In more way than one

This is a slightly revised Drew Danburry lyric. What can I say? I come off as a little egotistical...

"I think I might be strong enough to hold everyone up with just my ego."

A preview

Here's a little preview of what I'll be posting this summer.

These drawings are meant to be simple, fast, and accurate. Don't worry, I'll get better. I'll also invest in a few different colored ink pens.

This is what I see tonight. 10:00pm

This idea was partially stolen from one of my favorite living artists, Jason Sho Green (jasonshogreen.blogspot.com). But in all fairness, I once did this on February 28, 2010 while I was watching Geremy do the dishes.

So I guess you could say it was a budding idea.

I'm pretty excited to get this started. I hope you have fun looking at these.

delinquent

Hi all. Sorry about the delinquent nature of this blog lately.

I have been beyond busy and I temporarily lost my digital camera.

But be patient, and stick with me. I've got big plans for this blog, beginning this summer. Plans that include doodles/drawings, interesting photography, and maybe even some original music.

I won't be going to school, I won't be working at a swimming pool, I won't even be working full time (probably), and I'll have nothing but time and warm weather. It will be pretty alright, I think.

Stick with me!

Manbaby

This low quality blog deserves a low quality photo

I haven't blogged for two weeks, and I know you're just been dying to hear from me. Thanks for your consideration! I always knew there was some sweetness nestled inside that rough exterior.

I havent blogged lately because nothing has been going on. School, work, stress about school, cram information into my brain, neglect responsibilities to hang out with buddies, sleep a couple hours, repeat. Thats basically my life. And, ever now and then, when something cool is going on in my day, I don't have my camera. I went to Idaho Falls last weekend, and I forgot to bring my camera. What kind of photo blogger does that? A bad one.

Enough rambling! Tonight I went to a benefit concert for some presumably unconstitutional trail. A really great musician performed named Alexander Ebert. Ever heard of him? He fronts two bands: Ima Robot and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. Ever heard of them? Google it.

Tonight helped me remember why I love live music so much and why I want to make a career out of it. This show was held in a tiny bar in Salt Lake City, with an audience of about two hundred. Everyone singing along, every dancing, everyone being positive, everyone forgetting about everything that is going on outside the doors, and everyone just loving music.

I really needed this to re-motivate me to get through this audio production degree asap. I snapped this picture on my two year old phone, so I could share this motivation with you.

Remember what you love to do and do it.

Valencrimes Day- Day 15

(fyi: click on the picture to see an larger version)

Today is the fourth anniversary of the first self portrait I ever drew. And every year since then, I draw a self portrait on this day.

I usually have plenty of free time on Valentines Day, which is, actually, fine with me. I'm not the type of person to get wrapped up in the significance of a certain date. I'm the kind of person that would rather sit back and let it casually come to me. Maybe this is a bad attitude to have when it comes to romance.

This self portrait is the first self portrait that I've done since March 2009 (Yeah, yeah. I bailed, and didn't do a self portrait last Valentines Day). I've hardly picked up a pencil since I graduated from Utah State, unfortunately; however, I am satisfied with this drawing. I've been looking at a lot of Jason Sho Green sketches lately, and I think it really shows (google "Jason Sho Green"). The text says, "I can decide, while I'm alive, I'll feel alive. And what's next? ... I guess I'll know when I've gotten there." It's from a song called "Brook & Waxing" by a band called WHY?

It's a line I think about a lot, and I feel pretty strongly for it.

I hope you like it. Maybe I'll post more drawing here... Well, maybe I'll draw more.

So ty-ty bear right now- Day 14

Holy cow, I'm exhausted.

I pull all-nighters more than most people (I'd imagine), but never one like this.

I spent Friday and Saturday in Idaho because it was my big brother's birthday, and that seemed like a good enough reason to make the trip. The problem: I had to work at 5am today, Sunday.

Rather than coming back to Orem yesterday afternoon, like a logical planner would do, I left Idaho Falls at 12:30am (about sixteen hours ago), and made it back just in time to brew a cup of coffee and go to work. I thought two Red Bulls and two cups of coffee would have kept me awake fr my nine hour shift, but no. I'm fairly positive I dosed off while sitting on the ground in the toddler boy section for a minute or two... I say "fairly positive" because todays shift is kind of just a blur at this point.

And of course, now that I've been off work for two hours, I'm still awake, not able to sleep, and toughing out a serious headache.

The funniest part, I think I'll do it again next week!

Okay, I'm going to close my eyes now.