I have discovered in addition to my omniscience that I have the ability to see into the future. Ask me a question about any individual or furry and I will provide the enlightenment you seek.

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StainD, LEN, Phil Collins, Puddle Of Mudd, The Fray, Plain White T's, Shwayze, Maroon 5, Ke$ha, The Pink Spiders, LFO, The Vines, N.E.R.D. , Daughty, Nickelback, Good Charlotte, Radiohead, G-Unit, Papa Roach, Mudvayne, Kevin Federline

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It was awesome being with you all and meeting many of you for the first time.

I'm a little hungover and I can't remember all of your names, I'm going off of my little mnemonic devices, so shoutouts to whathisname, fabulous dude, rich kid, blue hair, green hair, other rich kid, the sharp dresser, big hipster, little hipster, the stuck up dude, stuck up dude's good looking boyfriend, the girl who looked really scared, the guy who explained to me in detail his fursuit species for 30 minutes, the really tall guy, and the dude who everyone kept forgetting about.

If you've followed my gallery you'll know that:

1) I'm a huge fan of Brushes, the iPhone App
2) I'm not a big fan of Wacom
3) Most desktop art/illustration programs are trash.
4) Especially Adobe's software

I have yet to use a drawing application that feels natural (believe it or not Flash is probably the best program I know of for doodling.) On a real sketchbook, your set-up time is a matter of seconds. On a canvas, it's much longer, but much of the set-up time pertains to the process of actually painting. It's a bit different when you're just waiting for a bloated piece of software to load, setting up your color palette with some godawful color picker, and getting the fucking toolbars out of the way. If you've got a cheapo Bamboo or Intuos, you're talking about a 2 foot distance between the input and the product on software whose interface is compromised between mouse-and-stylus inputs. If you plunk down $1,000.00 for a Cintiq, you get to remove the 2 foot distance... until you need to use a mouse again.

Enter Brushes
When the iPad was introduced in January, one of the apps demoed was Brushes. Although Steve Sprang (who singlehandedly wrote the application by the way) looked like Bob Newhart at a funeral, the demo blew me away. And if you don't believe Brushes is capable of some serious work, check out the Flickr pool- and that's done on a 4" screen. The user interface of Brushes is completely unique from that of most illustration programs. Your options are minimal, and you're encouraged to 'sample' colors as opposed to simply pick from a palette. The process is perhaps the truest translation of actually physically painting that I know of. Best of all, there's practically no setup, and those useless effects found in other painting applications are thankfully absent.

Why The iPad
Some people have whined that it's a $500.00 tablet that runs what is basically the iPhone OS with added menu commands. But The fact that the iPad's interface is based off of the iPhone's is its greatest strength. If it was running some hacked-on version of Mac OSX (or say Win7) , it'd be able to run Illustrator and Photoshop, but there'd be no incentive for new developers to seize the opportunity to write something new around a touch-based concept of interaction. Quite frankly, Photoshop, Painter, and Illustrator are stale products that have fattened up as the mouse-driven world has matured.

What's also fantastic is the spontaneity possible of being able to pick up a tablet and start sketching within a matter of seconds. Brushes loads instantaneously and is ready to go.

Why Not Something Else
Trying to compromise a tablet's usefulness so that it'd be able to run legacy software may sound like a cheap competitive advantage, if your idea of fresh thinking is SAI or Corel Painter on an HP Slate, go right ahead.


I want a Stylus
So do I. It's called the Pogo. It's $40.00. It also does pressure sensitivity and works great with the huge ass Macbook trackpads.

Second off, who's going? :-D . (Also PM me if you'd like to exchange digits)

For those of you who scored a copy of "Plastic Beach" , the follow up to Demon Days {what was in my opinion the most engaging album released in the past decade}, what's your favorite track?



(If you don't like Gorillaz your taste in music likely sucks)

One, because you're not as hot as you think you are. :)

FurAffinity provides a worthless "shell of choice" tag for your user profile.

Instead of specifying your OS shell, put something witty like "Conch."

