I live in central Scotland; have done so all my life. I'm in full-time work, but I don't wanna bore you with all the banal details of that - who actually goes into detail about their work on here anyway, unless their work involves something other than doing a regular 9 till 5 or something similar? I'm looking for new employment just now anyway, so I'll maybe talk about that once I get something. Better not be too derogatory about the current management - might get kneecapped if they were to read the honest truth, haha!
I have several pursuits outside work that take up a fair bit of my time. I'm doing a lot of reading at the moment; there are a lot of unread books cluttering up my shelves, but I'm getting through them! I spend too much time watching DVDs. My DVD collection currently numbers around 270, and I haven't watched them all yet! All sorts of movie genres in there - comedy, drama, action, thriller, sci-fi, and more. Music is another one...I don't have anywhere near as many CDs as I do DVDs, but I'll increase that collection too over time...
The pursuit that takes up the most time is art. I've been drawing since I was just a few years old, and have hardly stopped since. Sure, there've been a few lapses here and there, but overall it's been a near-constant fixation in my life. Much of it is done simply for myself, but over the last couple of years, I've begun doing work for friends. I've painted murals onto the bedroom walls of several friends' children, and though I haven't done any for a while now, I'm giving serious thought to doing it on a more full-time basis. However, a few weeks back, I was asked to paint two more canvas pics for friends at work who are expecting kids later in the year, so I've put together some preliminary sketches for them, and will begin putting together the actual paintings shortly, time permitting. Photos of previous paintings are up - check out the Pics section! I also do a fair bit of pixel work just now (primarily sprite-based), although I'm also working on some other pieces as well. I've been taking photos of some of the buildings and landmarks around town, with the intention of rendering them in pixel form for all eternity!
Other than that - well, I don't exercise anywhere near as much as I really should, mostly due to the fact that my work takes up so much of my time. I'm tall and slim, so I probably have an ideal build for swimming or running or a martial art or something like that. Regular exercise is a good thing, no? I need to build up the ol' musculature...
I don't smoke - never have, never will. I just do not see the appeal of puffing away on a pile of 'cancer sticks' - we're all gonna die sometime anyway, so why speed up the process? No drugs either - hell no! I do drink, though I was somewhat of a late starter! I hold my drink very well - as pretty much anyone who's been on a night out with me can probably attest, it takes an awful lot to get me drunk, and I've never, ever experienced a hangover...
Over the course of the last 4 or 5 months, I've been busy creating a series of pixel sprites based upon the many characters that have been played by Dolph Lundgren, in every film he's made to date. It started off with drawing some Drago sprites for a Rocky series I was working on, and then one day I posted one up on the chat forum at www.dolph-ultimate.com. It proved popular enough for other members to ask me to draw more sprites based upon other characters he's played, and gradually it escalated until I decided to tackle every movie in his resume. Now, I've done them all (well, all to date, anyway), and there are now 114 of them! I've submitted them all to the forum administrators, and they're now being used as avatars - go visit the site (www.dolph-ultimate.com), click on the forum link, and check some of them out!
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Get Some Nuts! - Snickers Advert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPXGuRIXsA
Two of my favourite things in this world - Snickers and Mr. T!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1LlUAAOxy8
The most ridiculously exaggerated, yet damned fun, boxing match ever in a film - Rocky Balboa versus Ivan Drago!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TILCIRspO0
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life video