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orange-manifesto
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[2010-08-03 02:53:49 +0000 UTC]
"Think for yourself"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 95; Deviations: 44; Watchers: 14
Watching: 21; Pageviews: 5395; Comments Made: 793; Friends: 21
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Naomi Friend, Kelly Turnbull (aka Coelasquid), Matt Laskowski (aka Fox-Orian). I watch a few people on deviantART but those two are my favorites. Unfortunately, they're pretty popular, so it's hard to get a word in with them. This is why hipsters happen.Favorite movies: basically anything by Studio Ghibli, Terminator 2
Favorite TV shows: My Hero Academia, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Gravity Falls, Corner Gas, JoJo's Bizzarre Adventure, Scrubs (but not season 9), the X-Files (all of them)
Favorite bands / musical artists: U2, Bella Ruse, Sufjan Stevens, Keane, Switchfoot
Favorite books: Harry Potter, The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, The Road, Yellowrocket: Poems (by Todd Boss)
Favorite writers: Niel Gaiman
Favorite games: TLoZ: Breath of the Wild, Colossal Cave Adventure, Ticket to Ride, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Favorite gaming platform: The floor. Tables are pretty good too.
Tools of the Trade: Computer, tablet, pencil, paper, paint, brushes, things to paint on, wire, etc.
Other Interests: Environment, sustainable design, ancient art and cultures, architecture, music, combat robotics
# About me
Engineering student. Heraldry nerd. Used to do art more regularly.I'm busy right now but will take commissions starting in January 2019.
* Design from concept to emblazon
* Art deco style emblazons
* More to come!
Send me a note for details.
# Comments
Comments: 43
Thanks for the watch! I feel like I probably know you, since we both go to the same liberal arts college that no one has ever heard of.
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Any guesses as to whom? Qualitative descriptions only. No names.
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Not sure at all, really. You can send me a note if you want, those are private
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Thanks! Have a great day as well.
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Happy happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday! And now cake.
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*is blown away by the enthusiasm* Thanks! I think I will have cake! (Strawberry shortcake to be precise--I'm not a big fan of frosting.)
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Thank you so much for the watch! I really do appreciate it.
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Nice gallery!!
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You're welcome. And thanks for looking at my artwork!
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Tis my pleasure!
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Thank you much for the favorite! You're a much better artist than I, and the little bit of appreciation means a lot!
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That depends on what you mean by art. Since we use such different media, we're hardly comparable. It's too bad the mainstream art world doesn't appreciate fractal art more.
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You have a point. As an analog artist you would completely blow me out of the water several times over, then pillage the corpse for my wallet.
But yes, as our mediums are worlds apart it's like comparing automobiles to a vacuum tube amplifier.
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hahaha... That may be true. For me, drawing is pretty easy, but I've been doing it all my life. It all depends on which side of the brain you're working on. With age and practice, it'll be easier to switch from the left (words, math, repetitive things) to right (visual, new, make-stuff-up) side of the brain. In fact, there's a book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain that has helped me more with drawing than any website I've ever seen.
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I'm actually a bit more of a right-brain guy, but I just can't put the majority of what I come up down to paper, but as I do play electric bass I at least have some way to bring that side of me out.
As for mathy, sciency stuff, I'm not actually a huge math person. Science, I love, but math is actually my least favorites subject in school believe it or not. The reason I can work apophysis the ways I want it to is because it can be used as as through a visual interface as well as a numerical one. I can, instead of focusing on getting a numerical value to emulate a certain shape (which I do not know how to do) I can work on manipulating the color, and using the visual triangle/coordinate plane interface to modify the image.
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That's interesting. I know a few other right-brained people who say they can't draw. Still, I'd recommend the book if you want to learn how to draw. It's not terribly expensive, and it's gotten high reviews from other people than me.
I'm surprised that you still enjoy fractals even though you don't really like math. I was introduced to fractals through my math class, and it actually had a huge philosophical impact in my life. Hence the fact that I really like math. In fact, I think I'd have a hard time learning apophysis unless I was also able to understand the math part of it. What part of math don't you like?
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It's not really that I "can't" draw, it's more that I often don't have drive to draw often, and that I have a tendency to rush stuff. If I actually slow down, go carefully, and really try, I'm not honestly THAT bad. I'm just lazy. I've taken a cartooning an animation class which I enjoyed, and I'm currently taking a graphic design class.
My dislike of math is mainly due to the fact that I've never had an honestly good math teacher. They've been either massively boring, didn't explain anything, or just plain irritating. I get the gist of how fractals work and the reason I love working with fractal flames in apophysis is the immense beauty the have and the mystery of never completely knowing what the addition of a new variation will do or how the shift of a value will mutate the fractal or what a small adjustment of a traingle on the coordinate plain with rotate and change large parts of the image. And it's fun to boot.
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Okay. That makes more sense. It just bugs me when people say that they can't draw and they never try.
That's always annoying. Fortunately for me, all the math teachers I had after 6th grade really liked math and did a good job of teaching it. I guess that if you end up liking math, there are higher-paying positions than teacher, eh?
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Yeah, I'm not one of those "I can't do *insert verb* even though I've never tried!" people. And I pride myself on that.
Yeah, the teacher can really make or break the class. And you're definitely right. Various different kinds of engineers, architecture, accounting, certain positions at the CDC, Surveying, and tons of other stuff.
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Good for you.
Not to mention everything having to do with particle physics and advanced chemistry. Somebody's got to give math majors an incentive to teach it at the grade school and high school levels.
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Thank ya.
Aye, you got a point. Or at least get some of them to overhaul the curriculum.
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It's so nice that you have my pop-art in you gellery, thanks!
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You're welcome. I saw the picture and I was like 'That is so awesome.' It was probably the blue sunglasses.
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Yeah, blue ones are probably my favourite
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Thanks for the watch 
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pretty much. I shouldn't be doing this right now though. I'm supposed to be packing Naomi's things. But I don't want to. So devious.
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Good work. Being devious is important.
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I guess it would be devious of me to have an avitar too, huh. Time to go draw a really powerful-looking orange.
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Oh yeah.
*avatar.
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That's what happens when I'm trying to spell things right late at night. It doesn't work.
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It's okay. Happens to the best of us.
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