FWA. If you have a room, leave a reply, send me a PM/Email/IM whatever. I am clean, low maintenance, have money, don't take up much space, don't smell, and possess a full set of teeth. Bed space preferred.

(Please do not reply to this post if you're not going or have no space available / aren't sure.)

for 1337 comments!

:cheers:

New art is on its way!

+ On your character sheet, make sure you include that you hate "Mean People," or else I have no way of knowing.

For Christmas a relative gave me an Asus EEE PC she no longer wanted. It came with Windows 7, but Windows 7 felt like the wrong tool for the job, though I do admit it's progressed from the dark days of Windows XP.

I decided to give a build of Ubuntu called "Easy Peasy" a try (optimized for my system and based off of Netbook Remix) It made a decent impression at first, and for the first week I was happy and got it running all slick. For the following weeks it has fallen apart faster than a $300.00 Wal-mart laptop (uh oops lol).

I'm going to cut to the chase here - it sucks. If Google Chrome bogs down it takes the entire system with it ala Classic MacOS. We're talking even the cursor becomes unresponsive. On two occasions in the past month I've had video card errors (as in the screen displays gibberish). Half of the updates won't install for various errors to which there is insufficient documentation. It's slow and decreases battery life by ~30% compared to Windows 7. Sometimes (rarely but it does happen) the trackpad drivers don't load on boot. So looking for an honest answer, is this the norm? Should I not be looking a free-software gift horse in the mouth? I mean it's functional enough, and I'm not expecting it to run like a Mac, but this seems awfully high maintenance. Is this just a particularly sloppy version?

Then there are other things that I can't decide if it's Easy Peasy, Ubuntu, or Linux in general. For example, the "workspaces" - is there a way to scroll in the main menu without it switching workspaces? That's a helluva lot more intuitive/relevant. And why does it come up on random intervals?

Most importantly, is there a way to switch my boot partition back to Windows without going through the terminal?

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Oh you shouldn't have!

(P.s. no it's not really me there's no Bleu suit)

Are you retarded? Answer this question: Owl City is a good musician.....

If you answered "yes," scroll down.....




























You're Retarded

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My birthday is coming up tomorrow! Know what that means!? Well not a lot.

To sort of break the ice and long, long, long down time before the next picture gets posted, I'll be taking questions from the audience. Go ahead, ask me something. I can't promise any answers.

It's better to not post your pictures on FA and have me assume you're ugly than participate in a stupid meme and remove all doubt.

Turns out I'm alive!

I don't watch a lot of you because I find you interesting or your art good. I mean some of you I do- probably those of you who are reading this are people who I do. I mean, don't get me wrong, quite a few of you I really like your stuff or even you as a character. We're cool.

But then for the rest of you I just watch because I figure your standards are low enough so that you don't give a shit who you watch and you'll just watch my shit back, add a favorite, and get me a few more visitors. Don't think I'm just spamming your watched-by page- I put you through various tests such as

-Uses FA
-Seems to be OK watching/favoriting crap art/artists
-Not so indiscriminate that if I'm watched/fav'd I'll stay on your page for a minimum of 24 hours
-Not retarded so that it's an insult you like my work. (Aka your username doesn't have the words "yiff" or "slut" in it)

the sacrifice on my end is my message center gets spammed with worthless messages I end up ignoring. Oh, and you took pictures of your second life character, awesome! Oh look, you used your mom's hair straightener- you're still not attractive! What's that? You in fox paws? No I don't care, but sure what the hell, you returning the favs more than makes up for it!

But then there are those of you who don't watch/fav me back. I'm ashamed for both of us. First off, let's be honest- your standards aren't that high to begin with, and it's not like God gave you any really talent or purpose on this planet, so what the fuck's your problem? I hope God gives you AIDS.


P.S. this is just a reminder my birthday is in 2 weeks

P.P.S. for those of you in one of those countries that don't speak English this entry is being facetious.

