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About Me

So yeah, if you want to know more about me you can always message me on .. Buying New S0ul and that's a zero in S0ul. www.bestacorn.com Design, Illustration and Books in transition by Selina Silvas

My Interests

Spock, Art, Design, Movies, Music, Yoga, Literature, Philosophy, Podcasts, Macs and the weird. I have a thing for packaging and paper and the smell of a newly printed magazine...

Music:

King Crimson, Jesu, Battles, Don Caballero, Lamb of God, Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend, Kate Bush, Mastodon, Can, Circle, Gong,Dimmu Borgir, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, ELP, YES, Pink Floyd, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Bill Bruford, Joy Division, Children of Bodom, Genesis, Nine Inch Nails, Tweaker, Coil, Blackfield, Bass Communion, Type O Negative, In Flames, Nevermore, Rush, David Bowie, Opeth, Autechre, The Velvet Underground, Savatage, Interpol, Squarepusher, Chronos Quartet, Vows in Ashes, Alternate15I love Metal, Progressisve Rock and Experimental

Movies:

Naked, The Tin Drum, Werner Herzog films, The Marriage of Maria Braun, A Clockwork Orange, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Salo, 8 1/2, The Wall, Lost in Translation, Manhatten, Annie Hall, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Natural Born Killers, Kill Bill vol 1& 2, Das Boot, Downfall, Deconstructing Harry, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Even Dwarves Started Small, Grizzly Man, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Television:

Extras, 24, Lost, The Colbert Report, Family Guy, Six Feet Under, Real Time with Bill Maher, Project Runway, Little Britain, almost anything on Discovery Health Channel, What Not To Wear and a shitload of other embarrassing indulgences. Digital Cable has ruined my life...or made it better, I can't tell. Oh and I love STAR TREK: The ORIGINAL SERIES

Books:

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Mirror Mirror, Why I am not a Christian, Stranger in a Strange Land, American Gods, The Wild Boys, any book or magazine about design or that just has incredibly interesting design

Heroes:

Bertrand Russell, Steven Wilson, Frank Zappa, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, Bill Bruford, Peter Gabriel, Neil Gaimen, Bruno S., Werner Herzog, Volker Schlondorff, William S. Burroughs, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Stephen Colbert, Franz Kafka, Art Spiegelman

My Blog

::CLING::

I have a small decision to make. But before that I retyped the same word twice with my fingers in the wrong position. I think that took to long to figure out my fingers were in the wrong place.So anyw...
Posted by Acorn II on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:38:00 PST

howdy

I thought I would grab my tablet and do a bit of drawing. This is what happened. I think I would like to color him:I put a ton of pictures from San Francisco in my lj if anyone wants to see them (I do...
Posted by Acorn II on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:26:00 PST

Press

Allergies acting up today. Thought I would share some pics. I got this new camera and I really don't utilize it like I should. Although, these boob shots should help to convince otherwise...amirite!?!...
Posted by Acorn II on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:47:00 PST

hunting

Oh how I overreact.Keeps me on my toes I guess. But I don't think it's good for my heart.Got some good books at the store. I want some coffee, of which I didn't get while I had the chance. oh, oh, ohI...
Posted by Acorn II on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:05:00 PST

Hold Tab Down

Well, I finished the site:new siteBut the fla is still HUGE. It was 5.5 MB, I got it down to 1.1 MB but still. It's probably the amount of text I've used and the fact that it's an embedded font. Also,...
Posted by Acorn II on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:44:00 PST

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Maybe because I've been working on my personal web site all day, and a few hours straight that I can't figure out for the life of me how to make a preloader.Damn you! I just want people to be able to ...
Posted by Acorn II on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:47:00 PST

in a box

I've been sitting here trying to work on my web site, but I'm listening to Howard Stern and can't pay attention enough to get to the meat of it. I'm not feeling the original design because it's kind o...
Posted by Acorn II on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:47:00 PST

4 million copies in print

So, I'm looking at jobs in San Francisco because OMG I loved it there. But when I start to seriously think about it I get freaked out. Although that's probably natural its pretty against my nature to ...
Posted by Acorn II on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:26:00 PST

The Dog Star

I'm really, really ready to put this current project to bed. Today is the first day I've really felt that way. Anyways, if you want to see basically every final design I've done for the UT School of I...
Posted by Acorn II on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:22:00 PST

Bald Asshole

So, Robert and I bought tickets to see Yes and they cancelled their tour. We did get a refund but ticketmaster of course kept a small fee for themselves, giving us the line that they need it for proce...
Posted by Acorn II on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:56:00 PST