Woa, Hotmail

So my hotmail is back up and running for the first time in over a month. The hero of the day goes to some faceless tech support guy called George C. Thanks George C, your cool. You do what I tell you to.
People that don't, include: Andrei L, Kreselle D and John SM. You guys pretty much suck at your job. Get George to teach you things.
When I got into my hotmail I had 111 new message. 70 of which were spam, while the other 30 were reality checks, attendance warnings and threats of not passing the year. It gives me a sick feeling thinking about it. It's strange when theres a good percentage chance your screwed and you don't know it. And you realize how blasé you were the whole time about everything before hand. How comfortable it felt thinking you were the effing man. ..

Thanks a lot George C. >:(

Oh yes, next year I'll probably be doing a doodle-a-day project. I've gotten inspired by a few of my favourite artists to give it a shot. So at the moment I'm thinking one doodle every day for a year, starting january 1st. No limitations on what subjects I cover or what I draw. No bigger than A5. No backlogging, each doodle will be done on its day. If I don't upload to the blog once a day Ill just do a pile at once on one post. Might think of doing a issuu type thing once a semester, just as an easier way to glance over them all. You should all think about doing it to! It's easy to start a blog and spam the internet!

Relient K & Some Band Called Paramore

I mentioned this event earlier, but neglected to write much since I didn't wanna do it without a few pics. So here goes *Launches into the story*.

Twas the 8th of October, nothing stirred, not even an ogre. No wait that's a lie, the front of Vector was crammed. Paramore was playing there, but meh, I was there to see their fronters, Relient K. Woo! These guys were the first band I ever listened to, and this has only been their second time in NZ, so I couldn't miss out on this chance to see 'em. Well, I almost did actually, but that's not important. I cruised in there with Becky, Harry, and... Mrs. Harry. I always forget her name. I'm sorry.
The Harries had seated tickets, but Becky managed to get some standing tickets off trademe. Which was a teeny bit dodge.
We got in just in time to see some random ass NZ band finish up. I remember the drummer looking very enthusiastic. He just looked so stoked to be whacking those cylinders.
Relient K came on and we decided it was time to get the front. Unfortunatly the front was blocked by a million sweaty backs, so we got as close as we could, which was a few metres from the front, but may as well have been a few miles. We got stuck behind some rambunctious big dudes and didn't move much after that.
During their last song I decided I wasn't gonna stand idly by and let a chance to rock out publicly slip away from me. I just went nuts. I managed to carve out my own circle to flail in. I was chuffed with that, since a few seconds prior I could barely move, I now had enough space to kick and windmill. Although that did come at the price of a few little girls getting pissed I was moshing in a mosh pit. A couple bros gave me some chest bumps etc though for goin nuts and they tried helpin me to the front.

Matt Thiessen

I kept pushing and pushing, but eventually I just ended up almost passing out on someones back. I was completely wasted. When the song was over I just staggered out. I couldn't hear anything and I could only just see. I crashed by the sound booth and just lay there until Becky found me. She went off to get me water, They charged her nine bucks for two paper cups. WTF. That's all I have to say to that. Double U, Tee, Eff.. Mate.

Matt Thiessen/Ethan Luck/Matt Hoopes

Oh yeah, turns out Keir was there with Bex, and she had been up the very front and managed to get some flicks. Woo. Cheers for that, girls.

And so happily ends my vaguely interesting story. You can tell I don't go to these sorts of things much huh.

Armageddon '10

I woke joyfully at 6 or so in the morning. Hopped on a bus and arrived on Greenlane at about 8. I was walking along not quite sure where to go when a asian chick with green hair and white thigh highs appeared in front of me. "Ah, it's a fair assumption that this person is going to the same place I am. I shall follow her and ra-follow her."
This was to be my first encounter with Armageddon. Previous years have seen me broke, friendless, uncommitting, and just generally lazy around this time of year. Fortunatly Becky is good at getting me motivated to get out the house.

As I stood around waiting to rendezvous I got talking to some random, when asked why I wasn't in cosplay I gave him a disgusted look and told him i WAS in cosplay, and that I was actually that dude from prototype... I then morphed out a giant black scythe, cut him in half, and then drop kicked his halves in opposite directions, landing one half on top of one tree hill and the other on the opposite side of the showgrounds. Yeah, thats exactly what happened.

What else did I do... I talked to a dude who was the lead concept artist for District 9, The Hobbit, and LOTR to a lesser extent. Talked to a bunch of NZ cartoonists. That was cool. Bought a few NZ comics and got them signed. I was totally gutted there pretty much nothing DnD related there. Wizards just went nuts for Magic: The Gathering. There was a small table advertising a weird DnD based clip together plastic board thing. I'm not sure how to describe it. Underwhelming is probably the best word..
I also gawked at Cosplayers, watched Becky Drool over Han Solo and Star Wars stuff, Said "F**K you" To Darick Robinson, artist of Spider Jerusalem-Wait yes, I did. He gave me the fingers, he totally started it. Lol, he's pretty cool though, although I hadn't heard of Spider Jerusalem till then.

