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I'm making the most BORING things in the world...boring boring boring. I'm dragging my feet making them, because it's all stuff I've made a ba-zillion times before so I'm BORED. I'd put up a picture of the stuff in question but it's such incredibly mundane stuff that it'd kill me a little inside, every time I signed in on LJ and had to look at it again...Baaah!
:::is bored:::
Why the hell don't people stop buying it? If they'd just stop buying it I could stop making it, and then I wouldn't be tempted to gnaw my own arm off .
:::pout:::
I'm being a big baby. What I do for a living, it beats working at Wal Mart or something like that (no offense intended, should anyone out there in the Ether actually be employees of Wal Mart...my bad). I just feel adventurous, but the current economic climate dictates I should make stuff that's "safe"...that will be a sure sale... and that just drives me nuts. Grr.
Fortunately, Stalin was wrong. It's not Religion that is the opiate of the masses...it's TV!! Woo! More precisely, it's my brand new shiny "The Life Aquatic" DVD that I got for V-Day.
I just love that movie. Especially since it seems tailor-made for my generation. The David Bowie songs, sung in Portuguese, are a perfect analogy for basically everything in the movie. It's something familiar, a little skewed and with a different twist, but still beautiful. I was a HUGE fan of the Cousteau films of the 70's and so that aspect of the movie simply slays me (I love clever satire, especially if it's done in a way that is respectful rather than insulting). Steve (Bill Murray) Zissou's quixotic narcissistic sweetness is so engaging (even when he's a jerk you sort of have to love him) and his moments of self-doubt are so poignant, like when he flings his earring away after some people in a bar laugh at him for being "affected", or when he quietly removes his hat after Cate Blanchette ridicules it. He's SO human, he sort of breaks my heart. He has so many little moments of personal bravery and greatness, but they kind of get lost in the overall sheer goofiness of the man...he just can't seem to rise above his own fallability. But he keeps trying and that's what I love so much about his character; he doggedly pursues the sublime in a world that hates idealists. The part that always gets to me, the point at which I always cry, is at the end when he finally finds the "Jaguar Shark" again...and says in a small voice "I wonder if he remembers me." It just breaks my heart into little bits. He's lost his son, his career is in the toilet, and he's in his mid-fifties. All he has is a perfect moment and this rare beautiful creature that he's found...maybe if the shark remembers him he can have his little piece of immortality. I guess that's all anybody wants, a little validation, a little beauty that lasts and doesn't decay, some proof that we exist and are unique... :::sigh::: It's a freaking funny movie, too, and I laugh my ass off throughout, but there's pathos there as well and it moves me to tears every time.
And I am SO Eleanor (Angelica Houston's character, Zissou's wife). Every freaking word out of her mouth is SO something I'd say, and she's the "fixer" of the film. I identify with her the most, she's at her best when things spin out of control and everyone needs an adult to step in, but she resents being the only responsible person in the group and it's funny as hell. Her deadpan humor is very much like mine. When Steve tracks her down (she sort of flounces off in disgust at one point and ends up in a tropical villa...somewhere) she greets him with "Oh shit it's you." Which doesn't ~sound~ funny but her delivery is so straight it cracks me up every time.
Anyway, I freaking love my DVD. :-)
:::is bored:::
Why the hell don't people stop buying it? If they'd just stop buying it I could stop making it, and then I wouldn't be tempted to gnaw my own arm off .
:::pout:::
I'm being a big baby. What I do for a living, it beats working at Wal Mart or something like that (no offense intended, should anyone out there in the Ether actually be employees of Wal Mart...my bad). I just feel adventurous, but the current economic climate dictates I should make stuff that's "safe"...that will be a sure sale... and that just drives me nuts. Grr.
Fortunately, Stalin was wrong. It's not Religion that is the opiate of the masses...it's TV!! Woo! More precisely, it's my brand new shiny "The Life Aquatic" DVD that I got for V-Day.
