Hammy 007

F U Sprint

2009-10-21T16:17:00.005-07:00

So I like going grocery shopping it makes me feel better about my life and the way it’s turning out so far. I see all the middle-aged short round soccer moms there dreading the shopping that’s in front of them thinking about the kids that get out in an hour. The frown lines and crow’s feet beckoning at their faces front door. And here I am all cheery and excited to be doing something adult like chatting up old men and telling the construction workers getting lunch food to watch out for those nasty soccer moms coming around the corner. It makes me relies how young I am and that this is just the beginning of the story. I run pushing my shopping cart and then hopping on for the ride down to my truck. I think I will ride those glories shopping carts forever.

The apartment is looking great, me and Ryan are getting along gloriously. I’ll post pic’s after. We haven’t gotten into any big fights I’ve been sick a lot though got a kidney infection which ended my stay at Hastings jack asses…… Just so you know I do hate that place mostly the manger and assistant I can say that know that I don’t work there anymore. The manager was a egotistical air head that new nothing about running a business nor how you are to treat the people that work for you. He made horrible schedules that made everyone that works there hate him. He is and I swear to this the only person that I would kill if I had a chance. But know that I’m not working for the biggest jack ass in the world I could care less what happened to him. I am now free from his completely retarded way of managing, fucking moron.

I got off track so Ryan and I our fine I have been cooking some fun meals and really enjoy the house wife states I guess you would say cooking and cleaning. Although our apartment stays pretty clean unlike the first one I had with Trip and Jyn you guys know how bad it was. So you can just imagine how me and Ryan keep the place although some of their messy tendencies did rub off of me like my side of the room usually has a good pile of clean and dirty closes on it.

I don’t think I have ever mentioned this but I have a twitter if anyone is interested right know I don’t twitter too much do to my lack of phone and internets but it gets done somehow. So it’s like Hammy007 at twitter or whatever. Well I think this is a grand place to stop I have some free time on my hand now that that horrible horrible excuse for a job is over and my new one doesn’t start until the 30th so talk at you later.

Hamster out….

Ps.. fuck Sprint Phone service and all there shitty workers mother fucking jack asses.... Fuck you Sprint...

F*#$ Wolverine Origins and this Hollywood bullshit

2009-04-11T00:40:00.006-07:00

Warning A lot of cursing yes I curse when I’m mad my brain cant think when I'm so very mad, so it comes out bad blogging English and cursing. Deal with it.

Another note Deadpool is number two on my top comic book hero’s list.

Some beautiful person leaked out the Wolverine Origins movie online a couple of days ago and another wonderful person downloaded it for us to watch. Yes the special effects weren’t added, some of the dialogue was missing, and something’s didn’t match up right but damn it was awesome a really great movie….yea right IT SUCKED… well mostly the ending but that pulled down the whole movie for me.

My note to you if you ever go see this movie in theaters is just walk out about a half hour before the movie ends you just don’t need to see it at all it’s completely pointless. For any real fan of any Wolverine movie comic fan fic whatever it SUCKS this movie was only worth a illegal down load man if I could curse out and burn the house down of the person that screwed this movie up I would I would go to jail for justice for this movie a real slap in the face to all comic book fans. It wasn’t just wolverine that pissed me off even thou they really did screw things up for him and messed everything up for this being any type of prequel to the X-man movies… god it was just errr..all screwed up .

The major thing that took it way too far and pissed me off to the point of criminal intent was Deadpool ow those tricky little bustards made him perfect in the beginning a smart ass mercenary that never shut his mouth with mad ass Katana skills that just wanted to have fun. Perfect little Ryan Reynolds shirtless deflecting bullets with his two trusty Katana’s, it was almost orgasmic, don’t tell Ryan. Man how the movie should have ended that way. But NO they had to go screw with it totally screw with it like WTF were you people thinking did you ever read comics at all you jack asses. Do you even know who DEADPOOL is man if he was as real as he thinks he is, he would jump that fourth wall and kick your asses, your mothers asses, and your god damn dead grandmothers asses. Fucking lazer vision, flitting, Katana fist assholes. Breath Hammy breath….

Kick ass Deadpool Vs Lazer vision deadpool

Ok I’m good I think sorry about that.

So if you want to lose total faith in the Hollywood comic book reproductions, like me, go ahead and see this but if you are a true lover of comics do your kind good and download it. That’s all that’s it deserves. The lack of special effects was the only thing that got any of us through that horrendous last half hour. Go ahead see for yourself you’re going to have to anyway to get the facts to rage against and to see for yourself just how HORRIBLE THE WOLVERINE ORGINIS MOVIE WAS. I’ll pray for your sanity and hope you don’t kill anyone on your way out of the movie. I can see the headlines now “Terror in twinkle town as comic book fans valiantly protest against the Wolverine Origins movie, with lightsabers in hand”. Just don’t see it opening night it’s not worth the hour or so wait in line fuck it.

Fucking Hollywood

Hamster out….

Getting all f*&%ing sentimental

2009-03-04T05:45:00.004-08:00

So since I can’t sleep for some god knows what resign, personal crazyness I guess, I think I will blog which I have not done in a long while. I’m in the Tri-cities……still….yes I know but have plans to move sooner or later which brings hope to my day to day world. Ryan and I are doing well, kind of great actually giving me hope yet again. I have even made a good couple of friends in the Tri-cities finally right, thank you social awkwardness of being a geek, and that gives me hope to. A lot of hope going around these days, enough to share with me goodie.

Let’s see what’s new….. a good lot really, I quite the Octopus’ Garden for good….again personal crazyness considering that was one of the most fun and easy jobs that I have ever had and I am working at another retail store know.

God it’s been forever since I last blogged curse you real life…. I really don’t feel like making a clip notes version of the past 6 months….damn I’ll make it short.

Summer:

Went to the cost on a trip with my sister

Visited Portland and Heather on the way

Feel in love with the ocean

Played a butt load of board games

Was interdicted to Dr. Horrible, google, great stuff

Worked a lotttttttttt……hint no blogging

Fall:

Was a pretty rocking cow for Halloween

Work…………….

Winter:

Had way to much alcohol

Watched a drag show during a blizzard

In the Tri-cities

Weird ...

Got driven home by the DD me still drunk in a blizzard

Had fun driving in the snow again

I love the snow

Had fun watching Tri-citizens try and drive in the snow

Had a pretty rough Christmas

Good New Year’s though

Met Chandra and Beefy

Those are good people

Got a Xbox 360

Routed away playing video games

Good times

Had way to much Tattoo

More work I hate Christmas in retail

These last few weeks:

More video games

Was really tempted to buy a $1,200 Shiba Inu puppy

Went to Portland for a day

Saw Heather for a bit

Had fun with a baby

Not mine

Hint the having fun

Got a new job

Hate it of course

Started getting in shape

Then stopped

Better choice

Finally excepted that I was in madly in love with Ryan and that I can’t do anything about it
thank god

That was the peak of these last few months …..

I’m only going to say this once considering that I’m not a religious person by any means. Whoever it is up there be it God, Buddha, Zeus, Sprits, or the many other….Thank you for all that I have received.

Since my new job actually allows me personal time I think this will become again the coolest blog ever right…….yea that what I thought… : ( O well I love blogging.

Catch you later

Hamster out....

Somebody's Bad Luck

2008-07-30T10:26:00.003-07:00

You guys should all go and check out this new blog the me and my friends put together so that we could still work on our WRP even though were all like 200 miles away from each other. It should be pretty cool once everyone gets use to the lay of the land. Briyr bio is already up and the others should be in soon i hope you guys check it out and like it.

ow yea the WRP is about a teenage female superhero team in the dc universe there some really cool twists and turns in the layout and comic.

Hamster out....

I’m back with a vengeance.

2008-07-15T18:02:00.004-07:00

I know this happens everywhere in the world that is brought onto us today but man did this one bug the shit out of me.

I’m checking out at our local grocery store today and what do I see sitting in the magazine stand a article that practically yells “hey your sixteen lets go get pregnant, it will be great, everything will be perfect”

view photographs to understand

WTF

wow I’m really rusty on writing well here goes it.

Me vs. Jamie Lynn Spears

Who in their right mind would thinks it’s ok for a sixteen/ fifteen year old girl to get pregnant. I mean crist I couldn’t tell you if I even liked boys at that age let alone stupid enough to get pregnant by one. But that’s not the thing that really gets me I had a lot of the girls in my school, in my class of 85 get pregnant at ages you should be worrying about your complexion and if your popular, not sex or having a baby and taking care of yourself and a very squishy fragile thing like a baby.

No I know that is part of our world today what bugs me is that all these magazines, internet pages, news organizations, there all promoting it saying it’s ok. I saw the OK magazine while checking out, read the title and about puked then I made the mistake of looking at the article, come on what do you think when you see those photograph let alone the questions and answers you were getting in the so called article which was only a soft peace saying maybe she didn’t screw up ( she is freaking sixteen and has a kid, major screw up), see she is ok, something horribly made up and over calculated like that.

In the interview they ask all the soft questions like how was it to hold your child for the first time, not anything real like how much pain where you in or how high were you when you first saw your child. All I see these things as are promotional pieces on how perfect it is to be a mother and how perfect your life well be when you become one does anybody not realize that this girl is only sixteen years old sixteen she hasn’t graduated for high school yet and she has to deal with a screaming baby all the time. Well I should correct that her, her mother, her boy friend (who you can tell really doesn’t want to be there) and the three or four nannies that they are going to hire to help. Nobody is ready to have a kid let alone ready at the age of sixteen.

Let me tell you it’s not perfect nothing is perfect especially not child birth and children sure I don’t have kids but I work with them a lot. They scream, poop, cry, smell all the time you hate them for a while you love them but hate them. You can never get a full night’s sleep never have the life that you had back again and I mean never everything you do has to either deal with the kid or you have to think of the kid when you do it. If nothing else she should have learned from her sister that this was not perfect. Seriously this sixteen year old girl says perfect more than seven times, gave up counting after that, the delivery went perfect, the pregnancy went perfect, bla blab lba all LIES…

Ok so this is not a(total) personal attack on Jamie Lynn, no, I think she can handed the biggest mistake that she has ever made and will ever make. She has money which helps a lot like a lot a lot, she has a weird probably drugged up mother that doesn’t seem to set any boundaries or morels into the children that she raises. But whatever it’s their life I’m sure they can get through it and live a very messed up happily ever after.

What I’m really upset about is the fact that she is promoting the end of childhood as anyone knows it that there are stupid enough girls out there thinking well look at Jamie Lynn she’s doing ok so I can do it too. We all know that there are kids out there that haven’t been brought up in the best way and think that this is a good way to escape, to get attention, or a way for them not to ever be alone. Even a way to some really messed up people to be cool. Well it’s not and the only thing that I can hope for is that there aren’t as many of these stupid teenagers as I think there is. Come on its not only your life you are potently ruining forever it’s a helpless child’s too. I already have anger issues against mothers who don’t treat or care for their children well. I’m scared shitless for the future world where we right off childhood all together, were is socially ok for a sixteen fifteen seventeen even eighteen year old to get pregnant out of stupidity.
And you know what else I had to buy this god damn magazine to read the actual and write this which just goes right back to the OK magazine people saying that its getting bought so it’s ok fucking people. Now if you will excuse me I have to go burn this lousy mag ( which I will never ever by again if I actually bout these things on a regular bases) and I think I must wash my mouth and eyes out with soap and maybe write some insulting things to people responsible for this atrociousness

could it really be true…..could the curse really be lifted

2008-06-16T20:34:00.002-07:00

Photographs taken by Chris Thompson

Chris Tompson Photography
http://www.myspace.com/camerajoe

So I’m graduated well it’s almost official I haven’t gotten my diploma yet because they mail them to you but I put the cap and gowned on and walked across the stage green Chucks and all.

I love my geeky tendencies we had blue, almost bright blue gowneds and I couldn’t resist wearing my green chucks. And since this was a college graduation we were allowed to be free I guess you would call it as in it wasn’t as stuffy and formal as high school graduation we could ever write on our caps which me and heather both took as on opportunity to show everyone there that yes we are geeks. She wrote Bamph on hers and I wrote Thwip on mine. And if you don’t get what that means then it’s your own loss.

So graduation was fun I was right after heather, we kind of confused the announcer in the fact that he had to say Heather Etherton…Heather Freeman without doing a double take and thinking that he was repeating himself. And she waited for me after we got off stage we herd our professor yell congratulations Heathers.

After that I had family and such over at my apartment my Grandparents came down, Heather’s parents, a family friend, both my sisters and parents were there and Heathers sister, sisters friend and Uncle so you can say we had a very full house. A couple of my friends and Ryan were there too. But it was really great to see everyone and all in all was a very relaxing and fun weekend.

This all happened Friday 13th night on Thursday Heather, Rachel, Tiffany, two of Rachel’s friends, and I went to a Drag show at the college it was put on by the drama department and was really really good. Like I have never been to a drag show before but it was really fun and funny the drama teacher I think was the best he is like a 48 year old heavy set man and I swear is one of the funniest men on earth. They also had a professional drag person, sorry I don’t know there proper name not to sound ignorant or raciest or anything I just don’t know, anyway he/she was from Dimpsies(sp) the gay bar here in Spokane and was a very good performer very good at one time during his act a little 5 nothing girl went up to him to give him a dollar for the fundraiser they were doing and the Dimpsies performer kind of cornered her and stared dancing up on her and such she didn’t mind it was just very funny to watch a 6’6” with heals maybe 200pd man who was a very convincing women dance up on this tiny girl I died laughing. It was a really good show and really good cause I wish I could go every year.

Ok so I will be moving to the Tri-cities the 22-23rd so all this week I will be packing and getting everything ready to move thankfully I have moved several times before and know the drill so if you want to see me or hangout or something before I leave then e-mail me myspace me call me whatever. I can’t do anything Wednesday night or Saturday day or night though. So get me while you can……

Have a great summer everybody

Hamster out….

Done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-06-11T15:34:00.004-07:00

First check out my flicker there is a tun of new cool stuff on it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bad_luck_images/

Finally I’m freaking done, done with school, done with that dang Final Fantasy rings of fate game and done with my internship. It feels good to be done with some things others not so good. I really liked the rings of fate game and it was really challenging I think it took me like two weeks to finish it well that was with school and finals.

Speaking of finals I hate living in apartments sometimes especially during school and being in the middle with people above and below you sucks ass. Who throws a party during finals week, I get it if it was like the second to last day or something but no it’s Monday night and they through a good forsaken party up stairs….do you people know it’s finals week or are you the ones that don’t even know where the school is…hit right across the freaken street. Anyway the manager went and yeld at them not because of me I went outside and he told me that he had taken care of it. Good man.

Other news about the apartments is that they’re going to hell, a guy got his car stolen right in front of them about a month ago and he just got it back today. And heathers car window got smashed meaning someone was brave enough to take a bebe gun to it but got scared before they could actually get in and take anything. What dumb asses. We were thinking of posting a steak out with some tempting offers like a external hard drive box which I still have don’t know if we are going to go through with it. Washington law or what people have told me Washington law is that you have to catch the person in the car taking something “red handed” before you can even arrest them. I wonder if that’s the same for a citizen’s arrest I just vote on sitting out there and shooting the jerk with a bebe guns tell he cries for his mother. Then call the cops. At least this gave me an opportunity to file my first ever police report they asked for the usual and didn’t seem to care to much but hey know my name is in the book’s shot don’t know if that is good or bad.

Anyway back to what I was saying before school is done all I have to do know is show up for my dig 2 class tomorrow say hi then leave. The hole college being over thing didn’t really hit me tell today when I was cleaning out my locker. Sure there is more adventures to be had in my life but damn I have some really good memories of school, life, friends hear. I got hit again with this sentimental stuff when I had to ask the Comic Book Shop to write down my pull list so that I can give it to the guys at the underground….that was pretty sad. Geek tier L. Know all’s left to do is clean the apartment in preparation for the load of people coming for my graduation and pack.

The hole moving thing depends on a lot of different things like if I’m going anywhere with my grandparents or if I wanted to find a job asap or if I was finically stable enough to actually take a vacation. So I have no idea when I’m moving back to the Tri-cities I know it’s going to be between June 25th and July 4th ish. You will hear more from me when I’m decided.

My grandpa and both my grandma’s are coming into town tomorrow along with my mom and one of my sisters. The other one and Ryan will be here Friday. So it’s really going to be a full house.

I think that’s all I have if I think of anything more…..um wait the game ow yea rings of fate was really good, I got stuck so much though, like in some parts of the game you have to talk to someone as many times as you can then they start repeating so you think your done talking to them right wrong. You have to talk to them more I got stuck like four times this way wondering where the hell I was suppose to go cus no new world popped up so I had to go back and talk to everyone in the town to find that I missed one person who opened the world. The bosses weren’t that hard and it only took me four times to bet the final boss. Which was because I wasn’t very observant stuff well got to go before this thing die’s I’m just a little too lazy right know to plug the basterd in *shakes fist* power sucker*

Hamster out....

God Bless the Asians

2008-06-06T17:19:00.002-07:00

So I have come to the conclusion that I would have probably lost the IMBC anyway if I blogged on my Birthday because a day after it my Laptop power cord went out on me I could still us it I just had to adjust it in a certain way and then leave it alone until it was fully charged then work on it for about an hour and then charge is again cus it would be dead by then.

This happened on Monday so I went down to Circuit to get a new one expecting my 300 dollar insurance to cover it. Long behold the damn Fire Dog jackass was on break so I waited for him to get off only for him to tell me since my computer is still under the Toshiba coverage that I will have to go all the way down town, form the Y to down town takes about 30 minutes with traffic, so I go all the way there to have the guy tell me since it’s a part that is broken from wear and tear that he can't do anything about it. But he did give me a phone number to call. The part that was broken was the link from the AC power box to the Laptop right were the power box begins.

It was wear and tear but if they would have given these damn Toshiba Laptops better batteries so that I could work on it longer than an hour without plugging the damn thing into the wall then it wouldn’t have broke so therefor it was a manufacture defect and should be covered by the warranty.

Well I finally got around to calling the Toshiba Wednesday night, after the cord completly breaking and my laptop totally out of juice, and they said that they would send me one, I didn’t tell them what part was broken just that it wouldn’t charge when I plugged it in. So I forgot to ask how long it takes to deliver but get this I called Wednesday night right I’m expecting it to come you know 7-10 days, I’m freaking out I have all my final stuff on it and well my life I barrow a friends charger today, who had the same Toshiba as me, I charge I all the way through and take everything I need off of it for my finals, thank god I got that external hard drive.

So I was a little relaxed my laptop was fully charged and I would use it only in case of an emergency other than that it was off.

So I come home today check the mail and there it is the holiest peace of mail that I have ever seen in my life. A pick up notice to come get a package. It was all the way in the valley I was on empty but I didn’t care I needed that charger. I sound like a crack addict. Anyway god bless my truck for making it there and back on empty.

well I go get it and find out that it has been sitting there since Thursday, they sent me the charger next day delivery OMG I freaken died I was so happy and relieved to get that damn thing, it took me two days to get it Toshiba I love you. You’re a fucking life saver. I’m still amazed come on you are too, normal companies it would have token at least 5-7 business days.

So know I’m happy I can finish my final stuff write a blog or two get cheats for my final fantasy game when I get stuck whenever I want to. I think this may be the happiest day of my life.

I might cry…..

naw.

Hamster out….

Drunken slanders, the zombie room, and emo bands

2008-06-01T10:10:00.001-07:00

Yea I didn’t post I have a good reason it was my 21st birthday and I was totally busy getting drinks and such. So the IMBC is over and I feel slightly lost. I come home drunkenly slurring I didn’t blog you guys why didn’t I blog if I was more of a girl I would have probably busted out crying.

Good news though don’t have to much of a hangover and we are off to go get some hangover food so see you later

No to daily post but maybe know I will be able to blog about something actually good.

Hamster out….

whatever

2008-05-30T22:32:00.000-07:00

So was seriously contemplating on giving up…but I’m just to stubborn for that maybe tomorrow.

I don’t know the thought of losing really doesn’t appeal to me.

So I will just relay my day to you until I really have the energy to write something productive.

Ryan come in today for my birthday weekend which is really nice I love to spend time with him and I love Spokane and showing him around. I have such a good time with him here, since there is actually stuff to do. I matted some of the art work that he got from the Comicon today too and he seemed very pleased with my work.

I dint get to shoot any cool places today with my internship all I did was take head shoots of the staff and then I offered to help with organizing the new shipment of The Family Circle which came in today only two of my photographs are in that because they have been working on it all year it only being like a annual. But the next issue of North west woman’s comes out next week and I well make sure to grab a ton of copies for that family and all I did get an introduction in the family guide though under fabulous interns which I was the only one. so go me.

