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Im not a huge fan of Marion, but I think he would be a good fit into the front court of this team. A lineup of Monta/ SJax/ Marion/ Randolph/ Biedrins is a pretty good starting lineup with CJ/ Buike/ Maggs/ BWright/ Turiaf on the bench. I dont know what it would take to get Marion, I really dont think he will get huge $$, but I believe it will take more than the MLE. If we cannot get a PG, I think SF is the position that needs to be filled, especially if Jackson is going to be playing in the backcourt.
I thought Marion was somewhat of a protender, a product of the Phoenix system, with the way he was pretty average in Miami, but he came on strong the last two weeks or so of the season in Toronto, so he can still perform well. What I think, going by what he's done, is that he needs a very good PG to play well, like he had with Nash and Calderon. We don't have one here, so he's effectiveness is really a question mark. He'd be a great fit as SF in Nelson's system I think, but not sure how good he'd be. No way is he worth even 10 million now, just too unsure of what he'll play like. For what Crawford's on, I'd do it, but only a three year deal. Marion's about 30 years old anyway so more than three years is a bit of a risk. If Crawford goes, there's money to get Marion for the same amount Crawford gets and Maggette would be out of place as well, likely getting little court time (or Azu getting little court time which is wrong), so he'd have to go as well
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – As the Florida State Baseball team takes the field Friday afternoon for the first official practice of the 2013 campaign, the Atlantic Coast Conference released the baseball coaches' preseason poll.
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North Carolina received the nod to repeat as the Coastal Division champion. The Tar Heels received nine of the possible 12 first-place votes while totaling 69 total points (six points for each first-place vote, five for each second-place vote, etc). The Tar Heels were followed in the overall Coastal Division voting by Georgia Tech (55), while Virginia (50) placed third and Miami (39) fourth. Virginia Tech (27) placed fifth, followed by Duke (12).
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Flying back from Silicon Valley to New York, West wanted to show me images of some recent kingish purchases he'd made, along with various treasures he had his eye on. It was a giddy tour of ancien régime-looking finery that didn't end until well after the plane had landed. There were two golden goblets—thin-stemmed and etched with an intricate floral pattern—that West said he planned to use for drinking water. He was particularly excited about a bowl that squats regally on a gold base. The bowl is made of milky, hand-painted porcelain, with two grippable gold lions curling up its sides. "I copped this to eat cereal out of," he said, adding that he's been fantasizing about buying a horse. It's hard to say exactly how much, if at all, he was joking.
It's similarly unclear, three days later at his apartment, whether he regrets buying the fur pillows, which cost him god knows how much, or if he regards their impracticality as central to their appeal. Uncomfortable fur pillows represent the kind of problem a plebe would kill to have, after all, and in West's acquisition value-system, form left function lying bruised, beaten, and bloody on the mat long ago. At one point West tells me, apropos of nothing, "I jog in Lanvin."
But when West complains about the pillows, it's not just an underhanded brag. It also speaks to a deeper sense that, as life has gotten ever more luxuriously comfortable for him, he has become that much more restive and incapable of truly enjoying it. He fancies himself a king these days, but throughout his career he has frequently come across like a princess tossing and turning atop a pea. It's as though an irritating little voice nags at him from down below, telling him that he still hasn't achieved everything he can, that he still doesn't have all the success he deserves, and that he never will. Sometimes he says he doesn't want to be "limited by the art form of rap," and sometimes he sets his sights higher and says he doesn't want to be limited by the 21st century: "When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids," he says.
Last September, when he interrupted Taylor Swift at the Video Music Awards, West's nagging inner voice enjoyed its biggest platform to date—and suffered its biggest rebuke. As Swift accepted her award for best female video, West stormed the stage, grabbed her mic—and the spotlight—to mount a protest on behalf of Beyonce Knowles, whose "Single Ladies" video was up for the same award.
West had risen to national prominence with a stammering, justice-seeking outburst in 2005, when he interrupted Mike Myers and Chris Tucker on a Katrina telethon and excoriated George W. Bush. Here was a stammering, sort-of-justice-seeking outburst of a different kind—and where the first had been roundly celebrated, this one was decried. "Fuck you Kanye, it's like you stepped on a kitten," Katy Perry said, neatly encapsulating the majority response. Last week, on Hot 97, West—who apologized to Swift then fell into a long, self-imposed exile—likened himself to "a modern day Emmett Till," the 14-year-old boy murdered in Mississippi for supposedly whistling at a white woman. Although it'd be naive to say that there had been no racial component to the event or its fallout, the Till comparison proved that West's sense of persecution is alive and well.
