pistachio for a day, still so very stoic

2010-11-06T18:13:00.000-04:00

Less human, more being.

2010-01-28T02:29:00.002-05:00

I can't be expected to entertain the three to five people that read this all the time.
I'm also not interested in your reasons for going to Tumblr. Pistachio for a Day is more personal than what Tumblr has to offer. You can now replace Tumblr with Why?, Vampire Weekend, 3G Networks, drugs, vectoring, Tumblr, maturity, Seaside Heights, and Bing. Alternatively, Poindexter by Childish Gambino is the best thing I've listened to in the past week. Second best is Get 'Em Tiger by Maino (link is optional).

Fresh, straight from fragmented free time during the day. Nothing exciting today.

Hecq Vs Exillion - Spheres Of Fury from Tim.Chris.Film on Vimeo.

I've been trying to pitch this idea to Alec for the past eight months for our collab film piece set to Treat Me Like Your Mother by The Dead Weather. This embodies my cinematographic mind, and all that isn't used by it. Ugh, forget illustration, I'm going full-fledged film major.

I lost the battle - Day 3

2010-01-26T23:38:00.002-05:00

There are absolutely no girls in my animation class, someone must've prayed last night.

The Gum Thief - Glove Pond from CRUSH on Vimeo.

2010-01-25T23:55:00.002-05:00

Today was a very good day.

I've received a crate full of muffins for breakfast tomorrow.
I was also on the radio (FM 89.1 WNYU) and won tickets to see Asobi Seksu later this week. I have an animation class early in the morning tomorrow, so I'm finding people to collab ideas with regarding the final later in the semester.

Broca's Area from VsTheBrain on Vimeo.

A seven nation army couldn't hold me back

2010-01-22T23:42:00.003-05:00

Goodbye Coco.

Sil-Comp2
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The long arm of the law is wrapped in varnish.

2010-01-22T12:58:00.003-05:00

I got a ticket for parking a few towns away this morning. Their policy is that there are to be no people parking their vehicles on their streets from 2am to 4am (the most obscure and arbitrary times that deceptively seem to work wonders for them), which would warrant giving a ticket understandably if it weren't for the fact that there is absolutely no signs, notifications, or alerts state anywhere that promote this knowledge. I circled every mistake on this ticket with bold, red ink.

On an unrelated note, I'm not really the biggest fan of k.west. In fact, I've made my distaste for him well known among everyone I know from his onstage bash of Justice after losing to them at an award show, to his misleading portrayals of riding fixed-gear bicycles, to the fits he's thrown after Thom Yorke denied him the privilege of any collab work, to the televised, self-proclaimed/justified acts of pure idiocy. But I can't deny how raw this video is. Ugh.

I lost the battle - Day 2

2010-01-21T13:27:00.002-05:00

every dream i have is another one closer to getting caught.

I drew this while writing ideas for a new character which who eventually presented me with a story as interesting as Cammy's, yet never came to fruition being that I spent all of the end of 2009 in a car.

Forget from Michael Fragstein on Vimeo.

sleight of tongue

2010-01-19T22:33:00.007-05:00

Confession time, I started this post less than five minutes of the last one, I'm just waiting for Photobucket to upload a bulk. I've inherited a scanner thanks to Ashley Rust. She recently started a blog making mixes with excellent music for public enjoyment. You can find said mixes (accompanied by nostalgia-based film stills on kittycatmix.

inside/out from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.

I lost the battle - Day 1

2010-01-19T02:04:00.003-05:00

So, the default photo resizing program on my Mac just tacks on megabytes to all my images, making photobucket incredibly difficult to work with. All the more reason for me to get working on getting myself a copy of Illustrator.

Voltage from Bam Studio on Vimeo.

I would secretly love to steal Ashley Rust's scanner

2010-01-18T02:01:00.003-05:00

RAAAAAAAANDY!

dolls and shells

2010-01-10T14:10:00.004-05:00

Nothing really to post about. The internet doesn't amuse me today much.

