Thursday 30 April 2015

Even more rabbits & Cats!

At the top: Brush stroke rabbit. The right one went out well, I would like to give these another go sometime.
The other rabbits below went okay, but not as nicely as I hoped.  I really like how I did their ears though.

More brush stroke rabbit. I like the tail and the ears.

I saw a cat yesterday. Cat saw me.

Cat posed.

I am ZE cat.

Cat stride.

Cat has vision.

Sunday 26 April 2015

More rabbits

This one is my favourite!


I've been doing a little more rabbit painting.

Friday 24 April 2015

Life updates


If we forget all those burdens, life in a small town is rather nice. The most weird and quirky things seem to happen. I remember working on some project or another, and hearing the clatter of hooves outside. I took a peak outside and saw a gentleman with a horse and cart. He disappeared, only to reappear again, where I managed to grab my camera.


Sometimes we cook nice food together.This is simple, cheap pasta, tomatoes, sausages, peas, carrots and onions, with grated cheese. Tasty.



Sometimes I am able to concentrate a little to paint too.


I'm not sure what I did with the hair, but I liked how the wolf/goat has turned out so far.


Sometimes baking happens too.


And then more painting. This one is one of my favourite attempts at brush stroke painting. I like the ears, though shame about the front leg I think.


This is a more recent rabbit, experimenting with colour. I liked using the browns and the yellows, and will probably do another one of these.


I like shading with watercolours for some reason. The small things.

Sunday 19 April 2015

Podcasts?? and Some New Ideas

Hello creativity, it's been a while.

I have been working on completing parts of the past together, tying knots and finishing loose ends so I can go off and fly again. I've been writing about indigenous religions and spiritualities, and also about the Baha'i religion, which I find rather interesting.

In my spare time I have been thinking of making a new, more professional blog, keeping this one as my venting/every day blog. (I like... Making new blogs...) It's tiring creating good quality posts, and I've been enjoying using this blog recently through freedom and without worry that it doesn't look too snazzy, that what I write isn't really showing any of my writing skills but more blurring along some thoughts and feelings that have been occuring recently.

 I have thought about things I could include on this new blog... Articles of interest, interviews... Podcasts? To those who know me well - I can be rather shy and such, but actually, I've always liked presenting and entertaining. I was inspired by some fantastic spoken word poets including Holly Mcnish who I've had the honour to meet in person, and is a brilliant poet. I would like to do some kind of podcasts involving myself talking about news, debating with friends, and also having a go at recording some spoken word.

Speaking of which.
Quite a while ago I was commissioned by someone belonging to online forum to make them a story in rhyme. Though it has a transcript, it was meant to be spoken aloud, and I have finally got round to recording it, which you can find here.
It's a very silly story, but I hope someone may find it a least a little funny. You can find the full transcript here, on my Tulinkei blog.

Wednesday 15 April 2015

Bunnies!



So I was meant to make a cake and I made cake-like biscuits, go figure.

One bunny
Un lapin

Das haustier

:)

-3-
Today seems like it might go better.

Tuesday 14 April 2015

Suckish day

So I made a little progress. One step forwards.
Now ten steps back.

I think it was the 10th, when I posted those uninteresting photos that I felt kinda happy since quite a while. It was because I made progress. I finally started work on things I've been avoiding and things I've been wanting to do but just haven't had the creative energy to do so.


Yesterday and today I have made no real progress, only damaging things around me by mood swings and silly things like that. I still need to mature. It's a bit strange, but imagine a planet going around an orbit. I think, since my second year of uni, a comet hit and the orbit has been rather screwed. In fact, this planet has no real idea where it's going. I would really love to settle, relax, not have this racing heart beat all the time, not this stress that impacts my vision, this ringing in my ears and the numbness of my hands.

Fade.

Imagine if film was in writing. No, not like a script, but as a writing medium - perhaps like a blog, where you literally write the transitions from scene to scene. Fade. I like that. I like that word.

Moving on. Side sweep.

There is a stool right beside me and the desk. Looming over the stool is at least an inch thick of documents I need to scan about my failure. Goodness me, that's rather dramatic isn't it?-- But, they each document how me feeling depressed, me feeling sad has caused me to lose my job, to see health professionals, etc. They each document how I've risen - tried very hard, only to fall again. I need to look at every single document, and upload them onto this laptop by today. I need to accept them and move on I guess. I am not feeling very well at all today. I think I will feel better when today is over.

Again. That repetition. That curtling, hurtling recognition, just a smidgen off tone. Fade into grey.

I feel very destructive today.

Sunday 12 April 2015

Some progress & Petition for Audio Description for Daredevil

Recently I've found myself making a little progress here and there - which is excellent. Perhaps the beginning of finally being a productive Tulin again. I've done a little bit of writing, and I have been looking at my survey results for my thesis today.

