tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63040912011-11-27T15:16:02.693-08:00Keithnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-32312689684842686772011-03-14T20:38:00.000-07:002011-03-14T20:40:16.611-07:00

I'm done. I'm screwed. I can't return to school next year unless I can pay off the tuition I currently owe- about $4500.00, if I can't return to school, I'll have wasted the last three years of my life putting myself in debt. I have one way out, and it's unattainable. I really honestly don't know what to do.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-83497648890435121112011-03-05T01:32:00.000-08:002011-03-05T01:53:16.259-08:00

Hello all 3 of you (tops) who read my blog. I should explain myself.I have disappeared because I've started a webcomic (finally) that I've actually been updating on a regular basis. I've had a few false starts on webcomics in the past, and this time I'm determined to stick to it. I've also been getting favourable responses, so that's helping. Mind you, 99% of the people reading my comics are my

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-29327138496910845002010-12-05T23:53:00.001-08:002010-12-05T23:59:54.700-08:00

Hey I am alive and not dead. It's final project crunch time, so I'm working away at that. Procrastinating here, though.Quick up to date things:Music - Thin Lizzy, Some earlier Iron and Wine, Lots of Astronautalis and P.O.S as well as a decent amount of Tori Amos I hadn't been familiar with.Movies - Wayne's World is still incredible, still having attempts to watch Wayne's World 2 thwarted at every

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-71371133182199193622010-09-01T11:43:00.000-07:002010-09-01T11:58:20.745-07:00

I had a dream last night that Josh Homme and Billy Corgan formed a band. This would be incredible. Those two guys are both among my favourite guitarists and vocalists (don't even ask me about Billy Corgan, I don't know why but I can't get enough of his voice for some stupid reason). I was pretty disappointed when I woke up and that wasn't real. Also the thought of those two being on the same

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-4692718023711041292010-08-24T11:41:00.000-07:002010-08-24T12:28:27.959-07:00

Man Have I ever mentioned how sweet Queens of the Stone Age are?So Fan Expo is this weekend, that's exciting. I don't really think anybody is going though, which is kind of lame. I'll have to see, I already have my pass, but I mean, it would be better if I had some company.Dazzler's got a whole new bag of tricks for your ear holes. If you know what that means, then you've already heard.I am

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-12291690664376190332010-08-10T12:08:00.000-07:002010-08-10T12:11:08.981-07:00

I am so tired of working here, I need to get out. I remember when I worked somewhere that valued the work I did, this is no longer that place, I'm not appreciated, hell, the current person in charge doesn't know what I do. It will be nice when I can work somewhere that doesn't make me want to die again.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-17680160946600778962010-08-04T07:29:00.001-07:002010-08-04T07:41:27.100-07:00

I saw Chromeo last night. I don't think I've ever been so pleasantly surprised by a live show. To say they were good is not only an understatement, but it doesn't accurately describe what they were. Chromeo is an electro-funk 80's pop-rock revival outfit, and that might be why I made certain assumptions about their live show before I saw it. I figured that they were the type of band that relied

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-40192410007017424432010-07-07T08:15:00.001-07:002010-07-07T08:28:38.130-07:00

It is too goddamned hot. I am going to die this way, this will be my end. It is 70 degrees celcius right now. Scientists predict that 52% of all human life in Toronto will be extinguished within the next 4 days. "Prepare thee for the coming days of pain" the preachers are already yelling, "this day hell opens up and swallows up all not tethered by conditioned air".So I moved! It is cool and great

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-80018818700249700422010-06-29T13:09:00.001-07:002010-06-29T13:24:04.593-07:00

I had a strange dream last night. I am no stranger to weird dreams, they happen all the time, I'm probably having one right now. But this one was ... dare I say it ...The fourteenth weirdest dream I've ever had.As it started I was baking a loaf of bread in my kitchen, and decided that the best thing I could to to make it bake faster (time was an issue here, because I was sooo late to meet George

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-11828986849970661022010-06-26T21:53:00.000-07:002010-06-26T22:05:04.491-07:00

Oh man, almost done Lost. Aaaaalmost.Just a quick update thing. I guess there were some protests that escalated into Riots downtown today because of the G20. Figures, I mean, big controversial political gathering, lots of people blah blah blah it's bound to happen. And don't get me wrong here, I don't agree with the G20 or anything it represents in any way, really I don't, but really people?

Keithnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-55003618331737065272010-06-16T07:00:00.000-07:002010-06-16T07:09:01.342-07:00

Just a couple of things, before I get to work for the day.1) I am going to be starting a new portfolio with a blog integrated. Maybe not soon, but eventually. I'll update here with a link to that when it happens.2) I am moving! On July 1st I'll be moving into a much smaller, slightly more expensive place further away from school and work. However, it is closer to everything else that I want/need.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-58573423712979193972010-04-21T07:06:00.000-07:002010-04-21T07:39:07.378-07:00

Hey! Guess whose (almost) a third year design student?! It's Keith! That happened!Haven't updated in a while, so here goes.What have I been listening to you (probably aren't) asking? Well let me tell you:Facelift by Alice in Chains has worked it's way into my "things I listen to entirely too much" list. It's so good though, man I wish I had known about these guys years ago. Coheed and Cambria's

