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It’s late, so here’s a post.

Published on December 3, 2009 in Hobbies and Media. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

So this is unique. I downloaded a beta of a program called OmmWriter, and that’s what I’m using to compose this blog post. The idea appears to be that with this absorbing the screen, I can concentrate on writing to my heart’s content. Seems to be working. I’m writing, after all, aren’t I? The program takes up the whole screen with a serene snowy minimalist scene, and also advises I put on headphones to complete the experience. In my ears is a very ethereal tune, also quite minimalist. I could grow used to using this software for creative writing (certainly can’t use it for school – I need my resources in front of me!).

Moving on… I seem to say this with every post, but I should be writing more often. It’s a release, if nothing else. But with school and schoolwork and fraternal obligations, family obligations, girlfriend obligations… my own obligations take the backburner. So here I am. Over a month later than when I last wrote. A lot has happened since then, I assure you, dear reader. To wrap up my entry from last time, FYE did evntually call me, but their offerings were too little too late. I’ve since given up on them and botcotted the franchise.

Halloween was pretty grea. I want was Frank West, photographer from Dead Rising, complete with my Canon T1i. :3 Yep, I bought the thing, and consequently went so poor the only idea I had for a cheap Halloween involved making the camera part of the outfit. Came off rather well, though, and I got to play with my new toy all that night.

As a sidenote, maybe this program is -too- peaceful. I just conked out for about 30 minutes. @_@ Now my eyes are all out of focus and fuzzy. :S

I’ve been hard at work on project after project. Everything is finished now, and I have a few grades back too. Remember the Star Wars/Romeo+Juliet mashup I posted back then? 96%. I couldn’t be more proud. That class is going spectacularly. Tomorrow I share my final project in that class, which I will stick here, too:

Done in Second Life (blegh), we did an adaptation of a scene from Troilus and Cressida, a lesser-known Shakespeare play. Since Cressida is a bit of a whore, we decided to exaggerate her elements and adapt the pivotal scene to a club, with Cressida in a skimpy outfit, and Diomedes as a pimp. Completing the scene with some popular dance music and voiceovers, we had a blast, and the prof seems to like it. I’m hoping for another A – this class should be a shoe-in for an A. :)

Who saw UP? I bought the Blu-ray when it came out on November 10th, and after waiting a week (fraternity initation), I was finally able to watch it. Wouldn’t ya know, I cried. Dammit all to hell, Pixar has me. How can a single movie studio have EVERY. SINGLE. MOVIE. they make be so original and emotional? Fuck, I get teary-eyed at the short “Partly Cloudy” that came before UP (it’s just that perfect. I know exactly how that cloud felt…):

So after Thanksgiving, on November 4th, I was on the way to the fraternity for our Wednesday night meeting when my car was hit by a MARTA Moblility bus. x___x This was awful – held me up for the meeting, damaged my car a bit, and mostly pissed me off. I lost my temper, but mostly at the world than anyone in particular. Thankfully I didn’t scream at the MARTA driver, his supervisor who showed up, or the cop (who was very helpful). The car is still in perfect working condition, but now has a dent on the back left side where the bus merged without looking into me. Because they were at fault, MARTA had a 3rd party insurance claims adjuster come look at my car, and “assess” it. Days later, I recieved the assessment in the mail: $742.60. For a dent to be fixed, and the car to be painted. @.@ Fuck. It’s like the money fairy just came in a dive bombed my wallet! I still have no intention on getting the dent fixed right away – it’s not hurting me or anything, and getting the car repainted means I have to actually CARE about scratches and whatnot. AND remove my bumper stickers? No way. I’ll just keep the money. Wooooo! Plans are already underway for my newfound wealth… Big ones. But little things include The Beatles Rock Band (waaaaant), a new telephoto lens for my beautiful camera, and I might be getting a used DS Lite for Pokemon-ing. >.> And maybe, finally, that bass guitar. But big plans first.

