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Hope everyone is well!

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ANYWAY, I spent a lot of time bored at that job (apparently, because I don't actually remember). I started doodling on the scrap paper we always had around, and then one day for whatever reason I had brought a little pair of scissors to work. I decided to make paper chain cutouts (you know, like the chains of people that kids make in the stereotype of kindergarten). The pieces of scrap paper I had were half-sheets of 8.5x11 paper with stuff on the back... so I made do. Altogether, I made about 35 of these different paper cutouts, and I expanded quite beyond people (in fact, I'm not altogether sure I started with people). Chains of geckos, swans, elephants, planets, mermaids, and Chinese dragons made their way from my scissors. Then I forgot about them.

Luckily for me, I had stored them in a folder in a drawer at some point and discovered them again a couple of years ago. I was pretty impressed at what I had managed to do with just a little pair of kiddy scissors and ordinary old copy paper! I've been meaning to take photos of them and post on DA for some time now, and didn't get around to the photo-taking part til a few days ago.

I'm not altogether happy with the photos. I improvised for a background and wound up using a black skirt of mine, which meant that if I wanted a flat area with no seams, there wasn't a lot of space to work with. And some of the photos are blurry, others are uninspiring. I'm kind of up in the air about whether or which to post. I may try again sometime with a larger background fabric so I can arrange them more artistically. But I'm quite happy about the prospect of getting them up here. I'm very fond of these little paper things that came out of such an awful time in my life!

ETA: There will be more uploaded soon! When I get around to it!

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I promise it's not my mood! (School's almost over! Just one more exam! And then I have to find a job but I'm hoping to get hired at a place close to my house, that would be so convenient.)

]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/23943690/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/23943690/ Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:50:11 PDT cause she said anyone can do it.

When I decided to do this meme, I hadn't realized that it was song titles from ONE artist only. So that's quite a bit more of a challenge. I indubitably have more songs by Rajaton than any other artist, yet more than half of them are in Finnish and I have no idea what the titles mean. So... maybe I'll do songs by Great Big Sea, since they're in English and I have a bunch on my computer that I can browse through for titles. I don't really ever listen to them, but a friend lent me some of their CD's so I ripped them. (Not that I mind Great Big Sea, I just... don't listen to them for whatever reason. I digress.)

RULES:
Using ONLY SONG TITLES from ONE artist, answer these questions. You cannot use the same artist I did, or duplicate song titles even if they were performed by another artist. Make sure you send a copy to the person who sent you this as well, as an "honesty check"!

1. Are you a male or female:
Scolding Wife

2. Describe yourself:
Something Beautiful

3. How do you feel about yourself?
Run Run Away

4. Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend:
Seagulls

5. Describe your current boy/girl situation:
Recruiting Sargeant

6. Describe your current location:
Ordinary Day

7. Describe where you want to be:
Sea of No Cares

8. Your best friend is:
Jakey's Gin

9. Your favorite color is:
Summer

10. You know that:
It's the End of the World as We Know It

11. What’s the weather like?
When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down)

12. If your life was a television show what would it be called?
Own True Way

13. What is life to you?
Stumbling In

14. What is the best advice you have to give?
Let It Go

15. If you could change your name, what would it be?
Penelope

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EDIT: Grah! Apparently having thumbnails or images in your journal entries is something you have to pay for. I can't believe how idiotic that is. So far, I've been absolutely fine with not having a subscription to DA, but this is ridiculous.

EDIT 2: I have found a way around it! Here's a link to a thumbshare forum post I made with all the edited pieces in it (excuse the wonky spacing, I don't know how that happened): [link]

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Anyway, something in the thumbshare forum reminded me of a whole huge series of photos in a forest that I took back in July, none of which I posted. I shan't bother with going through all of them right now cause it's late, but I'll post maybe one or two that have to do with what that person is looking for.

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This despite the fact that I do not draw often, and thus not well. I mean, it's not for drawing well. It's for... wasting time... in an amusing manner? Anyway, I would totally do it but it's already 1am and I have so much exam prep and things that I haven't done... so I should be a good girl and go to bed and NOT do crazy cracked-out Harry Potter meme-ish things.