Other than that I got a lot of happy b-days and come home tierd as hell and just wanting to take a nap to tomorrow we are going to have to clean cook and stuff for the party it should really be a blast. After that me and Ryan are going to go to Blue Fish cus my boss at the internship gave us like a fifty dollar gift certificate for it and a bunch of free drinks at RAW which well be fun to see the guys that I shot there again they are really interesting people well going to go to sleep now.

Hamster out….

waaa

2008-05-29T19:18:00.000-07:00

heading over to Rachel’s in just a little while for our Wei night I got pineapple and carrots with low fat ranch to go over there with. There was going to be like six of us now there is only four but o well less competition to bet at Mario Kart.

I also went a picked up 90 dollars worth of groceries for my party on Saturday which should be a blast hope to god it doesn’t rain that would suck. I got a bunch of party decorations too and am feeling really achieved. This will be my first party that I put together all by myself. That means doing all the shopping and decoration not to mention those invitations which came out pretty cool. Still no Martha Stewart work though.

These blogs have been pretty lame lately just relaying my day but there is nothing I really want to talk about right know at least and I really just need to get enough words so that I can go to Rachel’s I might not even spell check what a scary though right. The things I spell wrong I can believe.

I’m almost done with my web site had a few bumps on the way but am pretty ok with it. It’s not something that I would really put up in real life but for school it’s ok. I really like my opening gif though. Very proud of it.

making myself a calson that I picked up at wal-mart before I go over just to fill the old tummy.

Had IHOP today but that can only go so far and I have been ramming around and running things and school stuff and such. Plus comic booking. Although I don’t know what’s coming out this week I heard something about a new kick ass and saw green lantern secret origins. but haven’t picked anything up yet. Curse having all this work to do. I barley have time to read my comic books.

Hamster out….

agian screw the man

2008-05-28T22:04:00.000-07:00

Finally I copped off my hair it was getting so long and heavy I have no idea how my friend jenny deals with it hers is done to at least her butt. mine was just to the middle of my back.

I did a lot of work on my web site today and that was the most exciting bit.

My laptop charger went out at me if I fuss with it for a good 15 minutes so that it shows that its charging and then try not to let if move it will charge. Which really sucks. The part that is broken too is the connection to the power park going to the laptop. And get this I went to circuit city to get it fixed they told me to go to another place so I went there and he told me that my one year Toshiba insurance and my five hundred dollar circuit city insurance doesn’t cover that part cus it’s not a manufacture problem. Well I think it is they made a crapy battery in the laptop so that I have to plug it in every 90 minutes wearing out the freaking plug stupid right.

I hate the man he pisses me off.

I got all my invitations for my graduation and birthday done all hand addressed and written yea that took me a fucking long ass time.

I finally got some company over so know I’m not going as crazy anymore although I can’t wait tell tomorrow’s Wei night get it it’s we and wii. Yea I came up with that all by myself.

Only three more days tell I’m 21 and about two and a half weeks tell I graduate so the stress is on full time hard ass stress. I can’t believe this is almost over. I had a really great time hear in Spokane being a college student and just hanging with friends and being dorks. I will be sad to leave but excited to start new experiences.

Hamster out….

agent number hammy007

2008-05-27T20:49:00.001-07:00

I really don’t feel like doing much of anything right now. Even getting to write my blog seems very hard to do. I almost have all my graduation invitations done. And that is the most exciting thing that I have done today besides almost starve myself to death and have a long talk with one of my friend which I have been needing for a long time someone to talk to.

All the prints that were in the contest a little while ago were put one action for a fundraiser for the photo club. I found out that my Spokane panorama went for 31 dollars I think it was the best selling one from the action I didn’t even get placed so good for me at least normal people seem to like my stuff. it is a buyer’s market. My other two prints went for reasonable prices but nothing to grand. I honestly thought that the panorama was one of my weaker photos I guess it show you that you’re your own worst critic right.

Tonight I plan to go to bed early and get the rest of those damn invites done or at lest done enough to envelope them. Then I’ll address them and get them off by Friday I hope. Awww the wonderful and exciting world of Hammy now you know how great it is to be in my shoes…yea not that great.

Saturday is my 21st birthday and I was told by a friend this is my birthday week were I can have as much fun as I want to or something like that. I’m going to try really hard and relax this week while trying to finish some work too. We are most likely going to have a Wii party
Thursday night which sounds like great fun. Just a bunch of crazy photography girls hanging out and playing geeky video games it really sounds great I don’t spend too much time with girls anymore. I think will have a great big party at the end of the semester to celebrate everything
and such. Speaking of end of semester and graduation.

If you are a graduating photography student and want your pictures up in the gallery we will be holding a graduation gallery June 9th tell the 13th I made flyers but need to print them out so. Just make sure to turn in 1-2 matted prints my June 5th with an artist bio or future plane discretion. If you want to put something larger up you will have to supplie your own plane black frame. Anyway turn them in to the Cage and remember if we don’t get enough then it isn’t going to happen.

Shit I think my charger for my laptop is broken got to go.

Hamster out….

screw this and that

2008-05-26T21:38:00.002-07:00

So totally almost forgot to blog been having a rough day. But it’s all good

Last night we went and watched Narnia Prince Caspine (sp) I thought it was really great and followed the book very thoroughly. The music and animated characters where great too. Narnia movies makes CG look really good. It works well and is worked into the movie like it was born with it. Unlike Indiana Jones. The mouse guard characters were totally as adorable as they should be soo cute and awesome. Ryan pointed out the fact that he like that they were so adorable but were running around in the movie the hole time killing people and stabbing their eyes out.

I love and hate how Christian the movies are I know that the man that wrote the books was a Christian writer and all and they are really good books but do you know what happens in the end do you I dont think you do cus if you did you would…..um be really sad or something.

Anyway they are attaching small kids to this characters in the movies they get curios and go get there parents to buy the books then they read them and find out the ending and swear off reading all together creating a world of illiterate Christian hating babies.

I really enjoyed all but one of the books and that was the last battle were…..should I tell you …… everyone dies…..and Susan doesn’t go to heaven because she lost her belief in “Aslan” who really is just God. But everyone even the kids parents die in a horrific world ending train crash that was caused by the apocalypse. Which not only accord in our world but Narnia as well. Shoot this is making me want to go read the books again to make sure I have everything right.

They were pretty good and nice and short a day’s read so it shouldn’t be too much trouble I have a feeling this summer I will be getting a lot of reading done.

I have started to make my graduation invites since I couldn’t find any I decide to make my own. There ok I’m not Martha Stewart or anything but they get the point across.

so much talking whaaaaa

2008-05-25T14:58:00.000-07:00

yesterday we played Mario Kart for the Wii it was totally rocking fun. Actually it only got fun once we went and played it over at Hanks house cus the TV at my parents house has a really bad contrast problem making all the courses really really white we just had to concentrate a little harder though.

I have to say that I don’t like the steering wheel as much as I wanted to, great idea just the need to refine is a little more. I kept trying to drift right and it would go left instead and not as fast of a reaction time between me yanking the wheel and the character actually performing something.

But a really great way to play if your just in it to have fun.

I also went and finally picked myself up an external hard drive since my Lap top only had like 20 GB left of 150. It was a pretty good by 500GB for like a hundred dollars probably could of found something cheaper online but I just don’t like shopping online.

Today I got to run around and see if I can find some graduation invitations to send out.

I’m graduation on Friday the Thirteenth of June at 3:30 doesn’t that just sound like a whole lot of demon worshiping or something going on. It’s like they want everyone who graduates to have some type of tripping accident or something. Damn it’s getting really hard to write this right know my family is so freaken loud aaaa con concentrate going to blow brains out nooooooo

Ok sorry about that that’s a little of a brain melt down cus everyone in the world is talking around me and I can’t concentrate on writing when there is five people talking loudly around me.

Screw this.

Hamster out….

Indie at his besworst

2008-05-24T11:02:00.001-07:00

We went and watched Indiana Jones last night….um yea…It was good to see another Indie movie but I think I went through some kind of trauma watching it cus all I remember are the indie like parts with snakes and whips and such. So you can way that they totally screwed it up.

DON”T READ THIS NEXT PART UNLESS YOU WANT THE HOLE MOVIE REVELED

I”M SERIOUS

Ok fist of all I love Shie Labofe (sp) too lazy to look that up, but Shie as a greaser man o man I had a Grease fangirl flashback and almost had a episode in the theater a very good episode.

Second from the very beginning and maybe it was just me cus I don’t think Ryan saw it you could tell that Shie was Indies long lost son from one of the many girls that he hooked up with in all the movies. But come on Shie the next Indiana Jones even I can’t see that.

Third there were freaking aliens in the movie come one aliens I know it can be some type of possibility. But in an Indiana Jones movie come on what I……I just don’t get it….well I do get it but not in an Idiana Jones movie. I mean aliens…..well excuse me actually there are people from an alternant dimension they actually say that in the movie alternant dimensions. The movie all together was like an Indiana Jones movie smashing head on into a episode of Farscape or Twilight zone. Seriously weird and creepy.

Fourth there was a god damn flying saucer in the movie a flying saucer a flying saucer a flying saucer sorry I think my brain just exploded with stupiedness if that’s possible. Freaking gosh

At the very end of the movie they hinted that Shie would become the next Indie yep I love Shie and all but him being the next Indie I don’t think even he is up that crap.
But I was really good to see Indie in his almost state of Indieness in a movie again maybe next time they’ll do a little better.

oh and if anyone goes and watches it stay tell the very end, I didn’t and know I’m wondering if all the people that got sucked into the alternate dimension with the aliens or sitting around a table having tee or something. Should have stayed tell the end but you know girls right as the movie ends it straight to the bathroom yea you could have went the rest of your life not hearing that but what fun would that be.

Weeeiiiiii

2008-05-23T20:23:00.000-07:00

I’ve been practicing my Mario Kart in preparation for this weekend. I think Ryan is buying the game and we might get a bunch of people together and play it. It’s going to be like a Mario Kart party or something.

I’m in the Tri-cities right know and had a pretty busy day. I woke up kind of sick with some sort of chest cold or something which put a damper on my day. Then I couldn’t do one damn thing without some sort of stupid complication. Like buy freaking gas, or a god forsaken stamp, which I don’t believe exist in Spokane.

Anyway after that I went to my internship. We shoot at Shenanigan’s (sp) and Anthony’s which I didn’t know there was another one in the Tri-Cities. All this was really fun and I got a free steak out of it which I brought back to feed my dad or Ryan, come one it’s a grade ad steak someone has to eat it, not me but someone.

The Spokane river has reached record levels meaning a lot of people are at these great restraints which have the best views of the river. The river was almost to the side walk near Shenanigan’s and they closed of one of the bridges in near river front park because of the mist. Anthony’s had the best view though, they were very suited for it anyways with great big windows facing the falls and Washington water power building it was a spectacular view I found myself sitting and staring at it for a little while quite amazed.

And we met some pretty lady’s that let us take their photographs while eating. Pretty Lady’s.
I think we’re going to go out and watch Indiana Jones tonight although I am very skeptical about it. It looks like there is going to be a lot of CGI and I don’t think I like that. What happened to the good old old Harson Ford. I love him.

Hamster out….

Run with it or run without it

2008-05-22T11:01:00.001-07:00

So I guess I’m some sort of demented female cus I don’t really like baby’s they scare the crap out of me and well crap and cry and pee all over everything. This is college we are learning how to function in a professional environment, even though in the photo building this is rarely true there should be no exception to bring your baby into work with you. Some people are trying to learn. This might just be me being a cold hard bitch and not having any sympathy for someone’s situation or it might be a reasonable argument.

I know that there are a lot of teen pregnancies and those teens try to set things right and go back to college or even just none teen parents that are trying to get an education. But come on it is not professional to raise your child in college or bring it to work. You wouldn’t to this or would not be allowed to do this in the real world why the hell do it in college were people are trying to learn.

This is all a rant because the new girl that works in the Cage that I already have decided I don’t like brought her baby to work. She has brought it to the classes that I’ve had with her over the year and it has disrupted class. Know my work environment is being raided by this unprofessionalism, I can’t even go in the Cage because it’s there. Mostly because of my own hate for the situation and secondly baby’s smell come on we all know they do I’m just saying it. She really has no idea what she is doing in there this is only her second day so what the hell the most qualified person on this job besides the Techs is me and know I can’t do my job because of this situation. I actually enjoy doing my job so it’s shit.

I think I’m going to end up being one of those parents that loves my own kids but don’t really like other peoples or maybe once I do have my own little squishy thing I will come to like them…….*shiver*

Master retard

2008-05-21T17:02:00.001-07:00

So I beat Ninja Gaiden last night the boss that I thought was the big boss ended not being it there was one more mini boss after her both which were really tuff to beat. I heard that the girl bosses are harder to beet then the male bosses. Don’t know if that’s true, I’ve only been a half asses gamer for a couple of days.

I after winning the game you can play it in master ninja difficulty level and let me tell you so far it is way harder than the normal. I haven’t gotten too far into it, although I am a little disappointed in the prizes there just a little lame and I wonder if it’s just me. I though once you beat the game there would be this great prize coming down from the ceiling in all its glory, with balloons and such or at least a cool new outfit or character or something. Well not what I got.

My brain is in its thirties, the ideal age being 20, I think that’s a good jump from Saturday when I was 70 and I have been playing it every day like the Doctor told me to. Given he isn’t real.

We went out to Ladies Night at Elements last night me and Heather left a little early and just sat around making fun of people waiting for are other friends to get there. We did the usual pick a person and make up a story for them I got some really good ones. There was a guy in a sweater vest there that I had sad came from Russia or some outlandish country with really thick accents, and that he was once an assassin there moving to America after he had built up to many enemies in his own country. Finding no work as an assassin in the USA for some reason he started going out to the clubs every week. He goes there and picks out the shyest girl that he can find, not very many at these clubs, and takes them home. Only to kill them with his assassin abilities that were no longer in use. Then buried them in his neighbor.

warning game may cause involuntary seizures..but then again what seizure is voluntary

2008-05-20T11:48:00.002-07:00

So I’ve gotten to the big boss in Ninja Gaiden only two days at play, but I can’t seems to bet the damn thing mostly because of the touch screen not doing what I want it to and then the all video game rule that the thing cheat’s. So I think I will move on to the Final Fantasy game for a while before I have an heart attack or something from trying to bet Ninja Gaiden.

The Brain Academy game is going very well though I really like it and I’m trying to play it every day. It also has sukido on it which I didn’t realize was as easy as it is.

On the home front a new girl has started working at the Cage, which is the equipment room in the photo building that I work in, and I slightly hate it. Its funny it’s kind of like those cop shows or movies that once there partner passes away they only want to work alone, given that my partner, Heather, hasn’t died but I work alone now. She has better things to be doing then working her as I can tell by her constant checking of her cell phone and her lack of paying attention to proper chemical disposing procedures. So as you can see this girl is already bugging me but it’s all good as long as I don’t have to work with her every day.

I need to settle down and read the third walking dead and the first of the boys I just have been to engulfed with my gaming. They need to put some type of warning since our human brains are too dumb and devolved to tell us when something is bad for us, like that coffee is hot and to try and not spill it on yourself, anyway to the point they should put a warning saying gaming system may be addicting. Well at least it’s one thing that you can get addicted to that wont potentially kill you. Well unless you stay inside forever and don’t eat because you are too busy playing then it could potentially be a health risk. But come on what gamer doesn’t like to eat.

Hamster out….

Gamer Madness......know i get it..

2008-05-19T11:53:00.003-07:00

So I have been playing Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword all day so far today and most of the day yesterday it is a really great game. I love and hate how you use the stiller, at least I think that’s what the pin thing is called, to attack and do everything. The part I don’t like about it though it is direction taking skill in that you use it to move so you just point and hold to wear you want to go. Most of the time I just end up throwing a ninja star or an arrow, because that move is tap, you can’t seem to run fast enough and go through the right part of the portal. So it’s not very affection. At least for me. The combos are pretty hard to achieve as well with the stiller, up, up, down, left and if you brake contact or hesitate a little you won’t complete the combo.

Good points though when you save your life replenishes and so does your special attack, which you can use only once every save, there are about three save points in each level. Then stiller is cool to fight with though it really gets you in the game. My right arm was dead after only about a half an hour playing.

I’m pretty surprised that I’m doing this well at this game not being a big gamer at all, but I do pick things up fast. I have only got stuck twice, once because I forgot that the DS was so cool that when you need to blow stuff out you actually blow it out, and one part which I was just being stupid I knew I had to set something on fire it just didn’t click in my brain to use me special.

I only have a couple more level to go and I’m very happy about how long this game is lasting. The only other games that I have played all the way through were Bango and Kazooie, Bango and Tootie, Mario Brothers, and God of war. They were all pretty long except God of War I really wished that on lasted a little longer it was a awesome game.

On the home front this weekend was great me and Ryan just geeked out the hole time with video games, comic books, a little invader zim, and Dawn of the Dead, the new one. I forgot how much I don’t like that one it was the first real Zombie movie that I saw when I was younger on top of that I watched it alone know I remember how much I hate Zombies.
Hamster out….

DS nation

2008-05-18T14:07:00.000-07:00

After I wrote yesterday we went to wal-mart to pick up some stuff for my new DS. I got some screen covers and a pink case. I also picked up Brain Age and I got Final Fantasy Ring of Fates with the DS.

After that we come home, I played the games there for a while I really liked Brain Age I love games like that that make you think, Final fantasy was good too I was skeptical about it at first but it turned out to be really good so far I’m only a little ways through it though.

So today we got up and went to the mall, I needed to go shopping for some new clothes, while we were there I picked up Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword and a really cute out-fit, like you guys care right.

I also got the 3rd Walking dead and the first The Boys I’ve been wanting to read The Boys for a while and decided might as well start now. We went to Sonics for lunch they have these new Mac and Cheese bits which are really good. I had them when I was little at Silverwood, but there are like ten times better at Sonics.

Shit I’ve been really not talking about much in these blogs there more I have to blog things and I have better things to be doing and school is getting pretty hectic. And there are still no topic of the days to help me along.

I’ve been reading the Penny Arcade books and can’t believe how funny these two guys are. They remind me of me and Heather and if you know us you will see it too.

I’m too lazy right now to post any of the pictures that I took this weekend to maybe I’ll do that tomorrow.

I can’t really believe how addicted to this DS it really is a cool little thing.

I’m watching Invader Zim, I forgot how disgusting it really is. But I do love Gir (sp)

Hamster out….

speaking of the devil

2008-05-17T17:15:00.003-07:00

So yet again I have blogged late, this might become a trend I don’t like that idea.

Ryan is coming over soon so I spent the day cleaning the apartment know it looks like someone lives here not like someone is moving out. There were so many box’s of crap that I don’t really need I’m going to have to go through them and maybe have a yard sale or something.

I picked up dinner for tonight some shush kebabs (sp) that I’m going to try and convince Ryan that I made myself, potatoes for stuffed potatoes, some corn on the cob, and some lemonade for drinks.

Too bad I don’t have a grill cus all that would be way better tasting on the grill. But I think I will back everything. And I might even take pictures and put them on my flicker just for Hjo.
Other than that fun stuff I haven’t done much today I think I will go watch me some zombie movie after this.

Ok so now this is sort of a forced blog Ryan just got here like I was writing this and bamf there he is a hour early. So now as you can imagine I have better things to do.
So I have never owned any type of gameboy or mobile game system before we grew up in the back woods of Idaho and now we are not too well off so I never imagined owning one of my own.
Of course I barrowed my boyfriends whenever I could. Well get this he shows up today with a pink Nintendo DS in hand. What a great boyfriend right well after we eat and take a little nap were going to go to Wal-mart and get some cool things for it I’m so totally excited. I really want to that Brain game thing it looks pretty cool. I can’t wait to settle down and play it.

Hamster out….

TV Hit List

2008-05-16T17:08:00.002-07:00

So I almost completely forgot to blog today I just now remembered.

I’m posting two pics of the TV Hit List shoot that I did the other day.

Ok on to ramblings about my day. I woke and decided to run down to Spokane Arts Supplies to get the Micropore tape so I could finally mat my art work that I got at the Comicon.
Anyway I was just going to use either white or black for all of them since your mat isn’t suppose to stand out or show up your print. But then the guy was all like here check out all our cool mats and I’m like uhh I like that red, this lead to me buying fifty dollars or so worth of mat, a red, pinkish, black and silver. But it was well worth it cus they look awesome.

I’ll get some pics up tomorrow, it took me a couple hours but I finally got them all matted in 16/20 mats. Now all I have to do is go buy frames for them all.

I think the one I bought for Heather, the Invincible poster and the print done by the small favors lady come out the best.

After matting from about ten tell one thirty, I had to go to my internship shoot at Fugazzies (sp)

downtown. Everything here was a lot better than at RAW because we weren’t shoved in a corner and we actually had natural lighting. So everything was cool, some things did go wrong but what a photoshot with me unless something goes wrong right. Anyway the food there was great and I got to try like five different kinds of cheese, and the food looked great I wouldn’t eat it cus I’m a vegetarian but it looked great and I truest it tasted just as good.

