http://ometzo.com My life, times, and lame titles Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:46:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s Christmas time.Christmas is an ambiguous holiday for me to say the least. I’ve never been the kind of person who truly appreciates the holiday season. Instead I feel more like I’m obligated to celebrate the season when damn Toys For Tots comes by my cubicle and I take a ... http://ometzo.com/?p=76 It's been another month, and I'm still not writing here.  I've been busy, doing a couple of plays, and working full time.  I don't get to think about other projects, and I sure as hell don't like the fact that my job situation seems very insecure. I need a change of ... http://ometzo.com/?p=75 I made a commmitment to write today. Not here, but with a friend. A friend who I want to write more with himself. And suddenly, uplifting thought sweeps across me: I can make this happen, and help myself make this happen. That such hope were so easily reconciled would be a fine state of being indeed, but ... http://ometzo.com/?p=74 I'm going to start writing again on a regular basis.  But I don't want to recap.  Part of the problem I've had getting back into this is that the longer I waited, the more it seemed I would have to do just to catch up.  The snowball effect paralyzed me.So ... http://ometzo.com/?p=73 It's amazing the tricks that a mind can play upon itself.This morning at the moment of 8:15, as agreed upon by previous orders, my cell phone began to beep its alarm. Hearing the alarm, my head instantly shot up and looked accross the bed to determine the source of the ... http://ometzo.com/?p=71 My friend and I are driving through Costa Mesa. Her cell phone with high-speed interned access has directed us to this place, insisting that there is a car wash nearby. It is positive. It has even drawn a map that in its expert opinion leads us directly to said carwash.It ... http://ometzo.com/?p=70 I've been doing a lot of work in India Ink with digital coloring lately. But I decided (partially due to the fact that one of my friends has offered to give me a couple of drawing lessons) that I should go back to the basics and learn a little bit ... http://ometzo.com/?p=69 I have some great ideas sitting in my head.I have an epic I'm about to adapt into an ensemble play with a bunch of other people. I have a rough outline for a 36-chapter graphic novel. I have an art project that I started with Keenan last Christmas. I have ... http://ometzo.com/?p=68 I am slowly but surely learning how to market myself. I've already sent off my resumes to a few small theatres in Denver as well as the big company (the Denver Center Theatre Company), and I'm currently looking into more ways to handle transitioning into a more real-world environment. Right ... http://ometzo.com/?p=67 Click for a larger imageAt the request of one of my friends, I've tried to work a little with two different types of shading in this piece.  There are gradients at work here as well as what I refer to in my uneducated glory as flat-tone shading.  Hopefully they provide ... http://ometzo.com/?p=66