2009 in review

2010-01-01T00:47:00.007-05:00

As the year comes to a close, it's very common for people to recollect all the experiences they've had in the past twelve months (give or take for those lucky few who fly through measurements of time). 2009 was the hostile cousin of 2008, not as bad, but still pretty unfortunate with chainsmokers, brain tumors, and vomiting my way out of job interview. In sharp contrast, there has been more things to save me from anxiety-filled nights than there was in 2008.Not to be outdone by blogs that are frequently read and their top ten list of everything-ish, I'd like to introduce the new year with my top ten list of things that saved my life over the past year.

10.) The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack

There's nothing that reflected the internal structure of my mind better than Flapjack. In fact, there isn't anything at all, because my body is a sophisticated system of pulleys and counter-weights accessed by a food hole.

9.) Kickball

Hailing from Portland/Olympia, Washington, this three-piece group brings together an entirely new genre of music with every new release. The last six months I've spent in my car attempting to impress passengers to three minute long songs of abstraction and adolescent melodies I should've written as a child. Oh my god.

8.) Street Fighter IV

From '03 to early '08, I was an avid Smash Bros player and went to a few tournaments to play on a professional level. Then around my freshman semester, I migrated to a more elite fighting game (according to the fighting game community) with Street Fighter III: Third Strike. 3S was like nothing I'd ever played before, although I was a good eight years behind the rest of the community. Fortunately, I'd gotten into the series just before the upcoming installment, SFIV, which is probably one of the more significant things of 2009 that saved my life. It's very difficult for someone to put an exact image on the stereotypical gamer for fighting games, and the truth is not far off from that. The community is much different from any other community I've been a part of. Each person seems to play a part, representing their coasts, striving for an unrivaled perfection, yet there is absolutely no bad blood. The intensity all comes out when a match begins, and when the match ends, so does the rivalry. Teamwork!

7.) Michigan

I ran away to Michigan on my spring break to escape the monotony of New Jersey with it's long lines, it's polluted metropolis, starless skies, and drug-driven texts. No where to go, nothing to do, so I went to Michigan, where there was no where to go and nothing to do. I stayed at a Doubletree in the middle of a highway with nothing in walking distance to eat but Wendy's and Red Robin.
And it was quite possibly the best trip I've ever had in my life. I got on a plane at eight in the morning with nothing but a PSP and the newest album by Trophy Scars, and I landed in a hyperbolic time chamber of settlement and acceptance. When I came back to Jersey, I developed a fever, and sweated it all out. All the texts that crawled under my skin, all that second-hand smoke, I relapsed from 2008 and got out of bed the next day. Strong. Rested. Stitched at the seams. But I never would have made it to Michigan if it weren't for

6.) Ashley Rust

I've been friends with Ashley for a pretty long time, maybe three years or so. We met on last.fm, and I've never met someone I've been able to consistently enjoy and enjoy myself with since I met Steven, my best friend for thirteen years. My entire time at Michigan, I spent it with Ashley. She's got the most selfless and amazing personality I've ever seen in anyone, and it's 100% genuine. If it were not for her, I don't think I would've been around long enough to even make Pistachio for a Day, and this year in it's near-entirety has been great because of her, and I can't express to her enough how grateful and indebted I am.

5.) Hot Chocolate

2009 was definitely the year of hot chocolate. I tried so hard to get everyone I know into drinking hot chocolate, and to much success. I found every excuse possible to drink hot chocolate. And being that the diner down the block from me is open all night long, I'm certain I've more artificial chocolate dust and milk in my system than any other substance.
I think it stemmed from my childhood, and how my fondest memories are of my grandfather and I drinking hot chocolate or staring at the star, when there were stars.
Ihhh...

4.) 24-Hour Diners

Actually, scratch that. All diners in general were so great. No one lies to you for that extra tip, and if you want to go at 2am and have your iPod on while doing end-of-the-semester final work, they won't hassle you. If I didn't have diners for 2009, I'd probably be eating real food given by fake people. "Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends."

