I know, I blogged two days in a row..and still haven't made an actual "update"..
First of all, we were supposed to go to a "psychic party" last night and I wasn't feeling up to it and was only gonna ask about my past lives anyway since I don't want to be dragged down by predictions of the future that don't match my current goals..so my dad went and asked about me..supposedly I'm supposed to get married and have a kid within 2-4 years..well, that fits in with my "age 22" delusion where something life-changing was supposed to happen and of course the possibilities could have been negative or positive depending on my mood at the time of thinking about it..it also corresponds with my palm..with my mediocre to crappy attempt to read my palm, it says I'll get married between 23 and 28 and maybe twice, but my palm keeps changing from one to two marriages or at least "big loves" things..I'm supposed to meet this guy through school or work, which makes sense since I rather meet people while doing something I normally do rather than some dude from the internet or a blind date..
I guess the psychic said I'm supposed to lose weight soon..that's good..I've lost 6-8 pounds in the last month..but I guess it's supposed to be quicker or unintentional or something, I don't know..I doubt it be disease..I wouldn't know really why..the worst thing it would be is if I got hooked on decongestant or something because I once lost 12 pounds in a week when I was put on a decongestant for my ears..that was nice..I kept it off for 6 months!! I lost 2 pant sizes..this prediction ties in with other daydreams/delusions/movie scnarios in my head that physically and scientifically could never happen..speaking of that, it's been weird in the last month..I'm trying something to help my arthritis..so I tried a chakra thing..in my own weird daydreaming way..and it has been working where I'm up and moving more and I don't get tired like before..BUT then it dawns on me that for the same month, I have been eating a little better (eating subs, veggies, and drinking Propel) so maybe that was why I felt better or the whole chakra thing was a placebo effect..THEN I start wanting to get more into art goals that I had put on hold and "compromised" are now driving me nuts and I have an increase in artistic drive..Well, a couple of days ago, I read that the same chakra also promotes good health and eating habits and drive and ambition..so placebo effect or not, it seems to be a good thing..and I'm gonna continue with it my way and do what they said on the site about surrounding myself with the color and meditating..I guess my daydreams could be related to a type of meditation..it's kinda an alternate mental state..but I can luckily daydream, draw, talk, listen to music, read, and watch TV all at the same time..so it's not like the daydreams that totally make me think I'm living in some dream world..it's the less psychotic kind where I get photography, fashion, even web design ideas through them..plus they've help me be more intuitive..
Another thing the psychic said was something about an electrical fire or something about a fireman and electricity..to me, the latter is most likely this dream guy I'm supposed to fall in love with, mostly because I'm attracted to "life saver" guys (you know, military, firefighter, policeman, paramedic) and I've noticed a lot of guys I like seem to either like doing electrical work or going into electricity..it's weird cuz (really weird) because ironicly my dad was in the Navy and now he is and has been an electrician..so that's weird..but I start liking these guys before they told me they used to be in the military and before they themselves got into electricity..so yeah..
So yeah, I turned 20 today..emotionally, I feel like a 16 year old..physically like a 60 year old..mentally like a 35 year old..maturity ranging from 3-29..socially from 15-25..so yeah..
So many so yeahs lol..
We went to the Franklin Park Conservatory today, mostly to see the Chihuly exhibition..I got tons of photos and will upload them later tonight..I've got to begin my year-long daily photoblog, which Ill name "20" because it's about the year I'm 20 years old..
I've received some interesting advice from extended family members lately:
1) Don't have a long resume
Um..my long resume got me some big calls, so yeah..lol..
2) Fallow the 10 Commandments and the Bible..
*Sigh* People don't realize I'm Eclectic leaning toward Philosophical Agnostic and that I believe there's more than just the Bible and I don't agree with 25-50% of the Bible..or at least how some Christians believe in the scripture..
