tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107012472011-04-21T15:46:44.622-04:00Just another 'blog. And stuff.Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1139329219683199132006-02-07T10:55:00.000-05:002006-02-07T11:20:19.703-05:00

As in, "Damn, it's been a long freaking time since I've posted." But, oh blog, I have not forgotten thee.I just got tired of posting.So here's a quick recap: Being single is good, not working retail is good, making more money is good, getting ready to move would be good if I genuinely believed my friend would ever close on this godforsaken place already, and not having a fever anymore is

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1128592307635309022005-10-06T05:35:00.000-04:002005-10-06T05:51:47.640-04:00

How's that for a title? It pretty much sums up how I'm feeling at the moment considering it's just a few minutes after 5:30 AM and I'm still up, doing my best to keep from bruising my own ribs with more long bouts of coughing. I'm not even sure how I came to contract this plague. What I do know is that I felt fine up until mid-day Monday and then I just knew I was coming down with

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1126047481446487102005-09-06T18:54:00.000-04:002005-09-09T14:06:03.786-04:00

That's pretty much all I've got to say. I love working in Painter more and more. The program itself really is amazing. Now all I need is a brand new G5 to play nice with it.Anyhow...Click the preview thumbnail above to check out my Flickr Photostream. From there you can get a much more detailed, full-sized version of each image I've posted.

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1125775853205252552005-09-03T15:30:00.000-04:002005-09-03T15:54:20.706-04:00

Yesterday I was hired to work as an Administrative Assistant for a local branch of a geotechnical science firm. I have a feeling it's going to be a nice change of pace to move out of the retail world, and at what better time? The holidays are right around the corner after all. It'll be nice to become another faceless consumer and not having to field stupid questions and even dumber

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1125216376114938652005-08-28T03:52:00.000-04:002005-08-28T04:06:16.123-04:00

The title says it all. It's always nice when one can go out with their close friends and just romp around the town. My friend, Adam, is making plans to move up north, so myself and a group of friends went to go see his band, To Lay with Lions, play out at a place called "The Skyline."After that, my friends and I went to Applebees for some drinks and conversation, then Damen and I hit up

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1124421654573893282005-08-18T23:14:00.000-04:002005-08-18T23:20:54.583-04:00

I love Painter IX. It's all still very new to me, but I must say that I've gotten used to using the drawing tablet. I'm looking forward to making the investment into an Intuos3 so I can have some tilt control. In the meantime, I'm enjoying even the simple pressure sensativity and control I'm getting out of my Graphire.There really isn't much else to write about. Things have been really good

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1123738418590331272005-08-11T01:28:00.000-04:002005-08-11T01:33:38.596-04:00

So life still sucks, but that's always been plenty of motivation to start doing all the things I should've been.... one of those things being drawing.Anyway, here are a couple of my latest little scribbles. I'm going to start working on some completed compositions soon, but in the meantime I've just been working on feeling out a style for the project I have in mind.Enjoy.

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1122764825772721852005-07-30T18:56:00.000-04:002005-07-30T19:07:05.783-04:00

Ever have one of those weeks where you wonder where the hell you went wrong? Me too. Things just haven't been panning out the way I've been working towards. In fact it seems like all my efforts dissolved at the drop of a hat.The effort that mattered most involved love. Shoulda known better ...But instead of turning this post into something rife with melodrama, I'm just gonna say that I've

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1119387664026665302005-06-21T16:52:00.000-04:002005-06-21T17:01:04.033-04:00

Well, life's been pretty damn mundane lately, and I find it boring to write about all the astonishingly stupid people I meet on a regular basis; hence the lack of updates.I am, however, preparing to fly out to North Carolina for a week and change. It's about time I treated myself to a little get-away.More when I return ...

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1117315298665234552005-05-28T17:12:00.000-04:002005-05-28T17:21:38.673-04:00

Recently I purchased a new video card on eBay - sort of. Sort of, in that way that I paid for it over two weeks ago and HAVE YET to receive it. Payment via Paypal went through on Monday; shipping label gets printed on Friday; item doesn't even end up in the mail until two fucking days ago!Now I'm sitting here on a quiet Memorial Day weekend sans a video card.Oh, and did I forget to mention that

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1116221944898314192005-05-16T01:27:00.000-04:002005-05-16T01:39:04.903-04:00

Man... wtf. Everything's been bad ass, but I've gotta rant a little bit about Pioneer. It seems that the new burner I have, the DVR-109, has had a few firmware upgrades. It also appears that this very same drive may replace the current generation of Superdrives in the coming G4s and G5s.So someone explain to me why Pioneer hasn't posted Mac-compatible firmware upgrades as of this writing.

