http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:weathervane&section=today deviantART RSS for by:weathervane en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:25:34 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/28642033/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/28642033/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:53:16 PST
Been feeling rather poetic lately, also... oooh.

Not much else to report.... I'm pretty involved with the Amnesty International club at school. That's some fun times.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/26542226/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/26542226/ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:35:25 PDT
Lately I've been trying, and I mean really trying to revive whatever little poetic skill I actually have. It's not working well. I've written 5 poems in the last week and none of them are any good. I just don't think I'm putting enough effort into it.

But eventually I will succeed!

I also need to take my camera out on the town. I haven't done any outdoor shots in forever.

Yup, just blabbering on.

I'm also trying to read more. I picked up some books the other day. Maybe that activity will help stimulate my verbal mind.



]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/24004376/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/24004376/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:24:53 PDT
And my professor is happy with it, so I've confirmed that Composition is where I should take my university studies. I'd been nervous for some time that even though I want to compose, that I wouldn't have the talent or creativity for it, but that isn't an issue at all.

One step closer to my dreams coming true.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/22982587/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/22982587/ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:13:41 PST
I have a lot to deal with right now, my father just died over the weekend. So I will reply to messages at a later date.

But, just, thank you, everyone.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/22361660/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/22361660/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:52:23 PST
My new year will bring some new changes. I will most likely be moving out of my mother's house within the next two months. It all depends on whether I get the job I want. I will be moving into my best friend's house.

My other project this winter is to snap a whole lot of pictures of the farms and ranches and open desert in between my old town and my new one. It is being developed and destroyed by leaps and bounds, so before Wal-Mart completely moves in, I have to preserve what is still there. I took a lot of good frames today so I will be uploading them over the weekend.

Hope everyone has been having fun!






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]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/21125477/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/21125477/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:03:10 PDT
...but the main reason is because I am now dating one of my friends. I'd been chasing her for weeks and finally got the courage to ask her out on Monday. <3

xD So........ I don't know about the whole "free time" thing. I'll try to get some new stuff up soon. To be quite honest there's probably some pictures on my memory card that I haven't even looked at yet. And the weather's getting nicer so I can finnaly take pictures outside without getting hyperthermia.

In other news, I am now 21. Gonna booze it up! lol!

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/20144827/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/20144827/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:56:36 PDT

I have plenty of poems, too, I just have to write them all down. They've been swimming around in my head for weeks.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/19544322/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/19544322/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:20:49 PDT
Also I can fly. 'Cause I can turn into a bat, y'know.

Echolocation is way better than a GPS.




Naw, sorry, I'm just at a lack of time between all my social activities to make even a scrap of art. And when I do have the time I usually devote it to composing instead of photography or poetry or drawing.

Blood tastes interesting though. Metallic.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/18570399/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/18570399/ Fri, 30 May 2008 02:40:59 PDT
Heh, I bought some textbooks and I am teaching myself French and Music Theory this summer, since I won't be taking the classes the books go with. I'm also getting a headstart on the composition class I'll be taking probably next spring.

I'll probably fit some photography in somewhere, but I've been feeling uninspired in that, and poetry as well.

Being nocturnal is fun, don't you agree?

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/18033105/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/18033105/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:32:52 PDT

Well, I hate homework and deadlines and bad grades. I don't hate learning things.

I have an inexplicable D in Music Theory....I turned in all the homework, all of it on time, got decent grades on them.....got good grades on all but one of the tests.....so why a D? I don't know. A fucked up computer system I guess.... but yeah anyway I am panicking because I don't want to retake it. I already have to retake its companion, Aural Perception, this summer. But I didn't put any effort into that class, so, I don't really care. xD
Either way I guess it's not the end of the world...



My GSA put on a day of silence event this week...the main part of it was an open mic with poetry readings and songs about bullying/hate crimes/ etc. I wrote and read a poem but I didn't think it was good enough quality to submit here. And it's basically plagiarism, because it's a mashup of quotes from "true stories of bullying" that I found on the internet. Except it's not really plagiarism because I'm not claiming them as my own words....but still. Not enough original content.

