Hallelujah
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Seeing this blog again is a beautiful thing.
Being off this website for a month was both an inconvenience and a delight. What resulted in the loss of forums, PMs, and blogging allowed room for a certain leisure time from my usual activities here. And although I haven't really spent the last month thinking of what to say at this time, I do have some important things to talk about - about my venturing into a new phase of my life, as well as the state of this blog and its Farshtey Feed in the near future.
I won't start with that stuff right away. Actually, I'd like to take this opportunity to spread some good word about this Christian Zanier guy who illustrated the recent "Hydraxon's Tale" comic included in the Papercutz Graphic Novel #6 and will illustrate the upcoming Legends of Bara Magna this February. If you bought the Bionicle Graphic Novel #6: The Underwater City - which awesomely includes a print version of Ignition #6 - you already know that Zanier sets a whole new precedent for artistry in Bionicle comics. I was taken aback by his mastery over lighting, composition, and dynamism when I first read through the comic, and it warms my heart that the Bionicle series finally has an artist with an acute appreciation for the detail and accuracy that a Lego product warrants. I mean, he colors in those darn little red pins and makes them look good. I recommend that you pick this book up, and keep your heads up for Zanier's February release. I look through the pages of Sayger's work that is printed in the book beforehand, and I laugh. I mean, the guy was encouraged to pursue an abstract style, but Bionicle models are by nature anything but abstract. I was overjoyed when we got Leigh Gallagher and Ulises Arreola in 2008, and the style continued into this year with Pop Mhan. But I never thought we could get better than that. Kudos to Papercutz for making a truly excellent selection.
Hey, you probably noticed that I changed my blog title again. So what once was "This Isn't Awkward At All/But expect to be" is now "I Am the Writer/You are the Reader." For the sake of clearing up any confusion.
I've been in the midst of a few projects as well.
For starters, I reached a point in July where I said, "What the heck, I'll make an entry for that Kyry contest." So I built this awesome little man, which you can see in my Brickshelf link at the bottom of this entry. I don't know what's really up with the German IDBM's contest with regard to the BZP hiatus, but I do want to give him a shot.
The Core War short story contest has been on my mind as well. I have started a story, thought out a skeleton plot, and not been diligent in completing it. But what I've written so far has been a lot of fun. I'm going to make it good. With a deadline until the end of September, I think even I have a chance of finishing.
There has been a third Bionicle-related thing I've been involved with during the hiatus. Just keep your ears open for that one, I guess. It'll reveal itself in time. No need to ask about it.
And, well, that's the sparknotes version of the Bionicle part of my life for the last 30 days - eager to get back to the OGD (I realized how much I enjoy having it around) and to the routine of the Farshtey Feed. I bought a few sets, not the least of which would be Toa Mata Nui of the long-awaited gold Ignika.
And now I get to talk about another part of my life.
College. It was inevitable - I'm entering my first wonderful year of college. On Friday.
There are two things I am certain about my coming years in college: A, that I will have enormously good times, and B, that I will have an enormously crowded schedule. Yup, you asked it. Will I have time for BZP, or won't I? I don't have an answer. How much leisure time I spend on my Bionicle hobby during college is really up to me. How much leisure time I will have is an issue that hinges upon my classes and professors, and I can't tell the future. But if I did have some sort of crystal ball, it would be the knowledge that I'm taking:
Intro to Chem
Intro to Engineering
Calculus III
Some good ol Latin I
Phys Ed, for some reason
And some seminar course that doesn't really matter
Just ... give me a slap on the back and wish me the best, ladies and gentlemen. I am, in a way, leaving. But I am not vanishing. I will still be here - on the internet. I am going to be around BZP, for the sake of whoever cares that I am. Will I have time for Farshtey Feed updates? I certainly hope so. How much of an overlogged lifestyle can stop me from taking an hour or so of my week to publish the next entry? FF is simple - it doesn't take much time, nor is it very difficult. It's something I do. Maybe I'll simply get rid of the images to ease the process, if I must. In the worst-case scenario, I will ask if someone else would please take up the torch. But that shoudn't have to happen.
I have every confidence I will be able to keep tabs on Bionicle news, thanks to BZP. I'll be around. But school will be tough. That's all of any update I have for now. I say goodbye to some friends and look forward to making new ones, and continue to mature into an adult human being.
Thanks for reading! FF may not get an entry this Friday - so much is happening that day, all day. Goodbye!
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