It seems that I've found a new found interest, paint splash/splatter/blots/whatever you call them. I'm still figuring out how did this interest start...
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| I was playing around with paint tool SAI and this came out. I guess this was my first time doing the style |
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| I was starting to like the style, so I applied it to my Kill La Kill fan art. As you can see, there isn't much splatter...more like blobs. Well I AM improving~ |
Anyways, I've been playing with this particular style. I love the messy, grunge like feel it gives, but still have a form and can deliver a message. In a way, this style is the closest thing I might get into abstract art.
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| Madoka Magica fan art. Ink blots are fine too. |
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| Another application of it in my Madoka fan art. |
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| A cancelled OC of mine. What I like about the style is the eyes. When done right, it makes the eyes looks gorgeous...or scary, depending on what colour you use. |
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| Another application of it, with a Beyond the Boundary fan art. |
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| Farawe...I'm thinking of re-doing it. |
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| Ink blots! I love to use this style on eyes! |
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| Haruhi Suzumiya fan art. |
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| Got new headphones...dat bass... |
I'm still searching for artist who do practice the style. Yes, I know of Jackson Pollock, but his style is way too deep for me. So if you know anyone that practices splatter style without being too deep into fine-art territory , do tell me.
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I prefer doing the paint splatter myself, making them from scratch, imagining how splatter and the flow/drips looks like, random blot, etc. I'm not a fan of just downloading some Photoshop brushes of splatter brush and just using it like that, but sometimes they look too good to pass off.
Z.illustrations and Behance
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| Yaaaay!~ |
Aaand I made a Facebook page where I upload my arts It's the most frequently updated one compared to my others. Do support it : Z.illustrations
Behance is also updated, but only relevant stuff...professional looking stuff (I have no idea what I'm saying). Anyways, link is here.
Anyways, that's all for now, stay tuned for other posts and rants from me.
Splash paint? and stuff...
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What makes it different?
Infinite Definition
Well, each stroke you do is basically a vector, you can zoom all day erry day and it won’t get pixelated and stuff, clean sharp lines all the way.
Infinite Canvas
Well, unlike some drawing software, where you need to set
the canvas size before you start, Mischief doesn’t. You start at the center,
and you draw whatever you want. No need to worry about not fitting the canvas,
your canvas is unlimited!
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| No 'borders' to worry about, for imagination is limitless....sometimes |
Unlimited zoom
Well, yes, you can zoom all day erry day, so you can create crazy detailed artworks, or make drawings inside drawings or something…hell, I don’t know ._.
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| Lets zoom in! |
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| I should probably stop now |
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| As you can see, in finite zoom...and sharp lines like a vector, even after that kind of magnification |
My Experience
I decided to try it…well, it feels quite nice!
Somehow, the response I got when using with my drawing
tablet is really good. It feels,,,I don’t know..more natural? I had a great
time sketching and doodling stuff, and unlimited canvas means my creative output
is not limited by ‘not having enough paper left’. The pressure detection is
superb too!
The tools are rather simplistic, not many choices of
brushes. There is also the lack of many shortcuts (which is quite annoying),
very simple layering system and non-existent tools to control brightness and
contrast and all that.
I searched for a pen stabilizer function, which is a must
for me when it comes to drawing with a tablet (and PS CS6 still doesn’t have
it, wth?!), and I can’t find it. But
there is a ‘Freehand curve smoother’ under the preferences. It did make my curve lines neat, but I still
prefer a stabilizer like in Paint Tool SAI.
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| It really gives SAI a run for it's money when it comes to line art...but alas SAI's stabilizer function is still the top. |
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| It's good for design concept sketches too! |
Sooo…?
Those aside, I enjoyed it, and it’s a definitely a keeper in
my book. Who knows, perhaps in the future, they will be better upgrades? I recommend
this for anyone who love sketch or do line art, which I think, in most parts,
it excels brilliantly. So grab the trial (http://www.madewithmischief.com/) and try it yourself. Do comment and share your opinions with me. And with that,
till next time!
Mischief: A newb's opinion of it
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But then to the twist of fate, during the sem break, my friends decided to go to a last minute movie outing. Though the ticket we got was 12 midnight, and we were already there since 9pm, so we waited out by eating out, fooling around at the arcades til the time arrives.
