This is What Happens When I Can't Use the Computer

Hi! Here for another Bloggy Monday, your favorite guinea pig-themed mod, ICARUSFLIES!!! >waits for applause<

Anyway, since I've been posting all the 'big news' type junk when I felt like it, I needed to come up with something for today's bloggy monday. The result is a story about what happened in class one day when my teacher decided it was a computer-free note-taking day. Considering that I basically LIVE on the computer, this wasn't his best decision ever. So computer went off…and the story begins!

A quick bit of background information: My class (English) had just finished Heart of Darkness. The plan was to watch Apocalypse Now (which is based on Heart of Darkness, fun fact), and take notes on the cinematography, the juxtaposition of light and dark, etc.

So here's my page of notes:

Please note that that is for the ENTIRE HOUR LONG CLASS PERIOD. Obviously I got frustrated of taking notes by hand after about the first five minutes of the movie, and drew a picture of a snail on a razor, a piece of metaphor that had caught my interest. By contrast, when I'm allowed to use my computer I'll usually get a full few pages of notes that I can actually READ and no random doodles. I get distracted less easily that way because I have a very strict NO INTERNET policy during class. I NEVER EVER go online when class is in session.

Anyway, the other result of Apocalypse Now was this:

A new RPG character. Um….yeah, I think I spent more time on this than the notes. AND I STILL COULDN'T DRAW THE FREAKIN' PITH HELMET. >_<

Or anything else for that matter, but the pith helmet was what really annoyed me.

Also, then a puppy appeared in the movie and any degree of focus I had for main plot totally vanished. Or notetaking skills anyway…I'm pretty good at remembering film details, with the exceptions of the stuff I actually wrote down.

Also, please don't ask me to clarify what my notes say…I really can't read them. The best I can tell it's something along the lines of:

HIGH CONTRAST

Some random quote from someone which I probably found amusing at the time, but the laugh value of which has been erased by the illegibility of the last part.

Flailing around covered in blood

Something Something from water….probably says purity but it doesn't look like there are enough letters.

Kurtz' record sounds like something from Batman: Arkham (…of course.)

Illustration of snail on razor's edge.

Kurtz is considered crazy criminal by the other officers.

Sky somethine something overrage, extreme gloom everything silhouetted

Boat driver something something is black

Billowing smoke covers the sky

…And here's your story for today folks! Hopefully you've learned a valuable lesson: Don't make Icarus take notes by hand because absolutely no one can read them.

LMAO this is a work of art

 
 So, tried your hand at drawing. Don't you usually use paint?

@OmegaDynasty: I was just doodling during class. When I'm really drawing I use the DA muro tool, or in pre-allergy times, Legos. The doodle above is actually from my sketchbook (which I was using for notes that day), where I keep character concepts.

@SpidermanWins: Thanks! ^_^

@OmegaDynasty: I was just doodling during class. When I'm really drawing I use the DA muro tool, or in pre-allergy times, Legos. The doodle above is actually from my sketchbook (which I was using for notes that day), where I keep character concepts.

@SpidermanWins: Thanks! ^_^

@OmegaDynasty: ….I just use my touchpad. :P

I'm really not much of an artist, I prefer writing.

@OmegaDynasty: ….I just use my touchpad. :P

I'm really not much of an artist, I prefer writing.

@OmegaDynasty: ………..

Yeah, that probably means writing isn't really your thing. xP

Unless you're like me and decide that 4 in the morning is a GREAT time to write a story!

@OmegaDynasty: ………..

Yeah, that probably means writing isn't really your thing. xP

Unless you're like me and decide that 4 in the morning is a GREAT time to write a story!

@OmegaDynasty:

-_-

TMI. Even in joking, T. M. I.

@OmegaDynasty:

-_-

TMI. Even in joking, T. M. I.

@OmegaDynasty: O_o

Your acronym is a mystery to me. Don't make me pull out my seriously annoying trick of acronym-izing EVERYTHING I WRITE as payback. xP

@OmegaDynasty: O_o

Your acronym is a mystery to me. Don't make me pull out my seriously annoying trick of acronym-izing EVERYTHING I WRITE as payback. xP

@OmegaDynasty: Naturally. ^_^

Are you selling your art by any chance? I teared a little. Such subtlety... such Finesse ... OH GOD, IM TEARING AGAIN. Its just soo.. beautiful.

@Rudyftw: …..I'll tell you what….you give me a few hundred dollars and I'll take art lessons. xP

@Cervantes: O_O

WHY DID YOU MAKE ME SEE THAT?! GAH!

What does that chicken scratch say? :D

@LONGTIME: I don't know. :P

LMAO! Wait a few years and you'll sell that for a few grand. Six Figures at least. That finesse, damn. I swear, this is a work of art.

@ReVamp: I know! People can pay me to get my original art and burn it. xP

Love both films, but I like Heart of Darkness better.

Haha that is amazing!! XD I love razor snail O_O I do that to so distracting when you can draw nice character for an in english class kind of thing happening! (no one can read my notes either V_V) 

@ReVamp: VERY rich. >_>

>goes to draw more multi-million dollar artwork<

@BATPANEXE: There's more than one film?

@thehummingbird: LOL, yep. :P