ZOMBIE FASCINATION

So here it is, the posting that I have been putting off... the reason for my Zombie Fascination.

... sigh ...

I cannot specifically say when it started, though I suspect that it began one fateful night in New Orleans, Louisiana, when myself and a small cadre of friends went to a conference centered around the Pagan beliefs and representatives of each particular venue of beliefs were on hand to demonstrate their ritual practices. Now I wish I could say that it was all very fine and good, however, it turned out to be an event, a day and an experience that I shall nay forget as long as I exist. 

But that's a story for another posting.  XD 

There is an amazing resemblance between the grotesk, and often chilling, representation of animated corpses seeking out a meal among a race that inherently disregards utilizing their brains for something other than autopilot, and the social behaviors of the human race. 

Now I will say this first: 

The following are my personal opinions (i.e. this is MY blog...) 

and I have no interest in offending anyone, however...

the statements made are based on my personal experiences and observations thus far in my life. 

"I want to be different, just like everyone else..."

1. FADS = PLAGUE. One person is SOOOO lazy, they put their clothes on inside out and thinks wearing your clothes this way is good. That person convinces another person that yes... clothes worn inside out is good. The next thing you know, everywhere you look, thousands of seamstress hours are brutally mauled as their creations are turned inside out. Bring in a high falootin' so-n-so to endorse this 'movement' and begin a whole clothing line dedicated to it, and you have FAD ZOMBIES. All bit by the same plague. The newest diet, house size, vehicle, 6-direction washing machines, cure for the latest ailment with side effects that outweigh the cure.
2. POLLS...Pure Plague propaganda. I ask 3 doctors a question about [insert subject]. 2 of them answer one way, 1 answers another way. The following statement is TRUE. "Two out of every three doctors polledor tax [subject]. agreed [insert subject agenda]". Now you are ready to launch your agenda platform and you dispense the results of the poll in magazines, radio and T.V. which places your [subject] in the minds and conversations of everyone who were exposed to the poll. People exposed to the poll find themselves in the position of agreeing or disagreeing with the [subject], which creates sides. Enter the government which then has to take an official position about the [subject], suddenly political officials are using the [subject] as a platform to launch their campaign for election, and the government as a ruling body has to pass a law or addendum to the law to legislate

There are more, but perhaps I will put them in another post. The main theme of the Zombie Fascination is it only takes one. Once you are bit, you are one of them.   o_O

ZOMG! A NEW POST??!?!?

SO I WILL CONTINUE TO PRETEND THAT SOMEONE OTHER THAN MYSELF IS READING THIS BLOG, AND MAKE THE OBLIGATORY APOLOGIES FOR NOT UPDATING... SOME THING THAT I'VE NOTICED HAPPENS FREQUENTLY IN THE BLOGVERSE. SO MUCH SO IN FACT THAT THE VERY REASON THAT I AM WRITING IS BECAUSE IT ANNOYED ME TO THE *Nth* DEGREE. YOU KNOW, IF YOU ARE GOING TO START A BLOG, YOU SHOULD STICK WITH IT. NOW I WON'T GO SO FAR AS TO SAY THAT LIFE IS ONE BLOG ENTRY AFTER ANOTHER, BUT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, HOW CAN YOU CALL YOURSELF A BLOGGER IF YOU UPDATE ONCE A YEAR OR PERHAPS ONCE EVERY OTHER MONTH? PEOPLE GET BORED CHECKING FOR UPDATES DAY AFTER DAY, JUST TO HAVE THEIR ANTICIPATIONS DECIMATED BY YOUR LACK OF DISCIPLINE.

ERE'GO, I AM UPDATING MY BLOG AND AM GOING TO ATTEMPT TO MAKE IT A DAILY.  =P
SHORT ENTRY, BUT AN ENTRY NONE THE LESS!!

KURAGARI

Hooray! Success!!!

Well, I am excited, as you can see... 2 posts in the same day!! WOOT!! So I'm working at 6 Flags Great America, and let me tell you...I LOVE MY JOB!! Two times now I've followed the impetus of getting a job in the 'real world' and I'll tell you what... The real world can have their stupid jobs. I work at 6 Flags Great America, and I think it's the best job on the planet, bar none. Do they have their issues? Of course. Do people act stupid sometimes? Oh yeah. But you know what? There is no other job that I've ever had where your individual presence can be DRASTICALLY responsible for how people around you feel. Now, I'm gonna say this and get it out of the way, I'm a people idiot. What does that mean? I'm glad you asked. It means that I am one of those guys who will make a complete idiot out of himself just to get you to smile, or laugh, or at the very least, to realize that life is not all that bad. You're encouraged to be yourself, and the more genuine you are, the better off you'll be. I've worked a few different departments, and I've found this to be the case in every one. Working at Six Flags is like being at summer camp. It really is. I love my job. Anyway, having said all that, to say that when I got home from work today, I decided to play around with Adobe Photoshop and I'm learning the 'Pen Tool'... which for those of you who don't know, can be quite a daunting task to say the least. But once you get it, you GOT it. So anyway, I did a few practices on some sketches that I did, and I've posted them below. The neat thing about the pen tool is that it creates a work path (I know, way too much information...but stick with me, I'm almost there...) that allows you to modify the individual paths you've created. Adobe Photoshop is probably the MOST powerful illustration tool I've been exposed to yet, and I continue discovering new things every time I use it. You come up against a situation where you need to do something that your current knowledge base does not cover, and you simply try something new. If you have a hard time I've found the help and index to be an insurmountable force against any problem, and simply experimenting will train you in anything you need to know. So without further adieu, here is my original sketches with their 'pen tool' equivalents...
This is the original sketch...









This is the original sketch traced with the pen tool, and the work path (which is the pen tool tracing) has been stroked with a black paint brush...








This is the same original sketch, but the paths that were created with the pen tool have been stroked with different colors. It was as simple as selecting the path you wanted to work with, selecting the color, and viola, a colorful ANGEL ME is rendered for the general public viewing.








Another example, a sketch I did based on a web comic that I read by Senay Dragon, whose Manga style is just incredible. I tried to contact her without success to find out what she's been up to since her last update, but unfortunately I never heard from her. I enjoy the Manga (Japanese Style) because it emphasizes and exaggerates the emotions that the characters are feeling, and quite often the end result is that you laugh yourself silly reading it.




















So that's all I have time for tonight to update. I hope that this entry has been informative and fun to read, I'm off to bed. Working open to close tomorrow! WOOT!!!

Kuragari