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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rma_reborn | |
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20 years ago, today, a great event in history transpired. Events like this are few - the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and 9/11 - and when they come, they send shock waves around the world that echo on for generations. This event, of course, was the fall of the Berlin Wall. With it, the Cold War began to thaw, permanently. A year of great change is wrapped up in this one event, this great punctuation mark in history, whose impact is still with us today. Before then, our lives were governed by a permanent fear that, at any time, we could wipe out the entire planet several times over in a nuclear armageddon. Today, therefore, should be a happy day. We should take this day to remember how emancipated the end of the Cold War made all of us - not just those living behind the Iron Curtain, but all of us in the world. And to remember that things that seem permanent can collapse without warning, virtually overnight. Tags: aremay, history, international relations, politics
Current Location: United Kingdom, Hull, The Trees,
Feeling:  contemplative
Listening to: BBC Radio 4
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Guys, I have a huge, huge, huge announcement to make. Well, at least it's a big announcement for me.
I have finally found the celebrity face for Aidan.
Not only is he going to be my further reference for him, but also my #1 choice of actor for Aidan should/when BD ever becomes a movie of sorts (which I, in my little heart, sincerely believe will happen if I have enough faith and put enough effort into the project of BD).
I've been looking at this guy for months now, because of course I'm going to be super super picky about who I choose for Aidan, but from the get-go I had this severe gut feeling about him--an instinct if you will. He had not only the face, but the expressions, the aura, the general personality that just mirrored Aidan so much.
Recently there's a new show on FX that's called Sons of Anarchy (I bet some of you know where I'm going with this) that has recently started playing. Anyway; I just so happened to scroll across an episode one day and became fixated on the screen for one particular reason:
Charlie Hunnam.
It was like watching a living, breathing Aidan in the modern day. He had the exact aura of Aidan--the short-tempered, arrogant young blood of the pack always looking for trouble. I've seen brief interludes of his performances on the show since then, but tonight I was completely convinced he is the best person out their to represent a real version of Aidan.
So if you guys can suffer through this with me, I'd love to share some examples of him, more so to keep myself in check why he's such a good choice:
I think this video shows a great range of the expressions he makes from the show Sons of Anarchy--and also do you not friggen' see what I mean? It's like omg holy crap ahaha he makes Aidan expression. cx I can't even begin to describe just how lucky I consider myself that he has the exact perfect shade of gray-blue eyes that Aidan has.
So if this didn't convince you, guess what I found out today while doing a little research? Yeah, Charlie Hunnam?
British accent. Gaiz. Gaiz.
. I could not BELIEVE it, because he had such a normal American accent in Sons of Anarchy I was like "YOU ARE SHITTING ME."
But, I shit you not, here is proof (along with some delicious scenes from the show):
THE GUY IS FULLPROOF. p.s. lololol am I the only one giggling that he was stroking his beard during the interview THAT WAS ADORABLE c:
So apparently along with having an already-existing British accent, he's had voice coaching, which tells me it would take this much (not a lot) to swing a pirate accent on him. FFFF okay speed-writing to the end of BD so I can finish it in this century so he can star as Aidan rofl. I swear to god I would die forever if something like that happened. Oh and he's 6"1, which isn't too far off from Aidan's height of 6"3, but close enough. Just stick him in high heels in shots you can't see his feet lolol. YOU CAN'T TELL ME THIS ISN'T AN AIDAN SCOWL:
Ngghhh if only I had this much luck with my other characters SIGH.
I'm sure a lot of you are thrown off because this guy doesn't really remind you of the cartooned Aidan that I personally draw. He actually looks like Kurt Cobain I gotta say.
Hey guys. Kurt Cobain reminded me of Aidan too. Anyway, I just feel like Charlie Hunnam sort of....harbors the spirit of Aidan. He severely does.
( More gushing, some photo-manips, and other character celebrity faces )
Jaye's face is in the works, but those are probably my most solid picks. Oh and I do actually have a Stasia face lol:
Amy Adams everybody haha. Just with more of a strawberry-blond hair tint and a lot more caked on slutty makeup rofl. I enjoy corrupting the innocent.
Or maybe just some London-swinging broad with blond hair and too much makeup. Her face really isn't as important any more now that she's not the main antagonist. C:
I'm having superb trouble trying to find a James. No srsly.Tags: black dawn
Feeling:  Wooh!
