Following on the mention of my days on Ragnarok Online in the last post, I’ve just discovered that iRO’s Sakray server will be shut down toward the end of next month.
I started out on iRO on Loki, but eventually made my home on Sakray. I met a lot of awesome people there and had some [...]
So, that super talented and amazingly awesome director, Uwe Boll, is challenging the internet to whip up 1 million petition signatures from people who hate his work, and claims he will stop making films if that requirement is met.
If Boll honestly cared that people didn’t like his films, he would’ve stopped some 3 or 4 [...]
…Or lack thereof.
Most people who know me at all know I’m not a fan of dA. I signed up for it originally back in the spring of 2001, and used it a bit, then realized it was less about actually bringing artists together than it was about seeing which anime derivative fanart snob could get [...]
Combine myspace, deviantart, last.fm, flickr and a love of yarn and you basically get Ravelry. It’s currently invite-only beta, so I can’t directly link to anything anyone would be able to access, but it is a dream come true for me. Patterns, topical social networks and a way to organize and keep track of my [...]
I had a feeling this would happen when I decided to pick up crochet as a hobby, but I somehow thought I’d be better able to balance it against my other crafts and pastimes. Guess I was wrong!
Crochet has become an obsession. I scour the internet for interesting patterns I feel confident enough to tackle. [...]
I picked up the His Dark Materials trilogy yesterday, with my nifty 20% off Borders coupon and a giftcard for the local mall left over from Christmas. I decided I should read something new, as I can only go through Dune so many times before I remember every line so vividly I can recall it [...]
Hello. My name is Asia and I’m addicted… to art supplies. Specifically pens and pencils. Throughout my childhood and adolescence, my favorite stores to browse when I went somewhere like a mall or shopping center were stationary and art supply stores… and within stores, I usually made sure to browse the electronics/video game sections (if [...]
During this semester’s mad rush to find all the necessary textbooks for less than the college bookstore would sell them (AKA rabidly browsing amazon and hoping to snag the lowest priced copy before someone else does), I came across a very interesting book…
The (New) Dinosaurs, by William Stout. It’s unusual in that, instead of [...]
Artworks
