I keep forgetting to add these as I post them on Youtube.. So here are the most recent 5. Eventually I will switch over versions I host on my server instead of Youtube just in case anything happens… like Youtube implodes or something… but right now I am feeling too lazy.
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I took the top 3 pics on Sept 4th, 2010 at the Cyber Cafe West during West Fest 8 in Binghamton, NY.. .. the bottom 3 are more recent and go with the new videos from March 11th, 2011
AWESOME guy!!!
Videos below are from various times over the last few years and I will add more as/if I ever get the chance.
Update- 3 NEW!
He was passing through Binghamton, NY once again on March 11th, 2011 and made a stop at the Cyber Cafe West. The winter was harsh and Brad has been sporting a beard to keep his face warm:
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I have a passion for eyeballs, and I am surrounded by people willing to indulge me.. I will be adding new ones all the time, and just updating the post date to put it back up top when I do.. the new ones should always appear at the top if I have this gallery working right. The thumbnails cut some of the pictures away, so just click on one to see the image if it catches your fancy. I have also started making eyeball art by manipulating these photos.. Some of them I plan on not even being recognizable as the original pictures. That stuff will be added to the Graphic art section. I plan on putting VERY high res eyeball art on my deviantART Account.. so on here it will just be a thumbnail with a link to it’s page there. If you know me and I took a picture of your eyeball and it is not here.. sorry! I may forget some.
I have a lot of the stuff I made in albums on facebook so instead of all the work of adding them here… click on the image below to go to a link that has them public (You do not even have to have a facebook account to view them). Currently there are 63 images.
This is a link to a public album of many photos on facebook. You do not need a facebook account to view them. This is where I will keep adding new ones. Bryce & Selene
I’m also adding a little bonus video of Selene the day I brought her home. If you are in category view, please expand this post to view the video:
In the heart of the strong
No concubine nor servants tread
Those who stand beside us
have nothing to dread.
We only rule one throne
that of our own
We only give and take
What is offered
The grace of giving
…expecting nothing
There lies our power
Being selfish
with our own energy
Is our right!
The strong are the vulnerable
In matters of the heart
But strength can be found by
being selective…
We all must create a fortress
for the good of the machine
Surface strength lies in the
brick and mortar
Deep strength lies with what
we are willing to let in
Doing what must be done
Once the choices are made
This fortress shall protect
The selected vulnerability
Which is the grace of humanity
Vulnerability must never
be confused with weakness
It just allows entry
Into our personal fortress
Think carefully, choose wisely
But above all keep yourself
It’s the inside, not the shell
that houses the soul
To steal is a weakness
To defend; pure instinct
Those who enter uninvited
will suffer the consequences
So choose your wars wisely
I have a hammer next to my bed
freya
(yeah not really poetry, just thoughts expressed pertaining to more than one subject)
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“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.” ~S Chase
Source help me, but in gratitude
I will never fully understand you
I’ve learned to stop trying
I see only what you allow me to
I’ve even given up pursuits
In symbolism pining
OK, that last part was a lie
But I’m making the effort
To tell myself it’s nothing
I don’t expect you to empathize
With this strange dualistic rapport
Understanding it’s of my own designing
What I do and how I feel
Created this heart’s reality
As a romanticized cliche
But for me, it’s just as real
As with your own self actuality
It will never go away
I’ve lost my rhythm
But you know what?
It’s really OK…
I’ve been here many times before
These last few years
***
I will live moment to moment
Through laughter and tears
Rejoice in inspirations
And face my fears
A “real world” participant
I’m just going to “BE”
Remember what’s most important
And see where the wind takes me
If I am upset or angry
or just wallowing away,
I will take the next moment
to shove it all away…
But be warned I say truthfully
deep from my heart,
sometimes i like to feel pain,
so i take it apart.
Love is a battlefield
is what I’m trying to convey
I bleed but I heal
to fight another day!
freya
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A smile confuses an approaching frown.
~Author Unknown
Be happy because you never know who’s falling in love with your smile.