3.) Paul Mindell

The father you were envious of your cousin, best friend, or step-sister for. Paul Mindell was my painting teacher who I wish would adopt me. I've taken three semesters straight with him because I just don't want to let him go. He's got a serene voice, a witty sense of humor, experienced wisdom, and a delicate touch of the mind. I openly dismiss any other teacher or no-related father figure. Any talent I have now, if at all, is a result of his aid, and I love him to pieces.

2.) Dermaphoria

I don't even remember when exactly I read this, but I do remember the sun burning the back of my neck while I was seated improperly on the bus reading page to page. Last year it was The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno, this year it's an entirely different kind of literature as Dermaphoria explores the birth child of Murakami and drug-lit. If I could have one book that means this much to me, I'd be a very happy person, but this isn't always the case. Understand though that if Amazon recommends anything (not movies), then there's a near 100% chance that it will be more than relevant to your interests, and you have to remember that your gut feeling is always the right one.

1.) Art (and what lack of)

I think if there were anything that I couldn't live without in 2009, it would be art. Not to be limited to just the things in sketchbooks and canvases, I find that everything I've worked on has some form of artistic foundation to it. All the characters and stories I've written up and thrown away and rehashed from the back of my mind, the necessities of driving around at 4am with only a few dollars, the beds I've slept in, the people I've kicked out and those I didn't, the lies, the cd mixes, the summer days I spent with Ashley Rust. I feel all my experiences this past year was a direct result of art's effect on me. Had it not been for my lack of talent and striving attitude, I might be less of a sentimental, pretentious, elitist than I already am. But I feel I can confidently admit that the past year has humbled me a little more, I'm still an asshole, I'm still unsure and unstable, I'm still not a boy to take home to your mom, but I hope 2010 doesn't change any of that.

Maybe I'm two days late than those other sites aforementioned, but I'm entirely grateful to all of 2009, from the hanging stars of Michigan to the rising sun that woke me up every day I slept in a parking lot. 2010. 2010. 2010.

I'm too sick to date you Pistoreo for a Doreo.

2009-12-30T02:07:00.001-05:00

Oh Boxing Day. I've been a good boy because by just being consistently inconsistent for you, and received my new beloved macbook pro, to whom I literally lay to bed with. All this power further justifies my pretentious/elitist nature, oh god.

j.hp>j.hp > c.lk xx c.lk xx EX KK > ULTRA

2009-08-19T00:22:00.002-04:00

someone hacked up my DA account, and I'm so interested to find out who and become their friend! w48htiudrfhn34uitbndfuig :D

2009-08-08T20:44:00.003-04:00

having a hard time updating because of the move.
Fortunately for me, pistachioforaday@blogspot terms only state that a picture a day is necessary, and though these are clearly not daily, they are in fact, pictures.

lend me your ears

2009-07-24T16:23:00.003-04:00

still regurgitating shit from like, five months ago, but I'm charming, so none of you really mind. Tomorrow the semi-roommate comes in from Michigan, I'll try scaning stuff now so I don't have to go through the trouble of doing it when she's around.

sdkfnsdkfsdksd i want to be on stage with redlightgreenlight now D:

nerd moment, I will post something less insignificant later tonight.