I’m staying home this weekend, which is going to be nice not having to travel I can’t wait tell school end and I can stay in one place for a little while.
Speaking of graduation is Friday June 13th at 3:30 whow that’s a lot of threes. I’ll be sending out invits soon.

Hamster out….

Fucking establishment......wait can you say that word on the internet?

2008-05-15T12:17:00.002-07:00

So it seems like this might last a pretty long time since both me and OldManLever seem to be blogging pretty consistently.

New comic book day was yesterday I picked up the first R.I.P. Batman. The cool thing that I found in the comic was they told you all the other tie ins that you would need to pick up, Nightwing, Robin, Detective, and some others.

I also picked up the second Walking Dead graphic novel, which I found just as good as the first, it’s kind of like this really long zombie movie so far nothing to out of the usual, I just want to keep reading though so I guess it’s doing its job by getting me addicted to it.

We didn’t have movie night last night cus Jenny had to work so we are doing it tonight. Although I don’t know if Heather is coming now.

I got paid so I’m going to go by some mat bored and microfiber tape so that I can at least mat the art I got I might have to what until the end of May to get any frames for them. Since they short changed me on my check.

I found so far this being assertive thing is kind of working. I slightly just closed off and now I’m not really taking shit. So far I marched straight up to the office and told them to fix my check and to reimburse me for the other one they messed up on, they did give good reasons not to but I still gave them a hard time.

Me and Care went to IHOP for breakfast and decided to try these new drinks after the waiter kept bugging us so we did and they were disgusting we only took three sips or so out of them.
When the waiter came back I asked him to just get use regular drinks and he did and took the other ones of the check. I know these aren’t big things to some people but before I would have just took it, I would have just drank that drink and let them short me 300 on my check. See how much of a goddamn push over I I’m not no more let me tell you. I think I might get some confidence and self respect this way……..go me….and watch out there slightly new Hammy on the loose.

IF YOU’R NOT IN THE PHOTOPROGRAM YOU REALLY DON’T HAVE TO READ THIS, IT’S JUST ME BITCHING.

Ow and I completely forgot about this but it totally erked me and some other people so I’m going to write about it. You know that contest that I entered get this one guy won 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th, even though we were only aloud three entrees, now don’t get me wrong his stuff is good and it’s not his fault people love his work that bad but don’t you think that’s a little not fair to everyone else, I know life isn’t far. I brought this up at the meeting we had for the contest cus it happened last semester two, the same person and all, I said that you should only be able to win one place so that everyone gets a chance, the president said no cus why should we put down someone that does good work and limit his achievements to just one, back then I didn’t argue but know I am. You know what if they get first doesn’t that mean there the best why do they have to win everything. So I’m just saying that in the future we should think about this, why doesn’t anyone lesson seriously. Nobody else even had a freakin chance what a great way to boost moral in the goddamn photobuilding getting of your high horse and fuck off.

Sorry ow and just so you know I’m not angry at the person who won, I think his work is really great and that he does deserves. I’m just angry at the establishment and people “person” who ran this contest for not lessoning to OTHER PEOPLE get the stone out of your ears.

Again I respect the person who won not only his photography but he, himself not any one that put the contest on, gave up both 2nd 3rd and 4th to someone other than himself, the next runner ups. Thank you for being a good person for this and I’m sorry this whole situation probably makes you pissed just as much as use and puts you in a really hard and weird position.

Fucking establishment

Hamster out….

""fan girl""it looks like it""what should we do"'they smell hotness so.....runnn!!!!"

2008-05-14T09:30:00.007-07:00

So I was looking at the Penny Arcade web site, since I thought I should wise up on them because I was wearing one of their shirts. Man those guys are funny as hell, I think they have just gained one more fan girl. Hey and get this I totally met them at Comicon but didn’t get anything cus I didn’t quite get how cool they were.

Here is one of their Comics I’m mostly posting this one cus I think almost everyone gets it if not…..you well……yeah

Check more out at http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/ they're great.

So nothing like a really sappy love movie and a puppy to cure your illness.

I watched P.S. I love you last night, it was a really big chick flick but well worth the watch if you’re in the mood. If you haven’t heard the movie is about a husband that passes away but planed out letters to be delivered to his wife. These letters are suppose to help her with his death. With a thousand or so flash backs that make you cry every time, just for the loss of the steaming hot Irish man, it’s a movie that really makes you reflect and slightly zen out.

I was going to rent Bella a movie about a former soccer player and a pregnant women. P.S. I love you won over but I think Bella will be the next movie of choice.

I also rented Dawn of the dead and Shaun of the dead for me and the girls to watch tonight since neither of them have watch either of them.

Today is new comic book day I hope to pick up the second Walking Dead graphic novel, it might be in the new used section at the comic book shop, and brag about all the people I met and all the cool stuff that I got at Comicon.

Well that’s all what should my sign off be

Hamster out….

……why must you smell so bad

2008-05-13T13:53:00.001-07:00

I really need to find something constructive to talk about, but right know I can’t really think of anything, so you are stuck with me relaying how my day went to you.

Have you ever felt like no matter what you do, how much you prepare, and how paranoid you are about shit going wrong, something still goes wrong?

So I’m pretty close to just giving up on this blog thing, I think it’s just because I’ve been in a little funk for a while………and know I sound like a complete girl.

So all the Comicon stuff is over I got some really great things from there that I will try and take pics of and put them up. I also got presents for my friends birthdays which are coming up soon that they’re going to just love. Which is great I’m happy that I found something for them.

Now I’m going to go through the pain of matting all seven or eight pieces and framing them so that they keep their value and plus it looks so much better having them mattes. And I have the skill and supplies to do it. The only problem is that I don’t know wither to use the photo corners or microfiber tape to mate them either one has its downs but there all better than just regular tape. I think I will go with the microfiber even though it might damage the works after about ten years you can always just cut the extra off.

I’m use to matting my photographs so this is a whole new challenge of not trying to hurt the works.

And spending a small fortune on buying frames for all of them.

I’ve been kind of down all day today and in the photo building that’s never good, I just have a lot on my mind and I’m too scared to talk about it to the person I need to. If that makes since to any one besides me I’ll be surprised. I just hate conflict and hurting people, so whopdy freaken do.

I’m getting really tired of being such a push over and taking it up the ass with a smile so I think soon I will do something about wither its being a complete bitch to everyone or getting even which might eventually lead to getting put in jail. Damn I hate this…….damn emo talk and emoness…….damn shit……why must you smell so bad.

"hi my name is Hammy and I'm a..........geek"

2008-05-12T13:46:00.002-07:00

well I’m back in Spokane, woke up around five this morning to get in town early so that the equipment that I checked out wouldn’t be late. Yea for me the drive was long and boring and I was tired as hell again.

Ok Sunday we went over to the Con around 10:00 ,when it opens, and wondered around there for a while, untell about one where me, logan and Ryan all sat down to the Wil Wheaten Experience, I don’t really remember what it was called. Wil Wheaten played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek the next Generation and is a really big geek, he has a couple books out about being a geek and his blog is pretty famous too. He has also played the voices of Aqualad on teen titans and Cosmic boy on the legion of superhero’s, so I got most of what he was talking about just not the D&D stuff. It was quite entertaining but I couldn’t help feel out of place, I have just become a geek this last two years cus of college, but I was always a little geeky when I was little always watching cartoons and such. But the thing that I found weird was that a lot of people and even Wil himself complained about being picked on at school by the popular kids, or the jocks, I wasn’t popular but I was a damn good athlete back in my day, playing sports year round. I couldn’t help but think any moment the people there were going to find out my past that I was a jock and get out there pitchforks and chase after me, not being able to catch me though. So it felt like a cult slash AA meeting but for geeks. I’m not kidding the first thing that Wil said when he got up there was “hi my name is Wil Wheaten and I’m a geek” every “hi Wil”. Don’t get me wrong though I know I’m a total geek now, I just felt kind of like an outsider because I have just become one, like a new born geek I only have two years under my belt while all the other people have been perfecting there geekkyness for years. Ok here it goes “hi my name is Hammy and I’m a geek that can run like hell” .

Other news on Sunday we went there in the morning for only one thing and that was to see if Robert Kirkman and all the other guys from Invincible were there but they weren’t. So we were on our way out after the Wil Wheaton Experience and long behold there they are, I totally panicked I had to run like three or four blocks to the nearest ATM to get some cash for the fist walking dead trade and the first invincible trade, which I found out soon enough that Walker was the artist for the first one while Ottley was the artist for the rest and Ottley was the one there signing stuff, so I had to by two print and got everone to sing it and I mean all the big honcho people, Robert Kirkman creator/ writer, Ryan Ottley artist, Bill Carbtree inker/ colorist, to sign both the prints and the first trade score right, I also got Robert Kirkman to sing the first walking dead trade that I had ryan go and find while I was in line because I have yet to read it and it looks pretty good, which it was.

Ok that’s all I have to go turn in my pictures to my internship.

running wild

2008-05-11T10:08:00.000-07:00

Ok so now that I’m well rested I can tell you about the awesomeness of Comicon, after waiting in line for how knows how long we finally got in I went start to the exclusive table to get the hulk eating dicks by the pikes market sign which was limited to 100, I met a lot of cool guys being the only girl jammed in between them I ended up getting number 35/100 it was so cool, I also got the beyond wonderland, and the boy’s exclusive. After that I went to go find Moose Baumann the color for green lanter corps and Sinestro corps war. I got his and Ethan Van Sciver, autograph on the Sinestro corps war one comic, that was rockin, after that I had to find ryan cus he ditched me when I went for the exclusive, I found him and went wondering around to see who I could find the Bill Carbtree the artist for invincible and found his line to be forever long, we saw Robert Kirkman the creator of Invincible we just saw him though we didn’t get an autograph, ryan got Jay Faerber the writer/ creater of Dynamo five and noble causes, and we went to the penny arcade booth and ryan got a poster and 2nd trade singed by both Babe and Tycho, we also got to shirts, one for me and one for him, he got the Heroism t-shirt and I got the Photoshop hero t-shirt witch I got like five dozen cool shirts on, thank you ryan.

Ok so this might not be the actual order of things but it was all a kind of comicy goodness blerr so yea.

While we were walking around I spotted the coolest thing ever, a boba fett, they were doing a picture thingy with him and it was so cool, they let us do anything and of course I made boba purpose to me, it was totally great and cool, I’ll scan in the pic when I get back to school, we also got to talk to and some original art from one of me and ryans fav books called small favors she was so cool and nice and asked us our names and such, her name is Colleen Coover, I got a drawing and a couple little dodels from her which I’m going to fram.

We also got our fable, which we had to find and by there because we didn’t bring ours, to bill Willingham the creator of Fables, if I totally come prepared I would have had him sign every fables thing I had, it’s one of my favorite comics.

I also got the Beyond Wonderland exclusive plus the six set mini series signed by the three people that created and drew it. All the people there were really nice and actually happy to be there. I also got to talk to and a autograph form the Defuser, he was totally nice and some of his proceeds went to breast cancer which I loved, he was really nice to.

the only panel that we went to was the Image one which was nice just for the fact that we got to set down for it. The panel consisted of Robert Kirkman, Jay Faerber, and the writer for elephant man Justin Norman. It was kind of boring but really nice just to set and lesion to them talk about our favorite comics.

Well I think that’s all but if I remember something you know that I will blog about it.
So were going to go see if we can get ryan ottley and bill carbtrees autographs and sutch, and go see the space needle.

So tired so very zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

2008-05-10T17:36:00.006-07:00

So I will start with yesterday and fell you in on the comicon front. But first note that I am really really tired. If you know me personally you know that I keep trucking no matter what but after I’m done writing this which I will do half assed I will hit the sheet for some good sleep. And this is the first time that I have blogged so late into the day.
Ok yesterday went as well as can be excepted I got at my internship we went to one restraint only to be shuffled to the next. We sat up in RAW and things started to go wrong like I expected, the background light had no cored, the wizards, kept on misfiring, and we were in the darkest part of the restraint. But all in all the Chief and the other guys I shot were really nice and I got some great food shots and free food out of it. Plus it was really fun and a guy walked in and asked my boss if he could talk to me random guy right he asks me if I wanted to photograph for a broacher, I told him to give me a call on Monday. That was the first time that I felt like a real photographer it was awesome.
Ok so comicon we left this morning around 3:00 in the morning after me getting no sleep at all because of my excitedness and after having been up since 8:00 that morning doing nothing but running around then that shoot which takes a lot out of you. So when I got into the tri-cities yesterday me and ryan went and saw speed racer which was totally rocking, then got home around 12:30 he went to sleep while I tossed and turned. Any way you can see the tiredness get to me cus I’m babbling, we left at three in the morning went through logan ryan then back to logan driving because of them being tired, logan wont let me dirve even though I was the only one awake, we finally his seattle around 6:40 which I thought it took longer, we got into the hotel room and went to go get some doughnuts, and ended up going to see if there was a line for the con yet, which there was so we said goodbye to breakfast and hello to waiting in line for an hour to get our passes, then another hour and a half to get into the exhibits. All in all it was awesome and her are some pics. I will talk more on it tomorrow I dint expect to be this damn tired, so tired that I can barely write my blog without dozing off and I know it’s filed with all sorts of grammar and misspells I don’t care I’m going to take a nap.
here are pics one of flash…….the hell I went through to get a exclusive…….view from room……one of my exclusives..

Now you know why they call me Hammy

2008-05-09T11:25:00.001-07:00

Holy crap there are only two people left in the IMBC. It’s down to the wire and I’m kind of getting nerves. Anyone else………no……dang.

So today is a big busy day, I woke up around 8:00 and went to school to mate stuff for the photo contest here at the school. Hopefully I well at least get and honorable mention or something. I put in three pieces.

It’s been getting harder and harder to write my blog every morning things have been getting pretty busy and I am having trouble finding the time. But do not worry my fellow…..um…followers….that makes it sound like a cult……I well prevail and for all you comic book geeks things are about to get interesting because I will be blogging about the comicon soon.

So today I have to leave my class early to go and grab my equipment and go to my intern shoot.
I’m pretty nerves about the shoot in general I have like two back up lights a flash and a whole lot of equipment just in case something goes wrong which knowing me something most likely will. And I well be doing this whole shoot in front of like five people who are all my bosses and co-workers and it’s kind of nerve racking but I guess it’s something that I have to get use to.

We are making web pages in my digital two class which I’m pretty excited about, although I have no idea what I’m doing in Dreamweaver. But I made a really cool opening GIF for the front page it’s my Bad Luck Images stamp and the U on the luck dumps out four of my images it’s really cool and all I had to do is make it in photoshop CS3 because they have a new animation thingy.

So now I’m totally distracted by class cus this is the stuff that I actually want to learn.
After my shoot at RAW I hopefully will get home in the tri-cities around 8:00 or so then go shopping for some stuff for the trip. And then we might go see Speed Racer which would be totally cool because it looks rocking to me.

There is no Totd for today, cus no one wrought one in…….and there isn’t any for a while so here I have an idea if you read my blog and have a Totd that you would like to see me and the last competitor talk about leave it in the comments and I’ll e-mail it in. Sound cool right chose wisely my fellow readers.

Ok so this blog was a little scatter brained so enjoy talk to you tomorrow morning. Were I will be in Seattle by then were leaving around 3:00 Saturday morning.

We are strong, we are proud, we are photographers.

2008-05-08T11:51:00.002-07:00

So I finally developed those 4x5 photographs that I took of the cable bridge in the tri-cities, for not having a meter I think they come out pretty good. Most of them were a little to dark but one came out just right. Thank god for bracketing right, well I scanned in the one that came out, me and one of the other students her kind of became mad scientist at this point we were seeing how big of a print we could get and ended up scanning it at 6,200 dpi in the very beginning. It took 30 minutes to scan and 15 min. to open in Photoshop and when it did finally open in Photoshop only ¼ the image was there, the other ¾ consisted of some weird noise that I can’t quite explain. It was so big that Photoshop couldn’t support it. So we ended up scanning it in at 2,400 and I got an image with the size of 20 in by 30 in at 400 dpi man 4x5 rules I’m going to print it at that size for a poster. It’s going to rock.

I need to get some pictures printed for the photo contest that we are having her so I’ll do that some time today. Other than that nothing too big going on.

Yesterday after I got done messing around scanning I ended up feeling like I was coming down with something and since I have such a big weekend I didn’t want anything to get in my way. So I went home and went to sleep from around four tell eight o’clock this morning. That was a good sleep……..know I feel lots better and am totally pumped for tomorrows long ass day.

Random bit:

Who said being a photographer was easy, I do just as much work and more than a lot of other people around the world, working for someone is way harder than having people work for you even more in this field.

We are strong, we are proud, we are photographers.

Well that’s all today, I thought that I would give you guys a short one for a break and I’m going to go fool around with Photoshop.

whoop.......off this his head

2008-05-07T10:22:00.001-07:00

Another boring blog yet again today.

And you will find me complaining about stuff

Yesterday after getting discouraged with Adobe Flash I decided to wonder down to the mall to see what they could do about my broken phone on the way there it started to rain and my driver side windshield wiper broke a while ago so I duck taped it now it wipes most of the driver side windshield but not all, this will come up later. Anyway there has been an enormous amount of road construction in Spokane, every road you go on has something going on with it, as people in Spokane know it’s really starting to get annoying. I take a different route into town then I normally do because it has less construction going on it, so I’m mindfully driving on this four lane road and see I semi driving in the left lane and he’s going really slow, probably because these back road weren’t designed to have big trucks drive on them, anyway I go to pass him in the right land and get about half way between his load I notice him start getting closer to me, the stupid jack ass was changing lanes into the one I was currently in so I blare my horn and slam on my breaks, making someone almost rear end me I would have been smushed in between a big butt semi and a couple of parked cars. So know I’m pissed and just want to get away from this stupid truck so I change into the left lane and try to pass him there and yet again he swerves and try’s to hit me.

So yea then I go to the mall and I was parked fixing my windshield wiper, and my driver side door was open cus I was going in between adjusting something then trying them one and all the sudden I hear a hunk and I’m all like what the hell guy was backing into the spot that was right next to me there are at least ten other spots just as close so he reeves his engine starts backing up so I run an kick my door shut. And go back to my windshield wipers and the jack ass almost hit me. So he gets out and says” sorry for the inconvenience” and I’m all like “there are five hundred other spots yea your sorry” then in front of his six year old daughter he calls me a bitch and walks off. Gosh people these days right.

Anyway that’s my rant and rave I

Today’s Totd

It’s another Marry, Boff, Kill: Lorne Michaels, Billy Connolly, Michio Kaku.

I think I would marry Lorne Michels just because he is a pretty damn cool guy
This one’s hard cus I don’t really know the rest of the guys but
let’s see I would boff Michio Kaku because he might not have been getting any other wise but you never know geeks are the new black.
And have to kill the last guy Billy Connolly sorry I think he doesn’t sound to annoying, hey his a comedian well laugh at his funeral

Marry, Boff, Kill sounds like fun............i take it back......i take it all back

2008-05-06T10:38:00.002-07:00

Yahoo I just finish one of my online class’s two more to go then I will be able to just concentrate on my Dig two and internship. Man it’s such a relief to be done with one class. I only have 5 more for the Photoshop class and then maybe I can relax a little and enjoy my last semester here. Yea right only a dream.

So I don’t have much to talk about yesterday was a little uneventful, I cleaned my room which really needed it consetering that I haven’t gotten most the boxes from moving in organized yet.

I had a photo shoot with Heather she set everything up and I shoot some pics for her graduation notices. I think I will do that too sooner or later.

After that we went to the Wal-mart in Airway heights and have agreed that that is our Wal-mart of choice for the Zombie invasions. It is extra cool I’ll have to take some pics of it. It’s also pretty new and has everything we need and more like metal shopping carts and metal plates on the ground when you just walk in. Yes I think we can electrify that. It also has a weird garden center that just has a bunch of big metal towers outside we can use that for something.

Anyway still three people in the IMBC so it looks like you are stuck with my somewhat retarded blogs for a while. Only four more days tell Comicon. I can’t wait to take a little vacation and got to a con. Plus I will be doing a photo-story on it for one of my classes. Which is like having fun and getting credit for it at the sometime.

I watched Big bang theory last night and decided that I love that show, it’s totally great for all types of geek and nerds. And I love recognizing stuff in it, it makes me feel like I’m not the only comic freak in the world.

ok enough of that boringness time for

Today’s Totd

Marry, Boff, Kill: Helen Thomas, Martha Stewart, Oprah. Show your work. ……………………………………

I had to fallow the link to see what this was so it’s still there for you guys…

Let’s see I would defiantly love to kill Oprah, I despise that lady even enough not to marry her for her money. I just find her so annoying and she has such a big head. Do you ever relies how much money she gives to kids and people in Africa compared to the half penny’s she gives to help kids in the United States. It bull sorry that your great great great ancestors were torn away from their country. But where would you rather had grown up there or in the US come one I know it’s sad but if it didn’t happen then you would have been just as bad or worse off than the people over there now. Get over it.

