I am Doom

I am Doom

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So I was getting frustrated last night, trying to nail the composition of a piece I'm working on (so annoying not even being able to get the initial sketch stage done with). It's a piece featuring Doctor Doom, focusing on his head and shoulders, arms raised aloft, harnessing some ball of energy or something. The initial idea was to do…

Facebook update #2

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So, it's been a week, roughly, and I'm up to 175. Three quarters of my stupid random personal challenge completed. Other than that, I've not really been up to much. The Batman canvas is pretty much finished - keeping to my personal target of creating one "finished" piece of art a month. I feel that something has got to give…

Facebook update

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After only a few days I'm up to 147, and those were just the blindingly obvious ones. As I said, I never add anyone, I always let them come to me, but there are people who I like and respect but am strangely not "friends" with on Facebook. I didn't keep track of exactly how many invites I sent out,…

It’s been a while

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This is the longest I've left making a post for a long time. Nothing interesting has really happened to be honest. I've made a canvas for a work-friend, and nearly finished another one for some other friends, convinced Jane to make some progress on her fiction (specifically, The Famous Yiberdeedo), watched some films that I don't really feel the need…
Videogame targets

Videogame targets

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http://www.trueachievements.com/gamergoals.aspx?gamerid=2710 I know I was debating not having a target this year, but with all these other targets I thought "Why not, eh?". Can I get to 100,000 in eleven months? It's an increase of around 14,000 - I managed that last year. If I can find enough short and easy games then it won't take long, but I'm kind…

Fitness targets

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It's got me thinking, the creative target thing. Maybe I need to have targets... No, no, no, I already have targets. Maybe I need to make these targets public? Well first of all, and this may come as no surprise, I'd like to stop smoking. I'm starting to feel the effects badly now - I dread catching a cold, and,…

Creative targets

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As I am a loyal subscriber to ImagineFX, issue number 93 popped through my letter box the other day. One of the first articles was about setting yourself goals. How they can motivate you, boost your confidence, and also keep you within the realms of reality: There is a difference between goals and fantasies. I am going to set some…
Halo 4: Enemies

Halo 4: Enemies

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I've played through the Campaign mode three times now, once with Jane on Normal (she doesn't like dying!), once on Heroic with Lewis, and once by myself, on Legendary, which was a slog! Those Promethean Knights sure have strong shields. This is what I thought of the Halo 4 bestiarum vocabulum. Caution: There will be spoilers! When Halo 4 was…

Halo 4: My thoughts

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It's been out a while now, I feel I've played it long enough to be able to write about it with knowledge and understanding. Over the next few days I'll be posting my thoughts on a variety of aspects of the game, all linked here for your convenience. Enemies Ordnance Campaign War Games Conclusion

2012

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2012 eh? The Mayans thought the World would end - fucking idiots. Not the Mayans, but the people who misinterpreted their calendar. It was a mixed bag - some good, some bad, but mostly good. I started with the misconception that I could code - what a lol. It was a mixture of getting a new, powerful PC and a…