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  2. Vezok's Friend

    Update

    By Vezok's Friend,

    Yeah, I am still working on stuff inbetween studying (*cough*slacking*cough*). 
    So, here goes nothing:
     

     

     

     

     
    Enjoy.
     
    PS:
     
    Funnny how 4 words can ruin the mood for the whole weekend. Thanks for that.
  3. Vezok's Friend

    Day #1 at LEGO

    By Vezok's Friend,

    Dear diary...EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!


     

    ...no, no, not going there ^^ Though I have seen my fair share of spaceships and hundreds of other designs today. The day started relatively early compared to my old job and got interesting immediately as I met my colleague who got hired through the same workshop I attended. We had a camera team at the workshop filming some of us for a documentary on Channel 4 on UK television and apparently they hadn't had enough yet since they accompanied us all the way to the front door at which point they were not allowed to follow anymore. Our respective mentors welcomed us and while I spent half a day with a visitor pass, I now have that little thingy saying I'm an employee. Way cool! =D


     

    I got taken on a tour of the department and saw pretty much everything from City (which is where I work) to Ninjago to Bionicle. Oh the things I have seen and can not talk about. It will keep the frontpage busy for a looooong time ^^ The Bionicle guys heard I was a fan though, so they were super nice and gave me Kopaka, who is now master of ice and my desk until I return tomorrow, along with somebody else I might get to talk about in the future.


     

    I didn't do much designing today yet, it was mostly learning where everything is and getting used to the work environment. I did get to put together some new sets though, which was pretty sweet.


     

    Stayed well after work was over and got to do some free building and hung out with some of the other designers.


     

    Let's do it again tomorrow! =D


  5. Vezok's Friend
    So today I went to take my physical examination for the german army (aka, "Bundeswehr"). Rather, I was ordered there. Some people decide not to show up and the MP picks them up at home, so it's better to follow the "invitation". The people (except for the doctor) were all nice there.
     
    Anyway. The examination turned out to classify me as "T2" which is the second best result one can get there. Means I am physically fit and intelligent enough so they want me as a soldier for the reserve army. I still have a choice to do civil service, I haven't decided yet though. Old peoples homes or youth hostels are not something i want to do...
    Service would be 9 months (3 months for the grunts, then 6 months in either the airforce, navy or army).
    I can voluntarily extend my service, but apparently that is connected to the duty to be in an abroad mission, which means if I stayed in the armed forces longer then 9 months I'd be so lucky to go to Afghanistan, Kosovo or some other nice warzone -.- Currently that's not really something I fancy.
    I got some suggestions where they might put me into service if I join: Artillery, Parachute, MP, truckdriver, aircraft maintenance, some office or a plain grunt soldier.
     
    Anyway, so this is the result of today...
  6. Vezok's Friend
    So I became a lifetime premier member, so you are not going to get rid of me anytime soon.
     
    So welcome to my little dragons cave. I will occasionally update this thing with non-Bionicle art, findings on the net that amuse me (according to BZP policy of course) and other things.
     
    So, if you want to ask me stuff, about me or things I do here on BZP, feel free to do so.
     
    -VF
  8. Vezok's Friend
    Is there a way to turn back time? 
    Or to teleport?
     
    I am in desperate need of a Vahi right now. Or an Olmak. Ignika wouldn't be bad either. I'd right a lot of wrongs. (Mine included)
     
    Seems life just doesn't work that way, does it, eh? I recall a time where I was pretty blue-eyed, but I was taught better. I guess in the end it all just comes down to how you deal with it. One can dwell in self-pity (or sadness or whatever it is you feel when you fail big-time) or suck it up and move on. And as a quick word of advice: The first option ranks right along emotional suicide. So better get all stuff together and start walking again. Because bad things happen no matter what.
     