And the movie begun.
The movie experience?
It was AWESOME. I already fanboy-ed like mad when Gipsy Danger was activated. One thing that I love this movie is the sheer scale of it. The Jaegers are HUGE, around 80 meters, it's literally a walking building. And they depicted that scaling beautifully. You can feel how tiny you are compared to them. The fights (which what we all came for) was spectacular.
You see, the thing about most giant monster/robot show is the amount of collateral damage done (buildings smashed, roads broken, basically, damage to the city). They did that quite well, though I have to say, battles at the city was rare, most of them happened in the deep sea or near the shore.
The designs behind the Jaegers was good too. They avoided all the cliche robot designs and came up with unique ones (especially Cherno Alpha). I also LOVE how they drive the Jaegers. I have to say, it's the most realistic way of driving a giant mecha other than the usual 'driving it with your mind' or 'driving it with two joysticks for no reason'. The Drift (the act of synchronizing two pilots and the Jaeger) was cool, but unnecessary. I think the only reason was because they can use it as a plot device. I mean, sure, they have the logical explanation behind it (mecha so huge you need two brains two control them), but they can always throw some technological bull shit with some sort of brainwaves multiplier booster or something.
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| The whole premise is logically not possible, but yeah, boat sword. |
The designs behind the Jaegers was good too. They avoided all the cliche robot designs and came up with unique ones (especially Cherno Alpha). I also LOVE how they drive the Jaegers. I have to say, it's the most realistic way of driving a giant mecha other than the usual 'driving it with your mind' or 'driving it with two joysticks for no reason'. The Drift (the act of synchronizing two pilots and the Jaeger) was cool, but unnecessary. I think the only reason was because they can use it as a plot device. I mean, sure, they have the logical explanation behind it (mecha so huge you need two brains two control them), but they can always throw some technological bull shit with some sort of brainwaves multiplier booster or something.
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| Cherno Alpha. You don't see giant mechas shaped like nuclear cooling towers so much these days, do you? |
And finishing/signature moves, a nod to the old super robot genres. And it was flashy and gimmicky, just what we wanted.
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| Striker Eureka's chest missiles. My fanboy-gasm exploded when they 1st showed them. |
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| Crimson Typhoon with the 'Thundercloud formation' stance. Its a giant robot with three arms and rotating blades piloted by triplets and know kung fu .. what more do you want?? |
Anime to live action??
Well, as we know, anime was an inspiration for this movie. Yes, there are loads of mecha anime out there.So when I see a typical mecha anime oriented story getting the Hollywood treatment, I was quite surprised by it. It went really well, and it looked awesome. So it got me thinking, what other genres can the anime medium give to Hollywood that can translate well into live action. Some of you might think of it being stupid, saying that 2D must stay 2D, or say that anime is bad, but hey, we need to try new things.
Sure, the live action Dragon Ball and The last Airbender got terrible critical reception, but i think the fault lies with the directors. Death Note was great as live action. You see, to make a cake, you need a chef, but you need a chef that specializes in cakes, not a chef that specializes in Steaks (okay shitty metaphors, whatever). If you wanna make a movie, you make sure the ones in charge know and LOVE the story genre they're making. You see, the director of Pacific Rim, Guillermo Del Toro, is already accustomed to fantasy and sci-fi settings, so he was perfect for this. Furthermore, he is an avid anime fan, so he really knows what the fans want. I also heard he was attempting to do the live action of the anime Monster on HBO, but i do not know the details...
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| If Del Toro made a live action Madoka Magica.....argh, cant even think about it |
So..
Well, I'm trying to say is I would like to see more manga of various genres getting the big screen treatment. Western comics are fine too, but they are monopolized by DC and Marvel (which means superhero movies 24/7). I would like to see how the Hollywood directors push their minds on how to translate the ideas from 2D to live action.
