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let it be over...

FFFfffffff... I have a 3D animatic due tomorrow. Along with a resume. And I need to do an assignment in After Effects. Oh, hello art history test and programming assignment next week. Nice to know you're both there, too.

It's the ever lovely Beginning of the End of the Semester.

Also, I for real need a haircut.

*for as much as I complain about my workload, just know, I pretty much love almost everything I'm doing. So it's ok that I kill myself doing it.

happy birthday, monsieur

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I wish...

...I could blog more. Too bad school is just killing me right now. One of my roommates has a birthday this weekend. She's turning 21. And I might not be able to go to the party. At my own house. Because I'll be working straight through this weekend if my asinine professor doesn't extend the deadline for this project...

The only reason that I tolerate this much stress is because sometimes, on occasion, in a really special moment, I remember I usually I love what I'm doing.

Look, I don't even have time to find a fun photo... :(

nerd

Man, do I love being a Nerdfighter.

productivecrastination?

I Y watercolors.

Week 2 of junior year down. And instead of doing my design homework, I did this. How good a student am I? Do not fret, the design homework still got done.

Happy Friday. Hope everyone has a wonderfully relaxing weekend, because I'm anticipating a hectic one. 

P.S. I finally got a Twitter. I was on the fence for awhile, but slowly growing to like it a lot. I'm hesitant to say the L word because as soon as I do, I'll get SUPER addicted. Anyway, if you care to follow.... It's a bunch of nonsense, really... And I have an attractive profile picture. Just to entice you a bit.

faking it

Have you guys heard of tilt shift photography or miniature faking? You can also see it in some videos, too. The traditional way to get the miniature effect in a photograph is by using a special (and I'm guessing expensive) lens for a SLR or DSLR camera. But you can fake it with Photoshop and it's surprisingly simple. I found a really good tutorial here and used it to do both of these photos I took a while ago. The one from Versailles was with my point-and-shoot camera and the Kyle Field one was with my old iPhone! I did the effects in under 30 minutes, lots of fiddling included. Other tilt shift photos seem a little more convincing with a high viewpoint, like from the top of a building or balcony and more people in the shot, but I think these looks pretty good, especially for the first time I've tried it. I plan on doing this more often when I'm in tall buildings or on top of parking garages!

Yeah... I just looked up the cost of a tilt shift lens: $2,200. For a lens. Only for a professional.