Design...blah!

Watching designonhgtv... wow .. what a load of junk!

The judges are vapid and hollow... the designers are okay but its just meh!

There is an under-currant of favoritism regardless of what is being made or is made. Meh!

MEH MEH MEH!!

But that's me...

Since I am still having problems with hubs and external drives and controllers and such I didnt much do anything at all tonight. One thing I really did like and that was a redo of something I had already done already...again! Nothing says you can revisit something. Every time I turn around I can think of something else that might be done. This one I saw last night but could not get it out at that time. Tonight it came out nicely. I would put this on my wall at about 6 by 2 feet. Yeah.. not just because its my colors and envelope... but its cool!

I did get a note from a friend that my balloon was seen again in India on another huge billboard. It must have been a stock shot taken at ( I'm sure ) Fiesta. Surprised that they keep using the same one. I am not complaining.. I love it. LOL... Below is the banner.

Right behind the "28th" YAY!

Here is what I came up with tonight....


Love the little lights.... A single in the darkness.

Roadside rampage.

Highper Sky

Love the last one the most..... Ah well... I thing.. No I know I can recreate this again. I did write this one down. Something like 22 different edit runs. Maybe two to three hours.

I got a gig next month.. looking forward to it in a strange way as it is off my beaten path but doable and done. I worry because I would not want to make anyone unhappy. So.. fingers crossed on that.

It was a long and dreary day...... Humor was necessary and pretty much required due to some novel programming and instructions. I would wish that tomorrow was less novel and more straightforward.
I am all for getting things done and finished.... pushed aside into a good file and onto more interesting and functional things.

Oh.. we are back to it being cold outside again so I do not feel the need to go out and risk frostbite to take pictures... Wonderful for procrastinators everywhere.

Have a good one!

Divisional thoughts

Sunday meditations....

If you cant change it then go along with it?

Are we just a hologram and if so why do we feel pain?

What is the priority? When it changes every few moments can it be called a priority?

Why can I not hook up more than five or six drives before my surface gives me a "not enough controllers" error. Yes I am using powered hubs.

Minor questions and not the most important either.

Im stumped tonight.

I spent a lot of today looking through files getting run off track at almost every second. I achieved little except frustration.

What is the use of a file system if you can never remember how you filed something the last time?

The only thing I did do was a few edits including the one above.. which I did two different ways.. below is the other one.

Another hour edit for the heck of it.. crazy I know.

Here are three I did last night...

Zoomed in, hue adjust, crop, layer, drop shadow, title.

Slight zoom, massive tone map as it was a dark shot, hue adjust, drop shadow, title.

Crop,hue adjust, clip, layer, solar flare, fade, overlay, drop shadow, title.

 Fun but I keep getting carried away by trying different applications to find just the right one.

I never write anything down. I would be a bad scientist as would never write down my procedures and steps so i would never be able to reapply or verify. Perhaps I need to reevaluate my location of process so that I have a place to write down each step along the way.... so much thinking... so much work.

Maybe I just like the surprise! Yeah... that's it! Its always a surprise so I keep doing it this way! Whew!  Thought I was just going crazy.

Here is a twenty something step process I did on the crown of my balloon. I was really trying to make it look like an edit I did earlier with another friends balloon but it didn't come out right... I was trying to make a hairless hamster and ended up with a hamster that was 20 pounds instead!!! SCIENCE!

See.. this is what I was trying for.... I think I know what step I missed...

I really like how this turned out....

Maybe less sun in the middle.... Hmmm..

Off I go.

Nothin on the internet was interesting... mostly rehashes of other crap that other people had posted and gotten wrong or so skewed by their tiny minds need to force their reality on others instead of being the "supposed" open minded, free thinking, everyone leave me and mine along, I have rights but you dont people.... pretty damn sad.

Oh.. and my opinion.. if you let the govt regulate the internet and its content it will die in the US. Read Tad Williams Otherland series... A Subnet will or already exists that cannot be controlled by the tiny minds.  Sad that we have to be controlled by those same people who do not want anyone controlling them. Rant, rant, rant.