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-12175486314869065262010-03-30T22:31:00.000-07:002010-03-30T22:49:44.713-07:00

So something weird happened, and apparently over the course of the last little while I've written 15 pages on the topic of metaphors within design, without realizing it. I've never really written anything not for school before, and I'm sure it's riddled with grammatical and structural errors, but it's strange that I did it at all, really.I'm interested in the subject though. It's sort of

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-59046568054800713572010-03-12T05:17:00.000-08:002010-03-12T05:35:32.667-08:00

Music blog time! So I've been listening to a lot of stuff over the last couple of months, mostly stuff that I have been meaning to get around to for a while. The one that I've probably become obsessed with the most is Alice in Chains (Dirt in particular, but most of their stuff is great). Down in a hole has been stuck in my head for days. It's fantastic. I realize that I am really late to this

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-49324519771780944672010-03-09T22:24:00.001-08:002010-03-09T22:43:34.505-08:00

Man, I haven't done something like this in a while, but March is the new November so why not?I have to write an essay basically comparing a Mary Wollstonecraft quote about parents to my life, which is just leading to all sorts of depressing shit that I don't want to be up writing about at 2am (so I'm writing about writing about it?). And it just gets me to thinking about tons of stuff I just

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-30585819963817077962010-03-01T07:16:00.000-08:002010-03-01T07:18:00.368-08:00

It is March now, you can stop being cold. Don't worry about it, we're cool, we won't tell anybody. If America asks us we'll act like you kept it cold all the way into August. So just ... go ahead and be warm now.fuck

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-46991396657317286322010-02-24T07:23:00.000-08:002010-02-24T07:40:26.430-08:00

I'm pretty excited for D&D on Friday night. I haven't played it in a long time, and we've got a party of 5 people playing this time, and an actual DM, so it should be fun.I'm playing a Warforged Artificer. Basically that means I'm a robot who makes machines and enchants things. I thought it would be a nice change of pace from my usual Elf/Human - whatever-the-fuck-has-big-swords. And now that I'm

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-78312104805169360962010-01-28T09:10:00.000-08:002010-01-28T09:33:01.211-08:00

Random train of thought time.So the iPad got announced ... kinda lame. It's a giant iPod touch mashed together with a kindle? Fantastic, I guess. It'll start at 500 bucks (for the 16GB model, and probably more like 600 bucks in Canada), it has no camera, no decent video out option, iPhone apps look AWFUL on it and for some reason, that I can't seem to deduce, it isn't even in 16:9 aspect ratio?

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-84455102038915521222010-01-20T07:45:00.000-08:002010-01-20T08:00:37.346-08:00

Money situation is bleaker than ever, but I don't wanna talk about that.I've been listening to Failure a lot lately, the album Fantastic Planet might be one of the best things I've heard since I first discovered Electric 6. Those two bands are not even comparable so I don't know why I made that comparison but what's done is done and the backspace key is all the way at the other end of the

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-49607701185307983932010-01-14T12:19:00.000-08:002010-01-14T12:29:13.796-08:00

Quick update because that's the sort of thing I do.I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon with a sort of a "holy shit I'm literally going to starve to death if you don't give me funding" sort of person at the university. I have printed out a bank statement, a diagram of my budget, a screenshot of the tuition I owe and a calculation of how I'm going to run out of money to feed myself. This is

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-46786229063367102952010-01-08T05:26:00.000-08:002010-01-08T05:32:48.323-08:00

Welp, semester two second year, my scheduleMonday - Work 9 - 12, Evolution of Information Design 12:30-4:30, Information Design 4:30 - 8:30Tuesday - Class at Sheridan: Reasearch in Design 1-4, Typography 3 5-9Wednesday - Work 9-5, Humanities 7 - 10Thursday - Work 9-5, Taekwondo 7 - 9:30Friday - Interactivity 2 8:30 - 12:30, Work 1 - 4Not looking forward to Interactivity (in it right now) but

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-55648401400245830412009-12-20T21:08:00.000-08:002009-12-20T21:39:58.457-08:00

It is entirely too late, considering I have to work in the morning, but I figured now was as good a time as any to write my 300th blog post, it's not like I've ever said anything actually meaningful here so why start now?I saw Ninja Assassin ... that's all I'm going to say about that.I am pretty excited for Trans Siberian Orchestra on the 29th, Ben Mary Claire Kate and I will all be going and it

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-61826448237148562152009-12-08T00:14:00.000-08:002009-12-08T00:25:34.203-08:00

Mid all-nighter. I am doing the following things:Drinking TeaListening to Kupek (pretty good)Eating pineappleWriting this post.What's missing here? Oh, yeah, the fucking HOMEWORK I have left to do! I have to code a website tonight, I should probably get to that. Damn.But in the meantime, I think I'll update the both of my readers on the goings-about in my current situation. I am almost done first

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-59592110932163610412009-12-05T22:28:00.000-08:002009-12-05T22:38:52.626-08:00

I a absolutely drunk rifht now! so I apologize for any spelling and or grammar mistakes but I thought it would be good to see what a post while drunk this much would look like weird.I am just a matrix of colours! I relized today! I am just a grid of patterns of colours going back ang forth in the light to be different shades and colours and my skin is made of little pixels.Drinking is something I

Keithnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-52333690104433420382009-11-25T21:36:00.000-08:002009-11-25T21:45:10.725-08:00

So a little while ago I started on a diet/excersize plan to help me get into better shape. The results were really easy to see pretty much immediately and it was really not difficult to keep up with it.Then, of course, school started to get harder, and I started to sacrifice eating right in order to eat faster to save time when spending 56 hours at a time on a computer designing. This led to my

Keithnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-38091576920024563522009-11-23T23:21:00.000-08:002009-11-24T00:34:55.550-08:00

Haven't done something like this in a while, so I figured I'd do it in a public arena so that you can see the inane methods to my awful essay writing. This is an essay due tomorrow. I am starting it ... now.Topic? Alright I think I've got this narrowed down to something like "how does war influence trends in design?" but more eloquent? ... hmmm "What is the effect of war on the climate of design,

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-11453512594379203712009-11-22T17:56:00.000-08:002009-11-22T18:00:14.131-08:00

10 Things That Are Getting Me Through This Semester Without Jumping Off A Bridge1) Taekwondo2) of Montreal3) Caffeine4) Television5) Officina Sans6) Alicia7) Rush8) Comics9) DickBott10) The Concept of Ownicon House

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-38908015288789628872009-11-15T22:05:00.000-08:002009-11-15T22:22:46.403-08:00

I'll never be a neat and tidy drawer of lines. I'll never put ink to page and send out that perfect ray, or make the circle come perfectly back to it's starting point. I'll never be constructivist or cubist, I'll never know the simple joy of breaking the world down to simple shapes and colours, of the de stijl. I'll never know that pure irreversible realization that everything is made up of the

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-12713154006807585162009-11-05T10:24:00.000-08:002009-11-05T10:36:52.103-08:00

Random thoughts time.Taekwondo in ... 5 hours! I am so glad I am doing that again, I missed routinely hurting myself each week. It's great. Hopefully they get my belt in this week so I can get my old rank back.I am putting off so much work, even though I need to do it all by next Thursday night.It's the fifth of November!I'm going to be 20 in 10 days. Weird. Very very weird. Is it weird that I

Keithnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-5302584678460518992009-11-04T11:49:00.000-08:002009-11-04T12:03:30.194-08:00

After briefly speaking to Chris and Zack, I think some plans are in motion to get the 3 of us living in the same place as soon as September of 2010 (maybe sooner?)This has long been something that I've wanted to do but have never had a justification for doing. I go to school in North York, which is too far from Chris' school which is downtown. Zack could live comfortably at home and there was no

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-41663279008361667632009-11-01T15:37:00.000-08:002009-11-01T15:49:06.572-08:00

In my typography class last week our prof mentioned a book by a designer that was called "It is beautiful ... then gone" and I am just now getting to thinking about it.I think the book was about found objects and was a collection of the designer's work, but after thinking about it, the title just sums up so much of what we as designers do, exactly what our role is. If you think about it, we're

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-21859411254317496742009-10-27T23:29:00.001-07:002009-10-28T06:51:21.975-07:00

Can't sleep for some reason. It happens, I suppose. Oh well, I will be a tad tired at work tomorrow.I noticed something in class a few days ago that weirded me out a little bit, so I'll bring it up here (where I am sure none of my classmates read, so I won't feel like I am being mean).In my Communication Design class, we had to pick an issue of some social importance (mine was high tuition fees)

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-15739174235815316892009-10-26T08:42:00.000-07:002009-10-26T09:51:37.175-07:00

Saturday was pretty awesome, I went to my friend Emma's Zombie Party and drank many a cider, then I rode a scooter down a hallway, and I think later I broke my diet pretty hardcore and ate a lot of pizza. Sorry metabolism. I went with Alicia (read:awesome girl of awesomeness) and the next day we got up and went to the Apple store so that I could max out my credit card on this beautiful

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-35289184395676916382009-10-20T08:20:00.001-07:002009-10-20T08:21:55.989-07:00

The Apple store is down, I am in the market for a new iMac, I have been waiting for this moment on edge for well over a month now.This is the best snapshot of modern life that I can imagine. I am all but pressing my face against the gates of a store trying to be the first person to spend too much money on something.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-8795377783550647162009-10-19T12:26:00.000-07:002009-10-19T12:31:57.263-07:00

I am doing homework right now, so this will be quick, but I feel I had to post this.I came across two pages in my sketchbook today that I have no recollection of drawing. The first is a cartoon of a man riding on the back of a jack-o-lantern and shouting, but I haven't written anything in the speech bubble, and the second is a little girl sitting on the head of a giant robot and reading to it

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-74200400510719319672009-10-17T08:58:00.000-07:002009-10-17T09:10:12.496-07:00

What do you know? For the first time ever I am actually caught up on assignments before the last possible second! I mean, I'm a little behind on studying for my History midterm, but still, not bad. And it only took me a year.I've actually been pretty happy with the work I've been doing too. I still have to work on being able to properly demonstrate my cognitive process because that seems to be at

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-65995943517962660272009-10-01T17:15:00.000-07:002009-10-01T17:39:36.628-07:00

