| Bury Me Alive |
[07 Nov 2009|09:16pm] |
A portrait of the band, We Are The Fallen.
The butterfly is a classic symbol of rebirth after death. I thought it was appropriate, considering that most of the band are former members of Evanescence.
We Are The Fallen
Acrylic and Digital
All I see is black and cold
As I try to pull you down
To the ground, the ground
You bury me alive
And everybody's got to breathe somehow
Don't leave me, die
Too consumed by your own emptiness and lies
AliceMeichi.com - Illustration Portfolio
This and many other prints of my artwork can be found on my store: store.alicemeichi.com.
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| Canadian cast of characters |
[07 Nov 2009|05:40pm] |
Well, I used a lot of the suggestions that came my way from that post the other day! I was pretty pleased with the turnout of readers for that question, I must admit. I guess it's because you hear a lot that people don't give a darn about history in this country, if depressing yearly polls from the Dominion Institute mean anything, but it's clearly not the case among my livejournal followers. You guys are great!
I had to do a general sweep that involved a good range of places, professions, backgrounds and time periods, so you know, not everyone's favorite author is going to be in there but I sure did like the range in suggestions. Looking at it now I wish I had someone from the NWT (not one! for shame) and New Brunswick. Stompin Tom is from New Brunswick but he's also sort of from everywhere. I could have put the Irvings in there, I think they control history in NB as well as anything else.
I was all crazed out with strep throat while I did this, but listening to Radiolab shows and a burning passion for Canada I guess(?) kept me going. You can find the image in today's National Post, along with an article about the Historica/Dominion merger! Interesting stuff.
( picture is under the cut because it's huge )
Here is the legend, the rows are sort of wonky but you'll figure it out:
Row One (bottom):
James Wolfe, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, David Suzuki, Louis-Joseph Papineau, John A. Macdonald, Terry Fox
Row Two
Emily Carr, Joseph Howe, Joey Smallwood, Robert Bartlett, Louis Riel, Joy Kogawa
Row Three
Marshall McLuhan, Samuel de Champlain, Marilyn Bell, Wayne Gretzky, Emily Murphy
Row Four
Rene Levesque, Sam Steele, Farley Mowat, L.M. Montgomery, Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail, John McCrae
Row Five
Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker), Oscar Peterson, Rush, Pierre Berton
Row Six
Les Filles du Roi, Mary Pickford, Skookum Jim Mason
Row Seven
Charles Best, Frederick Banting, Pauline Johnson, Mordecai Richler, Tecumseh, Stompin’ Tom Connors
Row Eight
William Hall, Tommy Douglas, Marc Garneau, Roberta Bondar, Rosemary Brown, John Diefenbaker
Row Nine
Shanawdithit, Louis de Buade de Frontenac, David Thompson, William Shatner
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[07 Nov 2009|03:26pm] |
drawings for a future series of color reduction block prints of fairy tales and folklore based on my family history. Going to make them into a book. also, going to have someone with better writing skills than I help me with the written parts.
When the moon was full and red, the monster would mimic the cries of a woman in distress with the hope of luring men into its terrible gaping jaws. Rae wasn’t fooled. She had lost her father to this fate when she was just a baby. On those nights, she would hide under the covers and think of her father while anxiously waiting for the sun to rise.
When times were tough, Ida and Levia picked scrap cotton to help their parents make ends meet. Cotton picking was hard work and the girls would often have blistered and bleeding hands as a result. One day, while the girls were hard at work, an odd looking fellow showed up with a banjo. The stranger started to play and the girls watched with amazement as the cotton turned into the softest clouds.
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| Pick Up Sticks |
[07 Nov 2009|08:16pm] |
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Today I went to try and buy train tickets. And I went to the British Library exhibition 'Points of View - Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs'. I'm so fed up of not doing make up regularly anymore though that I made myself up pretty.