Listening to: "Parade" Paprika Soundtrack
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YYAAAAAAYYYYY!!! The elvish sunrise bedroom is coming together. #1 - A big ole helping of kindness answering my little bit of kindness has gotten me the beloved print that is the center piece and the thing I'm drawing all my colors from! #2 - I got my bedding today! Nana, for all her passive aggressive, over bearing, holier-than-thou tendencies, she can be exceptionally excellent and got me this despite how much more than her "budget" for it was (ignore the greenness of it, I got a color variant in the store that's more robin's-egg blue, kind of like the lighter bits of the sky in the painting). #3 - Probably some time this week, we'll be going down into the epic storage/dungeon of the office building of my great Uncle Karl and pulling out what will become my wrought iron bed frame. Hopefully it's paint is still perfectly good, but if not then I might just take it all the way down to the metal and give it a clear coat rather than the glossy white spray paint Nana has in mind. I think that would fit the room much better. Next jobs: bedside table, bookshelf, hamper, lighting, and talking my dad out of buying me a desk (I will never use it!). Tags: art, hmmm, life, lol, moving, wtf, yay
Feeling:  cheerful
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This weekend, I had a superb time. A trip had long been in the planning to celebrate starpaw 's recent 4- I mean, 21st, birthday. It was decided to have a weekend retreat at lsfiox's expansive and gorgeous home in the Yorkshire Wolds for the occasion, but the host himself would be in work for most of Saturday. Still, eager for action and always up for a chance to broaden our horizons, we - RiffRaff, iffriel and Star Paw - set off for York early on the Saturday, to indulge in a little retail therapy. Many people think of this as shopping for clothes, or maybe furnishings for their home, or even plants. A rare few might consider the exotic sights and smells of food markets to be therapeutic, but none of these even remotely tickle my fancy. For me, there is only one type of shopping worth indulging oneself in fully - book shopping. Hull is, sadly, not blessed with many great bookshops. We have the obligatory Waterstones in the city centre, and another on campus, and a couple of WHSmith's (though the latter are getting weaker and weaker when it comes to books, I believe) as well as a cluster of charity shops with a few shelves for some tatty paperbacks. This is enough for a little while, but, like any bibliophile, it soon becomes restrictive. York, on the other hand, has a vast array of little bookshops, it seems, all of them wonderful places. There are at least 3 Oxfams, 1 of which is totally dedicated to books, to begin with. That is not to mention the Waterstones, Borders, WHSmith and the many other little charity shops that have a variety of literary treats on offer. But the crown jewels are the independent book shops. These are treasure troves of the like to make even the most ardent bibliophile feel sated, lined with everything from shiny new hard and paperbacks to ancient, dusty tomes. Thus, with such a rich variety before us, we went on our way, from shop to shop, looking for bargains, treats and little things that jump out at you from the shelves. There were some treats on the way, things I never expected to find or just simply were such delights as to almost defy belief. *There was a huge Welsh language family bible in the Oxfam bookshop on Micklegate. This enormous book, with big brass clasps to hold it shut, was beautifully illustrated and printed out in beautifully crisp text. The fact it was in Welsh seem to make it all the more special. A shame I didn't have the countless thousands it must surely have cost! *In the same shop, I found a copy of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. A tiny little thing, holding in your hand it can seem almost innocuous. Yet, when one remembers the Red Guards waving these in the fervent heat of the intellectual slaughter of the Cultural Revolution, it takes on a strangely vicious edge. *The new series of old classics, reprinted in paperback on recycled paper and in lovely green covers, from Penguin. These cover authors from Chaucer to Wodehouse, Kipling to Austen, and look to be an excellent way to get people reading once more - they're only £2-£4 a copy! *The Byzantine and higgle-piggledy maze of the Minster Gate Book Shop. I'll come back to that. *The pleasant find - to me, anyway - in the Travelling Man in York, that the comic book industry is still going strong. Shelves groaning under the weight of comics, and plenty of indie comics as well, always good to see the market at work. Though it was disconcerting to see just how many different concepts can be made into board games, at the same time. *The fact that all of these bookshops were pleasantly busy, and people were buying. This reassures me as to the strength of the publishing industry in these troubled times. The Minster Gate Book Shop, though, was probably my favourite place. After leaving my bag with a lovely lady on the till, I was free to wander over 5 floors of a tiny Georgian town house, all of them lined with shelf after shelf of books, of every age, size, colour and subject. If I had the money and shelf space, then I could have happily walked out of there with sackfuls of books, and then hired a mule and come back for more. Sadly, though, I am on a budget and I have limited shelf space. Still, I dug through books on shelves, on piles, laid with their spines up at the base of the shelves and on tables to find something worth bringing back. Finally, I found a little treat, just for me. It's a 1937 book, consisting of all 85 of the Federalist Papers together, as well as the Articles of Confederation, the Summons to the Convention that drafted the US Constitution, the US Constitution itself, the first 21 Amendments and the Declaration of Independence. A little treasure trove of US and enlightenment thinking, in one little volume, and for one very little price - £4. Thusly sated, I bought it up in a twinkling and came away with a big grin and a book I'm sure I'll come to use often. All in all, then, it was a great day of book shopping, and something I'd very much like to repeat in future - though with lighter bags at the start and more cash in my wallet. The company, though, was magnificent - it's always good to go into book shops with people who enjoy them as much as you do. Yours; Aremay Stettinius Tags: aremay, books, education, literature, shopping
Current Location: United Kingdom, Hull, The Trees,
Feeling: accomplished
Listening to: Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
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Geez. How can I learn to draw like this? Or this? Or this? And of course, like hers. It's the faces people. I want to do faces like THAT. Shaped, expressive, noses... duihgduibg I just got to keep trying I suppose. It's just frustrating that I can't seem to grasp it after trying for like... 3 years to be able to do this style. My style evolves very slowly and stiffly (My art is stiff generally anyway) so... it's just chip-chip-chip. I came close once. But fuck I cannot repeat it :/ IHdisfhsdjbfd dfjg fjg bitch bitch moan. Feeling:  frustrated
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