12 posts tagged “drunkbunny”

...is relished by the wisest men.

drunkbunny's got some newness up.  primarily paintings, but other stuff too.  checka checka.

As our holiday hiatus draws to a close (yes, it lasts from mid-December to mid-February), I'd like to go over a couple highlights in no particular order. Before doing that, it occurs to me that I have so many blogs, it pains me to open another one.  So I won't... at least for the moment.  Although I'd like to get a drunkbunny-specific one to go with all my drunkbunny stuff.  We'll see.

Anyway!  The following is from my updated myspace.

+inspiration+
...my friends.  this new batch is completely wonderful, inspirational, and forty kinds of awesome.  you guys rock.

+current+
...tattoos, bags, decks, a children's book and various sketcheries.  totalling about 9 projects currently with potential for two upcoming logos and a gallery.  :whew:!
i'm also pleased to announce that drunkbunnyinc.com is finally purchased and properly redirecting.  the site won't be up until i find my dreamweaver CD and get that installed.

That is the very short version.  Sorry it's taken so long.  Hope you're all well.

Happy Breakfasting,
--dB--

That SCARF is something that I found over at daily_design.  It is wonderous.  As is that community/journal.

Oh yeah, I made this purse for my friend.  It's in progress but I wanted to show it off anyway.  After six weeks of holiday hiatus, it's time to get things rollin' again.

Also:  The weirdest Internet Party ever shows why Facebook should probably just be quiet.  F//king Winston Chen always ruins everything.

Sorry gang, no punchline.  It just sounded good in my head.

1) New car!  Please reference this LJ article for further details.  His name is Chubbles and I proclaim it Good.  Pictures of *my* car needed, but the default photo is pretty close.

2) Holidays make me crazy.  I am going insane. 

3) Art makes me crazy.  I am going insane.  But I love art.

4) If you've been following along, you'll know I'm bipolar.  This session is less of a mood swing and more of a mood tsunami.  My manic phase has kicked in to overdrive and my friends are to blame... they are starting to want more from me (by this I mean products/art for themselves).  This is not a bad thing in any way, I love my friends and love making things for them; my friend Eric called this the "design high", and it's very nice to hear someone else put a term to the craziness that happens.  Unfortunately the output can't keep up with the input right now.  I've been ingesting epic amounts of inspiration, mostly via MySpace ...yes, that site can actually be a goldmine for artsy folk.  It's like a giant Juxtapoz or something, but with hundreds of thousands of people.  The major problem happens when I go into a high-speed mode, and start putting out quantity instead of quality.  My perfectionism wins out, my brain then processes all of whatever I just made as Utter Crap, and I become totally depressed, resulting in a complete shutdown that lasts anywhere from a week to a year. 

The only way this process seems to work appropriately is if I'm on a deadline - if I'm not creating for just myself, then the shutdown seems to be voided by the fact that Someone Else Wants My Stuff.

So....... if you picture my brain as a normal, functioning cog inside a machine inside a building inside a city... the short version of what's happening to me right now is something like this:

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Hey you...
Have you felt like this before?
You got style but ain't got soul
Are you happy now?
Are you happy, tonight?
Or did Punk Rock get it right?
Is there no future in sight?
Oh is it different now? Is it different?

Come on
Come on, come on, come on
Where are you? Where are you?
I'm kicking and screaming
You're not listening...
Where are you? Where are you?
Everything I've believed in, has lied to me
But this could be the best day, of my life
The best day of my life

Hey you
Have you got everything you want?
Or do you want more than you got?
Is it different now? Is it different, tonight?
Or did Jesus get it right?
Or is the devil behind the light?
Are you happy now? Are you happy?

Come on
Come on, come on, come on
Where are you? Where are you?
I'm kicking and screaming,
You're not listening ...
Where are you? And where are you?
Everything I've believed in, has lied to me
But this could be the best day of my life
Oh this could be the best day of my life
Ohhh sons and daughters,
Mothers and fathers,
Everyone's waiting for our luck to change
Sons and daughters,
Mothers and fathers,
Everyone's waiting, waiting

Cause this could be the best day
And this could be the best day
And this could be the best day, best day, best day

Come on
Come on, come on, come on
Where are you? Where are you?
I'm kicking and screaming
You're not listening...
Where are you? And where are you?
Everything I've believed in, has lied to me

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Sometimes I wish I was medicated.