A ton of work to do, so I'll make this quick, I just had to mention it.I was reading through this journal that I won't name, and there was a section where english majors would submit poems, essays, rants, whatever they wanted to have published, it's a pretty cool journal and I usually like reading it.Today I came across an "essay" written by someone on the topic of free speech. I read it, while I

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-12065028979880478412009-09-28T10:58:00.000-07:002009-09-28T11:11:54.318-07:00

So, I just sort of realized something that I forgot to bring up.I was playing my bass yesterday, and I realized that ever since I first bought the thing, ever since the first time I picked the instrument up I have always automatically played the same melody, the same 4 chords one after another, I have changed the tempo and the rhythm from time to time, maybe played it with some distortion or

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-63278681842788931982009-09-28T06:44:00.000-07:002009-09-28T07:06:37.554-07:00

So here's yet another update born of my unwillingness to do work despite approaching deadlines.I am at work right now, and there's a lot to be done, when I am finished the work I have to go to class where I will try to convince a professor of an idea I have despite having no graphic representation yet, and then I will spend the rest of the night (and likely well into the morning) working on my

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-41698970785186026682009-09-26T14:23:00.000-07:002009-09-26T14:25:29.038-07:00

Aghhh, I am not coming up with ANYTHING for this communication design project I have to have ready for critique on Monday, I don't know why I'm just blanking totally.However, on the bright side, thanks to a helpful tip from old Jay Macdougall I have discovered that lemon juice can make a good substitute for salad dressing. Mmmmmm.Agh, so much to do.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-43797635027303036962009-09-21T10:10:00.000-07:002009-09-21T10:16:11.855-07:00

I will be totally gone for the next few days, here's my schedule.Today9am - 4pm - work4pm - 8pm - Com Des class8pm - 2am - workTuesday6am - 11pm -workWednesday?am - midnight - workOh god.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-81364920113861954032009-09-14T22:40:00.000-07:002009-09-14T22:49:12.240-07:00

It was winter, and we were bored, bored out of our minds and in a town that did nothing for it. We'd walk from the time we were kicked out of whatever place we were hanging out in until the sun came up, and we'd sleep til we had to work the next day. It was a strange time where despite seeing so little of the sun, we saw so much of the day.There were times, of course that we didn't sleep at all.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-22508923428275681162009-09-12T00:42:00.001-07:002009-09-12T00:46:15.126-07:00

1) Almost all nice girls have a strange taste in boys that excludes nice guys.2) All pretty, nice, cool geeky girls have boyfriends who are making cooler comics or more exciting projects than you are.3) All the genuine niceness in the world will not change rules 1 and 2.4) Cynicism is boring and pretentious.5) Knowing the rules won't change the way I am, it will just make me more aware of the

Keithnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-72308634965376998802009-09-09T21:18:00.000-07:002009-09-09T21:19:28.352-07:00

Just had the first day of my second year of University ... I don't belong here.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-6629699360920194102009-09-06T12:37:00.000-07:002009-09-06T13:03:48.274-07:00

I sit here with my bass in my lap, my headphones on, my hand on the dial of my amp. All the strings are tuned down one half step, and the treble is turned way down, the volume up. I press my index finger down on the first fret, on the lowest string, and gently strum the string with my thumb. My ears fill with fuzz and hy head feels heavy, the floor beneath me shakes and I can see the drawing

Keithnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-34768100088099143742009-09-02T09:55:00.001-07:002009-09-02T10:20:43.226-07:00

Holy crap, it's September.Where's my OSAP? God I hate OSAP. I mean, I LOVE OSAP, but I hate the way people deal with it. For those of you (the one, that I know of) who aren't from Canada, let alone Ontario, let me explain OSAP to you.OSAP stands for Ontario Student Assistance Program. In Ontario there's something called Ontario's Student Access Guarantee, which states "Students in need will have

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-5899270151485409402009-09-01T09:03:00.000-07:002009-09-01T10:12:20.144-07:00

So second year is coming up. My classes start on September 9th, with ... I think a full day at Sheridan? I'm not actually positive, I should look into that.Anyway, it's a sort of a weird feeling, this. Last year at this point I was just about to go into my first year, and I was so sure of what I wanted to do. I knew that I wanted to go off and be a graphic designer, and that I wanted to live in a

Keithnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-7200136307068080122009-08-27T08:57:00.000-07:002009-08-27T09:28:38.543-07:00

Recently in a conversation I was having with a friend, an interesting concept came up. We were talking about happiness and art, and inevitably the conversation had turned to relationships at one point. She suggested that people basically have two options - the first means closing yourself up a little bit, putting up guards and never really giving yourself up to another person. In doing this it's

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-15564794514173686572009-08-24T08:07:00.000-07:002009-08-24T08:23:25.167-07:00

Last night the first songwriting session for my band PianoMan took place. PianoMan, since I haven't mentioned them before, is a band consisting of my friend Rory on Guitar, My friend Kate on Violin/Viola and myself playing bass. We'll all sing for different things in different songs, but seeing as I am the only one who can't sing (I think) I will probably be singing the least. We also put out and

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-23908954115228829272009-08-19T07:48:00.000-07:002009-08-19T08:34:15.320-07:00

