All righty then...
I realized the other day that I need to do at least one real blog a week, or it will look bad that all I do is youtube tuesdays. (Speaking of, I had them planned out for like three weeks, but I forgot what I was going to do. I'll try to remember. *sigh*) I'm also behind in blogs (still need to write about Thanksgiving, field trip, and much more). Today I thought I'd do a general update blog. Well, I'm currently coughing up my lungs. There's an illness going around the house that has knocked down me and Mom. If I don't post again, it's because it has killed me. (However, I think I may have lost a pound. *grins*) School is almost over - I have three finals next week, then I'm done 'til January 12th. I've got Math and Literature finals on Monday, and the Religions final on Wednesday. But wait! You're wondering why I didn't mention my Spanish and geology finals, right? Well, I took the Spanish one last week (he offered it early and I wanted to just get done), and I'm exempt from the Geology final for getting straight As on the tests this semester. (Except for the one last Thursday, but everyone failed that one...we get one test grade dropped, and that was mine. ^^") *happy dance of exemptness* Of the finals left, the only that will be any possible problem is the Math one...but I calculated it, and as long as I don't get below a 70, I'll get a B. Though Math is my worst subject, I should be able to get at least a 70. What else? I've been trying to sneak in more art-stuffs. This weekend I continued work on a project I've been meaning to do. It's kind of an experiment. When we went to Build-A-Bear a couple months ago and got animals, the animals were sent home in little box houses. I've kept mine all this time, 'cause I'm going to colour each of the four outsides with a different medium, then decorate the inside. I probably won't keep it for very long afterwards, but it will be an interesting experiment. I've already done three sides (marker, coloured pencil, and oil pastel). The fourth will be watercolour paints. I'm also a bit behind in requests from people online, and I'm working to catch up on that. There'll be some human pictures, an animal or two of various species. There's a foxlike canine I'm working on that I'm quite happy with so far. He's got a lot of expression in his face, which is something I usually have problems with in animal pictures. I've also tried my hand at making treats a couple different times this week, with varying amounts of success. First, since we had old bananas, I thought I'd make banana sludge...I mean bread. Unfortunately, the flour container was empty, and I mistook the powdered sugar for the flour. Yuck. It was bad. My later attempt at making Muddy Buddies turned out better. There was a girl in my Spanish class who had them a couple weeks ago, and I wanted to try them. They're pretty good. Better than the banana bread, that's for sure. What else have I been spending my time doing? Well, I reorganized my bookmarks the other day. I'd given up on some sites and joined others and it was getting to be a mess. One of the sites I joined is facebook. Mom joined a couple weeks ago, and her comments on the strange pointlessness of it made me curious, so I joined. I like it better than myspace, at least.
The other interesting site I recently joined is Wajas. It's an animal sim, for those who know the type, but the main thing to do is breed the canines together. It's a very complex breeding system, actually. Rather addicting. ^^ The art is beautiful, too.
If you join, I'll give you a free pup.
There's several other new sites I've joined, but none thrilling enough to talk about right now. *grins* Maybe another post.
Sooooo...I think I've run out of things I want to talk about for now. Gotta save some ideas for next time. *grins*
Hope I think of those youtubes I was going to link before tuesday. *frowns*
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Random Youtube Tuesday!
Today's random youtubes come from this youtube profile.
I came across it a long time ago when I was looking for ASL songs people have put up.
This guy is an ASL comedian. He's a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) who signs skits that are just hilarious.
Even if you don't know sign language, you'll laugh.
This one was the first one I came across. I was searching random songs and found this.
A little bit of explanation, for anyone who has no clue of ASL. When he fisrt starts interpreting, his signs are literal translations of the words. For example, "the party is jumpin'" he signs "party jumping" as in, this party is literally jumping up and down. When he rolls up his pant leg, he switches to ASL order and signing. It translates using the concepts of the words, not a literal one. Instead of signing that the rapper is driving, he becomes the rapper and shows what he's singing of doing. Finally, when he changes again, its in correct english word order...fingerspelled. It's impressive.