2009-07-23T19:13:00.003-04:00

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A while back, I wrote a general guideline for a four-part story I was going to bring to the LittleBigPlanet community. It was going alright, but then I got a girlfriend. Now that I am single, I've been writing again, and I've scrapped a lot of pretty good ideas for one that I feel I can translate while maintaining a sort of noir-esque individual approach to level making (LittleBigPlanet is a game that seems to be primarily designed for engineers, as it allows you to use technical tools in order to make levels and share them with the online community, a lot like the flash game on the internet Line Rider, an example can be seen here.
The story I wrote never made it through as I lost the original manuscript in a shuffle to catch a bus (but I'm worry-free, as my ideas are never all that interesting enough for other people to mooch off on. So I decided I'd just post a simple level to LBP, pretty straight forward, about a main character who gets tired of his or her (depending on what the person's Sackboy is) dull, consistent life and kills themselves, only to realize that death is actually a metropolis equally as dull save for the things he or she cares about, so they climb their way back to life, with a pretty interesting twist. Death is actually the same as life, he or she crashes out of a window through the ground, and ends up at Death, which is just Life, but upside down. blahblahblah, anyways, I posted the picture because in once scene, the main character is supposed to catch a bus, but right when they catch the bus, it speeds off, which was actually incredibly technical to design. what you can see from the image is a structure on wheels with a tower on it. This is the internal body of the vehicle which I'll have to make a shell for. On the structure, is a bug-looking thing, the motion sensing switch, it's connected to a green block on the tower, the green block is holding a key. Below the block is what the key has to make contact with. When a Sackboy approaches the vehicle, the motion sensing switch will send signals to the green block, instantaneously the green block with dissolve and the key will fall to the magnetic switch, making contact. The magnetic switch will trigger four rockets on the left side of the structure, and in doing so, the vehicle will zoom past our main character, leaving him to wallow and walk to work. I post this only because I spent a good time trying to figure this out, it was a little difficult to get the bus to continuously drive forth without the main character, but I did it. Ugh.

This is not my daily post, I just needed to nerd out. D:

2009-07-23T03:41:00.003-04:00

the people on my block must really hate rlgl.

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I woke up to a terrible surprise today, which I made up for appropriately by purchasing a two-pound bag of twizzlers. WHO'S THE 20 YEAR OLD NOW, TIME?!

Give Me Shadow

2009-07-22T04:11:00.003-04:00

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Oh, uh, I don't think I mentioned. I'm trying to make up for the past few months, but I'm posting random ish from in between. I don't mean to cheat you, but I am. :/

Making a mix cd

2009-07-20T02:47:00.003-04:00

And I promise to maintain pistachio for a day like a trooper, scout's honor.

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Another promise of a mixed cd, another playlist not burned.

2009-07-20T02:24:00.001-04:00

I swear swear swear I'm not letting this die.

Also, how does Twitter work again?

2009-04-29T00:07:00.001-04:00

My new favorite person has an old favorite enemy.

I'm getting around to not sucking, I swear.

Apologetica

2009-04-15T15:56:00.002-04:00

Okay, that was way too long of a hiatus. I promised to be dedicated did I not?

Yeah right.

I'm coming back.

2009-02-17T07:12:00.002-05:00

There's been a simple maintenance problem with my fingers as of late.
Give me the benefit of the doubt and assume I've been through hell over the past month, and I now have SOME time to try to update.

more excuses to come.

Halfway Home>Halfway God

2009-01-28T23:16:00.002-05:00

Straight up, all I did today ways watch videos, all day. Don't even have any remotely interesting texts to provide you with today.

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Enjoy The Robot Ate Me just as much as I do, please and thank you.
I was polite, so now you have to do it.

I will never stop chasing suns across a circular path

2009-01-26T22:11:00.002-05:00

I find that when working with a new sketchbook, the first page is, or should always be some form of self reflection. As such, I present Medical Mechanica children.

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I wish these sites would have less typical current statuses.

[Currently eating: Hawaiian Lehua Honey & Sweet Cream Ice Cream]

I'm not lazy, I just care.

2009-01-26T00:56:00.003-05:00

I didn't mean to not post in the past two days. I actually have material from the past two days. Whether or not they're interesting is another story. I spent $140 on art shit, surprisingly less than what I expected to pay. More importantly, I bought myself a "squared notebook".

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I also picked up Dermophoria, by Craig Clevenger. About an amnesiac who wakes up in a jail cell with a woman on top of him. Throughout the story he longs to tell apart the difference between what's a drug-induced hallucinogen, and what's reality. You Johnny Truant fanatics will flip your shit for it.

