Welcome Back.

"You now have Six weeks left in the semester. Have a good time!" 

Shiiiit. As if I wasn't trying to pull my shit together long enough to launch the portfolio site, I need to catch up in uber-quantities after being sick. I'm still kinda sick, but not sick enough to get out of classes. 

I promised photos, right? Here are some photos. They're not the exact ones I promised, but it shows you I'm alive, ya?

The photo above is basically my portable art station:

(1): Mac Book Pro (15 inch)

(1): Champions Online Backpack full of tech gear (portable harddrives, USB memory sticks)

(1): Wacom Graphire4 Tablet (beaten to shit but still usable)

(1): Soon-To

-Be-Replaced Adobe CS3. As soon as I get the money for it...

It's funny, I used to carry a sketchbook all the time about a year ago, now lookit me....I'm almost 100% Digital and it's kinda scary.

Movin on...a few quick shots of my cat. He's a wonderful little thing, but getting on in yea

rs like you wouldn't believe. Yes, that is an eyetooth sticking out of his mouth. 

 

He wouldn't stand still...the rest of the shots came out blurry. 

More later, I promise. 

-N Graves

Still Having Health Issues

At home for Spring Break, recuperating to say the very least. I can't shake the feeling that, while I have gotten rid of the cyst, something else is just around the corner...But that might just be me being paranoid.  I've been accused of that once (or twice) a week. 

Website is in the process of being built. I'm laying out the skeleton over break. 

Medical Issues

Sorry folks, not a lot going on here. I've been sick lately. At first it started with a small pain in my right side. After that pain grew to intense blinding pain over the weekend, I went into the emergency room at St. Francis. Apparently, I have a cyst on my right ovary that has made it swell to four times its original size. It's kinda interesting how distorted my body is on the lower right side now. I can clearly tell which side is messed up. Because I'm such a young pup, they don't want to operate on me (they could only discern that it was a cyst, not what it was caused by), so they shoved off a bottle of pills on me and smiled as I limped away. Unfortunately, the disease known as Endometriosis runs in my family, and cysts can be caused by that too. If that's the case....I think it's probably likely I could have the entire ovary removed. From what they told me (and I remember very little), the cyst has enveloped the ovary. I'll keep you all updated as it goes along. 

The Heroin Diaries

Before I post some pics of the place I work in (well, create in, anyway..), I wanted to show these pictures. They're not much more than scribbles done while i was listening to the CD, but at the same time, I drew each with an intent of what I would want to do later on as a painting/whatnot (if I ever get that mythological and far-off "free time" where I don't have to work on something "important.") I only made thru the first three and a half songs before I started to pass out. Working reeeeeally late at night can be fun. 

In reverse listing, because I'm still figuring out the blogger photo thingy...

Pray For Me

Yes, I have a sick twisted sense of humor. I want to do a surrealist type painting of this scene of the main character sprawled out and bloody on a stretcher where his body and the surrounding materials make it look like a cross. It works for me. 

Life Is Beautiful

(if you can believe it, anyway.)

I was getting an image of Nikki in the alleyway in Asia, saying "Like fuck I'm gonna die." Then kinda fastforwarding to the line from "Dancing on Glass" 

Valentine's in London, found me in the Trash....

Van Nuys

I think it's kinda self-explainatory here. If I could go back and redo my painting now, I would. 

X-Mas In Hell

Oddly enough, this is what I decided on if I ever pick up the paintings again. I want to do a more fish-eye lens of it, though. I think it'll look super-fucked-up then.

Photos to come soon. At some point. I think. 

Slight Change...

In order to try to get my mind out of the dark pit it usually drags itself into, Devil's Grave has been changed to Ramblings & Rants. I know it's a lame title, but it's also open to the public, albeit having an adult tag on it. I like to say "fuck" twice as much when I'm pissed. 

Photos will be done once I get my hidey-hole cleaned. 

Wait, another blog?

If you look at my account, there are quite a few blogs sitting on there. Two of them are parts of research projects, and one of them is a private journal for rants, ramblings and general screams to the world. It doesn't have anything in it as of yet, but I'll probably throw something together when I feel so inclined. 

Here's a short list of the blogs:

Axel Kimagawa's Ramblings

(a blog about MM333: Introduction to Research in Virtual Environments. Most of this blog uses notes taken from observations in the virtual-reality program called SecondLife. It's complete, but my professor has asked us to keep it up for at least another year. It doesn't cost me anything, so I'm cool with it.)

Rock'n'Roll Geisha

(This is for the follow-up course to the last one - MM444: Field Research in Virtual Environments. We're studying a specific place in SL, but I don't have much to post in the way of findings yet (I'm a bit behind on the work, honestly.) Stuff will be updated in there as it goes - as long as our group allows it.) 

Devil's Grave

(Angsty Screams and Idyllic Musings. In short, what I think about the world that really doesn't belong on "professional" sites (such as the DeviantArt site I have, or my personal portfolio that has yet to be re-launched). At this point, I'm not screaming at things all that much, so it's pretty empty.) 

Why the new blog?

As a musician and an artist, I do a lot of creativity at home (wherever home may be at this point in time.) To that extent, my belief is that in order to create, one must have an environment that is beneficial to that end. If you want to call it feng shui, then go on ahead. I also find it kind of amusing to see where some of your favorite (or just rather interesting) works are created. 

In very short summary without the flowery crap: I'm posting pictures of my working space as it changes throughout college and afterwords. Deal with it.