CrystalNightFolf

Syntaxx shared this video with me. It's awesome...or awful. I forget ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pmli9JcbqA

Took some pictures of tree knots in the winter.
I have also included some psychedelic artwork drawn at my practicum site.

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Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Shadowlight Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

Long time lurker but first-time poster, so please be nice :)

Just down the road is Llandegai industrial estate, home to Bangor's biggest car boot sale. I think it's probably Bangor's ONLY car boot sale, but still it's technically true.
Anyhoo, it contains a panoply of second-hand tat, furniture, collectables and truly disturbing items in a building with the approximate size (and décor) of an aircraft hangar.
I go along with the pretence of buying sensible things like cheap books and locally grown vegetables, or to entertain like-minded visitors on a rainy day, but really I hunt the (not-so-)elusive thrift-horror-beast.

I've been posting Thriftstore joy to the net for a while, I am glad to Have a Venue to share.
Pittsburgh Area, Mainly my SVDP (St. Vincent de Paul)


Three Bunnies in Diapers, a Bathtub, and a Pope.....

More Bunneh Love behind cut.
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Thank you:),
Kyr (rhymes with deer)
-Plotting my next post...

Been busy playing them modern computer game hoojits. Still got a couple of selection boxes wrapped up from Christmas too. I really should scoff those at some point.

Over the last week I have played
More Borderlands
Batman
Wolfenstien
Prince of Persia

and I tried to play Cryostasis, but didn't even get past the intro before it crashed on me. I knew it was buggy, but that's mental. I tried to patch, but it wouldn't have it. I might have to put it on my XP partition instead.

I have reviews of those games I have written for my video review series, but since it's unlikely I will ever put those vids together, then I'm thinking of releasing them as text on here over the week.

Hopefully I'll have paypal by the end of the week, which means digital games downloading goodness. I'll be getting torchlight and zombie driver before doing the online game shopping thing. This will hopfully put an end to the crap of my local game shops. I went to buy Deadly Creatures 'brand new' and the box was so battered, bruised and broken it was if it had one previous owner: an unrully child. Where the hell were they keeping it, a cement mixer?

To add to the insult, I went to buy a second hand version of that wii japanese horror game whos name I won't even attemt to spell. Price: £30. £30 for a second hand wii game. Unreal. Anyway, if anyone could recomend some good UK games shopping sites I'd apprecite it.

Lastly, I've been looking forward to that Darksiders. Due out on Friday, but the recent announcement of preorder bonuses (a bloody stupid idea at the best of times) which range from exclusive in game weapons to real comic books depending on the shop. This means that it's impossable to get 100% of the game unless you buy it 5 times. Why do I sense paid DLC for content on the disc the day after release? I really hope that there is free, in game ways to unlock this stuff, and preordering just gets you it quicker. Otherwise that would dash any hopes I have for this game being a quality product I'll pay full price for.

creepy faceless lady invites you in..

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It's been a while since I went thrift-shopping, but my boyfriend and I went to a few stores in Lakewood, CO today. And I even remembered my camera!

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My first thrifthorror contribution, and hopefully at least amusing.

( Popcorn? Yes I'd love some! )

What’s the craziest thing you’ve done for love?

Gone on an airplane by myself to Salt Lake City Utah to be with my love who I've never met before in my life because it was an online thing.

Trying to bounce some ideas for Ustreaming capabilities. Since I shall be starting grad school tomorrow, I am very much interested in distracting myself away from the thought of entering Chicago. So here are some ideas that I have been sauntering with. 1] I'd like to perform a LIVE BROADCAST COMIC DRAWING. Let's face it- my Ruben Crayford comics have been sparse and very few in number these last few months and I need some creative juices to influence more comic creation. 2] How this LIVE PARTICIPATION would work is, anyone who is viewing will have an opportunity to create an "avatar" or "character" on the Ustream and to which would be included in the drawn comic. 3] With these characters formulated, we would then embark on some type of fable that would be drawn on the go and based on the commentary left in the chat. Please note that I have conducted one of these in the past which was a startling success {http://explorer-fam.livejournal.com/267648.html#cutid1} and look forward to trying it again. So what do you guys think? Should I do something different with the organization of this OPEN CANVAS to make it more fun for the viewers?

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Shadowlight Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

All the players are Bachelor of Arts students in the East Moosebait College School of Arts, working towards, and possibly through, their MA in art.

