| Holy balls |
[Feb. 14th, 2007|06:05 pm] |
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Snow is a creation of satan, I need to move someplace where the weather no longer tries to kill me on a daily basis. |
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| oh man.. |
[Jan. 31st, 2007|01:53 pm] |
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| | Goodnite Opus - New Getaway | ] |
Had a wild last couple of weeks, well, nothing seriously wild. I need to get off my lazy butt and actually start scanning all my new artwork into the computer, I'm hoping to have the webcomic I've been toiling over ready to make it's way onto the internet in the next week or two,we shall see.
Interning at the journal has been a different experience to say the least, it's cool to actually see my name in the paper and be contributing stuff on a weekly basis(even if it is just maps) but I've never worked in such a straight laced,conservative environment before. It's not a bad place to be, I just always feel like I'm going to say the wrong thing.
I'm also never scheduling classes before 11 am again...ever...I was hoping that by scheduling everything early I would actually be getting to bed earlier. No, I still go to bed at 3 am. I just only sleep like 3 or 4 hours a night now. So getting through the remainder of this semester should be a trip..
Saw Smokin' Aces this weekend, I had mixed feelings before we went in to see this flick. The trailers looked alright, but I hadn't heard anything really great coming out of the reviews. But after sitting down through the whole movie...
oh..
my...
god...
Really blew me away, great action sequences, some very funny moments, Darwin Tremors monologue had me dying, not so much because of what he says, but just the way he goes about it...go see it,I'd rather not spoil it,really good stuff. My only complaint with the film is for a movie that's supposed to revolve around one particular guy, Jeremy Piven's character Buddy does,well...almost nothing throughout the entire movie. Not to say that it detracted from the film, but I found myself more interested in almost every character except him until the very end. |
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| Mother@^&# |
[Jan. 15th, 2007|01:17 am] |
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| | Coheed and Cambria | ] |
Currently, save for the pencils for page 1 and 2. Almost ALL my concept work for Dreamers is missing. I wouldn't be so tweaked if this wasn't almost 30 pages of notes and sketches I've been compiling for this damn thing. I really hope it turns out somebody removed the packet during wintereenmas and it got left at Darryls. Otherwise...well,starting from scratch.
On a completely other note. Got to sit down and watch Demetri Martins new special while drawing this evening. I can't express enough how funny this guy is. Gonna try and go finish up some of the half finished sketches I do have left lying around. |
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| Crap |
[Jan. 14th, 2007|02:10 am] |
I hate doing these sorts of posts, but I desperatley wish I could just sleep through this whole next semester...or maybe these next two years. Either way I just can't help but not want to attend college any longer. I like my job,and I feel that I'm fairly good at it. Do I want to make a career out of the human service industry? No, but I actually have a nice boss who treats me well, and I love the people I'm working with. Sure, some of them can drive me up a wall sometimes, but I don't curse wildly when I first wake up like I did when I worked retail. That was fun, when the first bits of conciousness seeps in after the alarm clock goes off and the next words to pass my lips are a string of profanities simply at the sheer horror of having to put on a green polo shirt, slice meat, and serve the general public.
I feel like this rut of college has become something along the lines of a social rube goldberg machine. Going through the most agonozingly psychotic means doable in order to accomplish some small task. And while going through said series of tasks, I just feel like I've lost the interest to really keep myself there. I'd feel better about this if I could think of an alternative. I hate the idea of complaining without coming to a solution, but this just feels as though it's been the case. |
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| My week |
[Jan. 6th, 2007|12:08 am] |
So this week has been, well...fairly interesting, New Years was pretty good. Spent it over at Lee's place with some friends and just kind of chilled. We got to take JD and the rest of the guys out to dinner New Years day as a birthday/new years celebration. Which I really can't complain about, I got holiday pay to spend half my shift at a restaurant and use the company credit card, not too shabby.
In other news, I'm going to give marathon running a try come late spring/summer. With my dad none the less! He's got me started and a much more strict work out schedule. I've been doing 5 miles a day, now it's just a matter of getting my time down. I'm getting better with it but I pulled off my first 7 minute mile in months yesterday and I kind of felt like I was going to die.
