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Sharoth wrote:
On the plus side, you all have a designated driver already assigned. There are PLENTY of places to have a drink at here in Savannah. Downtown has a lot of good places to eat as well as a few places that server local micro-brewery beer.

The best part is that during Spring Break, all of the SCAD students will be gone.


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hi everyone,

I hope you are all well


Sharoth wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
David, do you remember Hirano's?
Vaguely, yes. It's been a while. Why do you ask?
I was just thinking that if you all make it down here, that we go there for dinner.
starts walking
So does anything on the menu interest you?

EVERYTHING


aeglos wrote:

hi everyone,

I hope you are all well

AEGLOS!


Hey there aeglos. I hope that life is treating you and your family well.


tomorrow the boys Daycare group will visit us
wife: "aaaaah, got to clean everything twice or the kindergarten teacher will call child protection nd take the boy away"
me: "aaaah, got to make the boys room cuter and cooler or the kindergarten teachers will call child protection and take the boy away"

frantic activities over the weekend ensured


but renovating of the boys new bedroom and the "all children in the household playroom" is done,
after the new celing in the top floor is ready and my game room has moved, renovating of my current game room (and storrage for everything at the moment) can be renovated as new bedroom for new baby


Hello!


hi Sharoth, hi Freehold,

*waves*

I can't complain,live is good to me *knocks on wood*


and waves at Drejk


Freehold DM wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
David, do you remember Hirano's?
Vaguely, yes. It's been a while. Why do you ask?
I was just thinking that if you all make it down here, that we go there for dinner.
starts walking
So does anything on the menu interest you?
EVERYTHING

Yea. Hirano's is one of those little hole in the walls that I have been going to for over 15 years.


aeglos wrote:
and waves at Drejk

Waves from the treetops


Sharoth wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
David, do you remember Hirano's?
Vaguely, yes. It's been a while. Why do you ask?
I was just thinking that if you all make it down here, that we go there for dinner.
starts walking
So does anything on the menu interest you?
EVERYTHING
Yea. Hirano's is one of those little hole in the walls that I have been going to for over 15 years.

Yum!


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Xix, a tourist from an alien universe with a vested interest in "art"


Sharoth wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
So does anything on the menu interest you?
EVERYTHING
Yea. Hirano's is one of those little hole in the walls that I have been going to for over 15 years.

Speaking of Asian food, if any of you have a massive lapse in judgment and decide to travel out here to Syracuse, you'll have to make a stop at Secret Garden.

It's a tiny little building (also housing an Asian market) in the middle of an oversized parking lot wedged in between a Sam's Club, a Geico agent, a Dunkin' Donuts, and a Tully's, but it has by far the best Korean food I've ever had (they also serve a few Japanese dishes there including thoroughly average but well-priced sushi). Back before he moved to the city, my friend Marty (to FHDM & CH: the guy from Rochester who moved to Brooklyn) used to go there often and avail ourselves of the $8 bottles of soju.


I think me, I want life
I think me, I want a house and a wife
I want to shimmy-shimmy-shimmy
Through the break of dawn yeah


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Well we know where we're going
But we don't know where we've been


DJ Monkey P at your cervix


Patrick Curtin wrote:
DJ Monkey P at your cervix

looks down

Monkey, you got some splainin to do.


Actually I think YOU got some 'splainin to do ...


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Freehold DM wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
DJ Monkey P at your cervix

looks down

Monkey, you got some splainin to do.

"Cervix" means "neck" in Latin. Also, more metaphorically, "severed head." I think he plans on murdering us all.


David M Mallon wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
DJ Monkey P at your cervix

looks down

Monkey, you got some splainin to do.

"Cervix" means "neck" in Latin. Also, more metaphorically, "severed head." I think he plans on murdering us all.

Gauls, dead set on making all of our skulls into drinking cups! Run for your lives!


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Just sent off an inquiring e-mail to one of my favorite creative professionals. Hopefully I'll get some kind of response, even if it's not on his web series.

The letter, in case anyone is interested:
Dear Mr. Victore,

I have been working as a professional illustrator since I graduated college three and a half years ago. While I have been more or less consistently working on projects for clients, it's never been particularly profitable, and I've always had to keep a "day job" in order to pay the bills.