I was also the official event photographer, and let me tell you, I really need lots of practice with photographing people. I'm so used to taking macro closeups of things that don't move, but to have to take pictures at a distance of fast moving people in auto mode in unpredictable, uncontrollable lighting conditions...ugh. Most of them were washed out in the bright Arizona sun beyond what GIMP could correct. Blurry faces, horrible composition (because of the distance from the subject that I'm not used to)....yikes. So I don't think you'll be seeing any people pictures from me anytime soon.

I was also voted in as Secretary of that club recently for next semester. Oh yes, this means even more time away from doing art. x_x But totally worth it, I assure you. More responsibility is what I need.


So that's what I've been doing in lieu of posting pretty pictures. There will be some in the near future, I promise.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/17540605/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/17540605/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:20:41 PDT

i can see well enough to drive and i am finally going back to school after missing almost two weeks!

i am going to be sooo swamped with homework though, so don't expect to see me updating here very much for awhile. (and if you do, tell me to get my butt off the computer and do my homework! )

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/17379704/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/17379704/ Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:27:44 PDT
Pictures coming soon!


I've decided to dedicate more time and effort towards my music studies. I've just done the bare minimum required for my classes these past semesters. I don't feel quite ready for the Composition class next fall, so now and over the summer I am going to work on some more short compositions like I had done a year ago, and hopefully I can get a whole notebook filled up by August. I think I have enough knowledge about the "grammar" of music now to write them correctly.
This summer I will also have to be a nurse for my Mom, who will be getting a hip replacement. So I don't really know how much photography/other free time I will have.

I am going to the opthamologist this week...my left eye has suddenly gone blurry and photophobic. :/ But I can still see out of it quite clearly....like holding a clear plastic bag over a camera lens. You know there's nothing wrong with how the lens processes light and images, there's just something in front of it that's making it cloudy.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/17229444/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/17229444/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:31:27 PST
]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/17116580/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/17116580/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:07:02 PST
I am EXCITED because I'm going to Rhode Island March 8th-15th! (a.k.a. Spring Break.) Odd place to be going, from sunny desert heat to snowy wetness, but I'm sure it will be interesting for photographic endeavors. Plus, I my grandparents.

I am also most likely going to Minnesota during the summer, but those details aren't worked out yet.

I'm already making a mental list of things to take pictures of! But there will be lots of surprises because I've never been there in winter-spring...



I'm so ready for it, too. School makes me want to throw things.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/16136871/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/16136871/ Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:40:54 PST
My beautful, glorious, and quite decrepit Strohber piano (circa 1920's?) is now sitting in a large number of pieces in a dumpster in Minnesota.
My dad had tried to sell it, he put advertisements everywhere, but surprsingly when it comes to antiques, as we have learned, pianos are not valuable at all. (Unless they're like, solid ivory.) My mom herself admitted that she paid $100 for it.
But Dad couldn't take it anywhere. He's moving out of the house it was stationed in and the new tenants didn't want it, so, what else is there to do?

How could anyone do such a thing, though? Instruments are like people. Especially old ones. They have some unknown story that you can only make wild guesses about. You get to know and love their out-of-tune, tinny sound and become attached. That piano helped teach me how to read and transcribe music, let alone provided me with days of entertainment in my quite empty teenage years. It's part of my life.


Here's to old pianos: and the people who know that they aren't worthless.

[wintery]
[poco marcato]
[past]

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/16009201/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/16009201/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:50:13 PST
So yeah. I have been trying to write some poetry (and believe me, I have quite a lot to write poetry about ) but so far I haven't been successful. I'm trying to get myself out of a stylistic rut and try something new....

I really feel like taking pictures of snow...too bad I live in the desert...

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/15251839/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/15251839/ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:50:59 PDT
I do have some film to develop from Sedona, this is true, but what I meant was that I am getting a new camera! For my birthday and Christmas my parents agreed to go halfsies with me on a new one....since I wouldn't settle for something that $300 or less would buy.

Originally I didn't find anything that blasted my old Olympus out of the water, so I wanted to see if that was fixable. Insert a 28-mile trek to downtown Phoenix, which has the NEAREST camera repair place. They told me that since the camera is a 2005 or older model that the cost to repair it was greater than its much-depreciated value.

So...after hours of research and comparison I decided on the $549 Fujifilm Finepix S9100. Camera technology is awesome: I'm getting a better camera for pretty much the same price as the old one. It looks like this:

link

It should arrive in a week or less. And then the experiments shall begin.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/15147278/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/15147278/ Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:32:37 PDT Sometimes I am dumb at modern living.

