Cheer up Emo kid...

Stuff from Urban Dictionary that made me laugh:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo

The Difference between Emo And Goth:

Emos Hate themselves

Goths hate Everyone

Emos Want to Kill themselves

Goths Want to kill Everyone

3. Emo:

An entire subculture of people (usually angsty teens) with a fake personality. The concept of Emo is actually a vicious cycle that never ends, to the utter failing of humanity, and it goes something like this:1. Girls say they like "sensitive guys" (lie)2. Guy finds out, so he listens to faggy emo music and dresses like a dork so chicks will see that he is sensitive and not afraid to express himself (lie). He dyes his hair black, wraps himself in a stupid looking scarf, develops an eating disorder, and rants about how "nobody understands".3. Now an emo guy, he meets Emo chick and they start dating, talking about how their well-off suburban lifestyles are terrible and depressing (lie)4. Emo guy is just too much of a pussy. His penis is too small, he's too depressed to bathe, and has more mood swings than emo chick, and he doesn't even have a menstrual cycle. Emo chick dumps him, saying "It's not you, it's me." (lie) as she drives off with Wayne, the school jock and captain of the football team.5. Emo guy goes home and cries, proceeds to write a weak song and strum a single string on his acoustic guitar. Another emo chick sees how he is so in touch with his feelings, and the cycle continues.This is the sad truth of the emo lifestyle/music, and now that I look at how pathetic it really is, maybe the emos DO have something to cry about!
When she sees how sensitive and emo I have become, she'll definately go out with me!

4. Emo:

Like a Goth, only much less dark and much more Harry Potter.
My life sucks, I want to cry.

5. Emo:

A group of white, mostly middle-class well-off kids who find imperfections in there life and create a ridiculous, depressing melodrama around each one. They often take anti-depressants, even though the majority don't need them. They need to wake up and deal with life like everyone else instead of wallowing in their imaginary quagmire of torment.
Emo conversation!XxSlavetoAnguishxX: omg my gf just left meacidburnedsoul: that sux manXxSlavetoAnguishxX: i blame myself only i'm such an ass *cries*acidburnedsoul: dude come over to my house and we can cut ourselves togetherXxSlavetoAnguishxX: okay *cries*acidburnedsoul: omg dashboard confessional has a new cd, i preordered it alreadyXxSlavetoAnguishxX: dude they're my favorite band to self-mutilate toacidburnedsoul: i prefer to cut myself while watching Napoleon Dynamite on my bigscreenXxSlavetoAnguishxX: dude that movie is so deep. i cry every time i see itacidburnedsoul: me too. i hate myselfXxSlavetoAnguishxX: yeah we're such tortured souls, nobody understands how hard life is for usacidburnedsoul: yeah we got it tough dude. pass the tissues

8. Emo:

the type of music you listen to when, try as you might, you cannot get laid..and cry about it..
man, ive been listening to a lotta emo lately

11. Emo:

Normally a 15-17 year old teenager. Considers themselves to be much more in touch with their emotions than anyone else; whereas they really just feel sorry for themselves. Most emo's will claim to be depressed, or simply misunderstood. They think they are unique, and fail to realise that they actually look like half the teenage population of south england. You can recognise an emo by looking for these general characteristics:SKINNY JEANS (both boys and girls) The tighter the better. If an emo can hardly walk because of their jeans, then they've reached optimum emo status.STRIPEY JUMPERS. Normally black and grey. If you're a boy, this should again be worn as tightly as possible. Breathing comfortably is a luxury you may have to sacrifice.TATTY CONVERSE. Usually drawn on, as most emo's regard themselves as artists.BLACK LONG HAIR COVERING ONE SIDE OF YOUR FACE. Vision can be compromsised for style as an emo. Try and make it as greasy as possible. Finally, emo's MUST look down on everyone else, accuse them of being uncreative, judgemental, and the sole cause of their 'depression'. If you're a hardcore emo you'll cut yourself occasionnally. If you're not, then you at least have to pretend you do.
EMO: I wouldn't expect you uncreative facists to understand my art. It's a statement. I'm all alon in this world, all I have is my poetry and my paintings. I am destined to travel through the misty and cold fog of existence alone and cold. My heart has long ago turned to stone, and now your harsh words simple hit the surface. The depths of my soul can no longer be tarnished by your small minded and stereoptyped views...ME: CHEER UP EMO KID! :)

P.S i heart emo boys

Guilty conscience? Me?

