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Stephen Michael Arnold

Gender:: Male
Specialty:: Sound
Status:: Other
Relationship Status:: Engaged

Attacker of the Funny Bone
Make 'EM Rise From their Seats
LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE
Less Likely to be found ON the Path
Always Leaving 'EM Riveted
Official STRAIT JACKET CLUB MEMBER
Funny Farm Academy Graduate
OFFICIAL BORGNINE DUTCH OVEN ENTHUSIAST SOCIETY
I Don't Give a Rat's *** Badge
The unPC
AB Pitbull
Gold Medalist Olympic Thread Vaulter

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About Me: http://phoenixfirestorm.deviantart.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a 24 year old, bright colored, Hawaiian shirt-wearing guy from Southern Louisiana. I am currently on hiatus from the Looniversity here. I do many different things and they change with the wind. I paint (Acrylics), sculpture from misc. recycled materials (Usually cardboard or Styrofoam that is eventually painted), draw, play around in Photoshop, and an amateur photographer. I also play trumpet and an aspiring writer, and poet. At one point I wanted to be in a symphony or orchestra but that dream floated away as did the animator dream. I also have considered a career in the culinary arts but another dream requiring too much money on top of the money I have wasted on my worthless university and have to pay back. They don’t “Teach” at these institutions. GOOGLE is a better resource and its FREE…F…R…E….E…FREE. I would love to illustrate books, too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everything I do revolves around perspective. Everything I do, or see I am looking for different ways to view it. When I play video games, I do what I can NOT to play the game right and see if I can still accomplish the goals. I have always seen the world differently and I tend to find humor in most everything. Just look at most of what I post on this site or in the forum. I love sarcasm, which, to many, is a lost art and most don’t understand. I like things that are crazy and wild, not because they are attention grabbers but because they are from a different perspective. I have never been a fan of the old masters. They are exceptional at what they did, but their work doesn’t feel exciting to me. As a child I loved bright colors and this trait still remains. Despite my attraction to and constant use of bright colors I have always wanted to do “Dark” pieces. One of my favorite artists is Tim Burton. I enjoy all of his movies. The one thing that has always inspired me to draw is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Ever since I could hold a pencil I drew them and practiced with them. THANKS Eastman and Laird! I have been self-taught for most of my life and even though I have college experience in art, I can’t say that I learned anything worth stating otherwise. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of the teachers I have had here don't want you to do anything original, they want you to conform to their standards of art which contradicts what they tell us in VIAR 101, such as copying a cubist painting and creating it in a 3D fashion out of Styrofoam instead of creating an original piece. They have also said, “We are here to develop your own personal style by your graduation date.” This has been contradicted too many times on too many levels. They force feed us that the Renaissance masters were the only masters and that to be truly be great, you must study every inch and detail of their pieces. You don't have to be able to copy the Mona Lisa by Leonardo, or sculpt a Michelangelo. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nobody cares about that. They are interested in what you, and you alone can do. Quite frankly, I see the old Renaissance masters as being boring. Sure their pieces are highly detailed and well painted, and that I could never reproduce such things, but I don't care and neither should anyone else. What matters is what we, as artists, can apply to paper or canvas, and what we can produce with limited materials at hand. To me that is what makes art, art. What comes from OUR hearts is what matters and no one else's -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Le Jeune Amis Art Show ------ New Iberia, LA -------- April 5, 2008 --------- Art Judge ---------
Hobbies:: Reading, Eating Out, Making art, Outdoor Activities, Photography, Cooking, Watching Films, Watching TV, Pets, Sports, Traveling, Gaming, poetry/ writing/ music
Favorite Movies:: Animations/comic related/action/fantasy/thought provoking(Island, Minority report, Matrix, etc.) Patch Adams
Favorite TV Shows:: Boondocks/Family Guy/ Robot Chicken/ Futurama/ hate the reality TV trend, and biased newscasts(which account for pretty much all newscasters
Favorite Music:: Gorillaz/Ayumi Hamasaki, Utada Hikaru/Green Day/Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Big Bad Voodoo Daddiy/Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, Dance Hall Crashers/Evanesence, Metallica/Death Cab for Cutie, Eisley/Hans Zimmer, David Arnold, John Williams (NO RAP AND NO HORRIBLE

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sonoman

5 months ago

4910 comments

OK, Stephen, I know you like a dramatic entrance, but enough is enough..........
sonoman

5 months ago

4910 comments

I'm still waiting to see your avatar appear. The Phoenix will rise again! : )
Anastacia

5 months ago

2302 comments

People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1
SheilaTS

6 months ago

5676 comments

You have the best avatar!!! I'm jealous
Anastacia

6 months ago

2302 comments

This one has your name written all over it.....

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Anastacia

6 months ago

2302 comments

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
-Albert Schweitzer
evekorindt

6 months ago

8178 comments

Thank you for all your nice and funny comments! Have a great day! Eve
MDavisClarke

6 months ago

6336 comments

Hey Steven:) Long time, no see:) Nice avatar...lol:) I hope all is well and you have a most wonderful day:) Keep smiling and live well:)
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6 months ago

thanks for the lovely comments today stephen! have a beautiful sunday.
zingaraluna

6 months ago

59490 comments

Hi Stephen!
Just checking out how are you doing!
Hope you are well...
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6 months ago

uh, wassup?
zingaraluna

6 months ago

59490 comments

Hi Friend,
What a cool avatar you have!!! I like it!!! Hope you are well my friend! Hugs from Portugal to you!!!
VersteckterGeist

9 months ago

2 comments

Yay.. trying to figure out how to work this. I like your profile! Thanks for telling me about this website. =D
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9 months ago
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10 months ago

thanks for the lovely comments. hope all is well in your world. how's life being newly fiance'd?