So after six months of no photography, I have some photos to upload.

I apologize if your devwatches are all flooded and such.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/15108294/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/15108294/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:12:43 PDT
But this is important because; A.) I am getting my camera fixed (if that's even possible) or B.) I am getting a new one for said birthday. I saw one today that takes nearly the same macro-quality shots as the old one: for $200 less! Cameras these days....who ever heard of TWELVE megapixels?! My very first cam had 3. O_o;

I have otherwise had no time for art. I have been preoccupied with a new group of friends, and homework as usual.




I do have some film to develop, though. I will probably finish it out on a trip to Sedona this weekend.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/14219908/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/14219908/ Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:15:14 PDT
I'm starting (well, really, continuing) the music theory this semester. Music has always been the art form that I have loved the most, so no one has any idea of how amazing it will be for me to finally be able to (correctly) WRITE it. Not even I know. But I will soon find out.

Camera is still broken. With college expenses, I just don't have the money to fix it or buy something else. (I stupidly sent my Concord to my Dad because he didn't have a camera...thinking I would never use it again...) My only option until then is a dinosaur 35mm. Which probably has no macro focus...don't know, I haven't even tried. I fear film cameras. xD

But now that my managers forced me to quit my job ("it's not worth it to us to only employ you for sixteen hours a week!"), I have more time to draw and all that.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/12609838/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/12609838/ Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:33:01 PDT
...Yeah, we went camping this weekend. I put the camera on the floor by my feet, and the sneaky little thing slipped out from the truck when I got out at a gas station on the way back. Nobody noticed it until we had already squashed it and almost pulled out of the parking lot. "Hey, somebody left their...purse or something out there..."

But I was -so- lucky. The wheel just rolled over one side of it, and thus the lens and all the insides are fine. Even my memory card is intact, despite that being where the damage was. But the frame is all messed up so I can't put the door back on, so I can't take, OR upload, pictures because all the camera does is bitch at me to close the memory card door.

I sure hope it can get fixed easily enough. I sure as hell don't have the money to buy a new one.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/12409602/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/12409602/ Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:18:28 PDT
In like, what, a month and a half? Two? You guys are crazy.

I will get through them all eventually.


Haven't had much time for taking pictures, nor much inspiration. Unfortunately there just isn't a whole lot of nature in southwest Arizona, especially not in such a concrete-dipped suburb. And so I have been focusing more on school and music and other things. I'm sorry to neglect you all so much.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/11228500/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/11228500/ Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:56:20 PST I've been waiting for this year to end pretty much before it started...

I've been writing music lately (the old-fashioned way ) with my new keyboard...it's an amazing thing to do. And surprisingly easy. I wish I were taking Music Theory classes next semester but all I signed up for is Choir and Spanish. But those classes will come later. *sighs and quells impatience*

I've been in a poetry mood too...I don't know if I'll submit any of it though, they're either pretty bad or too personal....:/ I'm sure I'll find something good enough...

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/10967801/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/10967801/ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:11:23 PST
]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/10156453/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/10156453/ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:14:46 PDT
But I finally got a new memory card for my camera...so it's all set for vacations and trips...tomorrow Mom and I are going to a Western festival...like a Renaissance Festival, but with cowboys instead. And then later, maybe next weekend, we're going to Sedona..a really pretty spot with red cliffs...and next month or November we're driving out to Los Angeles for a weekend! And I'll certainly be taking my camera with me on these things.

There's also a short story I wrote last year that I want to pull out and re-do/add on to, so I better fix my computer, eh?

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/9581147/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/9581147/ Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:13:18 PDT
I am in my new home in Arizona now and things are absolutely peachy.

The best part by far is my new camera!



So you can probably expect lots of pictures from me in the coming weeks as I try to figure out how to work it. Hehe.

]]> ~weathervane http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/9527372/ http://weathervane.deviantart.com/journal/9527372/ Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:00:22 PDT
Anyway...just saying that I won't be online for a few days...I'm moving halfway across the country starting tomorrow (Saturday) and probably won't be visiting here again until next Wednesday or Thursday.

It's going to be fun. ^_^

]]> ~weathervane