Yes, it would be Harry Potter. And considering the absolute bizarre variety of the songs on my computer (most of which I have forgotten existed or never knew I had), it could be, well, interesting.

Mostly I think I want to do it because back when I was into HP all my ideas for anything were music related. I never got fic ideas, just ideas for awesome music videos using the characters and some song or other. So this appeals to the little plotbunny demon inside me that never got any exercise...

Anyway. Bed.

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They may not be complete because DA was being a mess and not displaying all the thumbs on the gallery pages properly so I had no idea what some of the pics were. It seems doubtful that I'll ever go through and check, though.

This despite the last deviation I added was ages ago and I do have several hundred photos to look through from which I could find probably at least a dozen worth submitting. But while I may waste inordinate amounts of time, I'm not that crazy.

Maybe sometime when there isn't homework.

Edit: So okay, I couldn't resist just posting one... a shot I really liked that I took on Halloween after my party was over, and some people were going home in a taxi.

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So, while I would love to have more views of my work (particularly my latest 3), I just don't think the pimping is going to happen. Or forum participation or commenting or whatever else gets one attention hereabouts.

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Sure, I can go through my gallery here and that will help, but I stopped uploading photos regurlarly months ago, mostly because of the sheer quantity I have to sift through to find the good ones and because I don't have much free time with work. Also, most of the time I feel like I'm not an objective judge of my work anymore - I can't tell if it's good or mediocre. Lately I've only been posting the photos that make me say "Oooh!" when I see them on the computer for the first time, and sometimes not even those.

*tears hair* Why am I so un-self-confident these days?!?

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Does anybody else ever get paranoid about whether their monitor is displaying colours/contrast right? I know there are ways to calibrate it and things, but it seems complicated, technical, and expensive, and from what I can tell it only works with some programs (ie Photoshop, which I don't have).

Mostly I worry that my laptop screen washes things out and gives them a blue cast, because when I print things out that look normal on my screen they're a lot higher-contrast, extremely saturated, and a little yellow. And of course I base all my painstaking editing of levels and colours and things on what I'm looking at on the screen. *bites nails* My mother's computer doesn't help at all, because the monitor's old and definitely has the opposite tendencies to mine - DA's background looks greenish-yellow on her computer.

Then again, I don't see anything wrong with other people's stuff here on DA, which I theoretically would if my monitor was crazy and everybody else was right. I tried a free program once that adjusts your monitor's display based on a series of test patterns that you give input on, but that was just wonky (I think it may have made things excessively red).

And then I think to myself, okay. I'm not a professional. It's not really the biggest deal. (Except that I do spend hours tweaking my photos. That would be a heck of a lot of wasted time if everything was wrong.)

]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/16699339/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/16699339/ Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:26:17 PST Now I'm thinking in Haikus
What has the 'net wrought?

(The result of reading reviews of forty Nebula-award-winning books in haiku form. And spending too much time on the computer tonight.)

I need to go through my gallery and weed out some of the old stuff that is crappy... but it's a daunting prospect, as I have what, 360 deviations now? But my standards are so. much. higher, now, than they were when I first started here on DA.

Perhaps I shouldn't think of it like "OMG I HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL MY GALLERY NOW AHH THE HORROR, THE HORROR!!1!" and more like, "Okay, I'll go through a couple pieces tonight, maybe a few more tomorrow, and then eventually it will get done." Logic is not always my default setting.

And of course I have new stuff I should put up as well. *sigh* One thing at a time...

]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/16411220/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/16411220/ Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:56:10 PST
Just. Grah. So frustrated right now I want to cry!

Hm, the "Frustrated" mood emoticon is pretty darn frightening...

]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/16132353/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/16132353/ Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:19:52 PST Yay! One of them is one of the little super-duper bendy go-anywhere tripods that looks like some sort of alien being. The other is a compact travel tripod that is about 4 feet high at full extension. Which kind of sucks if I want to take pictures of anything higher than that. But hey! It's a tripod, and I can experiment with it and get another for myself if I really want. And it folds up really small. I've never owned a tripod before.