It's so sick.This feeling you get, right below your stomach. You're sitting there next to her, or you're sitting there on the phone with her, or on her bed with her, or on the bus with her, anywhere, as long as it's with her. You're with her, and you can see all of the things you want to do, you can visualize so perfectly in your head just reaching down and grabbing her hand, never breaking

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-10988252180682912652009-08-12T20:29:00.000-07:002009-08-12T21:05:13.240-07:00

I believed in fairy tales, really. I didn't just believe in their morals or their meanings, I believed in the events that took place in the stories actually taking place in real life. I didn't just believe in it, I knew, I knew that all of those stories took place, and that all of the people in those stories were real and that the adventures they went on, and the evil monsters they fought and

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-60921108059007129922009-08-12T10:45:00.000-07:002009-08-12T11:09:46.293-07:00

I need a new computer. Bad. Like, really bad. I'm in a pretty crappy place right now technology wise. I am at the point where doing anything freelance at home is almost out of the question, and it's sort of daunting. I'd like to be able to take on a lot more work, but beyond simple illustration or design at low resolutions (for web or something) I am pretty much out of luck. I was hoping that by

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-29856145319572699512009-08-10T20:42:00.000-07:002009-08-10T20:55:55.173-07:00

Night sucks. A lot. I never noticed before, I guess since I pretty much lived at night. I was so much that stereotype of a geek who lived in his room up late at night playing video games and surfing the internet and shit. Before that I would lay in bed real late with my headphones on, clasping them to my head to keep out the sounds of my mom and step dad screaming at each other. So I started

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-84149532884917010612009-08-05T23:27:00.000-07:002009-08-05T23:34:36.221-07:00

I have finally started my whimsical adventure comic. On a possibly related note, I am going to need help coming up with prime-minister related puns, so please submit any you may have to the comments section.However, I do not have a scanner currently, so I can't guarantee that I will have any of this comic even inked any time soon.Oh well, it's a step.PS - I've worked out that in order to go to

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-21429519603283477772009-08-05T07:50:00.000-07:002009-08-05T08:15:13.052-07:00

Every once in a while, I wake up and hate myself. I don't know why, I don't know what it is, but for the next little while I can't help it. It could be that I don't like some aspect of myself, usually my body or the way I look, or the way I think, or my art or my (lack of) social skills, something small like that, but some days it's all of it.Today was one of those days. I woke up and I just

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-71756459679913815492009-08-03T06:31:00.000-07:002009-08-03T06:45:30.773-07:00

My guitar is out of tune right now, but I kind of like it. It's pleasing, kind of a broken sound. Each chord I play sounds a little like it's falling apart, like as I hit the strings that are out of tune the chord sort of struggles to retain it's sound. There's something about it that I like, maybe something about it that I find ... real? I don't know. It's imperfect, and I love imperfections.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-28006100723299104552009-07-31T13:03:00.000-07:002009-07-31T13:10:01.547-07:00

So I'm moving, again. This time to place I'll be living for the duration of the school year, so that's a plus. I am in sort of a time-crunchy situation, however, seeing as I intend to be out all night tonight, and then I need to turn around and be ready to move, albeit next door, for about 10am tomorrow. It'll work out I'm sure, but I am gonna need to be pretty vigilant in my waking up and doing

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-83809051306813551112009-07-27T11:23:00.000-07:002009-07-27T12:02:51.884-07:00

GROUP PROJECT TIME!We will be writing a story. I will write the first little bit, and then the first person to respond will write the next little bit. It will go on like this, and then I will end the chapter. Later I'll make a new post, where we will do the same thing!IT WILL BE FUN SHUT UPHere's the first bit!The neon face of the space clock blinked "4:30", and an irritating beeping noise

Keithnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-87588440169812429322009-07-27T08:53:00.000-07:002009-07-27T08:57:04.870-07:00

So I am starting to do an autobiography of sorts in comic form. It will be called something like "My life so far, plus extras" and it will be a combination of real events and fictional events, you will be able to tell the fictional events from the actual events because I've never met a robot hobo and I've never been to Mercury.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-56011119986984741712009-07-23T07:28:00.002-07:002009-07-23T13:58:12.560-07:00

After Zack accused (unsuccessfully) my last blog post of being somehow "un-profound", I thought I would make this post, in which I will write my inner-most feelings and existential thoughts, where I will challenge the very basis of this, our human existence, riddled with spelling errors, spelling errors and truth.But then I decided instead that I would use this to chronicle the rest of my day as

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-18881057630177687832009-07-20T19:10:00.001-07:002009-07-20T19:10:56.597-07:00

Doo deela dooDAY DOODoo deela dooDEE DAY

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-8054476803811950772009-07-16T08:29:00.000-07:002009-07-16T08:40:30.889-07:00

So guess whose scanner is sitting in a garage in Clinton? MINE. This is pretty sucky, because I've got a pile of sketches that I was going to include in a blog post tonight. I may know someone with a scanner I can use, which would be sweet, but I am not going to bank on it, so I may or may not have a chance to put up some drawings sometime soon.I finally sat down and started to write an adventure

Keithnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-83963248290798392112009-07-12T23:18:00.000-07:002009-07-12T23:28:50.114-07:00

