Sparked up the tunes and starting my flow to get the updates out for Paris & London. I won't get in to that yet.

What I will say is, I had a great time walking the streets with =Gonzale - what a great gal - and her passion around photography actually motivated me to bump her up to Gallery Moderator, mostly because I want to watch her DD's in Street. Don't get all excited and start asking me for such things, it's the first time I've given someone such a priv in years. Anyway, she still doesn't have her privs, but that's because Danie's been a little busy. Speaking of which!

Go wish Danie (moonbeam13) all kinds of happy thoughts!!!!

Cuz $Moonbeam13 got HITCHED over teh weekend! I love Rob, he's such a patient guy full of nothing but love to give; talented as all hell and always fixing things. And with Danie bubbling around all over the place being happy and hyper, it makes so much plain sense that they're together; balancing each other out in what I see as a big storm of forward movement. We love you guys and wish you the best.

With all these meets..

With all these meets I'm about to blog about over the past 8 days since walking the streets with =Gonzale I haven't had the opportunity to shoot much street. I'm really disappointed in myself in this. I mean don't get me wrong, I've taken about 800 photos in that time period, but none I'd consider particularly artistic.

I'm sorry to my watchers who may want to actually see my art work progress somehow, without all the deviations about the tour. But I guess that's the mixed bag you get when you watch .. um, me.. at um... deviantART. lol

Ok, I'm in my flow now... thanks

Hangin' here with three deviants whose galleries are respectively inspiring. =len-yan whose gallery is AMAZING contains a variety of traditional pieces as she evolves towards concept art from where she started with manga. She's been awesome today, helping us translate in Polish all over the place. Not everyone speaks great english here, it's been a minor barrier. I wonder how this will affect our meet!!





Then we've got =Ulaa1993 who draws wolves, foxes and other colorful animals and does so brilliantly i might add... she's a bit overwhelmed of late so she made the mistake of posting an "i'm leaving dA" journal, which she didn't mean to cause drama with she just meant she's taking a few weeks to figure stuff out and not leaving permanently. Anyway due to the pending Groups functions, I think she's found a way to stay and hang out with us and bring her deviations out of storage, since Groups will provide mechanisms for private feedback that will help her make deviantART more inviting and less overwhelming. Apparently lots of people like her work, and commission often but maybe she wasn't quite ready for all the attention quite yet. Born in 1993 she's 16.. I can't believe that, I was 16 five minutes ago I swear... blah, anyway I can see how being 16 and getting this much attention might scare you off for a few months.




And then there is *PearlEden who is quiet but very sweet. He's been a member for a couple of years and commands a real audience for her art, I mean his art at over 1.5 million page views.. not that page views are any metric, but omgwtf that's epic traffics!




We're off to dinner... these guys are awesome!

Up late, getting the groove on. $Heidi and I loaded up on junk food earlier tonight just to cope with the 16 hour work session we just put in. Check out our stash:



Hardcore caloric intake, plus caffeine got us through an intense work night pumping information back home to Devious Technologies, and *real* HQ, as opposed to #hq.

We are having a freaking blast on this trip. Follow #hq for regular updates, for example coming right up in the next number of hours... learn what it's like to hang with very ... friendly... GODS of the art world in their studio in Singapore and get an insight in to the deviousness $Heidi and I are really up to and what that means for you!

Wow I kinda wrote that like a tv commercial sounds. LOL

The tour is going great so far, and you never know with these things so we've been lucky. The only major frustration has been with Vodafone who choose not to recognize our phone credits or take responsibility for error. Vodafone doesn't own its retail outlets in Australia, hundreds of little companies do and if you buy a credit from one place they won't refund you in another. And of course, customer service is closed on Sundays.

Well it's a good thing we're so far ahead of the world around here, as it's already Monday at 11am right now! So I'll take care of this pronto after I post this journal.

We're considering giving out the phone number to everyone.. what do you think about that idea?


Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there! And to mine as well although we had a great chance to celebrate last week, but she can never have enough anemones or purple flowers so...



Share them with your Mom too!!


And lastly, $Heidi is hilarious. I'm really enjoying the fact that she's never been outside of the country before. She's seen 30 of the 50 United States! She's been to Hawaii which has a distinctly different culture than most of America. But outside to a place where a different language is spoken? This Southern California Orange County girl hasn't seen Mexico which is about a hundred miles away let alone Australia, or the 10 other international destinations we're going to hit within the next 40 days....

Funniest bit thus far?

You know, in most parts of the world, they serve fish *with* the head still on. And the bones, too.




$Heidi

So if you've been out of the loop, how sad for you. Plz read #hq's blog, which details the adventures of $Heidi and I as we travel the earth to meet deviants. Literally. All the way around the earth in about 40 days.

And the trip begins.... right now. As I write, I'm in the lounge of some airline the flies to Australia. We're landing in Sydney after 15 hours, and the insanity begins. If you're generally tickled by this, +watch #hq


And with that intro out of the way...

Dudes I'm chuggin' dust edition airborne (vitamins for flying) like they're pixie sticks. Not to mention consuming preventative doses of zicam cuz I AM SO NOT GETTING THE SWINE MAN!


While on the plane FOR 15 HOURS....

* I've got epic game action lined up. I've beaten every single edition of Advance Wars on the GB Advance/DS except DUAL STRIKE, which is always sold out every time I've tried to buy it. And last week, GameSTOP came through for me and I nabbed a used copy. So. I guess. With just this item alone, 15 hours is probably totally covered.

* But in case not, I've got the PSP with some hot shots golf. I'm not a golfer, but this game has cred.

* I've got my laptop, photoshop and a small wacom intuos 4 (which I am *LOVING* by the way)

* Tunes.

* Uno.

* $Heidi - a magnificent conversationalist.

Epic wins all around.

See you soon Sydney. We are looking forward to hanging out with our collectively shared deviously creative citizens.