taking retards to the zoo

remember that song? oh the Dead Milkmen rule. anyway, the retards i speak of are in my Photoshop class. that class is 97% morons. one guy didn't even do the assignment right. we spent all last class learning about the pen tool and shape layers and paths. then the assignment was to use "What we learned plus any other skills we learned in the class till now to make a self portrait" this guy completely skipped the main part of the assignment and used shit from the beginning of class.

also my teacher, by neccesity maybe, is turning into a Kindergarten teacher. when someone answers a question right she litterally says "yeaay... good job" every time im waiting for her to bust out with cookies and gold stars. is this not a fucking college course? are we not adults? I think these retards need that kind of encouragment. honestly i feel like i could teach this class.. im always asking questions and she never knows.. she's like "hmmm, I dont know i've never actually done that" then she spent like 20 minutes showing us shitty, but popular contemporary art. I hate crappy art with a message.

The Mini car assignment we did. most of them looked like a 6 yr old cut out the pieces with lefty scissors. I feel like I'm like in a whole other league. i need a better class... or someone to tell a big graphics place to hire me.

You Lost on Purpose!

i will let you take my knight and my bishop but I'll have you in checkmate in no less than 4 moves.




George Allen conceded in Virginia.. its official .. dems control congress. but now there's "the GOP threw the election on purpose" conspiracy theories because the republican leadership kept urging him to concede. the theory is that they want the dems in control so they can bame them for everything in the next 2 years for the 2008 election. it will be like "look they had control for 2 years and did nothing ... vote republican in 08!" It makes perfect sense. they had to lose on purpose to gain votes for the presidential election in 2008. its a beautiful plan!

check and mate. fuck I hate republicans.

Everyone is Different.

some people like to tow bins of cardboard and a bike from a friends car by sitting on the trunk and holding on. some people think its ok to shoot and eat small rodents, even when they are obviously well off enough to buy real meat in the store.

I took this photo yesterday in Oakland. dude was just chillin' on the trunk holding on to his cart of shit. pardon the angle and window jizz, i had to be sneaky with the phone cam.

I found this gem on fecalface.com with the linked text "i think im gonna puke".

YOU MUST TRY THEM. poor twitching, cute butted, skinned then mocked by nuts little squirrel.

It's amazing, especially when you're from a really open minded area like the San Francisco Bay Area, when you visit the nether regions of this country how stupid, weird and fucking lame people are. The car towing the guy with the cart was pretty amazing for here but its not a totally uncommon type of thing in the ghetto. In the city (san francisco) and here in Oakland I've seen on more than one occasion a train of 3-5 fully loaded shopping carts being pulled across traffic by a homeless man. its kinda sad.. anyway the polar opposite of that... stupid white people. theres a lot of them in this country. Some may be getting smarter going by Tuesdays midterm election results. Go Democrats!

A part of me wonders/hopes that the Borat movie had something to do with it. if you haven't yet, go see it. On top of the funny accent and the slapstick there's a pretty astonishing and revealing portrayal of parts of American white people we know exists but never really looked in the eye like Borat does. The Borat movie is like a cross between Perfect Strangers, Jackass, and Micheal Moore.

oh and here's another desktop background tile I made.

mr. green redo

here's a better pic of the painting i posted before.
also as an extra bonus, here's a cool mutant pig desktop background tile i made.

super war conspiracy theory

So Saddam is going to be sentenced with a good 'ol Texas hangin'! hanging? what is this 1951?

Maybe it was hearing about Saddam's sentence, combined with watching Hellraiser 1 & 2 last week that made me have this dream. I had a really fucked up dream about Iraq. Really horrible scenes of human testing. akin to the Nazi's. As soon as I woke up I started thinking about it and how the US government could be doing human testing on Iraqis and even US soldiers. it wasnt too far fetched given world history. My new super conspiracy is why they keep perpetuating this war is because they are, on top of the oil and world domination theories, they are doing human drug testing. making deals with the pharma industry and the FDA. It's far fetched, but if you think about it... it could be possible. By the way my dream was way graphic and disturbing. Hellraiser always has that effect on me. damn you Clive Barker!

monday mundai mandae

So i had some time this weekend and busted out a painting. I tried painting again the next day but it sucked and i got all frustrated. here's the good one.
i think it looks like a cross between Shrek and Barney Fife. similarities weren't intentional. I just need to clarify that before i get hate mail from Shrek and Don Knotts fanatics. sorry, the phone cam doesn't do it justice.

also, in art class we've shifted from black & white to color! so here's the highlights of my pencil drawing stuff.

Vector Madness!

for those of you who know what vector graphics are and what the Pen tool is in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator you know its a pain in the ass. if you don't think that, I hate you. anyway, the latest challenge in my photoshop class is the pen tool. I think i'm getting pretty ok with it, but i still hate it. here's my first two assignments. make this crappy mini photo with paths using the pen tool. The second was to do a charactered self portrait using the same method.

when is season 3 going to get good?

