Earthbound.

I've been playing Earthbound since I finished everything yesterday.  It is awesome so far.  I really, really like it.  I wish I could figure out how to open my freeze state on the PC (I played it on the Mac both times yesterday and didn't think it would be a problem.)  Now I have to start from the beginning again.  Blah.  There should be a way to open on here.

Anyway.  I took some pictures on the way home from work last Friday.  Greg and I had to ride the bus from Ball Hall back to the apartments.  Here are some pictures that I thought were pretty cool.



Sticker at the bus stop.






















































These two are not Photoshopped. 

Terrible.

I am constantly seeing cars parked like this. Bad parking really gets on my nerves. The lines are there for a reason. Do the rules not apply anymore. Next I will show you how our neighbors park on purpose. Once I get a picture. Also parallel parking seems to be a concept that most people in our neighborhood failed to grasp in driver's ed. The spaces in front of our apartment are huge, and people will pull up too far and not correct it. Anyway... I think I might do a series.

I hope it stops raining before I have to walk to the bus stop. I left my umbrella in my other bag in Greg's car. This really sucks.

*The picture is a terrible quality because I took it from my upstairs window through the screen.

Stuff I made in my wheel throwing class.

Bowls:




































The two cylinders I like:






Sgraffito:


Final Projects:

New things.

I decided to try some new things with my pictures.  I parked on the top of the parking garage that's in between the Nat and Herron.  I've been having a bad week, but seeing that view made me feel good for a while.  It was a good start to the morning.  But I was messing around with the split tones and vignetting on the raw files in Photoshop.  Those files open in a special window where you can make adjustments.  Anyway, just wanted to get some feedback.  I think I like them.















It has been a crazy week.  I did a stupid thing, and bid on graveyard for Thursday morning (aka tonight at midnight to 7am).  It's stupid because I'm working a shift right now from 3-10pm.  A two hour break between 14 hours.  Then I have class (Thursday) from 1:30-3:30, and 6:30-9.  Plus Greg's car broke down, so I have to take the bus.  From the time I get off at 7am (not to mention the 30 minute bus ride and the fifteen minutes to walk home) to the time I have class seems like a pretty big break, but by the time I fall asleep I will only end up getting a couple of hours because I have to catch the bus at 12:33.  This means I have to get up, at the latest, 11am to have time to shower and maybe eat something. I was going to be able to go home from 10:30-11:30 to get my Chinese food, but I can't.  I'm going to have to order a sandwich or something.  I also work for 6 hours on Friday.  Let's pray that I don't collapse from exhaustion. 

P.S. 

Animation.

Here's a short, simple animation I did for my Photoshop class.  It's the last project for that class.  It's not complicated, and not that great.  Finally, I can animate things in Photoshop.  Sweet.







Also, I think it's awesome that Flickr allows you to upload and share videos now.  Just one more reason I love to use Flickr.

Weird week.

First mysterious "explosions" in Kokomo, which ended up being the Air National Guard doing training to break the sound barrier.  Now an earthquake.  It always gets me that people are so surprised about it.  We aren't that far from a fault line, specifically the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone which is part of the New Madrid Seismic Zone.  I've heard of it before, and they taught us about it when I was in elementary or junior high.  If there were to be a significant earthquake like in 1811-12, there could be a ton of damage to infrastructure and communication.  In the wiki it says that a big enough quake could cause the Mississippi to temporarily flow backward.  Crazy.  If you really want to know what could happen the History Channel has a show called Mega Disasters.  The episode about the New Madrid fault line is called Earthquake in the Hearland.  They show what would happen with computer models and special effects.  I linked the teaser trailer, you have to scroll down on the little side box to find the episode.

Anyway, I better stop now.  I'm starting to freak myself out a little. 

Other than the earthquake not much else has been going on.  I have to write a paper for Film Theory.  I'm writing about feminism and Hitchcock.  Alfred Hitchcock was pretty sexist, but some of his movies show women in more dominant roles.  So, I'm going to write about how some feminist theorists may have misjudged his movies.  Woohoo.  Sounds fun.

There was an earthquake?

I remember waking up in the middle of the night, but I didn't feel the earthquake. I'm disappointed.

To help me put some things in order.

This is what the sky looked like last night while I was waiting for Greg outside the ceramics building.

Speaking of ceramics.  I'm almost done with everything.  I have to:

1. Make and attach a handle to one of my pitchers.
2. Glaze the other two.
3. Glaze a jar.
   
4. Raku a cylinder and a sculptural bowl.
5. Sgraffito a cylinder.
6. Stain a cylinder.
7. Do slip trailing ("Slip (a liquid clay) is applied to the greenware through a tube or nozzle, much like icing a cake.) on the last cylinder.

I should be done with all of that by the beginning of class on Tuesday.  Since that's the last day the gas kiln is going to fire.  I still have to do an animation project and get my final portfolio together for my Photoshop class.  The animation project is going to be the most difficult project yet, but putting together the final portfolio isn't going to be difficult.  Then I have a few more journal assignments to write for Film Theory, and a 10 page final paper.  Due next Thursday.  That's it.  Seems like a lot, but I think I'll make it.

A glimpse at things.

This is kind of a self centered post, but I wanted to take some pictures.




Eww... The wall under the air conditioner.





I hate the picture on my badge; it's like two years old.


New sunglasses.


My key chains actually have special meanings to me.  My late aunt Rachel gave me the Texas key chain, and it reminds me of my visits there.  The Cherokee, North Carolina key chain is from the time we visited.  One of our ancestors has his name in a book there.


My DS lite that I got for birthday/Christmas.


I never go anywhere without this.


Things that I take everywhere.


My backpack and some pink lemonade.