| Sheridan reminder! |
[Sep. 22nd, 2004|09:31 pm] |
Just a reminder to everyone on my friends list who might have missed the original message, I have partially migrated to an other LJ account for the current school year, in order to document my experience as an Animation Student at Sheridan College. View and add to friends list here: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gweesheridan . Peace out! |
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| Sheridan starts! |
[Aug. 28th, 2004|11:58 am] |
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Just dropping a note to everyone that I'm starting a Journal for my stay at Sheridan College, in which I'll post records of my life on campus, class experiences, assignements, pictures, and a bunch of other fun stuff! You can view it at gweesheridan. |
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| Attention computer-savy people : HELP!!!! |
[Aug. 12th, 2004|08:30 pm] |
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I've just gone through the most boring, irritating and frustrating computer shopping outing X_X;. I went to this place which I thought was pretty good, since I got my last 2 computers there. It's pretty cool because they let you build your computer from scratch. But the salesman I got was HORRIBLE.
Imagine the most nervous, disfonctionnal nerd. That's him. I took AT LEAST an hour for him to select all the parts for the computer I asked for (verry vaguely, since I'm not very litterate about computer parts and whatnot). Basically I told him I needed a computer tower (no periferals whatsoever) for student work and high level graphic applications such as Photoshop and Maya. No need for game-enhancing stuff, as I never play games on my computer. I had to repeat this several times as he was always raving about this power-supply or video card that did such and such, ugh.
But the worst part: he REALLY didn't seem to know what he was talking about. He just kept telling me about a bunch of motherboards or hard drives or RAM or whatever, which I knew absolutly nothing about, and when I asked him to explain the difference beetween the models or brands, and why I should pick one over the other, his answers were consistently evasive and unsatisfactory. That incompetant son of a gun.
Anyway, I finally got a computer out of him (strictly on paper, of course, I would've never bought the real thing right away), but I have no idea if it's either crap, decent, or too advanced and expensive for what I really need. I'm on a tight budget so I really don't need any expansive bling bling that won't do such a differenec for what I need. I'll do my own investigation, but if you guys have any advice, I'd really apreciate. Here are the specs:
- processor: Intel P4 HT 2.8G/800/512K/S478
- mother board: P4 S478 ASUS P4P800-SE 865PE 4D5P1A
- HardDrive: 80.0 MAXTOR 7200 8MB 6Y080P0
- RAM: Kingston KVR 400 MHZ DDR NO-ECC 512MB C3A
- Video card: ATI AGP Radeon 9600 XT 128M BOX
- Network card: Linksys 10/100 PCI Etherfast LNE100TX *
- casing (...)
- floppy drive (...)
and I already have a Yamaha CD-R/RW drive, so I shouldn't need to buy one, I think.
* is this all you need, hardware-wise, to get online?
Oh and the cost come around to 1200$ canadian. |
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| OTAKONNNN |
[Aug. 2nd, 2004|01:35 am] |
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WAS AWESOME!!! More to come later, I guess, if I ever get my lazy bum ass to writing a decent report ^^;. AWESOME I SAY!!! |
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| Spirited Away |
[Jun. 20th, 2004|12:05 pm] |
I went out to buy the DVD yesterday morning and finally watched Spirited Away for the first time yesterday night. I am truly and thoroughly astounded, moved and enchanted, this is by far the best animation movie I've ever seen, EVAR!!!!!!!! I mean, I'm speachless, this movie is the epitome of beauty in all aspects, the story, the animation, the CHARACTERS, the GODLY BACKGROUNDS, everything about this true work of art is polished, original and profound to an incredible degree. YET it keeps a level of simplicity, humor and lightheartedness that makes it truly magical. SOOOOO INSPIRING *O* I hadn't enjoyed a movie so much in a long time, seriously, WOW. |
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| X-Men bloblabloblurb |
[Jun. 17th, 2004|06:15 pm] |
Continuing Juno's posts of X-Men Deadline Delirium, I present you, today's insane X-Men blabber!
< insanity >
isamu1916: oh yeah i though we can all combine and do a collab drawing xmen each one of us doing 1 character XD
juno3183: OOOH hahhah that's awesome
ixquic2001: We should do PARODY X-men
juno3183: HELL YEAH
juno3183: we gotta put up all those evil parodies we did hhahahha
legwee: We should do a collab of us... KILLING THE X-MEN|||
legwee: !!!
isamu1916: yeah!
ixquic2001: Or getting sucked into Xorn's head!
juno3183: we can be the Pinsel Force in it... with the colorful Power Ranger costumes hhahaha
ixquic2001: AHAHAHAHHAA
juno3183: OMG and Shaz was like
isamu1916: XD
ixquic2001: I'll BE THE PINK RANGER!!!!!!
juno3183: PINSEL MAN! So I was like OMFG
legwee: Audra OMG YESSSSSS!!!! XD
ixquic2001: AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
juno3183: When all of our powers combine.. PINSEL MAN!!!!!!
