Here is a short stop-motion film I made. Enjoy!
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Tattoo
Have you ever wanted to get a tattoo but were too squeamish about the whole needle tapping into your arm thousands of times thing. Well, now you can! Here is a photo of me that I doctored in Photoshop. We had to emulate a magazine cover and since I have always wonder what I would look like with arms full of tattoos I chose... you guessed it, a tattoo magazine. I found a wonderful tutorial on the web that showed how to alter images on a body so that they appear as tattoos. Here is the link for any of you that want to try. I alter the process a little for my needs but it basically staid the same.
The photo is just me with tattoos; its not the magazine cover.
A Little Help
What's to say. Today, for some odd reason, I decided to delete my MySpace and Fackbook accounts. I think my reasoning behind this is that I devote more of my interest to these trivial pages of social interaction than I do to my school work. Why do I feel the need to know that Jim is now "chillin' in his room." Should I care that Jim is chillin' or should I be concerned with Darl and why he torched a neighbors barn with his mother's body inside.
The semester is coming to an end and I am feeling a little frazzled. Have I done enough this semester? I feel vapid and clueless, as though my brain has puttied and will not longer spew forth anything worth merit. I feel defeated and am finding no refuge in the things I previously have. What is the problem? Perhaps it is just a case of finals blues. I hope this to be the truth because I want to think again! I feel that I should focus towards the goal; one small step at a time.
The semester is coming to an end and I am feeling a little frazzled. Have I done enough this semester? I feel vapid and clueless, as though my brain has puttied and will not longer spew forth anything worth merit. I feel defeated and am finding no refuge in the things I previously have. What is the problem? Perhaps it is just a case of finals blues. I hope this to be the truth because I want to think again! I feel that I should focus towards the goal; one small step at a time.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Kent Meyers
Here is a post from my personal blog that I feel should be on this DSU bolg because it definitely relates to school. The post concerns a Mark Twain selected authors course that I am taking. Enjoy:
Kent Meyers, a published author and professor and BHSU, visited a literature class of mine today. His advice for writing: write, write, and write. This is what I caught from his presentation. He also preached observation which is something that I think all great and good writers possess. Today he discussed a story of his titled "Light in the Crossing."
His process for writing is what intrigued me the most. He doesn't begin by outlining a story or even really thinking about it ahead of time; his process for writing this story was to write. He began writing and continued writing (over a period of time) until this story emerged; this was fascinating! I too thoroughly enjoy creative writing and found this writing process out last summer. I would retreat to the library where I would begin reading until I no longer wanted to read and then I began to write. I did start the writing process with anything specific in my mind, but instead thought of a situation and built it from there. to my surprise the story emerged and I became enveloped in it! What a connection.
He also spoke about tension and this is what he looked for when writing. He wanted to find or create a situation in which this tension, between two people perhaps, would play out. He would keep within the moment and space where the tension was created and elaborate. I loved hearing him speak about creative writing and now have some framework for my future writing. Thanks Kent Meyers!
Kent Meyers, a published author and professor and BHSU, visited a literature class of mine today. His advice for writing: write, write, and write. This is what I caught from his presentation. He also preached observation which is something that I think all great and good writers possess. Today he discussed a story of his titled "Light in the Crossing."
His process for writing is what intrigued me the most. He doesn't begin by outlining a story or even really thinking about it ahead of time; his process for writing this story was to write. He began writing and continued writing (over a period of time) until this story emerged; this was fascinating! I too thoroughly enjoy creative writing and found this writing process out last summer. I would retreat to the library where I would begin reading until I no longer wanted to read and then I began to write. I did start the writing process with anything specific in my mind, but instead thought of a situation and built it from there. to my surprise the story emerged and I became enveloped in it! What a connection.
He also spoke about tension and this is what he looked for when writing. He wanted to find or create a situation in which this tension, between two people perhaps, would play out. He would keep within the moment and space where the tension was created and elaborate. I loved hearing him speak about creative writing and now have some framework for my future writing. Thanks Kent Meyers!
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Font, what's a font?
Have you ever come across some really cool text and you wished you knew what it was; well now you can. If your like me and have had to reproduce something and needed to use a text that you were not familiar with then I offer you a solution. There is this great web-site that allows you to upload an image file and then it presents you with comparable fonts. It isn't always the most accurate and depends greatly on the resolution of your image, but I promise you that it works; I have used it. Sometimes the site will direct you to a pay site for your font but with a little determination, you can search for the font and hopefully find it on a freeware site. Searching for the font, again, does not always result in felicitous circumstances. But to all of you that are in need of such a tool here it is:
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Monday, November 20, 2006
The Beginning
Hello all. This will be my first post on my DSU blog! I will update periodically and hope to inform any who visit this page. A little about myself, I am in my fifth year hear at DSU, I know five years but I love it, and I am an English for Information Systems major. What does EIS mean? Well, it's just a fancy name for and English student who likes technology. Basically I learn to use technology and writing with language in mind. I hope to graduate soon and plan on attending graduate school (if all goes as planned). I will try to post every week, so enjoy!
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