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Yay!!! It only took me 9 months. Heh. I didn't think I would be this happy about it, but I have to admit I'm pretty ecstatic.

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]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/15266439/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/15266439/ Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:18:27 PDT Photo4People, a new photography club. It's kinda unique because the members vote on which of the submitted photos get into the gallery. I'll have to see which one(s) of mine I think are good enough!

One of the requirements of membership was to put the club's name and icon in my journal, so here it is!



On a totally different note, I'm really sick with the flu and have been off work for nearly a week now. I have a cough that no amount of medicine, herbal remedies, steam, tea, cough drops, etc will get rid of. I feel terrible that I'm missing so much work! I suppose I could use the endless hours sitting in a recliner to catch up on my DA submissions, but I don't have the longest attention span. (Better than when I was taking the cough syrup, though. Man, that stuff made me loopy.)

]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/15081571/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/15081571/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:11:02 PDT work to go through deciding what's good and what sucks, what needs to be edited, cropped, etc.

Le sigh.

(I was going to put "overwhelmed" as my mood, but the emoticon is truly frightening.)

]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/14637990/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/14637990/ Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:26:45 PDT
The things we do for art.

But seriously, though, it would have been cool! Cause she's white and fuzzy, and the chocolate chips are dark and smooth, and it would have been all juxtaposition-y and surreal and stuff. My cat, however, has a low tolerance for having things put on her.

]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/14569573/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/14569573/ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:44:33 PDT
But the navigation that it requires takes a lot of scrolling and moving the mouse across the screen long distances (as when browsing my own gallery to find thumbs to share), and I'm getting worried because my wrist is getting sore and I'm starting to be afraid I'll rub the fingerprint off my index finger from using the touchpad too much. And I only discovered ThumbShare today.

And since when did I get so desperate for people to pay attention to me? To have somebody, anybody at all, see my art? I thought this was a hobby I was doing for my own pleasure? I dunno, maybe I've reached the breaking point of ignoredness. Maybe I need to get a life.

I suspect the latter.

]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/13143344/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/13143344/ Tue, 29 May 2007 19:59:23 PDT
So sue me. I no longer have to feel guilty for the supposed lack of variety (no one has told me this, it's just something I noticed) in my photography. If I walk through the city, I am far more likely to take a picture of the weeds growing in the sidewalk than the architecture. Though I can, and do, take pictures of other things.

But! I can be happy with the fact that I take pictures of things that I like, and that I can easily find the beauty in. Other people can take pictures of the other stuff. Yay!

]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/12661167/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/12661167/ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:41:01 PDT
Also, I thought I'd say it here so it'd be on the front page, at least until I update my journal again. If I don't reply to your comment, or thank you for your favorite, it's not cause I hate you! It's just cause I don't know what to say! Plus I find the endless, sometimes meaningless thank you's to be a little annoying -- and I'm not saying that I'm not grateful to your for commenting or favorite-ing! I am, very much so! (In fact, I'm a little addicted to comments and faves... as most deviants probably are.) I just tend to shy away from pointless commenting - which is probably why I'm so bad at making small talk/conversation in RL.

]]> ~Wings-on-Water http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/12557221/ http://Wings-on-Water.deviantart.com/journal/12557221/ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:36:09 PDT
MY CAMERA DOES NOT HAVE A BLACK AND WHITE SHOOTING MODE!!

I am incensed! I am flabbergasted! Is it just me? I mean, my little point-and-shoot HP I had before this had both a B&W and a sepia shooting mode. On this camera, it has a function where you can turn them black and white (or sepia) after the fact. On the same little edit menu, you can do crazy things like make your pictures into calendars, or put fancy frames on them, or adjust the heck out of them, all while still on the camera, which I think is crazy. How am I supposed to adjust my pictures or frame them when they're currently 2 inches wide and I can't even see them? Why would I want to??

I would much prefer a B&W shooting mode instead of all that crap.

*sigh* So sad.

My camera is an Olympus SP-510UZ, in case you were interested. Grar.

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