Working on homepage and jewelery design and other things.
Whee.

Been away for a fantastic wedding in Wales for 3 days. Still waiting for the photos from other people before I start writing about it.

Just to let you know I’m still alive. :P
Starting Uni on Wednesday too. Shock!

Tim, a good friend of Tom and me, came to stay this weekend!

We went to see the musical Cabaret that is touring through Britain at the moment and happened to be in Bristol this week. It felt like a very spontaneous thing to do, as I didn’t find out were were doing it until after they had booked us tickets and a few hours before we were actually going there. I do love the spontaneity (if that is the word?) of where I live. There’s always something going on, so just pop your head out the door and check it out. Fantastic stuff. :D

Anyway! We went to see Cabaret, which turned out to be veeery explicit. To the point where you had a naked man running across stage o_O and lots of hilarious sex scenes to music (spanking people to the beat). But it was the end bit of this version of Cabaret that had caused controversy when it was first played. Namely the silent scene of naked men being gassed to death. You could only see the back of them, but at the same time, many people thought this was going a step too far (while others hailed it as ‘Brilliant!’). Personally I found it a bit weird. I know Cabaret is about nazi germany, so to put that scene in was a little bit too ‘obvious’ and ‘direct’. It didn’t feel clever to me. Maybe it wasn’t meant to be. I dunno! This is just the second musical I’ve seen, so I’m no expert.

After this musical, we actually went out for drinks with one of the guys who plays in the orchestra (Tim and Tom knew him from University), and we got to meet his girlfriend who is an actress. O_O It was all very exciting and I absolutely loved the actress lady. She was amazingly showy, expressive and even sung stuff for us. I was in awe, really.

That evening ended at around 2am or something (which is very very late for me), so I felt a bit tired the day after (today, that is). But we took it easy today and just chatted loads while taking walks around Bristol. I find Tim to be a really inspiring person. He knows *so* much and is incredibly intelligent, but at the same time never comes across as arrogant or anything like that. Quite the opposite, he is very humble and polite. He must be one of the most polite people I know, ever.

We chatted a lot about the future and what to do and so on. One of the subjects was about my artwork and how I can live on it. Won’t bore you with those details. :D

All in all, it has been a very very pleasant weekend, indeed.

Obviously without any of the describing text on it.
Still needs work, and not even sure I will use it. We’ll seeeee.

…Oh well, at least I’m now as dark as dark-chocolate chip cookies.

You see, I was going to surprise Tom and his brother yesterday, as we were going out for a birthday meal at one of the poshest italian restaurants in town.
So I thought to myself: “I’m bored of my rat coloured hair. Lets go buy a wash-out hair dye and have some fun!”

El joined me on my adventure as we headed off to boots to get me a different colour. I thought I would settle for a brown/red sort of colour. Not too dark. We bought it and went home to dye it.

… When I washed it out and blowdried my hair, we both watched in horror as my new haircolour turned out to be a mingin’, trashy’, patchy and rank shade of light purple! We immediately left our steaming cups of hot beverage and RUSHED to boots again to buy something that could cover it. I got many odd looks on the way and the lady at the till even smiled and was at a loss for words when she saw the way I looked.

So we bought the darkest of dark browns to cover my hair, as an emergency measure, and then we got home to apply it to my poor suffering scalp.

The results were… Well…
… Dark.

But let me tell you that it was about 47389437285 times better than having a patchy moldy purple.
You and I will both be delighted to hear this this is NON permanent colour. It will last me a few weeks.

There’s one up side to it though! I’ve never looked SO GENUINELY EMO in the emo filter in Photobooth before! Jesus!

Heck, I even look emo in the Pop-art filter!

Lesson learned from this week?
Don’t fuck around with cheap dyes. :)

Hrm. Yes. I’ve updated the Nebo site, preparing it for a re-launch.
“What? A re-launch?” I hear you say. Well yes. I’m gonna try once more to draw the story out. Now with some actual backup writings! We’ll see how it goes.

Anyway. Until that happens. I only have art available on the site (stuff that I’ve posted here already)
www.nebo-comic.com

Albert Einstein - On Education
- One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Anonymous -
- Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

I’m feeling watched.

It’s a bit surreal to think of someone else having your art etched into their skin forever.
If everything goes well at the tattoo artist, I may soon be able to get pictures of the final thing. Depends on if the tattoo artist feels like he can work with my sketch. It’s a waiting game now!