( And some other things... )
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[07 Nov 2009|03:05pm] |
Hey dudes, not an art post, but if you've known me in person for any amount of time you probably know I never shut up about WFMU:
They came up $100,000 short of their fundraiser goal in March, and are holding a 24 hour marathon to help make up the difference from Tuesday to Wednesday! You can tune into their live stream and years of show archives at http://www.wfmu.org , and also stream rock and soul programming 24/7 at http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.com/
I spend most of my day holed up in my room drawing and these shows have gotten me through countless hours of work. If you aren't a listener, I recommend going through the archives for Night People, The Best Show, Downtown Soulville, Seven Second Delay, Cherry Blossom Clinic, Dave the Spazz and Fool's Paradise!
http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/index.shtml
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| new control |
[08 Nov 2009|03:58am] |
"Luckless"
Pen and Marker on Paper, 2009
210mm x 297mm
"Cheaters Finish Last"
Pen and Marker on Paper, 2009
210mm x 297mm
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| picture dump |
[07 Nov 2009|08:37pm] |
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I almost never post here, but now I'll fix that and dump my outfit pictures here. Some of there are from the beginning of summer, I think, so I'll try my best to put them in an oldest->newer order. Then again I take pictures of my outfits veeery rarely, so you don't see much.
( Click heeeere )
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| Огни небольшого города |
[07 Nov 2009|06:39pm] |
Рисунок для детского журнала
Помогите снеговикам найти два дома,
в которых освещённые окна расположены в одинаковом порядке
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| WM5 on G4/Fresh Ink. |
[07 Nov 2009|10:34am] |
forgot about this!!
Blair Butler talks Wet Moon 5! starts at about 2:45 if you don't feel like watching the whole thing.
this just in: finally some good news, my cousin's chemo treatment appears to be working!!!! :D :D :D :D
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[07 Nov 2009|04:03pm] |
Phototshop
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| Hamlet |
[06 Nov 2009|10:29pm] |
Some oldies, but I don't think I uploaded them here.
Enjoy,
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| Our next guest is a mouse with hooves. |
[06 Nov 2009|03:40pm] |
I hate to say this, but let's follow each other around on Twitter.
And then we can both follow Shaq. I already am.
Let me know what you think.
TWITTER.COM/OURNEXTGUESTISA
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| Hnnng |
[06 Nov 2009|02:53pm] |
In that one Belle Starr post I screwed up the format of the coolest page in the set, so here it is again.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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| holy moly 2. |
[06 Nov 2009|03:41pm] |
i know some of you were poo-pooing it all when SDCC sold out of preview night badges last month or so, but lo: YIKES. hahahahaha. O_O'
more Chrono Cross shit, can't get it out of my head!!! >>:(
i don't get why they had to make the storyline so complicated and overload the game with all the undeveloped freebie characters, everything they chose to do with the game was confusing. maybe that was the idea, i don't know. the story was so meta and convoluted that the ONLY way it could have been delivered was through exposition, there's no way you could ever even scratch the surface on your own or interpret it to make sense, i don't know why they thought that would be fun. and it's not like when you DO know the story that it's very interesting, it's just a bunch of mystical science blather and people merging with otherworldly entities and typical overly-complicated metaphysical anime kind of tropes.
the basic ideas of going between the 2 parallel dimensions, hero finding an alternate dimension where s/he's been dead for 10 years, Kid being a rebellious asexually-birthed clone, two parallel hero/villain duos, are all great, that's all they had to do. dump all the other Chronopolis and Dragon Gods shit that didn't have anything to do with the story and just made things more impenetrable. then the fact that it's possible to never get Kid in your party, i don't get that; it's a fine idea, having different characters come and go, but then why make her the other main character? why put her on the box cover or have her in all the FMVs or write such a big backstory for her and tie her inextricably with the protagonist if she's so unimportant to the game that you can play and complete it without her?? it would be like if in Final Fantasy 7 if it was possible to avoid getting Aeris despite the fact that the story revolves around her.
i also hated how they kept doing apparent nods to Chrono Trigger but then either not following through, or it being clear there was no relation at all. like the knight character Glenn, at first you're like "omg he's related to Frog or he IS Frog!" but then nope, he's just an unrelated knight guy who also happens to be named Glenn. WHY??? and then Leah, the cavegirl in the jungle, she's super cool despite being completely superfluous, but you're like "is she related to Ayla?!" nope, not related, just another caveperson in the jungle who happens to look similar for no reason, haha. ARRRGGH. i could buy it if Cross wasn't meant to be tied to Trigger at all except in spirit or whatever, but the games ARE connected, you could never hope to understand (as much is possible, anyway, heh) Cross without playing Trigger, so it's like the developers were just being assholes. XD
anyway. heh.
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