Lo and behold

2009-01-23T20:43:00.004-05:00

So, I have class tomorrow, on a Saturday. Life doesn't get more dope than that. So I went to the DMV today, and as you may or may not be able to conclude, I've done no work. But I did find a picture of a ship I drew sometime last year. It was to go along with this children's story idea I had about a captain and his quest to sail a self-proclaimed ghostship into the seas of Pistachio Island. A year after writing this story, I watched my first episode of The Misadventures of Flapjack, noticed similarities, and have kept the whole story under wraps. Pistachio for a Day and Pistachio Island are siamese Vietcong brothers.
The picture though, failed in execution horribly.

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If you remember the midi from Greenhill Zone in Sonic 2, proceed.

2009-01-22T10:33:00.003-05:00

I start classes today, and I'm joining the general public in understanding why Bill O'Reilly is a bickering man whose word is typically taken in distaste. I also may or may not have been able to use my Sixaxis PS3 controller on my computer, I'm still checking on an illegalities on that matter, but because of which, the snippets I have don't seem worth putting up, at least not yet. I should have enough coming back from school though.
I did manage to make a GIF that won't seem to upload anywhere else, which if my personality was ever taken into question, this image would be the concluding statement. Also, for those who don't know, or have forgotten who I am, allow this to jump start the serotonin in your system and warrant a 45-minute delay in profuse oral-foaming.

brb.

2009-01-21T11:27:00.002-05:00

I didn't think it was possible to get my ass handed to me by quintessential Oprah fanatics, but yesterday in Rockefeller Center, was the single best excuse for every follower to congregate at one place and bawk. The Presidential Inauguration was recorded and streamed live at the center, but of course, I was expected to go there without the knowledge that everyone alongside me hadn't voted for the current president. God forbid.
Because of this, I went straight to a friend's house afterwards, and spent no time drawing, I'm considering making a stop-motion Megaman 2 project. But for now, all I can provide is recycled junk.

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Not to be outdone by Tracey Sketchit

2009-01-19T23:13:00.006-05:00

Hey still President Elect Barack Obama, what's going on? Oh, just mouthing words in ways not humanly possible as a result of my inability to stay focused and follow through with my measurements? That's fine, I just won't finish you.

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Wasn't there a Mortal Kombat character named Baraka? And he had a move that was called "chop chop blades."
I take life very seriously.

Eight years later...

2009-01-19T02:49:00.005-05:00

I got an email from my mom today, who recently discovered the drop-down address bar on Mozilla, and subsequently found everywhere I existed on the internet in the past year and a half: my old myspace, DA, Facebook, etc.
She's questioning how exactly I know people from the Russian Confederation, mainly people of adjectorial titles (i.e. Kasey Kalamity, Charlie Compassionate, LeBron James, you know the deal).
I'm glad I led such an eventful life thus far.

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This scanner could not scan the bar code on a hooker, much less high quality images.

Moleskinerie

2009-01-18T03:46:00.004-05:00

The truth is, I'm all about this picture-a-day blog right now. Though I have no doubt that I'll be over this in about three days. Ironically, my semester begins in four days, which, believes me, warrants more time wasted in front of a computer screen. Don't get me wrong, none of which spent hours are devoted to education.

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Don't mind the stains, acid-free moleskine paper isn't completely durable, and some copic bled right through from the other side. Not that a lack of stain would make it suck less though.
It's like, four though, and I lost a battle with somnolence. It's time to race the moon.

Sleep is a four-letter word.

2009-01-18T03:35:00.003-05:00

Influenced by insomnia inebriation, I've concluded that what may make my life more eventful is to spend more time than I already do in front of a computer screen, blogging to people who could never relate. So this is my plan:

I've decided to post once a day, or close to it (my definition of reliability could easily be bested by a blind race horse), of pictures. Preferably, whatever I've illustrated on that day, shamelessly. And let me emphasize "shamelessly."

Shamelessly. I don't exactly feel any of my self-proclaimed art stands dominantly over what really is, but the general public enjoy the idea of progression (which is what a blog is) and pictures to look at.
Just a heads up, in case anyone stumbles upon this: shame on you if you find anything here interesting. For the most part, my style of art and aesthetic relation is generally bland and nothing fancy.
Lads and broads, this is pistachio for a day.

-Andrew