I was gonna write a whole explanation about what I believe the 10 Commandments were really about and why they were written..
it's funny how long it took me to find a site listing them..I took a "bible quiz" about them and got 100% and the average score was 85%..and I'm not even Jewish/Christian..I knew the answers from the movie the "10 commandments"..the weird one is that on the movie, I remember the lightning writing the commandments on the stone tablets, yet the quiz says the "finger of God"..when I see lightning bolts, I think Zeus' weapons..yeah..you can see I've been reading too much Greek mythology lately..
I'm addicted to this Skeptics Annoted Bible..It's an easy way for me to read the bible and see the contridictions and symbology..and then kinda read it again in Lego characters..it's fun!
Beware of the long blog entry ahead..
Wishes
I was bored yesterday, so I finally wrote down things I want to accomplish artisticly (sp?) within the next 1-5 years (hopefully more like 2 years):
Ashville/South Bloomfield: Digital tour (photography) Digital tour (panoramic views) Visitor's Guide Photojournalism-ish of local people/businessesDaily Photo Blog (from June 27th, 2004-June 27th, 2005)
Columbus:
Street Photography
Photos of landmarks
Photos of artists
Photojournalism-ish of local people/businesses
Photos of seasonal festivals
See some plays/musicals/performancesRecreating paintings and sculptures through photography
Experimenting with shapes/lines/repetition in people/nature/situationsWrite down my movie idea (enough to make it comprehensible)
Write down the dialogs running through my headDraw more of my fashion ideas before others design them again
Draw more, period
Draw photography ideaslearn/perfect a moderately easy song on the piano (such as "fur Elise" or "Psalm 124")
Web sites:
Teays Valley Newspaper Staff/Articles (to integrate into AshvilleOhio.net's school section)
West Side Story Fansite/Fanlisting (cuz I'm obsessed)
Fanlisting for reading scripts/viewing storyboardsVideo:
Make stupid/funny/fun fake documentaries (none starring me)
Do the video effects that I've wanted to do for YEARS and haven't known how to do until now
Finally make an acutual music video thing
Study of how music has effected our walking or viceversa
Study of people in general (like candid or hidden camera type thing) (OOOOOH! The same experiment I did in 10th Grade Psych!)
The "daily photoblog" would be similar to Tay's 365 Photo Project, I will perposely make each photo represent what happened during the day, but with an extremely long caption, and each photo HAS to be overly artistic or overly unique somehow to the point that it takes a while for most people to understand.....if I can..
I'm a drama person, but not being able to drive has prevented me from just up and going to a musical performance in Columbus, so when I do start driving, I'll hope to be going all of the time (probably to the free and 12-dollar ones since I'm not rich)..
the "Recreating paintings and sculptures through photography" comes from me always looking at Norman Rockwell paintings and wanting someday to recreate it through photography..
the "Experimenting with shapes/lines/repetition in people/nature/situations" was inspired by this one art photography guy (which I'll need to find a link to) who would do street-like photography and show repetition in man and the manmade objects around them..I loved his site, especially the titles like "Mark [whats-his-name] shoots people" and other cute things like that..
The stuff I should write down has been running through my head for about 5 years or so and I should write them down, even if it's only in a script format and not like a book..
Other than web and software interfaces and logos, I haven't really drawn much since high school, and I should definately get back to it..
I almost learned fur Elise and almost learned Psalm 124, but haven't gotten very good at it..
As for the websites, I'll ask Mr. Barr about the Newspaper Staff site later this summer..West Side Story (the old 1961 movie) is my favorite musical..gawd, I even like how the script was written with explanations of how the scene should look and what they're trying to convey..so I think it deserves a fanlisting..the other fanlisting is because I'm a behind-the-scenes FREAK and I'm always buying the DVDs of movies just so I can see the "making of" and scripts and storyboards and hear about what the writer/director was going for, etc..it drives my parents crazy I think because they aren't as interested, but I could watch that stuff for HOURS, man!! If I were rich, Id take screenwriting and film classes just so I can watch movies, how their made, and also have an excuse to write my movie ideas down lol..
