So The Collective graciously invited me to photograph their live performance on WPRK 91.5 Rollins College Radio. The station is housed on the basement of the Mills building, whatever that means. It was a really cool experience. Pictures turned out OK. I am not the best judge of what pictures other people will like. I think some of them are pretty nice though. Unfortunately Scary Mary, a previous DJ was not there. Still fun though.
Recently I’ve been trying to take more pictures. I really like having a dSLR. It’s so much fun to actually have some control over how a picture turns out. At the same time I don’t spend a cent on developing film. I average about 400 pictures every time I take my camera somewhere. 92% of those are terrible and not worth looking at. But I think that percentage will keep going down.
I’ve been kind of intimidated by the idea of buying another lens. There are so many different things to consider. Especially difficult for me since I know so little about what would help me take better pictures. Vi mentioned getting a lens with a bigger aperture. I didn’t even know what that was at the time, but now that I’ve been doing some checking I think that is exactly what I will do. Canon 50mm f/1.4. Low light, selective focus, bang!
On another note, I joined an open source project. It’s a fork of activeCollab 0.71. I’m excited!
From black to white in a week.
I love photography. I hate not being a good photographer. Love will prevail. Pictures will be good. (Got any EF/AF SLR lenses you’d like to sell?)
Seems to be the time of moving.
Went and saw The Collective on Saturday night. Almost skipped it. I’m glad I went. Nice photo op. Plus a good show.
On the way way home I some how managed to rip the plastic guard off the underside of Vi’s car. I tried to rip it off by hand but no dice. I then tried to reverse over it a few times to rip it off. No dice. I decided I couldn’t do anything about it and just kept driving home. A few minutes later I got pulled over because the car was, “throwing sparks out behind it”. oops… So I then spent the next 45-60 minutes in front of a church off Mills in downtown Orlando trying to rip off incredibly strong plastic with one hand while my face was rubbing on the concrete and trying to keep an eye out for anyone sneaking up on me to bash me. Ripped most of it off and successfully got caked in grease in the process. Cut the rest off with tin-snips when I got home. Sorry. I’ll to try and get a new one of those I guess.
Power steering went out on my car on Friday. NICE!
Breaking into a new job. I really wonder if that is even possible for myself. At times I seem to demonstrate the capability to learn things and even do well at them. However, I run into a large amount of frustration with my utter lack of follow through on such so called potential. Today was a prime example. I awoke after fully exhausting my ability to sleep. So one would think I’d be really ready for a mental challenge having sufficiently achieved REM and cycled all the way into Delta sleep. My dreams were vivid. Excellent I thought, now I’m ready to write that cover letter and tweak my resume in hopes of getting an interview. HA! Little did I remember that I don’t follow through. After staring at my cover letter for 4 hours and writing and deleting the first paragraph about 15 times, I decided I could better spend my time actually coding a site. So I began working on a site. After I got so frustrated with my attempts at inserting a random header image with php, something I had previously achieved in another site, I began working on something more static. After fighting for a few hours with my side bar and content position I finally got them to display almost like the design called for. That would feel like an accomplishment, except that I had previously learned how to do that very same thing some 3 or 4 times. But, I forgot. GREAT!
It seems that Thursday is Kevin’s day to go insane. Yep, once again this afternoon I felt insane. Genuinely crazy. That’s fantastic. You know, the other night, two separate people came up to me and let me know they ran into one of my brothers. One had seen him in jail. The other, had seem him in a fire station just after he had been let out of jail. That’s great. I can’t wait for my turn. I’m gonna have to figure something out for Thursdays, because I can’t take this going crazy business. It’s too tempting.
“like drinking poison, like eating glass, it’s so cold in this house”
So I want to learn to illustrate using vector graphics. Inkscape is a Open Source SVG program that I started using. It’s still very much in the development stages, but I am so far impressed with what it does have to offer. Primarily the fact that it’s FREE. But I’ve got further left to go, and hopefully it wont take forever.
I was hoping around ebay this morning pricing out ‘damaged’ Macbooks. That was entertaining.
Got turned down for an auto loan. It’s probably for the best.
The sons of Issachar, don’t mess with them.
The word ‘lad’ is going to be added to my active vocabulary.
I am privileged to have some really amazing people as friends.
CODE CODE CODE… DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN… CODE CODE CODE…