My other favorite video that he does is a story about his mom driving. It's kind of about deaf drivers in general, exaggerated. It's really funny.
So, that's it today. If you want to see more, check out his profile that I linked to earlier. ^^
I came across it a long time ago when I was looking for ASL songs people have put up.
This guy is an ASL comedian. He's a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) who signs skits that are just hilarious.
Even if you don't know sign language, you'll laugh.
This one was the first one I came across. I was searching random songs and found this.
A little bit of explanation, for anyone who has no clue of ASL. When he fisrt starts interpreting, his signs are literal translations of the words. For example, "the party is jumpin'" he signs "party jumping" as in, this party is literally jumping up and down. When he rolls up his pant leg, he switches to ASL order and signing. It translates using the concepts of the words, not a literal one. Instead of signing that the rapper is driving, he becomes the rapper and shows what he's singing of doing. Finally, when he changes again, its in correct english word order...fingerspelled. It's impressive.
My other favorite video that he does is a story about his mom driving. It's kind of about deaf drivers in general, exaggerated. It's really funny.
So, that's it today. If you want to see more, check out his profile that I linked to earlier. ^^
Monday, December 1, 2008
School Registration
Registered for classes today. (Actually, registered for classes at 12:30 this morning. AM, not PM. In my next post I will blog about illnesses.)
Got some kinda cool ones coming up in the Spring semester. Took forever to find a schedule that would work, though.
Mondays and Wednesdays I have two classes, one in the morning, on in the afternoon. I've got Physical Geography (which I'm taking because it's the same teacher as in my Geology class, and I really like him.) at like 9, then Fundamentals of Baking at like 5. Yes, baking as in pies and cookies. (My brother keeps telling me that I need lots of homework for that class.)
On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have Physical Geology at 10:30. It should be lotsa fun.
Then I have one online class, Western Civilization. I never got to take this kind of class in high school because I accidentally doubled my American History class. ><
All in all, it looks like a fun semester.
I've managed to bug a couple of my friends into maybe taking Geology with me, so that'd be cool, too.
Got some kinda cool ones coming up in the Spring semester. Took forever to find a schedule that would work, though.
Mondays and Wednesdays I have two classes, one in the morning, on in the afternoon. I've got Physical Geography (which I'm taking because it's the same teacher as in my Geology class, and I really like him.) at like 9, then Fundamentals of Baking at like 5. Yes, baking as in pies and cookies. (My brother keeps telling me that I need lots of homework for that class.)
On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have Physical Geology at 10:30. It should be lotsa fun.
Then I have one online class, Western Civilization. I never got to take this kind of class in high school because I accidentally doubled my American History class. ><
All in all, it looks like a fun semester.
I've managed to bug a couple of my friends into maybe taking Geology with me, so that'd be cool, too.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Abracadabra
Last night we watched a dvd of Lance Burton magic shows.
I love magic...used to watch every special I could catch.
After looking up some of Burton's other tricks on youtube, my Mom said I ought to do a special not-so-random youtube friday.
I thought not. Instead I'll do a whole blog about magic, with lots of links to videos. *grins*
When I think magic, my first thought is David Copperfield. He'll probably always be my favorite famous magician.
[If you go to the url, and don't just watch the embedded video, there's three more parts to the this video linked. ^^)
My second thought is the "Masked Magician" He did a couple of shows several years back where he showed how some of the best magic tricks are done.
Now, his tricks are actually hard to find, but I found a guy who had several...this was one of the coolest.
[After some more hunting, I found this site, which has more videos.]
I was reminiscing as I searched, lamenting the lack of famous magicians today when I came across this interesting video.
Guess I'll have to look for it. *grins*
And now, this post has come full circle, to end where it began...with Lance Burton.