I've learned one thing this year, I think. I've discovered the one thing that's always there for me, the one thing that I love that will never leave me, my actual passion, my real life. And it's colour.I've never known so absolutely that my life would be absolutely worthless without something, as much as I've know about colour. It can make me feel, make me taste, make me hear, make me see things

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-79501673747289894722009-07-12T23:16:00.000-07:002009-07-12T23:17:51.922-07:00

She kissed me on the couch, in the darkwe were quiet, and me moved independant and togetherour bodies new, and still beautifulI grabbed her hand by the construction puddlesand I held her in close to meand we knew we'd always be togetherI lay in her family's garagemy hand empty this timemy eyes full, I saw colour nowTook her back, in weaknessI never stopped loving her, even thenLaying now on the

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-20352661459517667672009-07-11T07:48:00.000-07:002009-07-11T07:53:27.559-07:00

Today I wont leave the house until I have the pencils for a one shot comic done.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-49904120946682890032009-07-09T10:15:00.000-07:002009-07-09T10:23:56.099-07:00

Click the blog post title for awesome.So I think I am going to be putting up some drawings on Etsy soon. I have about 10 or so just pencil drawings that I've done in the last little while that I would like to try to sell. Nothing important, just some drawings of robots and people and stuff. I don't have a scanner right now though, so I'll have to wait. If I can get 10 bucks for one I'll be happy,

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-34945977045065622112009-07-05T22:42:00.000-07:002009-07-05T22:50:03.524-07:00

Random thoughts time:So I choose my classes for second year tomorrow, it's going to be a pissy time trying to figure out what damned classes I actually need to take, and what classes I can take if I want to (certain classes, I have discovered, are out of bounds to me).I wonder if I am going to like mini-golfing?Today I tried to do a back-flip, messed up, and walked away un-injured. The very same

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-33997073615174420622009-07-04T17:47:00.001-07:002009-07-04T17:59:27.660-07:00

February 23rd, 2000.My little sister's birthday.That was the last time I was home.After that we were tossed around from place to place, much like we were before, but this time around I was never really able to form attachments to places or things. I got attached to people, in the past year it's been made brutally clear that I'd grow attached to some of those people far too quickly, but none of it

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-83917133887583237552009-07-03T10:45:00.000-07:002009-07-03T11:07:36.575-07:00

So let me tell you a story.Yesterday I was supposed to go downtown to hang out with Kate and Katie M, it was going to be a fun time and I was going to become drunk. However, financial constraints kept me from being able to do so, so I send them a text saying that I couldn't come down, and went about my boring business.Then, a couple of hours later, I was on my computer and something hit my window

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-14346655220213776522009-06-29T22:22:00.000-07:002009-06-29T22:41:33.447-07:00

Haldo.So The Zack/Mary production of "Free Beer Party" on Friday was awesome. There was free beer, I drank it, there were cool people that I met, and then I woke up somewhere that I don't remember falling asleep. All in all a good night.Tomorrow night I have a Sonic Youth show to attend. That should be fun. I don't know too much about the band, but the tickets were relatively cheap, and what I

Keithnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-23957264825415156872009-06-26T08:54:00.000-07:002009-06-26T09:07:27.403-07:00

My mouth wide open, I taste steel and heat. Tears stream down my face and I remember what it used to be like, before I learned it could get better. Content to live in mediocrity and without a purpose, always striving just to be happy, always happy. Now I've lost it, she tells me I'm too optimistic, I see too much beauty in the bleak. Soon I'll see nothing, and I'll have done it just to prove

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-46870730783087121502009-06-25T22:51:00.001-07:002009-06-25T22:52:55.814-07:00

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-51022495905460717202009-06-25T14:38:00.000-07:002009-06-25T14:42:16.508-07:00

When I walk in the morning, or at night, it's silent. I am used to hearing everything - the trees, clouds, wind, grass, machines, buildings, shoes. All together they would throw their voices at me and sing. If I had the skill I could write a song from what they used to throw at me.Now when I walk I hear myself think, and to be perfectly honest, I don't want to hear it.I just want to know why

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-46961084926232825202009-06-24T21:53:00.000-07:002009-06-24T22:11:39.739-07:00

Remember when our problems were as simple as whether or not we got to eat dinner that night? Remember when we'd spend hours looking for our parents, trying to figure out whose house they were at, and anticipating how drunk they would be when we found them? Remember when they'd disappear into one of their rooms for a while, and we knew all along what was going on? Remember the smell? I've spent

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-39237683126367399682009-06-24T06:07:00.000-07:002009-06-24T06:23:07.229-07:00

Last night I had a dream that I was being pulled apart by zombies, that was terrifying!Interesting fact: apparently it is surprisingly easy to get a guitar string lodged in your foot! I managed to do it while sleeping! So that's something!What is the muscle directly above your forearm, but on the underside of your arm called? Whatever it is, I must have done something wrong working out yesterday

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-335345970696275542009-06-18T07:34:00.000-07:002009-06-18T07:53:14.036-07:00

I want to tell a story, I want to write something that can make people think, and feel ways that they never have before. I want a gloomy setting, a bleak and desolate place. The people there would be simultaneously trying to live from day to day without noticing how bad their luck was, and desperately trying to escape in whatever way they could. There would be a drought, a flood, a storm, a fire,

Keithnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-50923504755339432462009-06-16T11:29:00.000-07:002009-06-16T11:53:11.094-07:00

So I finally fixed the sound card on my piece of shit computer. And by that I mean that my friend Rory suggested something really simple and obvious and it worked right away because I am useless.Anyway the point is that now I've got access to a working sound-card and would like to use it to my advantage somehow, but I can't think of a way to. So yeah.In the way of music, I've got a few things to

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-22984407110026147562009-06-11T07:44:00.001-07:002009-06-11T08:49:04.022-07:00

Connor sat in the corner of the room, his chair faced the wall and his eyes faced the floor. His lungs were full to bursting but he kept inhaling. One, Two, Three - he counted the steps as it crept across the room and closer to him. His eyes opened wide, and he smiled painfully. It wrapped it arms around his neck, and leaned into him, seeing what he felt and stealing it away - it laughed with him

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-83580272948699110012009-06-09T09:25:00.000-07:002009-06-09T09:46:36.120-07:00

Hey, so I have moved into 67, and spent a night there so far. Other than the fact that sleeping on my bed is like sleeping on the floor but worse, it's pretty okay. The shower is weird and the kitchen is small but those seem like nitpicky things to get mad about when I am only going to be there for a couple of months until I move into 69 in August.Camping was pretty good. The ranger wanted to

Keithnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-17941698712708716092009-05-31T09:47:00.000-07:002009-05-31T10:06:08.286-07:00

Gah! it's moving day! I could not be less prepared.I am packing now, I have found a bunch of weird stuff I forgot I had. Strange.So the plan is that I am staying at Sam's place for a week, working and stuff, and then we are going on our super sweet camp-stravaganza, and when we get back, I move into 67 Haynes for ... seven weeks. This is the place right next door to 69 Haynes (hehehe) which is

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-69610013262119521442009-05-28T12:29:00.000-07:002009-05-28T12:45:16.867-07:00

So I'm about 4 days away from moving into the village. I am so very, very un-prepared. I haven't had time to pack a single thing, and I've got an exam on Saturday so I can't really do anything but study until then. I'm at work right now designing calendars for the Club that I work for, and then I am going to a group study session for FACS. Ugh.Anyway, I am going camping next weekend with Ben, Sam

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-72681784131116244432009-05-25T12:17:00.000-07:002009-05-25T12:25:36.862-07:00

Ben is hilarious. Me and him need to do a collabro-comic. It would be splendid.So, on the me being depressed front, I have moved from the deal with how shitty I feel using alcohol to the deal with how shitty I feel using absurdity stage!My hair was straightened the other day by a strange basement dweller from the internet. So that was fun. Well, okay, everything else but the fact that I looked

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-27751322179207241342009-05-03T17:28:00.001-07:002009-05-03T17:43:23.072-07:00

I had a panic attack today.I had no idea what it was like to be scared. No fucking clue until today. I thought I had been scared before, I thought I had known what it was like to be afraid but I didn't. It was honestly the most horrible experience of my life. It wasn't triggered by anything that I've been able to pin point, I'm not feeling any more stress than I usually am about money and school

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-73413000076567594272009-04-28T08:44:00.000-07:002009-04-29T11:31:56.182-07:00

Hey, wanna look at some of the awful work with html and CSS I've been doing in class? No? Fuck you! Click the title link anyway.(It's abstract arty shit so don't come whining to me about the navigation or layout)Anyway, I've got the following assignments to do until the end of the year:Fine Arts & Cultural Studies Essay : 50% doneDesign & Image project 3 : 0% doneDesign & Colour project 1 : 80%

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-2423494610260522822009-04-14T05:31:00.000-07:002009-04-14T05:36:30.274-07:00

A quick post before class starts just to fill all negative thirty of you who actually read this.I am no longer behind on work, per se. I am however swamped in it, it's just that I am keeping up at this point. I would feel worse about my situation, but since the strike everyone has been behind, so it's not like I am just significantly worse of a student or anything.I saw Dragonball:Evolution, aka

Keithnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-36359958044270546002009-03-25T23:26:00.001-07:002009-03-25T23:28:16.279-07:00

So tired.Lots of work, very behind, missed assignments. I am so tired.Caffeine pills won't let me sleep now.Everything is closer that it really is, for some reason.I feel like I am looking at things through a water lens.My arm is so far away right now.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-14779341228467147792009-03-23T05:43:00.000-07:002009-03-23T05:57:18.996-07:00

Ok, here is the deal. It is hell of crunch time for school (again) so I am going to post my schedule up here to remind myself. Deal with it.Monday - Work 10 - 5, work on Design and Image class. Get 100 images.Tuesday - Class 8:30 - 12:30, Class 2:30 - 6:30, Meeting with FACS group, Interactivity HomeworkWednesday - Work x - 5, Interactivity homework, Design and Colour homeworkThursday - Class 8:

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-90802144085826506642009-03-17T06:43:00.000-07:002009-03-17T07:20:42.711-07:00

So I got a job doing graphic design at the schools Student Centre! Woo hoo! That is pretty awesome. Money for doing something I love? Sure!I hung out with Zack and Chris last weekend, and then I left. This concludes the things that I did this weekend.We were talking about D&D a lot, and I think I've decided on going with a Tiefling Warlock for this party, at least for now. Tieflings have always

Keithnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-18066095497938317802009-03-12T04:47:00.000-07:002009-03-12T04:53:10.601-07:00

So I saw the Watchmen movie, twice actually. Needless to say I loved it (despite having seen it the first time with a group of people who despised it), but I will write a separate blog entry about the movie later, as I want to talk about it for more time than I have right now.The reason I am in a hurry is because I have class at 8:30 today, and then afterwards I have an interview for an actual

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-85702625124723099382009-03-06T11:52:00.000-08:002009-03-06T12:02:11.021-08:00

So I started my new classes for semester 2 yesterday, pretty cool I guess. In my Interactivity Design class I figured out how to program a little Java applet that is essentially the Facebook graffiti application, so that's pretty cool, I am working on a program that will let me draw into it with my tablet, and produce vectored lines with varying line weights depending on the pen pressure. Sure, I

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-9160329876894047562009-02-18T10:32:00.000-08:002009-02-18T17:03:09.293-08:00

Alright, so here's the deal with my current status regarding school work and the like:I have 9.5 hours to finish my poster design and get it printed. I know what you are thinking "But Keith you stupendous badass, that's a ton of time! That's more time than I put into a day down at the Labour farms!" While this may be true, You have to factor in amount of time spent eating, drinking water, writing

Keithnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-87542039803734864772009-02-17T15:55:00.000-08:002009-02-17T15:57:28.588-08:00

OH FUCKLESTICKS! I HAVE TO MAKE A POSTER IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS AND GET IT PRINTED! I FOLLOWED THE SCHEDULE SO CLOSELY AND LOOK WHERE IT HAS GOTTEN ME! A POX ON YOU, TIME BASED WORKFLOW REGULATION A POX ON YOU!!!GOD - PISS BOILING - DAMN IT!

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-18801905740273797202009-02-10T15:00:00.000-08:002009-02-10T18:26:44.224-08:00

I started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray, it's awesome. So I have actually kind of kept to my schedule! I have interspersed a few things between assignments, and got quite a bit actually done, so I'm thinking that my schedule will go something like this from now til Friday :Tuesday : Finish TypeWednesday : Print Type, Assemble, PosterThursday : PosterFriday : ClassI am hoping to hang out with

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-59229733795458388552009-02-05T06:32:00.000-08:002009-02-05T06:48:08.517-08:00

Quick update time! And then a schedule for myself so that I don't get off ... schedule.So York is back to class after a 3 month strike, which means that I am COMPLETELY swamped with work for the next 2 weeks or so. I've got 2 typography assignments, 1 FACS assignment, and (possibly) something due for my Quantum Computing/ Star Trek watching/ Crazy weird class, all in that time, including an

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-24555723186668030822009-01-12T08:42:00.000-08:002009-01-12T08:51:51.635-08:00

So, I've been in Ottawa since Friday (visiting someone, someone awesome) and I've decided something; Ottawa is fucking cold! Seriously, I'll never complain about how cold Toronto is again. Not even sort of.Anyway, that brings me to my point : I was going to have my new blog/portfolio up by this time, but because of the strike I decided to come to Ottawa for a week or so, so that's gonna be

Keithnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-77310819866703395312008-12-26T05:49:00.000-08:002008-12-26T05:59:26.624-08:00

So I haven't slept in a couple of days, actually. Not by choice mind you, but nevertheless I am pretty tired because of it. I only feel safe posting that piece of information here because I don't think anybody who would scold me for it reads this. Anyway, Keith can't sleep = either something is happening or he is being stupid, likely a combination of the two.I am headed back to Toronto to finish

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-32763292631796161552008-12-22T14:27:00.000-08:002008-12-22T14:38:01.666-08:00

So it is almost Christmas, and I am bored out of my mind in Clinton. But that's okay, I needed to get out of Toronto for a little bit. Awesome though it may be.I am also doing that thing I do a lot that makes me unable to go to sleep, I won't say what it is but it's annoying.Anyway, my goal this Christmas is to avoid anything terrible happening to me, which is a taller order than it sounds like

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-52298895610486894142008-12-02T09:52:00.000-08:002008-12-02T10:02:29.191-08:00

So I was watching the watchmen trailer, and I realized, wow I love the song in it. It is "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" by The Smashing Pumpkins. I did a little research and realized by the end of it "holy crap, I love The Smashing Pumpkins", a band which I previously thought I hated.So it turns out that song is an alternate version of a song by them called "The End is the Beginning

Keithnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-23325506960211447232008-12-01T11:55:00.000-08:002008-12-01T12:04:54.693-08:00

Every time I think I am about to be happy, and actually find a real happiness, it falls apart.Oh well, at least this time we decided it was time to tear the building down before the bombs went off...Fuck.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304091.post-27472383154361578892008-11-28T09:42:00.000-08:002008-11-28T09:47:43.798-08:00

Does anybody know if there is a foolproof way to transfer all of my posts from this blog to one on wordpress? I think that if I am going to make my blog and portfolio work cohesively then Wordpress might be the better option based on the designs for my portfolio that I am considering.Also, in the way of news, I am getting off my ass and drawing a webcomic. It's called "Uncle Andy" and it's about

Keithnoreply@blogger.com2