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West's struggle between self-love and self-doubt has been career-long. He made his 2004 debut as a Louis Vuitton backpack of contradictions, casting himself as a principled "conscious" rapper with a weakness for womanizing and conspicuous consumption. "Always said if I rapped I'd say something significant," a rhyme on one early song went, "but now I'm rapping 'bout money, hoes, and rims again." On another track, West observed, mournfully, "We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need 'em/ Things we buy to cover up what's inside/ Cause they make us hate ourself and love they wealth." He identified his materialism—and, by extension, that of the upwardly mobile underclass at large—as the symptom of an inherited, deeply ingrained self-loathing and insecurity.
West has yet to cure himself of that affliction—quite the contrary, as the kingish splurges attest. But he hasn't swept it under the rug, either. (The rug in question is a Persian "with cherub imagery," in case you're wondering). His tendency, in fact, is to inflate his cockiness to the point of grotesquerie, to type it out in ALL CAPS, to render it obscenely over-compensatory, and maybe even to inscribe its plush trappings with a faint tinge of penitent masochism, from the uncomfortable fur-pillows to a new song that revolves around a refrain—"My chain heavy, my chain too heavy"—that turns a boast into a statement of suffering.
When West says something like "I love me," the words carry some irony. One of his favorite fictional characters is Ron Burgundy, from Anchorman—an arrogant, preening blowhard who exults in his stupidity, blissfully unaware of how ridiculous he is. When West raps, "I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal," quoting from Anchorman, it's both a boast and a parody of one.
In other words, West has always been an interesting braggart because he lets a brag function as its opposite—he likes to have his cake and poison it, too. "Thoughts is Napoleon," West says, and you wonder if he's comparing his mind-state to the emperor or the complex.
When West spoke to me last spring, there was more poison in the cake mix than usual. "I never feel like I'm not the underdog. I never felt completely comfortable," he said in March, still reeling, it seemed, from the VMA fallout. As West went on, it became clear that the death of the designer Alexander McQueen had shaken him and added to his funk. Mainstream rappers aren't really supposed to parade their vulnerabilities—at least they weren't until West came along, clearing the way for marquee emoters like Kid Cudi and Drake—but he readily admitted that he empathized with the designer's suicidal torment. (In the video-of-sorts for "See You in My Nightmares," he drives a blade into his stomach, loosing a flurry of confetti and a little claymation beast in a fantastical act of hari-kari.)
"I know how it feels when the night demons come," West told me. "Sometimes when it hurts so bad we have to just lay in the bed. Just lay in bed and don't move." He added that he had begun work on new music, and described the process as gruelingly cathartic: "Sometimes I turn the music up and drink and cry."
Cut to a Thursday in July and West seemed to have banished the night demons, at least for the moment, with the raw force of 10,000 lumens. We were at his apartment and he was showing off his brand-new projection-screen television. At about 13 feet wide, it takes up a huge chunk of wall space. The image on the screen was a breathtaking overhead view of some vaguely familiar metropolis. It looked like we were peering through a window. "Watching Dark Knight in the day!" West said proudly.
By Friday night, the charms of the screen had yet to wear off—he'd hardly had a chance to use the thing between an editing session for the music video for his new single, "Power," and a dinner with Jay-Z. Now he had an audience he seemed especially interested in impressing: some girls visiting him from Stockholm named Helena and Carolina. "Why girls from Stockholm be so fresh?" West asked. He was mixing Grey Goose with Ruby Red grapefruit juice, pouring the cocktails into vintage Versace glassware and hitting them pretty hard. One of girls—I never found out who they were, exactly, or how he knew them—showed West some photos of her mom. The alcohol was making him cheeky. "Hey, I don't know what to say about this," West said. "Let me see more of you!"
The girls were drinking, too, and one of them spoke to me briefly in a garble of English and her native tongue. "Hey, Kayne's nya album ar magiskt.... that shit is crazy... det basta som gjorts pa lange....lyssna pa det and get back to me!" she said. He'd been playing her some beats that RZA had produced for the upcoming record, and she loved them.
