Phalaenopsis Project

Well...

I'm a little disappointed in myself.. I thought it would take longer...

hm.

Anyway I forgot to take a picture of just the sketch on the canvas, I will for the next one though.









One of Four

You FAIL City of Ottawa

A few months ago the City of Ottawa announced that the south side of Landsdown park would be demolished because of severe structural damage, and the implosion could be viewed by the public.

The implosion would be taking place at 8 am July 20th, and it would for the City of Ottawa be AWESOME because so rarely do we ever have anything that needs to be torn down. *except maybe City Centre which is a crazy and decrepid old building on Scott Street.

Anyway, I spent the night with Ren-and-then-some so we could drive over to her cousins place who has a BEAUTIFUL view of the Sunnyside neighbourhood and almost all of Ottawa west of downtown, including Landsdown.

We got up at 6:30 packed the kiddo in the car, grabbed brekkie at McChoke&Puke's and got settled in on the balcony.

8 am rolls around, we hear a series of loud pops, we get all excited, and a mediocre cloud of smoke, and then...

NADA.

No collapsing stands. No crashing of thousands of tonnes of cement.

EPIC FAIL.

We waited a few minutes longer and then.

NADA.

EPIC FAIL.

So its a moot point to say we were disappointed.

City of Ottawa, you fail. Epically.

-sighs-

teach me for getting excited about something happening in the City of Mediocracy.

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Moments later, I realized I should check the live broadcast webcam and I see that they indeed demolished part of the stands, so I apologize for calling the city of ottawa a failure, but you suck for making it sound like it was going to be the entire southside.

So you fail. But just at accurate announcements.

Watch the Not-So-Epic Fail

Cyclists vs Drivers

I use to be a neutral party to this age old debate of cyclists vs. drivers, then I leaned towards the drivers side but now that I am a cyclist and I have to share the road with some of the most ignorant fucking cocks in the world, I stand loud and proud on the cyclists side.

Why?

Well, if it isn't being bullied off the road by construction trucks, I'm being cut off by drivers. I was cut of three times today on my way to school and on my way home, one industrious little fuck-stain had the audacity to cut me off going through a fucking intersection. He drove out beside my on the right hand side then sped up to cut me off.

WTF!

So, the drippy discharge ended up at a red light and I caught up with him. I introduced my fist to his window and chewed him out for the entirity of the red light. I was so fucking livid I was shaking, (mostly from fear cause I was actually concerned for my life when he cut me off) but MAN I couldn't believe it!

Then crossing Preston on Carling, I had to merge into the left hand land because of some construction pilons and this silver sedan crept up beside me so I had to swerve into the construction zone, resulting in me getting honked at by the dumptruck trying to pull out. I caught up with the sedan and yelled at them through their open window.

I'd like to make a statement at this point, the Highway Traffic Act defines a bicycle as a vehicle and is required to follow the rules of the road, and be treated as a vehicle on the road, so shown the same amount of courtesy as other drivers.

YAH FUCKING RIGHT.

So to all you ignorant cockstains behind the drivers wheel, WE ARE VEHICLES TOO!! SHARE THE FUCKING ROAD!!!

FUCKING IGNORANT DICK-CHEESE!!

Flight of the Phoenix

Working on a big watercolour,

Its a pano of a flock of phoenix flying, using the basis of a peacock for the size, feather pattern and flight, Yes, peacocks DO fly, and converting the blue/green/black theme of the peafowl into reds/oranges/pinks/purples to obvious resemble fire.

Point of Fact- Bird anatomy is fucking annoying. Reverting to using ass loads of reference pictures again.

Go Me.

Anyway, as soon as I dare I will take a couple pictures for you lot, once completed it will be up for sale during the art show in August.


Anyone know the plural term for multiple phoenix? Phoenii? Phoenixes?

Fucking latin.



So when I started this this morning, I'd only had the base colours down for each of the birds, so I've gone in added primary second colours to the main bird, and then started building the depth, I have a nice little light white acrylic that I'm going to wash over this when I get to the end to build up the highlights, but thus far, over three hours of work, not including drying time, this is my main watercolour for the show.

HU-fucking-ZZAH!!

I should have this done, by early-mid week and then I'm going to work on a 2nd generation cave painting with one of my new canvases, plus a small watercolour I'm inking currently for a framed piece.

In the next coming weeks if you see anything you like, let me know and I'll give you the price for it. :D

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EDITED JULY 17th

YO BITCHES!!!

I finished it! I actually finished it on Sunday, but my sister Jess came to town so I was a bit distracted by that.

18 hrs + in total of painting hours, not including time debating on the background.

Skinny Jeans

Skinny Jeans.

We all know what they are, we all have seen them on the street worn in various, colours, tightness and styles, some of us, shamefully, even own a pair of skinny jeans.

Are they a boon to our society, or a blight?

Well it depends on a lot of things actually, are you 90 lbs soaking wet? Are you in a band that plays coversongs of Good Charlotte, Fallout Boy, or Hedley? Are you an androginous self-mutilator who sits in the corner, crying about how you have no friends and all your poetry makes you want to kill yourself?

(If you are in the last category, I suggest taking a shower, stop wearing your little sisters hallowe'en make up and try going out in the sunlight once in a while, also, poetry is for fat chicks who can't draw, so give that up too.)

If you aren't in ANY of the those categories, good for you, welcome to the human race. If you aren't and you DO own skinny jeans, burn them. You only look like an idiot... especially if you are over 90 lbs, cause inevitably you have muffin top, or go so far as to have what my mother calls 'a whole loaf of bread'*.

