Vampires are upper class, bourgeois, vain, aristocratic and irredeemably decedent.

Werewolves are working class and socialist.

I just handed in my last piece of coursework.  I am now, officially, a 3rd year student.

Fuck!!!

I've already given a lot of thought as to what form my Final Major Projects will take and i've reasoned that if i intend to to have this project done to any level of satisfaction, i have to start work on it now.

I'll give you a hint as to what the subject matter will be.  It involves dynamite, Richard Wagner, madness, anti-semitism and Germany.

I've already told you too much.  If I told you more, I would have to kill you.

I've found another place to live! Yay! Crisis over!  The room i'll be habiting is slightly smaller than what i'm used to but, hey, its the house mates that i'm really moving in for. And to paraphrase Norman Rockwell, "Small spaces focus the mind.". 
Once again I appear to have fallen on my feet as my new housemates appear to be menschs. So, it's full speed ahead. I've got a dissertation to write, three illustrations to do and a wee bit of 2nd year coursework that I want to redo.  If only for the sake of being anal retentive. 

This summers' going to be great.  I can feel it in my bones!

Ye Gods. That trailer looks better than all three of the prequel movies combined.

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3605#

"An Orphaned Work is any creative work of art where the artist or copyright owner has released their copyright, whether on purpose, by passage of time, or by lack of proper registration. In the same way that an orphaned child loses the protection of his or her parents, your creative work can become an orphan for others to use without your permission."

"Currently, you don't have to register your artwork to own the copyright. You own a copyright as soon as you create something. International law also supports this. Right now, registration allows you to sue for damages, in addition to fair value."

"What makes me so MAD about this new legislation is that it legalizes THEFT! The only people who benefit from this are those who want to make use of our creative works without paying for them and large companies who will run the new private copyright registries.

These registries are companies that you would be forced to pay in order to register every single image, photo, sketch or creative work.

It is currently against international law to coerce people to register their work for copyright because there are so many inherent problems with it. But because big business can push through laws in the United States, our country is about to break with the rest of the world, again, and take your rights away.

With the tens of millions of photos and pieces of artwork created each year, the bounty for forcing everyone to pay a registration fee would be enormous. We lose our rights and our creations, and someone else makes money at our expense.

This includes every sketch, painting, photo, sculpture, drawing, video, song and every other type of creative endeavor. All of it is at risk! "


Read it, share it, spread it far and wide and act accordingly.

Forewarned is forearmed

Well spring must have finally hit as my nose is running like a water faucet and I'm sneezing like a mad man.  The pollen count my be extraordinarily high as I woke up sneezing. 

Hay fever is a real bitch. 

Anyways, I'm back in London for the next 4 weekends working plus I'll start the long and laborious task of finding a new house for my final year. 

Christ.  My Final year.

Think about that. 

One more year of uni and then I'll be out in the real world competing with ever other illustrator on the planet.  And paying taxes to boot!

Help!!  I am contemplating deliberately failing my final year so that I'll have to stay in Southampton for another year.  I KID!!

I hope I get on an MA course. No. Scratch that.  I will get onto an M.A. Though I believe my applications might be slightly more successful if  their accompanied with a sawn-off shotgun

Hmm.  The Bristol comic con is just around the corner.  Better start saving my shekels as I'm planning to buy some Sean Phillips and John M. Burns original artwork. 

I need to own Criminal pages.

My money's on Roslin being the final cylon.

You?