I recently got a digital camera for an early birthday present and have been taking a bunch of pictures with it.
Rather than fill up this blog, which is mostly writing-oriented, with a whole bunch of photos, I decided to create a new blog which would be photo oriented.
http://lithenbourne.blogspot.com/
There is a minimum amount of text accompanying each photo. I choose whatever photo I like and put it when I feel like it.
That doesn't mean I won't put photos up here. I'm more likely now to put up photos to go with my posts now. *grins*
I just wanted someplace to put some of the random stuff I'm going to be taking. ^^
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
YouTube Tuesday Strikes Again!...but not on Tuesday...
[Some lyrics may not be appropriate for work or little ears to hear.]
So, went to a local version of the play The Producers the other night. Then watched the dvd version that same night. Very funny, very enjoyable.
Well, tonight when I was waiting for a phone call, I was surfing the net to stay awake. I remembered that there was a scene where there was a change from play to movie - one of the main characters, named Max Bialystock, has been betrayed by his partner Leo Bloom (vagueness to avoid giving away details, sorry. ^^"). He's in jail and sings, appropriately enough, a song called "Betrayed." Now, in the play that we saw, the character sings a brief version of everything that has happened so far in 5 minutes, including intermission break. The movie didn't, obviously, not having an intermission. I wanted to see how the original actor performed it (a much better way, I think.)
However, as I was looking for videos of the OBC (Original Broadway Cast) performance, I came across something...a little different.
The entertaining part of this is that the original Broadway actor, Nathan Lane, is also the voice of the meerkat Timon in The Lion King.
And this was not all...
This last one seemed particularly well-matched. ^^
Maybe it's just my lack of sleep, but they seemed oddly hilarious. *grins*
Night all...gotta go finish up some schoolwork.
So, went to a local version of the play The Producers the other night. Then watched the dvd version that same night. Very funny, very enjoyable.
Well, tonight when I was waiting for a phone call, I was surfing the net to stay awake. I remembered that there was a scene where there was a change from play to movie - one of the main characters, named Max Bialystock, has been betrayed by his partner Leo Bloom (vagueness to avoid giving away details, sorry. ^^"). He's in jail and sings, appropriately enough, a song called "Betrayed." Now, in the play that we saw, the character sings a brief version of everything that has happened so far in 5 minutes, including intermission break. The movie didn't, obviously, not having an intermission. I wanted to see how the original actor performed it (a much better way, I think.)
However, as I was looking for videos of the OBC (Original Broadway Cast) performance, I came across something...a little different.
The entertaining part of this is that the original Broadway actor, Nathan Lane, is also the voice of the meerkat Timon in The Lion King.
And this was not all...
This last one seemed particularly well-matched. ^^
Maybe it's just my lack of sleep, but they seemed oddly hilarious. *grins*
Night all...gotta go finish up some schoolwork.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Stupid Drivers and Silly Chickens
Last Friday was my sister's birthday, so we went to Waco.
Well, first we gave her two presents early: her camera, and the chicken I made for her.
For a week and a half I had teased her about the colour this chicken was going to be...and she chose not to wait until that night to get it, but to get it before we left.
I kept telling her while I was making it that it was all sorts of horrible colours - lime green with rust orange feet, for example.
Then I remembered that when I went through my yarn, I had had a skein of a horrible colour that looked just like dried vomit.
So I told her I was making it out of that. She grimaced.
The story kept growing as the week went on, until it was a three-foot tall vomit coloured chicken with a huge hole in one side (where I miscounted stitches, of course), one eye missing, with one leg twice as long as the other.
I used a big box to put it in for her to open...and she was very relieved to open it and find a pink chicken.
However, he ended up being named Strawberry Vomit...either Berry or Vomit for short, of course. This is a picture of him and the other chickens I've made.
I'm taking a break from chickens for a while. Next I'm going to make either a turtle, an armadillo, a flamingo, or an otter, I think.
Saw some of the stupidest driving on our trip, though. At one point there was an accident that locked up most of the road, and people were driving over the grass to get onto the frontage road. ><
Impatient people driving idiotically.
We had people cut us off without looking, changing lanes, running reds...all sorts of stuff.
