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I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who have comented on my last Journal entry and the las 6 deviations I have posted here. I really apprecciate your support and advice.
Even though I have lost contact with a lot DA folks I used to be in contact with, (epite the fact that  I've tried to reach them and all) I have come to know many new DA friends and amazing artists. I express my gratitude for this because I treasure every past and present experience on this site as it helps me to be a better artist and person.

Best regards to all of you.

Raf

Hi there, This is me after more than a year. After the earthquake I moved to a safer place and I've working like crazy and I literally have no free time. But, today I started to clean  the hard drive and checked my "to do" folder and I felt terrible because it is full of thing I thought I'd color or draw and never did.

I love three things in life, teaching, playing music and drawing (and/or coloring), and I've been having a hard time with the first two, so I decided, today, that I would color and finish my grimlock pic because it reminded me about the few things I really enjoyed doing and I was kinda good at.

Besides some secret pages I colored for the amazing "the lost seasons" project, That is the first ting I do in two years. A lot was forgotten, skills are not the same, it took me longer than I expeted and it was damn harder than I remember it was, but, just like before, I had a great time and that's what matters the most to me.


...I STILL FUNCTION!!!!!

Two more projects start today, one of them is a tribute to District 9, which I just saw today and in my top 5 best movies EVER!

It's good to be back.

Hi there,it's been a while since I posted anything here. Haven't had any free time since the earthquake and all the problems that that caused to us and my country. We are ok now, but our apartment almost collapsed and we had to move asap. We rented a ridiculously small apartment (the first we could get since the tremors kept going on down here) But now, almost three months later, when I think about it, riding through that quake in our rocking second-floor apartment was for me one of the scariest experience I've ever been through!

I was pretty sure we were about to die - that either the ceiling would fall on us or that we'd collapse through the floor. It truly was an emotion I'd never experienced before. My whole body shook for the next two hours, but I was too busy removing debries from our place and helping out the neighbours to care about it..

We were very tired that night, had worked all day and saw festival de viña (my wife likes Ricardo Arjona, who sang that night till 2:30 a.m.) So when the earthquake started we did not feel it right away, but soon my wife woke me up shaking me and she ran to close the gas pipe (we have gas water heaters....dangerous stuff). Anyway, They were the longest two minutes of our lives! We could hear things falling out of cupboards, and pictures falling off the walls. But the sound of the walls cracking around us and the heavy dust we started to breathe almost instantly was the worst.

The building didn't collapse, but received a LOT of structural damage. Me and kate were grateful to be allright, except for quite a few wounds, but elsewhere, as I'm sure you all have seen on the news, people didn't fare as well. Lots of damage in the south. Virtually no stores open. Most parts of Santiago did not have electricity for hours, even days. Collapsed overpasses had closed major highways. The airport was closed because of damage.  It was so disconcerting to get out of bed in the dark and stumble over fallen items in bedroom and living room. We got just a taste of what the Haitians have suffered, though their damage and deaths have been so much more devastating, even though their quake a weaker one.

Since that day, I feel as if I started my life again. I see myself, my wife, my achievements and goals with a whole new perspective. I pray I don't lose this new vision of living each day as if it was the last one, because one of these days, sooner or later, tomorrow or in decades ahead, it will be so.

Un abrazo!

Rafa

Last saturday at 3:30 there was the strongest earthquake I've felt in my life.  this thing was huge, I was a kid living in Viña (near the eoicenter) for the big earthquake in 1985, which was a disaster, but this one was more than 2 min. long and everything was falling and cracking around us in the middle of the night and in absolute darkness. Thanks a lot for the comments, notes and support of my DA buddies. Me and Kate are ok but the apartment is getting to the end of road, so we're moving asap. We chileans are tought people,but  the disaster is shocking when you walk around here.