signature festival, final day

Alas, the Festival draws (see what I did there?) to a close. Our three days of nibs, ink, and intelligible handwriting have been an experience to remember. For now, let us end this time of joy... with pie!



The pie is a symbol of the home, the embodiment of comfort! It represents the love and care of one person made real, and gifted to another



Pies are delicate. Their finicky crusts take precision and care to create. There is no set recipe for a real pie-crust: while there may be guidelines, every crust must be individually tweaked to achieve that unique, flaky texture.



Pies are varied to beyond imagining: If you can think, it has be baked into a pie. From apples to blackbirds to coconut creams, there is a after-dinner (I prefer them as a mid-day snack) pie for everyone.



The pie is not limited to just sweets, though. Personally, I have sampled meat pies, potato pies, and squash pies (among others). There truly is a pie for all occasions.




P.S. (The cake is a lie!)

signature festival, day two

Day two of the Signature Festival was a success! We had a team of speed-painters facing off on a couple Nintendo DS systems running the homebrew app Colors!, as well as the winner of the actual signature category: Mahmud Khan son of Abdulhamid.

cleaning house

Gee golly, this place is dusty! Guess that's what I get from not, y'know, writing anything. Hey, look! I can draw little pictures on the surfaces. You can check out los dibujos over here. Yup, I gave in and made myself a deviant. I was sick of abusing flickr and polluting it with the dredges of my B3 Algebra II class.



In celebration of this glorious event (hooray!), I have decided to appoint myself the Minister of Rhetoric of the lands beneath the Tower! With my new power, I proclaim today (Tuesday, November twenty-seven, two thousand and seven Anno Domini) to Thursday (November twenty-nine, year two thousand and seven Anno Domini) the Signature Festival: almost 72 hours of calligraphy, important documents, and flourished handwriting.



So, enjoy the Signature Festival, and keep a sharp eye out for some of the other changes I'm going to make as Minister!

cryptic sea on imagination

     "… I can't stress how important using real reference photos in art/design is. I know a lot of artists who refuse to do this and only use their "imagination" to dream up environments and other graphic elements, but really isn't your imagination just referencing things you've already seen? It's hard enough not to easily fall into video game cliche visuals in level design. Having real world references that you can pick and choose from is something that I think will give your game more life and actually inspire you more then referencing other games/making it all up yourself."

     - cryptic sea.

4:11 - 11.4.07

'I’m writing down my dreams and I am going to tackle them. I am going to write down my faults and fix them. I am going to let down my walls and let people in.'

facades

Huh.

I feel like I'm just putting on faces more and more. I'm really not the person I was a year, two years ago. Almost opposite, in fact.

Lately, I've been feeling like I'm losing my inspiration. Instead of this being a place for me to write whatever I want for the whole world, like scribbling notes on the bulletin board at the post office, I've been trying to be 'interesting' and have 'features' or whatever.

I need to figure out who I am again.