And plus Martha Stewart as annoying as she is makes just as much money and can make me great food all the time as my wife. The only down side is that she is old and annoying but other than that……..make me cookies slave!!!!!!!!

That leaves Helen Thomas to…….um…….boff…(that means have sex with right?)…….well it’s only that way because she is that last one left ok I do not have any weird secret girl crush on her…….hey why is there only girls in this where are all the guys………shit I just looked her up man is she ugly……….yes I didn’t know who she was I know that she was some writer though……………………but dang she like ewwwwww………………….o well…..lights off.

I totaly just showed people at work her pic they all freaked out like screams of agony and terror. hu funny

Bloomsday 7.4 miles, 55 thousand people, one rout, one doomsday and one tiny little road

2008-05-05T09:36:00.002-07:00

More Photographs on my Filcker http://www.flickr.com/photos/bad_luck_images/

This is the last time I will tell you this it’s only because I don’t think anyone really reads this on the weekend but check out both Sunday’s and Saturday’s blog it very important and educating, that means you photographers, also check out all the comments and links given. They give rebuttals and even more information. The links on Sunday’s blog go right to the bill itself. So check it out be educated on what may affect you.

Bloomsday 7.4 miles, 55 thousand people, one rout, one doomsday and one tiny little road

Well yesterday ended up being a total blast. I went out and watched the men’ elite wheel chair race then came the runners. I got some really cool photographs, Emily my classmate and neighbor couldn’t leave for work because the mass group had already started. I can’t say that I wasn’t happy, so we stood there right smack in front of our apartments and snapped pictures.

The owner of the building got out to hoses and started spraying the runners who were very thankful I don’t think I have ever hear that many thank yous in my entire life. The people from the Japanese girl’s school had hand fans and were fanning people on the other side of the road. It was a real community event.

There are four apartment houses, the Japanese girls school and two churches right next to Spokane falls community college. So it was great that every apartment had a little thing going. The ones down the street a little had a couch and some chairs out front and were drinking away while someone put there speakers on the balcony and bleared the Beatle’s, on the way there a group of people were selling otter pops, further on down there was a drum band made out of buckets, then a rock back on the corner of Gov way and Wright, plus up at the school the news cast people were there and a helicopter.

I thought for this being the out skirts of town, the sign that says welcome to Spokane is at the corner of Gov way and Geo Wright, that there wouldn’t be to many things going on just a couple of people watching but I was pleasantly surprised.

After a while Rachel came out and started shooting with use. So there were three photographers in a group and people started to notice and ran by yelling take my picture or would actually smile at the camera. So that was really great having people know your there, especially in my filed of photojournalism were I always need to be invisible to catch peoples true emotion, but this was just for the hell of it. So I started weaving in and out, running back and forth across the street, which was harder then it sounds, I even started running after some costumes. All in all I spent about four hours out there got sun burnt and had a blast I will defiantly do this again next year and maybe even run it. We already have are thought for costumes next year but it’s top secret.

It was slightly amazing and very holy shit that many people do this day but very memorable.

So I haven’t talked about this for a while

Today’s Totd

What is the best thing you’ve ever created?...............................................

Well I’m a photographer so I have created a lot of things. So far I think that my self portrait, my display pic, is one of the best things I have created I really love the thing. If I was a mom I would say my child but right know that photograph is my child I love it to death and put it everywhere I can to show it off. But yep that’s my greatest creation well except for my beloved Frankenstein.

read, it's good for you

2008-05-04T08:26:00.002-07:00

So I really recommend that you read yesterdays post along with the comments made on it. It will help you better understand what is happening. I will not withdraw my judgment though close minded or uneducated as it may be. But I think that everyone potentially affected by this, if it ever happens, should be educated on it and decide for themselves. I also switched my news real to links dealing with “orphan works” just in case you wanted to go further in investigating. I would really appreciate comments on what you think as a photographer, artist, and just regular people about the issue at hand.

I really recommend that you fallow the links given by Hjo and myself, in the comment area of yesterday, to further discussions and rebuttals to this subject.

I would also fallow this two links
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c110:./temp/~c1109YLwMD
and
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c110:./temp/~c110uIc8VC

Ok enough of the series banter….

Today is Bloomsday, which for some who don’t know is a 7.4 mile run around Spokane, a lot of people from around the world come to run along with thousands from right here in Washington. There are a lot of big fun things going on in the park as well while people run. This year will be my first to even been in town when it happens, and my apartment has a great view of a part of the trail a little before Doomsday hill. I was going to go down town but have yet to decide, traffic is horrible and I would most like be better of walking the seven miles from my apartment since that’s probably how far I will have to park. Plus I kind of don’t want to go alone….I know be adventures right……well I don’t like big groups of people and being alone in them is just a little too overwhelming for me. This last Christmas I had to by a monkey to hug while going through the tiny mall in Kennewick I’ve found that I can get over it but I have to be “in the zone” and I want to take photographs. Mmmmk well if anyone reads this and wants to go I’m willing but by 9:00 I’m going no matter what.

I found that my phone is broken so I don’t know what I’m going to do about that I didn’t get the insurance on it and don’t know how much it’s going to cost to get it fixed or a new one. You can still call me but I will have to talk through the speaker phone, the regular ear peace it what’s broken.

Yester day was free comic book day we hit a total of three comic book shops. Marlins hired some people to dress up as Star Wars characters and take pictures in front of the store. I didn’t have my camera on me, but I did get on one my cell.

Still three people left and my blog is looking rocktastic

MUST READ ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ARTISTS Main this country is falling apart what next

2008-05-03T11:52:00.003-07:00

OK so I have really long but very very important article for everyone especially photographers of all kind to read. My blog 300 will come after the article.

Mind Your Business: You Will Lose All The Rights to Your Own ArtMark Simon is mad as hell and, in this month's "Mind Your Business," he tells you why you should be too.April 10, 2008By Mark Simon

As you know, I usually handle the subjects in my articles with a sense of humor. That is not the case this month. I find nothing funny about the new Orphan Works legislation that is before Congress.

In fact, it PISSES ME OFF!

As an artist, you have to read this article or you could lose everything you've ever created!
An Orphaned Work is any creative work of art where the artist or copyright owner has released their copyright, whether on purpose, by passage of time, or by lack of proper registration. In the same way that an orphaned child loses the protection of his or her parents, your creative work can become an orphan for others to use without your permission.

If you don't like to read long articles, you will miss incredibly important information that will affect the rest of your career as an artist. You should at least skip to the end to find the link for a fantastic interview with the Illustrators' Partnership about how you are about to lose ownership of your own artwork.

Currently, you don't have to register your artwork to own the copyright. You own a copyright as soon as you create something. International law also supports this. Right now, registration allows you to sue for damages, in addition to fair value.

What makes me so MAD about this new legislation is that it legalizes THEFT! The only people who benefit from this are those who want to make use of our creative works without paying for them and large companies who will run the new private copyright registries.

These registries are companies that you would be forced to pay in order to register every single image, photo, sketch or creative work.

It is currently against international law to coerce people to register their work for copyright because there are so many inherent problems with it. But because big business can push through laws in the United States, our country is about to break with the rest of the world, again, and take your rights away.

With the tens of millions of photos and pieces of artwork created each year, the bounty for forcing everyone to pay a registration fee would be enormous. We lose our rights and our creations, and someone else makes money at our expense.

This includes every sketch, painting, photo, sculpture, drawing, video, song and every other type of creative endeavor. All of it is at risk!

If the Orphan Works legislation passes, you and I and all creatives will lose virtually all the rights to not only our future work but to everything we've created over the past 34 years, unless we register it with the new, untested and privately run (by the friends and cronies of the U.S. government) registries. Even then, there is no guarantee that someone wishing to steal your personal creations won't successfully call your work an orphan work, and then legally use it for free.

In short, if Congress passes this law, YOU WILL LOSE THE RIGHT TO MAKE MONEY FROM
YOUR OWN CREATIONS!

Why is this allowed to happen? APATHY and MONEY.

Artists have apathy and corporations have money.

We need to be heard in order to protect our incomes, our creations and our careers. GET OFF YOUR ASS!

That means writing letters to our congressmen and representatives. That means voicing your opinion about how we need copyright protection, as we've had since 1976, that protects everything we create from the moment we create it. This is the case around the world.
However, an Orphan Works bill is also in the works in Europe. I was speaking recently with Roger Dean, the famed artist of the Yes album covers, and he is greatly concerned with what will happen if Orphan Works bills become law.

"This will devastate the livelihood of artists, photographers and designers in a number of ways," Dean says. "That at the behest of a few hugely rich corporations who got rich by selling art that they played no part in the making of, the U.S. and U.K. governments are changing the copyright laws to protect the infringer instead of the creator. This is unjust, culturally destructive and commercial lunacy. This will not just hurt millions of artists around the world.

"On the other side of the coin, what argument will a U.S. court have with a Chinese company that insists it did its research in China and found nothing? If the cost of this is onerous for a U.S.-based artist, what will it be like for artists and small businesses in emergent economies?"
If an artist whose work is as famous as Roger Dean's is concerned with this legislation, it should be of great concern for all of us.

The people, associations and companies behind the Orphan Works bill state that orphaned works have no value. If that were true, no one would want them. However, these same companies DO WANT your work, they just don't want to pay for it. If someone wants something, IT HAS VALUE. It's pretty simple.

Some major art and photography associations, or I should say, the managers of the associations, support this bill. The reason they support it is that they will operate some of the registries and stand to make a lot of money. Some have already been given millions of dollars by the Library of Congress. Follow the money and you will see why some groups support this bill of legalized theft of everything you have ever created.

Two proponents of this new legislation are Corbis and Getty Images. They are large stock photo and stock art companies. They sell art and photos inexpensively and are trying to build giant royalty-free databases. Do you see how they could benefit from considering most works of art in the world orphans?

Do you know who owns Corbis? Bill Gates. He doesn't do anything unless it can make a huge amount of money. Helping you lose the copyright to your art is big business for Gates.

For years we've heard of Hollywood fighting with China to protect copyrights and stop the pirating of DVDs. Our government has worked with the studios to protect their investment.

Our government is NOW WORKING AGAINST US by allowing our own fellow citizens TO
STEAL OUR CREATIVE WORKS.

It will be easy for them to get away with it unless we make ourselves heard.

Your calls and letters do work. I've seen many instances in which a single letter made a difference in public policy. Tens of thousands of calls and letters help even more.

This is not empty talk. I have written letters to my congressmen and I will do so again. I do what
I can to let every creator know about terrible legislation like this... thus you are reading articles like this one and you can listen to interviews I've posted online.

CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR:Go to http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml to quickly find the phone number, address and e-mail of every U.S. senator, U.S. representative, governor and state legislator.

Forward this article to every creator you know and urge them to take a moment to protect their very livelihood. I am giving everyone the right to reprint this article in any form to help spread the word to protect our creative rights.

Instead of sitting around watching TV tonight, TiVo that show, write a letter and make yourself heard.

Letters to our government officials don't have to be long, but they should be heartfelt. A good story helps. Tell them who you are, how this legislation negatively affects you and that you want them to vote against the Orphan Works legislation. It's that easy!

If you don't, you will have only yourself to blame when you see other people making money from your art and you don't see a dime.

Spider-Man comic artist Alex Saviuk is also concerned about the loss of copyright protection. "When I found out all the negative aspects of the new legislation, it would almost behoove us to want to do something else for a living," says Saviuk. "If we would have to register with all the different companies, we would never be able to make a living."

"It would be impossible for me to register all my art," continues Saviuk. "It would put me out of business."

You can listen to my complete interview with Alex
online. Think this doesn't apply to you? Maybe you don't license your artwork? How about this?

Photos on the internet could be orphaned. With tens of millions of photos shared online with services like Flickr, Shutterfly and Snapfish, there is a huge opportunity for unauthorized use of your photos... legally.

You could see photos you take of your family and kids, or of a family vacation, used in a magazine or newspaper without your permission or payment to you. You would have to pay to register your photos, all of them, in every new registry in order to protect them. Say the average person takes 300 photos per year (I take a lot more than that). If a registry only charges $5 per image, that is a whopping $1,500 to protect your photos that are protected automatically under the current laws. If there are three registries, protecting your images could cost an amazing $4,500. Not to mention the time it would take to register every photo you take. Plus, you will also have to place your copyright sign on every photo.

That's not including all your art, sketches, paintings, 3D models, animations, etc. Do you really have all that extra time and money? Plus, even if you do register, the people stealing your work can still claim it was orphaned and, unless you fight them, they win. Even if you win, you may not make back your legal fees.

It gets even better. Anyone can submit images, including your images. They would then be excused from any liability for infringement (also known as THEFT) unless the legitimate rights owner (you) responds within a certain period of time to grant or deny permission to use your work.

That means you will also have to look through every image in every registry all the time to make sure someone is not stealing and registering your art. You could actually end up illegally using your own artwork if someone else registers it. DOES ANYONE SEE A PROBLEM WITH THIS?

Do you think the U.S. Copyright Office is here to protect you from this legislation? Think again.
Brad Holland of the Illustrators' Partnership shares his notes from a recent meeting with David
O. Carson, general counsel of the Copyright Office.

Brad Holland: If a user can't find a registered work at the Copyright Office, hasn't the Copyright
Office facilitated the creation of an orphaned work?

David O. Carson: Copyright owners will have to register their images with private registries.

BH: But what if I exercise my exclusive right of copyright and choose not to register?

DOC: If you want to go ahead and create an orphan work, be my guest!

This cavalier and disrespectful dialogue should have you seeing red. Who the hell does he think he is? Carson should be fired and RUN OUT OF WASHINGTON!

None of this could happen with our current laws. Our current laws work and they protect us and our creations.

The only people who will benefit from the copyright law change are those who can't create work on their own or companies who stand to make a lot of money from using our works of art. They make contributions to congressmen, which is why they get what they want. We need to stand up and be heard. Every one of you need to write your senators and representatives. We have to protect our livelihoods. It's that serious.

Plus, the technologies being developed for locating visual art don't work well enough. On March 13, 2008, PicScout, the creators of one of the software applications used in the registries, stated to the House IP subcommittee:
"Our technology can match images, or partial information of an image, with 99% success."

A 1% margin of error is huge when you consider the millions of searches performed for art every day. That means for every million searches, 10,000 images could be orphaned.

Plus, this only takes into account images registered on their system. If you have registered all your work on another system, they won't be searched here and, even though you may have spent thousands of dollars registering your creations, a new or unused directory could orphan everything you've ever created.

This is just one of the many reasons why INTERNATIONAL LAW FORBIDS COERCED

REGISTRATION as a condition of protecting your copyright. The United States is about to break international law by making us register our works. The people behind the bill say it's not forced registration, but you won't have any rights unless you register. THIS IS SEMANTICS! Of course, this is forced registration and we can't stand for it!

There are many, many other problems with the Orphan Works legislation. As a creator, YOU

MUST understand what is going on.

For additional information on Orphan Works developments, go to the IPA Orphan Works
Resource Page for Artists http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00185.

This is not something that is going to go away easily. We need to be vocal NOW!

This legislation has been beaten or delayed for the past two years and they will keep trying until it passes. This is no time to be quiet and see what happens. What will happen depends on you.

Send e-mails and call your congressmen. Ownership of your own creations depends on it.

Roger Dean sums this up well. "Where are the colleges and universities in all this? Has the whole world gone to sleep?"

GET ON ORPHAN WORKS E-MAIL LISTTo be notified of the latest information on the Orphan Works bill and when to contact your legislators, send an e-mail and ask to be added to the Orphan Works list.

AUDIO INTERVIEW LINKI have recorded a fantastic interview with Brad Holland of the Illustrators' Partnership regarding this bill and what it means to us as artists. Please listen and learn more about how you may lose ownership of all your art and photos. This article and the recorded interview are available for anyone to use in print or online. Please forward this information to every person and group you know so that we can work together and protect our creations and livelihoods.

Mark Simon is an award-winning animation producer/director and speaker. He speaks around the world on subjects about art, animation and TV production. His copyrighted companies may be found online at www.SellYourTvConceptNow.com and www.Storyboards-East.com. He may be reached at marksimonbooks@yahoo.com.

Portions of this article use information and phrasing provided by the Illustrators' Partnership.

The opinions expressed in this article reflect those of the columnist and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of AWN, Inc. and its affiliates.

MY 300

So right out you can tell that I don’t like this idea of the orphan works, it’s totally bullshit and I think that Mr. Mark Simon has said it all. It puts us as photographers and artist at risk more than we are today. Get this things like this have being going on forever, we do projects with our graphic design department here at Spokane Falls, they bring us in a product and we photograph it. Some designers and I personally don’t know who is teaching these ideas, but one designer brings in a peace, with a photograph of nuclear power plant on it, there advertising being “GREEN” so we ask him if he took that photograph, nope he got it off the internet, we asked him well did you pay for it, he said he didn’t think that he had to since there was no copyright stated on it. Later we search the image and find that it was in a stock photography web page and he took it off the display image which is tiny so he had to blow it up with little resolution to make it usable like he did. If he was working for any major company he would be fired right off the bat.

Who the hell takes other peoples images and uses them as their own. Well a lot of people actually, thats why you see me, not so much on my blog, put my bad luck images stamp on every photograph that I put on the internet if you look at my flicker you can really see it at work. You know why I do that cus people still shit people think that it’s on the internet so you can have free range on it. I worked so hard and many long hours to make those images what gives you the right to use them in any way. It sucks having to put that logo all over my photographs because it really takes away the meaning and the impact of it. Instead of looking at the photograph your trying to read what the logo says or your just looking at the logo. But it detours people they see it and think that it is copyrighted and that they would be in a world of trouble if they used it and it makes the photographs unusable in some ways you would have to take hours cloning out the logo in Photoshop and the photograph would never look the way it was meant to.

Back to the orphan works bill, if this bill ever past personally you would never ever see any of my photographs on the internet ever again. I like sharing my work with everyone even more with the people that read my blog but this takes the cake. I’m already thinking of going and reposting all my photographs that don’t have my logo on here, my blog, just to double protect myself.

Main this country is falling apart what next right.

i did it againt thank you............and IRON MAN REVIEW check it out it's totaly rocking socking robot tastic.

2008-05-02T08:45:00.004-07:00

Ok so I’m going to blog really fast then off to work again. Yesterday was hell-o busy I got a lot of things done and after I talked to you last I went and shot downtown for the second time for my internship this time focusing on Spokane landmarks like the Tint and Carrousel. I only got a couple photographs of a kid on a swing which didn’t turn out to well. After that I went and did my dust dig two shot of a building down town I made the mistake of setting up a little early and had to wait about two hours standing as still as I could so that I didn’t move the frame. I was set up in the back of my truck with two legs of my tripod on my black box and one on the roof of the truck. Since my black box isn’t secured down it moves with the slightest twitch.

After the almost two hours of standing there still in the cold with nothing on but a stripy zippy thing I finally got done with the shoot and ran into my truck to get warm. We planned to go to techno night before the movie so I rushed home legs all wobbly to get changed and showed up there to find out that it didn’t even open this time......come on we had a girl stand out there from like 8:30 and they didn’t even open……..i think I will have to call them sometime to see if they still have it going on.

Anyway after that disappointing we chilled at Sharie’s for a hour and a half before we went over to the IRON MAN premier at like eleven when we got there they were setting which was nice not having to wait in line to get in, my legs were still tired.

First the freaking previews were AWSOME they had one for the new Hulk movie which anything well be better than the last one. Of course a batman one, and and OMG I totally didn’t know that it was going to preview but OMG THE SPIRIT * uber uber SQUEEEEEEEEEEE* I swear the first five or six seconds I’m all like I know that saying and once I saw the black outlet with the red tie I swear to good I yell in the highest pitch voice that I didn’t even know I had IT”S THE SPIRIT I swear I totally freaked out like totally I probably had a couple people staring for the shear excitement of me seeing that preview it was like totally awesome and after words my heart was pounding. Yes I know uber geek but come on it THE SPIRIT. And for my normal readers I will explain a little Will Eisner awards is like the freaking noble peace prize of comic books and they were named after well Will Eisner who is bigger than like Stan Lee man Stan Lee, the only old man that I would ever marry, so he is the writer of the spirit well back when he was alive. Anyway the Spirit is like an old time detective, no super powers nothing but fast acting American muscle, and gorgeous looks. I almost died when saw the preview the movie is coming out in 2009.