And of course, in the wake of a more structured work out regime, I caught the flu. WOOT! It's all Melinda's fault, and she's proud of it. Granted my week off is starting tomorrow so I at least don't have to be,well..anywhere, the next few days and can just sick it out. But I really need to get some comic stuff done. Bah..oh well, I really don't want to push myself with it though. Classes start up again the 16th and I do not need to still have any sort of virus lingering in me. Which means green tea and the 'tussin are on my diet for the next few days.
OH! I also got some new ink done! I'll post a few pictures up once it's healed,finally got a tattoo I can see...I love the one on my back but I forget that it's there alot. I really can't think of anything else that's really interesting...so I think at this point I'm just gonna go draw and wait out this cold. Peace. |
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| Work.. |
[Dec. 21st, 2006|06:02 am] |
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Holy BALLS...I honestly am beginning to think there is no legitimate way this week can get any worse...between a people stealing shit, people double crossing one another, having to perform emergency first aid, and a random state investigation, unless someone ups and dies while I'm on duty I don't think this week could go any further downhill. |
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| Ubercon and such |
[Oct. 24th, 2006|03:52 am] |
So...yeah, this weekend was ubercon. I swear to god I've never had a weekend go by that fast in my entire life. It felt like one minute it was Thursday and the next we're back in NY and it's Sunday night. Ubercon was...interesting, financially it was a bust,at Connecticon we'd been able to at least break even, with Ubercon we ended up out roughly 50 dollars from the whole experience. However we met some cool people, and got to spend a very enjoyable Saturday night nerding it up playing Pirates Cove and LANing with other con goers. At this point it may be a convention that will be attended strictly for entertainment purposes and not to actually work as an artist next time. Oy...Saturday night was a mistake to an extent, Ubercon had free flavored milks and cans of AMP in coolers in the gaming room and in the main entrance. Now, in theory this in an excellent idea. However, given money was tight enough this weekend..it lead to me drinking roughly 8 or 9 cans of AMP on Saturday. Sunday morning...I can only assume that's what a hangover feels like, I'm not sure if it was just my bodies veign attempt to process all the sugar or just the sheer ammount of caffeine. But whatever it was, sweet monkey jesus I wasn't feeling normal until this afternoon it took so long to shake that sense of fatigue and sickness.
I got signed up for my classes for next semester, finally get to take Shakespearian literature! Hells yeah! |
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| Ubercon this weekend |
[Oct. 18th, 2006|09:34 pm] |
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Hey all, gonna be at Ubercon this weekend. I wanna have some examples of drawing live people in my style so I could use a couple different examples of headshots and such. If you're cool with me showing you're photo along with the drawing I do at the booth any help would be really appreciated. |
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| Well this is....interesting... |
[Oct. 13th, 2006|12:17 am] |
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Kind of like how getting kicked in the throat is interesting. Well, that's being a little overdramatic. Alot over dramatic actually. It has just become very clear that I am at a very definate crossroad. Within the next two years I want to finish my degree and actually get started working within this field. Where the problem arises is in what school I attend. I've recently been back at DCC just to take care of some general education stuff and because it is, in fact, cheap as hell. However I only have one more semester after this and I will be transferring to a 4 year school to finish out my program. Since last year I'd been intending to do this through Suny New Paltz. This was until I realized their art program is full of modern art pretentious asswipes who think throwing red paint on a canvas represents emotion. I've been looking at some other schools the past few days, and...I've been liking what I've been seeing. I've looked at three different colleges, each of which would easily accept my work, my GPA is more than adequate, and they teach actual technical skill rather than how to bullshit. Granted bullshit is a very handy skill to have, but I got a masters degree in that during 7 years of customer service work. The problem exists in that EVERY one of these schools is, respectively, in either Chicago, California, or Vancouver Canada. Which is approximately long-the-fuck-away from New York. |
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| Huh |
[Oct. 5th, 2006|11:58 pm] |
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| | Goodnite Opus - Conversations | ] |
