Got to get this off my chest…

I went out to go pick up my wife from work, and my 1964 Dodge Dart had sunk into the soaked ground, and of course it only got worse when I tried to give it some gas…Forward…Reverse…Nothin’  (Well, actually it sank even more) Here’s a photo of my beloved car in happier days:

After digging in the mud, in the dark, with my bare hands, gettin f*ckin’ FILTHY, I gave up for the night. The wife caught a ride home with a fellow worker, and I will try again tomorrow to figure out how to get it out, without paying a tow truck.

My wife’s uncle actually has a tractor out here on the property, but the assh*le is such a tweaked-out speed freak jerk, that he would just laugh at us and our problem. I actually caught his son stealing our hot water heater this morning! Really!! Yeah, I went out to see what this odd noise was, and it was the son, (my wife’s cousin), and the water heater was actually GONE. I said, “What the hell happened to our water heater?” and he swore he didn’t know, yet about ten minutes later, he brings it back!! Can you believe this crap?  A few days ago we had to throw out a whole freezer’s worth of food that had been thawed out several times because they (The tweaker uncle and his thieving son) had messed up the electricity (don’t ask) and if that wasn’t enough, these freaks, (well the uncle freak) took the rotten food out of the dumpster, and ATE IT!! (Had I known they were gonna do that, I’d have pissed in, and on, all the food. Oh well. Next time.

By the way, everyone wants to be famous, right? So I’ll tell you their names:

This is ROBERT VINCENT ENO (Looks like he made another dumpster score! “We’re eatin’ tonight kids!!” Shame, just cause it’s in a shopping cart don’t make it groceries, just GROSS!)

and this is his son, BOBBY ENO (Following in his father’s footsteps!)

 

I do think it’s sort of mean to talk about people behind their backs like this, but frankly these jerks have been pains in the asses of both my wife and myself for over ten years now, so screw them. Really. No, screw them.

Once, the Uncle (ROBERT ENO) turned off the water during a winter freeze, and blew up our plumbing. Idiot. My wife’s cousin (BOBBY ENO) broke into our house, at least once, and stole one of my special plants, a very special, special plant. There have been so many idiotic episodes caused by these pricks and I have NEVER done ANYTHING to get back at them (yet). What really gets me, is that we’ve never done anything to them ever except be nice and civil to them despite all of their transgressions, and yet they seem to just hate me and my wife. I don’t know why, and at this point I don’t care why. I just wish they would die from eating garbage or something. I for the most part detest violence, and yet the things they do make me so angry that I have sat and thought of doing all sorts of things to them…UGLY things. Violent, nasty, twisted things. Instead I will write about them in cyberspace. (I hear that once it’s out there on the net, it’s there FOREVER. Neato!

I guess I feel a little better now.

Sometimes I doodle…

Been a while

Since no one even reads this blog, it hardly matters that I don’t keep it updated with my life’s doings and happenings etc. but I have this groovy new app(lication) that allows me to compose for this blog while offline that allows me to see how it’ll appear. Neato!

Life. Life, is a BITCH. It’s one goddamned thing after another after another. We got our beloved 1964 Dodge Dart running and it only cost about $1,100.00 and took a month and a half. The mechanic never even figured out what the problem was (LAME!) and I did a lot of the work myself. You don’t care, and I don’t blame you.

I need to make this entry more interesting, but HOW?

I could talk about how I got the clap from my wife, who got it from Jody Foster, but that would be a lie. I had been working on my cartoon, “Castle Whackula” which is now like over eight minutes long now (That took a month to do) but I took a break waiting for inspiration in regards to where the plot ought to go. I made it up as I went along, with no idea as to where the story was headed and so far so good. Now I just need to FINISH the damned thing!

Here’s a still shot from it, and one shot that’s not from it.

MORE OF THAT STUFF I DO....Click and BEHOLD!!