So.. no net links.. no story continuation either... geeee.... how scuzzy is this. Since its my blog I decided about five seconds ago that I can do what I want... Don't Oppress me Bro!

I am off to edit my crown shot slightly.. need to get that hairless hamster!

Excursions

Interesting day going to Pets Mart and then "Wall" Mart....Ask me which had more nice animals in it... Go on.

Right.. Pets Mart! Met a couple of very nice dogs.. squeeked some toys and bought a muzzle ( had to clip some puppy nails ) ( said puppy is sleeping on my lap at the moment ). ( Oh..also some idiots tried to steal a puppy from the adoption area... STUPID ).

Most of the visitors to Walmart were grumpy, standing in the middle of the isle with their baskets canted across, creating log jams of grungy grumpy snarly animals. Just say excuse me and get snorted at! It was fun....not. Glad I didn't have lunch before. Bought things for work. Super tempted to buy a 30 inch tv for the office so I could put my calender on it so it would be in front of me all the time. I have a 22 inch monitor at home I could take to work which I could use. Not the impact but .. it might work.

I did finish fixing nets today. I was able to verify my mirrors of picture hard drives and also check that all the files were there. Comforting to know they are. Now I should be taking those drives to work so if there is a fire or break in at the house I wont lose both. I have to find a secure place first... I will think of that in a bit.

WARNING.... back up your pictures, videos, music... mirroring them is the hardest way but the best and easiest way to secure those precious data bits.

Notice the weird characters and highlighting on last nights blog. Yeah. Stupid site kept formatting weirdly. I could erase everything and retype or leave it. Nice. May have to find a better site to blog to.

I edited the take from my GoPro3. I had it on the side of the basket last Saturday. It died after 1 1/2 hours so missed the landing. I had it pointed in ( right )  too far so it was only okay. Its edited to 27 times normal speed and normal speed in other parts. Music went well with it. At 60 fps it turned out very clearly. Happy about that... Here is the link....

http://InvisibleBlack.zenfolio.com/p715442282/e30c09513

Here is the 360 degree fisheye unedit viewpoint.. Nauseous.

http://InvisibleBlack.zenfolio.com/p715442282/e21412a5

Last is the split of the 360. It still gets funny at the bottom and the quality isn't the best.

http://InvisibleBlack.zenfolio.com/p715442282/e18013d89

I will have to try some different settings.



I only edited one picture today with all the driving and shopping and net mending....

I like it..

Nice and green. This was a green light in a lit room..okay Saggio's restaurant. Took a bit to get it here.

Some that I played with earlier.... I changed a letter of a word.. which one was it?

Edited for level... touched the hue... Love the NO!

I have to print some of these soon darnit! I think the NO would be great at 4 foot by 1.5 feet over my desk at work. Hahaha

Stuffing fingers into vest pockets, slipping long coat backwards and glaring at the smirk... smirk smirk smirk..... "What are you smirking about?!" Drifts back..."this hallway... Have you had enough of it yet?" Is that even a necessary question? Clop, clop...walk walk... "Yes! Somewhat shouting through fixed lips, YES!"  About ten paces ahead the "butler" turns sharply stopping directly, causing me to come to a short quick halt... "Just say they word." .... Word?????  "WORD!"

BOOM!

Continuous preaching blues

The title of an Ian Anderson album I pretty much detest. Sorry but it had to be said. I've been holding that in for quite a while.

Aside from that little outburst it has been an interesting day. Hang on a sec.. gotta get some music on.

Okay.. some oddly strange electronic swing.

Woe be you who cannot find the E key.... nevermind. I kept typing the w or r key.. continuously. Wow.