isamu1916: nooo shaz is ODORANGER!
juno3183: AHAHAHAH!! actually, he said he was the LemonRanger Purple
ixquic2001: ahahahahahahaa
legwee: OMFG. I want to be, SAILOR BARF!
juno3183: I WANNA BE THE GREEN RANGER!!!! OR THE BLACK RANGER!!!!
ixquic2001: "I'll FORM THE HEAD!"
juno3183: I WANNA BE SAILOR DESTRUCTION!!!
juno3183: AHHAHAHAHA
legwee: Oh wait, wrong story XD;
ixquic2001: I WANNA BE SAILOR INSANITY!!!
juno3183: I'll form the pecs, OF COURSE!!
legwee: And I'll form THE CROTCH
ixquic2001: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
isamu1916: XDXD
legwee: head, pecs and crotch, what a sucky useless robot we'll be XD;;;;
isamu1916: but we'll satisfy the ladies XD
ixquic2001: But we got all the imporant parts. XD
legwee: Ohhh man XD; ... should we post this on LJ? XD;;;
ixquic2001: WE SHOULD!
legwee: Ok I'll do it! XD
juno3183: HHAHAHAHHAHA
juno3183: OF COURSE HAHAHAHHAHA
< /insanity >
What an awesome team XD; |
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| Radio |
[Jun. 10th, 2004|07:22 pm] |
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| [ | music |
| | Bounce - Sarah Conner (such a boring song x_x;) | ] |
I've been listening to the radio a lot lately, to keep my energy up when working on the X-Men pages. I just realized, something like 50% of the songs playing either talk about new found love, or mostly, some girl or guy finding out their loved one cheated on them, and how they took their revenge. How boring ^^;; |
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| Resurfacing, for a sec ^^; |
[Jun. 2nd, 2004|10:24 pm] |
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Even though the semester's been over for over 2 weeks now (HOLY COW HURRA!!!), some of you may have noticed I haven't been online a lot, which is what this entry is about, partialy. Been doing coloring gigs for Marvel comics with Juno, Kitsy and Isamu for the past 2 months, which has 1)been taking a lot of my free time and 2)been killing my arms and drawing hand, when combined with tons of schoolwork ^^;. My hand and arms are fine-ish now, but I gotta give them time to recover if I want this to not be a long term problem, which would suck more than anything. So, aside from coloring gigs, I won't be getting online a lot for the next few weeks. It sucks but it's necessary :/ . LUCKILY OMG, sketching doesn't hurt my arm or hand, so I still have that left. Thing is, I discovered that today, after 3 weeks of restraining myself from drawing ^^;.
On a different note, MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I tricked my brother into buying volume 1 of Naruto, in french. The translation ROCKS, btw. And of course, what had to happen happened, HE BOUGHT THE WHOLE SERIE, MWUAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAH MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH etc. SO I don't have to feel guilty for reading the scans anymore, AND I get to re-read this oh so beyond awesome work of manga, in delightful french! To celebrate, here's a sketch of some random ninja, with cool Hyuuga eyes! :D
Ah it's that time of year again, fufufufu :3 |
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| Crack |
[May. 16th, 2004|01:48 pm] |
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I broke a bone in my foot yesterday during a dance practice ^^;. It didn't really hurt that much since it's a minor fracture, but I can't do much activity for the next four weeks. Luckily I won't have to get a full-leg cast, but rather some sort of rigid boot which I can remove when sleeping or relaxing. Now watch the rest of my dance group go crazy when they learn about that. Our final mega dance show is in two weeks ^o^;
In other news, I only have two days of school left! ^O^ With a math exam and three semester projects to hand in tommorow (which are really not done as of right now ^^; ), I think I won't get much sleep tonight :/. Can't wait 'till it's over x_x; |
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| Sheridan: VICTOLY! |
[May. 12th, 2004|04:29 pm] |
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| | Bryan Adams - 18 Till I Die | ] |
So like, yeah, I GOT MY OFFER OF ADMISSION TODAY!!$/£#@&(!!!! So happy ;;;;O;;;; And it only took four phone calls, unbelievable eh? =D;; So yeah, I'll be living in Ontario next year, first time living away from home, how exciting =D. I hope I like the actual animation program too ^^;;; BUT I'll see that in time, although honnestly I'd be pretty surprised if I hated it, from what I've read about animation so far, it all looks pretty darn fun ^o^.
Ahhhhh it's such a relief, I've been thinking about that darn admission every single day since February 20th, now I'm finaly on to something firm. Anyhoo, now I'm off to send my acceptance of admission and residence application, hopefuly the residence people are a bit more punctual and responsible than the admission crowd ^^;. Weeee~ |
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| Sheridan: the struggle goes on |
[May. 10th, 2004|04:08 pm] |
Still haven't received a letter from Sheridan ^^;. HOWEVER, I've started to take matters into my own hands, and I've been harassing them over the phone for the past 2 weeks. Here's a rundown of my phone corespondence so far:
First call: I'm told that verything in my file looks complete and dandy and I should be receiving a decision letter by next Wednesday, May 5th. If not, please call back on the 5th.
