Cat Wrapping!

My awesome Aunt Cheryl found this one and in the spirit of Christmas, I put it on. Too cute to miss! :) And it kinda looks like Dragon (our cat).

James Newton Howard talks about his awesome music!! XD

This is really cool and, being one of my favorite composers, just downright fun! He offers some good advice and insight into what makes his music so awesome. I personally thought it was interesting how much writing and music are linked. The ways you go about writing are very much alike how you would compose something. Just goes to show how much deeper thinking is going into score writing and story writing. Hope you enjoy this. :)

Futuristic Droid X Commercial

I remember this one from seeing it at a movie. At first I seriously thought that it was an upcoming film or something. Hahaha! Pretty interesting commercial though. Love what happens to his arm! 0__o Hope you enjoy it.

Groucho vs. Kinda Scary Guy on You Bet Your Life

 In celebration of my survival of the first semester of college (which isn't that hard, just got to think like a good clone :) here is this hilarious video! Enjoy!

The Twelve Days of Christmas.....CLONE VERSION!!XD

This is totally random, and a spoof on the real holiday song but I can't get the dang thing out of my head so thus this..... Maybe I'll add funny picture/drawings later!

[Imagine song playing]

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: a paratrooper in a pear tree!

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Two turret guns and a paratrooper in a pear tree!

On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Three entrenched men, two turret guns, and a paratrooper in a pear tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Four stalling speeders, three entrenched men, two turret guns, and a paratrooper in a pear tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: FIVE CLONES THAT SING!!! 8D Four stalling speeders, three entrenched men, two turret guns, and a paratrooper in a pear tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Six 'nades for flailing, FIVE CLONES THAT SING!!! Four stalling speeders, three entrenched men, two turret guns, and a paratrooper in a pear tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Seven squads a swinging, Six 'nades for flailing, FIVE CLONES THAT SING!!! Four stalling speeders, three entrenched men, two turret guns, and a paratrooper in a pear tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Eight medics a-healing, seven squads a swinging, six 'nades for flailing, FIVE CLONES THAT SING!!! Four stalling speeders, three entrenched men, two turret guns, and a paratrooper in a pear tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Nine larties looping, eight medics a-healing, seven squads a swinging, six 'nades for flailing, FIVE CLONES THAT SING!!! Four stalling speeders, three entrenched men, two turret guns, and a paratrooper in a pear tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Ten DCs a-blazing, nine larties looping, eight medics a-healing, seven squads a swinging, six 'nades for flailing, FIVE CLONES THAT SING!!! Four stalling speeders, three entrenched men, two turret guns, and a paratrooper in a pear tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Eleven snipers sniping, ten DCs a-blazing, nine larties looping, eight medics a-healing, seven squads a swinging, six 'nades for flailing, FIVE CLONES THAT SING!!! Four stalling speeders, three entrenched men, two turret guns, and a paratrooper in a pear tree.

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Twelve gunners gunning, eleven snipers sniping, ten DCs a-blazing, nine larties looping, eight medics a-healing, seven squads a swinging, six 'nades for flailing, FIVE CLONES THAT SING!!! Four stalling speeders, three entrenched men, two turret guns, and a paratrooper in a pear tree.

New York Pictures

This is from the time my high school band took a trip out east this summer. Great times! (I'll upload names of places later.)

My chickens! (like about four or five years ago! :P)

This is kind of an old chicken movie that I made with my little compact camera about four or five years ago. The rooster you see jumping in the nesting box was Coocoolale (don't even know how to spell his name, poor guy) and a lot of the other chickens you see are dead now. :'( But keep in mind that they all lived into the ripe old age of about seven. The only one that died before that age was Grace, but that was because she had respiratory problems from the get-go which can't be cured (it's one of the flaws of that breed, the Light Brahmas). This movie is so old that it doesn't even have the new chickens! Also keep in mind this is the dead of winter when the coop gets kind of dirty because they are stuck in there twenty four- seven. Also you'll see that they are clustering around the sunlight because it was like 20 below that day. You probably heard me laughing at Coocoolale and Charlotte (little spunky brown and white speckled chicken). Anyways, I kept this forever because Coocoolale was my favorite rooster of all time (sorry Poofyhead), he never attacked us or anything! He was such a sweety. Rest in peace good chicken.