So because of Pacific Rim, I started to do my own project on how to translate an anime genre, mahou shoujo (too ridiculous? challenge accepted). And it seems Pacific Rim also re-ignited the spark on how I love robots and mechanical stuff (All I draw is robot these days. So here is my fan art of the series
So because of Pacific Rim, I started to do my own project on how to translate an anime genre, mahou shoujo (too ridiculous? challenge accepted). And it seems Pacific Rim also re-ignited the spark on how I love robots and mechanical stuff (All I draw is robot these days. So here is my fan art of the series
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| My fav Jaeger, Cherno Alpha |
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| Jaegirl art is seemingly popular in japan, so did one me self,. Since they got nerfed so badly, I drew Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon |
Pacific Rim
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| My latest art as of this writing |
Microsoft Pain-OH NO!
Well, that is the general consensus regarding using MS Paint to do artworks. People just treat it as a plaything for the 90s kids to waste time upon on the family's computer. It's kinda true though, the tools and features are VERY basic. There is no layer functions too. So yeah, it's quite the inferior product.
Anyways, I still used it as my 1st program to draw digitally (mainly because I have no other software at that time). I took a picture from a manga and decided to colour it. Well....it took forever. And the end result? AHAHAHA, only one soul have feasted his eyes on it. I PM the artwork through Facebook. Now only 2 (including me) people knew how that horrible artwork looks like.
GIMP
GIMP, a free image editing tool. Some call it the poor man's Photoshop. Well, the only reason I used it because my friends was using it....and it was free. So I decided to give it a try.
I tried the layers. and it was much easier. I started to to like digital art. But alas. I never used this software for long.
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| My GIMP colouring practice. I still used manga images to practice on. I only used thee burn and dodge tools for the |
Scanning artworks
Well, since all my previous exercises are just manga images that I colour, I decided to do my own drawings and colour it myself. Thankfully, I have a scanner at my house, so I proceeded to draw on paper like I used to, and ink them with technical pens, and scan them. But it was hard to get a good scan with clear lines and crisp contrast, which was my main source of complain.
Paint Tool SAI
Alas, after some research and googling, I stumble upon this software. Many recommended it, especially for sketching and drawing purposes. It's not free though. But it's really good. It's extremely lightweight and resource friendly (it can run on my toaster of a netbook). The layout is simple and uncluttered, straight to the point.
Anyways, I started to do my own drawings. Even though I scanned it, when I opened it using SAI. The bucket tool is not detecting areas very well, so I painstakingly use the curve tool to re-do every outlines of the drawings I scan.
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| Clickclickclickclickclickclick until the whole artworks finished. |
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| The end result for all those clickings. |
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| Aaaand finish! |
I used this after that, I colored it using bucket and stuff. I used this method and trained reeeaaall hard to get better.
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| One can still produce a good digital artwork without a mouse. It just takes patience, time and practice. Don't give up! |
Drawing Tablet
After getting good at my digital art, I decided to expand my potential further and purchase a drawing tablet. After asking recommendations, test-driving and borrowing my friend's draw tab, I decided to buy the most basic and cheap Bamboo tablet available.
I already practiced a bit with my friend's draw tab, so I already had a running start with mine. It didn't take that long for me to be familiar with (it took around a week). I definitely helped a lot in my drawing, now I can do more complex textures and have more control in shading. I also do all of my sketches digitally now too. So my scanner is pretty much of little use now (but you will always be my treasure, my trusty little scanner!)
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| Sketches are now digital! |
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| Lots of effects doable using drawtabs |
I'm still learning the tricks of digital art and will always strive for the better! So expect more from me. Follow my blog and deviantART (links in the contacts section on the homepage)
Thanks for your time~
Thanks for your time~
Digital Arts: Ramblings of a newbie
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Well, as of the writing of this post, the last post that I made was 9 months ago. What happened?
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Well, I continued my studies....as a graphic designer. And frankly, the schedules are tight...well, if you can manage time well, it isn't so bad, but I suck at that. Sleeping reeeaally late and waking up early is the norm. And when weekends cometh, it's time to pay your sleeping debts.
In other words, when there's time to relax, you either sleep or have FUN.
And because of those implications set upon myself, I spend my free time playing games, drawing, anime and sleep. Yes....sleep...lots of it.
Well, I'm trying to piece back all of my composure together...and my now on hiatus checklists (updating this blog for example).
I might post some of my experience and opinions regarding my studies, but most of it seems to be rather bland, so I might refrain from doing that.
