Chains and Circles Make my day!

Yeah, I listen to music loud rite? Give any Alice In Chains album a listen and you'll know why! And when I'm peaced out, there's the mix of chaos and peace thanks to A Perfect Circle... and as I said these two bands make my day!

The Wall!

Life at CKP's great fun! Then there's also all the fun outside college like side projects if I may call them that! Got the chance to do some art work for a film (Lucky Bastards) and I was all up for it when I came to know that what we had to do was Graffiti!!!!! Yup, total excitement and all!! The place turned out to be a garage at Hebbal, no... Kodigehalli, no... Sahakarnagar! Yes that was it!!!! 10 people were required but only 3 of us friends ended up doing the work! Why do people back out?! Tsk, Tsk...!!!!

The rain was pouring everytime we had to travel and I ended up wet all the time. Ginelle and Dhvani, my partners in crime were better off :P!
The first day we went to check out the place... you know... understand the route and all! Once we got there we were asked to give the wall a "Druggie Adda Look". Anyway, the first day the three of us finished the basic pencil work of the headline text "Herb Shop"! The director asked us to give it a splattered look.

The second day, we completed the paint work and "Herb Shop" was ready! Yippee- ka - Yay!!!! Dhvani couldn't make it that day. So Ginelle and I had to split the work amongst ourselves. The paint job was great fun. At college we aren't yet allowed to use paint and here we were, Painting on a Wall (Asian Paints that too)!!!!!! That was something! I was slow as usual while Ginelle finished letter after letter real easy! She did panic a lot though when the paint dripped! LOL!!!

Then came the best part!

There was this switchboard bang in the middle of the wall and we were asked to use it in the concept! Ginelle came up with the idea of a skull, but one with a switchboard for brains! LOL!!! I know it sounds crazy, but once it was finished, we were told it was cool! Hell, ok... it did look cool! We added some cracks and wires popping out and out of the mouth came a cigarette that blew smoke eventually forming the "O" of "Herb Shop". Again, we just finished the pencil work of the skull.

Then the trio made its return on the third and final day to complete the entire wall. The paint went in. This time we were all real fast! We did end up messing up the smoke but after some turpentine finish it looked smokey! We were to add extra text too, 'Pro- Drug Use' one liners and stuff. The director wasn't sure about what text could go up there and so he asked us to come up with our own stuff... anything that stuck with the concept. So I came up with one- liners such as 'Take that Pill, Smoke the Weed', 'High, But Still Not There', 'Junkhead', 'Up For It Punk?', 'Them Veins All Loaded', 'Dope Fiend', etc. Dhvani came up with the cool idea of a fist with the index finger pointing at the veiwer, over which she added the word 'Rebel'. She followed it up with the other text giving them the punk look. Ginelle experimented with different fonts on 'Wicked', 'Creep' and the earlier mentioned 'T.V.A.L'. After the text-paint job, our work was done and the snaps taken!

It was a great experience and the fact that I had my friends for company was cool.


PS:- So who you gonna call?

Dreams...

At first, darkness is all you see
When in sleep, you pretend to be
Patches of yellow and green then slowly creep in
Blending into a picture, earlier unseen.

Its often the best thing that could happen to you
Most often than not, it's too good to be true
A perfect scenario with your favourite little crew
With an ending so vague, that you never knew.

Very tricky dreams are, with the boundaries running farther,
You fade out a picture and enter another
Free to do anything, even fly for that matter
Believe me, I've had many, weird as ever!

Sometimes, instances, they might be of pure horror
Leaving you shivering and trembling, only to gasp and stutter
To wake up from them, you'd wish forever
But they get over slowly, as if for you to savour.

At times, sad little events do creep in
With tangible changes, you think should have been
Would you like to hang in there or just fade away?
It's not yours to decide in a dream, run or stay.

A fall it may be or an accident too
A horrifying image, scaring the shit out of you
A climax you're expecting oh so eagerly,
That's when you wake up and it's all over eventually.

Lame it may seem till you dream again
Before they're erased, write them down without refrain
You may see what you want or have a sleepless night,
It's just a fitting end to dusk, at dawn, a delight.