Each round someone builds an art project, with the "help" of their colleagues. They start with a base project, like "Community Mural," "Interpretive Dance", "Religious Icon," "Production of 'A Christmas Carol.'"

You have a few valances to work from: Finances or Resources (resource base to pull from), Notoriety (get a small but intense audience), Appeal (broad but non-useful audience).

Other members of your committee are going to add elements to the mix, such as: Avant-Weird Costumer (expensive, need community support), Extras from Gilbert and Sullivan Society (reduce Notoriety, but they're cheap), Child Star or "Add a Puppy" (magnifies Appeal OR Notoriety, but not both), Covered in Feces (notoriety for its own sake), Gratuitious Existentialism (I don't know, I just like the idea).

Once the overall "project" has been constructed, the art student may either chose to fold the project (it's too weird or dangerous at this point), or make it happen. If they proceed forward, they explain the project to the audience, in all its grandeur. At that point, the audience votes, either throwing money/resources/randomfactor cards at the artist, or to the Art Colllege (it goes away), or to the committee.

So there's a Munchausen-esque storytelling element, and I THINK the cards could be fairly basic, not carry too much in the way of rules on the cards themselves.

New Year's eve Fades and I bundled up and headed downtown for the First Night stuff. It was nippy but I saw at least one guy there in shorts and a T-shirt...crazy! We parked by the capitol and headed down to where the parade was starting from, following its tail end and the attendant tide of humanity down to the river. There were a few stages set up on the shore, lots of LED lighting, and some random strangeness...a little enclosed booth with a woman inside it operating a crank to make a clothesline convey new year's wishes clipped to it so she could pin them up on a bare-limbed tree. The booth was topped with a bubble machine that was making bubbles filled with fog; Fades reached up to pop one, and for an instant it was a little spherical cloud that then quickly dispersed.

I started whining about wanting to sit to eat, so after trying the local Threadgill's (packed, of course) we walked a mile or so to get to the Chuy's by Zilker--also packed, but at least there was a (warm!) seat in the foyer so we could rest, drink iced tea and look over the program. We were there a long time; one of the employees mentioned that customers weren't leaving since they, like us, were hanging out before going back out in the cold. Well, I can't blame them. :)

One neat discovery in the park next to the Long Center was one of those pool-less fountains, the kind kids can run across in summer to get squirted--no kids running through it that evening, but it had LEDs in the base of each stream of water, and both the jets and colors would cycle around in pretty patterns.

Returning to the lakeshore, we spent a lot of time looking at this huge cylindrical setup, most of the height of a telephone pole, a steel frame holding up big curved plexiglass panels forming a cylinder 12 or so feet across. Each frame was about 1/3 of the perimeter of the circle, and they weren't joined together; there was an air gap between them running the height of the structure. Rather than just being seperated along the perimiter of the circle, the sections overlapped a little bit; rather than just coming straight in, the air had to travel along a few inches between the two paralell segments, making it swirl counter-clockwise. In the base there was a natural gas jet being pulsed and manipulated by an operator, and the motion of the air made the flame a tight tornado-like vortex...very pretty! Ocasionally they'd throw in a scoop of metal filings, and the flame would turn different colors.

We watched performances for a while, but it slowly got colder and poor Fades was more costumed than insulated. We headed back to the car past the nightclubs, where pretty young things were scampering in, dressed more impractically than he was. :) Cold and tired from being out for several hours, we whimped out and headed home to bundle up and watch the countdown on TV.

Silent Hill:Shattered Memories
Dec 27,2009-Jan 04,2010
3:00 A.M.

Whohoooo I'm finally done!

I was kind of sad my journey through Silent Hill had to end,I wish it was longer but hey you can't play one video game forever!

There's a warning saying if you answer truthfully this game will make out what kind of person you are and I have to say they were spot on in their assessment of my personality,kind of scary but hey this is Silent Hill its supposed to be scary.

This is supposed to be a remake of the original Silent Hill and I have to say I enjoyed myself,it takes a little getting use to but this seems more plausable than the whole devil-worshiping cult storyline of the original.

I do miss the "Hell World" of Silent Hill,no blood covering the walls or rusty metalworks and no abundance of demons or even fighting in this game.