My most important discovery- EVER

Science, specifically the field of astronomy, seems to have concluded that we live in what is termed as an "expanding universe." This may be due to the "Big Bang" which is believed to have brought our universe into existence.
When astronomers observe this expanding universe, they see an amazing phenomenon. All of the solar systems, galaxies, and other galactic flotsam in our universe, is, for some reason, moving away from us. Now that's odd.
Why, is the whole universe, not only expanding, but expanding away from us?
I pondered this notion for quite some time, then, in a blinding flash of insight, like that of Einstein, Kepler, Galileo, or Newton, it hit me; our universe, somehow possesses an innate knowledge of itself, and of everything contained in it, even our relatively tiny, insignificant, little planet Earth, and it would appear that the universe "knows" that, this planet, sucks.

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Here's a little cartoon I made. Sorry there's no dialogue.

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 1

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 1
This is just fantastic- and I've barely even looked around yet. I am new to animation having been a musician for the last, like, quarter of a century (as well as a producer and engineer). I used to love drawing as a child, but got into music because it seemed more "dimensional" to me. Thanks to computers, ang great software like Gimp, Blender, and others, I"m gonna try to bring my doodles to life. I've done a few things, just short experiments ( http://www.youtube.com/victordemise ) as well as some CRUDE stuff here on my blog.
I hope the quality of my work will improve- A LOT- after I study these lessons. Glad I found the ASIFA site. Let's see where it takes me!

A song for the fun of it.

Click the pic.. It's freakin' SICK!

CLICK THE PIC...

This one shows the "X3" experimental jet plane as it seems to un-cloak (due to a transparency error on my part) and then begins to hover...or whatever. I like the way the cockpit window is transparent. Not a great piece of art, but I'm more trying to work out the basics of animating using layers like cells.

Twelve-Step Programing (Hahaha!!)

CLICK ME!

Then follow the bouncing ball...

TWELVE STEP PROGRAMING

Click me!!

Click the bottom pic to animate....

Yet another in a series of lame animations I have created to test one thing or another. CLICK the image with the missle, or rocket, and it'll run. Sort of pointless, but hey, dig that background...in fact here's another background too (no animation) and the same one with a sort of shuttle cockpit from an animation I never really finished, so I recycled the ship.

A message from SOULBOT (H.E.L.P.er)...

Another attempt at getting a simple animation to run automatic-like on this here blog pagey thing you're looking at right now. If it's not animating, give it a click-I think it'll run in a new window. (Don't expect anything great, this was only a test)

Whatever...Nevermind.

Hope this worked...

This was supposed to be animated, and it IS, just give it a click and it will run in a new window (I havent figured out this animated gif file thing yet, but, hey, I'm workin' on it!)

My new toy.

I recently got myself a digital art tablet thing ("Genius 6"x 8", $48.00 from Amazon.com) and this is my first drawing/painting I've done so far. I used "The Gimp" open-source (i.e: FREE!) GNU Image Manipulation Program, which is nice, but the tablet comes with trial versions of Adobe and Corell products that seem REALLY cool! I have yet to create anything with those yet, but here's the one I did with Gimp.

After I had finished the initial picture, I thought it looked like the cover of a 1960's pulp porn paperback book, so I set out to make it REALLY look like one. I was rather pleased with the result.

ANIMATIONS!

Check out http://www.youtube.com/victordemise where I will be archiving my progress with BLENDER. That assumes that there will indeed be progress. I promise to keep it interesting, if not altogether inspired. Blah blah blah...

My new hobby: creating things that don't exist.

Initially, I just wanted some software that would allow me to do some simple two-dimentional animation, but my buddy found this "Blender" software and I thought, "What the hell..." Now, about three weeks into my studies (there are a LOT of tutorials and help files out there) I'm beginning to get a slight grip on the software's interface, though you should really see some of the truly amazing things people are doing with it. The software is free, but be warned, the better your system, the faster, your renderings will be. Some of these took me a few minutes to design, but much l o n g e r to render (animations in particular).

Simply put, the more complex your subject is, the more time it will take. LOTS of MEMORY and a FAST proscessor are really going to enhance your experience greatly. The user interface is BRILLIANT, yet really complicated to master, I assume, as I have yet to master it. This is what I initially wanted a computer for, back in like, 1990, when I got my 486 DX2 with 4 megs of ram and a 213 mb hard drive (only cost us $1,500.00)

Go to Blender.org if you're so inclined. Have fun!