A friend of mine once said that once you hit 18, the years fly by. Until you get married and have children, then it seems like days never want to end. I was just reading through my older posts, the last one dated for the end of January.
Holy shit.
I have not been dilligent in my pursuit of INTERNET FAME/NOTORIETY. I suppose having a Twitter account convinced me that those micro-updates were all the blogging I need. Well, 140-character posts aren't really my thing. I do enjoy Twitter, very much. I like being able to tell the Internet from my phone that I am currently pooping because I don't really like to bring my laptop with me to the can, but as an actual substitute to blogging, Twitter doesn't compare. It's less like "Micro-blogging" (is what they call it) and more "Facebook Updates..for your phone!" Still fun, though.
Anyway, as quick progress check: I have, since January 26, posted seven comics on my site, and am kicking around t-shirt ideas in my sketchbook that I will post for an audience-participation bit. Sweet. Depressingly, though, my brother's computer has been terminally borked and now he is depending on my comics machine to finish term papers and shit. This upsets me. I know he paid 18,000 some-odd bones for his education, but dammit, I have a readership to build. It's not going to happen if I'm not able to post consistently and reliably. On the other hand, I've had an offer for an illustration job that I need to jump on, a personal project I'd like finish within the next few months or so, and still more site tweaks to make, so the comics appear more nicely. I made the kind-of-grave mistake of allotting a space for the comics before I ever decided on the format, so with every update, after changing the dpi from 300 to a web-friendly 72, I have to compress it further in the HTML so it will fit in the table that was regrettably made before the comic ever was, making lines appear and disappear. Not the best of design decisions ever made. Certainly not the worst, either (ie: Apple's choice of laptop case material and iPhone's "unscratchable" surface)
So I signed up for a YouTube account, so that I can upload the videos made with my sexy, sexy new camera. I may post them here, effectively transforming this place into a "vlog", a word I care less for than "blog". Oh well.
Until next time.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
OH YEAH
I forgot, my new comic and site are up!
I wish the URL was playswell-online.com, but it's not. Only for now. Once I save a little money I will host it with someone else.
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~dkelly22
I wish the URL was playswell-online.com, but it's not. Only for now. Once I save a little money I will host it with someone else.
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~dkelly22
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Death Note's Ending SPOILER ALERT
Am I alone in wanting Light to succeed? In wanting him to succeed, what does that say about me?
I bought volume 12 of the Death Note series today. I had already read it, thanks to scans available online, but this series is of a caliber worth buying. It was no less gripping and disturbing now than it was when I read the end a year ago.
In Light's mission for mankind, the question the series grapples with is simple: Is murder in the name of purging humanity of its less moral members just? Light sees himself as the god of his new world, as the ultimate punisher of the wicked. He sets out on a mission that to him, and hopefully other people, seems just. But in his exploits, the number of criminals he murders catches the eye of the police and eventually the world's most accomplished detective, L. He draws the ire of those job it is to protect people, not simply innocents, the people who are told are safe from Light's judgment.
Posit this for a second: We have, in our society, a belief structure to which some adhere and others don't. This belief structure involves retribution from a higher power, a god, in response to wicked and questionable deeds. To the people who do not live explicitly to His gospel, it seems as though "bad" goes relatively unpunished by their god. What a game-changer it would be if there suddenly was someone who made criminals morally accountable? They say that God works in mysterious, capricious ways, but it's made clear by their dogma: The wicked will be punished. Kira, the title imposed on the one doing the mass killings (Light) is, in the series, a very real punisher, one whose existence couldn't be denied, unlike our God by some. With the threat of actual punishment looming over humanity, one had no choice but to conform, to act as Kira wished, which was to be kind to one another. It was all he wished, for the world to become a better place for everyone.
Death Note offered a reality that would exist if our God was real; if we actually undeniably knew that punishment existed for our wrongdoing. If people knew that their lives were definitely held accountable for their sins, that they would toe the line, as the world did in the story.
Of course, the reality of it was that Light Yagami was human, and in his noble mission was subject to the frailty of his state. He lied, he manipulated, he cheated death and everyone close to him, all in the name of his mission, and at the very end went insane, having lost all sense of humanity. It was interesting to see his downward spiral; from an outstanding student to the man who was obsessed with eliminating anyone who stood in his way.
Why did he fail? Was it his own arrogance? Was it because he lost sight of what was important, to build his new world? Or was it simply because he was human?
I really, really wanted to see Light succeed. And for that I am very deeply disturbed by how I think. To see him at the end, it was chilling to see how someone who had such strong, righteous ideals could be turned into a monster.
I bought volume 12 of the Death Note series today. I had already read it, thanks to scans available online, but this series is of a caliber worth buying. It was no less gripping and disturbing now than it was when I read the end a year ago.
In Light's mission for mankind, the question the series grapples with is simple: Is murder in the name of purging humanity of its less moral members just? Light sees himself as the god of his new world, as the ultimate punisher of the wicked. He sets out on a mission that to him, and hopefully other people, seems just. But in his exploits, the number of criminals he murders catches the eye of the police and eventually the world's most accomplished detective, L. He draws the ire of those job it is to protect people, not simply innocents, the people who are told are safe from Light's judgment.
