This isn't a big update (as you can probably already tell), but I came across this remix of one of the songs from Final Fantasy 7 (one of my favourite games of all time) and I've had it on repeat for most of today. So I thought it best to sharey sharerson with you guys. It's by a chap called Evil Needle, whilst his name may fill your pants with mess, his music is very chilled. It's great to listen to if you're just getting on with work, I've been listening to more of his stuff whilst I continued to work on some of my drawings.
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Monday 14 October 2013
Friday 11 October 2013
Good times!
So yeah, I think it's safe to say that I'm pretty terrible at remembering to update this frequently.
However, that should be about to change. You see, I am a creature of habit, I need a routine in my life to keep the equilibrium happy. Whilst I was working on my graphic novel (more on that soon) I had a routine, get up at 9, work all day, then get drunk and sleep. Then I finished working on it and needed to find a job.
Well, on wednesday I got offered an apprenticeship! So on the 21st I start work!
I've been putting a lot of things off until I had a job, such as exercise and writing on a day to day basis. It was quite a feeble excuse, but I wanted to have my routine set before I started adding these things into my life, and now that I have the job, I want to get back into getting my shit together. That includes updating this blog with whatever I want to talk about.
Today I got the results for my graphic novel, Second Solace, from my Master's tutor. So now the next step is to do a couple of tweaks to it over the next week before I start work, and then get it thrown into as many publishers faces as I possibly can and hope that someone somewhere thinks it's half decent. If that fails, then I'll be looking into Kickstarter, and if that fails, it's going up as an e-book on amazon. Regardless of the outcome, I'm getting it published!
On a completely different note, I played the first part of telltale's "The Wolf Among Us" game. I don't know what they're drinking over at telltale, but man can those guys write! I've never heard of Fables before, but I picked it up solely because of telltales' track record with excellent storytelling, and I was not disappointed. Well, I was when I came to the end and remembered that awful feeling of having to wait over a month for part 2.
Anyway, for my extended absence from blogging, please accept this delightful picture of Guybrush Threepwood that I knocked up today. It's part of a series of pictures I'm hoping to do on many of my favourite characters (whether that be film, game or tv etc.) which I would like to one day get printed up onto canvas to stick up around my abode.
Anyway, toodlepip for now you wonderful bunch of people!
However, that should be about to change. You see, I am a creature of habit, I need a routine in my life to keep the equilibrium happy. Whilst I was working on my graphic novel (more on that soon) I had a routine, get up at 9, work all day, then get drunk and sleep. Then I finished working on it and needed to find a job.
Well, on wednesday I got offered an apprenticeship! So on the 21st I start work!
I've been putting a lot of things off until I had a job, such as exercise and writing on a day to day basis. It was quite a feeble excuse, but I wanted to have my routine set before I started adding these things into my life, and now that I have the job, I want to get back into getting my shit together. That includes updating this blog with whatever I want to talk about.
Today I got the results for my graphic novel, Second Solace, from my Master's tutor. So now the next step is to do a couple of tweaks to it over the next week before I start work, and then get it thrown into as many publishers faces as I possibly can and hope that someone somewhere thinks it's half decent. If that fails, then I'll be looking into Kickstarter, and if that fails, it's going up as an e-book on amazon. Regardless of the outcome, I'm getting it published!
On a completely different note, I played the first part of telltale's "The Wolf Among Us" game. I don't know what they're drinking over at telltale, but man can those guys write! I've never heard of Fables before, but I picked it up solely because of telltales' track record with excellent storytelling, and I was not disappointed. Well, I was when I came to the end and remembered that awful feeling of having to wait over a month for part 2.
Anyway, for my extended absence from blogging, please accept this delightful picture of Guybrush Threepwood that I knocked up today. It's part of a series of pictures I'm hoping to do on many of my favourite characters (whether that be film, game or tv etc.) which I would like to one day get printed up onto canvas to stick up around my abode.
Anyway, toodlepip for now you wonderful bunch of people!
Wednesday 2 October 2013
I return!
Yes, that's right folks, I'm back!
Sorry I've been gone so long, partly it was because I just forgot, but the times when I remembered, I couldn't think of anything to say.
But now I do have something to say, and its on the topic of finales
SPOILER ALERT
I will be talking about the finales of LOST, Breaking Bad, and Dexter. You have been warned.
Breaking Bad finished this week, and I can honestly say I couldn't pick fault at it. I know some people werent super pleased that Walt essentially got what he wanted, after everything he has done, but I was ok with it, because ever since his hair grew back he kinda stopped being Hiesenberg. So I liked that there were parts of Walt returning.
