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end of olifen

i’m going to retire posting/reblog’ing things here & move elsewhere. i would’ve pulled a “batman” & been all, “please leave me in peace. please go. stop smiling. It’s not a joke. please leave. the party’s over. get out,” but i know not everyone’s going to listen & not the ones i want to leave me alone will.

however, i am keeping all my past posts available, not only for myself as a record of the posts reblog’d that i enjoy, but also of all the shit i’ve drawn others may still find interest in ( & also for archival purposes as i’d originally intended this for ).

this turn of events does not excuse reposting, stealing, or editing anything ugly i’ve made & posted here. only that this blog will essentially be inactive once queue publishes this post.

if anyone still needs to reach me, ask permission for whatever or anything else, etc., i’ll be checking messages up until i update this post saying otherwise.

do unfollow.

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you were there

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（＾д＾）hee-hee-hoo

“No more games! Kill him!”

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for the longest time i knew i didn't know what was going on in my head, only that i liked it @A@

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WIKILEAKS: Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system - Americans already living under a privately owned surveillance network akin to Minority Report.

And someone isn’t happy about this: Wikileaks is now sustaining 10 gigabytes worth of DDoS attacks per second.

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Trapwire is the name of a program revealed in the latest Wikileaks bonanza—it is the mother of all leaks, by the way. Trapwire would make something like disclosure of UFO contact or imminent failure of a major U.S. bank fairly boring news by comparison.

And someone out there seems to be quite disappointed that word is getting out so swiftly; the Wikileaks web site is reportedly sustaining 10GB worth of DDoS attacks each second, which is massive.

Anyway, here’s what Trapwire is, according to Russian-state owned media network RT (apologies for citing “foreign media”… if we had a free press, I’d be citing something published here by an American media conglomerate): “Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology—and have installed it across the U.S. under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.

Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it’s the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community.

The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a who’s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation’s ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented. The details on Abraxas and, to an even greater extent TrapWire, are scarce, however, and not without reason. For a program touted as a tool to thwart terrorism and monitor activity meant to be under wraps, its understandable that Abraxas would want the program’s public presence to be relatively limited. But thanks to last year’s hack of the Strategic Forecasting intelligence agency, or Stratfor, all of that is quickly changing.”

So: those spooky new “circular” dark globe cameras installed in your neighborhood park, town, or city—they aren’t just passively monitoring. They’re plugged into Trapwire and they are potentially monitoring every single person via facial recognition.

In related news, the Obama administration is fighting in federal court this week for the ability to imprison American citizens under NDAA’s indefinite detention provisions—and anyone else—without charge or trial, on suspicion alone.

So we have a widespread network of surveillance cameras across America monitoring us and reporting suspicious activity back to a centralized analysis center, mixed in with the ability to imprison people via military force on the basis of suspicious activity alone. I don’t see how that could possibly go wrong. Nope, not at all. We all know the government, and algorithmic computer programs, never make mistakes.

Here’s what is also so disturbing about this whole NDAA business, according to Tangerine Bolen’s piece in the Guardian: “This past week’s hearing was even more terrifying. Government attorneys again, in this hearing, presented no evidence to support their position and brought forth no witnesses. Most incredibly, Obama’s attorneys refused to assure the court, when questioned, that the NDAA’s section 1021 – the provision that permits reporters and others who have not committed crimes to be detained without trial – has not been applied by the U.S. government anywhere in the world after Judge Forrest’s injunction. In other words, they were telling a U.S. federal judge that they could not, or would not, state whether Obama’s government had complied with the legal injunction that she had laid down before them. To this, Judge Forrest responded that if the provision had indeed been applied, the United States government would be in contempt of court.”

If none of this bothers you, please don’t follow me on Twitter, because nothing I report on will be of interest to you. Go back to watching the television news network of your choice, where you will hear about Romney’s latest campaign ads, and whether Obamacare will increase the cost of delivery pizza by 14 to 16 cents.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/trapwire-everything-you-need-to-know-2012-8#ixzz23T6ZWXXu

Other sources:

>http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014189696 >http://www.trapwire.com/trapwire.html >http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/10/wikileaks-trapwire-stratfor-cia/ >http://wikileaks.org/

>America >Free

choose one

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Poor Bolin.

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most favorite part

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oooh

Freeze.

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while this is only the tip of the iceberg, most folks who know me, know i nearly loathe genderbending characters & people, but, speaking with my collaborator ( in something else entirely ) in length, i decided to give it another shot since she was curious on where i'd take it. this would be a prelim idea - playing around - & i'd normally keep sketching & adjusting until the design right. @ this stage, i don't really feel good - it's just another piss-poor attempt, imo.

MOVING ALONG. the bolin i'd originally drawn was honestly sloppy & not well thought out.  just knew the features should be soft & the hair curly. same big eyes & eyebrows, however. also, i knew i'd change the clothes for a softer feel, as well - maybe that's not such a good thing, but it's what i'd consider. the colours became brighter, too - but i'm not sure that was a good move. if i kept going, i'd test out the same colours or darker & less saturated.

i had to soften out the face in a less blocky way - think heart-shaped. & while i feel bolin's eyes aren't really ( idk what is earth folks in avatar ) "chinese" i tried to go with something in between, butwithmyartit'sdifficulttotellHAHAHAHA.

girl!bolin doesn't have the traditional tiny body a lot of my friends & family have, so she's taking from the thicker/average/etc body type, i guess. curvy but not noticeably so. everything is pretty "average," or at least that's how i wanted to go.

the lips are as full & naturally thick as guy!bolin's, though - that's not lipstick.  really like how that would translate.

anyway, this isn't any more thought out than the other in but a few ways, but this time i was considering exactly how the hair would be curly & how it would be kept. how i could try to better capture the era in china around lok's time without going too fantasy. the clips seem like a rip of asami's, but i honestly was thinking of it way back before she was intro'd, although i'll say it doesn't seem like they fit this design, either. idk, it's just an idea to match the buttons on the clothes.

I DON'T KNOW. I LIKE MY GIRLS KAWAII & COORDINATED. ):

i had numerous collar plans, a lot of them too similar to bolin's guy design, & i figure i'd cut out the middle man & just stick with something simpler. one collar  but add fluffy sleeves from a softer, loose shirt underneath - flipping bolin's tight undershirt & loose "jacket" thing-y idea...whatever. i like the idea of keeping the shoes the same, but i could easily exchange them for something cuter.

anyway, i'm getting wordy & not getting much else done, so.

oh, right, and the hem is all crazy because that's how i roll. i love doing that shit to my own characters. i really have no excuse & no basis in design to be doing that to the hem. BUT I DID.

orz

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➥ Claire Redfield and Sherry Birkin ➣ Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.

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what i love here is he may not be what she was expecting but that doesn't change how deeply she cares about him.

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