Visual arts, design, photography, and sob stories of Kendall G. Blakeney

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    Entries by Kendu (87)

    Saturday
    Dec172011

    Follow and Feel

    So i'm slowly getting this new layout updated to have it ready to roll by 2012. I've got a lot on my new years resolution and this is definitely one of them. I've updated the site with TONS of new work from this year that I never got around to finishing or publishing. So feel free to make time in your incredibly busy day to check it out! I'll also be rolling out my web-based graphic design studio either Janurary or February!

    Also for the first time (no big deal) I started and somewhat finished a project and the video to go with it. I've had a lot of people asking about my creative process and what not and the video doesn't necessary illustrate the creative process as it does test my patience. It was fun to do but not easy! Feel free to check it out:



    I've recently updated a lot of my social newtworks including DeviantArt, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and more. Feel free to follow and take interest in my incredibly interesting life (not really). I've also re-upped my vimeo account to upload stuff to vimeo that I can't upload to youtube (for the use of music) so check it out!

    Weekly Challenge: follow me on any of the above platforms and tell a friend (or link a friend)

    Prize: I dunno yet.

    Also in other news I have quite a few prints i'm working on that will be available soon! Tons of cool stuff like stickers too. Including some stuff for the Watch the Throne pieces, i'd also like to mention that the video is approaching 10k views. This is a big deal for me and I couldn't thank you enough for all of the love and support I got just from doing what I do best.

     

    Happy holidays.

    Wednesday
    Dec072011

    There Will Be Tears.

    If you haven't noticed I've also redone my website. It looked like garbage before and I'm not sure why nobody told me but it's all good. In better news I had an insane game of big team battle on Reach. I swear the only reason I still play this game is because I need to max out my rank . . . .and because it's halo and I'll always play it: (GenoSide v1 / blue team) 51 kills out of 100 and we still lose. Gotta love it. Click the image for the game stats
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    The last couple weeks I've been working on my Frank Ocean piece and I've finally reached a point to stop, save and share. It's still a work in progress and I'll have more available on it soon. 
     


    Sunday
    Nov132011

    Up and Out

    I tell you what. This has been a rough week. Though i'm surprisingly relieved to be writing this. I'll probably get 7 people to read it but I feel much better. 

    Long story short (not really) at the beginning of the week I found about to a local contest/award for visual aritsts in the Kansas City area. I wont spill the details but it's a BIG. AWARD. I was immediately inspired and ready to get cracking at it. Though I was incredibly dumb to think I could produce new work and feel good about it in less than a week on top of being sick. I'm pretty sure I have bronchitis and I slowly felt myself sliding down hill and becoming more and more un-inspired and justifying not doing anything with the fact that I wasn't forcing myself and I needed to relax. I worked here and there on getting some pieces together to showcase myself but regardless of what I was going to put together I knew (being my worse critic) that I wouldn't be satisified. Now looking back at this week, aside from feeling like dump, It was one of my most productive weeks i've had in a long time and it feelt like a months time. 

    I'm actually rendering a video now to finish up my portfolio and send it off. At this point whatever happens happens and is meant to be. I'm proud of myself and what I accomplished in the short amount of time, no regrets no excuses. I laid it all out. 


    Sob story over. Awesome stuff start:
    With all this stress crap overwith i'm excited to announce I have some prints available soon. A little bit of everything. More info will be available throughout the next week or so. What makes these prints so cool, is that 1.) They're cool 2.) It's my first time putting product out as an artist 3.) They're not ridiculously overpriced 4.) If you don't get one you dont get a password; if you don't get the secret password you don't get in the secret club. ( I wish )

    So stay tuned for new prints, new news and new new. I'm on the rise and i've got some wild stuff cooking in the works.

    Anyway guys, It's been great, stay tuned and what not like i said 2 seconds ago. I have to get to bed for my day job in a few hours. Go me

    Also, you can have whatever color you want; as long as it's black. 
    Can't believe you read all that. Thanks though. It means a lot. Cool picture time.

    6am in Kansas City
    Up and Out

    Cheap and Dirty


    Wednesday
    Nov092011

    Snowing already

    This weekend was action packed and much needed. I'm writing this on my blackberry at 7am as im waiting for my manager to come open up the doors. I need to quit here before black friday...anyway.
    My manager just showed up so ill type the rest of this when I'm off at 3. So its 11pm and today just sucked. Didn't get much work done on account I can tell I'm getting sick. So now I pretty much feel like shit so I'm typing out what I'm going to post tomorrow. Not like anyone reads this junk anyway but at least I feel better venting it out to the interwebs.
    I don't work tomorrow and I have A LOT to get done for a deadline on monday.
    Just for giggles (you're suppose to actually answer this) do you ever wonder what its like to be somewhere else when the sun is rising?

     

    Sunday
    Oct302011

    Crap Week.

    It's kind of like shark week, just subsitute sharks with feces and you get the picture. . . .well figurative feces of course.

    Work is super lame and i've got another busy week ahead of me getting ready for a couple shows before winter. I'm also working on a few new paintings/projects including the Walking Dead, Gears of War 3 and more. 

    Though I did just get done watching episode 3 of 'the Walking Dead' and it pretty much made up for all the bullshit in the previous week.
    (by the way) have you seen 'X-Men: First Class?'  I watched it (I understand i'm WAY late) but it was supriringly/amazingly great; made me feel like NOT punching myself in the face considering I felt as much watching the other x-men movies. (sorry i'm not sorry)

    Happy Monday.


    Mini boston terrier, i just can't figure out what he's mixed with, aside from a tornado with a little bit of aderol
    9am in Kansas City
    One of the few nice things about Missouri