Creature sketches commencement post

No. 1 in series of creature requests, genus Pterodactylus, species indefinite.

Suddenly it rained today

Before I fell asleep last night I had a random vision of a drawing of a Parasaurolophus, in great detail, that I'd like to do. That isn't really good because I have commissions to work on... on the other hand it seemed like a good idea so I pushed the Record button and was able to remember it clearly in the morning. Don't know why I have these images of hadrosaurs all the time, first it's Olorotitan....

Since I was gone a long time (moving, other stuff), I'll give you a Touhou Arrange of the day:


arrange of Staff Roll theme from Perfect Cherry Blossom, by Neutral2

The Ladies of Touhou Doujin Arrange

Presenting my favorite vocalists for your listening pleasure:

Unlucky Morpheus and Fuki


lily-an of Liz Triangle

(not only this, she is... breathtakingly dreamy *cries* )

Transcription

apology for random naked lady sketch from math class


Sound Online -- Survive (Ancient Temple)

Everything here is shut down due to snow weather, so this is what I was doing last night and today.


I have a scan of lyrics in the cd booklet, but couldn't find any online translation, so I'm trying to transcribe the original and romajify it, at least. Copy from the jpg, notate furigana, look up new kanji/compounds, figure out onomatopoeia words, then type in IME

Complicated but I'm learning a lot from it.


深き衣を纏った　この身は今はもう
現実と　夢現の＿間で
錆びす、光れず、触れられない我が身　それでも
眠りし闘志を込めた刃を
全て捧げよう　淡き光の元へ
決して果てない、想いこそ　今を生きるそう
（）

ひらひらと舞い＿る桜を　今＿咲かせよう
妖しく＿いた＿に　魅せられた私を

はらはらと落ち行く桜を　誰も汚さぬよう
せめてそのひ瞳開く前に、全て終わらせましょう
蒼き瞳は静かに　赤く砥ぎ澄まされ
現実は夢現と交わる
声も、上げずに、誓ったこの忠誠が為
恐れるものなど無いと微笑む
明日は　＿てよう
＿に居らるのなら

決して

ゆらゆらと羽ばたいた＿に
＿がる青空を
気高き＿色の＿にｃ



Fuwaki koromu wo matotta
kono mi wa ima wa mou
REAL to mugen no _ma de
sabizu, hirezu, furerarenai wagami
soredemo nemurishi chuusei wo kometa yaiba wo

subete sasageyou
awaki hikari no moto e
kesshite, hatenai,
omoi koso
ima wo ikiru sou
(I'M SURVIVE)

hirahira to mai _ru sakura wo
ima _ mo sakaseyou
ayashiku _ita __ ni
miserareta watashi wo

harahara to ochiyuku sakura wo
daremo __sanuyou (?)
semete sono hitomi hiraku mae ni
subete owarasemashou
aoki hitomi wa shizuka ni
akaku togisumasare

REAL wa, mugen to majiwaru
koe mo, agezu ni
chikatta kono chuusei ga tame
osorerumono nado nai to hohoemu
ashita wa, __teyou
soba n iraru no nara
kesshite...

yurayura to habataita chou ni
hirogaru aozora wo
...

Rubber dinosaurs interim post

Found these at a thrift store last week, they're thin, hollow ceramic, bottom is unlabeled, just firing marks as if they were home made or something. Was something like this commercially available, I wonder? They're delightfully ugly, well okay, the Stego is pretty cute but the other one is rather unfortunate.



I can't remember where the models for these figures are from, I know it's some old illustration and maybe a vintage toy mold based upon such. Particulary the crippled-looking hadrosaur I know I've seen before. Maybe I'm just losing my memory. Can't find anything at the moment in my image collection nor on the toy dinosaurs site I had bookmarked.

This is new (to me)


JP Dilophosaur, ugly and wrong and he's missing part of a finger! But kind of cute anyway.




Old, found this trike and baby at an antique store in Portland. There was a sauropod (of some kind) figure with it, but it wasn't nearly as cute. To be honest Trike isn't my favorite but I still like this one. It's a resin-type figure and there's no mark or ID on it.


New Carnegie and Safari
I want the Inostrancevia and Miragaia... Guanlong looks 'shopped right now, so it's hard to tell how it will come out? T-Rex is cute, but I'm bored of rex. Kaprosuchus looks pretty lively, though.

These are really pretty models

__

I saw two dinosaur-related books at the store the other night and both of them were a bust. Is there a really good explanation for why the publishing industry seems to be violently allergic to non-3D paleo art right now, or is it just cheaper for them or something? Because all of it is horrible.

There was also another re-packaging of something-or-other into a Children's Encyclopedia of dinosaurs, judging by the fact that most of the illustrations were from this Dixon encyclopedia I just posted about last week... but I couldn't tell if anything else in the book was new.




There are actually three versions of this track, I discovered after realizing the one on my mp3 player was not the same as this one. It took a long time to figure out that the one I had was the original, while this was the Cross-Hearts/Re-miniscence version, and there's a third version on an extra disc from the 3-disc Re-miniscence issue (3rd disc is instrumentals.) Anyway, this is the most energetic version, but all of them are good. Since it's from the same game, which I've played lately (Perfect Cherry Blossom), I'll add this other one that I'm also obsessing over



It's from the same album(s) so all the above holds true for this track as well, but this is a mashup of two pieces (stage 5 theme, and ending theme you get when you complete the game).

Say what you like about the old bastard,

but he made some brilliant quotes

What the public once learned to believe without reasons, who could refute it to them by means of reasons? on the marketplace one convinces with gestures, but reasons make the populace distrustful.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

Need some more proof of this?

(I'm sorry, it's simply impossible to remember or keep track of the number of mindbendingly stupid things I see on that site every single day, so the crazy I've linked here is not even close to representative.)

Wish I could have been here today, but I can't find a job and have no money

EDIT: Apparently Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow were both there. Maybe it's better I wasn't.