IRON MAN REVIEW

Ok so on to the IRON MAN movie it was rocking not only was it funny and trust me it was really really funny but the actor that played Tony Stark and the graphics on iron man were great like man I can get over how good that movie was. There were some parts that I didn’t like though like most of the 20 minutes or so beginning but the rest of it was great. So I defiantly for comic book nerd/ geeks it’s a must see and for the average Joe its just a plain good movie with great humor and action. And just a hint I know how most comic book geeks are we stay tell they kick us out of the theater after all the credits are done, come on we know there is going to be something at the very very end so STICK Around for comic geeks it’s freaken awesome although I don’t think the Average Joe will get it but it’s still worth knowing know let’s hope and pray to how ever it may be that they don’t miss up any future IRON MAN movies like……………Spiderman……..which I was surprised and I know some of you were just hopping that there would be a Spider man four preview sorry to bust your bubble, not really, but there wasn’t score one for the sanity of myself and not having to go through another one of those movies again.

So I’m a little confused on what topic to write about there seems to be two pages calming to me may’s Totd so umm I’ll guess.

What I think today’s Totd is

The earth’s going to explode in ten minutes. How will you spend the rest of your life?

Come on ten minutes that seems a little unreasonable, would we really not know with all our technology if world destruction was only like ten minutes away. Will shoot I would probably as of now be franticly trying to get to the tri-cities to spend my last moments with my boyfriend yea only if I could travel at like 300 mph and meet him half way so um I would call him hopefully the phones work and tell him that I love him and all that jazz. That kind of a depressing topic………

ok got to get to work, and I’m very happy with myself…pats on back….. I’m operating on about four hours of sleep at top speed and have a lot of work done and to do……. hum now I’m at 979 words should I torture you and go on writing. Why yes I think I will. Still on the home front I have to edit about 200 or so pics for my internship it sound harder than it really is it will take me about two hours that’s what 4 images per minute maybe well it sounded impressive in my head.

O shoot I almost forgot there are only THREE of us left in the IMBC now THREE , wow that went down realy fast it’s only been like a month and comicon is only ONE WEEK away…………come on the final THREE.

Hyper.............................hyper....hyper...look tacos......mik tacos

2008-05-01T11:14:00.002-07:00

Finally got time to write this morning it’s been really busy so far which his great and I got a lot of work done so this isn’t really complaining it’s just informing. First I decided to be late to my 7:30 lab to sleep in a little only for about a half an hour but since I still I’m not getting any good sleep it really helps. I noticed that I’m starting to get bags under my eyes and all. Ok first off we watched the session premier of Farmer wants a wife last night just because me and heather are both country girls and city girls so we wanted to see how these “city” girls could handle the job. First off the farmer isn’t that hot I knew way hotter farmers then him in high school and second man these girls are stupid, one girl didn’t know rosters really crowed in the mornings and another was completely afraid of the chickens I can see being afraid of rosters but not chickens. Anyway it went on like usual reality shows went they kept the bitch of the group and eliminated one of the nice girl’s bla bla ba.

During most of the show I was doing my online class and I’m almost finished with it all I have left is the final and one more writing assignment this was the class that I was totally freaking over because I didn’t have the book for it but I just took the test a couple of times to get better grades now all I have to do is catch up in my Photoshop class or finish it then all I have to do is concentrate on my Dig two that I have been lacking on.

So this morning after I woke up I went into my lab and wrote the Photo Club blurb it wasn’t my best work but it got the job done. Then I have a shoot at 11:30 with the Imagecon Digital Hasselblad which I’m not really looking forward to, I just hope it gets over quick. After school I got to go shoot more for my internship since it’s actually a nice day then shoot for my dig two for my dusk architectural thingy. And after that we are going to try and catch techno night at elements again then we are off to the midnight premiere of IRON MAN yes I had to cap all of it come on its IRON MAN not only does it look like a rocking movie it looks like it fallow the comic book a little unlike the spider man movies cures you again……* shaking fist*….

Ok so I’m kind of full of energy but I’m getting hungry damn that half an hour more sleep really helped uh ow yea guess what it’s MAY which means that I have lasted a hole month in the IMBC and that comicon is only 10 more days away and that in 31 more days I’m turning twenty one.

May is the greatest month ever ok ok ok lets talk about the

Totd…..dan dan da………………………….

which is actually something somewhat interesting.

Who do you think killed JFK???????????????????????

Will I shouldn’t be saying this on the interwebs cus you know there always watching and I might end up dead in a matter of seconds….but I really think the government killed him…..don’t ask me why cus I’ll go into the hole controversy thing….. but I really think that the government had a lot to do with his death and that they have a lot to do with a lot of things but I’m a little to hyper right know so I’m just going to leave it as that and go see if I can get some food before my shoot.

PC vs MAC i hate you all

2008-04-30T11:07:00.001-07:00

I heard back from the Inlander yesterday, the lead photographer wrote me an e-mail, yea that all I get after being stud up is an e-mail asking to see my portfolio and wondering how much work I needed. Well right now I am making a QuickTime slide show portfolio and I’m going to try and e-mail it to him. I understand that they are really busy people but this is a bad business practice you wouldn’t treat a client this way so why treat someone who is willing to work for you for free this way it’s very disconcerting and if I didn’t want this job as much as I do then I would have given up the day he ditched my interview. And it makes me wonder if I get the internship I’m wondering if this is the way they are going to be treating me the entire time I’m working there. Well I shouldn’t say they it’s mostly just the lead photographer they do need help there just not willing to let a new person in.

On IMBC news the web site has yet to be refreshed so I don’t get the satisfaction of being in the top five yet. And overall the internet is getting pretty boring.

I need to get some new programs on my Cp cus I’m so tired of going from PC to MAC because the teaches here want things done on MACs that you can’t do on a regular PC. If that makes any since at all, I need to make a slide show portfolio and only Imovie does that within the teachers regulations meaning that I have find a program that is just as good but will work on a PC. It s really stupid I really should have gotten a MAC. This same problem happens with garage band, but I got a couple of program names for a teacher that will hopefully be able to sub for those MAC programs. Stupid PC vs MAC thing…..i guess I’ll just have to buy a MAC sooner or later.

Shoot totally forgot about comic booking got to go…..

Today’s Totd

Getting older……………………

I don’t mind getting older right now I expect when I get in my late 20’s I’ll dislike it. But this year I’m turning 21 and that is totally rocking. I seem pretty young especially around the photography building. My life is just getting started and I can’t wait to be one my way out of school and out there leaving the life of a starving artist.

Just looked at the IMBC page it got updated huum I wonder if he was reading my mind anyway only four of us left now…….and I’m at the top in order of signing up, there were people ahead of
me but they got eliminated . I don’t like being at the top……….save me.

Comicons, cubes, and............mormons?

2008-04-29T09:43:00.003-07:00

So today opens with news,

I was watching it this morning and found that out of a percentage of girls taken from that compound in Texas 31 girls from the age of fourteen too seventeen were either excepting a child or have a child. Well there is your proof you sick sick people. I was watching an interview with the mothers of these children a week or so ago and the hole time the Today show was asking “what age are the girls when there aloud to get married” the mothers were “it’s their choice we” “what age are the girls when they can get married” “it’s their choice” here is the link to the interview, the part that I’m talking about is toward the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSj3IM-gqIM&NR=1

It’s kind of sickening.

Some more downer news Timco is out of the IMBC…..that one kind of sticks I really did enjoy his blog and the Signing Viking web site and I thought he would be the only one along with me up to keep this going tell 127 days. Well I enjoyed you while you lasted hope for the best for you and your gang. That’s if you read this if not ummmmm you should.

Yesterday didn’t go to bad I went into my internship around 11 we talked about what I would be doing and she gave me a list of things to shoot downtown. So I made my way down town which was harder than you think people in Spokanecanamaniacs I think have been getting worse at driving I almost got on three accidents on the ten minute drive to down town. I know I’m a pretty lazy driver but it’s always calculated and I have never gotten so close to hitting someone that they had to honk their horn to worn me. Stupid Spokane drivers………who are half my audience.

So I got down town and started going and asking random families if I could take pictures of them out with their kids. Which I’ve never really done before. Anyway I got about four families with kids and bla bla bla.

Comicon is only two weeks away I’m pretty excited about it, now Logan is coming……….Yep yep yep. Yep. yeah ok. Weee comicon.

Ok Today’s Totd.

Cubes…………………………………………………….

I use to work in a cubical at a phone company it wasn’t too bad we would toss a football around when we got bored talking to customers and if you got a sale you could blow bubbles. I don’t like those Rubix cubes I can never do them. And none of my favorite foods a cubical. I hate the movie Cube totally stupid, and I don’t think inside the box. So you can say I don’t really like cubes.

uuuummmm.........hey whats up ; )

2008-04-28T10:44:00.001-07:00

So today I’m getting ready for my first day interning at Northwest Women’s Magazine. I was wanting to get there around 11 up and ready so hopefully writing doesn’t take me to long. I guess I always find myself in these situations that’s what I get for writing in the morning.

Yesterday didn’t turn out to bad I started feeling better after I got up and going, my sister,
Ryan, and I went looking at lap tops for her and then went out for Mexican which was really good.

After that I was uber tired and crashed for two point five seconds before we went and played games at the underground. Saturday night we played games also. We started with some Bonanza which we played wrong the first time around which I won the second time Ryan won. It is a pretty good game except that if you want to get to a card in your hand you have to give away the ones in front of it. Making bargain or just give away cards to people you’re playing against. Wasn’t too happy about that. After that we played this one game that I didn’t like and can’t quite remember the name of but it reminded me of Tetris……..i think it started with a G. Anyhow we tiered out before we got to Manhattan. Owell get it next time. So on Sunday we went there me kind of dead tired and played Alhambra the dice game which was a good game although there was a lot of luck to it which you know me the bad luck girl I don’t tend to like games like that but the strategy part of it was great. And after playing it wrong the first two rounds we finally picked up on it right before I had to leave for Spokane.

Then got back and went to sleep I was so tiered…….

Today’s Totd

Hair……………………

ok this topic have been kind of whatever so here goes talking about hair

I like hair wow that just sound really weird ok how bout this you know when someone asks you if you a leg guy or but guy well girls do it too as you all probably know well I like a guy with a good hair still on him with hair or none just one that looks good for that persons body type you know. I do like bald men like that British guy from transporter Jason Statham, and Vin diesel. But I like guys with hair to like my boyfriend has really great hair a really great black and just the right length. I don’t like to eat hair though I have a story about one of the restrains up here in Spokane that deals with me eating hair not to pleasant I didn’t even get the meal free because of it. But Heather did.

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2008-04-27T10:24:00.000-07:00

Last night’s shoot went pretty bad not only did I not have a spot meter I didn’t have a digital camera. So I guessed a lot I had no idea what shutter speed to use. We’ll just have to see what happens.

Right now I kind o feel like crap I have a huge headrace and I think I finally got the cold thing that I have been fighting off for a while. I blame it on everyone around me being sick and the need to kiss my boyfriend every once in a while…ewwww kissing right.

Yesterday we ran a bunch of errands, we picked up my bike from the shop, got my glasses fixed, went and got my tuck who was getting new tires on him, and pick up some pizza’s for the family.

The pizza lady kind of made me angry, I know she has to sell the specials but every time I said a pizza she tried to fix it in a way like can I get and medium cheese and a medium cowboy………you know it would be cheaper if you got the family size half and half………no I want one medium cheese and a cowboy……but we have a promotion……lady look I’m a god damn vegetarian and I don’t want go god damn meet on my pizza cus let’s face it the meet always runs over…….ok anything else yes on medium cowboy without the tomato sauce because my sister is allergic……would you want to make that a large for a dollar more…..this is the point when I reach over the counter and smash her head into the wall five hundred times saying you want to make that a large it only a dollar more.

so since I’m not feeling to well I’m just going to write the 300 minimum.

Today’s Totd

greatness…………………………..

My head hurts so this is going to suck.
With great power comes great responsibility, right no great power is different from greatness. I think someone who has achieved greatness in their life haven’t done so my gaining power I think it’s more like peace within themselves and good honest work. With the love of other people by there sides. Like Gondi, and Martin Luther King Jr. they didn’t seek power for greatness they achieved peace for greatness.

ok that’s it I could write more but don’t want to.

ttlylolomgbrbgtgjkbffposasl

2008-04-26T08:47:00.004-07:00

I had my interview with the Inlander yesterday it went ok besides the photography editor that I set up the interview with supposable wasn’t going to be in that day…….yep pushed to the curb.

It’s ok I guess I got to interview with the editor of the magazine though he was really nice and was slightly upset at the photographer dude. Anyway I just decided that I wanted to just be a shadow or assistant to other photographers for this inter I told him I was not confident in my photojournalistic ways yet but to watch someone in action would be a real learning opportunity.

So that’s how that went he said he’d give me a call.

I am currently in the tri-cities we drove in around 6:30 last night the second I got here I was bored, I think I had to many mountain dews on the way, we hit up the Underground then went scouting for a good place to shoot. I checked out a 4x5 camera from the school and loaded 6 film backs with some color transparency film. I will be taking night shoots of the cable bridge which is going to be a challenge because somebody……..Jason………took the spot meter that I checked out and I stupidly forgot the battery for the digital I have and hand meter though which doesn’t help much. The cage should really start putting those damn batteries back in the cameras.

So today I well go to Circuit City and see how much a battery will cost, I need to fix my glasses so I’ll take those to wal-mart, and figure out how I’m going to get the 4x5 to the location that I found by clover island which isn’t really an island more of a peninsula. I’ll be shooting or setting up and shooting from like 7 tell 8 ish I might have to do a two or three minute exposures, I need to remember to bring a watch.

And I guess Hjo3 is in town so tonight after my shoot we might go to the Underground and play some games.

ok I think that’s all I have.

Today’s Totd

Beverages…………………………………………………

um I like to drink……not like alcohol but like I’m always thirsty for some reason so I like to drink beverages. I like water but not the tap that comes for tri-cities or Spokane but well water form back in Idaho I still get it every once in a while when we go up to Heather’s parents house. I like mountain dew if you already didn’t know. And yea nothin else to say on the subject……..o what does anyone know how to make a Scooby Snack now this is a alcoholic drink but we heard about it somewhere and didn’t know what was in it.

I hit 1,079 words today hell yeas……bet that whoot.

2008-04-25T11:13:00.004-07:00

So today is the day that I have the interview with the Inlander………not sure how I feel about them anymore. I think since I have the intern at Northwest Women’s magazine I might not work at the Inlander, even though it would be really good for me and help me a lot in the future…..I don’t know maybe I’m just nerves I’ll just have to see what happens.

Last night me and the girls hit the town, we got all dressed up and hit the club around 10 only to find that it was closed. I guess it actually opens at 9, which I didn't know, and they waited for about a half an hour and nobody showed so they closed. We got there and the whole place was locked up with no one in sight. Very very disappointing, that would have been the first night that I’ve been out in a while. Since school and things are so busy.

But we recovered the night and went to blockbuster to grab the new Day of the Dead the need to feed movie which we were expecting to be lame but maybe not so much it was pretty boring, and we found ourselves cracking jokes and comments every five second. People hate us in movie theaters, we just can’t take anything seriously, you should have seen the riot we caused the last time the gang went to the theaters we watched Sweeny Todd and we all couldn’t stop laughing.

Anyway on to the Zombieness I have seen my share of Zombie movies but this one was “wacked” the Zombies were all like supper fast and could climb up walls and on sealings, messed up right. And they retained a fragment of themselves when they became Zombies so if you were supper smart or something, you would just be a supper smart dead person who craved the flesh of humans. One the good side of the movie though there were some kick ass chicks in it, you know normal women with all their clothes on fighting like hell against the Zombie invasion. More women survived then men in this movie. Yep girl power. Also Nick Cannon was in it with a kick ass sword, we think his career might be going down because it was about a B movie. And one of my friends was happy to see him go down. I was sad cus his kick ass sword went with him. I know spoiler but come on like your really going to watch this movie and like any black guy survives in films like these.

After the movie we sat and talked about like most weird people do after a Zombie movie what else but how to survive a Zombie attack. Emily brought up the greatest place to set up camp……Wal-mart Superstore. We all agreed that that was the greatest place. First of all come on its Wal-mart, you have food, beds, guns, clothes, batteries, everything you need when Zombies attack. We sat there for a while thinking of everything we could use to make weapons. When you have five somewhat intelligent people, three being photographers who are the modern day Macgyvers, comic book geeks, SCA people, a pirate, a couple ninja’s and people who do nothing else but plan scenarios of Zombie attack you will be surprised of what we come up with. We talked in like a brainstorm pattern, thinking of how we could use everyday things that are all wal-mart to build an arsenal. We came up with tennis ball bombs, a flame thrower, Barbie doll bombs (that one was great), electric fences, Hannah Montana Russian Cocktails, shrapnel targets, remote control car guns, and more. I came up with making a bomb out of those little kid motor vehicle things and sending out the front door with a meaty manikin on it. We would all watch the action on the roof. Some of the ideas that we came up with were really great completely useless but great.

At the end of the night I went home and had Zombie movies, I came up with a great idea though and I can’t believe no one has thought of it yet, if you are driving through a Zombie movie anytime soon why not take some olive oil, I think it would be the best cus I don’t think it catches fire, but anyways get the olive oil and drench your car in it that way you have none of those pesky Zombies grabbing a hold of your car and braking through the windows…….huhu it’s that great……well I thought it was pretty cool.

Today’s Totd

The scariest thing you have ever seen………………………………

This may contain explicit content.

Warning: this is a pretty sad and touchy thing.

I have had a lot of experience with death in my short twenty years of life. A lot more than some people have in their lifetime, I admire those people. I have been to more funereal and have had more friends die then I can count on both hands. The worst of them all though happened my senior year in high school, my good friend, who I knew since seventh grade brother died from mixing alcohol with prescription drugs, he was only fifteen. A bunch of drama lead them to open the casket after the ceremony for goodbye’s I held my friends had while she went up to say goodbye, I didn’t agree with it but had to support my friend. When someone passes away you want to remember them as there were not how they are lifeless and alone and that’s what I told her but we went up anyway. It’s was the most terrible and scariest thing that I have seen. A boy that I have known since I was young lying there like that, it was horrifying. The image still sticks in my head every time I think about him. Afterwards my friend agrees that I was right and that she shouldn’t have went up there but there is no taking that back, ever. I can say now thought that I’m not really fearful of anything and whatever I am afraid of I can overcome it. Now I know that other people have seen way more horrifying things but that was the only scariest thing I want to see in my entire life.

I well leave this on a good note though……well for me.

I hit 1,079 words today hell yeas……bet that whoot.

Bored to death yet well you will be...after this

2008-04-24T13:49:00.004-07:00

So blog blog blog blog blog.

I got pie, that was the big thing that happened yesterday, besides me getting the internship for Northwest Women’s Magazine, the pie was to celebrate that.It was really good pie the same kind I was gushing over last time. I think it is Maire Calendar or something like that frozen desserts. Nummy Dutch Apple pie.

So I went into Albertsons to get me some pie and found some there was some discounted, because the box was broken from 7 dollars to 4 sweet right the pie was in plastic so it was ok. so I went to the front to check out and told the lady it was discounted she thought I was talking about the Albertsons card thing. So she charged me 7 dollars I got some balls by the time I hit my truck and turned back and went to the customer services desk telling my tale. And the lady sad sorry and gave me the pie along with my money back. This = free pie.

Nothing really going other than that cool story though.

Didn’t get any good sleep yet again and I’m going to keep commenting on this tell something or one helps me.

Going to the tri-cities again this weekend this will be the last time for a while that I can go down cus school is getting me busy.

Yet again if you want to hit techno night at elements with us we will be there tonight.

Shoot I have nothing else to really talk about sorry you guys this one really sucks it might just be because I’m kind of tired or bored as hell well here is a story about my pie finding if you are
really bored it might be fun to read.

The story of pie

Hi I'm Hammy * waves*

(Yes I know I’m breaking the fourth wall for you comic book geeks but o well.)

I got myself an internship with a really great Magazine today and wanted to celebrate so I’m off the local grocery store to me some pie…..and maybe some ice cream to really spoil myself. Plus dad’s buying.

La de da deda I walk in to the store, hi welcome to ________. I walk passed and smiled.

don da don

Upon entering the store I notice nothing out of the usual parents with winy little kids, old people that walk to slow, but something catches my eye in the right side of the store in the produce section I see the produce misters go off spraying nothing but roughen produce.

I walk passed them slowly in suspension of why they were spraying on the produce, that would kill them dead like that.

I don’t touch it but walked faster as to not contaminate myself with the foul smell.

I have an overwhelming feeling that I need to get my pie as fast as I can so that I can get free of this demon hole.

I’m still making my way ‘why does the pie have to be all the way in the back’ I think to myself.

Then suddenly, out of the blue, with no warning I hear a manly scream.

don da don

I run full heartedly to the scream’n man or what I belived was a scream’n man worried that poor person has sarcom to the evil produce misters.

I see some poor thing lay’n on the floor

“hey mister you’ll ok”
…….

