Happy Generic Holiday to suit your Religious Preference! -Anthony Torres

Season's Greetings! I mean, how have you all been? I feel pretty bad for not posting for a whole month. I have been too lazy to take pictures of my art. But yesterday I was in a mood. Now, on to the commentaries! This is just about the coldest holiday season I can remember, being in the 40s during the day! Yikes! I was at Disneyland the other day, and man, it got chilly.

Sorry about the non-Christmas like drawings. A Jackalope is as close as I'm going to get. Maybe you can come back after the holiday season when I'm in the mood again to take pictures.
Why is he old? Well, how many other Jackalopes do you see parading around? He could be the last of his kind, or the last animal with opposable thumbs to be able to hold a cane. Either way, he's old.

Depth! Hopefully you'll be seeing more of this great character.

Him.

Sumo Charlie Brown! Haha, such great times of drawing in school books, ah, such classics. Schultz could have made some serious profit off this guy.
This was a total accident! I was just throwing them and WHAMO! A strait-ish line. This (for some reason) reminds me of the providence of God. And no, I did not draw this.

Many of you were asking about my final project in my Art 80 class at IVC. Here it is. Some of the topics we could choose to draw from were, "Things from your childhood," "Memories," "Things you do daily," ...and all the good stuff. So, somehow these things fit into these and other categories.


I still feel kind of bad about not putting in anything about Christmas, or the season. So, this will be a bit of a three part post. And yes they are totally unrelated topics. And another yes, this does mean that you will not be expecting me to post anytime soon. I guess I am kind of lazy in that way too...

Wow, Christmas time seemed to come early this year, yet the actual day seems so far away. I believe that this might be blamed on the music. Christmas music, or "holiday" music seems to come earlier and earlier. And the stores (that haven't gone out of business due to the Economy) decorate for it the day after Halloween. -And Halloween starts in August. But let me not get off topic. This year doesn't seem to be as into fideism and more into more of just have a good time on whatever generic holiday-thing you do. And please, I hope that didn't offend you because of your religion, or lack there of.


All right, let me get off a topic that might possibly offend, and get onto the stuff you came here for; Me being funny! Yay! ..wait...

You know what makes me laugh? What people come up with in their Christmas letters. Reading each one from a family from year to year; can you really tell the difference? I guess since it has been a whole year they hope you forgot. Or more likely the parent writing it probably forgot what they wrote the previous year. And it seems to me the only thing that is different from year to year anyway is the ages of the kids. And it is funny how they always put the ages in there anyway... they are just going to be one year older from the previous year...or did you forget that too? I also like how they start, "Dear Loved Ones," wow, how generic can it get?
Another thing that is kind of funny is how the person writing it tries to write it in third person, and usually gets very confused when they have to put that sentence about themselves in it: "I or Ben, um..." Very intriguing.
So, all this to say, that I decided there wasn't enough of me in my family's Christmas letter this year. So, I am going to write my own.

Dear Loved ones,

How has your year been? Well, I will find out in February when your letter gets here...

Ben thinks this year has been great! Ben is a year older than he was last year, and loves all the same stuff he did a year ago. He still thinks he's funny, and still uses the same old material he did last year as well.
This was an exciting year for me, I mean Ben, I, I mean he-did a lot of things. One thing I-he did was shave for the first time. It was humorous for everyone to watch and adore me. -I mean him.
Ben enjoyed his Disneyland pass and his San Diego Zoo pass and will still enjoy the Disneyland pass till January 6... I don't know when the other one expires. Neither does Ben.

As usual Ben said some adorable things this year, Ben didn't write them down for him to, uh, I to, um, me to, tell you. ...?

Ben wishes you a Happy and Non-offending Holiday Season! And I hope you have a Merry new year!

With love or something, Me.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Every Thanksgiving I go out and play football. This was our "2nd Annual Turkey-Bowl" we had for our church. I actually just got back from playing. Let me tell you, it was muddy.
So, yeah, I'm not really a fan of taking pictures of drawings, but this will work for this Thanksgiving. Have a good one.

Band on the Run!

This is a video of one of the seminars at the Worship God 08 conference I went to this past summer. I didn't actually go to this one, so this is why I needed to watch it. This is an excellent video, about 75 minutes long, called Band on the Run. In this Bob Kauflin teaches on how to fit in to accentuate the words, and more serve the congregation with your playing. It will probably bless you most if you are apart of a worship team, or play any instrument, but even still this can effect you in more than one area. Enjoy!

2-D!!!

Hey, if you can make out what these things are, low fives for everyone. But, hey, look, it's our ol' buddy Jim, the Pirate, upside down.

What do you mean a month late?

Hey guys, I'm back! A while back, my art professor had us draw monsters for homework. Well, it just so happens I didn't do any of these, in fact I did these a couple days after I did the homework. And these are all more like aliens. But they were still fun to draw, enjoy.

Piracy.

The other day some friends and I got on the subject of pirating movies. The topic actually brought back some old and nearly forgotten memories. In the little old city of Pasadena, I was great friends with my neighbors. One of my best friends happened to own of few of these "very early released movies" and in my blissful, young, 9 year old days this was awesome! I remember this one specific time I asked him how he got a movie when it just left the theater. "My mom goes to this place in LA, where they sell these." He said.
"Cool," I thought.
Another instance, which I can't remember was before that one or after, my friend brought over a movie that my other brothers already watched in theaters. I repeatedly asked about the bad quality of the film, and it was that day that I was really informed on the subject of "pirated movies."

So, about this drawing, if you can see it in the drawing, (which I blame entirely on not having a scanner) is that the pirate is pirating the movie on his cell phone. Other things about this drawing after looking at it is the skull on his hat, if the skull has no eye balls, why would he need a patch over his eye socket? Either that, or he should have two patches... Another thing is the movie that is playing, no, it is not supposed to be a real movie...if it looks just like one to you, then sure, that's what movie it is. If you're wandering what is happening in the movie, use your imagination. But the current line is, "Yes, yes it is true, I am a vampire."
And no, it is not Twilight... I can save a disgusted post on that another day. *Wags head in shame,* You poor, fooled, people you.

Well, on the subject of movies, I was bragging off the other day how I hadn't watched a movie in a long time. And I think maybe a week later I had managed to watch, Pirates 3, The Pursuit of Happyness, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Let me tell you right now, as a part time movie critic, Pirates 3 and The Pursuit of Happyness, are must sees. Journey to the Center of the Earth might have been better if I had seen it in 3D, like the movie was filmed to be in.

All right, I will probably be posting again fairly soon, considering Thanksgiving and all that.
Bye all, see you soon.

Finally!

http://www.sovereigngraceministries.org/Blog/post/2008-Mission-Presentation-Video-3.aspx

This is the third Sovereign Grace Mission Video. This features CJ Mahaney, the lead pastor of Sovereign Grace Ministries, and Joshua Harris, the senior pastor of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Hey, all I'm sorry I haven't been posting much recently but I hope to back to scheduale...or back-er anyway... \:^b