Anyways, as you can see. I re-branded the blog with new looks and what not. I will try to update this cobweb of a blog back to it's glory days.Too bad this blog never had a glory day. I will update with stuff....whether it be my creative output, or some random image that I find amusing. So I re-branded it with new looks and what not.
Thank you for your time, and do hope to see future updates.
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Here's a teaser of a new project I had in mind. I will post about it when it's done.
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Well, I continued my studies....as a graphic designer. And frankly, the schedules are tight...well, if you can manage time well, it isn't so bad, but I suck at that. Sleeping reeeaally late and waking up early is the norm. And when weekends cometh, it's time to pay your sleeping debts.
In other words, when there's time to relax, you either sleep or have FUN.
And because of those implications set upon myself, I spend my free time playing games, drawing, anime and sleep. Yes....sleep...lots of it.
Well, I'm trying to piece back all of my composure together...and my now on hiatus checklists (updating this blog for example).
I might post some of my experience and opinions regarding my studies, but most of it seems to be rather bland, so I might refrain from doing that.
Anyways, as you can see. I re-branded the blog with new looks and what not. I will try to update this cobweb of a blog back to it's glory days.
Thank you for your time, and do hope to see future updates.
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Here's a teaser of a new project I had in mind. I will post about it when it's done.
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| Got myself a drawing tablet. Drawen stuff is easier now. |
What happened?
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So, today's post will be about my interests, and how extremely varied it is. I'm not bragging though, there's nothing to brag about with these weird combinations. I'll show you how my interests change, stays, dies and reincarnate throughout my life. So, let us begin.
Construction vehicles
Yes, bulldozers, backhoes, excavators, all those almost always yellow coloured machinery you see near construction sites. You might think that it's a normal interests with kids, you know, buying construction site toys, remote controlled bulldozers and the lot. But see, my interests, somehow, are more severe than the next door kid playing a bulldozer toy in the sandbox.
I started with this fad of mine when I'm 10-11 years old. But somehow, I can't remember what is the trigger to it. Maybe a book? I don't know, my mind's blurry.But what I can tell you is, my interests rapidly grows because of *drum rolls* internet! So, other kids might be online playing flash games or updating their Myspace, here I was, in front of the screen, looking at pictures of...cranes, tractors, bulldozers, the lot. I have no idea why, I just love em. And of course, I'll try to draw pictures of those stuff. God knows how many drawings I had done that is related to this. I can only draw stick figures for humans, but I can draw a decent construction vehicles. My sketch book probably looks like a catalogue for construction workers. Heck, because of my interests for it, I even understand how hydraulic pistons works. Hmm, somehow I think that that part of my brains could have been used to store better information than that.
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| Yes, back then I understood this crap. |
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| This used to be my wallpaper, I joke you not. |
Whales
Whales....yeah. Not cats, whales, those un-cute, oversized mammalians. I knew most of the 'mainstream' whale species (da hell does that means??) like Blue whale, Right whale, Bowhead whale, Humpback whale, Sperm whale and the likes. Heck, I even memorized some scientific names in those days.
I started this interests of mine around the same time as the above fad. Actually, I don't remember which came first. Maybe both. The trigger would be an encyclopaedia I bought, more specifically, the marine section. Up till this day, I still don't understand why I would be interested in such stuff.
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| I used to memorize all of this. |
Runescape/Drawing/ Medieval Fantasy/Writing
I never explained how my previous interests died. Well, this is the interest that killed off the old ones. Not really killed per se, more to slow torturous death. Any ways, I picked this interests when I was 11-12. The trigger would be the browser MMORPG Runescape. I only used to play those Flash games at Miniclip, then on that website I decided to try Runescape (RS), and it changed my life, whether for the good or for the bad. I liked it, almost addicted to it, I almost converted all my friends to play it.
Oh, and why did I combine RS/drawing/fantasy? Because from RS->Fantasy/Drawing. One day, I found a RS related drawing. A sketch of the Barrow brothers drawn anime style. It was simple, but I fell in love with it.I saved it, and I printed it. And the first thing I tried is to draw it. But of course, after a long time only drawing bulldozers and whales, I can't draw shit. So I do what most kids would do. I traced it. I traced it and after I finished it, I was proud with it. As if I drew it from scratch. Anyways, since that trace, I started to copy it by hand. You wouldn't believe the amount of sketches I drew that is related to that picture I found. It's basically a huge pile of copy pastes of the same image, with one being gradually better then those before.
