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Things I’ve Learned: July 28 2009

Posted by: Reavel on: July 28, 2009

I havent done this Things I’ve learned kind of post since November of 2008. I think that is a darn long time. Good thing is that I have really learned a lot of things. Some good… some bad but hey that is life and everything becomes important to whatever you do in your life. So here we go again.

  1. Music still is the best way to beat down many things. Don’t you never ever doubt that.
  2. Cats are amazing creatures. You can learn to live from them. Just do thing dont take everything too serious. Get bored often and start new things. Things that do captivate your attention but keeps you moving forward. Be adventurous and curious but be careful.
  3. You don’t have to love or like everybody. You can be everyone friend and everyone enemy.
  4. You can wash your screens on your shower. Believe me I tried it and loved it. Less time LESS mess.
  5. Water is your best friend. Keep hydrated.
  6. You are just getting older don’t pretend you don’t feel it. Just go with the flow and act your age but do have fun.
  7. If you like music but are tired of the freaking mainstream tunes… support your local musicians. Myspace is a really good place for that. At least here in Puerto Rico.
  8. Pets are so expensive… $200 to travel any place on a plane NO thank you…
  9. Don’t go out on the street at 4am with a four track vehicle it could ruin your life. Learned that from another person. To see what happened to the person is enough lesson for me.
  10. It is strange when your friends parents don’t know their own sons/daughters. Extremely strange when they have or have made all this ideas of their kids and it doesn’t even match to what you know about them… wicked.
  11. This You.. whatever channels are awesome.. if you know what I mean. 
  12. I need a desk to use my laptop like NOW.
  13. When siblings are independent before you are independent they will think they are the big authoritative figure on the siblings matter. Which is so worng.
  14. Tim Burton still and will always rock.
  15. Harry Potter The Half-Blood Prince movie was way to much into romance. We needed more action and violence on the flick. Take note next director who ever you turn out to be.
  16. Twitter keeps getting bigger and bigger like the ego of some people there. Darn. Still I always find this AWESOME people worth following. If you are on my list you know who I am talking too. <3 you guys.
  17. Michael Jackson died and it was an homicide… ujum.. true… sadly.
  18. Shipping can kill your motivation on selling items.
  19. Etsy works like the seniority plans on things. Only the ones that have been there for the longest get the best stuff there.
  20. Having a Blog does change your life for good or worst. You will change only if you dedicate some time to it.
  21. Thera Flu is a life saver.
  22. Dumbledore was gay? Didn’t knew that. Oh Rowling… your twist and turns are wicked indeed. Awesome!
  23. Blue M&M’s could somehow help out with spine injuries. Yeah.. read here.

En fin de que trato el libro?

Posted by: Reavel on: July 26, 2009


NOTE: Warning posibles SPOILERS de la pelicula en casi todo el post. Estan advertidos.

Llegue hace poco mas de una hora a mi casa de ver la pelicula Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. La pelicula estaba buena y pues te dicen quien es el Half Blood Prince. Los efectos quedaron como siempre SUPER buenos e impresionantes. Buena direccion, los actores como en las demas fueron excelentes y todo el rollo muy bueno.

Ahora la historia en relacion al libro es otra cosa. No estaba esperando que lo hicieran igual. Eso es imposible por el tiempo y todo eso lo puedo entender. Desarrollaron a los personajes y mostraron lo grandes que estan ya y it was about time porque ya no estan pequenhos.

Para mi en lo personal en relacion a la historia y de lo que trata la pelicula fue MUY mala. Porque? Pues encuentro que se estacionaron o desarrollaron mas los love triangles y de los muchachos. Eso no es malo porque en el libro pues sale pero que de la historia del Half Blood Prince. En ningun momento hablan de el. Bueno sacando la parte en que Hermione se pregunta quien era el Half Blood Prince a quien el libro pertenece. Lo hicieron ver como que ella queria saber solo por el hecho de que Harry estaba quedando mejor que ella en la clase, No le pusieron o le dedicaron el tiempo y explicacion necesaria esta cuestion.