My IM presence has been a little erratic. I've queued up the commissions as follows, since I can't seem to work on things simultaneously. I'll just be updating this post.


 ryanr 2/3 , 3/3 Active - Working on 2/3

Wacom sucks.

(If you've ever tried getting one of their crappy styli replaced under warranty you know what I'm talking about)

I'm back from big-sky-no-sales-tax country!

Screw you guys, I'm going to Montana

for 3 weeks

visiting the rest of the west

please pardon any delays

I don't understand the idea of buying softcore porn from someone who hates sex.

Up until the end of July:

FA User Icons: $5.00
U-Print-it Badges: $20.00
1 Character partial with simple color: $40.00

U-Name It: send me a private message, I'll quote you a price!

(P.S. there is no need to tell me "I hope someone buys a commission" in the comments!)

The first: an effort to block the rays of the sun from hitting the earth including the ultra violet radiation that will come through without an adequate layer of ozone in the upper regions above the earth. This, it is hoped, will lower temperature on the surface of the earth and block ultra violet radiation from causing skin cancer in humans. The aerosol sprayed by planes is probably aluminum oxide or a compound that would have similar properties and reflect the sunlight.

The second: is the United States Navy's, RFMP, Radio Frequency Mission Planner, military program. One of the supporting subprograms within the RFMP system is called the VTRPE computer program. VTRPE is an acronym that stands for Variable Terrain Radio Parabolic Equation, These two programs allow the battlefield terrain to be seen in in 3 dimensions (3-D) on a television screen. The RFMP system depends on satellites to feed their images of the battlefield into the RFMP system.

The VTRPE computer program only worked accurately over water and along coastal areas but not over land masses because the system's radar waves required an atmospheric condition known as "ducting", over land, to operate accurately. The government and military solved the "ducting" problem by releasing an aerosol, a mixture of barium salts, into the atmosphere over America. The chemical and electrical characterics of the mixture will cause water moisture to stay in clouds. Spraying from point A to point B will enable high frequency communications along that path, even over the curvature of the earth, in both directions. Barium salt chemtrails were used to support the Navy's Radio Frequency
Mission Planner over Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

The third project also utilizes the mixture of barium salts in the atmosphere. Weather control is a project of the U.S. Air Force and utilizes Nikola Tesla concepts of radio frequency radiation (HAARP) against the ionosphere above the earth. Fragile life support systems in our environment are being manipulated, tested and altered by government for military advantage. Air Force documents implied, "the risks are high but the rewards are worth it." The mixture of barium salts, supporting moisture, is encouraged along the weather fronts and manipulated in a control fashion. It is believed microwave energy is also utilized in the weather control program. Weather data is also a required input to the VTRPE program of the RFMP system. Perfected weather control technology will enable a military to withhold rain, cause floods, cause drought, cause storms, withhold sunshire, damage food crops, and bring any country to its knees without firing a shot.

The fourth project in the atmosphere is the DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, biological detection and decontamination programs. The program also utilizes the mixture of barium salts as the base vehicle in aerosol along with special polymer fibers in the atmosphere. They have released biologicals into the atmosphere in trials, testing the detection and decontamination systems.

It is believed that barium salt, polymer fibers and other chemicals in the atmosphere are the physical irritants that are either directly or indirectly responsible for the recent nationwide epidemic increase in cases of nose bleed, asthma, allergies, pneumonia, upper respiratory symptoms and a
noticeable increase in arthritis symptoms, recently reported nationwide. Chemicals illegally sprayed into the atmosphere are producing atmospheric and ground conditions detrimental to human and animal health but favorable to the growth of harmful molds / fungus. These conditions are not conducive to good health. The soluble salts of barium, an earth metal, are toxic in mammalian systems. They are absorbed rapidly from the gastrointestinal tract and are deposited in the muscles, lungs, and bone. No case data is available from the medical community on the long term effects of barium in the human body.

The programs are secret because the Federal EPA and State Environmental Quality Agencies need to "not know" about what the by-products of the metabolites of biological, illegal and harmful agents are. It's for that reason the project has been declared secret from the citizens.