The new album promises a marked change in tone from the last one, 808s and Heartbreak, a set of brooding electro-dirges written in the aftermath of West's mother's death and his breakup with a longtime girlfriend. On early songs and rhymes he's shared so far, West has restored the uptempo swing and goofball punch-lines he deep-sixed last time out. "I'm Socrates but my skin more chocolatey," West raps on "See Me Now," a relentlessly buoyant track he dedicated to "the summer, the BBQs," to fun.
Even "Mama's Boyfriend," an Oedipal stew of jealousy and anger, contains a viciously funny tirade, delivered from the adolescent West's perspective, against the "ol' Old Spice wearin', short-chain wearin', dress-shoes-and-jogging-pants wearin'" new guy his mom's brought home. The song ends with a Nashville-worthy narrative twist when West finds himself caring for a boy whose mom he's dating.
Drinking vodka with the Swedes, West was exultant. He bopped his head hard to his own music, rapped along a little bit. TheAvatar Blu-ray was playing. West yelled, at no one and everyone, "Nigga my screen is 13 feeeeeet! Don't talk to me!" He raised a toast – "Skal!"—then announced that he was headed off to a club.
I wasn't invited—even an all-access pass has its limits —but from the headache West was nursing the next morning, it seemed like he'd had fun. "Hangovers ain't good man," he said around 10 a.m. on Saturday. It was unclear how much, if any, sleep he'd gotten. He made his way to a closet and began trying on suits again.
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On Specializations
However, the traditional Trinity has three flaws. The first is that it requires a specific group composition in order to work. Three Tanks? Sorry. Three DPS? Sorry, again. Encounters designed around the Trinity need all three parts in order to work.
The second flaw is that Tanks and Healers are at a disadvantage when soloing content because they don't deal much damage. This one is particularly nasty because it offers a slippery slope as Tanks/Healers complain about their solo viability. A developer who caves on that issue and increases the damage dealt of the Tank/Healer, decreases the importance of the damage dealer. And equally important if your game has PvP, it can quickly make these classes too powerful.
The third flaw is also in the elegance of the design. The rock-scissors-paper thing is only fun when you are the rock and they are scissors. If you are the scissors, and all you see are rocks, you aren't going to have much fun in PvP.
Jack of All Trades or Specialist
The solution to all three of these flaws is pretty straight-forward: Acknowledge these flaws exist and then proceed to ignore them.
No system is without tradeoffs. Ultimately, you really only have two choices. A bunch of Jack-Of-All-Trades where everyone is the same, or specialists in specific areas. Once you allow the specialists, you open the door for all the class balance issues and cries of 'overpowered' that accompany it.
This is because without designing everyone as exactly the same, the perception will be that they are never exactly equal. Ironically, even when they are equal. This is the conundrum in introducing "classes" or "careers" or "specialization" in a game.
The only solution to that problem is to embrace your design decisions and keep your vision as fair as possible. You need to accept that not all people will be equal in all situations.
Skill-based Specialization
In skill-based games, you DO specialize because you make choices about what you are going to do. As an EVE pilot, everyone starts out by specializing in a specific ship or types of ships. In Darkfall, your playstyle and what abilities you choose to use makes you better at THOSE abilities. If you don't use magic, you'll simply never be good at it.
Although, in both of these games, it's possible for a very advanced player to learn everything. In effect, you can become a Jack of All Trades (Master of EVERYTHING) by leveling up all skills.
This strikes me as a flaw in this type of system.
In my mind, there should be more severe tradeoffs. And they shouldn't be easily reversible. Specializing in Magic should mean that you sacrifice Non-Magic Stuff. Casters should be powerful, yet frail and weak. Melee should be tough as nails, but have no magical aptitude or protections.
In fairness, Darkfall has some tradeoffs. Wearing plate makes it harder to cast spells, but it doesn't make it impossible. And at the extreme end, some skill choices completely cut you off from using some schools of magic. But that's a fairly extreme example and not one that you are forced to make. And it doesn't really stop someone good at magic from benefiting from having high melee skills (able to soak damage).
But I digress and I don't want to nitpick specific games. I think what I'm trying to get at is that I like semi-permanent choices. I like players to have roles. And if you choose a role, in fairness, everyone else shouldn't be able to benefit from the things that should be unique to your role.
Role-based Specialization
I think there are two types of role-based specializations. We are all intimately familiar with the first concept. Classes. You choose a class, and that class defines your role.