    And sometimes your best just isn't good enough. And for those of you who think it is: Do not put yourselves on a pedestal just because you are convinced for some reason you are better. Because one day, sooner or later, your little tower of ego will crack. And then it's all about how you handle beeing no better then the rest, having the same flaws when you fall down back into the puddle. And do not blame or judge people only because they are human.
    And try not to give advice that you yourself can't follow. Or at least, try to follow it yourself if you give it.
     
    And no, I am not upset, depressed, angry, vengeful, spiteful, jealous, sad or anything right now. I've just done a lot of thinking lately. I suggest you do the same from time to time. Take an hour and reflect on where you are, where you want to be, what you got to do to get there, and where you need to improve and then do it.
    I am pretty sure everyone has an area where he/she can improve.
     

  9. Vezok's Friend
    As some of you might have noticed in my sig, I was abscent for the last weak. The reason for that abscense was the anual graduation major courses school trip (Yes. 6 words for something we have one word for in German.) to some other country.
    The destination: Krk on the Island Krk, Croatia.
    The journey: 13hours+ in some bus. Which aparrently was concipated exactly in such a way that I was unable to get a decent sleeping position during the night ride. We left last saturday around 10pm and drove over austria through Slowenia only to arrive in Croatia early that afternoon.
    The hotel was close to the water and it was nice to hang out there in the evening, but the hotelrooms itself were pretty mediocre, or at least not what I'd expect from a hotel in one of the countries biggest holiday regions.
    Anyway, the food was allright, I didn't dare taste the dessert though...it looked creepy, unfortunately they didn't have free drinks included for dinner so we actually had to buy the water.
    During the 3 days where we actually stayed on the Island we visited some major locations there, like the city Rijeka and the city Krk it self (it's kind-of pronounced like Cpt. Kirk), I did some minor sketches in my dragon-journeys sketchbook.
    On the second day we visited some small village on the mainland, where could test some whine (i didn't like it), some fig booze (holy mother of muffins that stuff burns in the throat.) I am glad I don't like drinking anyway, like I said just testing those things. We also saw what our guide claimed to be the worlds most narrow alley, which was pretty cool to walk through.
    On the day after that we saw some other cities, led by a different guide, but I hardly paid attention, since it was boring beeing told about minor details all the time. (Yes, I am not a person interested in the history of every small building in some holiday town.)
    The evenings pretty much were the same. Dinner, hanging out with the other classmates and some pool (which I am relatively good at ^^) and then some talking on the rooms or down at the beach, which wasn't really a beach, more like a promenade along the water from which one could directly jump in.
    In addition we did a trip with a glass-bottom boat on thursday.
    And On friday morning we packed our stuff and drove back to slovenia where we visited the largest cave I have ever been in so far (I must upload the video some time, with indiana jones music behind it, it's pretty cool.)
    So, there you know where I was. No internet access there so no word from me.
    This week, except for a classtest on tuesday will be about project days where I will be doing portraits of people ^^ I am not sure how this is scheduled yet though exactly, so...need to ask someone for this one as well.
     
    Important info:
    This is the last week before the holidays now though, so any questions for me should be asked within the next 7 to 9 days, before I leave for the beautiful little Island shown two entries below.
     
    EDIT:
    THE LINK TO THE VIDEO
     
    -VF
  10. Vezok's Friend

    Dang...

    By Vezok's Friend,

    One quick word of advice before I rush over to the bathroom again:
    Don't combine Pasta and Tuna with Doughnuts a chicken-sandwich and orange/chocolate-cookies.
    *runs off to great the bowl again*
    Listen to me kids...
  11. Vezok's Friend

    Freaking Miserable

    By Vezok's Friend,

    Yeah...today is a good day to die. Today I really hate myself. And it's even worse because there is no reason for it either.
     
     
    PS: I am thinking about changing my fontcolour here. Any suggestions? I am tending towards blue.
     
     
  12. Vezok's Friend

    Last Test

    By Vezok's Friend,

    Yay ^^ My very very last exams in Maths and German have come and passed and I think I did a decent job. 
    So now there only remain 5 subjects to study for from now on, and two of them I can do single-handedly.
     