Like leggings, the bane of my existance, skinny jeans are rapidly becoming part of my most hated list with our fashion world, and I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm a chick, I love clothes, I may not follow it season to season, but I know what looks good and what doesn't and skinny jeans sure as hell fire and damnation doesn't look good on anyone but a maniquin.

Case in point. Hipster boys who mix skinny jeans with thier punk era of wearing their pants past thier asses so everyone can see thier boxer briefs, tattered and thin, exposed to the whole world.
Look boys, its easy okay? Either wear skinny jeans on your hips like you're suppose too, or wear regular jeans frat-boy style (see above statement about asses in the wind).
No matter how hard you try to make yourself unique with the bullet belts, or the checkered or the studded pleather belts, oft wearing two or more complete with wallet chain, suspenders or band-ana's artfully folded or tied around to you, you're asses are still hanging out and no one, not even your own mother wants to see that. Pull up your pants. Even if you look like you haven't left your basement in several months you'll STILL look better then you do with your ass out.

And boys, for those of you who play alot of video games and aren't rail thin, please for the love of the gods, buy skinny jeans that A) fit your waist, B) aren't tight as second skin C) made of stretchy denim Okay? Muffin top on boys is NOT attractive. Doubly so if you do have your ass in the wind and you're muffin top buts MINE to shame. This is why pants come in many sizes, cause so do you boys. Got it? Kay. Good.

Also? Guys? I want you to know prolonged compactment of your junk will permanently damage it. Not like a painful you can't pee with out crying damage, but like its bent at a weird angle and girls will forever judge you for it damage. Go on, ask your dad about bell-bottoms from the seventies and the first generation of skinny jeans.

Ladies, Don't think you're safe just because I dedicated a paragraph and a bit to boys with thier asses out, you are even worse then they are.
I'll start with Muffin tops. If you flabby love handles fold over the top of your pants. THEY DO NOT FIT. Do not wear them cause you look stupid as fuck. Yah, fuck has a level of stupidity, and its girls who don't wear clothes that fit their body size.

If you are the shape of an ice-cream cone, (you know what I mean) Don't wear skinny jeans, or leggings for that matter. Or anything that clings. You look dumb. Especially if you are top heavy, or busty as our moms like to put it. It isn't flattering and you look cheap. Really cheap, like Britney before she shaved her head cheap. Yah. You really do. Trust me. I'm not saying this to be mean, I'm saying this cause it's true and I'm trying to help you save yourself years of ridicule from your daughters when they find pictures of you when they are your age now. Lets face it, as much as you are a bitch, your daughters will be worse. ( Example My mother is a bitch out of circumstance, I am a bigger bitch out of learned behaviour and her fine example.)

It pains me to admit it, but we really need to start taking the next generation aside and teaching them the all important message of straight leg, or boot-cut jeans. They look good on EVERYONE no matter what.


It sucks, I know I've run my mouth off, but I'm sorry these things need to be said. I know you're trying to be unique. Just like everyone else, but sometimes, you just can't wear skinny jeans.





* 'Whole Loaf of Bread'

I like to think I'm a bitch, I'm really opinionated and that gets on peoples nerves, but I honestly wouldn't run my mouth off if I didn't have justification and as much as it hurts, you know this blog entry is right.

Now, I like to think I'm a bitch, but my mom, she really is. I'm writing this footnote to explain the 'loaf of bread' statement I made earlier.

A couple weeks ago we all went out as a family to see a movie and while we were sitting having a snack before the show started my mom and I people watched, and it was early in the evening, beginning of school so there were alot of teens at the theatre, ALL of the girls were dressed inappropriately, like really if they weren't in clubbing clothes, they weren't dressed and many of these girls OBVIOUSLY didn't know their own shapes cause omfg, wow, just bad, tight, clinging clothes were lumps and jiggling bits and everything were everywhere. I don't want to see you cottage cheesey thighs and back-fat, so put some fucking clothes on. I saw one prime specimen who was wearing TIGHT neon yellow shorts, I mean they were so tight I was actually concerned her legs were going to loose circulation and I motioned over to her and said 'Mom, look, -that- is what muffin top is' cause she had asked me to explain it. She looked at the girl, snorted and said 'Yve, thats not muffin top, thats a whole loaf of bread.'

YAH.

That statement defines EPIC.

Littering Vs. Karma

Littering Vs. Karma

Shut up and watch it.

ASL

I'm learning American Sign Language guys,
and being back at school and working again, I've let this blog slide. I apologize, but hey, look I'm here today.

Well, I have a new job.

I loathe it, but its a job, and a job I need so I tolerate. Barely.

I was in school for a week, that was hard to stay in class around work, but now my schedule is changed and I can stay longer in class, as I have three weeks coming up of just school and work.

UGH.

I'm going through a weird down-slide to my personality recently, and its rather defeatist of me to let it go on so long, but as it is, I know what I need to get me out of this, and its been hard to find it.

Really hard.

Tonight I'm going to see Wintersleep and Fiest with Ms. And-then-some. Bringing the new digital camera with me. Wish me luck.

I've learned a handful of words in sign language, Fire, What, Awkward, Vagina, In, 'I am learning ASL' and my personal fave Sea Turtle. I know a couple others, but I always missign them, Girl, Boy, Mother Father, etc.

Oh.

Art show in August. FUCK YAH!

Also I wrote the letter to Nurse Tickler, I haven't sent it, nor will I likely, but I still wrote it. Go me?

Pletheria of new you tube links coming soon. :D