This year I will be walking and participating in the 2009 Kidney Walk in Philadelphia this October. As someone who has gone through kidney failure and now deals with kidney disease, this is a cause that is very close to my heart. Raising awareness and knowledge is needed to help prevent this disease.

Facts about Kidney Disease:
- Chronic kidney disease is a public health problem affecting 26 million Americans

- Risk factors include diabetes, high blood pressure and family history

- One in nine American adults have kidney disease and most don’t know it

- 92,000 people are waiting for organ transplants

- 17 people die each day waiting for an organ transplant

- It is the 9th leading cause of death in the US.

If you would like to donate please stop by my donation page - [link] to donate (any amount is greatly appreciated)

I will also be selling my Set Free poster - where proceeds will go to achieving my goal of $500 (US). If you would like to purchase this poster please go to [link]



Thank you for reading.

Thank you to all who has fav'd my work. I would love to go through and personally thank everyone. But I soon saw how far behind I was on doing that. And I just don't have the time. Heh but I still appreciate it.

On another note I started a project called 52. In an attempt to challenge myself while also building my skills, I created 52. It's 52 themes that are done in a 52minute time frame. If you want to follow along you can at the Epilogue Forums > [link] or on Pixelbrush > [link]

Right now I've done 2 themes with 5 pictures. I'm still tweaking the rules. Right now I'm not sure if I should keep it in the order I have it. I'm an artist I'm meant to break rules especially my own .

This is not a debate but and observation.

As I've been looking at some artwork lately, I've found myself being drawn to traditional art more and more lately. There is just something about it that is very appealing to me right now. Then I started to think, I actually haven't sat down and drawn anything really in... well I can't even remember. Sure I doodle here and there, but no actual thought out illustrations.

Then I realized that one of the reasons I went digital was because it was easier. But now I really miss drawing. But fear that I might not know what I'm doing any more.

Has anyone else found themselves in this situation. Has going digital effected your ability to use traditional mediums. After all there is no undo or color picker when it comes to traditional. You are stuck with what you do.

If you started off traditional then went to digital, do you ever feel the need to go back. Why did you make the switch in the first place.

I'm not one to make New Years Goals. But I think this is one that I will make. I want to do more traditional work this year. Whether it's through drawing or painting or something.

I just really miss the time I would get completely lost in my work. It's usually not like that with digital for me. So I think I'm going to go and get a new drawing pad tomorrow.

Anyone else thoughts on this subject.

This new personal page layout. Seems so much smoother than the previous.

I also like the options.

Taken from who took it from who took it from someone else... and so on and so on.

Here are 15 of my favorite movie quotes, then you guys must guess what movie they come from.

NO cheating and using google or IMDB to guess them. If you don't know, let someone else guess.

1. What we've got here is failure to communicate. - Cool Hand Luck

2. I would like to say this. Tardiness is not something you can do on your own. Many, many people contributed to my tardiness. I would like to thank my parents for never giving me a ride to school; the LA city bus driver who took a chance on an unknown kid and last but not least, the wonderful crew from McDonalds who spend hours making those egg McMuffins without which I'd never be tardy. - Clueless

3. Why torture yourself when life will do it for you? Who said that? I did! Go ahead and quote me.

4. I was impressed to see that she made proper use of the word 'myriad' in her suicide note.

5. It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

6. Without a heart I can never really know what it would be like to love someone, or ever really understand trashy novels.

7. Yes. Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her, so much... it-it- the f - it -flam - flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing-breathl- heaving breaths. Heaving breath...

8. The White House reception committee greeted the Prime Ribroast Minister and... I do the cha-cha like a sissy girl. I lik-a do da cha-cha. I'm sorry we seem to be having some technical difficulties. In other news - Bruce Almighty

9. That guy is tense. Tension is a killer. I used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Diskin, big fat guy, I mean, like, orca fat. He was so stressed in the morning

10. King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is!
Pig illegal forest to the king's wild kill it is a in! - Robin Hood: Men in Tights

11. I do have a test today, that wasn't bullsh**. It's on European Socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So, who gives a crap if they're Socialists? They could be fascist anarchists, it still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car. - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

12. That sarcastic contemptuous tone. That means you know everything because you're a man, and I know nothing because I'm a woman.

13. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. - AIRPLANE!

14. Fruity Oaty Bars! Make a man out of a mouse! Fruity Oaty Bars! Make you bust out of your blouse! Eat them all the time! Let them blow your mind... ohh! Fruity Oaty Bars!

15. They look like beatniks, should I unpack my bongos?