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So this is how its going to be?

Since my google ads are busted now, damn them, I think this blog will get even less attention.

I'm not giving up on it, I will still do my photoblogs and stuff here, I think. But I dunno, I find myself using LiveJournal! UGH...

Anyway... Here is something anyway.

Copy and paste this into a new email. Remove the current X's. And put an X
inside the [ ] wherever it is true about you. Leave it as it is if it isn't
true, without the X. And then forward to your friends.

[] I am shorter than 5'4".
[x] I think I'm ugly sometimes.
[x] I have many scars.
[] I tan easily.
[] I wish my hair was a different color.
[] I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
[] I have a tattoo.
[x] I am self-conscious about my appearance
[] I have/I've had braces.
[] I wear glasses.
[x] I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and
scar-free.
[] I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
[] I have more than 2 piercings.
[] I have piercings in places besides my ears.
[x] I have freckles.


Family/Home Life

[] I've sworn at my parents.
[] I've run away from home.
[] I've been kicked out of the house.
[x] My biological parents are together.
[] I have a sibling less than one year old. (Close, 1 1/2 yrs)
[] I want to have kids someday.
[] I've had children.
[] I've lost a child.


School/Work

[x] I'm in school.
[x] I have a job.
[x] I've fallen asleep at work/school.
[] I almost always do my homework.
[] I've missed a week or more of school.
[] I've been on the Honor Roll within the last 2 years.
[] I failed more than 1 class last year.
[] I've stolen something from my job.
[] I've been fired.


Embarrassment

[x] I've slipped out a "lol" in a spoken conversation.
[] Disney movies still make me cry.
[] I've peed from laughing.
[] I've snorted while laughing.
[x] I've laughed so hard I've cried.
[] I've glued my hand to something.
[x] I've had my pants rip in public...


Health

[] I was born with a disease/impairment.
[x] I've gotten stitches/staples.
[x] I've broken a bone.
[] I've had my tonsils removed.
[] I've sat in a doctor's office/emergency room with a friend.
[x] I've had my wisdom teeth removed.
[] I had a serious surgery.
[x] I've had chicken pox.


Traveling

[x] I've driven over 200 miles in one day.
[x] I've been on a plane.
[] I've been to Canada.
[] I've been to Mexico.
[] I've been to Niagara Falls.
[] I've been to Japan.
[] I've celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
[] I've been to Europe.
[] I've been to Africa.


Experiences

[] I've gotten lost in my city.
[x] I've seen a shooting star.
[x] I've wished on a shooting star.
[x] I've seen a meteor shower.
[] I've gone out in public in my pajamas.
[] I've pushed all the buttons on an elevator.
[] I've kicked a guy where it hurts.
[x] I've been to a casino.
[] I've been skydiving.
[] I've gone skinny dipping.
[] I've played spin the bottle.
[x] I've drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour.
[] I've crashed a car.
[] I've been skiing.
[] I've been in a play.
[] I've met someone in person from myspace.
[] I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
[] I've seen the Northern lights.
[x] I've sat on a roof top at night.
[] I've played chicken.
[] I've played a prank on someone.
[x] I've ridden in a taxi.
[] I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
[] I've eaten sushi.
[] I've been snowboarding.


Relationships

[x] I'm single.
[] I'm in a relationship.
[] I'm engaged.
[] I'm married.
[] I've gone on a blind date.
[] I've been the dumpee more than the dumper.
[] I miss someone right now.
[x] I have a fear of abandonment.
[] I've gotten divorced.
[] I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
[] I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
[] I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
[] I've kept something from a past relationship.


Sexuality

[] I've had a crush on someone of the same sex.
[] I've had a crush on a teacher.
[] I am a cuddler.
[] I've been kissed in the rain.
[] I've hugged a stranger.
[] I have kissed a stranger.


Honesty/Crime

[] I've done something I promised someone else I wouldn't
[] I've done something I promised myself I wouldn't.
[] I've snuck out of my house.
[] I have lied to my parents about where I am.
[] I am keeping a secret from the world.
[] I've cheated while playing a game.
[] I've cheated on a test.
[] I've run a red light.
[] I've been suspended from school.
[] I've witnessed a crime.
[] I've been in a fist fight.
[] I've been arrested.


Drugs/Alcohol

[x] I've consumed alcohol.
[] I regularly drink.
[] I've passed out from drinking.
[] I have passed out drunk at least once in the past 6 months.
[] I've smoked weed
[] I've taken painkillers when I didn't need them.
[] I've eaten shrooms.
[] I've popped E.
[] I've inhaled Nitrous.
[] I've done hard drugs.
[] I have cough drops when I'm not sick.
[] I can't swallow pills.
[x] I can swallow about 5 pills at a time no problem.
[] I have been diagnosed with clinical depression.
[] I have been diagnosed with one or more anxiety disorder.
[] I shut others out when I'm depressed.
[] I take anti-depressants.
[] I'm anorexic or bulimic.
[] I've slept an entire day when I didn't need it.
[] I've hurt myself on purpose.
[] I'm addicted to self harm.
[] I've woken up crying.


Death and Suicide
[] I'm afraid of dying.
[] I hate funerals.
[] I've seen someone dying.
[] Someone close to me has attempted suicide.
[] Someone close to me has committed suicide.
[] I've planned my own suicide.
[] I've attempted suicide.
[] I've written a eulogy for myself.