I'm hoping that my parents will give me cash *cough*100-300 dollars*cough* for my birthday tomorrow to put toward a digital camcorder..I might get the cash because I was wanting to go to the Broadway in Columbus Lion King thing and tickets are like up to 125 dollars a piece and dad said something about going there as a present and I was like, "No! I want the cash for a video camera!" so the equivilent would be $375 which would be more than half the camcorder, and I could get a credit card and pay the rest of it off quickly..
Basically, I want a digital camcorder that I can use memory cards (hopefully ComplactFlash, since my D100 uses that, too) with and am able to upload to one of these computers as .MOV files so I can edit the audio and video in Adobe Premier..I have ideas of effects and actually KNOW how to get the effect, but I don't have the equipment to get something to do the effect on..
Just like the fact you never see photos of me, you will never see me on camera either..I'd get my friends to be the fake "hosts" and fake "interviewed people"..
I love hidden camera shows..probably because I like to watch how people react to situations..in 10th Grade, I had to do an experiment..I didn't have a camcorder so I had to write things down as they happened..but my mom and I went to McDonalds (with a big picture window) and since it was when cars were just beginning to have the feature where they honk when you lock the doors from the remote, no one had a clue..people would walk by and I'd honk the car and see how they would react..people are really fun to watch..some looked inside, some got on the ground and looked underneath..some went around the car a few times..some pointed and laughed, but my favorite was when this guy and his girlfriend came in and we honked it twice..and he ended up leaving his lights on, we told him and he went out and we honked it again..he came back in and all I heard was the guy saying "that van honked, like, 3 times!" and the girl said, "It was probably just your imagination.." but I can't even describe their faces, so the next time, I hope to have a video camera..and then, my friends are the type of people that would go out and do funny things and act weird just to see their reactions so they'd be like the hosts of a made up hidden camera show..if only I had a camera when I asked people if they had tatoos and later on if they new about the robberies in the parking lot they parked in..I love weirding people out!
Dreams
I dream weird..
for the last week I would dream about staying up late or being rudely awakened with country music..but the whole time I'm actually asleep..and because school starts Monday, I'm dreaming about school and the last weird school dream was wanting to be in an english class rather than homeroom..because the homeroom was useless and the extra english class was fun..go fig..I hated english in high school, and now I like to read classic literature (the same stuff I hated reading in Honors English!)..
Around the World in 80 Days
My friend Karen and I went to the movies last night..it was fun!! I finally got to play an arcade game (for the last 10 or so years, we always showed up to the movies on time or late so I never got to play)..I watched her play a ATV game and then we played on this cheap fighting game (I wanted a cheap one so I didn't waste a dollar on a game I didn't know how to play and lose right away)..it was fun..after I beat her in the first stage, it was weird because her controls didn't work and so I was able to win two more times..then we find out that I was playing against the computer..we played again and for a joke, I picked the biggest characters (a monster and a panda bear) and she had two small girls..I guess the characters matter because the panda bear could not fight and got his ass kicked..and then when I'd win, instead of saying "Yeah!" it would wander into a wall..so..yeah...
We finally go to the movie and I got their first and saw what looked like a middle of a movie and not a beginning..we sat down and looked at our cell phone clocks and it was supposed to start at 7:40pm, yet it looked like it was halfway through..so I looked at the ticket with my cell and it was for 6:50pm!! We were like, "we came after 7, why did they give us this ticket??" so we went to the other side of the movie theater and they let us in..
The "Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagment" preview came on and I was like "I know a guy who plays a palace guard in that movie!" (meaning Arron Kinser)..I was like, "When I see that movie, I'll be like, pointing and like, 'I went to school with that guy!' and 'He was in my class!' and 'He let me use his camcorder!'"..lol..I could go on "He let me have a copy of his Goverment notes and I lost them and I failed the test once!" lol..he's a nice guy..REALLY talented..
