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`halcyonTwilight
Justin Chang
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The brush shall now rest
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21 years old
Last Online: 11 hours 17 minutes ago
Registered: November 7th, 2006, 7:49 PM EST
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Hanging up the old pen tool
1 month 2 days ago
After making my latest wall with asa, I feel like it's time to leave walling. Scenic walling is very different nowadays, the community clamors for styles over techniques, and I'm afraid this old dog can't learn any new tricks.

Times change, and life calls. We'll meet again, for sure, later on.

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About Me

University of California, San Diego.
International Studies - Political Science/East Asian Studies. Class of 2010

A little bit of this, a little of that, and a little cynical =P

Going to school can kinda do that to you. But seriously, there's nothing much to know.

A Little More About Me: Former webmaster of the now dead Anime Eclipse Productions. Former contributing member of Minitokyo back in its first year (with the same name that I have here). And a ex-waller that's somehow finding time to make walls again :)

Browser: FIREFOX!!!!
Film: Gladiator
Hobby: Gaming
Image Editor: Photoshop CS2
Language: English
MP3 Player: PSP
Manga: Almost anything CLAMP =P
Operating System: Windows XP
Wallpaper Style: Scenic

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`luna
Senior Member
impact ga nai na
1 year 3 months ago
Talking disrespectfully to me now, are ya? Lol, nice. I'll take that dirt, and I'll chuck it at the senior members named halcyonTwilight. Jk, thank you very much. I guess the mods got sick of my begging them to promote me and just did. Pft, I have too much social anxiety to do such an embarrassing thing...

Yuppers, I am using FF3. My desktop is around 4 years old now and I haven't upgraded it D8

True, Animal Planet has some pretty boring shows. And its "Funniest Animals" show is really lame. But it has some extreme shows too! I saw komodo dragons! Chasing people! And eating their own babies! Hahah, learning about animals hasn't really helped me in conversations either. I need to talk about industries, tax, and the market D*8

Oh, and thanks for your comment on my wallie. I learn much from your critiques!! But you should love more LOL. Or go look at more walls and see that my vector ain't all that great, hahah.

The circle by my name makes it look cleaner o_O

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~Isolde
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1 year 3 months ago
No.. there's still a lot of things unaccomplished. :=[ emoticon

stress is making me sleepy... xD aaayyymmmm ssssooo iisshhhleepppyyyy... ishhhleeepppppy..



that's quite insane.. chasing your friend for no reason xD
maybe you love that friend of yours so much x3

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`shigemitsubaki
Senior Member
I came, I saw, I stole your dinner.
1 year 3 months ago
You're right about the lighting :/ I'm still working on how to add just enough light to make characters stand out, apparently I haven't got it yet. I guess this is the curse that comes of always walling sunsets x]

as for the detail... it's laziness. _(._.)_ emoticon that, and being demoned into an early submission by a couple of papers left to type.

Thanks for your fav anyway :D

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`luna
Senior Member
impact ga nai na
1 year 3 months ago
It worked!

I didn't realize I wrote so much.

;( ).. emoticon

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`luna
Senior Member
impact ga nai na
1 year 3 months ago
This one is shorter so I can reply 8D. I wonder if it's my computer's fault that Firefox "can't find the server" for AP most of the time now... It only does it for AP.

Why does your journal sound like a goodbye letter more than a don't worry letter?! Don't write things so melancholicly! Hahaha, making up words now, I am.

I took microeconomics too. All I can remember from that class was sleeping, or staring at the long eyebrow hairs of my instructor and wishing he'd cut them lol.

I think I would like the Animal Channel more than the Discovery Channel, lol. I think the Animal Channel is a part of the Discovery Channel, no? Anyway, don't remind me that I ever had the channel because I'm going through withdrawal right now... At least I can still watch National Geographic and Nature on Sundays 8P

Depending on which cafeteria you work for, you can also see how unsanitary the chefs are, lol. In fact, I didn't even have to work in a restaurant to see a chef picking his nose. *gags*

*tries to start typing but gags some more*

So you're a rebel that likes the Japanese more than the mainland, are ya? ... I can't think of any more to say about that. Lol.

You used art from iri-chan for a wallpaper? I'd like to see! I want her to drawwwwwwww..... She was like my idol when I joined AP, hahah. I only focused on the Artist Alley forum for the longest of time. And I just found out that I only joined 3 days after you, haha. Somehow when I say that and I see your senior manager member level, it makes me feel like I haven't accomplished much. Not that I care for the status thing. In fact, I would like to stay a ~member forever, haha. I just didn't advance too far in art. But if I look at it another way, I've learned tons here, so it's all good.

Ok, gonna submit this now and hope the connection thing or whatever it is still works.

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$motogp
Donating Member
Falling....
1 year 3 months ago
And i am the first to priase someone cause of his truthfull comments ^_~
Haha i watched it 2 times =3 lol and Dark Knight aint nthin compared to it.U know for that time that was a great movie and still is.Batman is future lol so no fair judgement =p

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~Isolde
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1 year 3 months ago
Yes midterms are over... *it was in my journal =P*


all you said were right, what I recently wrote was stupid Dx
but as I have seen, many people were not able to get good jobs without holding a degree in college.. it's a system..

