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chrysanthemum May. 3rd, 2009 01:54 pm)
chrysanthemum May. 3rd, 2009 01:54 pm)The bitchin' post I have about DW marketing doesn't really explain who I am very well, does it? I figured I should do a, y'know, PROPER INTRO POST. So I'm not just a collection of anonymous and slightly weird pixels running around adding people.
I'm stealing the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
add_me form since it's sunday, my caffeine mojo isn't working yet, and composing an articulate intro to the glorious freakiness that is meeeeeeee requires like, way too much thinking for a lazy morning when I'm still in my pjs. (And it's after noon. ahahaHA. crap.)
Name: Indicia
Age: 29ish
Sex: Female
Location: Canucksville
Relationship Status: Single
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual.
Occupation: graphic designer, semi-pro illustrator
Children: None.
Pets: None. (allergies :/ )
Siblings: younger sister and younger brother.
Interests: the drawing/writing/design triumvirate of doom, anime/manga, fannish stuff in general, science!, paranormal woo, zoology and nature.
List 3 words to describe yourself:
1. Freak from another planet
2. Tenacious as all hell
3. Open-minded. I try to be, anyway.
List 3 interesting/random things about you:
1. I spent so much time sidelined by illness that I feel (and look, oddly), about 18.
2. I have had a near death experience! No, seriously. I also have seen ghosts.
3. I believe my three artforms are kind of.. the same thing. One macro-artform.
List 3 things you look for in a friend:
1. Funny, intelligent, fun to be around.
2. Open-minded and curious about the world
3. A basic level of empathy and respect for others. After all, I try not be a total asshat to people myself. My illness made it real clear to me that I do not have room for asshats in my life. Yes, even if they're fun in other ways.
5 Favourite Bands/Artist/s:
1. U2 (I am a fangirl, and yes it's totally irrational.)
2. NiN and Tool (a tie! Yeah, I'm cheating.)
3. Duran Duran (DON'T JUDGE ME xD)
4. REM
5. Old good stuff like the Beatles, Ry Cooder, Joan Baez and Van Morrison (my dad's doing)
5 Favourite TV Shows:
I don't watch television much anymore. I really would, given that I like to listen to talk radio while I'm working, and could easily 'watch' tv as well. I love ensemble dramas, though. When I figure how to get around Hulu's streaming restriction, I'll check out more tv.
1. X-files (the last show I watched like an addict)
2. Star Trekses (primarily TNG and DS9)
3. House (last I saw it, anyway)/
I've been told that Leverage and Burn Notice are really good? Should check them out.
5 Favourite Books
1. Idoru, William Gibson
2. Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley
3. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
4. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
5. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
5 Favorite Artists
1. Wendy Pini (No one has influenced me more).
2. Moebius (love his complexity of line)
3. David Mack (he's also a really cool guy to his fans, plus he's a designer)
4. Hiroaki Samura (I fell in love with pencilwork because of him)
5. Haijime Sorayama (for sheer hyperrealism, plus his artbooks make my mom think I'm a perv. And I am, but. Not that kind of perv. xD)
Why do you think people would enjoy reading and commenting on your posts?
I'm likely to post about what I'm learning in art, writing, design etc. I like to analyse various media (shows, movies, manga, etc) to distill down ideas about what works in terms of creating characters, plots, stories, etc. I'll be posting preeeeeetty photos and art too, so maybe people would like to see the pretty. I'm very chatty once the caffeiene starts working, so maybe people would be entertained by all this? I also think it would be cool to meet other creative people.
Tell us about your life and what you want to do with it:
I have been to university, but I did so in a hypoglycemic coma; I feel I couldn't really use the opportunity to learn properly. I may go back to university to pick up art and writing courses, though mostly just for education and kicks rather than a piece of paper. I feel a bit like I've been given a second chance on life. The time I spent being sidelined by my illness also allowed me to get really clear on what I want to do.
And yeah, I want to make my living with art and design and writing. All three at once! I want to make colorful sprawling imaginative stories with them. And I figure that, as the woo says, if you Follow Your Heart and stuff, then The Universe gives you everything you need to do so. I do have to be relatively successful so I can take care of my parents (they supported me like whoa while I was sick.) But I guess I feel confident that through my abilities, determination and smarts, I'll be able to carve out some change AND do what I want with my life. Or, at least, I'll have a blast trying. I did have a NDE (near death experience) in 1987 and then again in 2003. In both cases, I got the impression that life is not so much about success in the consumerist dominator paradigm sense. It's about doing what you actually came here to do.
If you could swap lives with a person for a week, who would it be and why? (whether fictional or in real life)
I used to fantasize about being a cyborg like Motoko from Ghost in the Shell. I later recognized this as a fantasy of escaping the annoyance and discomfort of my body. These days I actually don't really want to be anyone else. I want the challenge of being me. After all, I know how to handle that. I wouldn't know how to handle anyone else's life.
