I woke up at 7:45am.

I woke up pretty early today, considering I went to sleep at 3am after watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I'm reading Alan Noon's blog. He worked on the Street Fighter: The Movie game for the Saturn back in the day. He still works for a game company. It got me thinking about me and my games. These days, I rarely beat games anymore.

The last game i finished was Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. I'm currently playing Turok on the 360. The game is frustrating at times. Few games really excite me these days, but I still want to play games in general. The feeling I used to feel when I was a kid about up and coming games is gone. I guess I'm not wowed anymore. I think that's because of the Internet. I read up on news every single day about the gaming world, from rumors, announcements to seeing video about X game. So it's hardly a surprise these days. It's hard not wanting to find out about what interests you. Sometimes I avoid any news about a game when it's close to coming out, so I can be marveled. I no longer subscribe to game magazines.

I'm looking forward to games on the 360 (Gears of War 2, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts) and PS3 (Little Big Planet, Killzone 2) this holiday season. The Wii is ok. I haven't played it since May. It's great for Nintendo games. Few 3rd party games shine on the Wii. I'll be bringing my 360 and PS3 to Japan with me, but I think I'll leave my Wii behind.

New Semester

Since this is my last term at USF, I'm going to try to update my blog on a weekly basis. It can be with digital mock-ups of what I'm doing for painting class or video game related stuff amongst other things. With that said, I'm going to post an image of what I'm going to paint.

hey

yo

I'm still alive

I'm still alive. That's all. Been busy doing nothing. Actually I have some photoshops done for paintings, it's just that the summer makes me feel lazy. That and working full time, taking a math course, and trying to get my TEFL certification done.

Work for this term

I finally decided to get the pics from my brother's camera. Here you go:

Unfinished Dante & Vergil in Hell: I got fed up with this one. It's sitting in the house in this state:



I have this one completed, but I haven't taken a picture of it yet finished. So here is a WIP that was for R:


This was the first one I did for this term. My friend Marlow came up with the name, which is cool. Ryu-ssance:

Kevin

Last night, I found out a friend committed suicide. I honestly couldn't believe it. I never thought he would end up in that situation. I checked his myspace to make sure my friend Jesse wasn't kidding with me when he told me the news. I saw the comments people left behind on his profile. It's crazy to think that something was bothering him so much he had to do what he did and couldn't get help. One of my goals in life was to attend E3. Because of Kevin, we were able to get into E3 in 2004. On his myspace profile under best vacation, it says: E3 2004.

Rest eternally.

April

It's been a while since I posted. I stopped working on the DMC painting cause I wasn't happy with it. I have started working on 2 more paintings. One of them, I'm 90% redoing. It's a Rambo battle scene. There's too much to do and I don't have enough time. So I'm going to concentrate more on the central image than on the ensemble. The other painting I'm doing for a party theme show at Centre Gallery. I'm using the cam on my Nokia N800. Sorry about the quality. Here are WIPS for "One of dem parties": they are in reverse order






I've worked it more, but I haven't taken pics. For the next post, I hope to have some other pics of stuff I've done this term. I'm just too lazy atm to get the memory card from my brother's camera.