3,942 g
50.8 cm
41 weeks 5 days
Born 2008.10.21, 12:15


Big, slightly overdue baby. Mother is fine. Older brother appears to be adjusting as well as can be expected to the new comptetion for his parent's attention, and father has returned home to rest, and prepare to return to the grindstone tomorrow...

Hey all. I'm back... well, never really went away. After moving, I became a lurker. This spasm of activity probably is not the start of renewed activity here; as the majority of my free time is devoted to my dream - getting a manga published here in Japan. Also, within the month, my second child is due, so I'm expecting some major disruptions in life starting from then.

Hopefully I'll find the time to put up some more artwork over the coming weeks and months. Fingers crossed.

Good luck arting, y'all.

Given the overwhelmingly positive response to the select roads images that I uploaded, I have decided to scan and upload a whole whack load more of them. No, it won't be all of them - as some are little more then doodles amongst sketches - but it will be the lion's share of them.

I hope to load them as they were drawn, as there is a progression of change in them. I think the phases can be roughly broken down into where I was, and what I was riding.

Phase 1: strongly influenced by a road reconstruction and interchange expansion in the outer reaches of Victoria, BC, Canada. The roads produced in this phase are general low-traffic, very wide, and curvy (conforming to natural shapes.) I was always in a car, mostly my own, but sometimes my friends'.

Phase 2: I lived for about a year+ in Seoul, Korea, with a couple of months in the countryside of Chiba, Japan. The roads produced are high traffic, narrow, and tend to ram straight through, over and under natural elements. I was mostly in public transportation, about two-thirds of the time in buses, and the remainder in subways.

Phase 3: After returning to Canada for about 2 and a half years (not much of any art was produced in this period,) I came to live in Osaka, Japan. I spent a lot of time commuting between part-time jobs, and spent most of that time looking out the window of elevated trains. I have ridden my fare share of subways, but aside from the occasional buried railway yard or crossover, the view from the window isn't that interesting. What has blown me the way the most in living here isn't so much the suspending of train lines in midair, but the suspending of entire expressway interchanges in the air! I think the roads images produced in this phase are the most complicated, as they combine road, rail, and sometimes even more than that.

Cheers, and I hope that you get some of the good vibes I got out of creating the roads images!