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2 Jan 2010

A peek at new years

Here are just a couple of things that happened on New Years Eve.

Family and friends all in the same night, it was super busy, but it was great!

Here are some more photos of the night, you can check out some more at flickr

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2 January, 2010 at 13:54 by admin

Tags: family, Friends, new years eve, photo
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16 Dec 2009

Tim found something cool

Tim found this and it pretty cool. Its a multiplot explosion of a video. This would take a lot of story boarding to get all straight to know what the illustrator would be doing next. Unless he/she went into it full force with no idea how it would turn out.  (which would be cool in its own way) It kinda reminded me of Paprika, how it started to mix up reality. This little video has awesome music as well, this is the kind of techno that I like.

16 December, 2009 at 15:29 by admin

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30 Nov 2009

Project Three, finaly

triangle meg

Here we are at the end of the semester with only days left, and I haven’t yet put up the third project from graphic design class. I can’t feel to bad because the teacher hasn’t handed them back yet graded. The triangle piece was the item turned in, this did not stay 2d this was made into a 3d triangle object. This wasn’t exactly a challenging project, it just got my mind thinking in a different way. The cylinder down at the button was a runner up for this project, but it would have been harder to construct and I was taken more with the triangle form.

Here are the instructions the class used:

Use either a cylinder, rectangle or triangle in a 3d manner.
Must use words or phrases.
Must have some opposing aspect to composition whether it be with the object or text.
Must use 3 pantone colors, able to use screens and the color white.

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30 November, 2009 at 18:40 by admin

Tags: graphic design, layout, projects, school, typography
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29 Nov 2009

Flash!

I have been thinking about getting a flash for my canon rebel xti, and I just happen to mention this to my dad and he says he has a couple that we can see if they will work. So he hands me five different flashes! My dad uses mostly film cameras and  equipment, but luckily most of the equipment from film can be transferred over to digital, like the flashes. Some of the flashes he gave me work and some not so much.

Vivitar 200

Vivitar auto 200, when placed upon the camera, it makes my xti look like a unicorn. Uses a 9 volt battery, and it works! This flash has a automatic and manual setting, which I have yet to learn how to use the manual setting yet. The only bad thing is that it takes about 12 seconds to recharge its self and be ready to take another photo. I have the manual and original leather case for this one. Sorry for the eaby pic, it was the only one I could find of it.

Rollei 100 xl

Rollei 100 xl, love the name of this one, its cute sounding. I have the one on the left, I believe the one on the right is a newer model. This one also works, it doesn’t have any setting, but it only takes about 5 seconds to recharge its self. Works just as nice.

Vivitar 285

Vivitar zoom thyristor 285, this flash has a lot of bells and whistles to it. Unfortunately I have not been able to get this one to work yet, but thats what I have Tim for! I will definable have to look up how to use all the setting on this flash if we can get it to work. The head of the flash moves at an angle and extends for telephoto images.

Sunpak 433 d

Sunpak auto 433 D, my favorite to use so far, it doesn’t have as many dials but it is adjustable on how bright the flash is, which is what I really wanted. On a good charge it can take 3 flashes/photos in a row, and it also depends on the setting, if the flash is on full (the brightest) it takes a while to recharges, but if its on a low setting that it doesn’t take too long at all to charge. This flash is actually faster to use than the stock flash on my camera. This one swivel and rotates as well.

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JC penny Electronic Strobe, importantly I don’t think this one will work again, they batteries we left in it and they corroded, it pretty bad. I know this little guy was well love by my dad, he was angry that this happened.

Flower Power

Messing with the flashes for the fist time, this one is done with the sunpak flash, with the flash shooting straight up at the ceiling and the light bouncing back down on to Flower. I’m sure she’s happy not to have a flash in her eyes for once. Made for interesting light in the image.

29 November, 2009 at 16:30 by admin

Tags: camera flashes, leaning, Noob, photo, vintage
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23 Nov 2009

The blinds

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Which side is clean?

