the beast who shouted love to the world...

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The picture above would be my most recent deviation on the wonderful community that is, deviantART. The picture was hard to take, because since noone was there to help, I had to just guess the shot pretty much. I used my Minolta Maxxum5 with b/w film and my camera's timer. Once I hit the trigger I had to run onto this stool I had taken from my house so that the camera could get a good shot of the clouds.

I had to do some minimal photoshop editing...
1) Changed the hue
2) Edited the top some fence that made it into the picture (i took this in my backyard)
3) Edited a few streaks that the walgreens printing had left

So i didnt want to do to much editing... I may later try to later change some of the contrast to make the white of the clouds REALLY white... but for now i'm alright with this picture. I'll probably reshoot this one later...

...a few days till i leave for tuscaloosa... sigh....

everything is starting to die...

+ 24 Hour Party
so the 2nd 24 Hour Party started... I arrived late because I took a nap. I was in the middle of a nightmare where I was driving and before passing through an intersection the railroad crossing lights started flashing but the cross guards werent working... so I didnt know if I should stop or not... I passed to find out that the whole intersection had become row after row of crossing railroad tracks... with lights for each rail I started driving through the endless tracks trying to find safety... but then Grant called me and saved me from my nightmare...

I was late and they were at McAlisters waiting for me. Eventually Cole, Grant, Emily, Stephen, Laura, and I went to Target and Wal-Mart in search of a hacky sack. After an awkward moment involving flailing hands... We left for Austin's house where most of our time was spent... People swam or got pushed into the pool, people ate dinner, watched a movie, played around, and then most everyone fell asleep...

I however did not... I let them sleep for awhile, until I thought it was about time that we start moving onto graceland too. people just kept wanting more sleep and I kept pushing more and more for people to get up. I sang jingles, told random facts, jokes to try and get them up but noone wanted to... I went into the other room... and that's when I realized I was being annoying...

Everyone was tired, and here I am annoying the crap out of everyone. I thought about it, I couldnt believe I was doing that. People have told me before how annoying and pestering I can be. I see now that's what they meant. I didnt want to be the cause of everyone's pain. I wanted people to have fun... so I eliminated the problem... i left. As I was getting my stuff, Laura asked where I was going... so i lied, i told her that because everyone was sleeping we werent going to need the things i brought so I was putting them in my car...

I walked outside to find that it was pouring... hard enough (with flooding) that I shouldnt go driving at 2:30 in the morning... but I went anyways, if my friends were going to have fun, i couldnt be around. So I drove off with low visibility and going about an avg of 20-35 miles an hour while text messaging Austin. He has been really friendly but after being hurt as often as i have, i wonder if it's genuine. He tried to get me to come back, however I couldnt face everyone now...

Anyways I got home and just went to bed. I'm not even sure if people stayed after that. Cole told me he got up at 4am and people were still sleeping, I think he said he left after that... so i dont know if people left or if they stayed for the rest of the 24 hour party... I wanted them to have fun - so that's why i left... so i hope they did.

i hope they can forgive me for being so annoying... how can they put up with someone like me? I cant stand myself.

how would i know, why should i care...

So a lot of cool things have happened lately...

Well first, this is my last week at work and that's pretty freakin' awesome if I do say so myself.

Second, Elliott Davis stopped by Memphis and while he was in town Elliott, his cousin Sarah, and I hung out downtown. I had a lot more fun downtown then i normally do, I actually did a lot of touristy things though... But first, Elliott and Sarah quickly figured out that I have a problem with direction... haha.. i got lost so many times... whoops...

So anyways, we rode a horse carriage and it was a lot more interesting than i thought it would be, I had a lot of fun. We also were able to go on Beale Street which was surprising considering the police were already carding... (we asked if we could go, and they just let us through without question...) We stayed on Beale for a long time, we walked and looked into bars (because they were carding at the doors) and we watched people go by, and listened to a few bands and watched someone paint. It was a lot of fun... I have some pictures but they're not developed yet so hopefully i can get them printed soon.

Lastly, Monday night I was able to hang out with Austin Grisham, first we went to Sakura, this awesome amazing sushi place in germantown (it def. has the best sushi i've had). We then were unsure what to do but since we both like photography we started talking about it, so we came to the conclusion that we were going to take some pictures. We went to go buy some B/W film and we ran into Mrs. Cotten, which was really random but really cool. Austin showed me this really cool place that's above an interstate (i guess) and we started taking pictures of the traffic below us trying to get the result where you get a streaked light effect... but i figured out how to get my camera to keep it's shutter open which was cool. I'm glad we went cause he's really helping me improve and experiment in my photography. I can't wait to get this roll printed, but i have to finish the B/W.

so my most recent work of art is what i've been working on for my laptop cover. I already submitted it to http://www.schtickers.com - I should hopefully get it in by the end of the week. Here is what I sent in:

(click for full view)

I really like this piece, it's probably one of my favorites... i'm currently working on a different version of this. The Japanese on the left is read (from top to bottom, right column first) like,

"miageta yozora no hoshi-tachi no hikari

hikari-tsuzuke yo ano hoshi no you ni"

and it roughly means,

"look up at the light of the stars in the night sky
shine on, like that star"

So I think it's cool anyways...

well I' m on my way to bed and I'll come back in fix this post up tomorrow... goooooooooood night