~Author Unknown
Here is a creepy one .. Heavily edited clips (by me) from the Japanese psychological horror movie “Audition”. Song is by OTEP sharing the same name as this title.
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gray matter senselessness
inflamed quintessence
intuition damning me
knowing with full certainty
looking will just testify
the discounted approbation
or innocent indifference
to the layers of injury
this fascination’s wrought
eyes upturned to
imaginary sunshine
the grace of fingertips
an unseen pantomime
of ten digits intertwined
Melancholy devilment
Surrender to the muse
Put away the toys and
listen to the silence
my back is bruised
Damn you are a hot little number
Baby face you are a true heart breaker
Eyes so blue I could drown in their sea
Sometimes I wish that was enough for me
Hair like wheat in the midday sun
Smooth as a preacher meant for everyone
Smile in innocence,
sad soul countenance
Like what I hear,
but feels like pretense
You say that you are done but your voice betrays you
The waver in your words makes me want to save you
It’s not an option anyway my mind is settled
Bout one thing in my life that’s not still nettled
I learned a thing or two from living in this sea
And it’s rare that this universe finds anyone that gets me
Oh and hair as soft and light as baby wheat
Rare touch remembered more so uniquely sweet
I KNOW what’s beautiful in a thousand ways
Head so light and furry, in the most retarded daze
Voice from the tongue of a god
Beautifully, perfectly odd
Sweet beautiful abscess
Seditious root adored
I swim in purulent desire
A lady without a lord
Decomposing affliction
Embraced with poignant sighs
It’s tender bitter yearning
Poisoned apple of my eye
Masochistic leanings
I love to run and hide
Sweet agony prolonging
This sickness deep inside
Swimming in life’s misery
Hid behind my fear of touch
Self-doubt and lame excuses
Avoidance used too much
A warm compress not healing
What fate and choice did do
Fear in it’s path unwinding
As I bid days gone by adieu
Knowing is half the battle
Letting go feels like a sin
But once it’s been decided
The healing will begin
I want the gift of full consciousness
I want to give what I have never had
I want to see the light in the darkness
I want to embrace the good and the bad
I want to feel that I am truly needed
I want a love that will never die
I want my heart to be defeated
I want to never say goodbye
I’m tired of playing little miss nice girl
Meek and wishing on the fscken stars
Keeping my heart like a precious pearl
It’s never gonna get me very far
Why can’t I be as the black widow
Take a mate I care nothing about
Feed my hunger just a little
Then chew them up and spit them out
Soul of fire that yearns for touch
Sheathed in resolute celibate faith
Tender heart that has seen too much
Now I run from the shadow of my wraith
Is this feeling that I’m dreaming
some fucked up thought in my head?
Is it darkness that deceives me
as I lie alone in my bed?
Will my heart wither away
leaving barely a shred?
Death’s door beckons to me
Though not the death of my flesh
It’s this fear of stagnation
Growing deep in my breast
I say I’m through with zombies
But they’re not through with me
All these mental apparitions
My personal Judas tree
Can sugar plums dance
behind the eyes of the dead?
Is letting go of my dreams
really something to dread?
Or will giving up the ghost
set me free instead?
Some people show their love and pain
In short, but violent bursts
Others try to hold it all in
The weight, an accumulating curse
We suffer through day by day.
Tribulations by fire is the lover’s way
Maybe they prefer you feel as they feel?
And you refuse to be coerced
Some just do as they think expected
Life’s “manuscript” rehearsed
Feeling too much all the caring and hate
The pain and the love this world creates
With little logic and a lot of passion
On the surface and submersed
What we feel is not always expressed
In some known predictable verse
Through a million minds all reaching out
Still most of it I could do without
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If you CAN see the forest for the trees
Yet savor the sight of early morning dew
Then someday, I want you to BE with me
What one can accomplish is enhanced by TWO
But if I don’t have that hand to hold
Suffering gladly in ourselves and for others
Then at least about my life it can now be told
That there will never be another
The closer to our hearts
The more we are affected
Feelings hold on stubbornly
Like a nasty wound infected
After 6 weeks of keeping and losing hope
I never thought that I could cope
With the ending of you lying there
Almost to the last, knowing you were still aware
Of the broken body with nothing spared
You watched us gather around you, not sure why
Because no one bothered to tell you, you were about to die
The fear in your eyes..