I would also like to give a shout out to this small petition which is keen to make Daredevil, a comic series about a blind lawyer, to become available for blind readers through audio description. It is not the best written petition, but I think the goal is important. Why wouldn't you have this material available in other formats?

Friday 10 April 2015

Uninteresting Photos



So I thought my blog was starting to look a little bit boring so I changed the theme and decided to put in some new photos. Of course, I can't be having this blog look too exciting - that wouldn't be fitting with the current mood - So! Here are some uninteresting photos that I have taken recently.


My cheap CoOp pizza, with a big onion in the middle.

A cat on a roof.

Watching cat on the roof.

Cat.

Cat play.

Cat Stare

I guess I'd better make a small shout out to Sticky, who is a cat fan. *hugs* Ciao.

Thursday 9 April 2015

Procrastination with Duolingo

I have a lot of important things to do.

So I log back onto Duolingo and decide to practice my French. I'm finding everytime I visit after a long period, I can remember just that little more, which is very nice. I've noticed they have also got Turkish available for English speakers in beta now. I would like to learn, but I think it would confuse me a bit too much. It also amuses me that Klingon is going to be a thing on Duolingo. I respect those who can make up languages, and equally those who decide to learn them for the fun of it. I am not sure how Duolingo will profit from Klingon interpreters though.

I am drinking some cheap cloudy lemonade. Sip sip sip. It doesn't taste too great. Too much lemon. Not enough artificer, know what I mean?

I've also been using Habit RPG recently. Having joined an active party, it's been quite encouraging to see mature users who have been through very similar circumstances and made it through the other side. You can make a to do list which is standard, as well as a 'dailies' list. Everytime you complete a task, you get a some gold and exp, just like a rpg. On my dailies I have done quite a few today. Ventured outside. Did something I didn't want to do. Made an effort to tidy up. I have three remaining.

  • Write 100 words of story/blog/poetry
  • Work on Thesis
  • Hit your daily word count.
Priorities eh?

Friday 3 April 2015

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Travelling again.

Nothing too exciting to report, just remembering old faces, old places, that kind of thing. Once again. A somewhat dreary whisper of things could have said, should have said but never said nor sung nor rung from the floor to the second floor, or furthermore, that kind of catastrophe that stops the approach of a renewed contact, a renewed pact, perhaps a renewed friend, nevermore.

I'm somewhat drifting.

Been very tired today, slept most of it. It's very hazy inside. Brain fog, I like to call it. Tiredness in the blood, I suspect.

I have a confession to make. Not sure when I'll write it, but it's something I'd like to explain sometime. It tangles around the subject of escapism for me. And another subject, an interesting dream. One that didn't hold familiar faces (though ironically, I don't really remember what they look like anymore.) or places, or races - the kind of thing when you're simply running clockwork, a kind of manual labour kind of dream. Not my favourite, 'cos they seem to increase that every growing onslaught of tiredness.And that leads to simply being too tired to be me, and beyond that, too tired to any degree, commit to things, make things and simply do the do. 

Dream. Based in the future. Not space, nor ship, but in a different reality than before. I play as a scientist, short black ponytail, tallish, unnecessary lab coat. We are studying a subject. A very short woman, about 2 and a half feet tall. Very small hands. Again, black hair, but this time in pig tails. I don't think her style was her choice. This woman decides to escape. It is my duty to prevent her from doing so, but I decide enough is enough. We run and end up heading to the female toilets. I was worried she was going to go inside the toilet and flush herself down - to try and escape through the sewer system. She explains that is possible, but she's got a better idea. She simply opens the door and steps through an invisible portal and disappears.

The dream splits. In one reality, I don't go through the portal. Maybe I tried and it didn't work. I decide to head back, I talk to my colleagues, one with a brown ponytail. Her face decorated by sharp makeup and defined cheek bones. She laughed and said it was fine, that Red Alert will think of something for them. It was this time that I realised the way they thought was like a drone. They were not creative, they were simply doing, and living meaninglessly, their actions predetermined by a computer.

Then in another reality, I do go through the portal. I end up watching some Turkish performers who were dancing. There is a man next to me, his dark brown hair in locks. We end up talking an making friends. This dream is in fragments, I don't really remember it so well. But there were iPhones and... Stuff. The man asked me to translate the Turkish, which was never spoken but there was a white chatbox beside their faces, with written Turkish inside- I had no idea, but used my iPhone to google it. I remember the letters, so as I write this blog, I googled it. 'iyi sucle deir' according to google means 'good is also guilty'. My friend who is very good at languages including Turkish didn't make too much sense of the phrase, as it is difficult to translate without context. It might also mean 'A good crime mill escapes me' what doesn't seem nearly as cool.There were some other 'Turkish' phrases, but they do not mean anything. I remember having to explain that I was actually not from this time, and lived in the past (or our current present as it is now) but the man seemed to accept it. I woke up to 'Gregory, Gregory, Gregory!' Apparently while at Judo, Greg pocket dialed his mum.

I went downstairs and ate lasagne.