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About Me Member Conceptual Artist bitterlilraccoon28/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 3 Years
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30 Days of Sketching

Thu Oct 22, 2009, 8:50 PM
  • Mood: Artistic
  • Listening to: Background noise
  • Reading: Under the Dome By Spooky King
  • Watching: Rome the HBO series
  • Playing: L5R RPG Forum Game (still)
  • Eating: Apples and Parmesan cheese
  • Drinking: 1% Milk
In the spirit of keeping up with form, I sahll be drawing one sketch a day for the next month. Wish me.... skill, I guess.

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Tom graduated from the Academy of Art University with a Bachelor's Degree in Animation and Visual Effects. He's taking up odd jobs while pursing a career as a character designer or story artist.

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  • Current Residence: California
  • Interests: Making the movie pictures, Samurai, Uber Nietzche, Port(the wine)
  • Favourite movie: Little Miss Sunshine with Ninjas
  • Favourite band or musician: The Killers, Muse and Demons & Wizards
  • Favourite genre of music: I'M... GONNA ROCK N' ROLL /ALT. NIGHT!!!
  • Favourite artist: Hiromu Arakawa, Genndy Tartakovsky, J.C. Vasquez. Shinichiro Watanabe, Matt Groening, Mike Krahulik
  • Favourite poet or writer: Stephen the SPOOOKY King
  • Favourite photographer: Peter Parker (AKA Spiderman)
  • Favourite style of art: Mine (ain't I a bastard?)
  • Operating System: My frontal lobe
  • MP3 player of choice: None. My ipod is an MP4!
  • Favourite game: Blackjack... Or L5R Role Playing Game
  • Favourite gaming platform: A Blackjack table... Or any table where I can play L5R
  • Favourite cartoon character: GIR (Invader Zim)
  • Personal Quote: Question the answer.
  • Tools of the Trade: Pens, Pencils, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS3

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:iconwoodpig:
Thanks for the fave
:iconbitterlilraccoon:
Indeed. I get a kick out of Nietzsche and his mad deconstructionist skillz.

Take that, Western Philosophy!

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happiness is overrated.
:iconwoodpig:
Ah, you're reading BGAE - perhaps you might like to check out my book? [link]
:iconbitterlilraccoon:
Oooh, I shall have to consider it.

I already finished The Antichrist but don't know what to cover of his after BGE. I was thinking of going back to the begining and reading the Birth of Tragedy or the Geneology of Morals. And to think I was so big on Immanuel Kant mere months ago. Freddy tore right into his empty heart.

Makes one wonder what Nietzsche thought of the Samurai of Feudal Japan. I'm trying to write a story about a Samurai's daughter who chases after her father for allegedly abandoning his duty to guard a mountain shrine.

Nietzsche's causing me to rethink my approach to the whole concept of duty and how it is actually impossible (or at least abominable) to divorce one's emotions from obligation.

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happiness is overrated.
:iconwoodpig:
Genealogy of Morals will expand upon some of the central themes of BGAE - especially the master/slave morality distinction. Birth of Tragedy is an early work which, whilst very interesting, is really Nietzsche's first attempt at expressing certain ideas, and is less clear than later works. Twilight of the Idols is good, and does a good job of giving various darlings of Western culture a good kicking! Other than that, Thus Spake Zarathustra is a poetic expression of his key ideas.

Interesting project you have. Yes, it would be interesting to see what Nietzsche thinks about feudal Japan. My feeling is that he would recognise the master morality in their social organisation, whilst being critical of the authoritarianism and the straight jacket of the social code. He is critical elsewhere of the emotional restraint of certain oriental cultures, and it seems that his own ideal was closer to the renaissance concept of the complete man - the warrior poet and philosopher artist.

Duty in Nietzsche is always a duty to oneself - or rather, to overcome oneself and upbringing, and strive to achieve one's highest personal ideal via intelligence, self-sacrifice, courage and creativity (at least, that's my interpretation!).

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