The weird thing is that in person and on the phone, he looks totally different than on film..it's like in person or on the phone he's able to project his soul where film can't read it..I hope that I'm sorta that way..cuz physically, I look nothing like my soul and a couple of people have described me as what my soul would look like..my friend Kitty is that way, too..she looks one way in person, and she even commented that when I video taped her that she doesn't think she looks that way..I know, I'm weird, I actually see most people this way so when I see a photo, I don't recognise them, but in person or by voice it's easy to..
Ok, back to the original subject: the movie..
Basically, the movie is about Jackie Chan's character stealing a jade Buddha (sp?) from the Bank of England and he pretended to be a nearby scientist, Phineas Frog's valet and let him test his inventions..Jackie Chan's character ends up taking the name "Passport 2"..the scientist takes his discovery that man can travel faster than 50mph without having their internal organs go to mush to the Royal Academy of Science..well, the Minister of Science and other scientists laugh at him because they believe they live in a "golden age" and what there is to be discovered has already been discovered, where Frog wants to invent and advance humankind..they make a bet on his livelyhood that he can't "circumnavigate the globe" in 80 days or less..Passport 2 uses this as an advantage to return the jade Buddha back to his village in China where it was stolen..
You'll have to watch the movie to see if they make it in time and what trouble they go though in trying to acomplish their goal..
I honestly thought it was a "good" movie..
My ratings:
Made me sick: the worst movie ever, usually a reason behind it
Sucks: totally bad movie, but I'll watch it because other people like it
It's ok, but was lacking development: like the plot in "Secondhand Lions"
It's ok: something that was filmed well, but I'm not gonna watch it again
Good: Something worth watching
Great: Something I'll watch again cuz all the aspects of the movie ROCKED!
AWESOME: Like "the Butterfly Effect" or "the Matrix" or almost any M. Night Shamylan (sp?) movie where the aspects of the movie ROCKED and their are tons of layers to the point you have to see it 10,000 times before you understand it all..
So yeah, it was a good movie..it was a good comedy with a slight love story and the fight choreography toward the end was good..the colors were nice and they did a good job of keeping a whistle, art, and flying motif throughout the movie..I think it's funny how they depicted the Wright Brothers..but I coudn't get the overly digitally animated segways..I understand there was a "magical" theme, but after having live action and live fight choreography, why go extremely animated? I think it would have been better if the segways were maybe a pastel art piece from the french artist girl, monique, I think her name was..that way, it would tie in with the rest of the movie..
But yeah, if you like Jackie Chan movies or even Disney movies (with lots of artistic violence) then go see it..it's a cute movie..
I officially hate mosquitoes
Wait, I officially hated them when I was 4..I think I'm allergic or something cuz when they bite me, the white blister thing grows to twice or 3 times the size of the mosquito that bit me..and I seem to attract them..my parents don't have much problem with them, but I get bit tons of times and they fly around my head and I don't see them in the dark room until they freak me out when they fly in front of the laptop screen..my parents think I'm nuts and I'm just seeing things..at least this time, they saw the bugs so they knew I wasn't psycho..plus, now I have 8 huge white blisters with 8 huge rashes to prove their exsistance..
Spiders don't seem to drown
I don't like spiders either..especially when find pairs in my house..meaning they could breed and have hundreds of baby Brown Recluses and Daddy Long Legs (one of the most poisonous spiders)..I saw a daddy long legs eating a smashed black spider in the tub and I told my mom to kill it and she sprayed it with water..it looked dead..but the next day, it was up and crawing around..so I smashed it and spider guts squirted out..ew, gross, but still interesting..I just wish I had better acuracy..I don't like spiders (I'm very afraid of them), but I also don't like to make them suffer..I rather kill them instantly..if I don't I feel REALLY guilty..I know, I'm weird and cruel..