However, due to chronic health issues, I was recently forced to leave my job as a tradesman, and given that nearly all of the jobs on my resume are in construction and factory work (which I can no longer perform), the likelihood of getting another "day job" in the near future are slim to none. As such, I've refocused my efforts entirely into making my art career into a full-time job.

In the several months since making the transition, my work and work habits have improved by leaps and bounds, and I've been making more money from creating art than I ever had before. However, my income is still not quite enough to cover all of my bills, and most of the money comes from selling original artwork and prints to friends and acquaintances, as opposed to creating illustrations for clients.

My worry is that my current income is unsustainable, and once my current buyers exhaust their funds and appetite for original artwork, I will have no more clients or buyers to pick up their slack. I'm torn between feeling like I could make a career out of being a fine artist and feeling like a charity case.

Based on your experience, how can I grow my business beyond my own circle of friends and turn it into a viable career option?

As an aside, I've been a big fan of yours since you came and spoke to the illustration and design departments at Syracuse University several years ago when I was a student. Since then I've been following your "Burning Questions" series and YouTube channel, and have found a lot of your advice to be very useful to me and my work. Regardless of whether or not you respond to my letter, I look forward to future advice & episodes.

Thank you for your time, and hope to hear from you in the future,

- David M. Mallon
www.davemallon.net


Good luck David!!!


Freehold DM, did you see one of these at the New York Comic Con?


David M Mallon wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
DJ Monkey P at your cervix

looks down

Monkey, you got some splainin to do.

"Cervix" means "neck" in Latin. Also, more metaphorically, "severed head." I think he plans on murdering us all.

Hides AR15

Say waaaat?


Patrick Curtin wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
DJ Monkey P at your cervix

looks down

Monkey, you got some splainin to do.

"Cervix" means "neck" in Latin. Also, more metaphorically, "severed head." I think he plans on murdering us all.

Hides AR15

Say waaaat?

Pffft... you'd only be able to decapitate us if it were on full auto, and I live in New York, so that's totally impossible.

You have no power here!


Anyway, getting way too close to talking about politics for my liking...


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David M Mallon wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
DJ Monkey P at your cervix

looks down

Monkey, you got some splainin to do.

"Cervix" means "neck" in Latin. Also, more metaphorically, "severed head." I think he plans on murdering us all.

Hides AR15

Say waaaat?

Pffft... you'd only be able to decapitate us if it were on full auto, and I live in New York, so that's totally impossible.

You have no power here!

Decapitate , no. Murder, si.


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David M Mallon wrote:
Anyway, getting way too close to talking about politics for my liking...

Amen. Let's keep that s~*% elsewhere along with the sportsball and edition wars topics.


Patrick Curtin wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Anyway, getting way too close to talking about politics for my liking...
Amen. Let's keep that s#*$ elsewhere along with the sportsball and edition wars topics.

Yeah, I don't want to hear about anybody playing with their balls. And that includes 4e fans.


David M Mallon wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Anyway, getting way too close to talking about politics for my liking...
Amen. Let's keep that s#*$ elsewhere along with the sportsball and edition wars topics.
Yeah, I don't want to hear about anybody playing with their balls. And that includes 4e fans.

stfu n00b 4e is +1

WoW is still better tho so fck U


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Arcana Whupass wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Anyway, getting way too close to talking about politics for my liking...
Amen. Let's keep that s#*$ elsewhere along with the sportsball and edition wars topics.
Yeah, I don't want to hear about anybody playing with their balls. And that includes 4e fans.

stfu n00b 4e is +1

WoW is still better tho so fck U

Dear gods, what kind of dreadful language are those wretched Britons speaking now?


So apparently my mother works with a lot of younger geeks and nerds, all of whom went to the Comic Con, in costumes. (How they all managed to get off at the same time I do not know,)

Judging by the pics that she forwarded to me, they do a pretty good job.
They were all Avengers, including 2 very good Iron man suits. :)

Silver Crusade

David M Mallon wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
On the plus side, you all have a designated driver already assigned. There are PLENTY of places to have a drink at here in Savannah. Downtown has a lot of good places to eat as well as a few places that server local micro-brewery beer.
The best part is that during Spring Break, all of the SCAD students will be gone.

Awww, I miss SCAD... I went to the Atlanta campus however.