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1809–1892)
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright;
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
The Grandmother. Stanza 8.

Sophocles (c. 496 B.C.–406 B.C.)
A lie never lives to be old.
Acrisius. Frag. 59.

George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824)
And after all, what is a lie? ’T is but
The truth in masquerade.
Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 37.

George Herbert (1593–1633)
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
The Church Porch.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi.

A lie has short legs.
Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993).

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
C.E. (Charles Edward) Montague (1867–1928), British author, journalist. Disenchantment, ch. 15, sect. 4 (1922).

You told a lie, an odious, damned lie;
Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Emilia, in Othello, act 5, sc. 2, l. 180-1.
On learning of Iago’s lies about Desdemona.

No lie ever reaches old age.
Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 59 (Acrisius).

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically—for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist—but then what isn’t?
Quentin Crisp (b. 1908), British author. Manners from Heaven, ch. 4 (1984).

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.), Roman writer of mimes. Sententiae, no. 171.

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. “On the Decay of the Art of Lying,” (1882).

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. (Originally published 1791). Boswell’s Life of Johnson, June 13, 1784, pp. 1301-02, Oxford University Press (1980).
There are two kinds of liars the kind that lie and the kind that don’t lie the kind that lie are no good.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author. (Written 1925-1926). A Novel of Thank You, ch. CXCIII, Yale University Press (1958).

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, April 3, 1850, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 177, Houghton Mifflin (1906).


The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.
Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940), Russian–born U.S. poet, critic. (First published 1976). “Less Than One,” sct. 1, Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986).

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684), French playwright. Cliton, in The Liar (Le Menteur), act 4, sc. 5 (1644).

I have longed to move away
From the hissing of the spent lie....
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet. “I have longed to move away.”

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian philosopher. Culture and Value, 1947 journal entry, eds. G.H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman (1980).

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987

Truth does not consist in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 304, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Commencement address, June 11, 1962, Yale University, New Haven, Conn

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality.
Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself,
So the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz (b. 1911), Lithuanian–born Polish poet. Child of Europe, sect. 4, Selected Poems (1973).


The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. “Simone Weil,” Against Interpretation (1966).

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 114, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).

You see, a person of my acquaintance used to divide people into three categories: those who would prefer to have nothing to hide than have to lie, those who would rather lie than have nothing to hide, and finally those who love both lies and secrets.
Albert Camus (1913–1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. The Fall, p. 125, Gallimard (1956).

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Third Notebook, January 14, 1918. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).

Art

"(Art)... rescues us from our self chosen triviality, to which we are so prone. It is like a deep organ note that makes my hair stir and a shiver run through me. I 'pull back' from life, like a camera taking a long shot with a wide angle lens. I quite simply become aware of more reality than before." -Colin Wilson (The Occult)

Even More Photoshop...

Ok, so I took another look at the Constitution Hill thing and came up with this pic actually using a photo. I think I like this one more, but I will submit both (hopefully that is ok):

P.S: blogger is being a real bitch, I have had so many failed posts, it doesnt want to upload pictures and when I finally did get it working the damned power cut out!

More Photoshop

So this is my cover for a CD for the Constitutional Court. Its kinda-very boring but everything with real photos always turns out ugly. I may do another 1 later if I feel like it, but for now this is it:

Photoshop Joburg Book Cover

;)

From the Wonderfull World of Mandy

Ok so my wonderfull friend Mandy has opened my eyes to some interesting things via her blog http://misscapulet.blogspot.com/

Firstly is deviantART: http://deviantart.com/
Its really great to browse and this is my favourite pic so far












Next is Cyanide and Happiness - a comic strip at http://www.explosm.net/comics/archive/
Its not everyday that something online makes you laugh out loud. This is so great! I think Kashan would really appreciate it (thats a warning). Heres a taste:

Enjoy!

CD Inspiration:

I love graphics like these. They are very popular these days, u see hem everywhere and i love them. This is where i got a bit of inspiration from 4 my CD cover. I didn't quite live up to my muse! But hey, I did it quite quickly this evening, so its good enough.

CD Cover

Ok so this is my CD cover for my work in the Photoshop elective: Dont know what I think of it? At first i was going to do something a bit more photo-oriented, like having many photos which contained the shapes we needed to use (like a spiral staircase as the spiral or a triangular truss for the triangles). But that turned out to be very involved and i didn't really like how it was turning out. So then i remembered the graphics on a CD cover from SL magazine and the type of graphics they use in their mag and the more stylized design came about.