I remember how afraid you were to get on the list for a new lung. You didn’t want to die like this. You told me you could live another year or two or risk dying much more soon on the hope of a new lease on life. You were assured you were the perfect candidate.. No problem they said… You would be back home within 3 weeks… they do this sort of thing all the time.
Even I pushed in that direction, told you put your life first for once. It was was your turn to live again… you finally consented, you had given in. You even became excited as the statistics reassured, a man like you not coming though this was almost unheard of.
The perfect candidate they said, but now you are dead.
You had to whither away as you lied in that bed.
The thing you feared the most came true.
No.. even worse.
You feared you would die on the operating table,
but 6 weeks of decline your body unstable..
Immune system gone, your body broke down,
a slow and painful way to go, the fear of death drawn out..
I wish it had been me and not you
just to spare you from what I helped talk you in to.
I was as selfish as everyone else..
wanting a lifetime instead of another year or two.
I had hope and faith that you would get through.
The Dr’s were baffled but they didn’t give up on you,
until there was nothing else they could do.
We killed you with love..
we just needed you.
I begged for a miracle,
I even prayed for one.
I didn’t want to accept it.
It’s not fair when a man like you is gone from this earth.
When your heartbeat reached zero, it shattered the earth.
All the sudden I heard such wailing and sounds like an animal dying..
then I realized, it was coming from me.
I fell to the floor and chewed on my wrist, you were gone…
it should NOT have happened like this.
They PROMISED us it would not happen like this!
Never again will I grab your forehead and force a raspberry kiss:(
Never again will I be able to listen to your advice.
You told me to love a man without forcing…
you told me love for it’s sake is worth knowing.
You taught me patience is a virtue by your own example.
You taught me that men can be gentle and you always feared of me getting hurt.
You wanted someone to protect me that would also respect me.
You wanted me to love only that which is deserving of me.
You told me I was worth someone and never sell short.
You told me seek what I know I need in my heart and I will find it.
You taught me love can be suffering and the rode to happiness a long one.
You told me to “wait and see”… same thing you told my mother about me,
when I ran away so many times…
you knew I would come back,
and you had faith I would grow …
that you would be proud of me.
You let me make my own mistakes,
but you were always there to catch me if I asked you to.
Most of the time, I was stubborn like you.
I didn’t always listen, you were only a guide,
you let me figure things out,
even those times I had to run and hide.
You were reserved with your emotions
except when i coaxed them out,
but if I fell in your arms with tears,
you were there to let me cry it all out.
You never once coddled me,
but you also never rejected me.
You loved it when I teased you
because you knew how much I loved to see you smile.
Even lying there in agony,
you saved one last smile for me,
one last knowing wink for me.
When others had given up on you,
I just prayed with all my hope…
“wait and see”…
just wait and see.
But i was wrong and my heart is breaking
because I am all out of “wait and see”…
I couldn’t give up on it until it was gone,
because you never gave up on me..
I want to make you proud of me!
Wait and see daddy, my Zen..
I know you are all around me now..
so you just wait and see,
but keep having that patience with me…
because it is going to be a long ugly road filled with misery,
but I will keep every word you have ever said to me.
I know you are proud of me.
And i am proud of you too,
for everything you do.
But you just wait and see daddy, my Zen..
I don’t feel strong right now,
I feel like the world has crumbled around me now.
Please don’t be disappointed in me… just give me time…
just “wait and see”…
I need you daddy, so I will keep you close to me,
as close as can be… right here in my heart.
I know that pain on my face and
tears in my eyes always tore you apart..
But I need to grieve for you and for the long road ahead…
but I will come through, because you have faith in me too,
so it MUST be true!
I will have to learn to live without you
as my mother will too.
Someday daddy, I will find a man like you
who will love me and respect me like you always wanted me to..
I will someday have somebody who is a lot like you,
and I know you will be proud of him too.
