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{ Gaspard de la Nuit: Ondine}
Posted on: June 13, 2006

Read the poem and try to hear it in the music :)

Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit: Ondine. MP3 by Shaer.
Original Poem by Louis Bertrand:

IX: ONDINE.

Je croyais entendre
Une vague harmonie enchanter mon sommeil,
Et près de moi s’épandre un murmure pareil
Aux chants entrecoupés d’une voix triste
et tendre.

CH. BRUGNOT. - Les deux Génies.

— « Écoute! — Écoute! — C’est moi, c’est Ondine qui frôle de ces gouttes d’eau les losanges sonores de ta fenêtre illuminée par les mornes rayons de la lune; et voici, en robe de moire, la dame châtelaine qui contemple à son balcon la belle nuit étoilée et le beau lac endormi.

« Chaque flot est un ondin qui nage dans le courant, chaque courant est un sentier qui serpente vers mon palais, et mon palais est bâti fluide, au fond du lac, dans le triangle du feu, de la terre et de l’air.

« Écoute! — Écoute! — Mon père bat l’eau coassante d’une branche d’aulne verte, et mes sœurs caressent de leurs bras d’écume les fraîches îles d’herbes, de nénuphars et de glaïeuls, ou se moquent du saule caduc et barbu qui pêche à la ligne. »

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Sa chanson murmurée, elle me supplia de recevoir son anneau à mon doigt, pour être l’époux d’une Ondine, et de visiter avec elle son palais, pour être le roi des lacs.

Et comme je lui répondais que j’aimais une mortelle, boudeuse et dépitée, elle pleura quelques larmes, poussa un éclat de rire, et s’évanouit en giboulées qui ruisselèrent blanches le long de mes vitraux bleus.

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translation:

I believed I heard a dim harmony charming my sleep. And close by me spread a similar murmur of uninterrupted songs from a sad and tender voice…” -Ch. Brugnot “Les Deux Genies.

”Listen! Listen! It is I, it is Ondine brushing with these drops of water the resonant diamond panes of your window illuminated by the dull moonbeams; and here in the dress of moire, is the lady of the castle on her balcony gazing at the beautiful starry night and the beautiful slumbering lake. Each wave is a water sprite swimming in the current, Each current is a path winding toward my palace, And my palace is of fluid construction, at the bottom of the lake, Within the triangle formed by fire, earth, and air. ?

Listen! Listen! My father is beating the croaking water with a branch of green alder, And my sisters are caressing the cool islands of grasses, water lilies and gladioli with their arms of foam, Or are laughing at the tottering, bearded willow that is angling.”

 

After murmuring her song, she besought me to accept her ring on my finger, to be the husband of an Undine, and to visit her palace with her, to be king of the lakes. And when I replied that I was in love with a mortal woman, she was sulky and vexed; She wept a few tears, burst out laughing, and vanished in showers that formed white trickles down my blue windowpanes.

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{ LOL}
Posted on: June 9, 2006

HOSHIT I READ MY ANCIENT LIVEJOURNAL WITH ALL ITS 375 GLORIOUS ENTRIES OF DOOM FROM MY POOR 15 YEAR OLD EGO AND IT WAS so bloody lame LOL.

I was so full of myself, self-centered, bipolar, enjoy typing angsty meaningless things, rude, and bad at English.

I hope I’m nowhere as egocentric as back then… although I am still bipolar, enjoy typing angsty meaningless things, rude, and bad at English.

It was pretty fun reading that stuff though :P makes me want to go apologize to everyone I’ve offended because I offended people pretty badly.

And if you have not seen my old LJ before… don’t try to find it lol. If you do decide to in the end, I hope it wouldn’t make me less of a person to you after you’ve read some entries.

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{ Redux exerpt}
Posted on: June 7, 2006

She looks like a guy, yea?!?!? :[ I toned another 4 pages from the volume 1 redo. I have 4 more pages outlined when I was in China ready to be toned, then I gotta go outline more! I hate outlining because it takes forever cus I can’t draw;; maybe I should be someone’s colourist instead of making my own drawings. Have I said that already? I forget. But now that I am toning them, the pages I have ready from China looked so bad LOL. Oh well, I need volume 1 to somehow look less good than volume 2 anyways… or people will think I’m deproving TEEHEE. The redo is sooo flowery right now. I put so many flowers and shoujo bubbles and white dot splashes and what not in the background. I hope that wouldn’t creep certain groups of people out. I’ve been influenced by the wrong type of manga while drawing them…

I really really want deleter tones. I’ve tried to look online and some previews. They’re all so tempting; they have lots of tones that I’d LOVE to be able to use. However there are also some tones that I see being used on certain mangas that are not in the deleter ref sheets. What could they be?

On a completely separate note; one of my cats (THEY STILL DON’T HAVE NAMES! we just call them both cat cat in chinese) is irritated by loud noise. We found out after noticing that she shudders and flicks her ear when personal aircrafts pass by near us when she goes outside. Aaaand when I play piano. She gets very annoyed and uncomfortable. Poor kitty.

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{ Blackbird WIP fragment}
Posted on: June 2, 2006
OMFG IT’S AN ARM

If you’ve voted for my manga you would’ve already seen a bigger (though not finished) version of this. This picture was pissing me off so much; I couldn’t draw her face right for the n-thousandth time I try. The lineart took a ridiculous amount of time (not due to the chain), almost just as long as it took me to colour this picture. The person was tilted too, so I had to rotate this image 40 degrees to shade it, and rotate it back in the end. It owned my computer :’( I had massive lag and virtual memory deficit (wtf?). The bloodstains (not the blood drops)were fun to draw though :D I’m actually happy with them.

I hope I am not drawing her like Yoruichi from Bleach though (who is the newest cooler anime chara on my list :D !), since I seem to be easily influenced by whatever I currently obssess over. I like how Kubo Tite draws Yoruichi’s expressions; They are just the expressions I want to draw for Blackbird. Except 1: I can’t seem to do it and 2: Blackbird will turn into a Yoruichi if I actually succeed. *cry*


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