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Well holy shit, did it snow or did it snow?
Sorry, slightly inebriated, but this isn't going to be one of those epic posts like I made last time I was drunk and decided to LJ it up.
This weekend I've had some monstrously good company. Buddy EJ has been around, DragonSprite, too, it's been good times. The snow was amazing. I have some video of snow fun up and coming, just need to put it all on my desktop.
Slowly migrating all of my information and data and whatnot to my laptop. This little bastard is better than my desktop at 90% of the thing that I do. I still need to benchmark it against my desktop at 1920x1200 on my huge ass monitor, but it's so nice to be able to play games on this thing in my living room rather than being trapped behind the monitor in the corner of my bedroom. I like being able to be in the living room because it feels more sociable.
Honestly, though, I haven't been on the computer much. Until this weekend (and only because it snowed so much) I haven't been gaming at all. I've been taking lots of photos, drawing, working, talking on IRC, making LOTS of progress on art related things, it's been cool. I need to finish some drawing though, I have 5 images or so that need to be completed and they're yet to be done. Eventually though, I want to produce some high quality shit. I'm relearning how to do art as I've spent pretty much a year not doing any art in the form of illustration at all.
Not the case with photography, though. I've finally been published in the Canon G10/G11 Snapshots to Great Shots book which teaches people how to take photos like the pros. They only used one photo of mine, but they used it in three areas to illustrate three different points of technical prowess. I have technical aspects down and aesthetic, it feels good. Photography is my art form. It's what I've mastered. Maybe, if I could master photography so quickly, I can master illustration too. I mean, looking at my old artwork it's obvious how much I've improved on things. Maybe not quite as rapidly but given my rate of maybe 3 or 4 drawings (full, thought out drawings) a year I think I'm doing pretty well. I usually lament the jack-of-all-trades syndrome I seem to suffer, but really, if I can pick up on things so goddamn quickly I must be like some fucking genius in disguise, or some crazily adept human being who can pick anything up in a fraction of the time it would take normal people. That makes me feel happier about myself than any other thing going on in my life right now. I could probably pick writing up again and kick ass at it. Not to sound conceited or like I'm some "Master of the Universe" or anything, but I feel really good about myself given how well I seem to be able to pick up anything I set my mind to.
Even at work, dude. I've gone from being an Administrative Assistant, a goddamn secretary, to a Configurations Manager in less than a year. Who in the fuck does that. Even though it's a career path I'm not really interested in following, it's amazing that I can pick that shit up so quickly without any form of formal training. I know alot of the people who read this journal are similarly adept, but think about it. Guys, we're not the norm. We're special, we're gifted, maybe it's just that we're not lazy but most people can't get the shit down that we do. We're that good, okay. We are the E^2, the Educated Elite. We actually USE our brains, even when we're in horribly simple states of alcoholic extremism. We can hold conversations of existentialism while we're drunk, dudes, we're fucking incredible people for that fact alone. Feel good about yourselves, we're a tier above the norm.
Whew, Bacardi is cool shit, derp. :B
But yeah, in a good mood. Not gunna hanf here for too long, I have people to chill with and play games with and talk about amazing issues with and make the world go 'round with. I hope you all do the same. Love yaz, all of yaz. :3
Sorry, slightly inebriated, but this isn't going to be one of those epic posts like I made last time I was drunk and decided to LJ it up.
This weekend I've had some monstrously good company. Buddy EJ has been around, DragonSprite, too, it's been good times. The snow was amazing. I have some video of snow fun up and coming, just need to put it all on my desktop.
Slowly migrating all of my information and data and whatnot to my laptop. This little bastard is better than my desktop at 90% of the thing that I do. I still need to benchmark it against my desktop at 1920x1200 on my huge ass monitor, but it's so nice to be able to play games on this thing in my living room rather than being trapped behind the monitor in the corner of my bedroom. I like being able to be in the living room because it feels more sociable.
Honestly, though, I haven't been on the computer much. Until this weekend (and only because it snowed so much) I haven't been gaming at all. I've been taking lots of photos, drawing, working, talking on IRC, making LOTS of progress on art related things, it's been cool. I need to finish some drawing though, I have 5 images or so that need to be completed and they're yet to be done. Eventually though, I want to produce some high quality shit. I'm relearning how to do art as I've spent pretty much a year not doing any art in the form of illustration at all.
Not the case with photography, though. I've finally been published in the Canon G10/G11 Snapshots to Great Shots book which teaches people how to take photos like the pros. They only used one photo of mine, but they used it in three areas to illustrate three different points of technical prowess. I have technical aspects down and aesthetic, it feels good. Photography is my art form. It's what I've mastered. Maybe, if I could master photography so quickly, I can master illustration too. I mean, looking at my old artwork it's obvious how much I've improved on things. Maybe not quite as rapidly but given my rate of maybe 3 or 4 drawings (full, thought out drawings) a year I think I'm doing pretty well. I usually lament the jack-of-all-trades syndrome I seem to suffer, but really, if I can pick up on things so goddamn quickly I must be like some fucking genius in disguise, or some crazily adept human being who can pick anything up in a fraction of the time it would take normal people. That makes me feel happier about myself than any other thing going on in my life right now. I could probably pick writing up again and kick ass at it. Not to sound conceited or like I'm some "Master of the Universe" or anything, but I feel really good about myself given how well I seem to be able to pick up anything I set my mind to.
Even at work, dude. I've gone from being an Administrative Assistant, a goddamn secretary, to a Configurations Manager in less than a year. Who in the fuck does that. Even though it's a career path I'm not really interested in following, it's amazing that I can pick that shit up so quickly without any form of formal training. I know alot of the people who read this journal are similarly adept, but think about it. Guys, we're not the norm. We're special, we're gifted, maybe it's just that we're not lazy but most people can't get the shit down that we do. We're that good, okay. We are the E^2, the Educated Elite. We actually USE our brains, even when we're in horribly simple states of alcoholic extremism. We can hold conversations of existentialism while we're drunk, dudes, we're fucking incredible people for that fact alone. Feel good about yourselves, we're a tier above the norm.
Whew, Bacardi is cool shit, derp. :B
But yeah, in a good mood. Not gunna hanf here for too long, I have people to chill with and play games with and talk about amazing issues with and make the world go 'round with. I hope you all do the same. Love yaz, all of yaz. :3