Sunday, December 23, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
Stuff to type about
So I killed my iPod. 100% completely dead. The cable I was using in my car fell apart, and I think some wires got crossed and now my iPod doesn't work. Which makes me =(
I think I'm getting a new camera for Christmas, and with that I want to start a new project. It's called Project365, and I read about it over on Lifehacker.com. Basically it's to improve at photography by taking a picture every single day. And not the same thing every day, like those time lapse videos that are so popular, but something unique every day. I'll be using this space in conjuction with my Flickr account to keep myself on track. So starting January 1st, if I don't post a new picture every day, yell at me!
Other stuff has happened, but I really don't want to talk about it on here. It's pretty sad. But other than that I have nothing to talk about I suppose. Just help keep me on track for my new year project.
I think I'm getting a new camera for Christmas, and with that I want to start a new project. It's called Project365, and I read about it over on Lifehacker.com. Basically it's to improve at photography by taking a picture every single day. And not the same thing every day, like those time lapse videos that are so popular, but something unique every day. I'll be using this space in conjuction with my Flickr account to keep myself on track. So starting January 1st, if I don't post a new picture every day, yell at me!
Other stuff has happened, but I really don't want to talk about it on here. It's pretty sad. But other than that I have nothing to talk about I suppose. Just help keep me on track for my new year project.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Forgot
Last night I thought about all this stuff I was going to write about today... but I forgot all most of it. Blarg. I'll try to make stuff up off the top of my head then.
I got a new photography book last night, since well, that's what I've been obsessing over lately. A couple of people recommended it to me, it's called Understanding Exposure and then it has a colon and more words. The guy explains things, and then shows you in pictures what he means, which is pretty cool. Like he'll say "this picture was taken with this and this, and this picture in the same spot was taken with this this and this and this is why this looks better than that." Except with less run on sentences normally. I'm enjoying it, and learning a ton, even if I don't (hopefully yet) have a fancy camera. I was reading it at lunch today, and it inspired me to bust out the camera and take a bunch of macro shots, which I'll post to the ol' Flickr account later.
I'm buying a new laptop bag later today so that I can bring my laptop with me to home and not worry about me dropping my bag and destroying it. I checked out two highly recommended bag companies, and liked one way more than the other. There was Crumpler and Timbuk2, and I thought the crumpler bag blew the timbuk2 bag out of the water on most fronts. Except for the laptop holding space. In the timbuk2 bag it's lined with cordoroy, and in the crumpler I think it's just padded. Also swaying me towards the crumpler is that it's on clearance at the place I went. I just really don't like the color, but the color I do like doesn't seem to be for sale on the usa website.
Anyway I've got nothing left to write about I suppose.
I got a new photography book last night, since well, that's what I've been obsessing over lately. A couple of people recommended it to me, it's called Understanding Exposure and then it has a colon and more words. The guy explains things, and then shows you in pictures what he means, which is pretty cool. Like he'll say "this picture was taken with this and this, and this picture in the same spot was taken with this this and this and this is why this looks better than that." Except with less run on sentences normally. I'm enjoying it, and learning a ton, even if I don't (hopefully yet) have a fancy camera. I was reading it at lunch today, and it inspired me to bust out the camera and take a bunch of macro shots, which I'll post to the ol' Flickr account later.
I'm buying a new laptop bag later today so that I can bring my laptop with me to home and not worry about me dropping my bag and destroying it. I checked out two highly recommended bag companies, and liked one way more than the other. There was Crumpler and Timbuk2, and I thought the crumpler bag blew the timbuk2 bag out of the water on most fronts. Except for the laptop holding space. In the timbuk2 bag it's lined with cordoroy, and in the crumpler I think it's just padded. Also swaying me towards the crumpler is that it's on clearance at the place I went. I just really don't like the color, but the color I do like doesn't seem to be for sale on the usa website.
Anyway I've got nothing left to write about I suppose.
Monday, December 10, 2007
It's been a few weeks
The last time I published was on November 27. Man that was a while ago. Sorry about that.
I'm learning to absolutely hate Mondays. Mainly because the weekends screw with my sleep schedule so much. So both last week and this week, I got around 2 hours of sleep before work. Insomnia is always fun. Instead of sleeping I decided to try and fix my computer which was acting up, and watch the majority of Silence of the Lambs. What a good movie.
Speaking of movies, I saw Juno this weekend too, which was fantastic. It's only playing on 7 screens, but did really really well. Apparently it's in the top 7 films for gross as compared to screen number. Lots of 7's there.
My picture taking has slown down a bit, as I've run out of stuff at work to actually take pictures of. It's just too dark in here. I can't pump up the ISO because I get way too much noise, and I hate taking pictures with the flash on. It makes pictures look like crap in dark areas, and bugs my coworkers.
I go home in a few weeks for a few days, and I'm looking forward to it. I won't be there so long as to start hating Midland, but I think long enough to see everyone I want to see, and do everything I could possibly want to do. Which boils down to eating Rosa's, Chick-fil-a, Sonic, and Taco Villa.
Work was incredibly stressful last week, but I won't go into it right now. It's blown past already so it's not that big of a deal. They have told me they're probably going to move me to junior compositing tasks soon, which I'm very excited for.
And that's a lot to read so I'm done typing.
I'm learning to absolutely hate Mondays. Mainly because the weekends screw with my sleep schedule so much. So both last week and this week, I got around 2 hours of sleep before work. Insomnia is always fun. Instead of sleeping I decided to try and fix my computer which was acting up, and watch the majority of Silence of the Lambs. What a good movie.
Speaking of movies, I saw Juno this weekend too, which was fantastic. It's only playing on 7 screens, but did really really well. Apparently it's in the top 7 films for gross as compared to screen number. Lots of 7's there.
My picture taking has slown down a bit, as I've run out of stuff at work to actually take pictures of. It's just too dark in here. I can't pump up the ISO because I get way too much noise, and I hate taking pictures with the flash on. It makes pictures look like crap in dark areas, and bugs my coworkers.
I go home in a few weeks for a few days, and I'm looking forward to it. I won't be there so long as to start hating Midland, but I think long enough to see everyone I want to see, and do everything I could possibly want to do. Which boils down to eating Rosa's, Chick-fil-a, Sonic, and Taco Villa.
Work was incredibly stressful last week, but I won't go into it right now. It's blown past already so it's not that big of a deal. They have told me they're probably going to move me to junior compositing tasks soon, which I'm very excited for.
And that's a lot to read so I'm done typing.
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