The one who wins the "Most Likely To Cause An Accident" prize, however, was the motorcyclist who drove up between our car and the car beside us at a high speed. Seriously. He drove on the dividing line and just about surprised my mom off the road. He was driving like you see in the movies, all reckless like. Won't be surprised when he gets in an accident.
Well, first we gave her two presents early: her camera, and the chicken I made for her.
For a week and a half I had teased her about the colour this chicken was going to be...and she chose not to wait until that night to get it, but to get it before we left.
I kept telling her while I was making it that it was all sorts of horrible colours - lime green with rust orange feet, for example.
Then I remembered that when I went through my yarn, I had had a skein of a horrible colour that looked just like dried vomit.
So I told her I was making it out of that. She grimaced.
The story kept growing as the week went on, until it was a three-foot tall vomit coloured chicken with a huge hole in one side (where I miscounted stitches, of course), one eye missing, with one leg twice as long as the other.
I used a big box to put it in for her to open...and she was very relieved to open it and find a pink chicken.
However, he ended up being named Strawberry Vomit...either Berry or Vomit for short, of course. This is a picture of him and the other chickens I've made.
I'm taking a break from chickens for a while. Next I'm going to make either a turtle, an armadillo, a flamingo, or an otter, I think.
Saw some of the stupidest driving on our trip, though. At one point there was an accident that locked up most of the road, and people were driving over the grass to get onto the frontage road. ><
Impatient people driving idiotically.
We had people cut us off without looking, changing lanes, running reds...all sorts of stuff.
The one who wins the "Most Likely To Cause An Accident" prize, however, was the motorcyclist who drove up between our car and the car beside us at a high speed. Seriously. He drove on the dividing line and just about surprised my mom off the road. He was driving like you see in the movies, all reckless like. Won't be surprised when he gets in an accident.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
A Rather Productive Weekend Thus Far (picture heavy)
Did stuff for other people this weekend.
Plushies first, since they were finished first.
A thank you gift done specially for the surgeons who saved my mom's life several weeks ago.
Framed it and am giving it to them Monday.
Coloured sharpie and coloured pencil for the figure, no lines and watercolour pencil (dry) for the background (except for a metallic pencil for the Emerald City's lines).
Half a day of constant work.
Turned out much lighter in the scan than the picture. Kinda like it though...looks ethereal.
My first amigurumis.
My mom has an internet friend...because of injokes that would take too long to relate, he sends my mom frogs and my mom sends him chickens. Or tries to. It is very difficult to find inexpensive chicken items.
Anyways, I was roaming the innards of the DA monster, when I came across this adorable chicken pattern: [link]
So I made two - one for my mom's friend...then one for my mom when she oohed and ahhed and looked longingly at the chicken.
Now there's two chickens fluttering around our house...but we'll be down to one sometime in the next couple weeks when we send the left chicken to his new home.
Or will there be only one? "I want a chicken..." I hear my siblings murmuring...>>
I used two yarns held together for the main part of the chicken - a regular yellow and a fun fur yellow.
The right hand chicken is bigger because I think I miscounted the stitches. ^^" I was tired.
Lots of accomplishment. My hands hurt now.
Must go finish dinner - gotta make the garlic butter for the breadsticks. TTFN
Plushies first, since they were finished first.
A thank you gift done specially for the surgeons who saved my mom's life several weeks ago.
Framed it and am giving it to them Monday.
Coloured sharpie and coloured pencil for the figure, no lines and watercolour pencil (dry) for the background (except for a metallic pencil for the Emerald City's lines).
Half a day of constant work.
Turned out much lighter in the scan than the picture. Kinda like it though...looks ethereal.
My first amigurumis.
My mom has an internet friend...because of injokes that would take too long to relate, he sends my mom frogs and my mom sends him chickens. Or tries to. It is very difficult to find inexpensive chicken items.
Anyways, I was roaming the innards of the DA monster, when I came across this adorable chicken pattern: [link]
So I made two - one for my mom's friend...then one for my mom when she oohed and ahhed and looked longingly at the chicken.
Now there's two chickens fluttering around our house...but we'll be down to one sometime in the next couple weeks when we send the left chicken to his new home.
Or will there be only one? "I want a chicken..." I hear my siblings murmuring...>>
I used two yarns held together for the main part of the chicken - a regular yellow and a fun fur yellow.