(^3^) emoticon

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`asa01
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1 year 3 months ago
:O but i'm so tech-illiterate, lol.

haha, sometimes that happens to me too -- thinking and planning things when i'm supposed to be sleeping. xD and i understand what you mean by wanting to have a simple bg for a complex character vector. one, you've already spent so much energy on the vector; two, a complicated bg might divert attention from the vector. to repeat that recent phrase of immense popularity: less is more. it can be, sometimes. and even if you're not as multiple-shading-layer-obsessed as i am, your vectors are still pretty and differ from the average.

i take it you have a good sense of direction? it's something awesome to have. i find it funny when i'm the only one who remember the way and where north is when me and my friends go somewhere new. :'D and why would complete strangers want to talk to me? o__o

two scroll wheels? where? :O and what would you use two of them for? ha, not much else in your room except for that stuff... and what was it that you were saying before, using the pay from your job for a new wardrobe? and earlier, being broke? mm i see what's happening. xD

are you kidding me? >__> we tried walking down the strip. yup. outside. the original goal was from MGM to about where the Mirage is. we gave up at Planet Hollywood. x] it was dry heat so i was fine, but you do kind of miss a/c after a while of going down a very crowded sidewalk. and am i even allowed to have a favorite casino? *is underaged, you too*

gee, i always knew you were old but i never knew you were grandpa-aged! (darn, that totally contradicts what i said about you being too young to gamble in nevada.)

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$motogp
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Falling....
1 year 3 months ago
Hahah i love your comments so much.Ur one person who says everything truthfully whether the wallpaper is loved by everyone or whatever.Lol i like that ^^


About you :p
Film: Gladiator

Damn that movie so awesome.Especially the OST and the ending.Love those Greeks :P

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~Isolde
Member
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1 year 3 months ago
Yeah, must attend school to become great professionals! \o/


sorry for 4 days, I dunno minutes-late reply... xD
and btw, cramming is funny...! 8D


--->non-online due to midterm exams, that's why .(z_z) emoticon

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`chibimisao
Senior Member
♥ Heartbreaker ♥
1 year 3 months ago
Well if it's sushi, then we'll most probably go to "Sushi King". They'll probably have a wide range of sushi there. ^_^ Anyway, i can always try that udon soup as you said if i don't find any particular sushi that i like. ;D

Heh im a girl and i don't cook either. Im always eating out with my friends. Honestly, i don't think i can cook. The most edible thing that i've made was spaghetti or mac and cheese. =O

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`asa01
Senior Member

1 year 3 months ago
Lol yeah it can be nice sometimes to put your mind to sleep so it does not get too far ahead of you. for me, it is more of an i-want-to-vector-another-part-instead or an i-want-to-wall-my-next-idea-now kind of thing. my stuff is pretty much quick vector + simple bg, complicated vector + barely any bg, or more complex vector + scenic bg (that i dread to make). xD so you see, i have no need to rush into bg-making.

the thing with the arches is that the surfaces with gradients look too perfectly smooth. i will probably replace the gradients with a series of rough-edged shapes.

lol, like you, i too have a generic response (which i used in an interview) prepared for those situations. i have been saying it way too much lately though.

if you count the signs as decor, then i must add negligible in front of that. i mean, some people actually look at paintings and whatnot. but the signs? no. another example: several people asked me where the stairwell was. i told them and they turned their head in the other direction and *gasp* it was as close to them as i was. xP

a tablet is very good for painting and pen pressure is awesome. :] but if you do not draw/paint all that often, then a mouse will do. certainly a $90 one. but now that i think about it, a small wacom bamboo fun tablet costs $99. :O

i cannot stand humidity + sun. i guess that is how i survived las vegas. bottom of the grand canyon? a whole different world. @~-J@

*reads your journal* are you trying to sound old or what? xD

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`chibimisao
Senior Member
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1 year 3 months ago
I never knew that cooked sushi existed. o__o I've always thought that sushi=raw=i hate it...I would definitely try some of those cooked sushi you mentioned...i mean as long as they're not raw then it must be good.

Yeah hopefully the place would have something that i would like. To be honest, i've never really actually tried any japanese food besides that one time when i ate a rice ball with some kinda raw thingy inside. I have no idea what exactly was in there, but i did'nt really like it. =(

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`luna
Senior Member
impact ga nai na
1 year 3 months ago
You can blame my business strategy course and the free preview of the Animal Channel for my no wallness. But the preview is over now 8*( Maybe I can spend most of today walling 9_9 after I vacuum, go buy a bus pass, waste time, and other things.....

Actually, I don't think I've ever had clam chowder before. My sister had canned clam chowder the other day and said that it didn't taste like anything. Maybe she smokes too much and doesn't have taste buds anymore >_> Lol, j/k. Awg, I really want some salty vegetable Lipton soup right now. All I have to eat is badly made manju lol. But yeah, sorry for being evilllllll. It's just who I am B] Choose your friends wisely, irony boy!

Lol, I'd say you would be really, really dense if you didn't get that I was Cantonese by now hahaha. I love Cantonese slang; it's so hurtful lol.

Hey hey, you should go to iridianwind's UP and tell her to draw some more 8P Now I must go and finally reply a long reply to you in Facebook hahaha. Carrying on 2 different convos may be difficult 8O

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~Isolde
Member
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1 year 3 months ago
Oh yes, I know... but wahhh /(O_O)/ emoticon I'm not that extreme that I don't even get the chance to feel the sunlight xD


Oh... does coding take lots of time? and have you graduated? what course are you taking? *muhahahaha, this is called the 3-sequenced question attack 8D*

good luck on your wall! I know it's a beauty when its done x3