Monday, December 21, 2009

A New Decade Awaits, New Grounds To Cover...

In December 2009, just before Christmas, I decided to wander about the interwebs and clean up all of my on-line profiles, mainly with sites where I have my many online accounts, usually featuring various uploads, music files and artwork etc.

Some of you will have probably received a message about this, featuring information about the cancellation of my Bebo and MySpace accounts.

There is no negative reason to my submissions being removed from the web by the way, I'm simply having 'Spring Clean' so to speak.

This is because, over the few years that I've been a member of so many sites, my submissions werent really suitable for some websites - remixes with other artists vocals etc, werent really suitable for other websites dedicated to making games etc.

So, as a result of my realisation to this, any future submissions will hopefully be made to be more suitable for other websites - I also look forward to maybe even hearing some of my work in future Flash files, animations or games!!

Don't panic though! - I will be re-uploading my submissions, once I've remixed the tracks (now that I have the correct software and studio setup) and the majority of my tracks will have been mastered to a better quality than previously - this is mainly to keep my work up to the standard of the work submitted by other users..

YouTube:
I will be updating all of my YouTube submissions shortly too - as with my muscial remixes, the videos will be remade, mainly to keep up with todays online technology such as the addition of better sound quality and of course, the appearance of so many HD videos.

NewGrounds:
I've been a keen member of NewGrounds for a few years now, and over this perios, I've always shown a keen interest in developing a few games and animations for this site, so I'm aiming at popping my NewGrounds animation cherry in 2010, and I hope you look forward to seeing some of my work as much as look forward to making it!

DJ Work:
As some of you may have seen in my many FaceBook status updates, I've been spending the majority of the year sorting out my vast MP3 collection. Again, this is a major overhaul of my music collection, aimed at my club classic tracks, so I can be a little more specific to the kind of classics I aim to play in the near future.

FaceBook:
I will remain with FaceBook, simply because of the majority of people using this site, common sense really is'nt it?

DeviantArt:
This account has been cancelled, mainly because I would rather keep any of my artwork on my website, purely for copyright reasons.

Twitter:
This account is staying as it it, I mean, there's not that much to Twitter is there really?..

Apart from that, I'm in for a pretty quiet new year with the family - but I'm looking forward to it already as I have a few other exciting projects coming up in the New Year.

So, roll on 2K10 eh? - and I hope everyone has a Very Merry Christmas, And A Completely Mental New year.

Happy Holidays Everyone
DK.

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Bogeyman..

This is a short tale, told to my by a friend, whilst we were making our way into town for a spot of Christmas shopping, one cold and windy morning..

Shortly after hearing this story, I relayed it to my wife, however, upon posting her reactions to the tale on FaceBook, curiosity got the better of some of my friends, so after many enquiries, I've decided to repeat the tale, only this time on my blog, for the benefit of my curious friends..

By the way, if this does'nt make you cringe, you have a will of steel:

I went shopping on Tuesday/Wednesday (or something) and while I was travelling into town in the taxi, I picked Andy up - I had Jessica (my 2 year old daughter) on my knee, and she had a runny nose.

As a result of these circumstances, it reminded Andy of something that he witnessed whilst visiting Wainhouse Tower with his kids.

One cold day, Andy is at the top of Wainhouse Tower during one of the attractions 'open days' when, next to him he sees this guy, who, himself has two young children with him, however, due to the cold temperature combined with the added altitude of the building itself, he's in that all too familiar scenario where his kids are suffering from the nasal 'nostril candle' problem.

Andy notices that the guy is checking his pockets, and looking around frantically for a tissue, or something similar as a solution to this rather messy and embarrassing predicament, and as he's doing so, his frantic actions are beginning to attract the attention of Andy, his kids, and of course, the other visitors...

Eventually, he realises that there is nothing he can do, he has no hanker-chief, or tissues to hand, and due to the physical properties of the tower, there's no available bathroom so the unfortunate parent had to take drastic measures, so this is what he did, much to the surprise of his children, Andy, and of course, the attentive view of the other tourists..

Using his mouth, he covered the nostrils of his kids, and with a quick sucking motion, and a rather loud 'sluuuurp' he gathered the contents of his childrens nasal excretions, then with a quick flick of his neck, he swiftly dispatched the gooey gumball over the side of the safaty barrier, into the wooded depths below. Nice.

As you can imagine, the combined reactions of Andy, and the other visitors was quite funny, in a gross and hilarious fashion.

It still brings a rather gruesome lump to my throat, everytime I think of this story, and as you can imagine, Sarah felt the same way when I passed on this legendary tale to her.

It's hard to relay the story in written form, but hopefully I've done a decent enough job, and as a result, it would'nt suprised me if you now feel the same way too hahah.