I believe this to be an actual clip from the show we watched...and if I recall correctly, one similar to it is what netted him the Grande Prix prize at the international Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques (FISM) competition - first American to do so, plus he got it at the age of 22.
This was also on the dvd, and we nearly died laughing.
Finally, Lance Burton's roller coaster escape.
I love magic...used to watch every special I could catch.
After looking up some of Burton's other tricks on youtube, my Mom said I ought to do a special not-so-random youtube friday.
I thought not. Instead I'll do a whole blog about magic, with lots of links to videos. *grins*
When I think magic, my first thought is David Copperfield. He'll probably always be my favorite famous magician.
[If you go to the url, and don't just watch the embedded video, there's three more parts to the this video linked. ^^)
My second thought is the "Masked Magician" He did a couple of shows several years back where he showed how some of the best magic tricks are done.
Now, his tricks are actually hard to find, but I found a guy who had several...this was one of the coolest.
[After some more hunting, I found this site, which has more videos.]
I was reminiscing as I searched, lamenting the lack of famous magicians today when I came across this interesting video.
Guess I'll have to look for it. *grins*
And now, this post has come full circle, to end where it began...with Lance Burton.
I believe this to be an actual clip from the show we watched...and if I recall correctly, one similar to it is what netted him the Grande Prix prize at the international Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques (FISM) competition - first American to do so, plus he got it at the age of 22.
This was also on the dvd, and we nearly died laughing.
Finally, Lance Burton's roller coaster escape.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Random Youtube Tuesday!
It's that time again!
Welcome to this week's Youtube Tuesday!
Made even more special by the fact that it is actually happening on Tuesday this time!
Today is AMV day!
AMV is an acronym that means "anime music video" It's one of my favorite things to search for.
Basically what happens is that anime fans pick a song, then choose scenes from the anime to fit the music. There are good AMVs...and really bad ones.
The ones I have today are some of the better ones I've seen.
This is a Sailor Moon AMV...I thought it was beautiful, and it's done to one of my favorite Evanescence songs: "Bring Me to Life"
Sadly, I cannot embed this AMV (or should I say GMV?)...it does not allow embedding. However, it is a very beautiful Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess AMV set to the music of Nickelback's "Savin' Me."
See you next week with more random Youtube videos!
Welcome to this week's Youtube Tuesday!
Made even more special by the fact that it is actually happening on Tuesday this time!
Today is AMV day!
AMV is an acronym that means "anime music video" It's one of my favorite things to search for.
Basically what happens is that anime fans pick a song, then choose scenes from the anime to fit the music. There are good AMVs...and really bad ones.
The ones I have today are some of the better ones I've seen.
This is a Sailor Moon AMV...I thought it was beautiful, and it's done to one of my favorite Evanescence songs: "Bring Me to Life"
Sadly, I cannot embed this AMV (or should I say GMV?)...it does not allow embedding. However, it is a very beautiful Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess AMV set to the music of Nickelback's "Savin' Me."
See you next week with more random Youtube videos!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
New Pictures!
Well, not really new...more like pictures that I finally got around to scanning in.
The edges are a tad blurry - the scanner hates me. I need to learn to draw further away from the edges of the sketchbook.
Click the pictures to see a bigger, better version.
First up is a (late) set of Halloween doodles.
There's four pictures, in varying angles and completedness.
The coloured one is my (evil) muse Lanyia, dressed as an angel.
Directly beneath her is Rama, a demon from the story I was co-writing with a friend of mine a few years back. He is stuffed into a poofy pumpkin outfit, and not happy about it.
Upper right has my roleplaying character Irian, who is dressed as what he is - a snow leopard. (He's a were)
The last picture is an image of my internet persona, Ari, "testing" the Halloween candy.
The next two pictures are only the most recent in a very long line of pictures I have drawn for a friend of mine on the 'net.
I spend much time on a website called GaiaOnline...and several years back, when I joined, I set up a thread wherein I gave away free art (which was nice, for it made me practice drawing. ^^ It's my experiment thread...I play with mediums and poses and such in the freebies I give away).