I am so glad I was able to say goodbye and tell you just how much I love you.
I know you already knew, but I said it so rarely.. in words anyway… but you knew…
Those raspberry kisses and weird looks they got me,
and the look in your eyes saying you loved me too.
Even lying there in pain, you made sure to mouth the words,
though no sound could come out… you loved me.
Written May 6, 2008 but archiving now.
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Though pain and suffering
Try to take our hearts down
Hope and faith in something
Can always bring us around
I have faith in you
In the strengths you possess
Until you breathe deeply
My hope will not rest
Just breathe deeply, love
For life is so precious
Take a moment, love
If you’re feeling this restless
If your dreams fall short
Of the fire within you
Just breathe deeply
And you’ll see the way through
Never take for granted
What is right before you
Just breathe deeply
Life is waiting for you
Just something I did when life wasn’t getting in the way.. Umm.. took longer than I expected (due to the life stuff)
Autopsy ~ OTEP Music Video
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I feel like
A woman
I feel like
I care
I feel like
I shouldn’t
I feel like a child
Of despair
I feel like
It’s over
I feel like it’s coming
After me
I feel like
It’s closer
I feel like this is all I’ll ever be
I feel like
A failure
I feel like a hungry
Parasite
I feel like
A razor
I feel like a prayer
Lost in flight
I feel like
I’m hopeless
I’m afraid I’m a slave, I’m weak and average [x2]
I feel like
A hammer
I feel like
A nail
I feel like
I’m guilty
I feel like the wrist that it impales
I feel like
A butcher
I feel like
I’m being decieved
I feel like a beautiful loser
I feel like all you sheep
Are laughing at me
Open wide, look inside, at my autopsy
My autopsy
I feel like a complete waste of time
I feel I’m
Transparent
I don’t know what I’m doing here
I waste my life in dreams I fear
What purpose is there staying near
There is no waiting ship to steer
In this sea of ceaseless babbling
The gibbering and jabbering
..badgering and bragging
To my ears it all seems baffling
I’ve long since shed MANY futile tears
My pleas for something said sincere
Yet mark my word, it’s still unclear
Perhaps I just need a fucking beer!
I have a LOT of unfinished things so I thought since I don’t feel like making anything new, I would start finishing what I already have. I started this one about 2 months ago… I think.
Down in the world
of the ellipses…
The silence of
the patterns
of this life
settle big booms
that are QUITE
frightening…
Gonna build myself a fortress
Gonna lock a *few* dreams away
Gonna build myself a fortress
But I’ll be back again someday
Reality is the undercarriage
Where the dirt and mud puddles
in their union splash up
Everything else is built
on top of that reality through
circumstance and make-believe
No one cares to look at
the undercarriage, let alone
clean it up once in awhile
maybe they would see the
beauty under the dirt
Gonna throw sadness out my window
Gonna hug myself when I feel bad
Gonna lock away all the lonelies
For the things I’ve never had
We do what has to be done to
trick ourselves into happiness
We fake it till we make it
because life has to be lived!
But does that mean we just give
UP our own delusions to
replace them with the shared
delusions of the masses?
is that what happiness is?
To be stupid or purposefully blind?
Gonna feel the darkness of my shadow
Gonna keep my head up in the air
Gonna plant my feet in murky waters
As I feel the things I dare not share
One layer at a time gets put away
once addressed or said goodbye to
One pile for whats meant to keep
One pile you know eventually
you’ll have to get back to
Nothing ever goes away it just
adds to who we are in our world
of self and mass delusions picked
at and judged by living in a society
of self-hatred and shame for anything
thought different by another instead
of just living and not worrying if
there is ANYBODY who can get it right
because there is NO wrong or right it’s
just people living and breathing and
NEEDING a reason to get by in whatever
way makes them feel ALIVE so long as
they keep to tending their own gardens
and not trying to tend to yours unless
it’s a garden your sharing and this is
just one long run-on and poorly structured
sentence and who the fsck cares… right?
