A co-worker and I have been trying to be more creative outside of work and our current ambition is to take one roll of film a week. I think we both are realizing how statisfing it is to take a bunch of photos but how hard it also is to keep up with the challenge (i suppose that might be why it’s called a challenge though). We are both using what seem to be, and i mean this with no offense, ancient camera and i am disappointed to say i have no idea what the setting really do and nothing is to clearly labeled. It makes me feel like i’ve been babied with my slim point and shoot digital camera i’ve been using for years.

These are some of my favorites so far. We haven’t decided weather to allow photoshopping into the competition right now so that makes me cringe a bit but it will probably help me learn more.

Hit the jump for the rest.

Hit the jump if you want to see a better photo of the album cover i bought.

So a couple weeks back, kind of on a spur of the moment, but mostly been trying to get one for a while, i stopped by guitar center and picked up this sweet black les paul and of course had to get an amp, stand, and cable too. I’ve been playing it 4 times a week at least since, it’s pretty fun just to mess around, i’m getting better at chords but still need to tackle learning an entire song, usually i’ll learn part, my ADD kicks in and i move on to trying ot learn another song.  Maybe i’ll just combine them all into one epic easy to play song, oh and yeah, that’s my epic painting in the background.

Sadly i didn’t have my replica of squall’s gunblade with me and my parents were too afraid i was going to get killed or arrested or what not if i had it out here, even though i had no intention of bringing it to a party.

Anyway, i consider this a huge success and will be wearing it again in July when i attend ComicCon with the rest of the DYG(Dashing Young Gentlemen).

Also on a side note, right after the appointment to get my contacts on saturday, i went and got a haircut and apparently if your barber doesn’t understand english you should be extremely specific on what you mean by hair over the ears because i thought it was clear i wanted it to hang over my ears and she thought it was cut over my ears. Needless to say it is now possibly the shortest it’s ever been.

Ok, first on the agenda, talk about ineternet, check! Next,  talk about one of my many side projects i’ve got going on. So I came up with the idea that it would be sweet to paint a skateboard and mount it on my wall as a form of art, then i realized maybe i should get better at painting first until i found this. So i downloaded the jpg and started sketching on top of it. Two of my friends from work are big into skateboarding and if i get this thing finished i’m going to get two printed and add wheels to one and hopefully learn a little about skating and a lot about falling down.

Nice, the screenshot preserved the drop shadow ( i searched google images for “worst drop shadow ever” and the second image was showing off different images with a pictures from behind a naked baby WTF? is that suppose to helps me understand drop shadows better?). Anyway, back on subject, the currently chinese text says horned devil from the river of death, which is the meaning of Stygimoloch, which is the dinosaur.

BTW, while searching for Stygimoloch, i found some sweet robot dinosaurs found at this guy’s blog. Yes, that is a triceratops with gatling guns on it.

That about wraps up things i was trying to do for the past, i’m going to make a new post for what i did last night but consider it apart of the super post because this isn’t that super.

There is something about this that i just don’t like .

So, the list of sites i check everyday is pretty pathetic, it consists of geekelogie and failblog, and yes, i am embarassed to say so. But now i have one more, abduzeedo. I sumbled on this site while checking out a photo on fffffffffffffffffffffffound. But how i found it is less important then what i found, and if you haven’t clicked that first link already, then you are in for a treat. It’s pretty much a place where you can find new inspiration daily and incase you get really bored or have a really low attention span, you can spend hours looking through the 157 pages of inspiration they’ve already posted. So that was cool, but then, to my suprise, they have a sweet tutorials section with things you want to know how to do in photoshop. I plan on trying to learn as much as possible so i can apply it to work and hopefully learn a crap load because my photoshop knowledge isn’t well established.

Also, this is really tasty. It makes me wish i had soco to mix it with… and friends to keep me from drinking alone… just joking, this way no one will remind me the next day if pants make a vanishing act (has yet to happen).