I think what I like better is the concept of Skill-trees. Basically, you make role-based choices through your skill selection. The concept here is that you are presented with a skill fork in your character progression. You may choose either fork, but doing so eliminates the skills provided to you in the other fork. Choosing Melee, in this scenario, would remove the Magic fork from your available career progression path.
It seems to me that these types of Tree forks provide the Role defining characteristics that I like, while still allowing people the flexibility to choose a non-standard bundle of traits (rather than a Class).
Again, Darkfall has these types of forks in the magic shools, but that's not much different than choosing to either use an Axe or a Sword. Such forks need to be made much earlier and have a bigger impact on how they define your actual role. Rather than just the flavor of the damage spells and debuffs.
Skill-based Trinity
So circling back to The Holy Trinity, I think these would make some good fork choices. You can either Tank, or DPS, or Heal. You can't do all three well. If you choose more DPS forks, you are easily killed. Choose too many Heal forks, and you can't kill or be killed. Choose too many Tank forks and you can take a lot of damage but can't DO anything else.
Now obviously, we could complicate it by having more Role choices. Magic or Physical? Range or Melee? And so forth. Choosing the Physical path eliminates the Magic fork (and healing). Choosing the Magic form eliminates the Physical fork (and tanking). And so on and so forth.
My vision here is that this is still a skill-based, rather than level or class based game. The difference is that your skill choices are semi-permanent forks where your decision impacts your future progression. These choices, rather than a class, determine your in-game skills. For example, one choice could be "Advanced Constitution" or "Advanced Dexterity". Choosing "Dexterity" increases your physical DPS, but sacrifices your ability to resist damage ("Constitution").
Anyway.. just my $0.02 as an Armchair designer..
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- Carson 63000 said...
The thing about permanent or semi-permanent choices is that they're not really that permanent in a game where you can have multiple characters.
Like in a traditional class-based "holy trinity" fantasy MMO, your choice of class limits the roles you can fill - well, usually, anyway, of course there are classes like WoW's druids that can do everything!
But leave aside the druid, if I want to be able to tank, and heal, and dps (ranged and melee!), I could just level a warrior and a priest, dual-spec them both, and there I am.
So I lean more towards the design where it is assumed that players with significant enough playtime to spend will eventually be able to do everything, so why not let them do it all on one character? You put mechanics in place so they can't do everything all at once and be overpowered (respeccing requirements, game rules like "can't cast spells in platemail", systemic things like only being able to fly one spaceship at a time in EVE, etc.), but then let them have at it. They'll just relog onto an alt if you don't.
- March 29, 2010 at 7:56 PM
- Hirvox said...
It should be noted that Eve also uses a skill system with diminishing returns. Training a skill to level 5 takes longer than training that skill from level 0 to 4, sometimes even an order of magnitude longer. Thus a newbie can be almost as good as the veteran in a specific field very quickly. And because a true master of all trades takes 28 years to train, there's always going to be some hard choices.
- March 29, 2010 at 8:35 PM
- sid67 said...
I don't really care if people have alts. If they want to take the time to create multiple characters, more power to them.
However, one character shouldn't be able to do everything. It makes the choices we make to develop that character meaningless.
Choosing a role should mean that you sacrifice your ability to do something else.
I'll freely leave the choice up to you, but I'd like to see some trade offs for people making decisions.
Otherwise, you end up with this weird thing where you put away your 2-handed sword in the middle of a fight to cast some spells with your staff. WTF is that?
On a separate note, dual-spec is a dubious design choice at best and a great example of a developer caving to forum pressure from a few classes.
It greatly benefited some classes who had previously needed to make sacrifices to excel in certain areas. While for other classes, there is little to no benefit outside of what flavor of DPS.
When you consider that players fight for raid positions, a Warrior who can DPS or Tank is more valuable than a Rogue. Likewise, a Druid who can DPS, Tank or Heal, is more valuable than a Mage.
Where is the tradeoff?
I mean, if that's the direction that you are going go, what's the point in having a class?
- March 29, 2010 at 8:46 PM
- Stabs said...
Picture this: month one of your new MMO and players race up to end game all soloing quests for max exp efficiency with dps heavy builds.
They get to end game and they have some guys with a few points in tanking and healing and start clearing content.
Next thing the tortoises with tank heavy or healer heavy builds finally max out their characters and become available.
The cutting edge guilds all ditch their tanks and healers and replace them with new and better versions who didn't spend points in dps.