When Tim and I moved into this studio not much was clean except the carpet because that was actually new. One the things that was not cleaned was the blinds, and the deal was that we didn’t have to clean them when we moved out. But as you can tell they got really really dirty, especially in the kitchen. I have never had to clean blinds before and I never realized how much of a pain they are to do! I figure it would be better to do it while there are dirty dishes in the sink rather than getting dust and dirt all over clean dishes.

I had to get the step stool and I got up on the short counter to clean with Clorox wipes. I must have used 20 of those damn things. My back will be in pain and my hands will be broken out with eczema tomorrow. But I got it all done!  I should probably go over it again tomorrow just to make sure all the dirt of off.

Because of doing this I know don’t want to do the dishes! (We don’t have a dish washer so hand wash is the only option) I’ve been procrastinating that for a while now. I’m good at procrastinating. Maybe its part of my Irish heritage. *Shakes fist* Dirty dishes you will see your doom soon!

23 November, 2009 at 0:03 by admin

Tags: chores, cleaning, dishes, house work, lazy
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20 Nov 2009

Gotta love Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’?

Video Games | HAWP | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
If you haven’t watched Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’? yet, you must watch them now! They are funny, especially if you watch them all together consecutively. This one happens to be my personal favorite because of my love for Joss Whedon’s brilliant mind and making awesome tv/internet shows. On that note boooooo Fox for not continuing Dollhouse! I think I might boycott them for canceling Firefly and Dollhouse.
20 November, 2009 at 22:43 by admin

Tags: day off, geek, Hey Ash Whatcha Playin', indie, internet, Joss Whedon, video
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11 Nov 2009

Self Portrait

Here are a couple new self portraits taken today.

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11 November, 2009 at 0:31 by admin

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26 Oct 2009

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Wallpaper cat and kitty by hoschie

This is how I feel today, I don’t want to do anything! This artist has other cute photos with animals, this one was appropriate for Monday. I hope yours is going better!

26 October, 2009 at 14:56 by admin

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23 Oct 2009

New Mac Book

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Tim and Meg in Photobooth

So I was getting tired of going back and forth from my old acer pc laptop and my newish imac. It was too much of a pain and my pc couldn’t keep up with the programs I needed (adobe). *POOF* 13inch mac book pro appears! Now I can go seamlessly between lappy and desktop! I am happy and in love with macbook. <3

Once you go mac you never go back.

23 October, 2009 at 22:12 by admin

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19 Sep 2009

Cha Cha

Recently Tim and I have been leaning in to teas. . . more Tim than I. He has always had an interested in them due to Kevin Rose on Digg. For our 5 year anniversary I went to Teavana in the mall and got him the perfect tea maker along with some flavored tea. A mix of Hazelnut Dolce rooibos tea and MartVana herbal tea, its a good mix but I recommend it on a cold rainy day.  We got burned out the tea fast in the middle of summer. We liked the “perfect tea maker” even though the easy cleaning is not so easy.teavana pot

We got up the courage to buy something at Lupica, also a lose tea store in the mall . We had been in many times but never got anything, we would just stand in aww at it all, with the occasional droll showing.

To say the least we can’t seem to stop drink tea. There is no such thing as coffee anymore. We even picked up an electrical water kettle and we go through 5 gallons of water so fast!

Our first purchases from Lupicia were:

matcha-kirara-rice-teaMatcha Kirara Rice Tea – perfect breakfast tea, matcha give an extra boost, the rice give it nice favor, good hot or cold. A fav! We are already on our 3rd bag.

5227-strawberry-teaStrawberry – made with black tea, just recently found out it is much better cold than hot, not a favorite, but we’ll drink it

9001-rooibos-gree-teaGolden Honey Dew- with rooibos (red tea), sweet , decaffeinated (evening tea). My personal favorite so far. Smells oh so good.

19 September, 2009 at 9:30 by admin

Tags: adventure, geek, leaning, life, Noob, tea, testing
Posted in I heart, My life | 1 Comment »

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