I was about to start cutting bait instead of fishing and got sidetracked right away. I was looking for JPGs of 2014 and found a scad           noun : a large number or quantity or chum

of NEF files that shouldn't have been where they were and and a massive amount of Chum JPGs missing from where they were supposed to be.  So now I have attached all the NEF drives to find out what where and why.. so in stead of fishing or cutting bait I am mending nets. Weee!Aside from that though its been a temperamental week. But lets even shove that aside. Lets go to instead a friends video capturing of Saturdays balloon flight who was nicely close behind me. So the video was great and I was able to see what I was doing from a distance and it was a good video. Amazing how many wind changes were between where they were and where I was at very similar levels above the ground. Too bad you all are not on a facebook connection since that's the only place it is. I have one more video file to edit down.. and that was from the gopro 3 that was on my left side. I may do that tonight if I feel up to it. Searching for files in the evening is a bad thing.I did was to share more edits I have done since its been a while for blogsphere. Oh I put the gopro on 720 60 fpm this time so I wonder how that will effect the video. Time for some testing.... soon..Edits...

Each bleak and chilling.. okay.. maybe the Shamrock isn't but it could be. More adjustments to these before I am ready to print.. hahah.. print....

Listening to Alan Parsons .. Id rather be a man.... Interesting lyrics. Oh can I get lost in my head. Good day for it.

Shotgun! Yup.. totally shotgun thinking.

More of yesterdays rambling man....

So.. question.. When do you stop taking pictures and do something with them? Right after.. Or is it.. pictures then edit then print then pictures then edit then print... or what.

Ah well.. I will figure it out soon.

Question.... Do you really need to be so into your phone that you need this?

http://gizmodo.com/the-most-flexible-phone-stand-home-theater-upgrades-a-1687000407

For a friend who is always pinching a flower here and there.. be cautious girl!

http://geekologie.com/2015/02/mantis-mimics-orchid-to-catch-bee-for-a.php

Just funnin ya!

Like nesting dolls.. hahaha..

http://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/20/CT-Scan-Reveals-That-Statue-of-the-Buddha-Is-Actually-a-Mummy/

How many other secrets are sitting there waiting ....

Wobblingly at this point.. asking.... "what is the meaning of all this.... this... hall? On and on... flat out tired here... still stumbling along.. hopefully an answer is to be had along the way... even a kiosk that had lies Id accept a newspaper from at this point.  I think even some Edison Medicine? "Hay!"... a slight twitch from the head ahead of me... did I catch a smirk? Bah!

Chinese New Year 2015

Rambling.. I'm a rambling man.... ramblin...... ramble....

Here we are again.... A new year... for the Chinese! Us descendants on Genghis Khan are working on February 19th of the new year. So far it a bust. Along the lines of lets get it over already and see what that next year might bring.

Yeah, yeah yeah... I know.. not all cherry pie and all but hay, I need daily affirmation!

Alright.... I was going to write up this awesomely detailed blog on using Cyberlink Power Director to make that go pro video into a watchable movie with titles and cuts and speed changes and audo overdubs and mods... but after clipping shots everywhere I came to the realization that it was too long and too boring. So I cut it!

I am now thinking on a short video showing the steps it takes. That will take a quiet room, much needed setup and hopefully not too many retakes. I have high hopes... but I said that for the year too.

Watch this space...

What I did come to this last evening was that the hardest part of building a movie for myself was the music. I can and do use music that is free in different forms but most times I want something I enjoy listening too and would if I could listen to music while flying... which I cant.

Music for videos/movies has to fit the mood. I have a vast list and a whole bunch of favorites but I went looking on the nets for something I didn't have. I ended up not using any but they were great.. here are some I hit.

Very cool video... Love the tonality...wish it had been used to greater effect without the blob being dropped...  but here...

https://vimeo.com/119439725

This has always had a place for me. Fantasticly drawing chords...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42MAk4_DBFc

And ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmJZRt3I9D4

Which is just haunting in my frame of mind.

Oh... there are more but thats enough for this first blog of the "year".

I have been working on all sorts of stuff edit wise... from cell phone wallpaper to shots of my friends to three hour edits... ( I lost track of time ) .. No direction at all yet. I was hoping something would come but... nope.. everywhere and anywhere.... Sorry..you have to suffer with me.

A few of my favorites...

So many layers and edits I lost time.... But its awesome.