Silver Crusade

Treppa wrote:
W

Okay, I can't hold back any longer, what is the purpose of these consonants?

Scarab Sages

David M Mallon wrote:
Yeah, I don't want to hear about anybody playing with their balls. And that includes 4e fans.

DAMNIT! I had a soliloquy prepared!


Rysky wrote:
Treppa wrote:
W
Okay, I can't hold back any longer, what is the purpose of these consonants?

It has something to do with the current sportsball championship that will be commencing soon. As such, not a particularly kosher subject for this thread. For further edification I suggest Googling +'W' +Cubs

Silver Crusade

Patrick Curtin wrote:
Rysky wrote:
Treppa wrote:
W
Okay, I can't hold back any longer, what is the purpose of these consonants?
It has something to do with the current sportsball championship that will be commencing soon. As such, not a particularly kosher subject for this thread. For further edification I suggest Googling +'W' +Cubs

... aw, my curiosity was let down :(


David M Mallon wrote:

Just sent off an inquiring e-mail to one of my favorite creative professionals. Hopefully I'll get some kind of response, even if it's not on his web series.

** spoiler omitted **...

Tweeted the web-page, for what that's worth given that I only have just above 100 followers.


Sharoth wrote:
Freehold DM, did you see one of these at the New York Comic Con?

no, but I wasn't on that side of the dealers room. I know where that was, though.


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Rysky wrote:
Treppa wrote:
W
Okay, I can't hold back any longer, what is the purpose of these consonants?

IT IS FORBIDDEN

Spoiler:
I don't want to argue the merits of sportsball teams here and violate thread rules. Yet I can't hold back the joy at something long-awaited by generations of my family, something I might actually get to see! Years of hope renewed and crushed, of strife and drama and human suffering.

In the words of a famous sign: Please win one before grandpa dies dad dies I die.

Maybe... just maybe... we won't have to wait 'til next year.


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seems like we will get a girl :-)


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my dad had a slight stroke this morning and is in the hospital now, but it looks like no damage done and everything seems to be ok :-/

Silver Crusade

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:(

*hugs aeglos*


Rysky wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
On the plus side, you all have a designated driver already assigned. There are PLENTY of places to have a drink at here in Savannah. Downtown has a lot of good places to eat as well as a few places that server local micro-brewery beer.
The best part is that during Spring Break, all of the SCAD students will be gone.
Awww, I miss SCAD... I went to the Atlanta campus however.

I went to the Savannah campus. I quite liked the city, and the classes weren't half bad, but the other students made me want to jump off the nearest bridge I could find. Plus, they pretty much forced you to buy everything at the student store, then jacked up the prices to ridiculous levels. I remember spending almost $15 for a single 16"x24" sheet of paper. The final straw was when they lost their accreditation (I think they got it back recently, but it was gone for at least a few years). By the time I finally transferred, I was dead broke and pissed off.


Kajehase wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:

Just sent off an inquiring e-mail to one of my favorite creative professionals. Hopefully I'll get some kind of response, even if it's not on his web series.

** spoiler omitted **...

Tweeted the web-page, for what that's worth given that I only have just above 100 followers.

What do you mean?


aeglos wrote:
seems like we will get a girl :-)

AWRIGHT!


aeglos wrote:
my dad had a slight stroke this morning and is in the hospital now, but it looks like no damage done and everything seems to be ok :-/

here's hoping he recovers without a problem.


David M Mallon wrote:
Rysky wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
On the plus side, you all have a designated driver already assigned. There are PLENTY of places to have a drink at here in Savannah. Downtown has a lot of good places to eat as well as a few places that server local micro-brewery beer.
The best part is that during Spring Break, all of the SCAD students will be gone.
Awww, I miss SCAD... I went to the Atlanta campus however.
I went to the Savannah campus. I quite liked the city, and the classes weren't half bad, but the other students made me want to jump off the nearest bridge I could find. Plus, they pretty much forced you to buy everything at the student store, then jacked up the prices to ridiculous levels. I remember spending almost $15 for a single 16"x24" sheet of paper. The final straw was when they lost their accreditation (I think they got it back recently, but it was gone for at least a few years). By the time I finally transferred, I was dead broke and pissed off.

with respect to college, I really wish I knew then what I knew now. So many illegal activities.

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