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	Welcome To My Home... May 15, 2003 The Great Outdoors I am, to my knowledge, the only one in my art class who has chosen to draw a landscape for our final project. I'm not surprised. When my teacher told us which subjects we could choose from, I thought, "Landscape. Ha! Yeah right - that's like ten times harder than our other options." Yet somehow, for reasons I still don't fully understand, I decided to draw a landscape. Sure, there are certain advantages to drawing a landscape. The randomness is nice, for one thing. So I want to omit one of the branches? Done. Who would know? It's not like figure drawing where people tend to notice if you leave off an arm or two. So that's one reason trees are great to draw. I can ignore tree branches all over the place and nobody will question it. It's just all those branches and leaves that I don't omit that are a pain. That decided, I chose a nice cozy spot in the middle of campus, settled in, and started drawing. It was great. Instead of being cooped up in the dorm drawing cookies or something, I thought, I got to relax out in my little niche in CSUF with a cool breeze blowing across my face while drawing a tree. It was marvelous. The most excitement probably came when a humming bird almost landed on my leg. 'That's cool,' I hear you thinking. But, really, it completely freaked me out. Take a look at it from my point of view for a second. I'm sitting outside, my attention fully concentrated on the tree ahead of me, when I hear a prominent buzzing sound coming from the direction of my leg. Glancing down, I saw what I assessed at that time to be a freakishly huge hornett of some sort. That, of course, resulted in an array of odd reflexive spasms, and possibly a muted exclamatory remark. I think some guy walking by was laughing at me. He didn't take the time to see it from my point of view. Five hours later, after my primary light source had revolved almost completely around my subject, I had lost that cheerful optimism with which I had begun. Freezing my tail off, I was futily trying to force my numb, trembling hand to draw one more line. I couldn't leave - partially because my legs, cramped beyond belief, had long since lost their muscular capacity to lift me from my beach chair, let alone carry me back to the dorms - but also because I'll be gone for the weekend. I have to go up to Humboldt for some silly graduation or something (I'm kidding... you know I'm looking forward to that). But that means I'll be deprived of a significant and crucial chunk of time to work on my project, so it seemed somewhat important that I get as much done as possible. Comments May 15, 2003 On the Homefront Sketchbook. I'm going up to Humboldt for the weekend. Daily entries will resume on Tuesday. Lunar Eclipse. There's a lunar eclipse tonight (Fri, May 15). That starts at 8:13 and should be total by around 8:40. Windows XP. Every time I insert a disk, click on a downloadable link, or do pretty much anything else, a friendly message pops up asking me how I'd like Windows to handle the file. Naturally, I don't want Windows to do a darn thing with the file, and I indicate that. Now, my question is, why do they even bother putting that little checkbox in the corner next to the text "Always take this action." This would seem to imply that checking this box would prevent me from ever having to see this stupid dialogue window again. That sounds good; so I always make sure that box is checked... every time. Pirates of the Carribbean. Dark Horizons mentioned that Alan Silvestri is no longer going to be scoring the movie due to "creative differences." Instead, they're bringing on Hans Zimmer. I like Zimmer... I really do... but I just don't see his style working well for Pirates. After hearing Mummy Returns, I had high expectations for Silvestri on a project like this. (That's right. Just smile and nod...) Sight. I was sitting in the arboretum doing a charcoal landscape drawing this afternoon. Everything was going fine... then I looked up, and all of a sudden I couldn't focus my eyes anymore. They didn't sting or anything... they just didn't work. It scared the heck out of me. It still kind of scares the heck out of me, although it's getting better again, now. And now my charcoal landscape probably won't be done by Tuesday. May 21, 2003 Something to look at Humboldt. I should probably say something about going up to Humboldt, but I don't feel like it right now. Maybe later. Half Life 2. You must see this Half Life 2 gameplay movie if you haven't already. (Note that it's huge at 600mb and about 20 minutes long). The physics engine they've created is simply astounding. Peter Lik. I saw one of Peter Lik's photography galleries up in San Francisco, and it contained some of the most amazing photographs I have ever seen. The low resolution pictures on his website unfortunately fail to fully capture the power of the prints, but it's still a great site and definitely worth checking out. Cool Fountain. Inspired by MC Escher, inventer James Dyson has created a fountain that seemingly cycles water uphill. May 28, 2003 Finals I've got stuff to say but no time to say it. In case you hadn't noticed, the sketchbook has been put on hold for the week. That's sort of a preemptive attempt to cut back on procrastination. But don't worry yourselves too much. I'll get back to daily updates next week when I'm back in San Diego. Also, for those who were wondering, I need to be out of the dorms by 4:00pm on Saturday, but I'll probably want to be out by Friday night to avoid long check-out waits. May 28, 2003 Half Life 2 You have to wonder why 5 million kids out there in the US do some combination of drugs to find happiness in this world. Especially when they have such beautiful things such as Half Life 2 trailers. *sniff* ....simply speechless.... -Victor		Quick Links - Fun 'n Folly - Juggling Club - RF Haunt - RF Gallery News/Updates HOME - Latest Post ARCHIVE - Full Archive <- PREV | NEXT -> 5/15 - The Great Outdoors 5/11 - Happy Mothers' Day! 4/28 - Keep Smiling 4/23 - What It All Boils Down To 4/21 - Eggs and Flashlights 4/14 - Problem Solving 4/7 - Make Like a Tree 4/1 - Brainstorming 3/28 - Time to Think 3/24 - Presenting the Future of Education Previous 10 shown Read More... 8/6/02 - First Post HOME - Latest Post ARCHIVE - Full Archive
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