Net shot of game I edited for my phone.

Try and figure out what I edited.

Quick shot which I loved because of the horses AND the motorcycle.

This was from a T-shirt from a web site I loved. I reedited it for the cell size.

I will pass along the tag later. Good prices too. http://www.neatorama.com/

I expect to get some idea of where I am going later.... So many things going on and no idea where to go with it.

Merry happy New season year time! Pounce pounce pounce pounce!!!







Walking along...following... following.. nothing very descriptive to point out... like.. Oh.. here is a monet.... a Rembrandt... Oh... its a drawing my my daughter when she was in third grade.. I thought it got tossed! Wow.. no.. nothing but a corridor now. Floor is a floor..walls a monosyllabic wall.... back of a butler.. or one supposes...... tap tap tap.... no tigers here.... no rabbits... no moose.... I wonder what for lunch?

Soon to return..thoughts

For those that have been checking into the blog and wondering what the heck is going on. Now you know. I am going to return to it soon...

Expect for reasons I shouldn't have to explain it will be on the Chinese New Year. Goats and all. Stubborn animals with a need to butt you for no apparent reason and then go on about it as if it never happened or that you are being the butter not the buttee....

I dropped into today to talk about the new song by Sia called Elastic Heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWZGAExj-es

Ignore the nuts who are saying the video is bad. Its not. It very moving. Sia said it was her bipolar sides waging war on each other and I can see that but I can also hear it as a fight between wants and needs and the pain that comes with wanting something you cant have ... or something like that.

It stands alone as a song lyrically and musically without the odd video. Sia is hit or miss with me. She has a good voice but I cant stand the mumbly meanderings she goes through some times. I don't know if its because she wants to or is made to per what her followers what to hear... Along with Tina Dico.... Amazing voice sometimes and then your left scratching your head.

The line...somewhat.... if you listen is "I've got thick skin and an elastic heart......I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard... and I may snap....". Great lyrics....  This song hits home in ways.

 I bought the whole album.... Sia - 1000 forms of fear. Worth the money.

Oh.. I plan of continuing on the story that was at the bottom of my blog... Its very hard to write a paragraph at a time and keep it interesting every time... and I never write down where its going.. its always coming out as I write it. Good exercise. Hard to do.

On the photography side of things I am still working on getting home to shoot my brains out but am waiting for that perfect time. With everything going on in the world right now I have to keep nudging back the time. Soon. Taking pictures isn't .. oh hay..Ill shoot this tree, wall, mountain... its been done.. if I cant find a direct novel way to shoot it I ain't shooting it.

I have been playing with doing edits for my cell phone wallpaper. Its fun. I can do it relatively quickly, now that I have the template down. I like keeping it dark so black backgrounds. I may have to play with that though... Its a layer effect. So many things to want to do but training is limited to teaching myself. Ugh.... that leads me to this.

I hate Linux/ Unix. I know it but I hate it so I have to think about it when I am working with it as a language / commands. Its useless to me as I am not building databases and such and its so clunky to use like windows or IOS. It falls to this in category... ease of use and little modification - IOS, Ease of use and a lot of modification - Windows, then pain in use and massive manipulation - Unix / Linux Yeah.. sigh....

That's enough of that today.. Below you can see what I did for cell phone wallpaper and what I am trying to get at... black borders, bright frame, black then picture so it stand out but isn't causing it to be hard to see your screen... enjoy.

 El Ray was a trashed poster and I spent ages cleaning it up to what you see above.

 Twin V chopper engine that was cleaned then I highlighted slightly with a blue fade to enhance it.

 THe yellow border only looks like it is colored along with the inside fading. Your eyes are cheating.

Straightforward tweak on the blue of the massive flame.

Okay.. that was a lot for one day.... remember the... Chinese New Year...

January 6th

pondering this blog again. Do I have time to deal with it.
Not the place to rant really. Hmmm...

Deadline is coming quickly to decide.

Oh...I. Did see an interesting web log on how to fold fitted sheets!

Serious excitement!!