I just love that movie. Especially since it seems tailor-made for my generation. The David Bowie songs, sung in Portuguese, are a perfect analogy for basically everything in the movie. It's something familiar, a little skewed and with a different twist, but still beautiful. I was a HUGE fan of the Cousteau films of the 70's and so that aspect of the movie simply slays me (I love clever satire, especially if it's done in a way that is respectful rather than insulting). Steve (Bill Murray) Zissou's quixotic narcissistic sweetness is so engaging (even when he's a jerk you sort of have to love him) and his moments of self-doubt are so poignant, like when he flings his earring away after some people in a bar laugh at him for being "affected", or when he quietly removes his hat after Cate Blanchette ridicules it. He's SO human, he sort of breaks my heart. He has so many little moments of personal bravery and greatness, but they kind of get lost in the overall sheer goofiness of the man...he just can't seem to rise above his own fallability. But he keeps trying and that's what I love so much about his character; he doggedly pursues the sublime in a world that hates idealists. The part that always gets to me, the point at which I always cry, is at the end when he finally finds the "Jaguar Shark" again...and says in a small voice "I wonder if he remembers me." It just breaks my heart into little bits. He's lost his son, his career is in the toilet, and he's in his mid-fifties. All he has is a perfect moment and this rare beautiful creature that he's found...maybe if the shark remembers him he can have his little piece of immortality. I guess that's all anybody wants, a little validation, a little beauty that lasts and doesn't decay, some proof that we exist and are unique... :::sigh::: It's a freaking funny movie, too, and I laugh my ass off throughout, but there's pathos there as well and it moves me to tears every time.
And I am SO Eleanor (Angelica Houston's character, Zissou's wife). Every freaking word out of her mouth is SO something I'd say, and she's the "fixer" of the film. I identify with her the most, she's at her best when things spin out of control and everyone needs an adult to step in, but she resents being the only responsible person in the group and it's funny as hell. Her deadpan humor is very much like mine. When Steve tracks her down (she sort of flounces off in disgust at one point and ends up in a tropical villa...somewhere) she greets him with "Oh shit it's you." Which doesn't ~sound~ funny but her delivery is so straight it cracks me up every time.
Anyway, I freaking love my DVD. :-)
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Hey, feel free to pout away. I hear ya. As much as I would love to just sit and draw Inuyasha stuff all day, I know it's not what's going to sell in the next two years....so I've had to spread out and start hitting other popular animes (though, ironically, my Naruto piece doesn't do very well.... *shrug*) It's always funny to me what works and what doesn't.....and it varies from con to con no less. One con, I'll sell out of my Sesshomaru...the next, Spike. I can't predict, so I just try to come prepared....Try.
TOo much caffeeneeeeeeeeee.....okay. I'm done rambling now. XD I hope.
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Yeah, it's funny what sells, isn't it? My last event was ~huge~ with mask sales but no one saw my prints at all, really (I sold one lousy wolf print). A few events before that I did a tiny show, with maybe 200 people there, but I practically sold out my Sesshoumaru print. So it's true, you never know.
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It really is amazing to me what does and doesn't sell from con to con. I have a few that are almost always guarenteed to sell (my Sesshomaru and Shadows and Light ALWAYS sell....) but everything else is totally up in the air. It's kind of one of those that I can't be heartbroken when something I really love (like Seasons) doesn't sell...we'll see how that and a couple other new ones that I really love do at SakuraCon in a month.
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*picks jaw up off floor*
Sorry, I'm experiencing fanart induced lust. I know I had something coherent to say but I'll be damned if I know what the flip it was...
:::shuffles off to eat chocolate and sigh hormonally in corner:::
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peoplefangirls run up to my table (it's one I ALWAYS have standing up or a large version up on the wall) screaming that they saw that one on the internet. It's pretty amusing. Ironically, like I was stating earlier about the pieces I like vs. what sells..... this is my favorite Sesshomaru, and this is my favorite Shadows and Light...though I haven't offered the last one at a con yet, it just didn't do so hot on dA compared to the first one. *shrug* Who knows?From:
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Gotta say though, there's something SO sexy about your first "shadows" and it has a lot to do with hakama and bare hips (I think hakama are freaking sexy anyway, but nekkid boy under lazily-tied hakama...? eeep! :::dies:::). Also, the fact that his face is in shadow and ambiguous...that adds to the mystery and sexiness. Just...wow.
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OMG SO MUCH LOVE
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Do you think you'll remember me?