Gonna build myself a fortress
Gonna lock a *few* dreams away
Gonna build myself a fortress
But I’ll be back again someday…
Language is a funny thing
It percolates it’s transmissions
As it mutates into something
More truthful than it’s original intention
Call it as you see it
Correct the words
I choose to convey
It’s nothing new
Love is the word,
the Alpha and Omega.
The beginning and the end,
all leading back to you.
Like the sun feeds roses,
it nourishes me.
I try to close my eyes to it…
what else is left for me to do
Past the muddy waters of
my emotional retardation,
what’s left of me is broken.
Wishing this was “THE
ONE” battle I could win
But defeat shall be my mantra
There is a sun to stand before
long enough to dry all tears
There is a moon to light the way
from yesterdays fears
There is an opal to distract you
from the fallacies you hear
But the sun seems blotted
by depths uncharted
The moon’s been tainted
The opal has no gleam
There is a knowing deep inside
that you can always find
There is a whisper one must heed
if you only choose to shine
There is a way to say goodbye
to what you choose to leave behind
But knowing seems blinded
The whisper’s gone silent
And saying goodbye means
so much more than it seems
Why is this?
~fm
In particular, the Blue Opal:
Enhances your ability to communicate what is in your heart
Helps in overcoming those things you do to yourself that are harmful
Edit: Apparently I have a delusive mind.. in so doing, I have harmed myself… go figure:(
So I spent ALL day (since about 6am.. so roughly 12 hours) making a new MySpace Layout featuring a woman being “born” from a lotus. I had to do one of my versions of *meditating* to get my mind off a few insane things and this is what I came up with:) This was the most time I ever spent making a layout.
It was a little tricky getting the above graphic laid on just right to match it’s spot on the lotus.. ton of tinkering with the Div placement… but I am pretty happy with it. This thing is just full of layers:)
I also had my reasons for going with all BxW too, but it’s sort of silly.. colors were distracting me. heh.
Looking at my stats more often, I saw a referral to my site from The Migraine Aura Foundation. I had made a picture after a headache in 2001 and named it Migraine… then in 2005 this fellow who has the above website contacted me saying he was going to be putting said website together and asked if he could use the picture and talked about his plans for the site. I said.. sure. And I offered another one if he wanted it. Then he wanted me to fill out a VERY long survey about migraines. Then I never heard from him again.
Today I saw a site referral from there and it turns out he put the pics up 2 years later! Last March.. But I didn’t find out until today.. or if I did, I don’t remember.. I may never have come across it if not for the referral link. (tells you what site someone came from to see your site). Anyway, I thought it was kind of cool..
I spent an INSANE amount of time on this one. My second room for IMVU. A bath house Lady Bathory would be proud of! No vampire King/Queen/diehard goth should do without their own fountain of everlasting youth. Pumped up from the surrounding sea of blood, then filtered down to keep the bath full. To enter this domain, you must pass through the waterfall of blood in the chamber’s doorway. Leave all thoughts of reality behind you before entering this sanctuary of blood.
Several standing and sitting spots. Plus some swimming nodes and other goodies. I will be making some matching furniture for this room as well. These pictures do not do the room justice, it is just that surreal~_* This awsome room was inspired by a dream.
Click to expand to see more pics and video of the blood in action!
My first full room for IMVU! The red foggy Background should look familiar. textures all made by me except Medusa… dur! the foggy bg is a giant dome and it rotates! I made the dress in this awhile back. The colors just happen to match nicely:)
Made this one yesterday.. I just finished an animated blood bath and just getting footage and images for it.
How do you get so many to want you as you hurt? Willingly exposed throats to rip open; you’re never blamed for the pain.
How do you get so many to swim in your murky depths? Welcoming the unknown with fear and excitement.. grounded in anxiety and self doubt, yet never doubting you.
How do you change so much yet stay the same? How do you continue when everything else dies? How do you make it possible to feel another person surround you with just a thought? What is it about you that can make a gentle person kill?
Why are you so scary?
Why are you so demanding?
Why are you so neglectful?
Why are you so needy?
Why are you so insightful?
Why are you so dumb?
Why are you so observant?