The "Hell World" has become an "Ice World"where the entire world becomes covered in ice and then the monsters appear to kill you and I found myself saying oh fuckity fuck whenever the ice appeared because I had a tough time shaking those monsters off me and I died countless times.

This games deals with illusions,death,confronting your demons and the reluctunce of letting go of the past,a lot of things in this game(as with all Silent Hill games)is a metaphor for the things lurking in the subconcious mind and this particular game kicks it up a notch.

I think I am going to sad going back to the old Silent Hill games because I really felt a part of this game,its a great game for the Wii,since your remote turns into a flash light and a cell phone and you interact with your surroundings more.

I know this game is differant but I wish I could have explored Alchemilla hospital more,it was a real fake out,seeing the geographical outline of the hospital on my map and wondering when I was going to have the chance to explore it and then have it suddenly turn into the "Ice World"thus making it so you only get a brief second in the hospital and moving on to other locations.

I guess since this game didn't deal with the sickness and eternal physical suffering of Alessa/Cheryl/Heather there was no need to be in a hospital.

I am glad an incarnation of Alessa/Cheryl/Heather is in this game,I enjoy her character.

Also my character got laid by Alessa/Cheryl/Heather's mom,hahaha!(I am playing as a guy in this game and the mom looked to be about in her late teens early 20s so got the Lolita thing going there,Harry Mason you dirty old man!)

Now that I'm done,I might pick up the original Silent Hill for PS 1 and give it a whirl,its been ages since I've played that particular game,lol!!

( Wanna Party? )

Hello from the hospital!  I'm in here for the umpteenth time for a horrible nausea bout, which my doctors seem to be thinking is caused by a temporary bowel obstruction;  essentially they think that a part of my intestine is telescoping into itself, causing a temporary painful blockage that clears up later but is hard to catch on x-ray and results in bouts of nausea that last from 6 hours to several days.  Obviously this totally messes with nutrition, exercise, mood, social life, etc, and has resulted in me spending months in hospital over all.

The only thing we've found that works is IV Ondansetron (aka Zofran) and IV Maxaran.  Stematil worked too in the past but it caused my jaw to spasm and dislocate!  These nausea bouts are the number one problematic thing in my CF care, other than the fact that I am in need of a transplant.  Have any of you been through this, and has anything worked for you?

I've just recently moved to Toronto from small town BC and it's amazing to be in a really active urban centre with lots of transplants; they do about 100s double-lung a year here!  I would love to hear from you all how many transplants your cities do.

Happy new year everyone, get lots of exercise and keep spittin that goo like the true pros you are! 

James

VisualSVN & Collabnet SVN Server...why must you suck so much?

+ Saw AVATAR for a second time with my folks (they had not seen the film yet) and Purple Dragon. That movie never gets boring!
+ Picked up a ticket for the Abigail concert in just a few more days. This will be one hell of a way to start the new year! I'm still working on getting ticks for Arch Enemy, details later.
+ Today Purple Dragon and I went to FRYS and installed a new DVD/CD player into my laptop which is works wonders. Purple bought the computer game SPORE which is a lot of fun to watch.
+ Pimpage points go to sapphire_heaven! *major hugs*

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Shadowlight Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

Welcome, all! This is my first post, and one of my favorite hobbies is going to thrift stores :)  I've been to this Salvation Army a few times, but this is the first time I've visited with a camera in tow. (The pictures are arranged in the order in which I took them in the store; and I warn ahead of time for some mildly off-color jokes).

( Varied horrors, and one epic WIN! )

I hope to have lots of fun in this community; and to share lots more ridiculous photos in the future :)

Ok folks, it's not often that I ask you for something. But if anybody has access to CNP (Cartoon Network Philippines), listen up! Zorori has an English dub! If it is not too much trouble, might somebody be persuaded to record these episodes for posterity? You would be doing the entire furry community a great service. If it is any incentive, I will dust off my artbox and sketchbook and draw something for you. Or, if you prefer, resume working on my comic with renewed vigor.

Anyway, if this is something within your power, best get a move-on. I hear the first episode will air VERY VERY SOON::: Premieres Monday, Jan 4, 7:30pm. That's tomorrow!

Zorori's such a smart guy, he knows so many languages! ... and handsome, and funny, and adventurous... *melts* I heard this from a reliable source, somebody whose dedication to all things Zorori rivals my own. :3

Check out the promo clips: