Coisas do Diogo

vidas divididas por assentos no comboio 01

2009-03-15T14:25:00.005Z

assento primeiro

lugar à janela
Raquel, pianista, procurava um novo rumo para a sua vida. Estava estafada do piano.
Talvez o xilofone, pensou.

o outro lugar
Macário suspeitava de tudo e de todos. Parecia-lhe improvável que ninguém naquele comboio o estivesse a seguir.
O culpado era o seu chapéu, que lhe murmurava paranóias ao ouvido.

assento segundo

lugar à janela
James não seria realmente o seu nome.
Era um agente secreto que, durante anos, perseguiu o ladrão internacional Bigodinho Afiado, sem êxito.

o outro lugar
Ao seu lado, um homem enrolava as pontas do seu bigode com o indicador esquerdo.
Cansado de levar uma vida criminosa, Bigodinho Afiado perguntava-se quantas mais pistas precisaria o agente James.

assento terceiro

o outro lugar
Alice gostava de dançar, não conseguia evitar! Era intrínseco nela.
Todos no comboio a conheciam, até gostavam dela, mas ao seu lado não se sentariam.
Estavam fartos das nódoas negras.

Coisa de ano novo

2009-03-05T01:36:00.004Z

Sabem aquelas coisas de ano novo em que escrevemos o que vamos começar ou deixar de fazer no novo ano? Bem, não me lembro da terminologia a usar, mas vou fazer agora agora uma coisa dessas meio atrasada e que será muito provavelmente reeditada com novas adições. Ou talvez não, logo se vê.

Ora bem, resolu- era isso! Resoluções de ano novo! Bem, resoluções do diogo para Março:
1 - deixar de usar "lol"

Pronto, suficientes. Lolo- digo, hahahaha!
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Riding Home...

2009-03-02T21:27:00.005Z

... from university.
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Random doodles 01

2009-02-20T01:26:00.000Z

(click image to fullview)

Well, just some random drawings and experiments that weren't really serious. I really need to draw from sight :X critiques are welcome!

From left to right, top to bottom:
- Zmija, a tyrannical water hyacinth that aspires to conquer the world with veggies and trees.
- Brush experiment.
- Two other brush experiments, leading to a live episode of the Monster with Teeth and his wife.
- Experiment with tracing of pr0n and lineless drawing
- Not-that-good sketch of Simpatia, a trader of lust, passion and other feelings.
- Portrait of Karl, your friendly neighbourhood... well, captain. GAH GOTTA USE REFERENCES, Mr Dee.
- Not sure ):

Zmija, Simpatia and Karl are part of Arianrod, a... story? novel? of mine that I'll probably show a few things from it pretty soon.

Thanks for watching!
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With man gone will there be hope for gorilla?

2009-02-04T17:45:00.000Z

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact, in which they are the lords of the world, they will act as the lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.

So we have a new pair of names for you: The Takers are 'those who know good and evil' and the Leavers are 'those who live in the hands of the gods'.

The premise of the Takers' story is 'The world belongs to man.' ...The premise of the Leavers' story is 'Man belongs to the world.'

For three million years, man belonged to the world and because he belonged to the world, he grew and developed and became brighter and more dexterous until one day, he was so bright and so dexterous that we had to call him Homo sapiens sapiens - which means he was us.

The Leavers' story is 'the gods made man for the world, the same way they made salmon and sparrows for the world. This seems to have worked well so far so we can take it easy and leave the running of the world to the gods'.

This is essential if you're to survive. The Leavers are the endangered species most critical to the world - not because they're humans but because they alone can show the destroyers of the world that there is more than one right way to live. And then, of course, you must spit out the fruit of the forbidden tree. You must absolutely and forever relinquish the idea that you know who should live and who should die on this planet.

- QUINN, Daniel; Ishmael, 1992

~excalibaaaa, excalibaaa~

2009-01-24T00:38:00.000Z

Diário de um aprendiz de botânica

2008-06-29T13:26:00.000+01:00

"A Ficus Macrophylla é uma árvore que se localiza à entrada de um Jardim Botânico.

Fornesse grande sombra e é muito bonita, com proporções gigantescas e raízes que estão fora da terra.

A sua copa tem aproximadamente 18 metros de comprimento e são necessários 25 alunos para abraçar o seu tronco.

É de origem australiana e tem frutos comestíveis parecidos com figos, que, apesar de mais pequenos que os de uma figueira normal. A árvore tem aproximadamente 150 anos, fazendo com que seja colossal."

Instant WIN xD

- retirado de http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_macrophylla

The Blackheart Gang - The Tale of How

2008-02-19T02:31:00.000Z

Not dead!

I've been wanting to share this video with all of you,
have fun!

Rodenta, the Mouse Breakdancer

2007-07-18T02:18:00.001+01:00

Heyz! I did these for this event.

The last one was my entry (:

Random watercolours

2007-07-08T15:33:00.000+01:00

Bleh, they were taken with my mobile phone's camera which, as you can see, isn't that good! XD

(original here)

(yep, this one sucks a bit :/ )

(foxie from an animal book of mine C: )

(original art from the PS2 game Okami)

My World no. 02

2007-07-05T17:52:00.000+01:00

No. 2 thing in my world:
- Rocket Cats!

My World no. 01

2007-07-03T00:23:00.001+01:00

No. 1 thing in my world:
- Flying pasta!

Monika

2007-07-02T12:23:00.001+01:00

Check here and here for more info!

Horses... and the Fish of the Night!!

2007-05-29T22:21:00.000+01:00

Sometime ago, a friend of mine asked me to make a logo for her boyfriend's riding school, these were some of the drawings that I made for them :)

And now, I present to you...

... the Nightfish!!

(it's Tarja Turunen as a Sailfin Flyingfish and Tuomas Holopainen as a Hector's Lanternfish)

The piano and the tree

2007-05-21T01:17:00.000+01:00

Aye! A drawing made with a black whiteboard marker!
It's a girl practicing her scales, it just so happens that her piano is part of that tree! XD

The tree was supposed to look like a mature rubber tree (Ficus elastica), but it looks more of an amalgam of mutant trees or something... I like it anyhow :3

Have fun!

Ball-point pen drawings :3

2007-05-15T17:35:00.000+01:00

Just two draw-draw-drawiiiings of mine!

Powerpen, away!
*voosh*

TEH KARKEN!!

2007-05-15T00:00:00.000+01:00

I feel the need... I feel the URGE TO CALL...

THE KRAKEN!!!

Arianrod Sketches

2007-05-08T00:01:00.000+01:00

Here are some rough sketches of two special objects from my novel, Arianrod.

The first is the Bosom of Breath

That little sphere over there is a Guffin's Instrument, and that means that it can store an humongous amount of energy, which would give divine powers to its bearer. The special objects that belongs to each Fragrance (the deities of the world of Compaccia) are Guffin's Instruments too.
The Bosom of Breath was split into five parts by the Petka Svetr ("Five Sweaters"), a covered operations group from the military forces of Fomoria. The five parts were amalgamated into other objects, their names are: the Stone of Brambor, the Spear of Amaranto, the Sword of Lechuga, the Cauldron of Brassica and the Clock of Radicchio (all names have one thing in common, let me know if you discover it!)

Arianrod and Miranda

Arianrod Azareth (not the flying vessel, that one is called Caer Arianrod) and Miranda Zhdanov were two members of the Petka Svetr (the other three are Lukas Voronin, Perro Volovina and Morana Sergeyev).

Arianrod is specialized in designing, planning, construction and maintenance of the machinery that the group uses. Outside the battlefield, she is a toy-maker (as almost everyone from the Azareth family).
Her piece of the Bosom of Breath is the Cauldron of Brassica, the Bringer of Joy, the magical holder from which eternally flows what is needed the most at the time. Or is supposed to, anyway.

Miranda is a Caracal Trainer. She's the scout/silent operative of the group, she likes to do it silently and cleanly. Red-splattered cleanly. Every group has one of these...
Her piece of the Bosom of Breath is the Sword of Lechuga, the last fortress, a shield that follows the infamous the-best-defense-is-to-chop-heads-off strategy.

The second sketch of today is the Sword of Lechuga

The Sword of Lechuga is a blood-thirsty shield that was made from the Bosom of Breath.

The emblem in the center is the symbol of Cerne, one of the five major nations in Arianrod (the other four are Tuatha, Fomoria, Dannan and Gabala).

Belcanto, the Maelström

2007-04-14T18:49:00.000+01:00

This is Belcanto, an original character of mine :)
She's the creator of the ultimate noise, the one that will bring forth the end of time: the Maelström

Have fun!

Just another self-portrait! >:D

2007-04-14T03:56:00.000+01:00

"When you run you're graceful and swift, sleek as a powerful panther"

Very, very rushed; I just wanted to try this idea :)

(sentence from The Love Song of Night and Day, http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/feature/145 )

OMG!

2007-04-08T01:09:00.000+01:00

(º<º) ---> (º>º) ---> (º<º) ---> (º^º) ---> (ºôº) "OMG!!"

The Frog from Light's Edge - Chapter 1

2007-04-07T03:13:00.000+01:00

"Ah, who could say how Slunce was like in its early days? No recordings were left from that time. Well, except for the tale of the Frog from Light's Edge. Bah, and that's just a children's tale. What? You want to hear it anyway? Alright then, just let me get my booze, my throat gets dry quite quickly."

"Oh well, on with the story! According to the tale, the world of Slunce was divided into two parts: the Shore and the Light.
The Shore was a flying inverted mountain, with a flat top part, where dwelled "normal" living things. Underneath Shore there was the Light, the place from where sun came and to where sun went, a blazing sea of liquid sunlight that no living being could look at directly. No one could directly sustain Light's glaring."

"No one, as I was saying, was able to look directly at Light. No one, except for Basil.
Basil was a frog that lived in Light's Edge, a remote village situated near Shore's rim. He would sit in the border, looking at the huge sea below. He could watch the feral beginning of a new day, as the sun violently erupted from Light. He could watch the serene ending of a passing day, as the sun placidly settled down on Light. "

(First sketches of Basil :3)

"So, knowing this, we can easily understand why Basil was the first to witness the change that took place on Light. He, amongst all the others from his village, was the first to see how the brilliance from below had diminished and, as soon as the villagers realized something was wrong and everyone tried to look over the edge, Basil saw that all of them could look directly at the blazing luminescence. Something was wrong at Light."

- Boleslaus, Fomorian beggar and story-teller

Maelstrom

2007-03-31T02:37:00.000+01:00

Yosh! Time for another drawing!
I'm sorry for the terrible quality of the photo, for it was taken with my dreadful cellphone camera...

It's just a random ballpoint-tip pen and marker sketch, I was feeling a little bored at a Math's class... xD
Nothing much, a random angel escaping from a darkness entity that recently goes by the name Maelström.

On a completely different subject...

JASUS, QUE TÁ A VOLTAR O CALOR!!!

It's cleaving time!

2007-03-25T02:47:00.000+01:00

Based on a drawing of Miana, a friend of mine, I give to you...

DON AXE! Your friendly neighbourhood fighting plant!

Aaaah, and thanks to Ana, another friend of mine, I'm in love with an Incubus song!

Love Hurts XD

Carpe bananum!

2007-03-22T23:53:00.000Z

"Enjoy your banana, as you never know when you will eat the next one"