So here's the plan...

In tribute to the new year and all... Yes I'm a bit late; I was sick and dysfunctional and mostly asleep since 2010 rolled in... I've decided to actually keep track of how my resolution develops.

My brother suggested I make one piece of art a day and a friend said you should always do something for yourself and I thought you should always do something for another person.

Then while I was sick and out of it I had a number of stellar ideas, as is the case when you have nothing to do but lie around and think and sleep and think some more...

I saw Invictus and Mr. Morgan Freeman had an excellent line where he said you have to do more than is expected of you by anyone especially yourself. You need to attempt to acheive the impossible etc etc.... I'll try and get the actual lines...

So I want to strive to do more. See and hear more and process more of life. I want to understand it all. problem is I almost always forget things so I need a method of keeping track of it. Here it is.. Blogging. So stereotypical I know but If it works... well who knows what will happen, the future's always a mystery. Anyways here goes.

I want to record what I do everyday, my thoughts and reflections, a piece of art or darwing as well as a photo of something i found amusig ironic or inriguing (and why) as well as somethig i did for someone else and something i did for myself and finally something i learned (i had in mind a tutorial, shortcut or something to do with software [PS, ILL or some other pertinant thing] but I'm open to interpretation.)

Hopefully this can develop into a more sensible senior thesis than what i have so far which is essentially a hodge podge of half formulated and extensively over elaborate thoughts and ideas which i am sure are rife with loopholes and misinterpreations, not to mention misspellings


So...

1 [Artwork of the Day]:
Mr. Yeti.
I had to make a Yeti for <3strings Tshirt and I decided to make my own version seeing as how theirs is a bit on the childish side. I mean thats what they're aiming for but this Yeti-Boarder is a bit more my speed.

2 [Thoughts and Reflections]:
Also I've been so confused by all the thought turbulence over the last 6 months going from graffiti to tangibility to perspective, change and the whole nature of understanding the infinitely complex and un-understandable universe that its nice to zone out to an ipod and just mindlessly create something.

More thoughts... I don't know where this is going. I think since I started with the whole graffiti thing I really just didnt have a way to keep track of my thought process. I started expanding out and out trying to understand the big picture. Problem is the big picture is too big for one mind. I have a destination in mind (world peace and expansion to and terraform mars and the many moons from there with our united human coalition we'd be much better off harvesting solar power and asteroids raw material than ignorantly squabbling down here over pitiful fossile fuels and land... I mean look at how big the fucking universe is and than try and argue over population... we're just underallocating imo) only problem is the hurdles between being a 21 year old undergrad with limited resources, knowledge and social skills. First things first. major hurdle. Figure it all out, get the word out and hope for some kind of unification be sparked in my lifetime. We've got (as human beings) a pent up wrath, savagery brought on us by evolution (or god, or both imo) but so what?? Just take all the damn guns we've got on planet earth and point them at the stars cuz how do you know E.T. isn't hostile? Once we've proved that than I say we can continue to mindlessly blown each othet up. So... lets get a move on. One Human Race. One Human Team. We are sitting ducks running out of fuel (sun) and time (??:?? what if anything cataclysmic happens before we kill each other all off over stupidity like religion or temporary resources) We're being to narrow minded. Take your perspective. Multiply it by 6.whatever billion. Thats humanity. All that hive of mental activity. Its chaotic. We just need to calm down a bit, stop being at each others throats and have each others back because we could potentially be assaulted omnidirectionally by alien raiders at any second. Thank god we aren't, yes. BUT take preemptive action to ensure it remains that way. C'mon.... Teamwork in small groups helped the cavemen survive the ages. Slightly larger groups saw us through til the dark ages and larger still made us countries and nations and now bickering alliances. When are we going to fully understand strength lies in unity? Each gene pool has strengths and weaknesses. USE that. put the people with the big brains in R&D and the brawn on the exploration and defense colonization. Use the tools (read humans) you have in the places they need to be.

Heres the problem we face... Maniplulation of the weak by the strong not for the gain of all mankind but for selfish personal gain....

In short greedy greedy power hungry bitches. They're holding the reigns and not willing (or able?) to let go...

I rest my case. Goodnight.

3 [Photo-Op]:
I took a picture but its a pain to get it off the camera right now because I don't have my card reader. I'll come back and edit all this junk eventually cuz I know I have a horrible misspelling problemo... Anyways it was a box at work with some epicly-out-of-date software package that had clip art. On the box it says: "Make a powerful impression with the worlds best clipart." I lol'd cuz clipart imo doesn't make a good impression. It comes across as "I'm to lazy, don't care, or am not creative enough to do anything myself so here's some crappy pixelated image I googled and threw in, kthxbai."
If im ever sent clip art and its not a joke I will send you a clipart I just made myself:


Yeah thats right I MADE it. Nah, I just stole it from here
BUT I took the effort to edit it with GIMP (which I've never used before) on a laptop track pad so bite me.


Also I'm tired and still only halfway through my meds til I'm fully healed. So bite me harder.

K moving on...


4 [Something I learned]:
I learned how to make fur in illustrator using this tutorial:
5 [Learning Link of the Day]:
Furry Vector Monster

6 [Things I did for Others]:
Stayed late at work to help out someone with a project
Dishes for mom
On the way home I pulled into my neighborhood and saw a trashcan blown out by the horrific Janruary wind so I slammed on the brakes (I exaggerate) turned on my hazards and put it back. Chances are it got blown over again, but it might have helped.

7 [Things I did for Myself]
Started this crazy blog thing
Worked out
Setup WiiFit
Became addicted to WiiFit
Cleaned up my room (I define clean in this scenario)
IMed/Called a few friends and kept in touch
Returned a call for my summer job possibility
Took steps to help myself keep a silly promise to a friend. I believe the saying is its the thought that counts.
Wrote a ton on here; Publish and going to sleep early-ish...
After a movie or documentary or some book or something......


Zzzzzzzzzzzz....

Final Note:
The Goal of this project...
I realize with all the crazy tangential learning I go through nothing I do may make sense. Its all ridiculous you might say wheres the rhyme or reason..... does there need to be any? or can you just not hear my tune yet.
... but here it is in a simple phrase as concise as I can make it.


I want to make change in the world. I want a better tomorrow. I can and will achieve this via the only means available to me, from the only vantage point I have. I will shape the world through personal action and evaluate my achievements by the only standards that matter to me: my own.

There are time when great change is needed in the world. I have no idea if this is that time nor will I ever, but I can still strive to be the spark. I want to end the cataclysmic self perpetuating cycle of human greed which (I believe) will ultimately lead to our self-mutilation, demise and decay. We can surpass this greed through personal action and the mutual respect of others.

The first step is to open your mind to the possibility. Hope. Belief.

The second is to understand and accept others as the beings who are as complex and ever-changing as youself. (This is the hard part)

The third is to work with those other people to acheive some goal with cooperation, love, care and respect for one another both physically and metaphysically.


My god now my brain really hurts. Too much thinking.... Bad posture too. Sitting in the damn wooden chair with no form and my spine hates me now. Goodnight everyone.

[Will EDIT for spelling grammar and to add photos later]