In the first few pages entered a user by the name of Dominique del Mer...and she hasn't left yet. *grins*
Of the 600 or so arts I've done for Gaia in the past four years, she's gotten about half of them.
Just kidding. (Mostly) She does have her own folder in my art files, though.
You'd think she'd get tired of my art style after a while. >>
Anyways. Onto the pictures.
I think this was a birthday gift. I don't know anymore, I drew it a couple weeks ago.
It's cute because on my avatar (the image that represents me on the site, for those who don't know) I have the little black kitty, and she has the little white kitty. The hat (of eternal drawing damnation) is also part of her avatar...and I've fought the thing for years now. It's not easy to draw, therefore to get revenge, I had my kitty rip the feather off. ^______^
Final picture.
This is one of Dominique's roleplaying characters. (She has as many as I do. *grins*)
She's a drow (I think) who makes magical toys. So all the little critters are broken toys coming to her for help. My favorite's the bunny whose tail has come off. And the ball with a band-aid.
The edges are a tad blurry - the scanner hates me. I need to learn to draw further away from the edges of the sketchbook.
Click the pictures to see a bigger, better version.
First up is a (late) set of Halloween doodles.
There's four pictures, in varying angles and completedness.
The coloured one is my (evil) muse Lanyia, dressed as an angel.
Directly beneath her is Rama, a demon from the story I was co-writing with a friend of mine a few years back. He is stuffed into a poofy pumpkin outfit, and not happy about it.
Upper right has my roleplaying character Irian, who is dressed as what he is - a snow leopard. (He's a were)
The last picture is an image of my internet persona, Ari, "testing" the Halloween candy.
The next two pictures are only the most recent in a very long line of pictures I have drawn for a friend of mine on the 'net.
I spend much time on a website called GaiaOnline...and several years back, when I joined, I set up a thread wherein I gave away free art (which was nice, for it made me practice drawing. ^^ It's my experiment thread...I play with mediums and poses and such in the freebies I give away).
In the first few pages entered a user by the name of Dominique del Mer...and she hasn't left yet. *grins*
Of the 600 or so arts I've done for Gaia in the past four years, she's gotten about half of them.
Just kidding. (Mostly) She does have her own folder in my art files, though.
You'd think she'd get tired of my art style after a while. >>
Anyways. Onto the pictures.
I think this was a birthday gift. I don't know anymore, I drew it a couple weeks ago.
It's cute because on my avatar (the image that represents me on the site, for those who don't know) I have the little black kitty, and she has the little white kitty. The hat (of eternal drawing damnation) is also part of her avatar...and I've fought the thing for years now. It's not easy to draw, therefore to get revenge, I had my kitty rip the feather off. ^______^
Final picture.
This is one of Dominique's roleplaying characters. (She has as many as I do. *grins*)
She's a drow (I think) who makes magical toys. So all the little critters are broken toys coming to her for help. My favorite's the bunny whose tail has come off. And the ball with a band-aid.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Random Youtube of the Week.
Next week I'll do on Tuesday, for "Random Youtube Tuesday"
This time I decided to do it, but it was after Tuesday, so I'm doing it today...Thursday. >>
Actually, I'll put two up.
Mom found this clip yesterday and I don't wanna forget it.
Some guy lipsynching Moosebutter's song "Star Wars"...it's cool (and...somewhat nerdy) that he listened to the song enough to find the 4 distinct voices to lip synch, then recorded himself 4 times. In different shirts.
This time I decided to do it, but it was after Tuesday, so I'm doing it today...Thursday. >>
Actually, I'll put two up.
Mom found this clip yesterday and I don't wanna forget it.
Some guy lipsynching Moosebutter's song "Star Wars"...it's cool (and...somewhat nerdy) that he listened to the song enough to find the 4 distinct voices to lip synch, then recorded himself 4 times. In different shirts.
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