It's almost the fake Finale and its still sucking and getting worse. do they WANT people to stop watching?!! jeez they start this rad back story for Libby and then BAM she's dead. now Ecko one of the cooler characters on the show starts actually trying to communicate with the back smoke. BAM he's dead. WTF lost?
and seriously, those new characters are effing weirding me out. you just cant buy us a new puppy when the dog we loved for 2 years gets hit by a car. - ITS JUST NOT THE SAME!!!! (crying) To the writers credit, they may provide to be usefull or shed insight on flight 815 or Dharma in flashbacks. the thing that insulted me isnt so much that they are new and pointlessly attractive, its that they just popped them into an important role without any introduction. going on missions and such. it used to be such an issue when Charlie or Kate wanted to go on missions. now when good ol' Paulo and Nikki want to go investigate Lockes secret Pearl Hatch its all fine and dandy. and i loved how they threw Nikki a bone with letting her figure out the effing obvious "hey (twirls hair) like, um, theres like alotta Tv's here, (smacks gum) like um maybe they were watching more than one hatch" give me a break, we all kinda knew that already, and assumed (hoped) that locke would have thought of that too. and Paulo in the bathroom... how effing lame was that? that scene was absolutly pointless and an obvious "Paulo needs some screen time" scene.
We know nothing of them or how they've reacted with the other losties. Locke obviously knows them by name but what does he know about them that would make it ok for him to let them into "the club" if we knew Nikki had a past in figuring stuff out, it would have been more believable when she figured out the "stations" thing. it would have made Lockes reaction more believable too.

and why kill Ecko? when Claire needs to die still. Bernard's death would make Rose interesting again.
I think Sun could have died on the boat. I would be ok with less "jin loves sun" flashbacks. after all Jin knows English now right? Why do we need Sun's lying ass.

About the others... they're lairs. basically any dialouge between them and the losties cant be used for ANY theories because they lie. everything about them is a lie. so all those scenes with Jack with the others are useless.


About Sayid being back. I didnt even notice until someone pointed it out... so, they just made it back to camp with no problems eh? that was easy. and it only took 2 days! no big welcome home, no big talk about them not finding jack kate or sawyer... no talk of "the others took the boat" or "sun killed one of them" or that "there is a dock for a boat" conveniently, the "place" hurley was ordered not to tell the losties about.

anyway, i just feel, most of all that the many interesting things they talked about early on are seemingly forgotten by the writers.. the way they leave so many cool story lines unfinished. or finish them in a lame way.. I'm still not sure if they think the "numbers" arc has been finished or not.

pseudo science vs luck, psychics, ghosts, hallucinations & intelligent black smoke. this is driving me nuts. during season 1 i totally trusted the producers knew what they were doing.. in mid season 2 i started having doubts, so far in season 3 I've almost completely lost faith in them.

more on my frustrations

more on LOST

Another movie to not waste your time on

for Halloween we had some people over and popped in the fresh new netflix delivery. It was a scary movie that looked rad in the previews and was based on true events. that always helps. and thought it would be good for Halloween. The movie is An American Haunting. if you want to see it and find out it sucks the hard way don't read the rest of this post.

It starts out in present day with a really cool, but the ring-esque teenage girl running from something scary in the woods scary girl with long black hair scene that fizzles out when you find out its just a dream. then some yarn about family history and supernatural crap. The mom starts reading a letter from like the 1800's. talking about a Bell Witch. ok my intrigue is sort of making up for the cheesy voice over and bad acting. Next stop, 1800's and a mom wakes up hearing rustling in the upstairs and the dad isn't in bed. this scene, and subsequent haunting scenes of this little girl totally set you up for thinking the dad is molesting the daughter.. but then they throw in some crazy neighbor that curses their family because of some deal the dad screwed her on. then theres a phantom wolf. then theres these pretty descent scenes of the girl getting thrown around and slapped in mid air... with the whole family, a priest/doctor and a teacher as witnesses. the "spirit" throws things hurts people, makes the dad sick.
then it takes a turn. a turn to the stupid. the dialog starts to bring back the idea that the dad was molesting the daughter through lines like "you know the truth" and "you cursed yourself" . then your brain is like "ok, rad i knew that from before.." but what about the wolf and the little girl ghost the daughter keeps seeing, and the witch and the "spirit" and the crazy shit everyone saw?
oh yea, i guess the dad did molest the daughter and the mom caught him doing it. huh? yea and the ghost? this is the best part. the ghost haunting the daughter. yea, that was the ghost of herself. apparently, according to the cheesy voice over which we now know is the dirt ball teacher that ends up marrying the daughter, when you get molested you lose part of your soul. and that part that she lost was the ghost.

LAME!

based on true events. right, someone got molested by their dad. weak. this is the basis of the town legend and tourist attraction, The Bell Witch?

Halloween! for reals this time

you didn't think i was gonna go with volcanoes for the Halloween post did you?



HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!