    No news on Art however. I've been drawing stuff, but not colouring. Might take till the weekend before I decide to do that.
     
    Just little updates. I'll see you guys around
  14. Vezok's Friend
    Happy New Year everybody!
     
    Long time no see, eh? Even longer since I had anything to blog about. But that's about to change.
     
    Tomorrow I'm flying to Denmark to start my new job on Tuesday. Amazing to think that in more or less 48 hours I'll be a part of the LEGO design team in Billund.
     
     
    Allons-y!


  15. Vezok's Friend
    Sunday will be my grandfathers birthday, and since my grandparents live 400km away, I'll be gone for the weekend.  
    I will take my sketchbook though and maybe work up something that'll be worth showing on here Maybe something for Halloween *hint,hint* ^^
     
    In the meantime, I'd like to play another round of "ask me anything!" with you. So, if you have a question, random, serious, philosophical, ask away! I'll answer every single one when I get back!
     

     
     
  17. Vezok's Friend
    Ok...maybe it is time for a list of things I am not too fond of here on BZP and why.
     
    And I want to start with my main-grudges right away:
    Comedies and Artwork III. Now, I do not want those forums to be gone, but there are things about them that haven gotten so lame they need a wheelchair with NoS boosters to keep up to speed. I remember back in the day there was TKs adventures of Makuta and Takanuva or Dark709's comics, and those were pretty funny for the incoporation of original elements. However, some people propably thought that Pie, Cheese and Cookies are the new "beeing cool in comics" and there was a great disturbance in the force. It felt as if hundreds of voices cried out in unison "D'oh!" before beeing silenced by the new obligatory insane food-addicted sidekicks. Bob, you're not alone. Unfortunately. I think the mental homes of Metru Nui must run out of rubber-clad cells soon. Besides owning a trading store and suddenly beeing raided by a horde of food-addicts more violent then zombies in Evil Dead doesn't sound very promising. One Vahki per food-store...dang, what's the world coming to?
    And I am not basing the criticism on any fact from when I checked the AWIII forum regularly 2 years ago, I checked back and the madness is still rampaging. And good comics are hard to spot.
     
    While we are in the comic-cast overused-lameness here: The evil mastermind plus dumb sidekick taking over the comics but failing everytime in a worse way then Arthur Peuty, the original 16-tons Pythons victim. Espescially when the mastermindedness is about either disguising and infiltrating the good guys or kidnapping one of the good guys, mostly the food-addict that nobody will miss anyway. Man you are SO evil. Espescially with that collective heap of unintelligence right next to you who in fact even has a good heart and makes friends among the good guys. Good luck. You won't have any.
     
    The rest of the crew is more or less insane but that diminishes in the unpopularity of those mentioned above.
     
    What else is there? Ah right. Setting: A building. Somewhere. Consisting of a single room. Maybe sitcoms are ok, but they have scenes playing in the kitchen sometimes too! Notice anything?
     
    The comedies forum propably isn't any better. It is the same madness in written form. At least we can maintain eyesight due to the lack of cancer-causing colours, thank Mata Nui.
     
    However, "Ask xxx" is not funny anymore. I doubt that there is any charie left in the Bionicle universe who didn't have to take part in the prose form of Jerry Springer yet. And I find it even more surprising that nobody has died yet through extensive mutilation during a vendetta of humiliated Bionicle villains who don't like beeing made fun of.
     
    Now, on to the next bug that sticks here like a fly to the yellow paperstrips: Sig-fads.
    And I am not talking about making tons of sigs for the joker from TDK or new bionicle sets and putting up quotes from movies. I am talking about these reoccuring things like: "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!" and "70% of xxx do xxx, if you belong to the 30% of xxx who don't, copy and paste this into your sig."
    Let's start with the "All your base...", ok? First thing: I do not have a base. And I don't plan on buying one. Not now, not in the future, not in an alternate reality. And even if I did, I would have put up 40mm grenade launchers to protect it. You wouldn't be anywhere near my base, nor in it, and it belongs to me alone. Besides it doesn't belong to multiple you. You are not many. Unless you are schizophrenic. Tough luck. And I will not consider inviting you inside. Go build your own base.
     
