The Surface



Standing on the edge of greatness

My rooftop obsession is starting to kick in again. I've been searching all kinds of sites for rooftop pictures, videos and even poetry and descriptions. I just miss going up there. Wish it was summer again. Gosh, I even miss the glowing-hot aluminum burning our hands while the noonday sun is glowing above us in the middle of August.
Since the cold weather started I wasn't able to climb up and hang out with my friends there. Although I know a few persons crazy enough to accompany me up there, and I can't wait to see them again, so we can do stuff together again x)

As a kid I loved climbing trees and stuff with my friends. Now, as young adults, we still go and climb rooftops instead. There's nothing more beautiful than stargazing the whole night with your pals, and seeing the beauty of the rising sun at dawn while on the roofs.

Then we would climb down and buy some fresh, still warm bread when the bakeries open at 6 am. Then we either have coffee or crash dead tired at someone's place.


That was a comment from deviantart where I... hmm... sam zaskočio spopao some poor artist.

And this is something from my novel, Serbian only. The handsome artist main character briefly escapes from reality by ascending to the rooftops.

           Videvši da lift uopšte ni ne namerava da dođe, momak je pogledao niz gelender ka podrumu, pitajući se vredi li da silazi osam spratova i rizikuje da ga babetine udave. Zaključio je da svakako nema šanse da stigne na vreme i odlučio je da kad već kasni, makar će da uživa u šetnji do škole.
            Uputio se gore, ka krovu. Penjući se uz stepenište, razmišljao je već o slobodi koja ga čeka na krovovima. Uživao je da se mota tamo, iako je znao da ne bi baš smeo da ide tako često. Ali koga još ima tamo ujutru? Ljudi retko zalaze gore, i to samo kada popravljaju antenu.
            Prošao je pored komšije koji se nalazio tačno iznad njegovog stana, i naježio se. Tu je živeo neki čudak koji nikad nije izlazio, i umetnik ga je video samo jednom u životu. Čuo bi svaki put kako udari o vrata čim neko prođe tuda. Imao je utisak da usamljenik neprekidno viri kroz špijunku. Mladić je ovog puta pogledao i jasno video kako senka koja prikriva maleni otvor nestaje, i kako se posmatrač sakriva. Student se stresao i ubrzao korak, preskočivši par stepenika u žurbi.
            Našao se na poslednjem spratu, na kraju hodnika. Stojao je pred lotrama koje su vodile ka krovu. Ponovo se nagnuo niz gelender da izvidi da se neko možda ne penje. Kad se uverio da su dole i dalje samo četiri starije žene koje svakako ne nameravaju da se uskoro pomere, uhvatio se za drške i krenuo korak po korak da se penje.
            Da bi čovek izašao, morao bi prvo da se provuče kroz prozorče koje je uvek stojalo otvoreno na njihovoj zgradi. Osobe u debelim jaknama, ili neko ko bi nosio mnogo stvari sa sobom bi se već namučio da se provuče, ali mladiću to nakon ko zna koliko puta to već nije bio problem. Skinuo je ranac sa ramena i prvo njega bacio kroz maleni prozor, zatim je i sam počeo da se provlači.
            Čim je izašao kroz prozorče, podigao je pogled, ali ništa se nije moglo videti sem beskrajnog mraka. Dok je još bio na sve četiri, uzeo je svoj ranac i ustao. Stojao je daleko od ivice, kojoj bi se inače retko približavao. Jeste da je bilo ograde koja bi dopirala do struka, ali umetniku je i dalje bilo neprijatno da se previše približava.
            Izvadio je telefon i njime osvetlio put ispred sebe. Tu je uvek bio mrkli mrak, nije bilo ikakvih izvora svetlosti kao dole. Već je znao gde je šta napamet, ali nije želeo da se spotakne o neki kabl ili bačenu televizijsku antenu. Vešto je zaobilazio neverovatne količine krša. Osim kablova i antena tu je bilo mnogo zarđalog lima, konzervi sa skorelim katranom, pocepanih vreća sa šljunkom koji se prosuo, a u maleni otvori za ventilaciju bili su prepuni kutija od cigareta, pikavaca i raznog drugog smeća.
            Znao je da nije jedini koji kroči po krovovima, ali nikad nije sretao druge. Jednom je video grupicu silueta kako trče po susednom bloku zgrada, a ni njih ne bi primetio da ih nije odao majušni, crveni sjaj cigareta koje gore. Međutim nisu ga nikad opazili, ali zaključio je da je tako bolje.

