Haven't updated for ages

So I've been out of town and then sick for... I don't know how long. Thank god I'm not the kind of person who would disguise half a post as an half-assed apology, right?

Anyways, I have been "working" on stuff even though I've been sick. I've been writing and doing some character design. Still don't know if I'm gonna leave the shit as a novel or make it into a comic. A comic takes an insane amount of time to make, and I'm not even sure I have that time. It would update pretty randomly to say the least.

I'm also in the progress of making bracelets and stuff. I'm also doing miniature GLaDOS cores too! Found some white balls (bawhahahahaw) that I could use and stuff. Only need to find some wire.. Ugh. It's currently on my working bench, drying up and getting all sparkly white and stuff. I'm unsure how to make it smooth and shiny... Maybe some kind of polish..?



I'm also thinking about if I should try sculpting it slightly or if I should just paint most of the pattern in it... I might make some home-made clay and glue onto it for certain effects. I'm unsure of cutting the material I have. Going slice slice with a knife usual isn't the best idea!

Since my sphere is the size of a human eyeball, I might actually buy coloured contact lenses for the "eye"... AWWW YEAHHH!
I just hope the colour doesn't fade....

But I'm gonna stop writing now. Back to work!

Anime reviews

Here's reviews of animes I've been watching the past days!

Kuroshitsuji / II

Kuroshitsuji revolves around Ciel Phantomhive, the 12 year old orphan earl. Ciel Phantomhive lives in his luxurious mansion during the victorian times, accompanied his butler Sebastian Michaelis.And Sebastian... Well, Sebastian is one hell of a butler.
Kuroshitsuji is a very interesting series, and a very dark one too. There's a lot of murders and blood, but also grand balls, bishounen nobles and humour. The mixture between mystery, humour and the victorian darkness makes this series very enjoyable. The plot twist in the second series does something that's very rare for a second series, it actually makes the anime better.
There's a few fillers, but not too many, and they're mainly there to lighten up the mood and develop the characters.

This series is focusing a bit on the female audience, but can be enjoyed by any gender. There's no real romance, but there's no hardcore action either. It's pretty neutral. For the age, I'd say about 12 year olds+

Overall score: 8.5/10

Animation: 8

Sound: 6

Plot: 9

Characters: 7

                           Ao no Exorcist

Rin is no-good kid in comparison to his younger brother Yukio. He's not studying, nor does he have a job, and he keeps getting into fights!

He lives in a monastery with his father Shirou Fujimoto, who works as an exorcist.All of a sudden Rin starts seeing wierd things, and before he knows it he's being attacked by demons and ghouls! Shirou comes to his aid, but it seems that the demons attacking him  aren't the only ones around...
Ao no Exorcist is really a typical shounen, but a good one! The anime has only been out a few months, and it's already the new addition to many "favourites" lists.

The plot is really good as far as I've seen. Most characters have a purpose, and the plot/characters are being revealed at a comfortable pace.

The music and sound effects blend in effortlessly, and the animation is as good as you can expect.

The characters are in some cases a bit cliche, but their feelings and motives are well thought out. You really get drawn in when a character is sad, and you actually laugh at the scenes that are supposed to be funny. I don't know about others, but fun scenes in animes are usually... Not fun?

This anime goes well for anyone of any age or gender, but as it's shounen it's slightly aimed at teenage boys. And this shows really well in Shiemi... *cough, fanservice outfit, cough*

Overall score: 9/10

Animation: 7

Sound: 8

Plot: 7 (so far)

Characters: 9

From yesterday

Pictures are all mine!

omigoshomigoshomigosh!

My friend and I were out taking photos earlier today. I live on the outskirt of a small village, and the house is close to a river and a lot of flowers and stuff, so it's a good place for taking photos!
We tried going down to the river, but there was too much water to wade out anywhere nice. The bushes had also grown A LOT since last time, so it was hard finding the path. Not to mention the heavy rain a few days ago caused a minor land-slide caused the path down to become insanely steep. We were only wearing flip flops and shorts, so we didn't dare go down in case we got cuts or something.

Oh, and we went up to the barn (basically a storage house the size of 2 houses) and took some random photos. The place is, I don't know, really old. It's from atleast the 1920s. The houses where we live have been used as slaughter houses and a store.
Taking photos of old places is so fun. I found some dried flowers in a vase that looked really pretty, and a really old picture of my house. It's sepia coloured, so yeah, old! Hahaha. And it's majorly over exposed... so, that means it's old, right? Hahaha, trying to encourage myself in my hunt for old things.

All of a sudden my friend went "Hey, what's this? It's looks cool". I was in my own head, studying that old picture and the frame, and just mumbled "Hm, what is it?"
"Oh I don't know. It's like some kind of casing. Looks like something for an old camera."
That made me interested. She came to me and showed me a picture, and I was like "Yeah, that looks like a leather casing." She showed me where it was and I took it down from where it was hanging. It was on a  nail stuck under a few bamboo sticks.
We sat down by the nearby table and opened the casing (wich was kind of tricky). When I first saw it I was like "what, this can't be a camera?"

It had something that looked like two lenses, like binoculars. I took of the protection and tried looking into them (HAHAHAHAA oh my..), but didn't see shit! After a while we realized it was an old double-lensed camera... I continued poking it until I realised what everything was. We found a little "lever" for the aperture (and I was amazed by sliding it back and forth, looking into the lens HAHAHA). We also found where you made the picture, uh, more "sharp". I've lost the english word for it! Oh, and we found where to put film and how to rotate it! (Major geek gasp!)

After about.. 20 minutes and a google search, we found out how to put it and how to use it. Of course, we had no film for it, but that was fine. We could still see the picture "inside" the camera when we tried. It was AWESOME! It was like so clear! I want to try and take pictures with it ugh!

My friend and I got super excited over this. Hahaha, no one shares our amusement! Dang it.
Anyways; The camera is a Crystar 25 from 1953-54. We don't know who's it is, so I left it where I found it. (But we cleaned it up and put everything back together of course.) I'm gonna google around a bit more to see if anyone knows anything about this camera, how it came to sweden, how common it was, how much it would be worth now. TEE HEE this makes me so excited.
Also, we took loads of pictures of the camera and everything we did today, but it's like 2AM right now, so I don't want to start on that now. Tomorrow!

This is how the camera looks. Not my picture.

Insomnia

It's 2AM and I'm not sleeping. Fabulicious.

Just thought I'd share some old photos and drawings and whatever!

Oh, these all belong to me. Things in this blog only belong to me if I say so, and these do.
The camera used for the photographs was a Canon EOS 550D. Edited with Picnik.com and GIMP. Free editing tools fo sho!

Also, I'm hungry as fuck. My stomach's going BLURGRUGURUGURUGUURHR! :(