    And then the statistics: Did you know that 100% of sig statistics suck? Yes, it is a developement taking place here. Some years back only 75% sucked but the original users grew out of it. Rap might not be my favourite music either but it is music. Let people listen to it if they like (the poor fools). Also let people who like the Mistika like the Mistika.
    Do you seriously think that people who are in an online Bionicle community will stop buying Bionicle because a small part of the online Bionicle community thinks so? Personally I own all the Mistika and all I think is they are cool though TLG could have done a better job with them.
    Also, do not belive any statistic that you haven't manipulated yourself.
     
    As we are already among the member fads, lets continue with another big one in S+T. So, there is our poor, spammed by hundreds of questions daily, Greg Farshtey who does a really good job at writing the stories and beeing active here, and yet every word the man says is made into a theory.
    Posting a topic like "I think xxx works in x and y way because Greg said xyz in this quote, so it must be true" is not a theory. Did you see NtM's "Matoran universe guide". THAT is a theory, not only based on quotes but on a long time of thinking and figuring out stuff yourself and finding storyline evidence.
    And while we speak of that, "I can't tell you about that" doesn't mean Greg is telling you you are right. It means he can't tell you at the moment. It's not a backwards approval of your theory.
    And I think after he told us the first time "Matoro will not come back in any way" there is no need for a dozen of "RIP Matoro" and "How Matoro can come back" theories. This is war, charies die, deal with it.
    And this didn't only happen with Matoro. Carapar: Dead, lots of topics in the aftermath. Botar: Dead, lots of mourning. The guy only appeared twice in the storyline so far. Like Omi once said: No need to celebrate a charies death like that of a real person. And he most definately is not in heaven alongside JFK, be realistic. It doesn't hurt.
     
    Mentioning Omi leads to my next point of criticism: Praise the mods. They do their job and I am happy they do it well and that it worked out so far. But I see no need to carve every word by B6 into gold. He is a good moderator and admin and what he says is right often, but please stop the moderator-worshipping. I am pretty sure if you told them "OMG you are so awesome" a hundred times in real life just because they attended brickfair you would get snapped at. They are busy people who squeeze BZP and real life under one hat and if I was a Moderator or FA i don't think I would like groupies.
    Especially when it comes to news reports. "OMG thanks Moderator xy for that find!" Excuse me. It was a member who found the news and reported them. The mods depend on the community to find news.
    And besides, when did the idea occur that beeing the sherrifs' sidekick will get you a promotion? It is perfectly fine mentioning to others that they broke a rule, to link them to the topic with the rules and report a violation. This is helpful and good. Giving tips too. Busting into a topic with your caps-lock-gun cocked and writing "YOU CAN NOT DO THIS IT BREAKS THE RULES" is however, not helpful. It might be considered spam too. Especially when somebody who posted before you mentioned exactly the same thing in the helpful manner above.
    Don't play Chuck Norris here, try to be helpful.
    PS: Chuck Norris jokes have started to grow a beard as well. And there is no third fist behind it.
     