Posit this for a second: We have, in our society, a belief structure to which some adhere and others don't. This belief structure involves retribution from a higher power, a god, in response to wicked and questionable deeds. To the people who do not live explicitly to His gospel, it seems as though "bad" goes relatively unpunished by their god. What a game-changer it would be if there suddenly was someone who made criminals morally accountable? They say that God works in mysterious, capricious ways, but it's made clear by their dogma: The wicked will be punished. Kira, the title imposed on the one doing the mass killings (Light) is, in the series, a very real punisher, one whose existence couldn't be denied, unlike our God by some. With the threat of actual punishment looming over humanity, one had no choice but to conform, to act as Kira wished, which was to be kind to one another. It was all he wished, for the world to become a better place for everyone.
Death Note offered a reality that would exist if our God was real; if we actually undeniably knew that punishment existed for our wrongdoing. If people knew that their lives were definitely held accountable for their sins, that they would toe the line, as the world did in the story.
Of course, the reality of it was that Light Yagami was human, and in his noble mission was subject to the frailty of his state. He lied, he manipulated, he cheated death and everyone close to him, all in the name of his mission, and at the very end went insane, having lost all sense of humanity. It was interesting to see his downward spiral; from an outstanding student to the man who was obsessed with eliminating anyone who stood in his way.
Why did he fail? Was it his own arrogance? Was it because he lost sight of what was important, to build his new world? Or was it simply because he was human?
I really, really wanted to see Light succeed. And for that I am very deeply disturbed by how I think. To see him at the end, it was chilling to see how someone who had such strong, righteous ideals could be turned into a monster.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
I am on Twitter now!
Hopefully, this will put me in touch with more and more of the biggest names in webcomics. I just @replied Rene Engstrom of Anders Loves Maria, maybe she will reply back, and be all like, "Who is this dude? He's so cool. If only he lived in Sweden. :D"
Thursday, January 1, 2009
I wish I could get over it.
I really, really do, but I can't help but fill with rage whenever I hear anything pertaining to her seeing someone else. Especially when she said she wanted to just be by herself for the time being.
That's all I have to say about that.
That's all I have to say about that.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Let's Ring In The New Year
I dislike regretting things, but I have one for 2008: I wish I had fixed more relationships and things.
I ended up mending one broken bridge, but I have yet to see him or talk to him in person since then, so it may not count. I'll wish him a happy birthday on Friday.
This segues well into my New Year's resolutions:
In 2009 I will fix everything; all of my mistakes that began in 2007, they will all be patched over in 2009. I resolve to stop ruining other people's lives and turn my own around. Things are already at a great start. I will not jinx them by mentioning specifics, but I will, hopefully for the last time, make a plea for patience with me.
There are a specific pair of people for whom I have been a colossal thorn. For 2009, I am setting aside my own needs, wants, and aspirations to ensure that these two people will get exactly what they have been waiting for by the end of the year, and maybe more. This has gone on for approximately 1.4 years too long, but I will end it in 2009.
Another person, for whom I have just been a minor nuisance, will get exactly what is owed, and I am NOT referring exclusively to the events of November 2007. This person has been more than a friend, going above and beyond what anyone could ever possibly ask of someone, and all I have to show in grattitude is the most sincere,heartfelt thank-you I have ever offered someone. Words cannot express how much I appreciate having this person in my life in my time of need, and by the end of 2009, I will deliver a proper thanks, one that will express how immensely grateful I am for their presence and support.
I also resolve not to be an idiot. For a while I thought I had that covered, but I wouldn't be resolving not to now if I had.
My last resolution is to finish all of the games that I have bought in the past and have since taken to sitting on my shelf. The Final Fantasies, the Xenosagas, Disgaea 1+2, Magna Carta...all of them. I have no business buying more RPGS before I finish all of the ones I currently own. I might pick up some PS2 memory cards on clearance later in the year to accomodate all of my final saves...I don't take kindly to the idea of deleting the proof of 40+hour investments/timeburning.
Happy New Year!
Currently listening to Ozma (In my head...8P)
I ended up mending one broken bridge, but I have yet to see him or talk to him in person since then, so it may not count. I'll wish him a happy birthday on Friday.
This segues well into my New Year's resolutions:
In 2009 I will fix everything; all of my mistakes that began in 2007, they will all be patched over in 2009. I resolve to stop ruining other people's lives and turn my own around. Things are already at a great start. I will not jinx them by mentioning specifics, but I will, hopefully for the last time, make a plea for patience with me.
There are a specific pair of people for whom I have been a colossal thorn. For 2009, I am setting aside my own needs, wants, and aspirations to ensure that these two people will get exactly what they have been waiting for by the end of the year, and maybe more. This has gone on for approximately 1.4 years too long, but I will end it in 2009.
Another person, for whom I have just been a minor nuisance, will get exactly what is owed, and I am NOT referring exclusively to the events of November 2007. This person has been more than a friend, going above and beyond what anyone could ever possibly ask of someone, and all I have to show in grattitude is the most sincere,heartfelt thank-you I have ever offered someone. Words cannot express how much I appreciate having this person in my life in my time of need, and by the end of 2009, I will deliver a proper thanks, one that will express how immensely grateful I am for their presence and support.
I also resolve not to be an idiot. For a while I thought I had that covered, but I wouldn't be resolving not to now if I had.
My last resolution is to finish all of the games that I have bought in the past and have since taken to sitting on my shelf. The Final Fantasies, the Xenosagas, Disgaea 1+2, Magna Carta...all of them. I have no business buying more RPGS before I finish all of the ones I currently own. I might pick up some PS2 memory cards on clearance later in the year to accomodate all of my final saves...I don't take kindly to the idea of deleting the proof of 40+hour investments/timeburning.
Happy New Year!
Currently listening to Ozma (In my head...8P)
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