Dexter, on the other hand, had quite the depressing finale. I don't know if it's because it's final season aired alongside the final season of Breaking Bad, but the whole season felt a little underwhelming. I know that the show has seen a decline in writing performance since season 4 ended, but the stories were always interesting and unique. But I think everyone expected the final season to see Dexter go up against the people he worked for for so long. It may have been unsurprising, but I think that that is what the show needed to do. We all knew he couldn't get away with murdering people forever. But regardless, it was an interesting story, and an interesting (yet depressing) finale. Deb suffered at the actions of Dexter, and in the shows final scenes, he drops her lifeless body into the ocean before sailing off into a storm. Then right at the end we see the shell of his former self sitting in an empty room, completely lost.
But here is my main point that I wanted to talk about.
Damon Lindelof was one of the creators of LOST, and on Monday morning he retweeted hundreds of people admiring the finale of Breaking Bad and telling him that is how you end a show. He later went on to write a blog about how he is done with trying to defend his show and it's finale. I feel sorry for the man, I loved LOST, and whilst I was upset that there were several things that were left unexplained, I can't fault him for the direction he took his show in. I like to write, and if one day I get around to writing my own book or show, I would expect people to respect my creative decisions. If I had made LOST, I would have focused more on attempting to survive on an island, rather than the supernatural aspects, but that it would have been more like Castaway.
I feel sorry that so many people think its ok to just blatantly insult Lindelof about his decisions when it was their own choice to sit and watch 6 seasons of his show. To give him credit over Breaking Bad, at least no one guessed how LOST would end. I don't know anyone who watched Breaking Bad that thought Walt would survive. Same goes for all the people insulting Dexter's finale, no one thought Dexter would be left alone in a woodcutter's house.
I guess my point is this, I will never insult a television show/book/film's creative decisions. It's not my place, I might not be left happy afterwards, but at the end of the day, it is their choice how they end their work, not mine. I didn't like the incestuous side plot that Dexter teased, but it certainly got people talking about the show, and that's the point of including it. If they didn't take risks, no one would have watched it past the first episode.
Speaking of excitement, Second Solace chapter one has been submitted to my tutors, and in 9 days I will get my results. I'll then spend a few weeks making it as good as possible before it goes out into the big wide world.
Toodles
Sorry I've been gone so long, partly it was because I just forgot, but the times when I remembered, I couldn't think of anything to say.
But now I do have something to say, and its on the topic of finales
SPOILER ALERT
I will be talking about the finales of LOST, Breaking Bad, and Dexter. You have been warned.
Breaking Bad finished this week, and I can honestly say I couldn't pick fault at it. I know some people werent super pleased that Walt essentially got what he wanted, after everything he has done, but I was ok with it, because ever since his hair grew back he kinda stopped being Hiesenberg. So I liked that there were parts of Walt returning.
Dexter, on the other hand, had quite the depressing finale. I don't know if it's because it's final season aired alongside the final season of Breaking Bad, but the whole season felt a little underwhelming. I know that the show has seen a decline in writing performance since season 4 ended, but the stories were always interesting and unique. But I think everyone expected the final season to see Dexter go up against the people he worked for for so long. It may have been unsurprising, but I think that that is what the show needed to do. We all knew he couldn't get away with murdering people forever. But regardless, it was an interesting story, and an interesting (yet depressing) finale. Deb suffered at the actions of Dexter, and in the shows final scenes, he drops her lifeless body into the ocean before sailing off into a storm. Then right at the end we see the shell of his former self sitting in an empty room, completely lost.
But here is my main point that I wanted to talk about.
Damon Lindelof was one of the creators of LOST, and on Monday morning he retweeted hundreds of people admiring the finale of Breaking Bad and telling him that is how you end a show. He later went on to write a blog about how he is done with trying to defend his show and it's finale. I feel sorry for the man, I loved LOST, and whilst I was upset that there were several things that were left unexplained, I can't fault him for the direction he took his show in. I like to write, and if one day I get around to writing my own book or show, I would expect people to respect my creative decisions. If I had made LOST, I would have focused more on attempting to survive on an island, rather than the supernatural aspects, but that it would have been more like Castaway.
I feel sorry that so many people think its ok to just blatantly insult Lindelof about his decisions when it was their own choice to sit and watch 6 seasons of his show. To give him credit over Breaking Bad, at least no one guessed how LOST would end. I don't know anyone who watched Breaking Bad that thought Walt would survive. Same goes for all the people insulting Dexter's finale, no one thought Dexter would be left alone in a woodcutter's house.
I guess my point is this, I will never insult a television show/book/film's creative decisions. It's not my place, I might not be left happy afterwards, but at the end of the day, it is their choice how they end their work, not mine. I didn't like the incestuous side plot that Dexter teased, but it certainly got people talking about the show, and that's the point of including it. If they didn't take risks, no one would have watched it past the first episode.
Speaking of excitement, Second Solace chapter one has been submitted to my tutors, and in 9 days I will get my results. I'll then spend a few weeks making it as good as possible before it goes out into the big wide world.
Toodles
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