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I managed to stag General Manager of Photoservices here on campus, so now I am in charge of all photographs for the school newspaper, yearbook, and more. Power overwhelming.

Even with that, I have not had enough time for photography, hope I can remedy that this summer.

]]> ~kiestphoto http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/7190454/ http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/7190454/ Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:09:29 PST Working on a calendar to use for xmas gifts, which is getting me to find new stuff, which I may post.

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I am now on LiveJournal. You can find me here: [link]
I have been told by many that journalling is good for you. I also figure it will help my friends from back home stay up to date on what is happening with my life at college.

I am pretty excited for classes. I have two computer science classes, e-commerce, where I get to work on practical problems that I am interested it, and software engineering, a distributed programming class that focuses as much on documentation and procedure as code itself. Both classes are with my advisor, who I love, and Software engineering is with my girlfriend and another friend of mine. Then I have circuitry, which should be tons of fun. I am going to reprogram my Marvin the paranoid android figure so that he can speak. Then I have german. I am ambivalent about that one. Hey, 3 out of 4 ain't bad.

Sleep now...

]]> ~kiestphoto http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/5182220/ http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/5182220/ Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:13:30 PDT Over 90 entries were submitted. I submitted 5 (most was 8, many 1). When we arrived for the reception, five entries were covered (1st - 3rd, there must be a tie). The runners up were on display, with "Fog, Bench, and Tree" [link] in 7th and "Autumnal Leaf" [link] in 4th. For these I will getting some gift certificates. They had sitting out the non-winning submissions. There were some pretty cool concepts, but some people had shot themselves in the foot by submitting 4 almost identical versions of a photo. In amongnst those was "The Devil Inside" [link] which I had retitled "The Spirit Within" for PCness. A did a simple inventory, and could not locate two of my prints. That must mean they are behind the covered easels, getting 3rd, 2nd, or 1st.
And so after people looked around, introductions started, and the runners up were introduced (including my two earlier mentioned pieces). Then the three tied third place photos were unveiled. None of them were mine. It was only a question of which got first, and which got second. "London Eye Fairylights" [link] came in 2nd. And my favorite, "Enchanted" [link] came in first! For each of those I won $100. That will help cover some of the printer supplies cost. Damn, this printer is addictive, and costing me a fair bit.
So I am fairly jazzed, and am looking for some other venues to compete. ]]> ~kiestphoto http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/5135390/ http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/5135390/ Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:51:31 PDT [link] just won an on campus art contest. Back story: We had two contests going on simultaneously here at school, that you could dual enter in. They wanted 2d works, one for a rotating gallery in one of the academic building, and the other for a perment gallery in one of the residences. This is part of why I bought my new large format printer. After days of work with the new printer, learning the ins and outs of how it handles things. I then had about 9 good large prints, and had a really hard time selecting which ones to enter. After asking a ton of people, which did not help, I had a set I thought I would enter. I then got my hand on two large sheets of a velvet matte paper, right before the deadline, and I had a print in mind for the matte texture. So I printed a test print, seemed great, and then tweaked, and got an awesome final. Everyone loved it. So now I was in an even harder spot than before. But anyways, that last print was fog, bench, and tree [link] that won for the rotating gallery, and they have yet to judge for the other one. If you are around, come to the reception at 5pm on thurs, in Jones Hall, here at UPS, to see my entry, and others... ]]> ~kiestphoto http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/5033706/ http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/5033706/ Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:34:23 PDT Still, should be fun.
Also, for you UPS folks, if there is something big you want to print, I can do it if you pay for costs (About $7 for a 13x19 print). ]]> ~kiestphoto http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/4886053/ http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/4886053/ Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:49:01 PST I feel like someone shoved a cheesegrater down my throat, cotton in my ears, have a hangover, and swollen lymph system.
I hope I don't bomb my classes... ]]> ~kiestphoto http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/4517481/ http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/4517481/ Mon, 07 Feb 2005 03:09:33 PST Alcohol is dangerous. Makes me ineffective. So am now cramming two large assignments in a small period of time. The new semester is interesting. I dropped MATH122, which is calc 2, because the prof made no sense. He seemed to be a good teacher, but I could just not hear him, sort of like the teacher in the Peanuts (Woh Wah Woh Wah). I now have three classes, which are easy, except that they still kick my ass, as they are things I am not good at. Art 101, 2d, is hard as I am not good at drawing (this is why I photograph...). My English class is hard, because I do not write analytical essays well.
Oh well, I hope I become more productive in everything over the next few weeks, as getting back into the swing of things after break has been hard. ]]> ~kiestphoto http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/4007450/ http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/4007450/ Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:37:03 PST I am working on presents for my friends and family, but having a hard time figuring some bits out. Ah well.