I'm stealing the
add_me form since it's sunday, my caffeine mojo isn't working yet, and composing an articulate intro to the glorious freakiness that is meeeeeeee requires like, way too much thinking for a lazy morning when I'm still in my pjs. (And it's after noon. ahahaHA. crap.)Name: Indicia
Age: 29ish
Sex: Female
Location: Canucksville
Relationship Status: Single
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual.
Occupation: graphic designer, semi-pro illustrator
Children: None.
Pets: None. (allergies :/ )
Siblings: younger sister and younger brother.
Interests: the drawing/writing/design triumvirate of doom, anime/manga, fannish stuff in general, science!, paranormal woo, zoology and nature.
List 3 words to describe yourself:
1. Freak from another planet
2. Tenacious as all hell
3. Open-minded. I try to be, anyway.
List 3 interesting/random things about you:
1. I spent so much time sidelined by illness that I feel (and look, oddly), about 18.
2. I have had a near death experience! No, seriously. I also have seen ghosts.
3. I believe my three artforms are kind of.. the same thing. One macro-artform.
List 3 things you look for in a friend:
1. Funny, intelligent, fun to be around.
2. Open-minded and curious about the world
3. A basic level of empathy and respect for others. After all, I try not be a total asshat to people myself. My illness made it real clear to me that I do not have room for asshats in my life. Yes, even if they're fun in other ways.
5 Favourite Bands/Artist/s:
1. U2 (I am a fangirl, and yes it's totally irrational.)
2. NiN and Tool (a tie! Yeah, I'm cheating.)
3. Duran Duran (DON'T JUDGE ME xD)
4. REM
5. Old good stuff like the Beatles, Ry Cooder, Joan Baez and Van Morrison (my dad's doing)
5 Favourite TV Shows:
I don't watch television much anymore. I really would, given that I like to listen to talk radio while I'm working, and could easily 'watch' tv as well. I love ensemble dramas, though. When I figure how to get around Hulu's streaming restriction, I'll check out more tv.
1. X-files (the last show I watched like an addict)
2. Star Trekses (primarily TNG and DS9)
3. House (last I saw it, anyway)/
I've been told that Leverage and Burn Notice are really good? Should check them out.
5 Favourite Books
1. Idoru, William Gibson
2. Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley
3. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
4. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
5. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
5 Favorite Artists
1. Wendy Pini (No one has influenced me more).
2. Moebius (love his complexity of line)
3. David Mack (he's also a really cool guy to his fans, plus he's a designer)
4. Hiroaki Samura (I fell in love with pencilwork because of him)
5. Haijime Sorayama (for sheer hyperrealism, plus his artbooks make my mom think I'm a perv. And I am, but. Not that kind of perv. xD)
Why do you think people would enjoy reading and commenting on your posts?
I'm likely to post about what I'm learning in art, writing, design etc. I like to analyse various media (shows, movies, manga, etc) to distill down ideas about what works in terms of creating characters, plots, stories, etc. I'll be posting preeeeeetty photos and art too, so maybe people would like to see the pretty. I'm very chatty once the caffeiene starts working, so maybe people would be entertained by all this? I also think it would be cool to meet other creative people.
Tell us about your life and what you want to do with it:
I have been to university, but I did so in a hypoglycemic coma; I feel I couldn't really use the opportunity to learn properly. I may go back to university to pick up art and writing courses, though mostly just for education and kicks rather than a piece of paper. I feel a bit like I've been given a second chance on life. The time I spent being sidelined by my illness also allowed me to get really clear on what I want to do.
And yeah, I want to make my living with art and design and writing. All three at once! I want to make colorful sprawling imaginative stories with them. And I figure that, as the woo says, if you Follow Your Heart and stuff, then The Universe gives you everything you need to do so. I do have to be relatively successful so I can take care of my parents (they supported me like whoa while I was sick.) But I guess I feel confident that through my abilities, determination and smarts, I'll be able to carve out some change AND do what I want with my life. Or, at least, I'll have a blast trying. I did have a NDE (near death experience) in 1987 and then again in 2003. In both cases, I got the impression that life is not so much about success in the consumerist dominator paradigm sense. It's about doing what you actually came here to do.
If you could swap lives with a person for a week, who would it be and why? (whether fictional or in real life)
I used to fantasize about being a cyborg like Motoko from Ghost in the Shell. I later recognized this as a fantasy of escaping the annoyance and discomfort of my body. These days I actually don't really want to be anyone else. I want the challenge of being me. After all, I know how to handle that. I wouldn't know how to handle anyone else's life.
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