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Taurean

This isn't just a game, it's the season

About Me

A non-conformist conformist
A few Flash websites I did earlier last year. I don't know, I'm in limbo right now. Not really trying to be too creative."Silence is argument carried out by other means."
One of my first "jobs" dealing with flash actionscript/animation. I knew a great deal about asthetics and layout, but not much about actual programming. After finishing this design, there was a heated battle about payment ... for another project. Yes, I did the majority of the coding, animation and illustration of this piece for free (there wasn't much of the template remaining once I got finished with it ... in less than a day, no less :hs: ) That was a looooooong night and a loooooong learning session. Never take someone's "test" and give them free work. The good thing was that they didn't know I could do alot of other things until later on ($900 for artificial intelligence programing, text to speech, and a cute little 3d female to show it off ... all needed to be done within a few days (less than a week), and they would have owned all rights to the software) ... it's always an on going battle. Welcome to the art/real world

My Interests

art (music, painting, dancing....pretty much anything that's creative), sports(football, basketball, weight lifting, hockey....anything physical :dunno: ), life, love, and spam (or sporks, whatever comes first)

I'd like to meet:

Kristofer Ström Sometimes you have to leap ... although you should expect the landing to hurt. And your parents thought banging on pots and pans were useless when you were little. I just had to put this in

Music:

too many too choose from, but mostly 80's music and early 90's hiphop, that and drum n bass.

Movies:

:o been there done that

Run Lola Run, Citizen Cane, Hotel Ruwanda, Fallen, Apocalyse Now, Serendipity, being john malcavich, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the third kind, Diary of a mad black woman (Tyler Perry's entire list of screenplays), Thelma and Louise. Like water for chocolate, Wizard of Oz, Oz, Killer clowns from outerspace, Godfather, schindlers list, shawshank redemption, the purple triangle, A streetcar named desire, the color purple, finding nemo, City of God, Dogville, Lawrence of Arabia, Pulp fiction, good fellas, Belly, Crash, Magnolia, Christmas Story, Steel magnolias, fried green tomatoes, cacoon, forest gump, the blob, big fish, dazed and confused, breakfast club, teen witch, summer school, stand and deliver and the list can go on and on and on.

Television:

Educational programming, I haven't really watched TV lately. I feel soo out of the loop.

Books:

Currently:
Pride and Predjudice - Jane Austen
Art of War - SunZi
Garner's Art Through the Ages I need to review for my trip out to the getty
Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines A great start of a master plan begins with preparedness ofcourse i've already seen Murphy's Law in action :p

Previous Readings:
Guts - Chuck Palahniuk - interesting ... that's all I can say
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Edgar Allen Poe - Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Davinci Code - Dan Brown
Enders Game - Orson Scott Card - odd writing technique, but good story
1984 - George Orwell - Some things never change
Beloved - Toni Morrison - Ofcourse the book is better than the Movie

Heroes:

Those willing to give themselves for their own cause

My Blog

Don Quixote

It's weird how you can live the life of a story you've never read before.  I've spent the majority of my life trying to continue the ideas of chilvary based purely on the books that I have read, ...
Posted by Taurean on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:16:00 PST

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thin...
Posted by Taurean on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:04:00 PST

Music just isn't long enough

I was listening to some music and tried sketching something to depict the song ... sadly the songs are over alot quicker than I am at creating my interpretation. :o Maybe i should spend more time ...
Posted by Taurean on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:26:00 PST

Quantic - Absence Heard, Presence Felt

Been trying too hard to force something out of nothing lately.
Posted by Taurean on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:28:00 PST

Lust intensely or love intimately

I guess the things that you say can be taken one way or the other based on how the person precieves you, and where your heart is at the moment.  I try to be honest and straight forward, letting p...
Posted by Taurean on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:49:00 PST

Vance Gilbert - Change is gonna come

I was born by the riverIn a little tintand just like that riverI've been running, ever since It's been a longLong time comingBut i knowchange is going to comeOh yes there is It's been too hard livinbu...
Posted by Taurean on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:46:00 PST

Call me stupid ...

"Running into something knowing the outcome, seeing the signs, failing to pass, taking risks based on circumstance, continuing when there's no chance.  It's not just one, but several balled into ...
Posted by Taurean on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:06:00 PST

A Man and His Actions

was out in Huntington Beach, got out of a bar and decided to grab a redbull and a snickers. They tell me that they take cash only, so I go to the ATM and leave my stuff on the counter. I get back pay ...
Posted by Taurean on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:39:00 PST

The creepy guy : aka the asshole

    You can do very stupid things and laugh about them, or you can just be a complete asshole.  I ventured into the realms of assholedome from which i've never done before. Tool - ...
Posted by Taurean on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:19:00 PST

I can always push the limits

So I went out on saturday and was enjoying the evening.  I sit down, and start talking to a female who didn't appear to be having such a great night.  I come to find out that she's a bardend...
Posted by Taurean on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:20:00 PST