Speaking of games, I’ve been playing more and more of them recently. An unexpected gem for me, personally, is how much fun I’ve been having with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I honestly didn’t expect to enjoy this title THIS much! A short single player campaign experience, but it’s brutal yet beautiful in how it’s presented. Imagine a game so compelling that it makes you actually consider the damage and violence you propogate. It’s how I felt, and how my stomach churned uncomfortably as I watched terrorists mow down civilians in an airport in MW2.

And when Russia brought the war to Virginia suburbs and bombed Washington DC… this game is amazing. Not to mention the actual combat itself is spot on, and the multiplayer is so much fun. I want to have a LAN party with my Xbox 360 in Augusta as soon as I possibly can. Anyway, please, guys, watch this trailer if you’ve seen nothing else about this game:

Another fun game (this time, wholly expected as such) is Brutal Legend. This game is the epitome of METAL, and I loved the environment it set up. With the handpicked metal soundtrack, this game screamed epic, and it was. While I’m showing things off here, I have to link to a recent discovery I’ve had many a lulz at: KnowYourMemes.com. Take a gander at some of their informative material:

…Why not speak about me a bit more here? I don’t know what the purpose of this blog is, yet. Sadly, you think I would. I share some vague thoughts, some vague feelings, and youtubes of far too much stuff I find entertaining.

Something about me: I have found that, almost against my own will, I really enjoy Twitter. Why is completely beyond me. I wish my friends would use it, or if they have one, used it more often. It’s a short blurb into the insight of their mind that I wish I had, I guess. I try to contribute enough, but I suppose I could be doing better with it. I could say some things that are more insightful. I think I’ll try this.

Sometimes I don’t feel I’m creative enough on my own. I’d love to actually go somewhere when I have time, take pictures and video to my heart’s content, come back to my Mac and MAKE something with them. I think I’ll make this my goal for the month. I don’t know if I can accomplish it, but I’ll try nonetheless. Wish me luck.

I wish I had a more skilled hand at poetry.
I wish I had access to materials like a pottery wheel and clay. Lately I’ve wanted to try my hands at throwing clay again.
Maybe I just want to THROW the clay.
Maybe I’m beginning to ramble.
Maybe I need to ramble.

… Maybe I need to go to bed. :) More coming soon. Just… remind me.

… And if you read this, a comment would really make my day. <3

a friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend with weed is better

Published on October 2, 2009 in Hobbies and Media. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

…Pay no mind to the title, simply a lyric from Placebo’s “Pure Morning” from their debut album “Without You I’m Nothing”. Picked it up last night from iTunes, and I’m enjoying it so far.

A number of times I load my blog and contemplate what to say. A number less I close it with far more work ahead of me. These past few weeks have been exactly that. What with Tricia moving in, fraternal obligations, but mostly class and project obligations… I’m been a busy fish. Working on a sonification project for Interactive Narrative/Fiction, our UI Design project, and just finished our Shakespeare Star Wars mashup, which I’d like to share here.

And opinions are more than welcome, either commented here or on the actual YouTube. :) I’m pleased with the outcome, especially Yoda’s bits and the Viceroy’s bits. :P

So I’m now sitting in UI Design and my weekend plans have been canceled. I’m okay with it – I understand why. I think I’ll end up sleeping when I get back to the apartment, but I’m unsure. I don’t know what else I can do – I’m actually more interested in doing nothing this weekend. :P

And suddenly it smells strongly of cut grass in here. Not the good kind of smell either, though I’ve never been a fan of the scent, but the sweaty gardener cut grass smell, and I’m getting a headache from this crap. I’ve actually been paying attention in this class now, but there’s only 10 minutes left. Maybe my next paragraph will be for the next class, but I feel like wrapping this up sooner than later.

I want, badly, some money. More and more often I find myself pining after something I can’t have, even though I would really like it. Even though I have the money for it, too, I can’t bring myself to buy it… like that Canon T1i. So… an alumnus emailed the fraternity with a job opening for a data entry specialist, and I emailed back my resume. 15 hours a week at $10 an hour? I hope they are okay with me. I’d love some spending money. I would buy that Canon T1i so fast. And… save for lenses. Like a Telephoto Zoom lense… or a tilt-shift lense. I had never seen or heard of tilt-shift before seeing this video last night. I am now fascinated with this, as this video is beautiful and perplexing at the same time.