    My next point on the list are RPGs. Leading one myself and having played in several others I noticed some things I do not really like.
    And I am not talking about choices of characters here, that is ok. Most plots are cool too and are real fun to play.
    I am talking about the dependency of players on the game-mods. It seems to me, as soon as an RPG Moderator dissapears for a week all action dies down. Even though you might have left tasks. For example in BK I left the players to search Metru Nui for a Matoran beeing chased by some Shadowcreatures because he is going to be important. I gave the setting and the task, but apparently it isn't cool to go and do such a thing as long as I am not babysitting the scavenger hunt. Or I am doing this wrong, I don't know. But it happened in other games as well where I tried to keep things going.
    Thats why people are called players: To play. And thats why moderators are called moderators: to Moderate. Keeping the game going is the players task. Throwing them new tasks so that they can do that is the GMs task.
    Another thing about RPGs: Naming things. Excuse the mods for not beeing deeply familiar with every MMORPG, tabletop and fantasy game out there. We also are no experts on ancient cultures and weapons. And espescially not on every Anime or Manga in existance.
    So not everyone will know what a "Shuriken" is. And I don't feel like looking it up. And spare us describing your charie with foreign words. Just because you watch Naruto it doesn't mean you are a Ninja and can talk like one. Besides I am sure some native speakers will be quite ashamed of the abuse of their langugage.
     
    Enough of RPGs, back to Artwork I.
    I know there are a lot of kids on this site. I know there are a lot who are not DaVinci and might not be able to draw art like Nikira does, or colour something in Photoshop like Lyger or work a 3D program like Populus. But a stickman with two eyes and circle for a mouth doesn't make Toa Tahu. It is ok if you get a bit of perspective wrong or if you can only draw 2D. But take a look and notice that just because you have a scanner and know how to use it your stickman turns into a masterpiece. Or to be more fair here, I know art isn't easy, if you post your stickman and accept contructive criticism it is perfectly fine. But don't post your 5-minute instant Tahu and claim Van-Goghs throne.
    Oh and by the way: Who are you to judge if someones art is bionicle enough or not? Or accurate enough or not. Who made you head of the storyline team so you can decide what Lariska has to look like and how not? And what is it with the extreme Phobia of female proportions? Take one look at Roodaka and be silent. And don't critizise someones style. Each has his/her own and us artists draw mostly for ourselves, not for you, at least not entirely. If you don't like someones art, go look at something else. (Yeah, I know it applies to me and the stickman as well, but first of all I give constructive criticism, or I keep my mouth shut and do look at something else.)
     
    That's all I can think of now and it is more or less pet-peeves that annoy me and not something big and world-threatening.
  19. Vezok's Friend
    Thanks guys! I hope this blog does help us to organize these things better. Even though I've GMed a whole RPG before, running a group within the BZPRPG is something I am not 100% sure how to manage yet. So, you'll get to participate quite a bit ^^
     
    Active members:
     
    -Rhow
    -Iraanus
    -Destian
    -Taoki
    -Kahlynn
    -Viloz
    -Sookus
    -Mortis
     
     
    Group code (Well, more like...'guidelines' ):
     
    -The horde is a mercenary fighting force mainly comprised of Skakdi members. Other species are welcome, but they have it tough and the Skakdi don't trust easily, so their respect must be earned.
     
    -The Horde doesn't care who you are and what you've done prior to joining, except if you served Makuta. If you're a Skakdi, know how to hold something sharp and want to get back at big M, you're welcome.
     
    -The Horde's goal is nothing less than the defeat of Makuta and his forces on the Island of Mata Nui.
     
    -Rhow may act as the de facto leader of the group, but she's not a despot, so discussions about the course of action are quite welcome and don't shy away from asking the group to go on quests you find worthy of pursuing.
     
    -As nice as the group is, by Skakdi standards at least, as hard they are when it comes to keeping it that way. Better watch what you are scheming, or you might call down the wrath of the group down on you.
     
    Active Missions (Location,Members):
     
    -Destroy FoM hideout in Xa-Koro.
     
     
    Yeah, so, discuss ^^
     
    Cheers!
  22. Vezok's Friend

    Autumn Holidays.

    By Vezok's Friend,

    I will be on Autumn holidays from September 29th to October 11th. You won't be hearing from me that time at all, because the place I am going has no internet connection. You want to know where I am going?
    There:

     
    I thought I'd tell you early so nobody wonders when I am gone.
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