The topic here is art, funny enough, not politics. You see, lately I've been exposed to an array of opinions, essays and personal recounts of how life is unfair to artists, especially freelance artists, how hard it is to survive in the industry, how working in art saps and undermines the fundamental enjoyment in creativity.
In a nutshell – a lot of whining about artistic expression and life in general.
To be honest – I think we have it easy now, compared to generations before us. Okay maybe not WE per se - I'm a hobbyist, I'm a journalist, but journalism is sortaaaaa a creative profession too, to an extent, so I can talk about this whole thing here, I think. We have advanced tools of the trade, ability to link with customers, wireless payment, time-conserving techniques and inspiration scattered all around. When someone descends into depression surrounding their improvement rates, or lack of feedback, or anything of the sort, when they start questioning their integrity, I often feel that these people create problems for themselves to have some sort of dynamic going in their routine.
Life is indeed hard. But it can always be harder. And often, we make life harder for ourselves on purpose, in subconscious effort to ramp up the stakes and prevail over something, and that's how we grow. You just need to acknowledge when this happens, and realize that artblocks, disappointment in your work, or anything of the sort is quite often the mechanism for you to break out of the mold. And more often than not, there's nothing world-shattering there.
Not to pat myself on the back, but I went through much shit, starting from battling alcoholism, to loosing a job, to not being able to complete a higher education, to clinical depression from having a long period of rather severe illness and inability to return to the army, to suicide attempt, to finally getting to a point where I could no longer continue exploring the pitfalls and dregs of human existance and turning 180 to where I am now.
But I never stopped drawing or writing during all this time. Even when my brain was fucked up and addled with chemicals, I knew where the priorities lay. And the bumps on the road produced interesting results, now. However, you shouldn't hold to the bumps alone, if you get my drift.
Passion is actually duty. A lot of people treat art like some sort of fragile spiritual thing, all unpredictable and shit, but real passion is when you do things because you OUGHT to do them, and you know it. That's duty. Art isn't about doodling when you're bored – it's working out when your muscles and sinew tear up and get sore.
I won't lie – even though I'm 99% secure with my art and feel accomplished in the process and result, there's that 1% where I ask myself questions, if I'm doing it right. If I'm as good as I can get? If there's a limit to my skill, and more importantly – is my work about skill alone? Sometimes I do ask myself what's the message, if it's conveyed right, if I'm satisfied with the impact. That's necessary. But it's not necessary to constantly dwell on it. My personal artwork, that's no linked to any franchise, gets a lot less interest from the public than fanart crap, but I feel myself more and more drawn to doing more of it, even though it's often less about skill alone. More yet, there's noone to guide me by my hand or lend me a napkin to cry into about how the world doesn't understand me and is unfair, so it's good to deal with it via your own resources and powers.
Thing is, art is about pride, success and pride in success, so leave the moping at your doorstep, and kick some ass. Develop the right, shit-eating-grin attitude, and don't bother giving into your inner "cliché artist".
And here's some music I wanted to share about being the apex being in your life through grit, sweat, blood and turmoil:
[link] - no YT vid for this sadly
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Another thing I wanted to talk about, is topic of killing enemy children, once again. And why I, in regards to my support of Anders Breivik, stand by the notion that killing what we call "children" isn't an act of insanity, but common sense for a soldier, no matter the war he's in.
In the beginning of this month, I read a peculiar piece of news that correlates to my own experiences during service – Michael Cable, a 26-year old US soldier, was slaughtered in plain daylight on April 1st. Not something tremendously unexpected - the incident took place in Shinwar district in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province. New recruits to Afghan Local Police (ALP), which is backed by the Afghanistan military, were being sworn in nearby.
However, the meat of the story is this - Sgt Cable is said to have been PLAYING with a group of children when the attacker, thought to be around 16-years-old, ran up and stabbed him in the neck with a large knife. The attacker then fled over the border to Pakistan.
Yes. That. You see, any group of people in state of active opposition, employs children in the conflict. Children and teenagers are trained, indoctrinated and set up on those who believe they are harmless. Children are an ideal form of a weapon of the uncivilized against the civilized. Especially when you consider the fact that non-europeans mature at a faster rate, biologically.
You see, for europeans using children in warfare is usually a state of desperation in times when a nation is beseiged, but even then, it indeed happened. However, non-whites have even less qualms about it.