Me pregunto si las personas que no leyeron el libro se tragaron el cuento de al final cuando Snape dice que es el Half Blood Prince y con eso resolvimos el acertijo de a quien le pertenecio el libro y ya. Yo no quede satisfecha. El libro se basa totalmente en la investigacion de encontrar quien diablos es este principe y en el pasado de Voldemort. Este libro es TODO acerca de Snape y en la pelicula si sale como 5 veces es mucho. Que mierda!

Si de verdad quieres saber ver y entender como el libro llego a estar ahi y conocer a el Prof. Snape TIENES que leer el libro. La pelicula no dice nada sobre el personaje de Snape nada que no se sepa q no soporta a Harry y mas nada. El libro enfatiza el porque Snape no tolera a Harry que en fin es producto de la relacion escolar que tubo Snape James [el padre de Harry]. Fue como ver una novela. Es mas nisiquiera ensenharon el funeral de Dumbledore algo q en el libro es un capitulo importante y HELLO! Dumbledore era importante y tampoco le dedicaron time ni pa enterrarlo.

Espero que con esta ultima pelicula no vayan a fucked up everything. No se si ya estoy mezclando movies haha porque hace mucho que lei el libro pero se que dejaron MUCHAS cosas afuera que pudieron darle importancia. It is all about the story you are telling and satisfy the reader. A mi como lectora no me gusto la pelicula pero si no tengo idea de que es el libro pues awesome movie.

Can’t wait to see Alice.

Posted by: Reavel on: July 25, 2009

I guess that everyone have already seen the Alice in Wonderland teaser trailer by now it is like everywhere. I am just posting about it cause back on 2007 I posted about it here on the blog. I remember it was just a dream an idea and now it is all true.

Tim Burton — who is currently finishing his work on the movie musical “Sweeney Todd” — has signed with Disney to direct three-dimensional versions of “Alice in Wonderland” and “Frankenweenie”, according to reports.
The teaser is everything and more of what I or I dare to say everyone have expected. The colors, characters designs everything seems to finally found home and its own little perfect creator. Tim Burton once again gives us another excellent movie. Confirming that he is one of the best directors of this times.

There are just some movies that you know only some directors can direct. This is the case of Alice in Wonderland. Disney was really smart getting Mr. Burton to direct this. They nailed it with him. We will just have to wait until next year to see the movie all finished but for what we have seen we know that this will become a new Disney Classic instantly. I am glad cause youngsters will finally see the real Alice in Wonderland. The real colorful darkness in it.

Here is the teaser trailer in HD. There are some posters of the movie around the internet representing some of the characters. It will be a total shocker to see all this images popping on the screen since it is done in 3D.

Project: Puerto Rico TwitterPages

Posted by: Reavel on: July 21, 2009

Desde que entre a twitter abri mi cuenta y comence a usarla siempre note que el encontrar gente era un lio. Usar el search para buscar no me hacia las cosas facil tampoco. La otra opcion era de ir persona por persona y buscar entre sus seguidores. Pero a fin de cuentas siempre era un desorder mil paginas abiertas y terminaba sin ganas de seguir buscando gente.
No fue hasta el viernes pasado mientras arreglaba mis #followfridays por areas o sea techies, arte, divas, guys, iphone lover etc me dije creo que hace falta un directorio para no pasar tanto trabajo y Eureka. Tan brillante yo me envolvi en un magnanime projecto [sin querer queriendo] que termine llamandolo Puerto Rico TwitterPages. Extranhamente todo el site es en ingles aun cuando el main target es la gente de Puerto Rico.

En fin el objetivo es registrar la mayoria o todos los usuarios de Twitter de Puerto Rico [ya sea que hayan nacido aqui, se hayan criado aqui o solo vivan aqui]. Porque? Porque no? Entiendo que muchos tienen negocios, empresas, ofrecen servicios de muchas clases, son musicos, artistas y todos tienen algo que compartir y contribuir para bien a los demas. Espero que se convierta en una herramienta util asi como lo son las paginas amarillas locales. Una guia social y de utilidades infinitas.

Hasta ahora el respaldo ha sido muy bueno. La gente sigue enviado su informacion. Yo me tome el atrevimiento de anhadir a algunas personas y las use como base de ejemplos para que los que se interesaran vieran que es algo serio y que se puede lograr. Asi que tres dias despues ya el projecto esta LIVE and running. Veo que esto tiene futuro y se que se le podra sacar mas de lo que uno se puede imaginar. Pero mientras tanto voy a pasos solidos para no perder el control y estrellarme.

