XP just in the case. Want to see what I got after setting everything up?

how more awesome than this a desktop can get? answer: NOT MUCH.

Also, getting back to your computer and finding this wtf-inducing thing in your mail is just mindblowing, as well as taking this test and getting this result, knowing that’s actually the truth. what.

Yesterday I was also thinking: does the perception of déjà vu change over time? Because I feel like my déjà vus are becoming a lot less vivid over time. When I was a child I had some déjà vus which were so strong that I remember the precise circumstances in which they happened even now, there was that one that happened on a Monday while cutting a steak and I went all OMG OMG THIS JUST CANNOT BE A DÉJÀ VU IT’S SO REAL and my dad was all ow ow calm down
The one I had yesterday was but a faint feeling, though :O

I’ll be posting new artworks later, along with a (long-winded) rant about manga and anime spawned from a talk I had with VG about a week ago.

Hard disk is broken, and the only way to get my data back would be paying a boat of money. So I’ll have to buy a new one and in the meanwhile use VG’s computer.

Luckily most of my data was on my domains so I already got back the important stuff, but I lost forever the large versions of my computer-colored drawings, a review for that videogame site I’m going to open, the fansubs in progress and all those logs and stuff from ages ago, and we’re talking about 2003 here. How wonderful. Luckily, the last thing I did with my laptop was sending a copy of the exam I was writing to Cercatesori, it would have been a lot worse if that didn’t happen, but anyway. The loss of the review still bugs me very much. My only hope is that Cercatesori has got the log in which I sent him its first part, but I’ll anyway have to write the second part all over again.
I may have a backup from 2007 somewhere at my parents’ which would allow me to get back most of the old stuff, but I’ll have to wait until April to know. I could also find someone who’ll get the data back from the hard disk for a lower price, but I don’t know.

Thanks goodness that I wasn’t working on a layout or something like that, that would have seriously sucked.

About the fansub, while doing the translations for Myuutsuu no Gyakushuu I’ve discovered some very interesting things. Now I don’t really have the time to write everything down, but to sum it up the translated scripts you can find on the web have some major differences from the actual script, so if my intention was to only do the Italian fansub because I thought the ones the English ones other people made were already enough, now I’m willing to do the fansub in both Italian and English. Denise, I’m looking at you. :)

now I only have to wait for that hard disk, dammit.