“mister” I poke him with a stick

The body roles over and I see the evil that has plagued this store printed on this poor man’s face

don da don

“Oreo’s what the h@#$ I thought some brother was getting shook up.”

I yells

“Na it’s some skinny guy stuff’n his face with Oreos.”

“what the h#@$’s wrong with you man”

I kick the guy for maken me run and mess up my pop and locken outfit.

My foot goes right through the SOB skin and all.
Hi it’s me again Hammy I’ll give you the rest of my story tomorrow if I feel like it and if I get positive responses it so far that means if you read it and liked it and want to hear more than
COMMENT –k-

See told you I was bored

Today’s Totd.

Hugs………………………

Up until my second year at college I really didn’t like being touched by anyone not my family boyfriends best friends none. Even when I was a little squishy thing I cried every time someone picked me up. So when ever family would visit or even saying goodbyes at my high school graduation I cringed at the feel of being hugged. But know for some weird resign I’m slightly over it not fully but just a little I can stand it when my friends leg touches mine and when my Ryan hugs me I like that a lot. He is a good hugger. So I’m getting better.

Just try it I dare you

2008-04-23T14:15:00.002-07:00

You will not defeat me so easily, I’m stubborn as hell, love to write, have somewhat interesting things to talk about, and I have no life.

Woot I think I’m the only girl left in the IMBC now, but you never know with online things. And I promise you I will rock this, I will rock it so hard. Yes I know how that sounds. But I will win, who is with me……no one……………I see how things are……….fine………I’ll go Emo in the corner.

I had my interview with Northwest Women’s magazine today and totally rocked it. Well not really the editor really needed a photographer on the team and who else better than an intern that you don’t have to pay for. But it’s ok though I really don’t mind it gets my name out there and my work. I get great resume and portfolio stuff. And learn how it really is to work for a magazine. If this all goes good I will graduate with my AAS and work experience in magazines which will help me land any work gig in the tri-cities.

I’m really wary about the Inlander now though I would love to intern for them but things are getting really busy with Blooms day coming up and I’m not that fully confident in me photojournalism yet. We will see what happens, I wouldn’t mind just being an assistant and not actually taking photographs just to get the feel of the environment. But they so only run about ten photographs each issue.

Went comic booking today had some good conversations with the guys, we even talked about ‘munchkin’ I didn’t think any of them where bored games but they seemed to like it just as much as I do.

On other news I will be going to techno night this Thursday at Elements be sure to come if you are in Spokane. People in Spokane don’t seem to like techno to much so if they don’t get enough people soon they won’t do it anymore.

Today’s Totd……………..gosh I’m kind of getting tired of these things

What's your favorite entertainment medium quote?.........................................................

This is my most resent favorite quote. Ok so this one is hard it you never seen the thing but there are this mini stop motion action figure movies on youtube called DC vs Marvel, I have talked about them before. Anyway Iron man is a recovering alcoholic, as in the comics, well superman or is it batman well one of them gives him alcohol so he precedes to get plastered drunkenly saying “I am Iron man da da da da dada daaaa” in the tone to the Iron man Black Sabbath song, over and over again. When I think about it is that really a quote or is it a phrase or a song…….hum I don’t know. If all else fails this quote is my second favorite “We are

Sparta”…..great movie.

Sorry about the smushyness Blogger won't publish my blog with brakes today for some resion

turkey of the day

2008-04-22T12:32:00.001-07:00

So I’m such a retarded spaz that when I looked at the IMBC page to see if anyone was eliminated I mistakenly thought that I was, giving myself a heart attack. But no fear blog followers I am still in the running to be America’s Next Top Model….wait that’s not right is it…See spaz.

So yesterday I did the whole run in the morning and run around town go to school work thing and it completely wore me out I hit the sack around 8:30 but didn’t get any good sleep. Well so much for the natural bring on the sleepy pills. From all that execution of energy I woke up with a head ach this morning and it didn’t go away tell me and Care hit the IHOP’s.

And OMG guess what………I totally got an interview with both the Inlander on Friday and Northwest Women’s Magazine on Wednesday it’s it totally rocking cool, but I can’t get my hopes up or anything like that. I don’t have very much photojournalism photographs in my portfolio well none really but I just decided to become one and am totally shy. Someone better wish me luck cus bad luck girl is going to need it.

After our Lab this morning me and Care went to Target to get her a bad hair day hat, she really needed one every time she walked in front of me I laughed my ass off, due to the many cow licks. We went there then got breakfast at IHOP’s which was really nummy stuffed French toast with strawberry’s and some hash browns. Good breakfast haven’t had one of those for a while.

We were talking about photography and me maybe interning for the coolest free news paper in Spokane while we were paying for breakfast. And got in a conversation with the waitress about photography. I know this is lame but it made me feel like a real photographer.

I went and shot St. John’s cathedral too yesterday among many other this I forgot how beautiful that church was and how welcoming the people there are to photographers. It’s truly a great place I will have to post the pictures when I’m done editing them.

Today’s Totd!

What are your feelings on hot dogs?..................

Personally I think there made of lips and well you know the rest. Other than that I can’t say much for or against them I haven’t eaten one since I was about six years old and think there icky to look at but fun treats for my cat DC. Up until I became a full time tree hugging, bunny love-in, vegetableterrain I liked eating baloney which was only tell like age seven yep a year later. Big whoop.

and......the end

2008-04-21T09:46:00.003-07:00

So the one person that I though could win it all is out of the IMBC. Sad....aww I’ll get over it.

Every time I go to the Tri-cities I always get pulled five different directions between, Ryan, my sister, my other sister, things I need to get done there, my mom, it’s pretty hard. I know poor me right I just can’t wait for school to be over and moved down to the Tri-cities.

Only 53 more days tell I hopefully graduate.

It snowed today again and won’t stop for a while I’m getting really tired of it and everyone else is to there all grumbly and mad all the time because it’s not spring yet.

I went for a run today and found out that I’m in worst shape then I thought I was only bad it about a half a mile before I killed over in some grass wesing. I’m going to start running and doing a little work out every day see if it will help me with my energy levels and sleep. I figure if I get up around five each morning run work out take a shower do home work write my blog then go to school work school angina and when I find an internship go there I think I will be tired enough to get some good sleep and I want to lose some weight. Since complaining about it like so many other girls do won’t do anything, I got to get out there and get shit done. That’s my new outlook on life. And I have to stop being so darn shy and call places and get an internship.

After I right this I have to right a blarb on the photo club trip since I was widely nominated for the position. They think I’m a good writer *>>>>>><<<<<<<* <- that’s a uber squeeee. I think when I start at CBC (Columbian Basin College, in Tri-cities) I’ll take some writing and of course journalism classes and get involved with the school paper, if they have one.

Ok I got to finish this fast so I can get going.
today’s Totd!

Color…………………

Color is what the makes the world somewhat less disgusting…and somewhat more. In photography it is either helpful or hurtful you can have a great photograph but have a red trash can that draws your eyes away from the subject or that trashcan can be the subject drawing people eyes into the photograph. The lack of color is good too some of my favorite photographs are black and white and wouldn’t work any other way. But color is great you get sunrise/sets, the sky I love the color of the sky. And without color I wouldn’t have my favorite thing on earth the color green.Ok done I need to read over the roles again to see how the Totd actually works.

Family time, family ties

2008-04-20T10:36:00.001-07:00

Yay we are in the twenties only 107 days tell I bet last year’s IMBC winners blog that’s if someone in this contest besides me can last that long. Yes I’m calling you out….yes you the one in the IMBC…no not the guy next to you…you…gosh.

We’re dropping like flies know in the IMBC whoot. One more is out leaving eight.

yesterday was the fateful day that Ryan met some of my family. Besides him getting me lost once then me getting myself not really lost just took the wrong road, I knew where I was going the whole time, we got there without a hitch. First thing my cosine does when we get there is she hugs him and says welcome to the family, I chuckled and though about what was in store for him, poor guy never saw what was coming. No I’m joking it wasn’t that bad every one hit it off good and besides him felling a little out of place, welcome to my world, everything went great. At the end we took a group picture and said our goodbyes.

Then it was the trip home in the dark on the back roads. We were following my parents but I just had to stop and get a picture of this lone tree on the side of the road with a full moon in the back ground. But my camera decided to shit out on me…….grumble grumble errrrrrr… it’s really my fault for not having a camera of my own yet……but mostly I blame all the people who don’t treat them right and the school for not keeping up on fixing them I told them like five hundred times that, that camera has something wrong with it and every time they “take it in” and say they fix it but in actuality it still doesn’t work. Sorry that was just a little rant.

Anyway on the way home we lost my parents when we stopped for the picture, I thought that I knew the road well enough to navigate my way back. Not the case we took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in Pendleton…we took like the thirty mile route to Pendleton from Adams when it’s only 10 miles away on the highway…we stopped to eat, me knowing my way around Pendleton a little, and got to the freeway. I would have been more confided in my direction if all the signs on the freeway weren’t saying 170 miles to Portland….130 miles to Portland…..and so on….it wasn’t until I saw a Hermiston 25 miles sign tell I relaxed then got freaked all over again when they stopped. It was like did we pass it or blink and it was gone. So I take the next exit which was Hapner or something and ask for direction, since I’m a girl I can do that, I come to find that we are in Hermiston and just need to get back on the freeway and follow the signs. Long behold about five miles after we stopped for directions there is a stupid sign saying Kennewick 22 miles.

I ended up being tired as hell and having a weird worry stomach thing on the rest of the way home holding down whatever was wanting to come up and trying to stay on the road. I could have let Ryan drive but was stubborn and wanted to see the whole trip through. You know the whole if you start something you better finish it thing. All in all it was a good lost trip me and Ryan got to talk a lot and we found out new things about each other. It was good, next time I think I well get a map where ever we go.

Today’s Totd….and I’m guessing that right cus know one has corrected me yet.
Bugs………

I am an unusual girl I don’t mind buts, spiders, flying things, beetles, whatever they don’t really bug me, hehehe get it bug me….hey these are the jokes people. So the only bug that gets to me though are ants I hate ants there just so small and I don’t know I just have a hatred for them I step on everyone that I see, and I’m a vegetation. I think it goes back when I was a kid we would be walking through one of our fields and stumble upon a fire ant hill every once in a while and get bet to high heaven. This happened a lot with ants, hornets, bee’s nests. I must have been stung by all those a hundred or more times a summer. It’s weird that I’m not dead or allergic to them now. So that’s why I don’t like ants and can feel completely calm around bee’s and why I’m ok with other bugs once you leaved with them for thirteen years of your life you don’t really mind them anymore.

I do miss the good old days running around in my Leonardo pj’s sticking my sisters with my staff and yelling calla bunga dude at everyone

2008-04-19T08:35:00.001-07:00

today’s blog is slightly boring I blame it on the weekend……and I'm tired

Well I’m up in the Tri-cities and couldn’t get a wink of sleep, I really should start looking into sleep aids considering that I wake up every hour or so in the middle of night and wake up at 6:00 not being able to go back to sleep. Mwaa so this blog might be a little tired word talky things babble.

We did end up doing some important work for that lab class that I was late for yesterday… I think I’ll just name Fridays as my late day. Anyway got done with that and ran over to the photo building to get my camera, then went to the comic book shop to get my weekly comics, which I usually get on Wednesday, nothing new though I finally am caught up with Spirit whoot.

I had to run back to the photo building before they closed around 3:00 to get a lens cap and sat there talking with a couple photo friends for a while. We talked for a good half an hour it was nice to have someone other than the normal people to talk to plus these guys are like the “fun” people in the photo building.

Anyway we are taking our track to Adams today I might get lost since this well be the first time I have driven there without my parents guiding way (don’t tell Ryan) and we are taking the back way. Well hopefully we well have phone service when we get lost so that I can just whip out good old map quest or google maps Ryan can be my navigator. Yea right whenever you need it, it won’t be there right. It well either be bitterly cold there or hot as hell we haven’t decided yet.
I have noticed the degrading state of Saturday morning cartoons. The old saying there not as good as they use to be hits me. You remember when we had the bugs bunny show, good old teenage mutant turtles, and the first session of Pokémon (I love how word thought my spelling without the accent was wrong so it corrected it for me) . Ooo I miss the original Digimon and caption plant. Know you have the good mixed in with the bad we are know in the what 11th session of Pokémon and it’s no longer japans, there are weird stupied shows like skunk fu, chaotic, the weird TNMT, Tak and the power of juju cartoon, and world of quest. They are even having more live action shows on ABC which aren’t as good as cartoons. I do think there are some good ones though like teen titans, the batman, legion of superheroes, and Avatar. But I do miss the good old days running around in my Leonardo pj’s sticking my sisters with my staff and yelling calla bunga dude at everyone.

Ok enough reminiscing time for the Totd….still don’t know if I’m writing that right….too lazy to check.

Heat…………..I would rather be cold then hot, that might just be because I grew up in north Idaho were it was cold most of the time even in the summer or that I just find recovering from cold is easier than from heat. Like you can get frost bite and have some chance of not losing any limbs but it you get burnt well they burn off thats the extreme of both cases though. I think it is easier for me to put on a blanket and find a comfortable warmth then it is for me to find way of reliving heat besides getting wet.

I find it good for cooking though and there is too much of it in the Tri-cities.

no really mom there is a monster in the toilet

2008-04-18T10:32:00.004-07:00

I’m going to try and see if I can write this bad boy in under a half an hour…. I don’t think that I can do it.

After yesterday’s fiasco with all the 101’s running around with clucking like chickens I’m not quit looking forward to today.

aaaa only like two sentences into this and I’m getting distracted. Why can’t word just read my mind and write it down or I could just talk and it would write that down. Dang technology not being up to my comic book mind standers curse. It’s not like I can’t just post this when I get to the Tri-cities today but if I start doing that then I will be like all the other IMBC people posting at the last minute and it might become a habit.

Speaking of IMC another one is out leaving…..hold on let me check….nine people in the running.

I hope to make it to the top three…can we do it ….this is the part where you shout…..yes we can…..come on I know it’s crazy to shout at your computer but I do it all the time. I even swear at it, good thing I don’t have kids right.

Any way I’m deciding to go to my 10:30 lab today just because the last time I missed it we did important stuff that I missed out on know I’m late on the first assignment. So I shall force myself out of my blogging need to go to class when the time hits 10:24 that’s the plus about living right next to the school.

I got five out of fourteen of those nasty little Photoshop assignments done know I can say that getting that book was a good idea. The assignments are really…..boring well not challenging for a second year photography student the only challenging part is doing what the book tells you since there are a lot of easier ways of completing the assignments. I just haven’t figured out how to cheat the system yet so that I can do it the faster way without getting docked points.

wow this thing is going to be full of Grammar mistakes because I’m trying to write it so fast.
I didn’t go comic booking Wednesday cus I just didn’t feel like it blasphemy right well I am kind of busy with school stuff and I’m a little behind in every class, that’s what I get for cramming in 21 credits.

I am slowly running out of Photo Club Trip pictures I got about three days more should last me tell the weekend is over then I will probably have more form going to Adams. My poor boyfriend will be stuck in my truck with me stopping ever five minutes if I see something cool to photograph plus Adams is a really old small town I’m sure to find some interesting things there.

And five minutes in counting I will talk about the Totd… did I write that right? we may never know

The moment in your life that you're the least proud of

I’m not proud of a lot of things that I have done just like everyone else. Stilling when I was like five, lying to mom that I didn’t break that antique tea cup, blaming things on my sisters you know the everyday things that we go through growing up. That’s the point of growing up you make mistakes that you’re not proud of and learn your lesson, most of the time. If we dwelt on the things that we went proud of it just makes us miss out on opportunities to make other mistakes and learn from them even in my twenty’s I’m learning all sort of different things, especially being in college from mistakes that I make and sure I’m not proud of them but I think I’m a better person for making them and learning form them.

I can tell you all the things I am proud of though it may go one for a while, I’m proud that I’m the first person in my family to make it through college, I’m proud of the people I know and have meet through my life, I’m proud that I have a great boyfriend and achieved happiness through him, I’m proud of all the people I have helped and will help in the future friend family complete strangers, but most of all I’m proud of who I am and how I came out and am proud of my parents for doing that god forsaken job of raising me.

Well crud late for class so much for that idea.

Blogger was being a butt and not adding my image I blame it all on you blogger....bad blogger know go sit in the corner. A nother glad moment i dont have kids.

Big red shiny things and what not

2008-04-17T11:38:00.002-07:00

ok so I need to write my blog real fast so that I can get back to work. I finally just broke down and found that book that I needed for my online Photoshop class cost me 40 dollars but I’m going to be done with the class like in four days because I can just sit down and do the assignments on my own time.

I finally figured out how to make that dang water mark on the Pc with help of one of my teachers. it ended up being totally easy but not like you couldn’t use any of the short cut keys and sometimes you used alt and sometimes ctrl for the substitution of Apple. So if you need to make a Watermark action droplet on a Pc just let me know I’ll be happy to help.

It’s not too far into the quarter here at SFCC but people are running around like chickens with their heads chopped of this morning already is crazy as hell. Working in the cage I get most of it of the crap, something’s though are truly funny. Like this morning a 101 was rinsing her film in the sink were the Photo flow is (if you are in the photo program you know where it is) anyway she put the water tub in her tank and instead of tuning the water down she turned it way up shooting the water out a medium size hole. It got the entire sink and sealing, the floor all the way to the chemical mixing room socked and herself slightly moist. I laughed my ass of as I helped her clean up but that was the most fun thing to happen so far. Most of the 101’s mess up one their first time developing film, another story is of a girl that forgot to turn of the main light in the developing room and yanked out her film…yep it came out black as night.
I really should start talking about the Totd…… aeee…. I’ll just wait for one that I like I guess or know can talk about for more than the definition.
Exuberance-joyful enthusiasm

Ok so I wanted to start talking about stuff that was actually worth wild…..any suggestions….I got nothin.

I love how Microsoft work corrects thing that you mean to have wrong, yep I type my blog in word first. Mostly b/c of the spelling but also if for some reason my cp crashes or freezes like it likes to do or I accidently erase my blog I can always recover it with the system I have it auto saved if anything gets turned off and I have a undo button the most glories button in the entire world…besides the big red one in the white house that can blow everyone up…yes yes the second most glories button in the world… well technology it’s not a button is it…..I don’t know... it’s just really cool and well save my ass one day.

Well I should go help this 101 found the world of photography….she doesn’t know that it sucks the life out of you yet. Another soul down the drain.

Errr And everyone is just a little too impatient around this photo building.

Highly intelligent animals might I say

2008-04-16T10:29:00.004-07:00

Ok this is the first day that in the morning I just didn’t feel like writing a blog. But I’m going to force it out of me anyway.

On the home front, I sent an e-mail to Northwest Women’s Magazine to see if I could get an interring gig with them this semester. The Inlander seems very hard to communicate with but I’m still very persistent on interning for them I really like the news they report on and how much of a free press magazine it is. I will be e-mailing or going down in person to the Communicator our local school news paper and might e-mail the Spokesman review. I really need to find an internship soon so for the best chances for me to graduate.

I got my Graduation notice today in the mail saying that I’m all set to go as long as I pass all my classes this semester hopefully. It was a real relief to here that I have got everything right and am in the right classes to graduate. I didn’t think that it had that big of a hold on me tell I was relived.

I went and did my taxes yesterday I took them to H&R Block who I thought were going to give me some hidden deductions but really didn’t do anything special and I didn’t end up needed all the things that I thought I needed (tuition statement, Loan balance), anyway I could have done them myself but I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t missing out one anything. I don’t think that will do that next year it cost me $60 to do and I only got $100 back.

Finally someone else has dropped out of the IMBC. It has really started to slow down know I

guess these are the real competitors. I looked at last year’s final three people and saw that the top one and third person are already out this year leaving the second place person to seem like the best choice to win this year not counting myself out though. Girls can be quite stubborn and we seem to be stereotyped as liking to talk. The best two qualities in blogging I’m screwed in the real world most of the time though.

So have you ever just disliked someone, like they never really did anything to you but every time they are around you get this urge to hate them and be rude or mean. Well this is happening me I don’t know if it just that she reminds me or looks like someone that I don’t like or am wondering about but every time I see here I feel like going “hulk”. The thing is that there have been scientific studies that link our likes and dislikes of people to the pheromones that every individual gives off. Like you not liking or wanting to eat a food that smells bad. They also say that daughters are supposed to dislike the pheromones of their fathers instinctively as an extra safety precaution against inbreeding. That’s why most daughters link a smell of a colon or a work environmental smell to their fathers instead of their pheromone smell. But with other individuals that you are close to or a spouse you seem to know which pillow is theirs and cling to the smell of it if that person is away. When you break down everything humans and mankind are still just instinctive animals trying to make their way through life. Highly intelligent animals might I say though.

dreaming of counting sheep

2008-04-15T10:06:00.001-07:00

So I awoke this beautiful Tuesday morning to hale, I heard it last night on the window but though it would be gone by now. Nope I look out and the ground it covered with white hale its April 15th there should be no more white stuff. It’s only nine but it’s probably not going to melt today. I wish it would just hurry up and get to spring.