Now its really cheesy and a bit trashy: but I have always favoured a little kitch in my life. So there it is, the longest explanation ever for a CD cover!!!

(I just stumbled across the star shape tool in photoshop, like most of its tools, and decided it was to appropriate to not use it, and thats where the extra tack come in to my design).

Revit Render

Just learnt how to do this yesterday - so here is a render of a 3 story curtain wall. Quite fun!

Don't know bout the transparency though?

Chinese United Mansions - Some Images

Chinese United Mansions - Sheet Elevations

I can use sheets and shadows, see...

Chinese United Mansions

The finished product - after multiple unsuccsefull attemps.... Some floor plans

Chinese United Mansions

This was the start I made on the Mansions - not very successful! Luckly I have some very good friends who offered me some help...

Revit - Semi 3-D

Just some 3-D images of the house - I dont know how to create materials and effects so its not a very realistic or good looking model

Revit - Semi 2

These are 2 elevations that better show the change in level

Revit - The Semi

For one of my revit projects I chose to do my semi-detached house in Brixton. I cant really use Revit so this is my best attempt. I am not to sure how to show ground in Revit and my site is quite important to understanding the building. Basically I chose to cut away the site so therefore you enter on level 2 but you access the garden from level 1 (I tried to use trees to show this).

Black and White Series

Some black and white wire frame images - I find these can show detail very well.

Neutral Series

As I see my portrait as a lanscape these images are to show the elevations

Colour Series

Hopefully this 1 will actually contain images

Picasso Final - Colour Series

The Final Product:
In the end I found that my 3-D image look very much like a city scene. So I kept everything very rectalinear so that it appeared as a sort of skyscraper city. In this city there is a main road (my hair), a raised public area like a park, and lots of buildings (small and large). This really took quite alot of time (defining all the areas and such) but I am quite happy with the end product. I would have prefered to have posted an animated fly-through the city but I just couldn't make it work. My photoshop isn't working either - so I couldn't comeup with 1 final composition. But that suits me just fine because I am incapable of making decisions and therefore will post about a million images of the final work.

Here are the colour images I chose to use.

Self-Portrait (Again)

Ok - so before i post the final work I thought I would explain my self-portrait in relation to Picasso and my motivations. Firsly, the background was mosaiced in order to represent Cubism, and this incidently shows light and dark very well. Secondly, since Picasso like to look at objects/scenes from multiple perspectives to compose the final image I chose to break my face into different segments/features. I then explored light and dark with different techniques in the segments. A few very bold colours (although not all primary) complete the 'Picasso' look.

A Break from the Usuall Boring Stuff

A photo from Congress '06 - The Des Baker Evening
It was loads of fun as you can see!
(such a crazy evening even if I slept through some of it)

I am moaning again - instead of working

Ok so I officially HATE so many things in life.......... I hate discourse with a passion - it is such a pain in the ass. Instead of doing something usefull tomorrow (like trying to pass computers and master Revit in a matter of hours) I will be building a very very very irritating and complicated model for discourse. At least I have a good discourse group - so the pain wont be so bad coz it will be shared). Secondly, I hate Google videos combined with Sketch-Up for making me feel very stupid today because i cannot figure out how to get a video onto my blog for my life. So thats my moan, and sufficient waste of time for now. Back to Work [I thought this week was going to be relaxed and lovely :( ]
Oh - I have never been able to spell so dont expect anything on this blog to be spelt correctly!

Revit tut (final)

Revit Tuts

Ok - so before i get to my Picasso self portrait i will post some Revit tuts...Its not all of them just a bit for now. Thanks to Sifiso for all the help ;)

EEEEWWW

ok - i am totally disturbed. I havn't looked at my blog in a while until now andd OMG! It is revolting TOO MANY COLOURS - eeewww...... and way to many pictures of myself.... and more to come coz i finished my Picasso (finally) and just need to decide on the right images to use and i will post it...

Ok - so these are just some details and different angles of the work so far. I am being quite meticulous about defining areas and moving them around (at least this is my excuse for not being finished yet). I am having a bit of trouble with areas that won't define and it is really irritating me and thats why a whole chunk of the centre is not defined or worked on. But it will be finished one day, i hope.