I jelly


Well, that's enough me talking about petty little desires, time to waste hours watching puppy videos do something productive.

Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams






If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

There's a muffin dog under your bed


The Way Maker and the Grieving One
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Been working on FFE lately. The pic above is my first attempt at pixel art that isn't an animated sprite. It's the first one with some details, but it's still rather simplistic. The dog was rather easy to draw, but I had some problems with the girl. It can be seen to, I messed up her navel and skirt and... well I just don't like how she came out. Done in Flash and later in Paint.

I've been doing some concept sketches that can't really make it into the game.

A werewolf and a girl clinging onto a vine for their dear life. They do slide down to safety eventually, somehow./Alternate version

These are some of my "drippy style" drawings. I fucked one up the first one gloriously, while the other isn't messed up at all, but looks kinda empty and plain.
Sweet, sweet nightmare fuel. Drip drip :D
Messy drawing. / Slightly cleaner version

A young woman with perhaps some Spanish/Latina/Cuban blood. I did something to her chin that I can't quite figure out and it's kinda irking me, but on the other hand I don't want to change it. Laziness. I think that the chin/mouth gives her the discrete, tropical gene.

And I did this in the days of heavy Dwarf Fortress obsession. They don't look like dwarves at all, they're just humans with beards. I did it while really tired, but couldn't sleep. It was 3 am, and I had to get up at 7 am for school. I think the girl with the wheat in the lower right corner is the only thing that redeems the whole thing. But I like the psycho with the axe too :D Hell, I love 'em all! x) Iako su NkZe, moje su nKzE.

Laugh until we think we’ll die, barefoot on a summer night


This little bone so the little heart keeps beating
This little bone so my little hand keeps greeting 

Oh hai! I've been having troubling nightmares lately (yesterday) with some nasty, creepy poems. Do not want. But maybe I can use it for my novel. Hmm...

But that's not important. /Mariya Semyonova, bitches!


Home is wherever I'm with you

Real post starts now.
What matters is that yesterday was a really epic day. It was so epic that I went to sleep pretty early from all the exhaustion. We kidnapped borrowed a friend of ours for a day. He lived here, but moved later to a bigger city to go to a math-oriented high school (I know, right...). His parents are batshit insane just a little bit crazy, and don't want to let him grow up. NEVER. EVER. So they didn't let him go to a dorm, but decided to sell their house and follow him instead. After a series of bad tactical and financial moves, they're there for a year and a half, and neither of them has found a new job in the city. His dad still drives all the way back to our humble town to work every day.

They forbade him to come back here. NEVER. EVER. But he made his little breakthrough by taking a cheap taxi here and back. After a long while, our little group gathered. We're just missing our priest-to-be of questionable sanity that's currently in a boarding school in Montenegro.

So, our math nerd decides to become a rebellious bastard and runs away from home, even for a day. That is something that nobody would expect of him. He's mama's nerdy, obedient boy.  Well not anymore! There were four of us and we had an really awesome time. Ate real food (and not the stuff of questionable content they make him in the city) , played cards, listened for nyan cat 'til we went insane and had some really good coffee. We had a really enjoyable, carefree day. After quite a while, I felt completely at ease without the aid of liquor.

After that, we somehow managed to find him a taxi back home. There were a few complications, but a random gramps showed up out of nowhere and offered him a ride home. It was very suspicious, but a girl from our little group knows the old timer well, so we were on the safe side.

He went home safely, his parents never suspected a thing, and he was un-raped(I actually added this to my browser's dictionary)fine. I'm just so glad that he finally decided to try and take over his destiny and life, and not just accept whatever life throws at him.

“I’ve been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought is could give me lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s going to burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m going to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

And with this little gem I'm closing this post.
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