Penny For Your Thoughts

We had to make something building off of the word cherry. Ran outta time on the deets, but no worries, it doesn't look that good anyway. I chose to make a penny.

Any guesses as to how they relate?

Project: Still Life

A still life drawn in Adobe Illustrator, using only fills. No strokes or other tools were allowed.

I think it came out pretty well.

My Dear Mother....

Bleh.

Tyler Welcomes Me As I Welcome You

Classes began for me today, and I don't know how many fellow Temple pre-collegiates are actually reading this. Anyway, for those of you that are, and haven't read my previous posts, my name is Andrew. Welcome to my blog, I hope you like what you see. I am a hardcore comic book fan, and have instantly fallen in love with The Dark Knight.

Movies. Art. Music. Literature. This is what makes me tick.

Since this is for art, check check here, these artists inspire me:
Adam Philips
Oliver Vernon
Pocket Clouds

Computer Problem

So my computer is flat out busted. This blog is indefinitely suspended until I can fix the computer.  Apparently some chip related to the internet/detecting an internet connection fried inside my computer. (It'll be kinda hard to update this without an internet connection.) Luckily the chip is located on my mother board, so now not only do I need a new chip, but a brand spanking new mother board. I don't even know if it is worth it at this point considering my computer is older than dirt in PC years. (like 20000000 years.... unless you have some REALLY old dirt, that's gonna be tough to top) Do they even make mother boards for my FUBAR computer? (My technical computer knowledge is noticeably vast...)

So I'll catch you guys on the flip side, hopefully soon.

P.S. I added an RSS feed option, just in time to not make any posts for a while! Now that's smarts.

Sorry Ben, Another Post About Video Games

So now that I've gotten back into stride with this whole summer thing, I have created a to-do list for myself to follow. Based on the fact that I don't follow it at all, I am not quite sure why I created it in the first place. Something about filing tax returns, backing up my music collection, and cleaning out my closet. Yet somehow video games managed to sneak onto the list, and completely take it over. Oh well, I have embraced this fact and have instead compiled a to-do list of video games. Much simpler, and much more helpful in allowing me to procrastinate from doing what I really need to. (A portfolio would be nice....) See that picture there to the left? That's it. We got Boom Blox (Wii), The Orange Box (Xbox 360), Condemned ([#1] Xbox 360), No More Heroes (Wii), Bioshock (Xbox 360), Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360), Battalion Wars 2 (Wii), and Mario Kart Wii (You seriously don't know?). Of those I've started plenty of them, and am currently working my way through Half-Life 2 of the Orange Box. This game is a phenomenal sci-fi shooter.
Hopefully this list will allow me to break the curse of starting a game for a few hours and never finishing it. (the dead pile of last-gen games sitting in the corner of my family room)

Hey Ben look down here, this may be a little more friendly to your interests.
Alas, I am not wasting all of my summer simply melting my mind with video games. Being the OCD nutcase I am, and feeling the need to keep everything in list or chart form, I've created a book reading list! This list starts with No Country For Old Men (Cormac McCarthy), then goes to my reading for next school year, East of Eden (John Steinbeck), and ends with Boomsday (Christopher Buckley). As always, No Country For Old Men is better in book form (somehow beating out that masterpiece of a movie).

I've also taken this summer to fall back in love with movies. I have been vigorously adding to my movie collection via used DVDs from Amazon, Netflix, or FYE. Surprisingly FYE has some good deals, considering their outrageous price for new stuff. (30$ for a DVD!?)
And, despite the inflated cost of going to the movies these days, I have pledged myself to see at least one movie a month. (Any guesses to this months? *Hint rhymes with Bark Right*)

No moron it's not Dark Kite....