Roman Dirge is the dude!

Who is he you ask? Omg he is funneh. It’s no secret I love my comics. I love the bizarre, the weird, all things right up there with Tim Burton type gothy, dark creepy fucked up shit. It makes me grin. Don’t ask me why it just does something for me. I went wandering in town the other day after a lecture and found a comic shop and I literally got stupidly excited in there pacing backwards and forwards between comics, picking some up and grinning wildly. I bought me a Lenore comic. They also have some Luis Royo books so I will definitely be going back there for more goodness!

Anyhoo Mister Dirge is the creator of the Lenore character, inspired by the poem “Lenore,” by Edgar Allan Poe.  And the fact that I am a huge tattoo art nut makes me like the guy even more with him sporting over 75 tattoos. Very cool.Yes see there’s a theme here lol. Told by his art teachers that he would never make it as an artist due to his crude style, he quit art and became a full-time magician. (what is it with people quashing other peoples passions grrr) After a few years, his passion for art overtook him and he created the comic about Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl for Xenophobe magazine.  Isn’t she cute! …

Hehe can you see why I like her? He’s also done some awesome wee animations, 26 episodes in all I think.

You can watch more of them here. Just scroll down the page a little.  Anyhooo’s there’s a little bit more about things that make Impy *squeeee*. I’m off to read my new comic

I have new geeky toys ‘beams’

So I’ve been sat here yesterday fucking about with the notebook setup and getting rid of all the crap that I didn’t need on it as well as sorting the ipod for playing pleasure hehe.  I have a cute wee calendar program installed on the notebook and am about halfway through setting that up. Apart from that I’ve done fuck all elese but sit here and do ‘homework’ for uni. Lots of pieces of paper and bits of black card making composition layouts and then disecting them and ‘explaining’ what I’ve done. Joyful nawt.  I have 36 of them to do, right now I think I have about 14 lol. So yeahs … I have shit to do. I also have another written piece I have to get done as well.

I haven’t even had time to have a wank this week, no deviant kinky escapades and no bruises to poke   I know a box of fun huh?

On a good note I’ve had coffee lots of it.

I’m in week one of uni and already have two assignments to get done so tonight will be spent doing one of them and an 8am lecture in the morning.

Am I tired much? Yes.

Brain fart? Yes.

A whole week of full on new stuff and braindrain. I did learn a new technique for creating concepts today (freekin handy for work as well!) and I’m thinking this might be useful with writing too. I’m already learning new things and loving it.

We did a brainstorming exercise after the lecture today and my god what an amazing wee tool. Generally I have always done the mind map thing, sat down with pen and paper and written down ideas for a logo concept etc. This new way pulls random creativity and takes you places you would just simply not go with simple mind mapping.

I was given the word FRUIT … used the technique and ended up choosing one of the obscure words I ended up with … SNORT … we then did the standard mind mapping technique and I ended up with a lovely generic word .. FRESH. The deal was then to ‘force fit’ or combine SNORT & FRESH and come up with a concept for a fruit stand. Strange things come from force fitting, the first idea was fruit flavoured snorting sticks. Lol was total fun and I ended up with a mascot “Snort” a piggy type character with an organic ‘fresh’ theme stand and the packaging had ’scratch and sniff’ labels. We did loads of examples and brainstorming and then got given an assignment which is for a logo design for another topic.

Tomorrow’s lecture involves art history. 2 hours worth. Then another two hours of studio time working with black and white paper and cutting out shapes and playing with ’space’ and more notes.  I’m gonna need strong coffee. Fridays I get off, well no classes anyways.

So the blog may be a little erractic at times depending on what’s going on and what work I need to get done but I knew this was coming.

So yeahs time to go be a mummy then get stuck into homework later.

I still need to get a notebook and a freekin ipod sorted. I neeeeeeed music.