This Is Your Wake-Up Call, Brody. I am a Buddhist!

Yes, this is another portrait. I’m working on some other stuff and might revamp this site, so if I don’t end up deleting this website entirely, I’ll go the opposite direction and make this website totally interesting and fascinating and get back to liquifying your innards.

In the mean time, I’ll post this portrait. The thing that’s interesting to me about this actor is that he never got rid of his surfer dude way of talking, but it doesn’t seem to have hurt his career. I don’t know if surfer dude is an accent, strictly speaking, but surfer dude at least has a cadence to it. In some of his roles, the surfer dude talk worked pretty good. But in others, it’s pretty distracting. Like Arnold, though, his accent doesn’t seem to diminish his star power. In fact, it seems to have worked in his favor.

So, I have to learn the most strategic use of the word dude in my professional activities. Maybe when ask for a raise, I’ll soften my boss by calling her dude. I have to think about that one.

By the way, any guesses about who this is? Nearly everyone I showed it to got it right away. Except one person, but I’m going to save my ego by assuming she’s just a cultural nitwit.

Does This Angle Make Me Look Like An Alien?

I haven’t posted anything lately, and of the entries I have posted, they are all drawings and stuff. So, I think I might end this here website.

In the mean time, this is my first attempt to use pastels. The good thing is that they blend easily. The bad thing is that they make me feel weird, like maybe I need more practice with them. This was actually supposed to be a famous person, but it looks nothing like her, so now it’s not supposed to be a portrait of anyone in particular.

The above portrait is Aishwara Rai. She’s a famous actress and model from India. It’s based on this picture

I did this portrait of Kerry Washington a while ago (back when I was spending more time in airplanes than mere mortals can handle).  I rediscovered it yesterday, and showed it to my wife. She said “that’s pretty good, but you do a lot of portraits of women. Maybe you should do some men to balance it out.” That’s actually not a direct quote. But it’s pretty close. Then she “wait, is that why there was  a page ripped out of my Essence magazine?” And I was in the dog house.

She’s got a good point.  And, I’m going through a faze where I’m totally into doing these portraits.  I’m in the middle of a Chris Rock portrait and one of Lawrence Fishburn. So, I’ll finish those one day and post them. In the mean time, I’m going to look up the Fair Use doctrine and see whether I could get in trouble for posting this image of Kerry Washington from Essence magazine (if anyone knows off hand, please leave a comment and let me know to save me the the effort).

This costume looked more menacing in the catalogue

I haven’t made a movie in xtranormal for a long time, so I thought I should give it a go. But I didn’t have any idea what I should write about. So I just sat down and started typing random dialogue. It’s not the best, but it’s not the worst, so I decided to keep it.  Here it is:

Couple more runs, I can skip my daily 1 Million squats

My wife inspired this entry. She is preparing for a ski trip, exercising a lot, running, lifting weights, etc. She is a beginner skiier, and will be taking classes and learning how cool skiing can be.

I, on the other hand, am an expert skiier. I was too young to remember, but by reconstructing bits and pieces of information I have gathered over the years from eaves dropping on conversations, I think it went down like this: when I was a toddler, I took my first steps in the fall, and that winter my father had me on skis.  You know when you go skiing, and you’re really proud because you finally learned to take wide turns without using the snowplow, and in about six years you might be able to do it parallel, but the point is you’re making progess, and then some little five year old whips by at the speed of light and giggles evily just before he launches himself into the air and effortlessly sticks the landing? That was me. At least, that was me if the complaints of my parents’ friends are to be believed. I’ve gotten better since then.

But now I’ll be skiing with my wife, who is just starting out. So, in order to make sure we are more on the same level, I decided to try something new: Tele-skiing. This is a style of skiing where your heels are not attached to the ski. As a result, you turn by basically doing lunges down the hill. It’s very graceful. The other benefit is that you get 2 reasons to feel superior at the end of the day when everyone gathers at the lodge and complains about how this skiing thing is making them ache in places they didn’t know they had body parts: (1) your boots are actually pretty comfortable, so you can walk around without looking like you got hit by a bus and (2) you did lunges all day, so (assuming you can still walk) you can brag about what great shape you’re in.

But enough talk. Here’s a good youtube video that shows you why I decided to title this entry “Thighs of steel.”

Click here to see where I got the above photo from.