The past four days have been a spin cycle of eating and sleeping.  Wednesday night was a hot tub party at this place my coworker was house-sitting.  Did that get mentioned?  Is that proper grammar?  I don't know, but it was okay either way.  There was wine, cheese and good times, and I slept well.  On Thursday and Friday Jason and I just ate, slept, then ate more.  So much food.  Saturday was an 1130-8 shift, followed by meeting up with Maria & Trent for a Rancho's/Claire de Lune session.  Even more food, good lord.  Then yesterday they came over for brunch... April missed out due to being stuck at work and Sandy missed out due to being hungover.  Anyway, MORE food and champagne resulted in my taking a four-hour nap.  Then I spent the rest of the day leveling and being pleased at how my progress towards a level 70 is going.  I'm not pleased at how my progress towards an expanding waistline is going, but I do like food.

There's a whole hell of a lot going on for me right now, with things involving and not involving the drama llama.  He's been trampling all over the place for the past couple weeks, but I've decided not to feed him. 

It's my current social experiment to see if I am up to the task of just relating facts as they occur, and to try to leave all my opinions out.
ALL my opinions, which means also leaving some facts out, because by bringing them up it causes nothing but tension and general evil... therefore leaving me no choice but to expound upon my opinions. 

That was a mouthful, but the short version is:  There's a *lot* going on around me, and I'm not happy about all of it.  However I need to vent, so these short bursts of vagueness are the best I can allow myself to do.  They allow me to get out some frustration without stirring up more crap.

An even shorter version would be a nod to Fight Club:  Don't let the things you own end up owning you.  This counts for the Internet too.

Oh, for those paying attention, I mentioned "things involving and not involving the drama llama".  The things not involving him are almost fantastic enough to balance out the evil right now, so that's cool.  I've been making more art than I know what to do with, which pleases me greatly.  This is good.

The external world is fragile, and he who meddles with its natural way, risks causing damage to himself.
He who tries to grasp it, thereby loses it.
It is natural for things to change, sometimes being ahead, sometimes behind.
There are times when even breathing may be difficult, whereas its natural state is easy.
Sometimes one is strong, and sometimes weak, sometimes healthy, and sometimes sick, sometimes is first, and at other times behind.
The sage does not try to change the world by force, for he knows that force results in force.
He avoids extremes and excesses, and does not become complacent.

1 of ?

8" x 8". acrylic. adorable as well as evil.

[i don't do well when photographing paintings.]
[discovery: inexpensive canvases don't yield the best results.]

Yesterday was so good. Today will be the same on a smaller scale.  I'm pleased because my depression seems to be lifting which means my creative & manic phases are picking up speed.  A recap of events in the past 24 hours:

Met up early with Daisy at HH for excellent food (and I just remembered I can reheat the leftover banana-brownsugar-flapjack for breakfast now, high five).  Got done and wandered over to Jamba Juice while searching for a nonexistent pawn shop.  It reminded me I should go there more often instead of Starbucks [which also reminds me of a new piece I'm working on].  We are in mutual agreement of how nice things are when A) we get up early and go adventuring and B) you aren't distracted by nine million people and can pay attention to the shops.  I didn't realize how many little cafes and boutiques there are between downtown and South Park... we didn't get on the freeway at all.  Nice!

Blick wasn't open so we went back to her place to kill an hour and I looked through the book of Camille Rose Garcia's work that Daisy had just snagged in LA.  It was pretty and I wanted to eat it, but I settled on just encasing it with my soul for a little while.  Camille's MySpace is also edible.  Daisy's cat Cocoa is beautiful, by the way, but a megademon.

Blick was open by then so we checked that place out for an hour or so.  They should just change the store's name to WANT.  Bought a new sketchpad, some uber-cheap 8"x8" canvases (canvii!) and coveted pretty much everything in sight.  Enough to where I purchased more.  I cannot explain how excited I am about my new tabletop easel.  As a matter of fact it was so excited I sketched out the New Secret Series [coming soon to the drunkbunny collective], as well as filled up 2 pages in the sketchbook with stuff.

It was somewhere around 1pm by then so I went to Old Town (alone!) - this is where I got a lot of sketching done - ventured around Bazaar del Mundo and down to the graveyard... and bought a skull.  They didn't have a book that scratched the particular itch I had (something illustrated going over lots of Dia de Los Muertos info), so Paco the Skull of Infinite Wisdom is now on our entertainment center.  He's proudly guarding everything, oh yes.  

Picked up some food from Ranchos and after digesting headed out with Eric to Lestat's for a couple hours.  We geeked over typography and the goodness that is Micron, and I finished up the canvas sketch that will be painted today.  Then we stopped by various places to visit friends at work, and I headed home to pass out right around 10 or so.  

KittyMa0w is now here to tell me to get off the computer, so it's time to make tea and get out the paints.  My goal later is to get more non-Myspace entity for the DB collective, so that I can have a place for my in-progress work.  

Here's hoping I don't fail.  Mmm tea!

Well, it is.

...especially if you're barefoot.

Melinda, this one is for you.  :)