…Kind of exciting. Actually, I had more fun looking it up than knowing it’ll be released this year.
I was sitting on my couch, being bored and playing Grand Theft Auto IV (I seriously need to look into replaying Metal Gear Solid 4) and then decided to go ahead and look up GTAV’s release date.
I didn’t find too many leads, but it seems to be confirmed that the game will be released this year, and definitely not as late as 2011. It was rumored to be released in 2009, but was delayed to 2010.
Because Take Two also produces Bioshock, it’s likely that Bioshock II will be delayed in favor to complete and begin selling GTAV, purely because it’s the bigger, more successful franchise.
Here’s the jist of it:
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Interesting fact: The world population will be around 7,000,000,000 by October 31, 2010. Wow. So many of us. I wish I knew most of us.
…Are awesome.
My favorites are:
They’re all available for free download if you know where to look.
I keep trying to use it, but the servers are always busy.
Click on the image to enter the /workbook directory. Unlike the portfolio, which will sometimes contain photos of my actual physical workbook, this directory is more of a digital documentation. The goal is to improve my hand-to-tablet coordination, as well as offer myself variety when it comes to expressing any ideas instead of text or my physical workbook.
Click on the image to browse what little I have on that directory.
I’m enjoying myself.
I don’t expect that I’ll be posting too many updates, since I’d rather remain focused on actually working on this.
It actually feels good to find this hobby again.
Ever since I’ve started looking through my old IB Art workbooks, I’ve been inspired to work on my own little premise of self-exploration. I’ve always resented the notion that art must only shock-I find that to be the half-hearted approach to what I consider an experience rather than an occupation or hobby. Don’t get me wrong, I doodle like a poodle (no, that’s not supposed to make any sense, but, I can rhyme. Are you jealous? Irrelevant. … I should stop typing in these parenthasis) but I prefer to support the notion that art, especially (allegedly?) in such a liberated, emotionally intelligent world that is also intellectually rampant must mean a lot more than shock value. If the intent of it is to shock, then I find it boring, even generic. So someone’s body of work is purposely meant to be shocking. And what?
I can only believe that art is personal, that each piece must offer a glimpse of what the artist feels, thinks, battles, enjoys, lives, loves, and sunders only to rebuild.
…Don’t I love it when I’m feeling romantic about abstract ideas. Anyway, I found some quotes that better explain my attitudes about something, which I can claim passion for, which says a lot, considering my only other passion is gaming, and then everything else is kind of boring. :P
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
-Henry Ward Beecher
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way-things I had no words for.
-Georgia O’Keeffe
Art is the triumph over chaos.
-John Cheever
Art is the struggle to understand.
-Audrey Foris
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
-Eckhart Tolle
Art is not hype.
Anyway, I’ve decided to journal one page a day in an 800×800 canvas and then add a “workbook” directory later. I’ll mention that here when it goes live. Reading through my old workbook made me miss it, and I forgot how liberating it was, despite my ever so predictable, angsty teenager thoughts that crudely marked their scars on those pages.
