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I wish my life could be all musings of science fiction possibilities, but life has a texture to it – a passage we all have to travel. My passage has hit one of those sad corners – one where a good friend and neighbor has just died from complications stemming from bladder cancer.
We usually go through life being shocked by death, but it's one of the few guarantees that being alive offers. As the Flaming Lips song goes, "Do you realize that everyone you know some day will die?" But they go on….
"And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round"
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It's just a pity that human nature often blinds us to the true value of our friends until they take their exit cues…
Well, on a lighter note I blew through the latest James S.A.Corey book www.amazon.com/Abaddons-Gate-T… (576 pages) in about three sittings. The third book in their Expanse series, the story and writing are still going strong as ever! Space Opera made of pure awesomium! And again the book leaves us with a totally new hand of cards to play in subsequent novels. The series remains my favorite active SF book series and really begs to be a completely awesome HBO SF series!
There are a few shorts stories connected to the series as well. While these haven't been quite as strong as the novels, they still provide some good additional background on Corey's solar-system-spanning future humanity. Some of the short works are stand alone e-books, others are part of anthologies. So far we have:
"The Butcher of Anderson Station" (kindle e-book): www.amazon.com/Butcher-Anderso…
"The Gods of Risk" (kindle e-book): www.amazon.com/Gods-Risk-Expan…
"Drive" (in the anthology "Edge of Infinity"): www.amazon.com/Edge-of-Infinit…
An unnamed story in the "Old Mars" anthology to be released in October: www.amazon.com/Old-Mars-ebook/…
OK. You've made it this far through my blog, so you deserve a dessert! ART! With bigness and details only a click away. EAT UP!!!!
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We usually go through life being shocked by death, but it's one of the few guarantees that being alive offers. As the Flaming Lips song goes, "Do you realize that everyone you know some day will die?" But they go on….
"And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round"
:thumb251920961:
It's just a pity that human nature often blinds us to the true value of our friends until they take their exit cues…
Well, on a lighter note I blew through the latest James S.A.Corey book www.amazon.com/Abaddons-Gate-T… (576 pages) in about three sittings. The third book in their Expanse series, the story and writing are still going strong as ever! Space Opera made of pure awesomium! And again the book leaves us with a totally new hand of cards to play in subsequent novels. The series remains my favorite active SF book series and really begs to be a completely awesome HBO SF series!
There are a few shorts stories connected to the series as well. While these haven't been quite as strong as the novels, they still provide some good additional background on Corey's solar-system-spanning future humanity. Some of the short works are stand alone e-books, others are part of anthologies. So far we have:
"The Butcher of Anderson Station" (kindle e-book): www.amazon.com/Butcher-Anderso…
"The Gods of Risk" (kindle e-book): www.amazon.com/Gods-Risk-Expan…
"Drive" (in the anthology "Edge of Infinity"): www.amazon.com/Edge-of-Infinit…
An unnamed story in the "Old Mars" anthology to be released in October: www.amazon.com/Old-Mars-ebook/…
OK. You've made it this far through my blog, so you deserve a dessert! ART! With bigness and details only a click away. EAT UP!!!!
:thumb361698321: :thumb367905017:
:thumb376035823:
:thumb87217095:
Simmering
While I haven’t been leaving much of a visible art foot print, these last few weeks, I haven’t been slacking off. First, I’m working on both building up my digital resources and trying to get my 3D-skills updated after about a three-year absence. There’s quite a few image ideas swimming in my head, I’m just building to the point where I can tackle them in my “new ways”.
Second, I’m taking an online natural illustration course out of Australia so that’s not only going to be taking some of my art time, but also (hopefully) giving me a refresher with my old skills in physical art media. So l
2020: The Year I Make Recontact
Well it’s been only about a month (give or take) since my last blog update so maybe I’m having success in retraining myself back to the DA habit. I’ve made really good progress on migrating my old arting materials to my new machine and getting up to speed with DAZ Studio 4.12. I may have only pumped out three finished pieces, but behind each one is a number of experiments and trials. With each one my “render legs” have regained a bit more strength. It feels kinda nice being back at the digital drawing board… if only to provide some distraction from our nation’s dumpster fire du jour.
I’m also r
From the shadows shuffles the unspeakable horror..
Well hey there! Long time no chat. I’m still alive and kickin’… I’ve just been kickin’ it elsewhere: in my reading nook, on my modeling bench, and in my kayak. So I’ve very much NOT been here… due to the fact I didn’t have much new to show anyone. But that may change in the coming months.
The biggest thing that’d been keeping me away from making art was my aging machine (as I work mostly digital, these days). The ole box just could keep up with the state of the tech. Like a (too) old car, it can still get me from point A to point B – most of the time – but not without great ag
We here I am again… after another loooooooong absence. For whatever reason I just haven’t felt driven to create much art this year, and something in me feels guilty about coming to DA purely as a spectator. All I can say is that I sure hope this lull passes because I’m much happier when I’m creating!
I’d be lying if I said political anxiety here in the U.S. wasn’t part of the problem and with the outcome of the last election I find myself driven to become even more politically engaged to preserve the progress made over the last couple of decades. But I’ll attempt to minimize bringing my political bag
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Sorry to hear about your friend passing. It's always hard to see those close to us go, but like you said, we are richer for having known them. I agree with you about the Expanse series. "Leviathan Wakes" was one of the best SF novels I've read in a very long time (I say read, more like devoured... couldn't put it down). Just picked u the second book "Caliban's War" and am looking forward to diving into that once I finish with Hugh Howey's "Wool Omnibus".