Flickr Bicker

originally uploaded by Dandy.Dill.Tea.

Merry Christmas everyone! I haven’t posted anything in such a long time cause I’ve been crazy busy with Nutcracker and holiday-related business, like overdosing on chocolate pecan pie. I just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays and let you know about all the new happenings on my Flickr. I made a post a while ago in which I brought up a photography competition that I was entering: the “International Teen Fashion Photo Competition.” I entered four photos, and although two of my photos made it to the top 60, I didn’t win any cash which was a little bit of a bummer. You can check out all my photos for that right here. I was supposed to take photos of students in four different settings… I go into more detail in the description of my Flickr set, so read all about it by clicking the link.

On another note, I have created a set on my Flickr called “the mashed potato too.” It is a set for all of my dance-related photos. There are a bunch of headshots and audition photos, so take a look at those. Ok, enough rambling for now. Happy Holidays and I hope everyone has a great Boxing Day tomorrow.
Over and Out.

Rude Kraken-Man on Craigslist

Ok, calling him a Kraken-Man is a little bit harsh, but he was pretty rude. Allow me to explain. Lately, I’ve been going on craigslist and searching under the gigs section for ways to earn some extra Christmas cash. So I find this ad asking for someone to “airbrush” ten photos for ten bucks. Shitty deal; nevertheless, out of the goodness of my heart and the pleasure I take in editing photos, I offer to edit them for him. He sends me some pictures of this girl dressed in different outfits (he’s obviously running some sort of clothing company for children) and tells me that he just wants them to look really “professional and what not.” With these vague words in mind, I edit some of the photos and send them back to him to see what he thinks. Kraken-man writes back saying, “I dont know what to make of them, the airbrushing looks very grainy, very 1970′s, was that souposed to be the look? The ones I went u before airbrushing actually look brighter.” First of all, he didn’t even bother spell checking his email. Rude. Second of all, he called my pictures grainy, which means that he has awful eyesight because not only did I remove a ton of noise from his pictures, but I sharpened the edges and increased the overall quality of his shots. You can see one of my edits to the left. Above is the original, below is my edit. Anyway, I write him back telling him that I’d be happy to edit them in a different way, and he doesn’t even have the decency to reply to my email. Finally, I send him another email asking what the deal is, and he writes back telling me that he has found someone else. So I got paid jack shit for editing four of his photos and treating him like a little princess. Kraken-Man, you’ll get what’s comin’ to ya. Mark my words! I don’t mean to backbite craigslist, because I’ve had plenty of pleasant experiences with other people on craigslist… but this Kraken-Man is disgracing the entire website. And I DON’T like it. There you go. Rant is over. Peace.

Jelly of Doom = Pokemon

Don’t have much to say right now… I’m feeling a tad bit sick. I’d make some soup or something, but I have NO food in my fridge. Craving some of this. The lemon flavor is so good, it’s not fair. Seriously. Buy some now. You’ll be very pleased with yourself afterwards. On to Jelly of Doom:

Zombie Walk

I just wanted to let you know that I made a set on my Flickr dedicated to the Toronto Zombie Walk 2009. This annual event was held on the 24th of October, and it consisted of people dressing up as zombies and marching around Kensington Market while yelling and eating people. I went with my roomie to snap some pics. I found out about it because apparently they published the wrong date for it in the newspaper, and a bunch of people dressed up as disappointed zombies a week early. Poor guys.

More Jelly… and Sydney

Hey poopy faces! I’m gonna post the next Jelly of Doom page, but first I have a story. So, last week I was in Ottawa on tour, and it was kind of hard for me to go to the grocery store and get proper food—meaning I was eating mostly food court delicacies and cereal that I drank out of hermetically sealed hotel cups. I only say this to justify the fact that I was eating at McDonald’s. Anyway, we were at McDonald’s, I had just ordered a rolo McFlurry and some fries, and these two girls sit down at the table next to us. There was already a guy sitting there, and the girls started talking to him. Now, I of course assumed that the girls were friends with the guy or something like that because they kept chatting it up with him. After a bit, one of the girls (her friend told us her name was Sydney) goes up to the counter and orders a burger and fries. She comes back to her table and starts feeding the guy her fries. She’s going on and on saying things like, “lovers not fighters, remember that” and “Borat, do you know Borat? He’s a good guy.” Finally, when Sydney is busy punching some other customers because they won’t eat her fries, the guy whose table Sydney sat at turns to us and says, “What the fuck? I was just sitting here and she started feeding me.” So apparently, they weren’t friends at all, and Sydney was just completely wasted. Our fabulous night at McDonald’s ended with us exiting and seeing a man throw up on his girlfriend. She proceeded to yell at him, calling him a cunt and a piece of shit, to which he replied, “This is how you treat me? This is exactly how you treat our child.”