On today’s agenda I need to run and do my taxes, yes I know today is the day you need them in. Well I have a wonky student loan and I wanted to see if I could get any more deductions so I was going to take them into a free tax place up in the tri-cities, but since it was the tri-cities I needed my Social Security card which I have no idea where is. So I’m going in today to see if H&R Block will do it for me, it might cost me an arm and a leg though.

I’m still tired from that trip, must be jet lag or something, I went to bed tired as hell yesterday tossed and turned a little like usual and woke up tired as hell again even after eating breakfast I was still tired. I think that I might start taking sleep aids. I can’t seem to get a good night sleep no matter how tired I am. My friend suggested that I might be allergic to my matters seeing as the second I lay down on that thing my nose gets all stuffy and I got really great sleep on that memory foam mattress, although it could have just been that it was comfy. I’ll look into it.

I was editing some pictures form the trip and saw that none of them were really great, I mean there good but not OMG that picture is beautiful. One or two came out, I really liked a Panorama near Deception pass and one of some tulips that I turned black and white. Eeee it might just be me being a photographer though.

I will hopefully be in the Tri-cities this weekend and will be taking a little road trip to visit my grandma, aunt, and cosine in Adams Organ just outside of Pendleton. It will just be me and my boyfriend driving up there the rest of the family will already be there since he has to work we won’t leave tell oneish. I will be glad to get to go on a small day trip with just me and him. We don’t get to spend enough time together as it is so it will be nice to be stuck in a truck together for an hour or two.

I have been rereading my blogs from the trip and found that I made a lot of grammar mistakes I guess it was from being in a rush to post and not rereading beforehand. At some points I was amazed that people actually got what I was trying to say. Sorry about that.

Any other world than mine

2008-04-14T11:38:00.004-07:00

Ok so it’s back to reality and good old Spokane.

So after we got back from Sunrise it took us a good two hours to get everyone packed up and back into the vans to leave. We took the Port Townsend faire back through Seattle and back onto I-90 or something like that it was 10:00 when we left and we stopped around one or two for lunch. Which I haven’t eaten anything since I woke up at five so I was starving. We stopped at North Bend because one of the girls wanted to stop at the Nicky Factory in the strip mall there. There was only Subway and some Mongolian restraint and we only had an hour so I took long walk probably a mile or so around the strip mall and up to the Safeway were there was a pizza place next to it. Jay’s Berry’s pizza was a sit down restraint but did take out for lunch I ordered a slice of cheese pizza that came with a salad twenty minutes later I get this sake with a huge salad and two big sliced of pizza and a role. It was really good food and a lot of it for only 7 bucks. Mmmmm the salad was the best and I don’t really like salad. After that we took a rest stop when we got out of the pass and then another one before Moses Lake. We got back to our instructors house around six. And stepped out in to nice sunny 70 degree weather, in Spokane. We had good weather the entire trip a little over cast at some points but it wouldn’t last all day at lake crescent it was 70 degrees and in Seattle it never rained once and was all sunny and nice. It was good to get back to Spokane and see that winter was finally over, having snow in March and April isn’t fun.

I got home around seven put everything away cleaned my sea shells and then went to bed around 9:00 my bed was so welcoming and I fell asleep right away. Had to take back the camera around seven thirty and then went back to sleep tell 10:30.

All in all the trip was great tiring, gross at some times, but really relaxing. I had a great time and I’m planning to take it again maybe with my mom for the tulip festival.

But it’s good to be home. And I survived the IMBC on the trip thanks to my Air card I don’t know what I would do without it.

last day on earth

2008-04-13T08:12:00.005-07:00

finally got time to blog I’m going to try and get this done before we have to pack up and leave.
we woke up around 5:00 this morning and were almost late for sunrise, at Fort Flagler beach which was pretty, pretty the waves in were crashing down and it was cool to play in them.

Yester day we went up to Port Angeles yesterday to the Olympic state park a little ways outside. there was Mar falls and took a one and a half mile hike to the falls its self. it was pretty nice but I have all seen it before really once you’ve lived in the forest for most of your life you really don’t need to see more. me and one of the other photographers who we call little Jeff went up on one trail of the main one that took us clear up one of the mountains in was a really steep climb like hand and feet clime and I had on a ten maybe fifteen pound back pack on with my camera slung across my shoulder. it was difficult because my zoom lens kept on zooming out. after a while I just squished it in my bad only to have to yank it out later to shoot a deer that was one the cliff above us. I was dead tired by the time we got to the van and went to a picnic area to have lunch were I almost lost my phone in the lake. The temperature yesterday was perfect nice and warm t-shirt warm. Until we got up near the hot springs in the Sul Duc. Which smelled and weren’t rock they just looked like hot tubs. after that we went and shot a little in Port Angeles which was nice but we ended up driving through sunset cus we “had to get back to the cabin for our group dinner” if you want to know what the quotations are about ask me personally or e-mail me.

The thing I really love about Laptops is that you can take them anywhere right know I’m on the beach although it smells pretty bad its cool to look up and see it and its pretty inspiring.
we leave in just a little while I have no idea how or which way we are going back to Spokane but it well either take us 8 hours or 6 either way seems to long. this trip was great and I got to see and experience things that I never have before. I would really like to come back here someday just with two or three people though anymore and it’s kind of hell. well here are some more pics I’ll probably be posting some for awhile.

P.s. the tulip pic are the ones I bought from the festival

drunken stumbles

2008-04-12T06:08:00.006-07:00

I got to sleep in an hour, we have to be up and out by seven thirty.

Yesterday we had breakfast over at the boys cabin then left in a hurry to catch to faire we almost didn’t make it. but we got on ok and headed to Whidbey island I saw some seals on the way running along the boat. We hit Fort Casey in Keystone and stayed there for a while there are a few pictures of it above. After that we went over Deception pass to the main land to go to the tulip festival hitting a Daffodil field on the way. We only hit on grower called tulip town I got a bunch of souvenirs and a lot of pictures. we spent a while there. There wasn’t to many people just because we hit it on a week day but there wasn’t to many flowers either there was about half as many as I thought would be there. I didn’t see too many Asians there but there was a whole lot of Indian Americans there. After that we hit deception pass again but before we went over we stopped on a little beach and shoot some tide life. I have never really seen or been around tide pools before so it was a experience to say the least. All the rocks that you had to climb over were full of squishy plant things, barnacles, and enamines ( totally spelt wrong). when you pocked the enamines they would suck back into their selves. the whole time I was holding a gage because I felt so bad for stepping on all the little creatures and all the little icky things that could attach to your leg and eat you in your sleep.

We hit Coupeville for dinner and then headed down town to go see all the old shops and then we saw “Rosie” the dead whale bones hanging in one of the museums. There were a lot of star fish over by the museum and we stopped at a ice cream shop one the way back to the faires which yet again we were running late for we got there and the 6;30 one was already full so we had to what tell the 7:30 one. gave me an hour and I got internet reception so I put some pictures of me on my myspace and talked to my boy friend a little. We went straight to the cabins and got there around 9:00. I took a shower because of all the icky things I was rolling around in. And got to bed around 10:00. A bunch of the people here went out drinking though I can’t wait to hear all there drunken stories.

and today we go to Port Angeles to go to the rain forest outside of it

Ok so here are some pics there are daffodils, some of the fort, some tulips, and some other stuff.

Free Hugs

2008-04-11T05:57:00.005-07:00

The early bird gets the worm right… while damn I was tired when we finally got to the Cabin on Marlstone island the cabin is really nice three bed room with two twin size beds in each room one of the nicer cabins I’ve stayed in it look right out on to the beach and so it’s about seven feet away from alt water.

We finally left Spokane around seven thirty hitting Ritzville for breakfast and money, hit a couple of rest stops on the way and hit down around two thirty shot there for an hour before we had to get in line for the fairy. I got a picture of a guy holding a Free Hugs sign supporting something about something, he kind of didn’t really know what it was about or what the proceeds went to but I treaded a Hug for a photograph of him. I got the better deal. I found people in the down town area of Seattle really nice I got talk to by complete strangers about five times. Mostly because we had four people with really nice cameras and weren’t Asian. Two guys talked to me while walking and asked if we were form out of country he thought I looked German. Nope were from good old Spokane the place that never gets outs. Then we had about thirty minutes to kill so we went to The Ye Old Curiosity Shop, my favorite part there were the shrunken heads. I’ve heard rumors about the place but didn’t get a chance tell yesterday to go. I bout me a space needle key chain, I’m going to start buying one every time I go to Seattle. At Ploubseo (sp) we stopped for groceries and went to a chine’s restraint which surprisingly had a bunch of white girls working. Then we traveled about an hour to the cabin. I het the comfy memory foam mattresses and was knocked out, until heather called me and texted me at one o’clock in the morning waking me up….grumble grumble, after that I went back to sleep then woke up at five.

Today we have breakfast at the boy’s cabin then head on over towards Mount Vernon for the

Tulip festive then a photo shot at Deception pass or something like that.

This nifty Internet air card is not working to its full extent it taking about five minutes to load one page.

Here are some photographs from yester day but I need to get going and ready for breakfast.

I especially find kid devil extra cute

2008-04-10T06:10:00.002-07:00

ok so here it is I’m blogging in the early morning before I leave just in case I don’t get another chance.

We leave today at 7:00 sharp on of the girls are picking me up on the way to the meeting spot that mostly why I’m up an hour early.

Today’s Itinerary what I heard;

leave 7:00 am for Marrowstone Island, WA

Breakfast at Leavenworth

11:00 photo shoot of the release of the horses

Lunch in Ellensburg

Park on Ferry Dock for Winslow Ferry and ep;ore and photograph Pike Street Market and
Seattle waterfront

Dinner on Kitsap Peninsula

Grocery stop at Poulbo on to Hood Canal Bridge and North on to Marrowstone Island

Sunset shoot on the beach and in the salt marsh

All these things are subject to change and we might hit a big photography store in Seattle. I well have my Lap top off except to blog making sure that I have enough battery to last just in case.

But all in all I realy am looking forward to being in Seattle again the tip we went last year for Sakura- con was great and the down town area seems so cool. the people there were pretty nice asking you about your costumes and what was going on. even sometimes commenting on how well done they were. in Spokane you would just get weird looks.

I didn’t get to much sleep last night I always get really enchase(sp) and nervous before a trip even right know I’m totally done with packing and I’m rushing writing this blog fearing that I’m going to be late. Yep crazy here. We will be hitting the Tulip festive on this trip I think on Saturday. and I might blog again today when we get to the cabin but you never know right.
on other news the new comic called Titans’ Together came out yesterday. It’s the first issue and was pretty good well anything having most of the Titans’ naked in it is well deserved the read. And the last issue of the four part series Suburban Glamour one of the smaller comics that I read. Plus the third Tiny Titans’ which not only are adorable but there just downright adorable I especially find kid devil extra cute. yep girl moment there.

I might have to make a trip to Vancouver BC this summer or sometime soon my friend just went there and convinced me that I have to go sometime saying that it is a great city and that you don’t have to have your passport to go until June of this year or maybe was it next. well any who

I well be going sometime. ok I’m just blabbering so off I go.

and i wonder why i'm having trouble sleeping.

2008-04-09T10:13:00.002-07:00

One more person is out now I’m the only one left out of all the people that I know personally that were in the IMBC competition.
slightly mocking

At 10:30 I will be doing the Wednesday thing and going to the comic book shop to bag books.

After that I have an hour to get all my shopping done for the trip, before I have to head back to work at the Cage.

I need to pick up a new CF card, Munchies, 12v power inverter, Polaroid’s, and maybe a digital voice recorder, to help me with my story. My Lap top battery only last about an hour so I wanted the 12v power inverter so that I can charge in the car. One or the students going on the trip already has one but if I can find one within a reasonable price it would go great with my Air card. Photojournalist on the go you know. We were told to pack light to I’ll have my “carryon bag” and hiking back pack, and a clothes bag. I will most likely smell on Sunday when we get back into town. But I’m totally excited and ready to go and get started on my photo story it will help me bulk up my portfolio for my interview with the Inlander too.
So know that I have time I watch the news every day when I get home from school. I love to watch the news and see all the non-since going on around the world;

Yesterday I saw Victoria Lindsey a sixteen year old girl get beat up by six girls only showing one
of them actually hitting her. Supposable Miss Lindsey sad some rude comments about a girl at school on myspace. Leading these girls to lure her to what she thought was a friend’s house to get video tapped while getting beat. The girls reasons for video tapping the incident was to put it on myspace. Wanting to be the justice bringers and have the most viewed video…. ummmm I was once sixteen and we never acted like this never sure we said mean things to each other I got in a fight once but we never kidnapped a girl to beat her up. I’m sure there are more incidents like this one around the U.S. It’s animalistic but people know in days need to relies it happens all the time. People say things they would never say so someone’s face for fear of getting beaten on the internet and think that they can’t be held accountable for their actions. I do realize that the whole time Miss Lindsey was getting beat up she never through one punch that was either bravery, fear, or stupidity. later on I Googled the subject and found that all the youtube posts of this video were taken from the news and the parents in there interview blamed the internet and places like myspace and facebook for their child getting beat. If all else balm the internet right.

Other news some four hundred children were confiscated/ removed from a Polygamist compound in Texas. Supposable a sixteen year old mother called in to police and a women’s shelter saying that she was forced to marry at fifteen and was now pregnant and that the conditions that they were being held in against their well were poor and unsuitable for living. The great thing that I like to think that if actually someone in the nearby town called in saying that she was this girl. The police didn’t have enough evidence to enter the premises without the phone call. They still have yet to find the girl that supposable made the call from a townies cell phone.

and i wonder why i'm having trouble sleeping.

Well my battery is dying and I shall escape from this hellish world and into the comic book realm.

freaken photoshop a thousand deaths upon your mothers head!

2008-04-08T15:53:00.001-07:00

So yesterday was Monday if anyone noticed;

Rachel one of my good friends here is going to be coming along on the photo club trip Thursday whoot at least now I’ll have someone to relate to.

I always end up getting ditched at work all alone for most of the day. I work at the school photography lab where we rent out equipment to students. I wouldn’t mind it except for all the slightly irritating 101’s who don’t know how to treat a camera or any other equipment. Yesterday I was left alone like usual and a 101 brought back a camera three hours late. These are high end 2,000 dollars and more cameras so you can say I was kind of pissed. Then I go to charge it and find that the 75-300 f/ 4- 5.6 canon lens housing is cracked now you can’t put the all important UV filter on it. It was like someone dropped it cracking the frame and denting the filter it’s going to be an expensive fix. Later this year someone dropped one of the cameras totally smashing the filter to bits, that’s what there for better them then the lens itself. But still I have seen a lot of damaged equipment and it gets to you, why can’t people just treat things better. Poor little cameras.

I dislike PC’s and being a PC owner I dislike them slightly more. It’s so much easier to do things on Mac’s exceptionally when your school is mostly Mac based. Having to learn the short cuts for both is hard enough but try making a stupid copyright symbol on a lap top is like defusing a bomb. For Mac’s its option G but for CP’s its ALT 0169 on numeric key pad…. lap tops don’t have a numeric key pad you jack asses. There is no other way for me to make one that will allow me to make a work path the water mark out of it errrrrr. I spent all class trying to find a way and have nothing to show for it.

On a lighter note;

This is the latest I have ever blogged mostly cus I had nothing to write about. So this is all you get today maybe something cool will happen between now and tomorrow so that I don’t have to bore you non-sense again.

Damn you see reduced to talking about god forsaken Pop tarts

2008-04-07T11:14:00.002-07:00

WARNING- Today’s blog may cause internal bleeding from boredom.

And the good stuff is at the bottom. I make you read through the crap to get to the good stuff.

Blaaaa

That’s what today is starting out to be, I forgot my keys down in tri-cities and dad forgot to leave me his for today. That means I’m either going to have to leave the door unlocked or just stay at school and work on things tell four. I do have a online class that I need to get started on, the stupid thing about this class though is that you have to check out a book at our mac lab and work on it there you can’t leave with the book and there are out of print so you can’t buy them anywhere. I also have to go to the Library to check out another book for my other online class. If you’re in college I recommend that you see if the school library has the books you need for classes first, so you don’t have to go through the pain of spending one hundred dollars on one book.

I’m getting ready for the Photo trip already. I have my sleeping bag all rolled up and my hiking pack almost ready to go. I have to make some small shopping stops one to Costco to get a new compact flash card and then to a grocery store for some road snacks. I was telling my boyfriend the other day not to buy Pop tarts because they’re pretty bad for you just as bad as hot pockets. All though they do have little nutritional value they have 200 calories per Pop tart. Anyway my mom ending up buying me some for breakfast so I’ll take them on the trip just in case we get stranding out in the woods, they will be very good emergency food with all that sugar.

Damn you see reduced to talking about god forsaken Pop tarts.

Yesterday while dad and I were driving dad found a radio station that plays the old radio shows, it was entertaining enough for the car ride. We listened to ‘the shadow man’ and ‘all about unexpectedness’. The last one was pretty lame.

I was thinking about picking up a pack of Polaroid’s for the trip for my Polaroid camera just for fun. Polaroid actually stopped production of the film so now photographers are running around trying to buy as much 4x5 Polaroid film as possible for fear that Fuji Film might not be as good. Plus we pick one brand and stick with it we have to or our whole consistency plan goes out the window.

Well I’m bored and have enough words to satisfy the IMBC, I’m going to go have me a Pop tart.

p.s. I will be starting ”Dispatch to all Truck Drivers” a photo-story about the pressing gas situation on independent truck drivers and how they are trying to overcome the harsh condition. I am choosing to start this on the Photo trip we will be stopping at a lot of different places and I will have a bunch of opportunities and viewpoints.

P.s.s. Hilary Clinton is on Ellen, yes I watch Ellen, yes she is going to defend gay rights, yes I was wondering if that was going to come up.

you got me all riled up

2008-04-06T09:49:00.003-07:00

I have figured out why weekends are my weakness, there is nothing to blog about.

Three people are out of the IMBC now meaning there are now only thirteen people left.

It was really nice in the Tri-cities yesterday;

I went out and had a really good day with my boyfriend.

I picked up James Patterson’s newest installation in the Maximum Ride series. Which I well be saving for the photo trip.

I helped walk some dogs.

I read DMZ, a comic about a second civil war breaking out in America, and a photojournalist intern being stranded after an accident in the DMZ which is all of Manhattan. Making allies and trying to survive while still reporting the story to a news type organization in America. I don’t quite understand the situation and why the war started yet but I think when I get more into it, it well all make since. If you were a photojournalist you would totally understand the lure of being in his position although really hard and your life always being in danger it would totally rock and many photojournalist would give up everything to be put in a situation like the one the character is in. I don’t know why we are just made like that, crazy or not we go where there is a story and repot it. No if ands buts about it.

I well be going back to Spokane around six tonight meaning will get there probably around eight thirty. It’s weird, and if any of you have driven the stretch from Spokane to Tri-cities you will understand, that no matter how fast you drive it always takes two and a half hours to get to one from the other and trust me I have taken this road at many speeds 60, 65, 70 ,80 and one time 45 but that’s a different story. And every single time it took two and a half hours it’s like Ritzville is some type of time altering dimensional hole. So you can say that I’m not looking forward to that drive. I was talking to one of the girls that work at the Adventures Underground and she came up with the great idea that they should just make speed tubes, like in Futurama, connecting Spokane to Tri-cities to Seattle and on to any other major cities in Washington. So all you would do is lay down in a tube an bamf your at your destination, it would save on gas.

Speaking of gas what do you guys think about the Trucker Strikes that went on and are still going on around the United States?

I grew up having breakfast with some really great truckers, men, dads, brothers, husbands of people who they leave behind every day to make a living which isn’t that good. And now if you can imagine there having an even tougher time with high gas prices making them work longer hours and make little profit. I’m talking about independent truckers not the cushy Wal-mart union drivers. There having to spend three times as much money yearly to keep their trucks in gas than two years ago. The prices jumped so much that it takes 1,100 to fill up a tank on a rig today, when it only took about 600 last year. You think that you’re hurting, look at their gas ticket. But what are we going to do about it right, will I know what I’m doing I’m writing this blog. I’m going to go out there, educate people, do a photo story, get it on the school web site, and make sure people know what’s going on, that the oil cooperation’s are making way too much money off of the average Joe and people are getting tired of it. And I’m tired of not taking action.

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another one bites the dust

2008-04-05T10:27:00.002-07:00

Location the parents house in Tri-cities,

I love Saturday mornings not only do I get to sleep in and still get to watch all the best shows because they are on later I get nummy breakfast food. hummm cinnamon rolls.