The right hand chicken is bigger because I think I miscounted the stitches. ^^" I was tired.
Lots of accomplishment. My hands hurt now.
Must go finish dinner - gotta make the garlic butter for the breadsticks. TTFN
My E-mail is Going to Throw Up On Me
I don't get very many e-mails. Or at least I didn't.
Not counting the spam (which mostly goes in its own folder where I ignore it), I would get many 25 e-mails per day...usually all comics from arcamax.com.
The other day...I was bored. I went to the Arcamax site and realized that they had added some comics. So I subscribed to those. The I wandered to the other newsletters...and subscribed to a bunch of them - even ones that I wouldn't normally care about, like political essays.
Then I hit the limit - they wouldn't let me subscribe to anything else.
So today I was bored...again...and I found a way to subscribe to every one of the newletters. Then I sat and subscribed to a lot of "a chapter a day" books. Then I hunted down some crochet newletters and signed up for them.
Then I found out that about.com does newletters for all of their pages.
Score.
I'm kinda scared to think of what my e-mail is going to be like tomorrow.
Not counting the spam (which mostly goes in its own folder where I ignore it), I would get many 25 e-mails per day...usually all comics from arcamax.com.
The other day...I was bored. I went to the Arcamax site and realized that they had added some comics. So I subscribed to those. The I wandered to the other newsletters...and subscribed to a bunch of them - even ones that I wouldn't normally care about, like political essays.
Then I hit the limit - they wouldn't let me subscribe to anything else.
So today I was bored...again...and I found a way to subscribe to every one of the newletters. Then I sat and subscribed to a lot of "a chapter a day" books. Then I hunted down some crochet newletters and signed up for them.
Then I found out that about.com does newletters for all of their pages.
Score.
I'm kinda scared to think of what my e-mail is going to be like tomorrow.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Ouch!
Lately, I've been waking Mom up with breakfast in bed.
I got a wakeup call of my own this morning, though it wasn't half so good.
I get up this morning, go to put my feet on the ground...and stare in confusion at my bunny-ear cactus, normally found in my windowsill, but then found on my floor.
Being tired, I blink a couple times, then ignore it and go downstairs.
I put my fingers to keyboard to type and STING. Sudden tiny stabs of pain in my hands and arms. I look closely at my fingers to see that my hands are full of cactus prickles.
At some point in the night, my cactus must have wanted a hug, because it feels like I sat and cuddled it. I have no memory of even touching my cactus, but it seems to have happened.
So right now I'm going through duct tape therapy wherever my fingers sting, because the prickles are small enough I can't see them. *sigh*
I got a wakeup call of my own this morning, though it wasn't half so good.
I get up this morning, go to put my feet on the ground...and stare in confusion at my bunny-ear cactus, normally found in my windowsill, but then found on my floor.
Being tired, I blink a couple times, then ignore it and go downstairs.
I put my fingers to keyboard to type and STING. Sudden tiny stabs of pain in my hands and arms. I look closely at my fingers to see that my hands are full of cactus prickles.
At some point in the night, my cactus must have wanted a hug, because it feels like I sat and cuddled it. I have no memory of even touching my cactus, but it seems to have happened.
So right now I'm going through duct tape therapy wherever my fingers sting, because the prickles are small enough I can't see them. *sigh*
Monday, April 27, 2009
Moosebutter Star Wars returns!
A couple of months ago I put up a Random Youtube Tuesday (here!) that had a man named Corey Vidal did a video tribute to Moosebutter's Star Wars song. In it he had a four part screen where he lip synched all the parts that were sung, and it was actually really funny.
Tonight I was looking at other multi-window lip synchs after I came across a 9-window one, and I came across something totally awesome!
The Moosebutter group did their own video in response to the guy's! They did a recording of their song (slightly updated) and acted out their own roles, just like Corey did.
It was awesome!
So I thought I'd post it for anyone who happens to still read my blog. ^^
Tonight I was looking at other multi-window lip synchs after I came across a 9-window one, and I came across something totally awesome!
The Moosebutter group did their own video in response to the guy's! They did a recording of their song (slightly updated) and acted out their own roles, just like Corey did.
It was awesome!
So I thought I'd post it for anyone who happens to still read my blog. ^^
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