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No Rest for the Weary, January 2010 Edition
As I’ve noted, I got sick this month, (did I mention twice? Just checking.), so it has put a pause in my latest GUARDZ! comic. I have a new one queued up, which will be completed in February. In the meantime, I have been working on this piece, which was inspired by the Wipeout games that are on the Playstation consoles. This one should also be done soon, but here it is, as a work in progress. Enjoy!
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General
Welcome to 2010: Better Late Than Never (sort-of)
I’ve been meaning to start this year with a blog that listed everything that I was looking forward to for 2010. Then an interesting thing happened: I got sick, twice, and back-to-back. I know that my illness isn’t the same one, carried over an extended period of time, because 1) I got better, and 2) the symptoms changed immediately after I recovered from my first illness. I’m feeling slightly better, but I’m not trying to push myself.
It’s still January, so I still have time to get this list out. So, here it goes, and in no particular order. I’m wondering if my opinions will change at all when the clock strikes midnight on 2011, but I think this will be a fun little exercise on expectation and disappointment.
(side note: games such as Final Fantasy XIII and Bioshock 2 did not make this list simply because I don’t have enough information on them, at least not enough to get excited about).
1. Mass Effect 2 (videogame, Xbox 360)
2. Heavy Rain (videogame, PS3)
3. God of War 3 (videogame, PS3)
4. Gran Turismo 5 (videogame, PS3, tentative)
5. Siege (Marvel Comics event)
6. The A-Team (movie, June)
7. Clash Of the Titans (movie, tentative)
8. Tron: Legacy (movie, winter)
9. Iron Man 2 (movie, winter)
10. Alan Wake (videogame, Xbox 360)
11. Lost (TV, final season)
12. Mod Nation Racers (videogame, PS3) -
General, Photos, Travel
How to Travel Without Going Anywhere…
Virginia Beach Sunrise
Let’s face it: traveling is expensive, and vacationing is equally expensive. With the economy just inching back into some state of stability (only to become shaky a few weeks later), one may think that it’s hard to do accomplish anything in the few scant days that qualify as a break from work. Vacationing on a limited budget and within a limited area hardly seems like a vacation at all.
Yet, it seems that I’ve traveled more this year than in previous years. Because we’ve had to be creative in how to stretch our dollars, we took a long, hard look at what was in our back yards, and actually discovered a vacation lurking in our back yards, vacationing in our home state. It’s one thing to travel far away from house and home to discover the new and exciting, it’s simply a revelation to discover it right underneath your own nose.
And we don’t seem to be done yet. There’s still a wealth of sites to see here in our back yard that is the state of Virginia. We’re definitely going to plan on it.
See more of my vacation pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbasallote/
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Art, Comic, General, webcomic
GUARDZ! The Comic
After a 3-year+ hiatus, GUARDZ! The Comic will be returning on it’s regular, not-quite-monthly schedule. After some consideration, I decided to stick to my old webcomic instead of coming up with a new one, and I have a ton of old and new material to work with so I should be able to stick to some sort of regular schedule. No school means more free time to work on my comics!
You can see all the old stuff at guarzthecomic.com
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Art, General, Videos
All new
I’ve been meaning to try out something new with my site for a while, so viola! Wait …what do you mean nothing’s changed? Actually most of the changes are behind the scenes. But this, by no means, indicates I haven’t been busy. Lately I’ve been experimenting with video effects. That doesn’t mean I’m giving up the whole drawing thing, I’m just switching gears and recharging the batteries for a while.
I’m still working on a few pieces, and I’ve been itching to get back into the tools I know and love. In the meantime, you can see more of my effects work at http://www.youtube.com/user/roqueb
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