Materialism

[x] I own over 5 rap CDs.
[x] I own an iPod or MP3 player.
[] I have an unhealthy obsession with anime/manga.(It's not unhealthy!)
[] I own multiple designer purses, costing over $100 a piece.
[] I own something from Hot Topic.
[] I own something from Pac Sun.
[] I collect comic books.
[] I own something from The Gap.
[x] I own something I got on e-bay.
[] I own something from Abercrombie.


Random

[] I can sing well. (never really tried)
[] I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant.
[] I open up to others easily.
[x] I watch the news.
[x] I don't kill bugs. (Exept ants. Ants must die)
[x] I hate hearing songs that sacrifice meaning for the sake of being able
to rhyme.
[] I curse regularly.
[] I sing in the shower.
[] I am a morning person.
[] I paid for my cell phone ring tone.
[] I'm a snob about grammar.
[] I am a sports fanatic.
[] I twirl my hair.
[] I have "x"s in my screen name.
[] I love being neat.
[] I love Spam.
[] I've copied more than 30 CD's in a day.
[x] I bake well.
[x] My favorite color is either white, yellow, pink, red or blue.
[] I've worn pajamas to school.
[] I like Martha Stewart.
[] I know how to shoot a gun.
[] I am in love with love.
[] I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS...
[] I laugh at my own jokes.
[x] I eat fast food weekly.
[] I believe in ghosts.
[x] I am online 24/7, even as an away message.
[x] I've not turned anything in and still got an A in a certain class.
[] I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
[] I am really ticklish.
[x] I love white chocolate.
[x] I bite my nails.
[x] I play video games.
[x] I'm good at remembering faces.
[] I'm good at remembering names
[] I'm good at remembering dates.
[] I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.

[x] all of those are answered honestly

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-ed

Ed wallpaper maker tutorial!

[02:23] Edcool1: i think im' gonna make a blog post based on that
[02:23] MadStrife: haha
[02:23] MadStrife: yeah
[02:23] MadStrife: you just
[02:23] MadStrife: totally explained everything

So yeah! Here it is.

Yay.

Okay so I have this picture I found on some website.

The Price is Wrong, Chiyo-chan!

Now that is that images full resolution. Not very good looking, right? Certainly not made for a 1680x1050 screen resolution. So what can we do about this?

Step 1:
Make it bigger.

That gives you this...I dunno, perverted jagged ugly version of your image:

That's bad! It's ugly! Jagged! Worse than the graphics on your playstation2! So what can you do?

Step 2:
Gaussian Blur. Or something.

That gives you this blurred out of focus look, observe:

Now the jaggies are gone, but...Wait! Something else is wrong! Look at that! It's totally out of focus! No definition at all! Something must be done!

Step 3:

So what I did next was a combination of a grain filter and some kind of brush filter, croshatch maybe? I forget.

Now what do we have, grain and some edges, but still blury...Wait what else looks like that? I know! An 8mm film frame!

Step 4 (research)
Thanks to Oliver Stone I will forever think of the Zapruder Film when I think of 8mm.

Observe:

Yeah. History. Back and to the left.

So yeah. Do you see the similarites between that image and the one above it? Kinda blury, grainy and stuff? Yeah!

Cause I'm kind of a buff for the Zapruder film, I have at least 5 different copies of it on my computer. I have the original version, a version with the sproket holes in it, a zoomed in version, a stablized version (so you can kind of see how it is a hoax). I got it all. So this innocent picture of Chiyo-chan on the Price is Right reminds me of a man getting his brains blown out. Yes. yes.

Step 5:


So we now have our reference photo! Let's compare it to our desired wallpaper!


Oh crap! Our picture isn't wide enough!

The sproket holes of the 8mm film and the actual 8mm camera itself kind of creat this distorted image over by the sproket holes. I'm not a painter, I can't really fill in what's missing the way it should be done. I can, however, half-ass it.

Stretch it!


Step 6:

Now what's the problem? There's this obvious line from where I stretched it! So I have to now fix that some how, I take the original and overlay it, and then fade it with a gradient mask (taking special care to keep her pigtail unstretched) that looks something like this:


Now the final touches.

Step 7:

Using my reference frame from the Zapruder film as a guide for my sproket holes, I use the magic wand tool and select the white area in those holes and create a color fill from that. I use a fuzzy brush to hide any jaggies from the Zapruder film.

This looks like this:


Step 8:


Now, when you look at the reference, you see that kind of purplish color over on the left side, between the sproket holes? This is most likely from the latent edge code on the 8mm film, but I could be wrong. Could just be more distortions from the camera.

That being said, it's there and I want to re-create it for my wallpaper.

I use the select color command and select the purple. Then I make another color fill for that with the purple color. Check it:


Almost done!

Step 9:

Just put the stretched Chiy0-chan image back underneath the color fills and viola. You got your 8mmized version of Chiyo-chan on the price is right.


Now this begs the question. Why is there an 8mm film of Chiyo-chan on the price is right? My theory is, it was the item they were bidding on--a 8mm film camera. And one of the pretty girls Bob Barker has on his show is shooting film of the contestants. Chiyo is going for the low bid, but feels wrong bidding just 1 dollar. So she bids $22.50. Makes sense to me.

The price is wrong, bitch.