Internship Update
I went in for my interview..the girls that interviewed me seem very nice..the funniest thing was when I talked about Ashville, I joked around about how even tho there was a famous person (Roy Rogers) from Ashville, and even Arron Kinser is from here (the IMDB Database says Lancaster), the only other person on the IMDB was John Holmes and the one girl knew who he was right away!! lol ..he's a porn actor..lol..job-wise, we haven't confirmed anything, yet..I'm supposed to send some mock ups early next week and hopefully begin recontruction of their site..
A Site I Found
I found a site by a friend of some friends from high school..I might have talked to him and I just don't remember or something..*swats mosquito*..I wrote in his guestbook that he sounded like "a nice guy"..when you read his stuff, it's moody, sometimes negative, and sometimes complaining..I bet people wonder why I think that sounds "nice"..well, my friends and even myself sound like this sometimes and I would say my friends are nice and I hope that I'm nice..the reason you don't hear me being totally negative, depressed, and complaining (like am in my head 50% of the time) is because I feel guilty about being that way and I know others don't like *swats mosquito* to listen/read that stuff..even though, I DO get really poetic when I'm depressed..*swats mosquito* *swats mosquito* (I'm missing each time) *feels guilty*..I didn't agree with a lot of his opinions, but I think it's cool that he can express his opinions and say what he truely thinks..one of his entries got my "conflit is the child of change" dialog I've been wanting to post someday soon *swats mosquito* *swats mosquito*..
Grr..it's 1:11am and I should go to bed......and get 50 more mosquito bites while sleeping since I'm sleeping on the couch right next to the laptop..right now I've gotten 4 more bits making it 12 bites all together..1 on my thumb, 4 on my right elbow, 1 on my left elbow, 1 on my left forearm, 1 on my right foremarm *swats mosquito*, 2 on the underside of my left leg, 1 on the undeside of my right leg, 1 on my left shoulder, one on my right inner theigh..more are coming! lol darn mosquitoes..I should wear Off! Deep Woods in my own home to prevent West Nile Virus and the new Rift Valley Fever..the mosquitoes have been bad since we've had bad flooding for about a month..and now they'll mate and have babies in the cat's drinking water..
Hmm..a year ago, I bought some Tom Clancy books on ebay for about $1.00 a piece and bought some at a library book sale, too..well..they've been sitting in my room at the bottom of a mess-pile since then..and my friend got me addicted to neopets.com this week and I got into the "auction" mood, so I decided to sell the books..then I find out that 2 of the dollar books I bought are now worth $110-$150..I'm thinking about buying some more of the same book for hardly anything from ebayers that don't realize the books are now out of print..I'll wait a little longer and then when it gets to be known, I'll sell it under the normal price and make some good profit!
Other things.....The Ohio Literacy Network contacted me about an internship where I'd redo their site..they seem nice and I have an interview on Tuesday..wish me luck! I think it would be fun *cough*pictures*cough* *cough*tutoring?*cough* hmm, excuse me..
Happy Birthday!
Hostees who had May birthdays:
May 1st: Joanna
Hostees who have June birthdays:
June 19th: Austin
June 27th: Hope (Me)
The Whatever Creations site was officially 2 years old on May 28th..
New Affliate and new Sibsite:
New Layouts:
New hostee:
My last two weeks:
I went to Connie and David's wedding..THEY'RE SO CUTE TOGETHER!!! :o) I guess the water made them sick on their honeymoon :o( but the wedding was nice :o) ..I took photos, so did my dad..I ended up taking photos my way in my style, but according to some people, my style is "desrespectful" because I like cut off photos..I focus more on the emotions and people's expressions than I do the clothes they're wearing..
