Milk-plus__'s Blog

I was wondering why it seems that people never learn, when we're creatures that have dominated through our well developed ability to learn(meanings of symbols, words/grammar, tools, stories etc.).
I know we learn things like those above, and seem to remember them quite well. However it is always in self-interest that we learn these things, all in the name of continuation, of our lives, comforts and ideals. And It appears to be because of this that we always hear complaints of how we never change, how we're always violent and always on a path of disillusioned destruction.
I've observed(and participated in) this blind 'learning', where we make a mistake, and if the negative consequences aren't immediately forthright, we continue making the mistake. It only seems that we'll actively correct this if everyone around us encourages this 'correction'.
So can't this be put down to social trends? As we learn our social trends, technically that means our perpetual mistakes are all learned. So our learning, from those around us, to make these mistakes has effectively limited our learning! We've grown up being taught not to learn! I don't know if I've made this obvious, but it's what I'd call a paradox. In being taught, we learn, but if we are taught not to learn...?

I think this is why people smoke, drink, kill, steal, are bigots, racists, sexists, egotists, and generally fuck everything with a hole. We won't change because no one wants a change, yet we're meant to be this amazing creature of 'learning', seriously if someone (a friend, 'superior' whoever!) does/says something stupid. Fucking tell them! Make a change in your stupid social circle!

...but you could also say we're just too damned lazy, shit the human brain already consumes 20% of our total energy at rest! We don't want that thing running up hills! I wouldn't be able to perpetuate my worthless and destructive, yet comfortable, life with all that thought going on!

I've always been interested in people, with the human form being a part of that, I was always interested in drawing people. In recent times I've used Burne Hogarth as a major reference for different sketches I've done, and just a general dictionary for the way the human body moves and is composed.
Here's a couple;

My flatmate spilled wine on the bottom left of the next page (explanation for Fran being there trying to drink it)




Motoko can be so cold...

This next one I was interested in seeing the lengths and different ways of using the ink pen(as it was the 3rd time, according to my recent memory, I'd used one for a full pic)

Dammit, in the next one (a sort of parody of 'Duke Nukem') the lettering looks warped, though it looks fine in the actual piece...I guess I must have some sort of 'artists blindness', mneh

I'd like to describe my business as the milk business... or the advanced milk business, with perks of course. I get good quality milk to all you milk lovers, all you people in need of serotonin and all those happy hormones!

Of course some people aren't happy with just any old milk...
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"Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?" Pope Julius III

Anime Relations: Koukaku Kidoutai: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG

After watching one of the Ghost in the Shell; SAC 2nd GIG (damn long name) where Saito got impatient and went all commando in Mexico to help the local people (which I think we all should try, come on we're a bit over-due for some good ol' samaritan guerrilla warfare) I thought why not sketch some heroic thingy...well it's hard to portray him as a classic hero because he's kind of a guerrilla sniper fighting the powers that be (many would class that as less than honorable, thus not heroic), and the definition of a hero is someone who triumphs despite overwhelming odds. So I thought a good climb would show this...its pretty deep huh?

...I was always interested in people. The way they talked, looked, thought, acted...it always fascinated me. I always thought, or at least was always led to believe, that it was because people were so unpredictable, and I suppose that still is the reason. But in talking to some 'free thinking' individual last Saturday night, I realized this wasn't the root of my interest.
It was that it is so difficult to study, or at least examine something when you are involved in it. It's usually quite difficult to map a continent from ground level. I discovered my continual interest was spurned by my continual ignorance and involvement in the complex game of human life. I become very focused and engrossed in a subject I don't understand, until I feel I've at least got the 'jist' of it, and because I've been raised to be fully submerged (forget the subtle oxymoron there) in humanity, my 'study' or understanding of human nature has been undermined.
A great example presented itself today, I was playing chess with a friend (and I already hold a solid belief that chess reflects life) while another friend watched. He was able to see a multitude of moves that could have aided either side, but when I asked him if he wanted to play, he replied that when playing he couldn't think of any of these moves because he would be too focused on playing the game. I myself find this with watching chess, and with life also. Once you are fully a part of it, you are unable to look at the bigger picture. So you don't have the knowledge to go against it, or how to make criticisms of it.

Anime Relations: Azumanga Daiou The Animation

You probably won't laugh at this if you haven't seen Azumanga Daioh and read Calvin and Hobbes(I grew up on that shit!), but it actually made me laugh a little to myself.
I mean, here you have Calvin; short, a boy who idolizes all those boy things (dinosaurs, jet planes, space ships etc. etc.), and very extroverted in his weirdness. And then you have Sakaki; tall, a girl who adores all that is cute and essentially girly (kitties...uh, pink things etc. etc.), and extremely introverted in her weirdness. I guess the only thing that brings them together is their innate oddness, I guess in the form of Hobbes. So I couldn't help drawing this little picture...

I didn't laugh as hard when I had to ink Sakaki's hair