Or you can have respecs in which case everyone levels as dps then changes to healer/tank/dps at end game and there really isn't much choice. All healers have the same talents as any other healer. Same for tanks etc.
If you don't allow respecs then you have built a system which will shunt some players in a corner where their only option is to bitch and moan on your forums (cf dps paladins in WoW circa 2007). The gloom despondency and negativity these players spread will cause your game to hemorrhage players. And of course if you give in to them (as many developers have done) you teach your player base to manipulate game development by whining on the forums.
It's a lot easier from the armchair than it is in practice (I say from my armchair!).
- March 29, 2010 at 9:29 PM
- sid67 said...
The cutting edge guilds all ditch their tanks and healers and replace them with new and better versions who didn't spend points in dps.
I recognize that's a possibility. That's why I say semi-permanent choices. Make it reasonably possible to change, but not without some associated cost.
The 'how' of that change can be any number of things. Unlearning/Relearning, free respec once every X days (30/60/90). I'm not really advocating that we pigeon hole people into one thing forever.
I'm simply advocating that no character should be able to fulfill all roles. That decisions, once made, have some weight and importance.
- March 29, 2010 at 10:37 PM
- Jesse said...
What about the secondary roles of crowd control, buffs, debuffs, and pets? Typically they have been tied into various other roles, but if they were on their own separate tree you could pick both a main and secondary role.
- March 30, 2010 at 6:10 AM
I think the current issue with the DF specialization system is that it's not finished (or even close), and so the choices are limited and you either end up with extremes that limit you(destroyer) or mini-benefits that still allow full access. I think ultimately once the system is fleshed out (DF2010 hopefully...) the choices won't be so simple and more unique roles will be established.
A fire spec that limits other magic, a buff spec that limits melee, archery buffs that impose stat hits, stuff like that. Combined with more specialized armor (what shade and bloodcraft are now, but again more fleshed out), and again you get more choices.
What is nice however is that the choices are not permanent, and this allows people who have capped archery to switch to magic and have another area to develop, while at the same time it allows a new player to hyper-focus archery and catch up (in that area) quickly.
- March 30, 2010 at 10:31 AM
- Dagda said...
If I may offer my own bit of armchair design: The tank, heal, and DPS are roles that naturally emerge because of the underlying system that's central to most MMO's combat: Damage management. The tank prevents the incoming damage from triggering a loss in the short term, the healer prevents the incoming damage from accumulating enough to trigger a loss in the long term, and the dps neutralizes the sources of the damage.
If you want meaningful change, you have to change the nature of the underlying system- coming up with something that has more depth. I'm not about to write out a design document here, so I'll just say that I think the game which currently does the best job of addressing this fundamental design issue is actually Resident Evil 4.
- March 30, 2010 at 12:44 PM
I understand now, Gandalf was a paladin/mage/warrior, to do that he had to give up healing!
In seriousness, even if someone is a master of everything it doesn't mean they will be doing everything at any one time, and the amount of time it took them to be a master of everything could depends very much on the game you're playing. I'm not so concerned if someone can do everything if it took them 7 years of skilling up to do it.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Illustration Friday: Grounded
52 comments:
- Angel said...
Very cute illo! So sweet, little pink elephant.
Taking my Mom and daughter to Kauai in a few months, we love it there.
- January 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM
- Andrea said...
Oooh, I love it all!
- January 12, 2012 at 2:51 PM
- Jess said...
I love the elephant and such an interesting idea!
- January 12, 2012 at 3:22 PM
- Andrew Finnie said...
Ah Bella! Ah Bella. Ah Bella your holiday looks so holydayishly wonderously wonderful. Santa in the window? Who wouldathought :)
So that's what it looks like in the tropics in winter? Just the same as it does in summer? :) And those little meat balls look so full of fibre!
Heh. Oh and I love the flying elephant, just hanging on for herhis dear little life and having so much fun!
And isn't that what life is about :)
see you!
hope life is good and full of charm!
- January 12, 2012 at 3:50 PM
- Rabbit Town Animator said...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Bella! Cute lil Elephant!!! He's getting blown away by the wind! Am glad you had a great holiday and may 2012 be awesome for you!!!
- January 12, 2012 at 4:50 PM
- rachel awes said...
+ your dear elephant is soooo worth helping! looove!
+ i hear kauai is AMAZING!
our fam is considering going...
any must sees? email@example.com
would love any tidbits!!
lovelovelove to you,
you, who is also paradise.
- January 12, 2012 at 5:19 PM
- Kathi said...
Happy New Year to my favorite illustrator! Your drawings always make me smile. :D
I love the way you did the reflections on the sea monster and little girl on the board with her cat. Didn't you know that cats hate water? Of course, you did!!!!
- January 12, 2012 at 5:55 PM
- Jack Foster said...
Wow! Looks like paradise! Welcome back and Happy New Year Bella! Love the photos (even stalker Santa) and I really like your illustrations! Tell him to hang on a little longer... I'm on my way!
- January 12, 2012 at 6:18 PM
So glad to see you back Bella! It sounds like you had a wonderful holiday with your girls.
Your little elephant is so cute hanging on with all of his might!
Here's to a new year of creating pictures... and stuff!
- January 12, 2012 at 6:22 PM
So glad to see you back Bella! It sounds like you had a wonderful holiday with your girls.
Your little elephant is so cute hanging on with all of his might!
Here's to a new year of creating pictures... and stuff!
- January 12, 2012 at 6:23 PM
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- January 12, 2012 at 6:23 PM
- Indigene said...
Oh, Bella, I feel just like that cute little elephant! Lol! What a wonderful illustration, you can also title this one "Courage" :)
It looks like you and the girls had an amazing time! YAY Bella & her girls!!!!
- January 12, 2012 at 7:08 PM
- Shirley said...
OH my gosh..LOVE your illo..I sure hope little elephant doesn't get hurt! What a wonderful dragon and is it C on that board? I saw a woman on a board too..and just was amazed at how long they can stay on. FABULOUS illustrations (I've missed them!) and such gorgeous photos. I'll have to send the pic of the not-so-pretty-duck that kinda freaked out our family while visiting for salt pond gelato...oh my! But all the other wild chickens were beautiful..ah, to see these pics is a delight! Love those sand balls too! Welcome back!!!
- January 12, 2012 at 7:45 PM
- Kathiesbirds said...
Bella, it looks like a fun and relaxing time. I love the rooster and the sun streaming through the clouds. Your illustrations make me smile as always. Thank you for my smile today, and Happy New Year!
- January 12, 2012 at 7:45 PM
- Andrew Finnie said...
Haha ha Bella, I am sitting in my workspace giggling at your comments! Thank you.
Herrump. I meant to say I am sittng at my desk in my leather chair smoking a pipe and having some deep manly chuckles :) :) :) I'm so very glad you like the book. You are very very very kind :)
Great your daughter learnt to surf. Make sure she waxes the bottom of the board though (it makes you go faster that way)
Just a bad joke.!!!
- January 12, 2012 at 8:27 PM
- Amalou said...
Love how the little guy is out of focus. Very cute.
- January 12, 2012 at 8:31 PM
- email@example.com said...
Happy New Year! It makes me so happy when I click on your blog and there is a new illustration....makes my day. Glad you have a wonderful vacation . Hawaii is such a gorgeous place....must say, I'm a bit jealous :-)
- January 12, 2012 at 8:37 PM
- Lori ann said...
the little elli wanted to go to kauai with you (me too)! so glad you had a wonderful holiday. did you try standup paddleboarding too? is that you?
lovely photos bella, makes me miss hawaii so much. aloha!
- January 12, 2012 at 9:32 PM
- Val said...
happy new year, bella!
your holiday is such great fun! miss hawaii now that you talked about it... was there close to 17 years back. loved the sun, beach and sea there. my best and worst memory was the snorkelling experience there.
- January 12, 2012 at 9:38 PM
- Caroline said...
Happy New Year, Bella! Hope it's a good one for you and yours. Love the little elephant aloft there! Enjoyed your holiday pics too.
- January 12, 2012 at 11:37 PM
- theartofpuro said...
Adorable illustration:)Hope someone will help him:)
- January 13, 2012 at 3:37 AM
- otto björnik said...
Happy new year Bella! I love the photos, looks like you had fun out in the sun!:D Hope this year will be filled with more lovely illustrations from you!:D
- January 13, 2012 at 8:04 AM
- tera said...
Somewhere along the line I decided I like roosters, too, and now I have about 20 around my house. Not real ones, of course. :)
I like your little elephant guy - He better hold on tight!
By the way - I finally (finally!) got your contest piece done. I went a really different direction than intended. I hope you like it.