Puerto Rico TwitterPages esta dividido por categorias como Art, Blogs, Education, Technology, Tourism and many more. Other categories will be included as people keep sending their information. Requierments to join are that you had to be born here, lived here or currently live here in Puerto Rico. For more information you can visit the page and leave a message on any of the available pages to do that or @Reavel.

Crashing at La Respuesta

Posted by: Reavel on: July 18, 2009

Anoche antes de ir a La Respuesta con unas amistades [@dr_zu, @joeprog, @robertr and Susie] pasamos por el Haggen Daaz de Condado a comer unos icecreams. Todavia ahora no puedo creer que nos hayan dado nos dieran una mesa con menu y todo para comer dos bolas de mantecado. Ahh y servido en copa… what the hell!? Still I loved the belgian chocolate icecream it is darn good.
After that we got to La Respuesta and had a blast. The bands playing were Similar, Fantasmes, Carambola and Go Organ who close the night… well morning. I am really looking forward to visit their links and check them out. All the music rolled awesomely.

Fantasmes had their fan club all there. They filled the place with excellent moody melodies. I could have spent all night listening to them with out it being a torture. On the contrary it was a blessing. I wanted to paint while I was listening to it. Check this song called A Sinister Garden [click to download it]. Go Organ did a tribute to Michael Jackson Thriller in a very hip gamer sound way. The crowed loved it. You had to be there to see them “dancing”. It was a fun night. Thanks guys.

It’s been quite awesome long day.

Posted by: Reavel on: July 16, 2009

It is still 4:29 pm. Quite a long day for me. Woke up at 5:00am ’cause I was going with my mother to her appointment at the Hospital. I almost fell sleep on the waiting area Still when I was like right about to actually sleep somebody came in and didn’t let me. I played the game until 8am that we got out of there.

Then when I get home it was 8:45am. I just realized I was supposed to be getting up at that time. My painting projects went overboard so I got online twittered like I always do. It is almost 11:30 am and I have to go out again this time with my father to his eye doctor appointment. I try to help him choose his new glasses but we didn’t liked any of them so probably he will go to other place to get the frame then take them back to the eye doctor. Veterean Administration haves to be more trendy. Their soldiers need to be more trendy so work on that.

Good thing about todays day was some mail that I got. This are extremely good news for me. I got this email from this company called Tatuit.com. they are from Portland, Oregon and the make tattoos on objects. They came accross my deviantart.com aaccount and liked my artworks with sharpies. Yey! So they kind of invited/requested me for some info to see if we can work something together. This is totally awesome and makes me really happy. I still have to talk to some friends [@lherrero, @charlesgustav and @nativiris] and ask them about some legal advice on all this things. Still I am quite honored.

If that wasn’t already good news I also got this note from HUGO-Gallery on my deviantart.com account for an invitation to a contest from HugoCreate.com with Hugo Boss. Could you believe that ’cause I still can’t. They sent me the info and the winner image/design/graphic will be published in I.D. Magazine [International Desing Magazine]. The info says that this is the Theme Round 10: Simplicity of this contest. I have to confess I never heard/read about this magazine but hey it looks cool and it seems it is a really hype/important magazine. Therefore I am again faltered to be “invited” to this contest. The piece that caught their attention was a drawing I made in 2006 named “The City” which I really enjoyed doing.

After reading all this good notes and emails I have to admit that my time spent on deviantart.com and on the internet is finally paying off somehow. It also gives me the reason when I try to tell others to keep their deviantart accounts updated cause you never know who might end up interested on your works.

Well it is 4:55pm and the day still keep going on. Who knows what else is there for me next before the clock turns in to 12am.

At the office…

Posted by: Reavel on: July 14, 2009

Last night I just got the news that work was available so I got all happy and fuzzy inside. This morning I got up early at 6:30am just in case I missed the alarm. I get ready very happy to work again cause I like my work but I love more they pay check which is not much but better than not having money at all.

Thing is that I arrive all happy about it then I open my office door to find a mess. Empty boxes around. Things werent the way I left them. The work was there but not organized. Chairs all over. I dont have the trays I need for my chores. So I see that some other stuff is not were it should be so I asked. Did they removed stuff from here. The reply was a simple Yes.. nothing more. 