No letter received by Wednesday, of course.
Second call: After a very unsatisfying conversation with a somewhat incompetent agent, I ask to get transfered to the admission office. Still, I'm told that everything looks fine in my file... *Gwee insists*... WELL well, apparently my english requirements information (which I included in my original file, mind you) wasn't transfered to them for some obscure reason, and I need to fax it over. *THANKS FOR INFORMING ME THAT SOON, SHERIDUNG* So I decide to include a recommendation letter from my english teacher along, just for good luck. The lady at the office then assures me that she'll call me back on Friday to give me an answer. Yay!
No call back from the lady on Friday. x_x;
Third call: Today! The aforementioned lady I spoke to last Wednesday, and who should have my faxed information, ins't there until Wednesday x_x;. And of course, no one else can help me. THANK YOU SHERIDANG
The main problem here, aside from annoyance, is that application for residence on campus has a limit date of May 15, which means REAL SOON. The lady better dang well have a clear answer for me when I call back in two days, or I'll have to go there personnaly and make them see my point... figuratively speaking of course ^^;.
Thankfuly the student ressources at my current college aren't as incoherent, and I went to see my student adviser today. She's super cool and assured me that Sheridan wouldn't get away with that kind of crap. I'll go see her again tommorow and we should be able to work out something, hopefuly.
This wouldn't be an awesome start for my stay at Sheridan, but I've heard the horror stories already. I don't expect too much from the college, actualy, I just want to get there and live the experience. I've kinda been rethinking weither I'd be better off going to Calarts instead, but the money factor is a lot more significant over there ^^;. And besides, I guess that ultimately, no matter what school you go to, you're the one who makes your own success or not. I'll just wait and see.
In other news, only a week left of Cegep, and then I'm FREEEE. I can't believe I might never do any maths ever again after that ^^;.
I've also been working with Juno, Kitsy and Isamu lately for X-men coloring gigs under Udon Comics, it's been pretty fun and crazy so far XD;. My hand is slowly recuperating the damage induced from deadline over-work, thankfuly the pay makes up for the pain, somehow XD;;.
Hope you guys are all doing good, can't wait for summer to come ToT! |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 23rd, 2004|04:37 pm] |
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OMFG I can't take this anymore, Sheridan is taking such an eternity to send me an answer, it's been almost 3 friggin months since I applied, and two whole months since they evaluated the portfolios, WHAT THE HELL COULD BE TAKING SO LONG!!!? I have so many stresses these days, with the end of semester and Marvel coloring gig, if only I knew weither I was accepted would be SUCH a relief. RAAAAAAHHHHH
Anyway, sorry for this little rant, I just had to let it out x_x; |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 18th, 2004|11:30 pm] |
You are a STUDENT of the English language!
You are on your way to becoming
gramatically sound; however, you must keep
studying if you ever want to be a master. You
do manage to speak better than most Americans,
but then again, that's not really saying too
much...
How grammatically sound are you?
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Disapointing, but acurate I guess ^^; |
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| Meme =B |
[Apr. 14th, 2004|05:21 pm] |
Eh, why not, taken from Price~
I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want. Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you any. |
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| Do Re MEEEE |
[Mar. 17th, 2004|01:58 pm] |
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| | Norah Jones - Sunrise | ] |
It's the screenname Meme thing!
If you call me Guillaume you're family, or we used to chat in irc channel #artorner a few years ago and haven't talked since ^^;.
If you call me Gwee we're friends online and have probably met sometime irl. Or you're just plain english and can't figure out how to pronounce my name XD;
If you call me Guigui, Gigz, Guiguiliguidi, etc you're one of my irl friends and possibly tend to have too much imagination when it comes to finding nicknames.
If you call me GRAPHICS you're JenZee! =D
If you call me Ma chère (my dear, feminine form) you're my grandmother and confuse apelations when you're talking too fast under the influence of half and half aperitive.
If you call me David you're one of the many confused children I teach at the Academy.
If you call me Wilhelm you're my german teacher.
If you call me The Celebrity or Mon Chameau (my camel) you're Ninette the funny old lady who's been taking art classes with me for the past 3 years.
If you call me Guigui le Crapet you've witnessed my black mass immolation of a dead fish found on shore during the national holiday in 1998.
And if you call me anything else, well then, I'm more popular than I thought I was XD; |
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| Public announcement |
[Mar. 14th, 2004|11:29 am] |
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For everybody's information, yes, the funky dude on my LJ icon is ME! XD I always thought it was obvious, but I've been getting the question more and more lately, so there you go. The picture was taken in Hungary in some sort of costumed carnival, no I wasn't drunk or anything :P. |
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| More ART! |
[Mar. 5th, 2004|11:56 pm] |
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| |  creative | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Lady in Red - Chris Deburgh | ] |
Lj cut for your convenience~
( Go on, CLICK!!! ) |
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