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CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: This is my personal description of a HAYABUSA armored SPARTAN-II from HALO™ – - a unique, jack-of-all-trades, no-non-sense SPARTAN soldier. Far from being a single oriented armor or operative such as a CQB being a CQB, a Recon being a Recon, a Scout being a Scout and so on, and the HAYABUSA armored SPARTAN makes me reckon of it as Elite. When I try to analyze it, it seems that it fits to nearly any assignment. Aesthetics-wise, it is unique again; far from the usual techno-mechanical designs of the other MJOLNIR armor permutations (pertinent of its helmet and shoulder plate designs) the HAYABUSA is organic, elegant, and artistic. It reminds you of the SANGHEILIS, perhaps the COVENANT in general. But I must admit – - the name, the helmet, the shoulder plates, in fact including the color scheme, it’s just plain Japanese Art. I guess this one will speak HALO as “HEYROH”.
FIGURE DESCRIPTION: The action figure is my personal customization by combining parts without the need for repainting. The HAYABUSA armor set came from the HALO 3™ ROGUE Deluxe Armor Pack Set, these include interchangeable pieces for the head (helmet), shoulder armor plates, and chest armored vest. The rest of body, on the other hand, is a TARGET® store exclusive – - HALO 3™ SPARTAN MARK V original action figure evident of its red painted thigh armor plates and knee armor pads and comes with the SPARTAN Laser. The BR55 BATTLE RIFLE and M6 MAGNUM, on the other hand come with the aforementioned armor pack set.
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I reckon the (very nice!) regular visitors to the blog know that I delight in drawing. I’ve found that it has helped the photography quite a bit, and in unexpected ways. It now feels simpler to notice lines, shapes, and negative space in a different way. At some point, words break down when trying to describe how one thing can bleed into another. It’s a lot like trying to describe a unique smell with words – is it even possible without being poetically silly? I don’t know!
I have my other drawings under the "Drawing" category on the blog ( www.stuckincustoms.com/category/drawing/ ), in case you want to see more. I don’t reckon I’m very excellent yet, and I still find these very hard to do. I am experimenting with various styles and looks, trying not to be worried of unfamiliar genres. This is my first "cartoony" look… I tried to blend something eastern and western… anyway, I’m blabbing too much.
Speaking of blabbing, I have a very looong review of Nik Software coming up tomorrow. It also will feature a bunch of secret unpublished shots, so you can get a bit of a peak "behind the scenes", so that sort of thing might appeal to you even if you are not the sort that likes playing around with cool photoshop filters.
www.ibm.com Schott AG has teams spread from Germany to Japan and they need to be able to speak to each other “face-to-face” via such tools as web conferencing. Mathias Pohl discusses the use of collaboration software in cross-cultural business situations to ensure teams work efficiently and travel costs are kept to a minimum. More and more business units within Schott are asking us for more efficient ways to communicate and collaborate with each other after the initial face-to-face meeting. We took over a larger part of a Japanese company, and we started to work with this Japanese company with a lot of face to face meetings because the German culture is very different to the Japanese culture, but meanwhile, you have a basic set up of the teams and now the teams are asking to work with each other in a much more efficient way than to travel around the world, to travel between from Germany and Japan.