One person was eliminated last night form the IMBC Logan ,who I actually know in real life. This leaves about sixteen more people, awww the sweet sixteen.

Last night my boy friend and I went and saw 10,000 BC. It was good and even a little better than I thought it was going to be. I love movies that have great elements of humanity. Everybody uniting to over throw a commend evil, even though that rarely happens I the real world. I loved the diversity of the tribes too, they came up with some really cool ones. There was one tribe, this taking place in Africa with some tribes from part of either southern Asia or Europe, that was “one with the tree” or something there war masks were pretty awesome. But anyway it was a really good movie, unlike 21 right guys, and if you’re looking for one to see I highly suggest this one.

On another note I think this blogging contest is really helping with my typing and spelling I’m having to use word check less and less.

IMBC topic of the day: Action Figures

Ok so I’m a big tomboy and have always been since i was little while my sisters were playing with Barbie’s I had my own collection of GI Joe’s and power ranger toys, the original power rangers. Know am trying to collect them being a comic book geek and all. I don’t have too many right now but I have a awesome Boba Fett bobble head. There is a Youtube series called DC vs Marvel were they use action figures for the characters. They are very funny.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=av6fWfmugds&feature=related

Something that no one else will be interested in.

I am helping plan a friend’s baby shower soon. I don’t particularly like small children but she will be the first person in our Spokane friends group to have a kid. Since I work in a toy store here in Tri-cities I can’t wait to buy some really great and safe baby gifts. Since the whole stupid lead scare.

Another one bites the dust.

sacrifices people sacrifices

2008-04-04T10:22:00.003-07:00

Awww just work up, Fridays are wonderful I don’t have class tell ten thirty and after this week I don’t really have to go, it’s just a lab. So I’ll write my IMBC blog while eating some breakfast which I rarely do, the eat breakfast part. On the menu this morning green apples and peanut butter yum.

A couple of people cut it really close yesterday for the IMBC on person didn’t post tell 11:51pm but good for her for making it.

Damn I’m going to end up getting peanut butter on my lap top o well sacrifices people sacrifices.

So I remembered what I was going to blog yesterday. Wednesday is family night for me, Heather, and Jenny. Even though we technically don’t live together any more we still are very close and a family. Anyway we usually go get our comics (since we get them Wednesday not on lame Thursday) then go to dinner, and come back to the apartment to watch a movie and read. We came back to my place and watched an Indie film called Everybody Thinks I’m Hot, a Bolywood film about a barber that could read the mind of any person when he’s cutting their hair. It was the first Indie film that I have watched and I liked it quite a bit it had everything and although there were some parts that were slow all in all it was as fast past as a movie about a barber that can read minds can go.

So everything is set for Emerald city comicon (not comiccon comicon) I well get my ticket in two to three business days and we have reserved a hotel room, Sqqeeeee, sorry about that I got a little too excited. Big names are going to be there, along with a lot of great artists, and Q&A boards plus a little trip to Seattle will be nice. I have already made my list of people to get autographs from, a list of exclusives that I want to try to get, and a list of people I want pictures with. Adam Baldwin the actor that plays Jane from Firefly and on chuck will be there, along with The Defuser the winner of the only who wants to be a superhero session that I watched. He was pretty cool. Here is my list of people I want to see if you guys know of anyone else cool that I should hit up for there John Hancock that would be great.

Ø BILL WILLINGHAM- Writer and accessional artist of FABLES
Ø MOOSE BAUMANN- Color artist for GL and the Sinestro Corps War
Ø CRAIG ROUSSEAU- Illustrator for Impulse, Detective Comics, Batman/ Superman
Ø BILL CRABTREE- Invincible
Ø MIKE OEMING- Mice templar Co-creator of powers
Ø DAVE STEWART- Inker for Spirit, Umbrella Academy
Ø DAN WICKLINE- Co-writer for 30 Days and Nights
Ø BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS- Writer for Ultimate Spiderman
Ø DANIEL WAY- Writer for Wolverine Origins, Venom
Ø RON RANDALL - Illustrator Outsiders, Conan, Star Wars
Ø DARICK ROBERTSON - Co-creator The Boys, Transmetropolitan
Ø MIKE GRELL- Writer and artist for Green Arrow
Ø NAT JONES - artist/writer/creator Death Dealer, 30 Days of Night, Spawn
Ø HERB TRIMPE - Artist of The Hulk, Wolverine, Micronauts, G.I. Joe
Ø TIM SALE – Artist of Heroes, Superman: Confidential
Ø MATT WAGNER – Writer for Grendel, artist for Green Arrow, Batman, Trinity
Ø JAMAL IGLE - Artist Teen Titans, Countdown
Ø RYAN OTTLEY - Artist Invincible, Superman/Batman
Ø ETHAN VAN SCIVER – Artist Sinestro Corps, Green Lantern

Damn I’m going to be late for class, uuummm one more quick thing I will be in the tri-cities around five tonight for the weekend. Let’s see if my weakness will get the better of me. And Sorry to Rachel I will try to hit that subject this weekend.Thanks

sweet geeky blogness

2008-04-03T10:40:00.001-07:00

A lot to talk about today:

Yesterday after getting so frustrated with the schools wifi always cutting out, me not having any internet at home, and having three online classes, along with the threat of having no internet on my trip next week, I broke down and went to the sprint store in the mall to see about those internet cards, Sprint being my choice because I have my cell phone service through them. I used my feminine wilds to get the AirCard for only fifty dollars, originally one hundred and fifty dollars, and the service is sixty dollars a month on top of my phone bill. It may seem like I lot of money about 120.00 a month for both cell phone and internet but I get it were ever I get cell phone service which sprint has not the best of best but pretty damn good coverage.

Yesterday was new comic book day I went around 10:30 like usual to help bag comics at the Comic Book Shop. Talk to Jen a little and saw Sean there, since he kind of works there now. Not too much out for me, a new Kick Ass came out which after picking up the first one two weeks ago I feel in love with right away. Don’t be fooled by the slightly lame and blunt name it is rightfully Kick Ass. So Kick Ass the first issue sold out within days pushing them to reprint. It came in along with the second issue yesterday, a new green lantern which retold Hal Jordan’s past for the fiftieth time came in too. The fist issue of the Marvels secret Invasion came out two with an alter-net cover. The alter-net cover confused me so I might just have to pick up one soon. Young X-men one also came out not sure if I’m going to get into that or not.

Also most of you might already know that Ryan Reynolds’ well be playing Deadpool in the upcoming” X-men Origins: Wolverine” movie Which is totally awesome Ryan Reynolds is one of my favorite actors and having him play the always left out greatest comic book character of all time Deadpool is like a sooo geektasticly awesome. We all can’t wait for the movie and hope that they do the character justice, not like what they did with Peter Parker in the stupidly emo Spiderman’s booo on you and ruining my favorite comic book hero ever...*starts crying*. We all hope that at some point in the Deadpool will do his favorite thing and break the fourth wall or at least say Duct tape or chimichanga during the movie.

IMBC topic for today Housekeeping: I’m a weird person that likes to clean, I cant really stand living in messy places that’s why the old apartment was so horrible for me but living there did make me more lax. Every since I was little I was the only one of three girls that every helped clean the house I even have a picture of me around one cleaning walls with my mom. I like housekeeping and love to clean when I’m mad it kind of Zen for me except when I mix the wrong to chemicals together and almost kill myself.

Well that’s all I have let’s see who cares.

I had something else to blog about but I forgot ummm o well.

Cus’ you make me happy

2008-04-02T09:20:00.001-07:00

Now that I moved out of that god forsaken apartment that I shared with two other girls I find myself constantly bored. I come home from school not having heather there to...well be heather and bam I’m bored. I guess I slightly miss them, them not that apartment. Heather is in and out of town going between Spokane and Coeur d’ Alene and Jenny is living with two of our friends and I get to see her every Wednesday for comic booking. That leaves my dad to talk to which is ok I love having political discussions with him that’s about the only worthwhile discussions I every really get into, well that and photography. I mean you can only argue about who really killed Captain America so many times.

I had my first Coop class today, which is a class that will help us find internships with photographers, I well be lining up interviews with Inlander, our local weekly news magazine, and The Communicator, our campus magazine, so I’m pretty excited to start on my path the photojournalistic greatness…or something like that.

10-11-12-13 of this month I will be going on a photography club trip to national park areas and such around Seattle we will be stopping at the tulip festival on the way which I’m totally excited about, they are my favorite flower. Jeff one of the other photo students well be my life saver on this trip he has one of those nifty little internet cards that you can get internet wherever you get phone service, I think that’s how they work. So hopefully during the trip I want miss a blog. If all else fails I can get the internet with my phone and text my blog in…which sounds completely fun. Do you see my excitement well of course you can.

I well be in the tri-cities this weekend since school is starting at a crawl and I probably won’t have anything better to do up here. Dad goes down every weekend so I’ll just hitch a ride with him, since I don’t have school on Mondays him coming back at 5 o’clock in the morning shouldn’t affect me too much.

Here is a question for my (one) viewer(s):

What do you think is the most important thing in a friendship/relationship?

IMBC...i can’t really think of anything witty to say

2008-04-01T09:13:00.004-07:00

Whooot and it all begins, I took a little break before the IMBC just to make sure that I didn't burn myself out. And it was spring break whoot I was completely lazy the entire time only worked one day at the toy store and spent that money going to The Olive Garden with my boyfriend which was really nice, me only being there once before a long time ago and listening to him we walked up to the front to pay the check with our waitress running after us thinking that we were taking off without paying. Yep Olive Garden is high class to us.

Near the end of the week Hank came into town and we played some bored games with him, Zombies, one of the games, would only be really fun with a bunch of goofy friends who don’t really care about winning, but just want to kill zombies with golf clubs or tie them up for “pleasure”. Streetcars was ok you build a rout from one terminal to the other stopping at destinations on the way, were I ended up building and completing a long ass rout then found a easier way through everyone else’s going on to win. Then the next day we played a game called Elfenland (I think that’s how you spell it) it was a good tactic game but not as long as I expected. I screwed over Hank to win that game too, what can I say I was on a role.

I was planning on leaving on Friday but the roads were crap Spokane got four inches of snow. So I left around two on Saturday going through what seemed like apocalypse weather first hale in tri-cities, then hellish winds, rain, snow, fog, then more snow going through Sprague and then popping out through dark clouds to see Spokane sunshine. I came back early to clean the horrible tiny apartment that I moved out of. It took me three hours to clean the kitchen which is the size of some of your bathrooms. Than I had to go and fix my roommates mistake, first she ruins part of the carpet while we were living there by ironing a shirt to it she thinks that she can replace just that part and it look fine I did not agree to this but in the end she got to “mad” at it to finish so I had to do it. I am so glad that I’m out of that place I always had to look after shit like that even when it’s not my responsibility. O well in the past in the past.

I started my last semester Monday well actually today cus I don’t have any class Monday which will be nice when things really get going. I had a crazy idea of waking up at like one o’clock this morning and writing my blog so that I would be the first person to blog but as you can see I feel through.

Today’s topic for the IMBC is Fonts……….fonts?.....ok I know the person how put this topic down is going to make a really good argument of why “fonts” is a good topic for today, and I know I didn’t put any topics down so I shouldn’t’ be picking at yours, but I just don’t see it.*Fonts*

Rain it suck sometimes...

2008-03-19T22:37:00.001-07:00

We successfully returned the tube to Heathers parents. All was good tell it started raining on the drive home it being dark already and my windshield wipers crapping out on me it was a very scary drive through town I had to tail gate Heather most the way. I made it home though and know now that if it is raining tomorrow I might not be able to leave for the tri-cities tell it stops.

On another not here is a photograph that I did a while ago but just wanted to show my wonderful fans…that I don’t have. The model is Heather my old roommate. I did the shoot for an assignment originally and the teacher said it lacked emotion…I thought that was the point. I fixed the comment situations so now anyone can leave me a comment. Truthfully this is my first blog so I didn’t know about all choices. I think I will take a sometime to just play around with it.

I well be in the tri-cities tell the 28th after that I well come back to Spokane and help the girls clean the old apartment and then my semester of hell starts whoot. Along with that I well be trying to get an internship at the Inlander a local Spokane weekly news magazine which would be really cool and well help me along my path in the photojournalism world. Press credentials and all, I’m pretty excited to see what happens. Other then that the only thing that can really go wrong is if I don’t pass this Lab class that I took this semester stupid teacher being stupid and all.

Heathers mom lent us the old movie critters which we will be watching tonight. I haven’t seen the movie in ages but it scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I love how corny and sometimes funny as hell this movies were I think I’m going to have to watch Radio Flyer soon to. That was a good one.

WTF it's raining squid !?

2008-03-17T15:27:00.003-07:00

The school days are getting shorter meaning that it is almost spring break whoot. I well be leaving for the tri-cities Thursday morning. I was going to be leaving Wednesday after my 3:30 class but discovered that I will be retuning the tub that I barrowed that day and well be having dinner there. It’s cool though I get some good eats out of it. And the tub was awesome my self portrait would have been lost without it.
I ended up moving during the weekend which I have designated my weakness of blogging I can’t seem to get one blog done when it comes weekend relaxation time, even when I’m not relaxing and completely busy moving. Along with moving I ended up with the dreaded end of semester stress cold and pushed myself a little too hard to be moved in on Sunday but all worked out ok. I have fears of living with my dad though it just being me and him, and me never really seeing him more than a weekend at a time. He has already giving me the talk about moving in with my boyfriend bla bla bla. The new apartment is great tones more room and I get my own room plus the front room has floor to ceiling windows it’s great for spying on people the only bad thing is that it is right above the manager apartment so I have to make sure the girls aren’t to rowdy when they come over.
On to other things I had a portfolio review today with a real life flesh and blood photographer I didn’t know any of them excited any more. He gave me good marks and really liked my high key work which was really exciting news. They really like me they really like me… *tier* I give you a picture that is part of the squid series that I did with my friend Sean. I then bid you a due for this evening unless I forgot something…..

Monsters

2008-03-13T17:55:00.004-07:00

So the shoot last night went awesome the subject was Sean a friend from the comic book store and he was totally cool. Posing by himself without any real guidance from me he was very goofy and knew what I was talking about when it came to poses it was really fun and great. we got some really good photographs and I am totally excited about the finished products I’ll post one that is almost done. After the shoot I took him out to dinner as payment and we found out that we both have the some eating styles like we are really really picky about what we eat and ended up ordering the same thing and we talked about different places that we’ve gone too that the other should try. it was really nice to finally have a lot in common with someone besides comic books. I have always wanted a friend that was like me and now I have one. He seems to be my second twin.

Well back to editing for me thanks for not tuning in

Getting Busy

2008-03-12T13:00:00.001-07:00

ok so I’m only 6 days into this hole practice ironbloggercompetition and I already missed out on a hole weekend of blogging funness. well it’s just that I had my boyfriend and best friend up this weekend and got busy in both the senses of that word. Please don’t bet me please like anyone rally reads this thing anyway. Well I’ll tell all my imaginary blog fans what went down this weekend. Friday night I picked up my friend jessyka who flew in from Virginia for her 21 birthday. We went out to the lame club named elements Friday and Saturday night I finally got to see my boyfriend dance it was great. Monday night we drove to the Coeur d’ alene Casino wear we were to spent the night gambling and things but I don’t gamble so I just watched. me and my friend ended up finding a five dollar ticket so we put it into a back to the future machine and ended up winning 35 dollars any way we didn’t sleep that night and left round five in the morning to come back to Spokane and go to class a seven thirty lest to say the hole weekend was very very tiring and being finals week I stayed up tell 11:30 last night to finish my portfolio but it was welcoming to finally hit the sack.

Today I have a shoot scheduled round five-ish with my friend from the comic book shop who does stop animation. it should be really cool were going to try some great things like have one of his figure statues coming out of his head or ear, and one of him being chased by them, and maybe one of them eating them. its going to be a lot of work in Photoshop which I despise but they should be great for the assignment and for my portfolio.

I’m suppose to get news about an apartment today I’ll be moving out of the really small one and away from the girls there to. It should be an good move, the apartment that I’m looking at in right across the street from where I am now so it shouldn’t be too much of a trip.

Deviantart

2008-03-07T16:00:00.000-08:00

I always forget something here is my Deviantart page

http://bad-luck-images.deviantart.com/

STOP THE MAN

2008-03-07T15:45:00.002-08:00

So today I was planning another shoot but ended up being to lazy to do it. Come on its Friday right well anyways I have no idea how I’m going to do this competition when already I’m having trouble thinking of randomness and maybe important things to talk about.

Tonight my high school friend is coming into town from Virginia and we’re going out on the town. Time to reminisce of the good old day’s right, of me being picked on every day or so. High school wasn’t too bad for me though I wouldn’t like to go back. I made some great friend that ditched me after graduation now all of them are married one has a kid and we’re only pushing Twenty-one. Me I think I’m going to make a name for myself before I take someone else’s. I don’t see how some people can get married right out of high school. I mean you don’t really know how you are and have no idea what the real world holds for you. I can see most of my friends marriage ending in a couple of years maybe involving kids, then when they get out in the pool again them not having any idea what to do. I hope things don’t turn out this way, I have seen a lot of successful marriages out of high school a lot of non-successful ones too but will you think it was a mistake or not that is the big question.

On to something less Dr. Phil, I have two shoots in the next week to get out of the way. One is another self portrait while the other is a illustrative portrait of someone doing what they do. My self portrait is going to be cool, we found a 44inch LCD TV in a dumpster the other day, it had a crack in the monitor, and since we can’t fix it we might as well use it for something cool. The idea goes like this, first picture is one of me trapped in the TV screaming to get out, next is a shot of me trying to get out banging and such then you see the crack in the TV and me walking away from, it the last shot well be me coming at it with a sword and maybe me stabbing the sword through the TV. The concept is that I’m trapped in a box full of other people’s thoughts and ideas wanting to get out. Doing so only after trying so hard. The thing is that here at SFCC in the photogram our teachers sit use down for hours on end telling us about other photographers and their work and to try to be like them which is bull shit cus I want to do the type of photography that I want to. It’s just annoying having to sit through hours of random peoples photography half not even being good link after link after link wait I forgot one Spencer Tunick and bla bla blab la bla. I ended up liking Spencer’s work just because it was so crazy, but I’m not going to photograph anything close to what he does. For Crist sakes just leave us to our own imagination and ideas stop the man.

Hammy

Myspace

2008-03-06T20:47:00.001-08:00

here is my myspace if you want to check it out

http://www.myspace.com/jeanne_air20

I don’t really know who is going to read all these unnecessary blogs

2008-03-06T19:42:00.001-08:00

So hi * waves frantically* I don’t really know who is going to read all these unnecessary blogs. But here it goes, I’m starting this blog for the 3rd annual blogging blogger bloggiest competition aka the IronManBloggingCompetition literally that, no spaces and all. This will be my first year in the competition and all so I’m quite nerves so if you are just out surfing the web and happen upon my pitiful little blog then you might want to stay tuned cus things are going to get really interesting and partly boring. I think that I will start practicing for the competition now which means none stop annoying comments and useless chit chat tell the 23rd of march the competition starts on the 28th, I give you the holy link just in case you are interested.
http://www.ironmanbloggingcompetition.com/
Ok so I will tell you stuff about me so that you don’t feel any weirder then you do reading a blog done by a person you don’t know anything about.
I grow up in the north Idaho woods with and graduated high school in a class of eighty-four people most of whom I’ve know from elementary school. After I turned eighteen my parents moved to the tri-cities for work and I tagged along a few months later. I lived in the tri-cities for two years working at a toy shop and gift store before ever getting a life there or anything relating to friends (zombies named patty don’t count). I don’t really like the tri-cities to flat and desert like for my woods loving redneck self. I left the place hell overtook to go to school in Spokane in 2006 and in did up leaving with an old friend from high school and her friend in a really really small apartment next to the college like really small, one bedroom, bathroom sink in bedroom, and half a rang and fridge small. I sleep on the bottom bunk small. But we have some good time. I am going to Spokane Falls College majoring in photography. This is my second year and second tri-semester. I will be graduating in the spring but before that I have to get passed my 21 credit last semester, I might have to start going to church in hope for that miracle. My roommates are graduating and I’ll be moving spring break across the street to a nicer dungeon and then again after I graduate (fingers crossed) back to the tri-cities were my family and boyfriend live. I met my hansom boyfriend at the gift shop we both worked at in the uptown strip mall in tri-cities. We’ve been dating for about eight months now and I will be moving in with him when I get down to the tri-cities. I hope to become a photojournalist and might go to more school and major in sociology or anthropology. But my main goal in life is to become a photographer for the National Geographic magazine.
Well there is everything you might want or not want to know about me I will leave you alone now to process all this information. Have fun I’m living it and still have no idea what’s going on. By the way I’m pretty horrible at spelling and grammar so just for future references a lot of things will be wrong with this blog.