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Ernst-Jan

Ernst-Jan van Melle
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Artist
  • Netherlands
  • Deviant for 16 years
  • He / Him
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My Bio
Current Residence: Noordeloos, Netherlands
Favourite genre of music: Every genre has at least one good tune.
Favourite photographer: an absent one
Favourite style of art: I can appreciate a lot; except manga, or anime, or whatever the hell it's called.
Operating System: Windows Vista
MP3 player of choice: Venerable iPod (though I still don't like Steve Jobs)
Shell of choice: Coquille St. Jacques
Wallpaper of choice: Wallpaper? Glue fumes confuse me.
Skin of choice: If you prick us, do we not bleed?
Favourite cartoon character: Calvin and Hobbes
Personal Quote: "We have no quarrel with the Moon and welcome their friendship." (the Mysterons)

Favourite Visual Artist
Kevin O'Neill, Guy Davis, Frank Bellamy, Mike Noble, Bill Watterson
Favourite Movies
currently the House of Cards trilogy
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Rammstein, Monolith Deathcult, And One, Punish Yourself
Favourite Writers
Alan Moore, Douglas Adams, Arthur Conan Doyle, HP Lovecraft, Stephen Fry, HG Wells
Favourite Games
Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC
Tools of the Trade
Corel Painter, dead trees, ink, and Maya
Other Interests
Most forms of narrative art. I also make excruciating music.

Ending an Era

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Final exams have finished here recently, in the land beneath sea level. Thursday the results got in, and after seven years of high school, Latin, mathematics and the most depressing art class imaginable, I can say, without fear of contradiction, that I am forever free of these things. It closely resembles the ending of an especially annoying feel-good teen drama movie, where the protagonist (me), his girlfriend (the Girl), and several people he tolerates (Extras) have a happy end, this illusion further solidified by the fact that several people I  didn't quite like (blatant euphemism) failed miserably. Ha. I am currently buried in the paperw
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Admission Exams are over, and I will be an Animation student at the Rotterdam Art School from September the 1st forward. I was refused in Utrecht, and have been provided with the answer 'there shall be no correspondence over the decisions' after asking why. Oh well. They seemed more pretentious there anyway, and the building was uglier than in Rotterdam. I hope they'll be sorry. Meanwhile, I can now finally draw stuff that I want without feeling guilty. The question only remains what. One gets so many ideas when one is not supposed to have them. I must pay tribute to so many things: the Gerry Anderson shows, the Brotherhood of Dada, the inco
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Is it a sign?

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Right, currently I am fully prepared to believe in omens of the future. Why does this author, who is usually of the kind-of-epistemological persuasion, decide to do so? I was doing my admission exam at the Rotterdam Art College last Monday , and I experienced it as frightfully bad. There was no response, none at all, and it left a metaphoric bad taste in my mouth. What was even worse was the fact that the admission exam for my only alternative for an Animation in course in this country was due exactly a week later. There was no possible way I'd get any decent work done in the space of a week, not with my finals looming into view. Today I fou
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thanks very much for the fave :-)