8 bit art

I was messing around with 8 bit video games and started thinking about all the cool characters that I grew up with.  You don’t think about stuff like that when you’re young.  Or maybe you do.  I don’t know.  All I know is that I didn’t think about it.  I don’t know how other people think.  I don’t really care either.

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These boxy little creatures are all running around in children’s heads all night long while they sleep and wreaking havoc.  They create all kinds of mischief and they are probably going to take over the world.

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I am an artist, and not much of a linguist.  I used to read a lot of books, but I was more of a visual person.  Sometimes when you get super-tuned in to a book, you have vivid pictures and stuff and when the author writes a passage that uses very descriptive words, your brain can make up all kinds of cool stuff.

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Making art is a very complicated subject, but a super-simple act to accomplish.  The funny thing is that some people you have to be some kind of genius or something just to draw pictures and stuff, but mostly it’s just about seeing through the fabric of the reality that our consciousness weaves for us.  Our brains are all connected to each other in all kinds of strange ways and our consciousness is just a thing that helps us to navigate our way through the maze.

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I’m in school right now and will be starting a class on relational databases soon, so I won’t have a lot of time to dedicate to art and pictures, but here are some pictures anyway.  Hopefully I’ll be able to get a decent computer soon, because mine is crap.

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