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1116014406388897692005-05-13T15:41:00.000-04:002005-05-14T00:14:15.756-04:00

Having had a remarkably shitty day yesterday, I decided to spend money I didn't really have in hopes of amending some of the damage. A walk through Best Buy was what the doctor ordered. Before long, I was approaching a register with a new 16X dual-layer DVD burner and a Wacom Drawing Tablet.I couldn't wait to get home. After I walked in the door, I was eager to get started; so I started with the

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1115049963128308212005-05-02T11:50:00.000-04:002005-05-02T12:11:18.136-04:00

I'm sick right now. It sucks. Feels like a porcupine nestled its way into my throat while I slept and did some breakdancing. But besides all that, life sucks.Actually, things have been pretty average - neither good nor bad being any better than the other - aside from some pointless female pseudo-drama.Girls + random subject matter = fang-bearing conniption? So it would seem. And dear god I

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1113956096405910242005-04-19T20:11:00.000-04:002005-04-19T20:14:56.406-04:00

So I started another blog so I could have a place to vent my creative impulses, namely of the writing sort. Check it, yo.http://thenonsequitir.blogspot.com/Word.

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1113414071778749962005-04-13T13:34:00.000-04:002005-04-13T13:41:11.780-04:00

Last week = best week ever.I landed a lead storyboarding job for a film coming out of Sarasota, FL. Most of the details are still on lock-down, but things are moving in the right direction. Also in vaguer news, hot chicks that dig me rule.I've got work by the truckload that I've gotta get to so that's it for this installment. If I get a chance I'll post some new work to my Flickr account later

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1111738154026362232005-03-25T03:08:00.000-05:002005-03-25T03:09:14.030-05:00

Tonight rocked my socks off. A friend and I went and saw Copeland play at the State Theatre up in St. Pete - and shit was it worth it. It's just indie goodness at its bestest. Not only did they play the best of their new songs, but they also played a lot of old favorites, too.In other random news, my friend Nicole and I went into the scariest Blockbuster video store today. The store itself

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1108530875201274552005-02-16T00:14:00.000-05:002005-02-16T03:45:35.006-05:00

Close-up kick-ass-ednessOriginally uploaded by The Morningstar. Holy crap. A Final Fantasy message window skin!I just recently started looking for an OS X messaging alternative, mainly because I'm tired of having three or more messengers running at any given time. I found Adium X.Back before I was able to shake the Microsoft curse, I was fond of using GAIM. I'd tried Trillian and DeadAIM as well,

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1108508742519608112005-02-15T17:58:00.000-05:002005-02-16T03:46:46.910-05:00

So I've been lax in drawing much lately, mostly because I've been working like crazy. However, soon I may be collaborating with a local author, possibly illustrating a graphic novel.I guess this means I need to stop slacking off and working on some new pieces just to keep myself fresh. This is a little somethin' I touched up recently. I'm gonna explore this character some as a practice study.I'll

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1108063806471005802005-02-10T13:59:00.000-05:002005-02-10T14:30:06.470-05:00

Avoiding work drama is relatively easy as long as one follows a few simple steps. Here are a few suggestions. Do not: become involved with anyone you work with. say something about someone you wouldn't say to their face. volunteer information, however helpful. Some of these may seem obvious. Nevertheless, people somehow manage to circumvent their own reasoning and self-defense

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1107900803021770472005-02-08T16:34:00.000-05:002005-02-08T17:13:23.020-05:00

If Valentine's Day were a man, I wish Cupid would shoot him right through the face with his pretty little bow. Allow me to elaborate, though... "Oh shit. Valentine's Day is coming up already?! I guess I better go out and buy a bunch of ridiculously over-priced flowers, some cheap-ass chocolates, and maybe a meaningless card. I mean, I only have to do this shit once a year, right? Sweeeet."

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1107874301465651472005-02-08T09:08:00.000-05:002005-02-08T09:58:15.266-05:00

You know, I know I'd be rich if I could figure out what makes people stupid. Instead, I'll continue to observe these air/space parasites from their native habitat. This study is something of a casual life work, a passive quest fueled more by curiosity than hope for fiscal gain or true enlightenment. Having said that, I'll take a moment to recount a dangerous brush-in with one of these entities.

Gabrielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702009476014742132noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10701247.post-1107870447483633552005-02-08T08:40:00.000-05:002005-02-08T08:47:27.483-05:00

... Or something that rhymes with that. I'm not even sure why I bothered getting this thing. Maybe because blogging is so trendy now I couldn't do without. You know, why not just "hop on that bandwagon". So yeah, I've chosen to abandon originality - if such an elusive thing even exists anymore. Like it even matters. Things go in and out of style so fast now-a-days, black will be the new

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