So I wonder… why yo need my phone for then. You just go inside take whatever you want. Then you can’t even place things were you find them. If you empty some boxes I think the less that you can do is to put them in the trash can at least don’t leave them there. If you go around saying that I am in charge just to sound like you are a good boss but you don’t consider me whats is the deal then? Yeah they all love me here but they don’t seem to respect me.

I just wish it was friday already. I know this are simple things but I am trying to keep an order here and some are just not helping at all. I might have to do some serious talking here. I don’t go to other people places to make a mess. In all the years I have here this past two have been the most awkward all the way. I was suppose to have more control of my area but seems that everyone here can be a boss while they don’t even work in the area anymore.

Then they wonder why I go on vacation whenever I want the time I want. I was thinking of staying for a trip I was invited. You know I might have work and I need the money etc. You try to be extremely responsible then things like this happen so frequently and makes me reconsider my options and well I think I am going. It seems I am not needed that much here. Right? Not quite. They dont know how to do half of my work and if they try to do it they will fail miserably. Not because I haven’t been able to teach them how to it but because they just dont want to learn. I gave up on that long time ago.

On Papi.licio.us

Posted by: Reavel on: July 12, 2009

Greg from Papi.licio.us found my History Channel drawing on my moleskine pretty cool.
He used it for his Expedition Africa Season Finale Tonight entry on his tumblr page.
I hope everyone had the decency to add credits to the artists.
Good to know there are still people with intelligence on the internet.
Visit him and enjoy his blog!

From shirt to pillow.

Posted by: Reavel on: July 12, 2009

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So I had this shirt that was black with magenta stripes on it. I never got to wear the shirt cause it didnt fit me as planned. I have been seen this lately a lot on the handmade sites so I decided to give it a try.
Rather than throwing it away I was about to make a tote bag with it but then decided I wanted a decorative pillow. So here you have it the Golden Tree pillow. It measures 23in wide x 13in tall. All hand sew and I painted the tree with metallic gold acrylic. On the back it haves some nice button that you can actually unbutton but it is mostly for decor. Hope you like it.
If you are interested on taking this awesome trendy pillow home you can check it out on the shop.

 

I’m the only one in love.

Posted by: Reavel on: July 10, 2009

“This song tells my story…
Don’t you ever tell me that you love me again.
I can’t stand another I love you from you.”
- Reavel

In the other hand… I love Adele voice. This is what good music is about. Great voice and songs with real meaning. She doesn’t need a fancy studio she gots her voice. She doesn’t need arrangements and extra voices she got everything she needs. TALENT and a REAL voice. Love the fact that she is actually normal in shape and doesnt need to be half naked to sell music. She is the music.

Can you tell I have fallen in love with her music. Umm.. yeah! Sadly I didn’t payed attention to her before like I should. I saw once the video for Chasing Pavement [great song too and you should see this video of the accoustic version] but didn’t watched it all. This song belongs to the CD titled 19 and you should get it if you love great music and people that can actually sing their hearts out. Seems I will have to pay attention to VH1 JumpStart more often at least to check on the new music so I don’t miss the good stuff they sometimes put there.

Song: Melt My Heart To Stone
Singer: Adele // CD: 19

Right under my feet is air made of bricks
That pulls me down turns me weak for you
I find myself repeating like a broken tune
And I’m forever excusing your intentions
And I give in to my pretendings
Which forgive you each time
Without me knowing
They melt my heart to stone

And I hear your words that I made up
You say my name like there could be an us
I best tidy up my head I’m the only one in love
I’m the only one in love

Each and every time I turn around to leave
I feel my heart begin to burst and bleed
So desperately I try to link it with my head
But instead I fall back to my knees
As you tear your way right through me
I forgive you once again

Without me knowing
You’ve burnt my heart to stone

And I hear your words that I made up
You say my name like there could be an us
I best tidy up my head I’m the only one in love
I’m the only one in love

Why do you steal my hand
Whenever I’m standing my own ground
You build me up, then leave me dead

Well I hear your words you made up
I say your name like there should be an us
I best tidy up my head I’m the only one in love
I’m the only one in love.

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