Anyways, Fun times. Might make a comic book by the time the next Armageddon rolls around. I took a few videos while in there, so you might see those a little later on. I'll leave you with some unrelated pics.

A mannequin that's been scaring the crap outa people in the toilets at uni.

Enforce1 / Cut Collective - K Road

Oh P.s. Special shout out to everyone who helped me with my nerd flash guide thing. It's got over 6,200 hits on Newgrounds now. I suspect at least 5000 of them are from this blog alone. =P

Goodbye Year 2

Well yesterday was final hand in.
Me, Harry, and Becky decided to pull an all nighter to get our finals done. We had to do an illustration that was either watercolour or acrylics. No one could tell what Harry used watercolour due to his heavy style. He played this up by never mentioning in his rational what medium he had used. Should be interesting to see what Ellette (Our lecturer) thinks of it.
To be honest we're lame at all nighters, we ended up sleeping for about half an hour... I think. I'm not sure really. I just remember Beckys dad kicking down the door into his study scaring the Bejeezers outa me.
We got to uni with all our stuff together and went upstairs. Some of  the girls were there working on their junk. Being genuinely inquisitive about how my stuff turned out they ask "Oh how did your final turn out?" "Oooh, It looks awesome! Wanna see?" "Yeah, I'll probably wanna kill myself after seeing it." "You BETTER kill yourself," I respond, as I dig through our work. My digging became even more frantic as I realized it wasn't there. "Oh crap, Brb." I said as me 'n Becky went out to her car. It wasn't there. So we had to go aaaall the way back to Red Beach to get it. We got back an hour later and I casually show them.

Anyway, after that I had a 13 hour nap. Here's some visual entertainment I did while on a random roadtrip to the Tron a couple weeks ago.

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10 Steps to Becoming a Nerd

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Final Hand ins

I have been neglecting the blog until I got some decent photos about what I want to talk about. Unfortunatly not having facebook has given me a slight disadvantage of being able to quickly snatch shots my friends took.

Long story short, I saw Relient K live at Vector. It was totally bitchin, and will get more of an explanation when I get some photos.

But for now I have a paltry offering of final hand ins for this year. First of all, holy cow. Year 2 has gone waaaay to fast. It's been good, and I'm sure it'l get even better with year 3.

Me 'n Harry (Whom Keir can now vouch for, He does exist) pumped out a rebranding of Tip Tops Callipo, He was in charge of the words thing, while I did the design. It looks quite a lot like this actually. If we didn't go with Quazipop our second option was Frugasm.Which I think is a DELIGHTFUL name for a tube shaped treat.

And lets not forget my nerds guide to Auckland! I'm only putting the front cover online, because to be honest.. I'm not to proud of it. Ten points to whoever can tell me where that rabbit first appeared! Ill give you a clue! He appeared here! Woops, I suck at clues. Oh well. Have fun kids.

Red Box Adventures 2

Pt.1 can be found here.

On the fourth day of raiding, Puddle and Flange met a tall slim Elf, who when asked replied that her name was Sushi (maybe with a hint of hostility).

As they made acquaintances with each other a pale, lank haired man strode into the Tavern. He stood at the door and with a rasped voice exclaimed “If you go back to the cave, you will take the place of those that you felled.”

Puddle and Sushi looked at him oddly. “Is that it?” “Uh.. Yes.. I think so.. Don’t come back.” They looked at the man disapprovingly until it got awkward and he left.

As they made their way from the tavern township towards the cave they could hear wolves howling in the distance. When they reached the crossroads two wolves emerged behind them, unable to hide in the tree lines any longer. Their snarling and howling attracted two goblin scouts who had been patrolling the area. The two wolves circled and attacked Sushi and Flange.

Puddle created sounds behind the Goblins to distract and confuse them until The more physical fighters could dispatch the wolves.

When they reached the cave they headed into the second entrance (For a change of scenery). They pushed Sushi to the front as they walked in. Around them they could see Kobolds nervously watching them, with their spears at the read.

Puddle Began to talk to one of the Kobolds. He found out they had a “master” of sorts. And when led to a second chamber the party came face to face with a young white dragon.

Puddle realized that he had seen this dragon in the pool of water earlier.

The Dragon spoke in stilted common to them, and soon the party found out that the Dragon despised Malareth, the dark magician, who had invaded part of his lair.

Two Kobolds were ordered to go with the party as they headed further in to face off with Malareth.

They burst through the door to scare the shit out of a Goblin, who ran away and called for “Kurrash”. Kurrash a tall, matted bugbear,came pushing through the door.

Him and his pals totally got whipped. But not before killing the two Kobolds.

With this done the party decided that was enough for the day, and headed home. No need to rush things.

Harry or someone did it.