And now, Jelly of Doom:

Zombies and Milkmen

Hey! So I made a vimeo account, and this is my first upload. I explain what it’s about in the video description on vimeo, but just to give you a little idea, my roomie and I are making a little TV show, and this clip is going to run at the beginning of our episodes. We were trying to come up with names for a production company… and we ended up with “Milkman Zombie Productions” because I was a zombie for Halloween and my roommate was a milkman. So I just drew a little sketch in Flash and threw together a crap animation. At least he’s ugly so he has a home at the Ugly Club. With you, cause you’re ugly too. That’s right, I’m calling you ugly.

I’m going to Ottawa this week, so I don’t know if I’ll have the internet, so I don’t know if I’ll be blogging… like you care, whoever you are. Peace hoe.

iPhone Icon

Hey anyone that may be out there… I’m starting to feel like this blog is a little useless, because in order for a blog to serve any purpose at all, people kind of need to read it. What a predicament I’m in. Whatever, it may be a waste of my time, but it’s a good waste of my time. I just wanted you all (by “you all” I mean all one of you, hey mom) to know that I made an Ugly Club icon for the iPhone, so now if you bookmark theugly-club.com on your iPod or iPhone homescreen, a pretty little picture will pop up. I’ve posted a picture of it from my iPhone… please don’t judge the fact that I had 7% battery. Oh yeah, and don’t judge that it was 3:33 AM. Oh, and also don’t judge the fact that I have unread text messages and emails. I’m gonna lie and pretend that I’m popular, when really, I’m just awful at opening stuff up. “I’ll get to it” seems to be a really useful phrase for me at this time in my life. Shit, I guess it’s not a lie now that I’ve told you about it.

Just so you know, I had a busy night, and this was the soonest I could get on my computer. That’s why it is so late. So watch where you point fingers. Ok? Yeah, that’s what I thought. I’m gonna go finish my banana pudding now. No, I’m not ashamed. This is what happens when nobody reads my blog. I start talking to you. Bye now. Cheerio. Toodles.

I Don’t Think You’re Ready for This Jelly

As I promised, Jelly of Doom. This is really quite miserable, but if you try not to have high expectations, it’ll be harder for me to disappoint you. Here are the cover and page one of Jelly of Doom. Maybe you should try playing some music while you look at these, because if you’re multi-tasking, it’ll be harder to pay complete attention to the comic, and you’ll end up liking it that much more. Anyway, to make this easier to follow, I added a blog section called “Jelly of Doom” which can be found in the menu to the left. Here goes:

Mah Flickah

originally uploaded by Dandy.Dill.Tea.

Sorry it’s been a while. I have been way too busy lately, but I’m back now—and still alive. I have been taking a ton of photos lately because I am hoping to enter a photography competition that focuses on teen fashion. I promise I’ll post my shots soon, but I kind of want to finish submitting them and make sure I have everything in order before I put them on my Flickr, or as I like to call it, “Flickaaah.” Um… damn it. In the mean time, I posted some photos of my friends. Hope you like ‘em. And don’t think I forgot about Jelly of Doom. I’m working on it.
Peace.

Doom from the Past

Oh god. I don’t think I could possibly be more embarrassing to myself. I got an email a while ago from geocities telling me that they were shutting down pretty soon, so I logged in to one of my old accounts to save some of my shit before it got deleted—holy crap. Who was I? Twelve-year-old me was into some messed up shit. Ok, first of all, my screen name was “burnt_kettle.” Second of all, I found weird tutorials I made on how to craft soda can rings. Third of all, I found the comic that I once started called “Jelly of Doom.” Yes, Jelly of Doom. As in evil jelly. This was back when I was into anime and neopets… so it’s a pretty weird mix of stuff. Did I mention that the main character in my comic is named Doomie? At the time, I don’t think I meant that in a sexual way, but reading the comic now, I can’t for the life of me figure out what I was thinking. Anyway, despite how weird it is, it’s pretty funny, and it has provided me with some inspiration. So I’ve decided that I’m going to try to continue it. Don’t get all excited though, because it’s gonna be kind of a mess. I mean, it has no plot, my comic-book-making skills are very lacking, and I’m probably gonna get bored with it again and give up for a second time. I’ll start by posting the first 7 pages of it that I made a very long time ago, and then once all of those are up, I’ll start making new ones. Let’s see where this goes…
P.S. I’m gonna be drawing LOTS of ugly people in the new comic pages, so be prepared. I also have to figure out how I’m gonna post the pages on here before I get going, so if you have any ideas, comment please.