This is Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. Yes. The actual thing. The lense changes perspective so strongly you think you’re looking at a miniature model. I. Want. To. Do. This. x.x Also, the music is so soothing.

Not to mention a plethora of other little doodads I could use, like an external harddrive or a new router. I just ordered a new thumbdrive from Amazon that’s the same size and shape as a key, so it will fit with my keychain a lot easier. Y’know, stuff like that. >.>

Let’s see where things go, right?

aardvarks and apologies

Published on September 4, 2009 in Hobbies and Media. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

Fish here, writing for the first time in forever ago. Reason being is that school has started, and I was a busy fellow running and coordinating Rush for my fraternity, beginning classes, juggling a budding social life, rising from the ashes of said social life’s death last spring when I left for the summer. I am pleased to be back in Atlanta, even if it means dealing with some of the difficulties (traffic, homeless, idiots, etc). It’s good to be back.

Another thing one may notice is that I’ve replaced the blog. I had to update my WordPress installation, which borked itself and I had to restart from scratch. I’m surprised and amazed I remembered HOW to even do it. As a result, though, things may take a bit of tweaking for a few days, but I’m overall very pleased with the new WordPress (I upgraded from 2.5.1 to the current 2.8.4, so there was a LOT of newness in here for me).

I’m currently sitting in my Shakespeare course watching Morpheus Laurence Fishburne play Othello on the DVD my professor is showing. These stories are always so tragic. =/ This is just one of several classes I’m rather enjoying this semester – I’m taking a course in Interactive Narrative and Fiction, another in Constructing the Moving Image, another in User Interface Design, and another in Ethics in Computing. Very good semester, and all things I’m interested in. :)

My apartment is quite nice and comfortable, but needs a bit more decoration and furniture. I guess that’s why Tricia’s moving in (TOMORROW!) to take care of that sort of thing for me. ;D She’ll enjoy it, and I’m looking so forward to finally having her here – words cannot do my feelings justice.

So I can’t remember if I actually wrote about my new Macbook Pro that I love so very very much. Everything about this magnificent machine is to my exact desires – a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GBs of DDR3 RAM, and a 320GB HDD for starters. I JUST purchased Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for only a mere $29 a week ago today, and I’ve seen some significant improvements in the realm of how this computer runs and handles itself. I’m quite pleased overall. I’m now waiting for two dates for Apple-related excitement: September 9th is Apple’s standard media event for the refresh of their iPod line (here is where they typically release a new version of iTunes, hoping for some sweet improvements… maybe 64-bit?), and September 25th, when AT&T finally stopstries to stop failing so fucking hard and grants iPhone owners the ability to MMS-text message pictures for those not in the know. I have some sweet programs for my Mac now too – Things for Mac (and subsequently, Things for iPhone) have made task management and keeping up with things so. much. easier. for me. I’m kinda in love with being able to take a quick glance and see everything that’s due of me. ^_^ I’ve also obtained Adobe’s CS4 Master Collection, which is fantastic for the programs and talents expected of me in my major here at Georgia Tech. Photoshop and Flash will more than likely prove to be far more useful than anything else I can possibly have. I’ve also installed Aperture 2 for my Mac, in preparation for the DSLR I plan to get – Aperture 2 is a photo management and RAW image handler developed and sold by Apple, and it should work wonderfully for my needs. :)

But yes! A DSLR – specifically, the Canon EOS 500D (otherwise known as the Digital Rebel T1i), a fantastic 15 megapixel DSLR camera that also does HD video and has Live View, two neat knick-knacks for a DSLR. Every review I’ve read says this camera is best in its price class and seems perfect for my desires and hobbies. I can’t wait to purchase this camera and develop my photography skills, but I want to sell my current camera before I run off and buy this thing… and I need to find a buyer. Anyone who is interested and reading this, hit me up, PLEASE. :P

I wanted to say more than simply facts or… almost sales-pitchy things in this post, but I suppose I have to get all that out of the way before I go on with other things. I guess those thoughts will come later today though – class is almost over and I should wrap this up. :P So, until later…!