So, after a long day of class, I pretty much spent the entire evening...in photoshop...I've been really rusty and I felt like trying out some digital work again. It started as a doodle in my sketchbook and ended up as this http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40933225/ . I find it very ironic that the work that used to drive me up a wall when I was at Kuberts I'm doing in my leisure time. Go figure. |
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| So, so, so much dislike... |
[Oct. 3rd, 2006|09:32 pm] |
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| | Antidote - Dropout | ] |
Not hate, just dislike...mostly because it's over something rather stupid. I received an invite this morning in my e-mail box to go see the premiere of the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre tonight. It's free of charge and it gets sent out to a bunch of the local NY comic guys, I'm still uncertain how I got on this list but I'm not one to turn down free movies. Especially free movies I want to see. Now here's where the problem comes in, I have a night class...only on Tuesday...and I din't have class last week...and we won't have class next week...meaning if I skipped that would be 3 weeks of not having that class...so bergudgingly, I attended English Lit this evening. Ah well, had it been any other class BUT my Literature class I'd have done, but oh well. Next time though I'm definetly shirking whatever duty comes up. Last time they sent me one it was for the Illusionist, which I still haven't seen..but I was getting my tattoo done and couldn't really/didn't want to reschedule for that 2 days before hand. Them's the breaks, but we got to discuss crazy people and immigration today during Lit so that's always a plus. And at least now I don't have to try and get back from NYC at 9:30 at night, time to go draw crazy shit! WHEEE! |
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| The month of October |
[Sep. 30th, 2006|03:46 am] |
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| | Chixdiggit - I remeber you | ] |
So, as of tomorrow it'll be October. So much to do so little time...not that I'm complaining, school is just taking up WAY to much of my time right now. Uber-con is coming up much quicker than I'd like to think about. Granted, I have most of my stuff ready for once, I'm hoping to sell off the remainder of my books at that point, and I'm gonna be selling a new print of a piece I've been working on. I'm also hoping to have the first few strips of the comic Darryl and I are starting ready at this point. I've been hesitant about entering the world of web comics...but I really like the project, I get to draw alot of really fun stuff and it's a project that never feels like work when I do it. Oh man...I can't wait to start my next painting thinking of this, I got these new spray paint tips from bombing science. OH MY GOD. It's like using an airbrush, they're that thin. They give me so much control with the paint it's amazing. I really want a good day off just to sit around and play with my paints, strap on the ol' gas mask and just spray paint the hell out of a canvas. Maybe I'll do that this Monday after class if I get all my homework done this weekend.
Once I get my flesh tone Montana cans of spray paint in the mail I'm gonna start coloring my David Macalaster painting. On the side I've started doing concept painting based off of Les Claypool's "Purple Onion" album, which has become one my favorite cd's as of recently. That reminds me when I actually get spending cash I gotta get his new CD, he did some stuff with Bucketheat that's absolutley incredible. Than again, it's not like it's that much of a suprise, anything him and Buckethead do together has been mind blowing. Also, if anybody has any button ideas, let me know, Jess and I are gonna be doing buttons at Uber-Con, and thus far we've been running short on ideas. So far the only one's we have either she's come up with or we got from the Principaea Discordia...well, I did come up with one, but I seem to be the only one who laughs at "Hemingway was a Drunk" |
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| New stuff |
[Sep. 1st, 2006|12:56 am] |
It came to my attention that I have barely posted this summer. At all...I don't really feel like going back and actually checking the dates but I think I updated maybe 5 times since May. Alot has been going on the past few months, and it really feels like there is ANY end to it at this point. Not in a bad way, but holy crap have I been busy. The new job had me working around 50 hours a week until school just started. It sounds terrible but school has been a welcome reprieve, I've actually been getting more sleep now that I've been back in school once again.
I also finally got myself a new car after my last one met an untimely demise last October, it's a blue little Chevy Metro. It's tiny, but it gets some awesome gas mileage so I like it. The comics been doing fairly well, I'm almost out of copies and I'm gonna sell the remaining ones at Ubercon in October. At this point I'm thinking I may try and finish the rest of it as a graphic novel, as I don't see any feazable way I can really put them out as solitary issues. I worked Connecticon this summer, first convention I've ever done as an artist. Had a friggin blast, great crowd, met some very cool people.