I also tried to get shots of the friends and family enjoying the wedding but one group of ladies was funny..they laughed from a joke someone made but when I took the photo, they looked mad and tired..oh, well..the children and the bridesmaids/groomsmen/bride/groom were usually smiling so that helped..
the flower girl and ring bearer posed for me..KIDS ARE SO COOL!! The daughter of the lady (Anita) that renewed her vows with her husband was smart..but then again, she WAS nine years old..most kids are really smart at that age..by the end of the night, she was takin' photos with a one time use and she was good about the timing! She'd sneak up and shoot awesome pics!..
Anita's kids were cool..the sons took photos of eachother drinking the Sparkling Cider (that looked like wine) and the family posed for my dad and I and it was funny because the parents smiled, but the kids looked tired..one son holding the bottle and the girl holding a cup (looking like she was drinking stuff from the bottle)..
I got some good photos so I'm happy I can give them to them for a gift..if they let me, I'll post some here..The cake was GOOOOOD! and at the end, I caught the bouquet!! But all I could think was "wishful-friggin'-thinking" mostly cuz I'm not even dating anyone at the moment..my hand (using palm reading) says I'll get married once at around 27 years old or I'd get married twice (it could be the same guy), once at 21/22 and then again around 27..but the one around 21 years old (if it's a triangle and not an X) keeps fading and reappearing and then fading again..so go figure..I'll be 20 on the 27th..
I want a digital camcorder for my birthday, but I know I won't be getting one..I won't be able to afford one for about 2-3 years..I'm still have about 1.5 years left on paying off my dSLR..so yeah..and now I have Medicare (darn $65/mo. grr)..but I want a digital camcorder where I can download the video (not just still clips) to a computer so I can edit it with Adobe Premier! I think it would be fun to shoot an event or something or a documentary about the museum or something and cut and edit it and have it available for the museum to sell or have on their site..
I waited too long and as of now, I have NO INTERNSHIP :o( The one place I talked about liking, they were one of the nicest companies! They were nice enough to email me back and said they'd keep my resume on file for 6 months! The second nicest had to be the Columbus Dispatch..they said they didn't have any internship opportunities, but would ask the editorial department to see if they need any freelance work! HOW NICE IS THAT????
I waited until now to ask around to do freelance-type work for the internship..so far, my option is redesigning, researching, creating, maintaining, taking photos, etc. for the town of South Bloomfield (fun fun!!) or some other people I've contacted in town..I might post something on Ashvilleohio.net to see if anyone needs my services..
Got my Macromedia Director class final done..well, almost..it's good enough and it works..that's all that matters..more than half of it was made the morning before it was due and I ended up finishing it on the way to class..I'm glad my idea about having sketches fade into web interfaces worked out good..all I did was traced my interfaces and scanned them and auto-leveled 'em and faded in the interface and faded out the sketch..
Director is so much easier to set up than flash..the coding is somewhat simple and came easy to me..the hard part was creating everything in Macromedia Freehand and Flash..the "zipper" took me a while cuz I looked at a real zipper and was a perfectionist getting it to look right..The "film" was nuts cuz being a photographer has gotten me to not recognize the film unless I put all the holes in with the right amount of holes and cut the way film would usually be cut..
If I had gotten up a little earlier, I could have tried my idea..I didn't want to learn how to do the music differently just so I can have a "stop sound" button..so I thought since I now how to get it to play different sounds, I would just record silence and have it loop..so the "stop music" button would just play a loop of silence to make it seem like the music stopped..
I'll post some screen shots soon..
The other finals went ok, I guess..my Dreamweaver final only worked in Internet Explorer and not Safari like the teacher's going to look at it in..the FrontPage assignment went well, I made most of it in Photoshop..
I wrote the Press Release about AshvilleOhio.net putting up the Oldfashioned Fouth of July Festival schedule and the Radio Broadcast about the Ashville Small Town Museum running out of room..my final was about the Chorus Columbus State and Columbus State Concert Band performing..it was easy to get quotes ;o)
Well, I'll try to blog more often..ttyl!