It's often opposite in reality, any outcome there might be
Learn from them, the little aspects, try to see
For they might come back to hit you right in the face
Given the same situation, say even same place.

PS :-

It's no dream that you're reading this
Nor is the fact that I came up with it
Pinch yourself to be sure,
Hey, I did that too!

Killer Box Office!

The stuff about insanely bad movies!

1. Ridiculous plots, cheesy humour.
2. You've seen them before, how original!
3. Strange, hilarious dialogue delivery
4. The lamest lines one can think of
5. Remarkable expressions as if at gun point
6. Snakes on planes, afterlife soft-toys and dangling in the air-kickboxers
7. There's always the dubbing but remakes somehow come through
8. Pulling hard on their noose, all the one hit wonders.
9. The mushy power rock soundtracks, the worst possible decision!

They work their charm on many, sad to say
But you're sure they are flops anyway
Screaming "Cash Back" the many, all their lives
Make a top 100 flop board, darting it with knives!




PS:- If there's anything good that comes out of such movies, it's just the uncanny talent of the film-makers to make you laugh your ass off!

Anyone up for Shivaji : The Boss ???????

Transformed!

Was always a big Automobile Freak! Always loved Robots! Merge the two = Dream come true!!! Used to wake up early in the morning just to watch the cartoon series Transformers and this was back when I was 5 or so! And with the movie having released this week, I can't wait to watch it! Might be low on a storyline but the graphics and action give the very same effect as the series a little magnified though! Will I end up watching it on the Big Screen.... will let ya know if and when that happens!

Well, its the 4th of September and yeah I finally watched it. Felt it was cheesy at some instances but the humour and action were really top notch!

Yeah, There's more to it than meets the eye!

I - DAY 2007

Sang the National Anthem with my college pals which didnt turn out as bad as we expected which was later followed by a Dub(ey)ious speech! LOL!!! Then came the best part... Nope! Not the food (which sucked btw). Well I'm talkin about the freakin Photo Frenzy! It was crazy, amazing, LOL-ish and well Classy too! The snaps varied from whole class to headbangers to punched-in-the-face idiot to earrings and craters! LOL!!!!! Some people were gettin creative too (folding paper plates... innovative indeed) ;)!!!!!! All that was missing was the "What-What" conversation!;)

Kickass Day, Kickass Fun!!! We celebrated Freedom Alright!!!!

PS:- Just wish the flag fluttered! Where was all the wind??????!!!!!!!

CKP....

Away from the usual routine of "Lecture-Write-Attendance" and through the door to a whole new world... It's amazing! Just the right place to get creative, know all-the-time-friendly people who are also the Ragging Seniors!LOL!!! Listening to music while sketching, a walk through the campus for a break(anytime) and real great friends... what more does one need?

Only painful and rather a struggling situation is the Sittin on the wooden donkey routine! I'm talking about the hard benches we have in class... Cozy is exactly what they aren't!

The first week started with a boring Draw Lines for 5 hours thing! Yeah, even at this level! And if you people are wondering what we exactly do in college, well.....

1. Listen to 'Artistic' lecturers tellin us to 'feel' things and draw more LINES!
2. Chai Break
3. MP3- accompanied sketch sessions
4. Chai Break
5. LUNCH! YUMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Slow consuming of food in my case ;)
6. Chats going on for hours
7. The occasional Rag-athon(3 times already)
8. Chat more
9. Get bored and go for another Chai Break
10. Listen to the "NO MOBILES" Rule
11. Break again...
12. Walk outta college (something we can do anytime :P)

So yeah, this is the usual cycle and after two weeks of drawing lines, leaves and shapes I still can't have enough of the fun that we guys have! Though we have all the freedom, we people actually end up doing the work we are asked to do! That's how it is

Freedom
Friends
LINES LINES LINES
Quality time with seniors
BREAK BREAK BREAK
Sleepy Sketching
A Million Yawns
TATA!

Gotta go complete '20' sketches....:P

PEACE OUT!

PS:- You can walk in anytime you want!