- January 13, 2012 at 8:10 AM
- Cindy said...
welcome back and happy new year to you! i love your new illustrations and the photos. what a treat, and yes, that santa is kind of creepy. aloha to him for another year.happy weekend!
- January 13, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- HeatherU said...
Your adventure sounds and looks like it was lovely! I hope you had happy holidays. I certainly did :) Here in MN I'm used to a white christmas but there was no snow this year! Hard to get used to.. I hope you have a great weekend
- January 13, 2012 at 4:21 PM
- Deborah said...
**squeals** Kauai is our Happy Place. We went for our honeymoon and every summer after...till babies arrived. Love love love. I feel like your elephant, however, I do not want to come down. **kisskiss** Deb
- January 13, 2012 at 6:01 PM
- Steve E said...
From pure enjoyment, to meditation. You bless us, Bella! And inspire!
Steve E
- January 13, 2012 at 6:56 PM
- C.P.Adorio said...
Whaaaa!!! This is unbelievable. I think the last time 24 hours passed before I made my comment on your blog... wait wait wait, I never commented past 24 hours since I've known you!!!
Ah, the wait is worth to find not one but two fabulous illustrations. Oh my, I feel like that elephant right now!!! Hanging on to a very thin thread of fun. That is a lovable drawing of C on a paddleboard. I hope the dragon is a friendly one J
So wonderful to see you posting, I missed pelting your blog with comments. I did not want to appear like that stalker Santa. Hahaha! That is weird!
Roosters and hens...ugh! Since the arrival of immigrants from Mexico and Asia, we have them here in our subdivision and they are a nuisance crowing at 4AM. They are not as big a emu birds, though, which our Vietnamese neighbor had 14 inside his yard thinking no one will notice or smell!!!
Growing up in the Philippines, we raised hundreds of chicken for consumption, all descended from Elma, the hen and Ma-es, the rooster.
Sorry to burst your bubble but most people raise roosters as fighting cocks. The police busted a ring of immigrants illegally gambling by betting at cockfights.
Roosters are very popular in Asia, especially the Philippines where they use them to battle at cockfights, a major, legalized gambling. They have cock-fighting arenas and stadia all over the country. The loser gets cooked.
WARNING!!! Graphic and violent.
They also have horse-fighting -
and dog-fighting...
- January 13, 2012 at 7:44 PM
- laughingwolf said...
ok, now i'm REALLY jealous, looking at the warmth/sunshine... we just hit the coldest days of winter in my area!
supposed to warm up again, early in the week... perhaps to 40F! lol
welcome back, glad you and the girls had a great time on vaca :)
- January 14, 2012 at 6:33 AM
- Tristania Art said...
Happy 2012!
As usual, a lovely illustration. Poor little elephant! Your holidays sound fantastic, and I enjoyed the pics. Envy mode on! Have a nice weekend :)
- January 14, 2012 at 11:57 AM
- k.h.whitaker said...
love the illustrations Bella! It looks like you had a fantastic trip :)
- January 14, 2012 at 12:12 PM
- Janine said...
Hi hi hi, hold on lil´elephant.
This is soooo sweet.
Great you have been a good time, this really lokes like a lovely place.
Have a great weekend
- January 14, 2012 at 1:43 PM
- Amalia K said...
Oh, let go, baby elephant and let the wind take you to me!! I'll give you some delicious hot pumpkin soup and jasmine tea before bed.
Blame Miss Bella for making you too cute that I want you all to myself! Hehehe...
Glad to know you had a marvelous holiday, Bella. Remember to trade places with me the next time you plan another one. :D
- January 14, 2012 at 3:36 PM
- Nina Crittenden said...
Glad you had such a fab tropical getaway! I LOLed at the stalker Santa! :) Thank you for your kind words, Miss Bella. I so admire your creative, inventive, talented mind and your oh so wonderful heart! Big hugs to you!
- January 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM
Glad you had a wonderful vacation! Happy to see new illustrations lol-the little elephant is super cute :) I feel like that some days :/ holding on for my dear life ;) HAPPY NEW YEAR!
All the best with creativity this year!
- January 14, 2012 at 6:18 PM
- C.P.Adorio said...
Oh no! It is not because I want my laundry to be crisp that I line dry them. I just want to conserve energy and I do not want my 100% cotton clothes to shrink. Besides the dryer never entirely removes the wrinkles so I end up starching and ironing my dress shirts.