Children, as any veteran of any prolonged armed conflict, are not to be trusted. They are the source of a huge amount of casualties, and more importantly – they grow to be soldiers, in the end. So, it's important to nip shit in the bud. In such countries, fearing children is normal for soldier. You have no idea how much vitriol these little fuckers harbor - it's not just the adults fault, no, they're concious enough to understand what they do and why they do it. When you're introduced to a child that knows how to assemble and disassemble an AK, how to shoot it and WANTS to shoot it, at YOU no less, if it had the chance... it's YOU who's stripped of "innocence"... not them.
When terrorists, for example, target children, we see it as immoral – but it's done not out of pure evil, we have to understand. Children are one's enemy's future, that's the uncomfortable truth. We can get emotional and all, but it doesnt change the fact that destroying an enemy's future is a viable, reasonable tactic, in the end, morality aside.
Therefore, the idea that children are somehow "innocent" is laughable.
It's either survival, or death, in the end.
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Another observation I'd like to share with my watchers, is the fact that there seems to be trending topic on how it's usually WHITE MALES that are those horrid crazy serial killers and lone-wolf mass murderers.
AINT NO BLACK AFRICUNT-MERICUN BROWN LESBIANS DOING THAT SHIT.
So yours truly went out and investigated.
And returned with an interesting fact.
One being that black people are in Africa and US more violent that whites overall, constituting for a disproportion in amount of heavy crime, murder and rape offenses, and that while black serial killers existed in masse, they never got the media attention...
The latter is interesting, because the reason why the meme of the white psycho serial killer is so pervasive, is because black serial murderers weren't as SUCCESSFUL as the white ones before being caught. Same goes to spree killers of african descent.
This lead me to believe that it's not a bad thing – it just means that black aren't able to do even crime right, and this explains why african inner wars, while bloody, are so well, USELESS. Black people lack discipline, organization and patience to carry out crime that demands a degree of organization. Well, maybe with the exception to the rule being the D.C. Snipers.
Black crime and murder are acts of animalistic impulse, like that case of a son decapitating his own mother and then posting it on Facebook. No higher brain functions involved with mah niggaz.
So yeah, there's a disproportion. But we should be happy that black people suck at serial killing. Because they really like killing, especially white people, they're just to dumb to carry on with it for long.
Thank God and Buddha it is so.
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And some of my personal stuff of interest.
I got a new monitor, an Acer 27" glossy IPS beauty that would hopefully help me produce more art. I'm pleased to say
Also, there's gonna be influx of more personal work like the late "God is Violence" and film-inspired pieces. Yeah, I know you're superficial fucks that watch me for Warhammer shit, but tough luck, I gotta develop many things.
And speaking of developing, I've got a new, exciting for me, project coming up. In response to some new "hippy-go libfag" sci-fi things like "Defiance" and "Elysium" announce to hit the media, I'm developing a story and setting about a grim dark near future, where the dregs of the desolate, overcrowded, mixed Earth try to take upon the last haven of civilized humanity that managed to escape on a titanic space station in the planets orbit.
It's going to be subversion of classic "diversity" and "privilege" cliché tropes in dystopian science fiction, where the protagonists are forced to defend their paradise for the rich and advanced against the assault of the underachievers left on earth – full on with orbital battles, genetic reprogramming and twisted ethics play behind the scenes. Cyberpunk and hard sci-fi mixture that you've probably never read before.
I'm going to work on the story in the upcoming 2 week vacation I'll have in May, so look out soon for corresponding concept artwork I'll produce for the setting.
Also, the serial killer from "Instruments of Fear" and the now deleted intro story "You asked, you deserved" returns in a new part of the series soon as well, where he's doing to tackle some "dark meat" law enforcement along his way.
And hopefully, my last installment for the current part in
Same goes with a new audioblog entry that will be released before the vacation.
I'm a fucking busy-ass motherfucker I am. So busy, I've started lifting and working out again, along with taking protein supplements – hope to knock of Norwegian ladies off their feet this summer-fall, eheh.
Speaking of other shit, I'm all on a Starcraft II binge, probably will go online when I finish the campaigns, so if anyone's up for a match, when I'm done – in about a month or so – I'll post my Battle.net acc, so hit me up then. Also got to finish Dead Space 3 which I was leaving for the last, and get the "Awakening" DLC.
And boy, am I excited for the Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon thingy? I may have no nostalgia, but neon, cyborgs, electronic music and the 80s robot craze design atmosphere gets to me like WOAH.
This gonna be one heck of a spring.
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ps. sorry for the ugly skin, I have no premium subscription, so get used to the green)






































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