Tuesday 28 December 2010

Currently...

So I'm finally in blog land, hmmm.

Well this is inspired by the fact that a lot of artists seem to have a blog these days, and it seems like a relatively sensible way to communicate something more specific to myself than many web sites allow.

The things I'm personally involved in presently, and so are likely influences for posting material are as follows.:-

I am a digital painter and artist. A small selection of my art.

I currently have many ideas for new pieces of art, buzzing around in my head, but I know I'm limited by my ability, so I'm practising an awful lot.  People don't seem to see this as important though, and keep telling me to get a job and to sort my life out etc. Just because it doesn't earn an income!! Some people, honestly. Just because they never reached for a dream in their life...  Sorry it's a pet hate.

I draw and paint traditionally as well as on computer, and am currently painting a guitar, which I've re-started a lot of times, because I wasn't happy with how it was looking.  I'll post a picture of how far it is presently, when I get 5 minutes free to do so.

Interactive fiction: Well there's this whole part of my life that I just can't dump, and it's involved very much in the worlds of my imagination. it started off when I was very young and had to teach myself to read English, when I entered high school, because I couldn't read any form of cursive, and had difficulty reading standard English.
"I was taught a system prior to High school, called I.T.A, and it was designed to develop pronunciation over spelling. Which, I think is a bit short sighted of them. It resulted in me writing words as they sounded, rather than as they were spelled. So yay, go them! Producing children which might be dyslexic, but they'll never know.  Apparently the schools in Britain are going to re-introduce this system, but it might be called something else."
 So the books which started me off, are the ones that had the most interesting pictures, namely ones like:-
  Fighting fantasy
  Lone wolf
and other ones that relied on imagination to create the details of the stories.

Interactive fiction allows more of a first-person perspective, within a tale, and includes the chance to make decisions as to how the story progresses, instead of reading a story which dictates every single step and is quite linear.

I have downloaded a little program that allows interactive fiction books to be written, and can be fully published to the internet, and there are other methods I do believe.  The program actively handles the mechanics of dice rolling, and randomness, along with being able to present a tale with animated pictures, sounds and a whole host of other aspects that aren't available with traditional books.

There are other programs available, but that is the most flexible, and complete one that I've found so far, and it also allows me to make stories without a web browser, or any other programs, other than itself open on my computer while I create the story.

Radio D.J'ing: Now this one is kind-of a voluntary thing, and I'm about to do my first show this evening, or at least I'm going to try.  I'll be on air/web from 9.00pm until mid-night if all goes well.
The station plays metal, rock, and such similar genres of music, so I'll be bringing more symphonic metal and a more gothic kind of feel with my musical tastes.  It doesn't pay, other than with experience, but that's good enough for me.  I just have to hope that my poorly computer can deal with it.

Anyway, that's enough for my first post., other than to provide you with a link to some of my youtube videos too.  I plan on creating more but only after my computer works properly again. Here.

Happy New year, and hope you've had a very good end of 2010.
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