.After that, my skills are decent enough to draw my own original characters. And that's when the fantasy and writing part starts to flourish. I started to write adventures of my characters and do short stories and comics about (though all of them are RS related. Creativity and originality has little meaning to me those days). It was bad, cliché and cheesy. But hey, I enjoyed doing it, and it created the basis for my writing style today. If not for these things, I would not be drawing/writing today.
This interest was never killed. It went through 'hibernation' when my next interest came.
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| This shit taught me English D: |
Military
More specifically, firearms. I picked this up when I was 13-14. The trigger was yet another video game, 4 of them actually. In chronological order, Age of Empires III, Counter Strike: Condition Zero, Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty 4: Modern warfare. I played, I was interested, and a new interest came to me.
AoE III interested me about military during the 1600-1800s. Muskets, cannons, bombards, abus guns and others. CS and CoD4 makes me interested in modern military and CoD WaW made me interested in WW2.
But I was more interested with modern firearms. I googled it, wiki'd it, read about it, and understood how they worked. I remembered most names, models, what type of bullets the used, which countries they are from. And of course I drew all a lot of firearms. The earlier ones are crap, but with practice, I got better, and more detailed. Like the whales and the construction vehicles, my sketchbooks are full of guns, and I actually did a bloody catalogue! complete with the descriptions.
Till this day, I'm still into these military stuff, though not as extreme as before.
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Anime
The newest interest of mine. I picked it up when I was 15-16. Yeah, pretty new. Actually, I drew anime style drawings ever since that RS sketch I found, but I just used the style, I never ventured into anime fandom. I only know of the term 'anime' when I was 12. Any ways, my trigger would be pamphlet from a Gempak magazine, for an upcoming anime movie, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa. It's contains the characters, infos, seiyuus, screencaps and release date of said movie. And somehow, I'm interested. But of course, there is no way they are gonna screen it here.
Then, coincidentally, TV3 decided to air Fullmetal Alchemist (the series, not the movie though) dubbed in Malay. Talk about lucky! And I was ecstatic. Every Saturday, 6.30 pm, I would be in front of the TV, watching it. When the series ended, that was it. I have no internet during that particular period, so after FMA finished, I didn't watch any anime for awhile.
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After I got the internet back, I realised there's a new series, FMA: Brotherhood, a remake that follows the source material more closely. So I started downloading those episodes. And of course, since I downloaded from an anime website, I tried to pick up other series, though rarely. When I switched schools, a few of my new friends also recommended me some titles. After a trying out a few series, I started to like anime.
Though most of em are bad, some are really good. The bad ones are usually plagued with anime cliches, moe, annoying voices, ecchi and retarded cheesy plots, but it cant't be helped. Just think of it like those Bollywood movies (people starts to dance in the streets for no reasons, ridiculous fight scenes). I just ignore the bad as much as I can and enjoy the good points. Not saying I only watch deep or philosophical stuff all the time, I do watch other stuff, though if it's really bad, I drop the title faster than the speed of light (fastest drop was 1 1/2 episodes, that anime was so bad).
And because of that, I start to draw people again after all those times drawing guns. since I already used anime style before, it isn't hard for me to draw fan arts and stuff (but it made me hard to adapt other drawing styles).
So here I am today, as an anime fan. I'm no otaku though, I think I'm not to that kind of level yet (and hopefully I won't).
And that's it..
Quite a trip that I went through, from bulldozers to cartoons with big eyes. But hey each of those influenced a lot of stuff in my life. There are a few newest ones that I omitted from this blog post, let just say it's too new to write anything about it. These here are the major ones.
Who knows what more other weird stuff that will interest me in the future? Knitting? Hyenas? Antimatter? I don't know. All I hope for is that it won't bring any harm unto me.
Well, that's all for this post. Thank you for reading my humble exposition. Till the next time!
P/S: I'm making a short story regarding Axachariyah, now at the final chapter (unfortunately the illustrations have not started yet). So stay tuned for that!
Varied interests
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