Why are you so damn blind?
I really need to work on the male characters. I have not done anything for them… Well, I did make the Otep shirt and matching torn pants… Need to focus on making them now too. Soooo.. this guy is not the character I have in mind, just a stand in for this picture. I love this background. I made it with 8 layers and 3 of them can be put behind, or in front of the characters (all red fog).
Two other characters:
Keira is from the “real” world and there will be characters that represent different aspects of her in the subconscious world. We can see how the subconscious world reacts to Keira’s stimuli in the physical world.. The webcomic will be about both places and also having these “worlds” collide. And anyone Keira interacts with… their subconscious will interact with hers. Should be interesting!
“This one represents Keira’s “attitude”. Still working on her. She is also meant to be a sort of bodyguard for Keira.. Well, a mental guard.. but like a bodyguard. In the “real” world, and inside her mind. The mind can be a very confusing place! This character is a guide of sorts… with attitude! She is the bridge for her subconscious to interact with her on a conscious level when she is awake.(The little voice in her head). She is also there to provide some common sense when her other aspects get out of hand. I have a lot of plans for this character.
There are others too. But I really need to work on some male characters, and a really old woman too.. And something faceless..
The close up of her face shows a LOT of detail. The eyes are very pretty. The wallpaper one below was Version3 of her.. she has different eyes in that one. This will be the final version. I have 4 or 5 characters already, just adding the finishing touches on the looks of them.
WideScreen Wallpaper (big)
Flash full 3D View :
Base look:
Avatar: Female/Female Super Head: Ultra-Gloss Ruby (head 4) Hair: [Rikey]Frost FallenAngel Skin: Deadly Zero Eyes: Blue Glass Brow: [ab] Nearly Perfect Nails: Black Red
Just thought I would start doing some screen captures of my layouts. This is the current one. Took me forever to get exactly how I wanted it, though it looks pretty simple. The letters up top are scrolling. Though the whole thing is smaller than any of the previous ones, there are more layers. Each candle has it’s own DIV along with a few other things. May add a few more divisions, but most of the space is taken up and it “feels” almost perfect after lots of tweaking.
The pic is a link to the profile, but really not much else to see except the candles are animated. And yes, it’s all pretty much #990000.
Lying on a bed of silk and rose petals
Confederate to the strongest of swords
Ivory scabbard lined with red velvet
Fervent for the reuniting with her lord
Through the dark night of the soul
He emerges to live another day
Seeking shelter in a gentle touch
His heart and mind lead the way
Sword:
Out of blood, sweat, and tears
My steel’s been sainted
By daylight’s burdens
In dullness painted
Scabbard:
Sheath your sword good sir!
Let my velvet surround you
Let me hold you in comfort
Let my touch renew you
Sword:
Little scabbard so gentle
Don’t love me in vain
I fear I might hurt you
I’ve seen too much pain
My blade has grown dull
It’s lost all it’s gleam
I am tired and broken
You know not what I’ve seen
Scabbard:
At night I will enfold you
Caress the dullness away
Let your shine be my beacon
It will show me the way
I am more than ornamental
My heart for you weeps
Let me sharpen life’s passions
Let me hold you as I sleep
In twain sword and scabbard
Never truly separated
United once again
As the new day dawns
If life is just a masquerade to bare
Facade so thin it’s barely there
Why feel the flames of sunshine’s grace
Or fall into a lover’s warm embrace
Why frequent places bringing joy
If abundant pleasure begins to cloy
When looking on through somber eyes
A life much lived through darkened skies
Why have faith in spirited dreams
All frayed and tattered at the seams
When past and present have no thrill
When life’s a swallowed bitter pill
Though pounding rhythm beats thy chest
Night brings the wayward heart to rest
It aches not from daylight’s insecurities
But from the touch of mortal surety
In the darkness there is a knowing
In velvet touch life’s river flowing
Without a moment’s hesitation
Fraught with ardent aspiration
Give ear to heart song’s words intently
Use sleep’s embrace to guide you gently
There is a beauty in life’s ugliness
If you desire to persist