Let's see, what else...oh yeah! For my 23rd birthday, Jesse gave me http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=30384211&imageID=1117654699&MyToken=434c723b-6efa-4d24-b7e3-f9ce9475eda7
so I'm officially inked now.I'm working on a webcomic with Darryl that I'm hoping will be up and going come October if I can keep myself on track. I really want to start painting again, I miss it terribly.
I applied for a part time illustration job at the Poughkeepsie Journal. The art director seemed impressed with my portfolio, and we seemed to get along alright. I'm not getting my hopes up about it, if something comes of it, great, but I've got a job now so it's not like I'm hurting for work. The one thing that I hated though was dressing myself up for the interview. I don't mind dressing "nicely" I actually enjoy it. But what I hate is dressing conservatively to fit in with more office enviroments. I have dreadlocks, they're a dead giveaway as to just who they're interviewing. It doesn't matter how nicely they're pulled back in a pony tail. I'd rather just dress nice but comfortably and not try and seem like I'm trying to come off as something I'm not. It's like gift wrapping a turd, you can make it look as nice as you want but they're still gonna be pretty certain what they're getting before you hand it over. |
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| Site!!! |
[Aug. 28th, 2006|10:11 pm] |
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Thanks to Jesse being absolutley positively amazing, my art site is finally up, www.ColinCrose.com I'd post more...but I just finished doing a double shift and I need to lay down and veg for a little while. |
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| Hi |
[Aug. 23rd, 2006|01:25 pm] |
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| | Catch 22 - 9 mm and a 3 piece suit | ] |
Been trying to put together my website today, nothing spectacular, just trying to get the main page finalized...and in doing so I've come to realize something. After screaming at the monitor 3 or 4 times I have fallen into a horrible realization as I mash the keyboard like a lab monkey trying to get a treat. My name is Colin Crose, and I am technologically retarded. |
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| Week from fuckin hell |
[Jul. 6th, 2006|03:41 am] |
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Currently in debt 600 dollars, got in fight with parents, book printing late, paintings unfinished, haven't heard shit about my vendors license, had to physically threaten someone, and to top it all off my iguana required 300 dollar surgery this afternoon, which I shelled out for because quite frankly we had to put my dog down in May and I'll be dammed if I can't deal with that right about now. I pray that Connecticon goes smoother than the rest of this week. |
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| Wild month |
[Jul. 3rd, 2006|11:57 am] |
So...I know nobodies really heard squat out of me for the last month or so. I'd figured I'd have actually had more free time being out of school. Quite the contrary actually. The last few weeks have been insane to say the least. I finished my first book, self-published, which is scheduled to deliver its first batch of copies to my house on Wednesday. I swear to god this thing came close to killing me at times, I was unaware as to just how much of a pain in the ass the lulu.com website can be to navigate around, but the fact is it got done.
I'll be selling the first run of the book at Connecticon this weekend. After that I need to see how much I can pay off from the printing fees before seeing how many I can get out for it's debut to the comic book stores. It's been a hell of a lot of work,but in the end it's definetly been worth it.
Other than the book, I'll be starting a new job on Wednesday. I'll be working for Greystone, which is a program set up in our county that provides aid to people who are developmentally disabled. So I'm going to be working at a house up in Wappingers, really looking forward to it. If for anything else I've managed to escape the level of god damn hell known as retail employment.
I'll be starting normal college again soon...but we'll see, if all goes well, I'm hoping this well be my last semester of school. But who knows, ALSO! Craptastica 2006 will be coming in August this year, be prepared for me to start pimping this out the eyeballs as usual. |
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| Suggestions? |
[Jun. 19th, 2006|04:55 pm] |
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So, Jesse's going to be helping me build a web site within the next few weeks.(and by helping...I mean she'll pretty much be doing most of the work as I'm fairly computer stupid) but none the less...I'm really new to the whole concept of actually registering for domain space and such. Anybody know of any good places to go through? Any help is massively massively appreciated. |
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