Author: Kevin Riggle

Quick post. I've got to be up at 5am. tomorrow morning. Grr…

You ever have it happen where you're doing something, got a goal in mind, and suddenly you notice that one of the intermediate steps is pretty interesting on its own? I was CG'ing a MegaTokyo strip just for the heck of it, or maybe for my independent art class (actually a DPD, but you get the picture), when lo and behold, I saw these:

and thought that they were pretty cool. Here's the original drawing — I'll post my finished, colored version when I get it done.

[edit 2-7-04: posted the second version with the shadows of the kids, but didn't feel like making it a whole new post. i still think these are just really cool. :)]

…yawn…

Wow. Over the past 48 hours, we got at least a foot of snow. Our gravel road was so bad that I couldn't even get home last night, and ended up crashing at a friend's house. There's a two-hour late start at school today, but of course that doesn't apply to me since I have classes at Dordt. With the wind chill, it's -30F outside. Brrr… At least their library is warm and has 'Net access. 🙂

I have my Philosophy class in about twenty minutes, so I had better not fall asleep here. I wish Dordt's coffee shop was open in the mornings — I could use a little cobweb cleaner right now.

You may have noticed some changes on this blog. In fact, it would be very hard not to notice those changes. For one thing, there's a big new box on the left displaying a bunch of song titles — more specifically, it's grabbing my AudioScrobbler feed, which (in theory) displays the last 10 songs I've played on my computer. The AudioScrobbler site has been up and down a lot lately, the plugin is still a little funky, and my music isn't very well-tagged, so you may not be seeing the absolute latest things I'm listening to, but it's cool enough. Hacking the script, which I borrowed from someone else, was fun, since I got my first exposure to PHP. People complain about it, but it looks decent enough to me. I kind of collect scripting languages. 🙂

The other big change is the color scheme of this page. I've been meaning to personalize the template ever since I started this blog, but never really got around to it. Since it's now part of a larger site, I have some incentive to make it my own, and the blue-khaki-orange stuff was getting on my nerves. Hopefully, I can persuade my art teacher that web page design is really something I should be spending independent-study time on. At the very least I need some decent graphics — I've been using this site as a kind of portfolio, a means of displaying my work to college reps and other interested parties, and that seems the best purpose for it. Vanity is boring. It just needs some more material and better organization; hopefully today's work will provide a good framework for that.

Speech contest tomorrow — King Richard III needs his sleep. 🙂

…brainstorming…

Art Independent Study Ideas:
– wheel-thrown pottery … coffee mug? others? (!!!)
– acrylic painting — but what subject?
– drawing/CG of drawing? — let-it-snow, 1st assignment?
– comic pages — drawn or CG, others' (MT, Errant Story) or my own?
– fluorescent mineral mosaics — the idea that refuses to die… ask Usenet, Dordt?
– POV-Ray animations — popcorn guy/"ads," posters for theater (w/ or w/o live-action footage? Cinelerra, others?); space animation, other short animations?
– gfx for side-scroller, Web page, other programming/design projects?

TODO update: (from Wed Jan 7)

(no particular order) heh heh

– Des Moines Register Academic All-State application
::cowers::

– FAFSA
pretty well done. the CSS Profile, on the other hand…

– MENSA scholarship application
done. yay!

– Thrivent scholarship application
done

– GMFCU scholarship application
missed the deadline, I think. oh well.

– other scholarship applications
pending… grr…

– Christmas thank-you notes
drawing done. now just need to be written.

– Mancala hacking
going quite nicely, thanks

– practice piano for Festival (yaah!)
argh.

So I'm about at 50%. Maybe a little better. I'm still tracking well with my homework, and I'm going to the Democratic caucus tonight. Should be interesting, at the very least. Later.