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Dead as dead can be, the doctor tells me
But I just can't believe him, ever the optimistic one
I'm sure of your abilities
and become my perfect enemy

Wake up and face me
Don't play dead cause maybe
Someday I'll walk away and say
You disappoint me,
maybe you're better off this way

Leaning over you here,
Cold and catatonic,
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability
to become my perfect enemy

Wake up and face me
Don't play dead cause maybe
Someday I'll walk away saying
You disappoint me,
maybe you're better off this way

Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
You're better off this
You're better off this
Maybe you're better off

Wake up and face me,
Don't play dead cause maybe
Someday I'll walk away saying
You fucking disappoint me,
maybe you're better off this way

Go ahead and play dead
I know that you can hear this
Go ahead and play dead
Why can't you turn and face me
Why can't you turn and face me
Why can't you turn and face me
Why can't you turn and face me
You fucking disappoint me

Passive-aggressive bullshit...
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And now I lay me down to sleep. Doom has come to us, the US. I feel that we are truly on the road to hell. I fear how the known world will end. Will it be Nuclear War, disease, global war, global warming, or what. All of these Bush, and more unfortunately, more than 50% of Americans, may become responsible for. Bush is not the problem. Bush is symptomatic of America itself. Hate, fear-mongering, and aggression have replaced hope, peace, and reason.
I am debating weather to leave the country and go to somewhere like NZ, or to stay, and fight. I fear for draft, and more, I fear that this is what America wants.
It may be awhile till I am able to post any art, as I want to make something that represents my feelings, but as a landscape/found photo artist, I have a hard time creating it. I have my ideas though.

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I find it disturbing how my two most recent favs are so, well, bloody. They are awesome shots, it just disturbs me how both of those really grabbed me more than anything else around.

Computer Science is getting annoying, as the teacher fails to post things related to the assignments, and so everyone in the class (it seems, only 33% came to find me tonight actually), and I have a giant sculpture project due tues that I have a lot to do one. So I am posting here instead of working...

]]> ~kiestphoto http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/3666356/ http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/3666356/ Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:09:19 PDT I had been wanting to put together a portfolio, and DevArt is helping look at my collection with an eye toward showing towards others.

Am tired from a weekend of getting up to early and going to bed way to late, so am going to take nap, and then continue working on programming homework due tomorrow.

Have way too many sports photos to process from games this weekend that I need to get up on the web.

]]> ~kiestphoto http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/3642393/ http://kiestphoto.deviantart.com/journal/3642393/ Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:08:26 PDT
I wanted to be able to fall asleep early, so I refrained from having any caffeenie today, and it is working. This is the first time I have been tired at midnight in a long time. However, I also have a bad headache, even after napercin (aleeve). My headache period now seems to be down to less than 20 hours, compared to my previously measured 36hrs.

I am impressed how the system grabs exif data from my photos. I reuploaded some to maintain the exif headers. I like the presentation format here, and my photos look great, but I am worried about image theft. It seems a fine line between a good looking image, and feeling safe about my image. At this point I shall trust the community.

Oops, this got posted that morning...

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