- January 15, 2012 at 4:59 PM
- Nicky Linzey said...
Hi Bella
Glad you had what looks like an amazing holiday. Happy New Year to you. Can't get over your grounded illio. What a stunning effect - really works well.
- January 16, 2012 at 12:32 AM
- Barbara said...
Beautiful photos, Bella. Kauai is paradise...
Hope that kitty stays on the board! :)
- January 16, 2012 at 4:43 AM
- Vanessa Brantley Newton said...
Hold on Elly!!!! Nessa a comin'!! This is full of life and happiness and joy! All the things a creative soul needs to be inspired and keep it moving. Oh my my goodness I adore each and every single photo. It's awesome Bella! How fabulous. The Santa in the window is DA BOMB! I love him. he he he he he he! One day I hope to go. Soon. Thanks for making the start of my week! Big hugs and a whollottalove!
- January 16, 2012 at 4:48 AM
- Valerie Lorimer said...
So adorable! Love the photos too. Blessings and joy to your and your family in 2012!
- January 16, 2012 at 6:53 AM
- Jennifer said...
I just adore that first illustration!! :D
- January 16, 2012 at 3:03 PM
- deepazartz said...
Welcome back Bella dear. SO nice and fun to see your illos...I am all ready to help!!! And the lil girl is so cute...The pics are awesome...esp the the last three:)))
Great to have you back:)
- January 17, 2012 at 12:50 AM
- AtelierBrigitte said...
HOLD ON little elephant!
Lovely illustrations.
And a great way to spend your holidays; on Hawai!
- January 17, 2012 at 3:10 AM
- Michaele Razi said...
That elephant is wonderful! Lovely post.
- January 17, 2012 at 11:43 AM
- Amanda Dilworth said...
Wow, Kauai looks amazing, glad you have had a good start to the new year. Really love the little pink elephant, what a fab illustration, so cute :)
- January 18, 2012 at 4:33 AM
- Ted Blackman said...
Normally, seeing Stalker Santa would be the highlight of my vacation, but not in Hawaii, it's got him beat. Especially those sudden rain showers you speak of that would come over and keep right on going. I remember the last night there, watching the sunset and not wanting the week to end. Maybe someday I'll return, even die on the beach like Paul Gauguin did, surrounded by beautiful native girls. Or was that Tahiti where he did that?
Lots of love and kisses and hugs and smooches!! (I see that a lot on this blog. Just trying to fit in).
- January 18, 2012 at 2:33 PM
- Ted Blackman said...
Oh yeah, I forgot these: XXXXOOOOXX!
Aw, who am I kidding? That's not me. I give gift cards instead.
- January 18, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Did somebody say gift cards!? O.o
Lol! Sorry I got excited there for a minute :)
- January 18, 2012 at 7:34 PM
- Draffin Bears said...
Dear Bella,
Glad you had a wonderful vacation with your family in Hawaii.
Such a great place to spend time in paradise with the beautiful beaches.
Loved seeing your snapshots and above all your wonderful illustrations, adore the cute lil elephant.
wishing you a wonderful and happy 2012.
Sending hugs
- January 18, 2012 at 7:57 PM
- Arija said...
Don't know how I missed this gem. How wonderful to have such a brilliant holiday but, whatever did she do t o be grounded?
When we visited New Zealand, there were whole flocks of roosters in forest car parks that people had just put out there and kept the chickens from the broods. Since there are no foxes in NZ, they lived out their lives scratching a living and begging from tourists.
I like the cat on the board, my daughter used to take our German Shepherd windsurfing. They loth enjoyed it too.
I am so glad you are back.
- January 19, 2012 at 4:12 PM
- Rubin Pingk said...
Very beautiful.
I love the glassy water of the surfer girl illo. The stalk-tethered pingk elephant is wonderful!
Your trip sounds delightful. Thanks for sharing.
- January 28, 2012 at 1:59 PM
- Steve E said...
OK Bella...I finally "Let Go and Let God" in Whom I trust(ed). Ended up on my back--SPLAT! PLOP! So much for 'trust'....
However, all better now, started to climb up there again--don't look yet. I'll let you know when I've reached where you so gently placed me.
Love and PEACE
- January 28, 2012 at 3:57 PM


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'It's such a passion, for me there is no separation between religious expression and movement expression. It always comes together quite spontaneously. It's when I'm most alive.'
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