Oh, and I do not live on a farm or have like a million other pets. The chickens I have now number about 15. I have a dog and a cat and my sister has a little bunny. I'd say that's pretty decent for living on the outskirts of town. I have a gas station and a very small outlet mall a couple blocks or so from my house. It's just that our house came with a chicken coop so I guess my parents figured that we should fill it with chickens. It also doubles as a shed for my mom's gardening supplies. What's awesome is that the nice elderly people who live in the retirement home that's right next door to me come over to watch the chickens. Everyone lives on 'our' side of the retirement home so they can watch us working in the garden or the chickens in their ginormous fenced in green space. To keep the chickens from getting bored in the winter, or even all year around for that matter, we give them yummy things to eat like grapefruit rinds and old bread. Right now our two oldest hens are 12 (Charlotte and Dotsie). These chickens are pets not food. The only thing we eat is their eggs and we let them live for as long as they can.

Some more sketches!

This is a drawing I did of Commander Cody jumping off an exploding building. It's a scene from one of my 'battle' books and it's kind of hard to see what's going on right now. It'll become clearer in the following pictures. I like to draw scenes from my books so I can best visual what's going on, who's involved, and the precise details of the scene without writing a single word. I find that this helps me describe better what's happening and realistically what the character is feeling. I find that it's good to draw a wide variety of 'shots' (as I often visualize my books as movie scenes) and not just the actiony ones or the romantic ones. This is where concept drawings come in handy, as they are just drawings of how you plan something to look (like a building or a person) and they're not really doing anything else.

This is the first stage of this drawing, just the bare outlines. I was using a how to Star Wars book to help me draw his muscles. It's by Bonnie Burton and I would definitely recommend checking it out (even though how to draw this specific picture isn't in it because it came out of my imagination! I can only draw stuff out of my head) it really helps! I used the 'how to draw muscles' and the 'hands' part of the book to help me draw Cody's body. X} Oh yeah, I also used the 'character perspective' part too to draw him at a different angle that I usually do.

Here he is as time progressed. I tend to draw in the meager five to ten minutes before my physics class because there's not enough time to do much reading or other homework. Thus my classmates would generally ask questions and comment about what I was drawing. I make sure to tell them that it took A LOT of practice to get to this point and that I was horrible at drawing people when I was a little kid. (Which makes me wish that I still had my earliest sketchbook. Unfortunately it was lost. :[ ) I also gave them tips on how I learned how to draw: You just watch people and observe how the light reflects off of them. I'm a firm believer that anyone can learn to draw from their imaginations if they really try, and that the main thing is understanding how stuff looks or moves so you can draw it and shade it right. Observation definitely plays a big role in knowing how to draw stuff. Being a writer helps too because I'm already observing people's reactions, features, and moods in order to best describe them in my books.

And here is the (nearly) finished product! :D As you've probably realized, this is not Cody's normal garb as I thought that it would be interesting to put him in a different armor to match the more stealthy feel of the story. I also wanted something that showed a bit more flesh (even though it's under a bodyglove) to entice the heroine's notice. (*gasp!* OOOOO!!!! 8] ). And besides, drawing muscles is FUN!!! (really it is!)

Here's the concept drawing of the stealth armor. As you can see, he's got his helmet on (notice the similarities to the normal clone t-visor design and also a nod to Rinzler aka Tron's helmet) and his gear. I also showed what he looked like from a rear view (like the spine thing? it was inspired by Issac Clarke from Dead Space suit). At the top right hand corner you can faintly see how his head fits under the helmet and the 'release' sequence (aka how he gets his head out of it! :) Kind of in the middle, around the top of the page you can see, faintly, (I'm sorry for the not so great photo :L) how his jetpack would fit around his shoulders and it's design. It's not shaded yet so hopefully I'll be able to get a close up/better picture of it for you. Towards the bottom you can see the stretchy wrap thing that goes over his head and some of his gear and weapons.

Love his abs! XD

 Hope you enjoyed this and, with luck, I'll be able to post some more once I draw a little bit more! :)

Duck Soup funny scene (Marx Brothers!)

This is one of my favorite scenes from the Marx Brother movie, Duck Soup. Got to love Harpo, he's hilarious! XD

Mr. Bean--sandwich making scene

Really funny! Enjoy! :)

Mr. Bean rides the train (choo choo :)

Mr. Bean's innocence is worse than Private Daniel's!! XD (Daniel is a character in my book.)

Addicting Indian song! : Tunak Tunak

This song is (almost) guaranteed to have you bobbing your head or humming along by the end of it. And, either way, you'll undoubtedly have it stuck in your head for some time after. Try to beat my record of three days. :)