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Crap!  I forgot to do a post for the day!  I got painting the Jersey Devil and lost track of time.  So… um… lets do a question period!  What job field are you working in?  Did you enter the field that you went to school for?  If you’re still in school, what are you training for?

I went to college for Classical (film) Animation.  I don’t work in that field specifically, but I do animation for video games.  So my answer is… sorta. ^_^

What would I have brought home from Disney if I could have traveled with it safely?

No… not the movie.  Good grief. o_O  No, I mean the cartoon series.  I had to watch it at work a few years ago because I was on a project that was tied to the movie that was coming out.  It was pretty cool because we had access to some pre-production shots and concepts for the movie.  Anyway, I got watching the cartoon series and fell in love with the story and characters.  I think I’ve watched the whole series from beginning to end close to 20  times.  The whole adventure and story is just so incredible that after it ended (and what and ending… wow!) I desperately wanted to know more about what happened to the characters.  I even would love to know the history of the world they’ve created.  It’s just so awesome in my books.  Plus I really linked with the character Aang  and his Buddhist ways and out look.

Well, last year I was thrilled to find out they there was to be another story in this series.  The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra.  It happens about 70 years after the end of the first series and I love how the creators have aged and moved technology and innovation in to the world.  It’ll be interesting to see what they do this time.  Is anyone else excited for the new Air Bender cartoons?

iO9 has some early clips from the show.  It’s supposed to be out sometime this year.  I can’t wait!

The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra clips

So last year I went to Disney World (post here).  I went with my family, mostly for the kids.  I had no expectations except for the fact that my kids would love having the opportunity to go and would remember this trip (or parts of it) for a long time. We went with my Brother-in-Law and his family as a large group.  There where nine of us in total, 4 adults and 5 kids.  By the end of the week long trip my kids had caught some sort of stomach bug and puked all the way home and I was tried of my in laws and their kids.  But you know what… I want to go back so bad it hurts. Continue reading

I stopped and realized today that I’ve been doing sexy tooning for over 10 years! Holy crap! 10 years!  That means I was 24 when I started.  Dang I’m old!  I’ll be 35 next month (9th of Feb… mark it on your calendar… I expect gifts).  Never would I have imagined that I would still being doing this after all this time.  Sure there have been some lulls in the drawings here and there, but I’ve kept at it.  I remember drawing my first naughty pic of Babs and then trying my hand at anthro drawings. Continue reading

How often do you back up your computer?  I do mine somewhere in the range of never to hardly ever.  I know, it’s a dangerous game I play both on my laptop and our home computer.  At least it was, I am now in the possession of an external drive and I’m currently backing up family photos and such.  I should back up this blog too.  If anything where to happen then all this would be gone.  Oh… I guess I should back up my art and PSDs (Photoshop Documents).  I know some people say I can sync up my computer to auto backup… but I’m not that tech savvy.  How often do you back your computer crap up?

I have warts.  Not huge ones… just small, flat warts.  They don’t hurt, in fact, if I didn’t tell you, you wouldn’t even notice them.  I had one for over 10 years.  But found a way to get rid of them.  Duck tape.  I’m sure some of you out there have heard of this.  Some may have tried it too.  Well, for those that have not and are looking for a cure to their warts, duck tape is the way to go.

I came across this treatment not for me, but for my son.  He had a ginormous wart on his toe and it hurt him a lot.  I knew he wasn’t going to go for doctor treatments on it as I’ve heard they’re quite painful.  Heck, I didn’t want to do it.  So when I saw this, I figured we’d give it a try.  All you have to do is apply the tape to the wart and leave it there for about 5 to 7 days.  Then remove the tape and use and emery board or nail file to file off the dead skin on the wart (the skin where the tape was will be white like it’s been in the bath for a looonnngg time).  Leave the tape off over night and then reapply it in the morning.  This process will take a long time before the wart goes away, like… several months.  But if you stick with it, the wart will go away.  My son now has no wart on his toe at all.

So if you or someone you know has warts… use duct tape on them.  It totally works.