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I guess that qualifies as art. Also, sadness.
Jun 17, 2009, 06:40:48
Mood: sad
Listening To: Daylight dies - Cathedral





OH YES I DID ARTS (and yes I'm alive), skip to end of journal if bored to figure out what the hell it is.


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In the definitely unhappy spirits of the june christmas season, things tend to die.


A band I've grown up with and followed from the early days, Voivod, has just published its very last album. They were active from 1982 to today, probably making them the oldest continuously active metal band (though it can be argued that at the middle of their career they weren't exactly metal anymore, but who cares). Not many people knew them, and it'll be a silent loss. But they were doomed anyway from the day their guitarist, Denis D'Amour aka Piggy, died. To make things worse, he died of a flash cancer on the day of my 17th birthday, making it the lamest birthday ever. So, instead of replacing him, they just used a few guitar tracks he had recorded and made two albums with them. RIP Voivod, 1982-2009 :(

But that was a predictable ending, and their career was musically going in a direction that I wasn't very keen to, I can deal with the sadness of them being over.



However, something - or rather someone - I grew up watching and idolizing has died a few days ago.

Few people around here knew him, I wouldn't be surprised if actually noone did. Japanese pro wrestling legend Mitsuharu Misawa, a man who contributed in getting me into better wrestling when I reached around 10 years old and figured out what everyone watched (aka WWE/WWF) was drama crap. I borrowed up some old tapes from All Japan Pro Wrestling, and was blown away by how they managed to make pro wrestling look like an actual sport, without taking away a single bit from the entertainment value. No stupid skits, sketches, and promos, it looked real, damn real.

People like Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Jumbo Tsurata, Tokiashi Kawada, etc. brought crowds of tens of thousands to watch them perform - they all accepted to fall in disbelief, and, despite everyone in the audience knowing very well that it was scripted and not "real" fighting, they got into it just as if it was real. Because those guys made it look real.

Obviously, I grew up, and cared about more than just "people hitting eachother in the face". In comes Pro Wrestling NOAH, a japanese pro wrestling promotion, founded by Mitsuharu Misawa when the promotion he was in (AJPW) fell apart. It still featured that "in your face" style, but also mixed it in with entertaining athletic youngsters, and the old ones - Misawa amongst others - had grown into such charisma magnets that they could bring tears to my eyes by just wrestling a match.


Nowadays, I still watch wrestling regularly. I can't bring myself to care about WWF/WWE or other major promotions. All I watch, and all I've watched for the past years, are Misawa's promotion Pro Wrestling NOAH, and Ring Of Honor, an american promotion that features the same style, with wrestlers in it that do things one can't even believe is possible with a human body (no innuendo intended).


On June 13th, 2009, Mitsuharu Misawa died in the ring during a performance in the main event of a Pro Wrestling NOAH show. He took a routine suplex (which was perfectly executed in order to be as safe as possible, the guy who gave the blow isn't to blame), and his spinal cord severed. He died on the spot. Medics failed to revive him as thousands of fans and the whole locker room watched in disbelief. Misawa was 46 years old. The shock was huge for wrestling fans all over Japan, and those that knew him in other countries. He was as known over there that people like Hulk Hogan were in the USA (except he actually had talent, unlike mister Hogan).

As of such, I felt the need to make a video tribute to him.

Not sure whether it qualifies as an artistic creation, given that the music isn't from me, and neither are the images. All I did was put them together. Regardless, here it is: [link]


Rest in peace Mitsuharu Misawa, I'll miss you.
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I'm BadFurDay, the insane long haired metalhead. Be warned, if you talk to me, you'll suddenly loose your sanity.


When it comes to art, I like to draw quite a lot, but mostly to make stuff with Flash. I discovered Macromedia Flash around 2003, and, since then, I've been addicted to making Flash games and animations (but mostly stick to making games).

Generally, I'm a coder. I run a website called NoBleme aswell as a free MMORPG involving combat mechas called the NRM Online - I'll extend this part to describe it better and give some links later on.


My recently played tracks and most played artists:


Full musical profile on last.fm: [link]

Oh my, it's the NRM Online:

Want to join? Read this: [link]
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It's just occurred to me that Mattias Eklundh is the guitarist equivalent of Bobby McFerrin. You are the only person I know who I'm confident will actually get it, so I figured I'd send it your way.

Also, merry Consumermas.
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Wow, I finally found your SA.n page...
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after Reading you Post about how bad DeviantART is, Im glad to have registered on your website :) its sweet! plus its FREE!

Keep Rocking!
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Wow, you get a lot of contraversy for the entire DA event between you and their staff, but yeah, I got banned for making a furry who apparently thought he was smarter due to being found I'd use alternate accounts to get back at users wo pulled the block, then reply crap.

Anyway, its amazing you managed to show how corrupt and fowl some of the admins of DA are. So how life these days?
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Found your article on ae. xD Decided to come here and it's pretty neat. I like that you can actually customize shit.
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Hey,
I came across an article of yours while researching online, and must say you are one hell of a brave one to do what you did. I salute you for it. I followed your information to this site, which seems quite nice. I will say I have been a member o DeviantArt for four years and have many friends there who are settled in right where they are. I won't leave them.But I do agree with much of what you said, and I plan to stick around here. Thanks for the info, on this place and where I came from.
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I'm surprised that ED left your note untampered, and I thank them for that. It's thanks to said note that I learned of the shit going on with DA's staff, and why I eventually left (hopefully bringing a couple more with me) after failing to get the staff to take action against quite an obvious art stealing troll.

I thank you for that note you sent some years ago that I never received, as without that, I would have no site to go to (having hated all other art sites I found on my own), and probably still be fighting an impossible battle with deviantART's staff.
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I salute you
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Are you the legendary badfurday who pissed in the face of dA staff?

If so, you are my frickin' hero, man.
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I'm no legend and I pissed on noone's face.

But yeah, I'm that BadFurDay who ended up on ED a few years ago.
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...DOGG I am fuckin wit ya man, I Love What you said you Did to dem assholes at dA, man classic!! Sir you r a brave fuckin solja...Any way, I used to be on Da and...They treated me like a ripper...IT WAS MY DAMN ART! (exp. one) But any ways, Will I be treated lik dat here
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You will be treated according to what you do here.

Rip art, trace, reuse non-stock art, use external music/images, and you'll get banned.

Do your own stuff yourself and you won't.

It's as simple as that.
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