My Valentine's Day is not over folks. It's tomorrow, because my girl was out of town this weekend ...unfortunately.
Dunno who the idiot is who planned that youth conference thingy over V-Day.
grrr.
Anyways, hopefully it should be a good day. I need to get to bed so I can get up earlier, for related reasons.
Today I didn't do too much in photoshop.
I did change my blog background to something for Valentine's Day a few days ago, for those of you reading this via a reader who didn't know...
It was hard to do - I wanted it to suit the month without coming off entirely gay.
I think it's good, though - it just replaced the snowflakes with hearts - another pain-in-the-neck blending mode experiment.
I think I want to emulate Lee's ideas somehow. His area of expertise is Illustrator, and he's incredible. You can find him at Leetopia. I love his blog look of late.
Today my brother was playing with a pic of Bowser in PS CS2 on our wrecked up old computer. I let him use my CS4 - I think it's easier to use - it's definitely faster.
I'm wondering if this will become a trend - considering we don't usually get along so well, it might be a good thing.
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Valentine's Weekend Number Three
V Day. And what a crummy one at that.
Yes, I began a sentence with "and". And you're going to deal with it.
Anyways, so much for getting this in early.
"I love you" transcends all languages.
Love is universal. Love is everywhere. Love has always been, and will always be.
Most Music is about love.
Love is the most desired thing in the world, and the hardest to find.
Love is optional, and yet mandatory.
Love is the light and the dark in the world.
Love is the best feeling ever, and also the worst.
Love is inspirational, and retarding.
Love opens our view to the world. Love blinds us.
Love is what I want and what I hate.
Japanese: Ai shiteru.
愛してる。
Spanish/Portuguese/Latin ?
Te amo.
(Italian is "ti amo".)
Greek?
S' ayapo.
Korean?
Tangsinul sarang ha yo.
French?
Je t'aime.
German?
Ich liebe dich. (I think)
Arabic?
Ana behibak. (to M)
Ana behiBek. (to F)
Chinese?
Wo ie ni.
Hebrew?
Ani ohev at (M to F)
Ani ohev atah (F to M)
Love you guys!
愛
Yes, I began a sentence with "and". And you're going to deal with it.
Anyways, so much for getting this in early.
"I love you" transcends all languages.
Love is universal. Love is everywhere. Love has always been, and will always be.
Most Music is about love.
Love is the most desired thing in the world, and the hardest to find.
Love is optional, and yet mandatory.
Love is the light and the dark in the world.
Love is the best feeling ever, and also the worst.
Love is inspirational, and retarding.
Love opens our view to the world. Love blinds us.
Love is what I want and what I hate.
Japanese: Ai shiteru.
愛してる。
Spanish/Portuguese/Latin ?
Te amo.
(Italian is "ti amo".)
Greek?
S' ayapo.
Korean?
Tangsinul sarang ha yo.
French?
Je t'aime.
German?
Ich liebe dich. (I think)
Arabic?
Ana behibak. (to M)
Ana behiBek. (to F)
Chinese?
Wo ie ni.
Hebrew?
Ani ohev at (M to F)
Ani ohev atah (F to M)
Love you guys!
愛
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Valentine's Weekend Number Two
Today is guitar, and I'm still working on my little song.
I've got ideas, but the lyrics always come rather slow.
Here's some links to some of the love songs me and friends have liked of late.
Jason Mraz's Lucky
We The Kings' Check Yes, Juliet
We The Kings' Secret Valentine
Jason Mraz's Prettiest Friend
Bryan Adams's Have You Ever Really Love A Woman?
Happy Friday the 13th! And Pre-V-Day, at that.
I've got ideas, but the lyrics always come rather slow.
Here's some links to some of the love songs me and friends have liked of late.
Jason Mraz's Lucky
We The Kings' Check Yes, Juliet
We The Kings' Secret Valentine
Jason Mraz's Prettiest Friend
Bryan Adams's Have You Ever Really Love A Woman?
Happy Friday the 13th! And Pre-V-Day, at that.
Valentine's Weekend Number One
Today I worked on Valentine's day stuff in Photoshop all day.
Something is wrong with my CS2, so I'm using just CS4 now.
This is the yield of all I've been doing.
Most of the tutorials out there are nothing but abstract art focused around either a single heart or multiple ones.
It all became the same after awhile, so I elected to just make all the different hearts at once. There are nine different ones. The original background I worked on was disgusting, so I tried turning it red and that didn't help. I tried blurring it and it looks awesome now. All of these hearts can be found in one form or another at:
Web Design's "Romantic Design Trends"
It's pretty cool, in my opinion. I'm a guy - if it were any other time of the year I'm sure you'd think I'm gay. I apologize for being in touch with my feminine side. (just kidding.)
I learned how to do lots with blending options and layer styles - particularly gradient overlays.
I know how to do the little shiny reflections now! That's something that's been eating at me.
Something is wrong with my CS2, so I'm using just CS4 now.
This is the yield of all I've been doing.Most of the tutorials out there are nothing but abstract art focused around either a single heart or multiple ones.
It all became the same after awhile, so I elected to just make all the different hearts at once. There are nine different ones. The original background I worked on was disgusting, so I tried turning it red and that didn't help. I tried blurring it and it looks awesome now. All of these hearts can be found in one form or another at:
Web Design's "Romantic Design Trends"
It's pretty cool, in my opinion. I'm a guy - if it were any other time of the year I'm sure you'd think I'm gay. I apologize for being in touch with my feminine side. (just kidding.)
I learned how to do lots with blending options and layer styles - particularly gradient overlays.
I know how to do the little shiny reflections now! That's something that's been eating at me.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Another Dancing Tuesday
This Saturday is the day the dance-teaching will occur.
Tonight we got all of the waltz straightened out, and we spent the time doing other stuff.
We covered the basics of many things.
The main things we did were:
Foxtrot, Cha Cha, Rumba, and Swing.
-Foxtrot was the most confusing when it came to aligning it to music.
-My cha-cha is back! Yay!
-I believe the rumba was a bit like waltz for a 2/4 or 4/4 music timing.
It seems to be the most useful.
-It was a different swing from the kind I know. Useful, nonetheless.
Well, I could let this hijack my guitar article, but I refuse.
So...
Lately I've gone out running/jogging and I'm getting in better shape.
I listen to my iPod during that time.
I'm beginning to think I want to learn a song by Rocket Summer.
I'm just not sure which... I like many of them.
I haven't had too much time for my guitar, with adding on Illustrator to my Photoshop workload. Illustrator is slowing everything down.
Hopefully I'll get what I need learned and accomplished soon, so everything can catch up.
I'm thinking of writing a song for Valentine's day, but I'm not sure when or of what.
I might write it and play it for Sarah when I get the chance.
Today's song of note is "colors" - by - you guessed it - Rocket Summer.
I don't have that album, and I'm waiting for a chance to go buy it.
If I had to choose one artist out of all of them, if I had to throw out all my music except for one, that one, If I could be any of the people who's music I listen to, it would be Bryce Avary aka The Rocket Summer.
I don't "idolize" people , don't get me wrong. But his music relates to me emotionally and by lyric more than any other. I'm not very emotional, either... lol...
If would give almost anything to be able to make music like him.
Tonight we got all of the waltz straightened out, and we spent the time doing other stuff.
We covered the basics of many things.
The main things we did were:
Foxtrot, Cha Cha, Rumba, and Swing.
-Foxtrot was the most confusing when it came to aligning it to music.
-My cha-cha is back! Yay!
-I believe the rumba was a bit like waltz for a 2/4 or 4/4 music timing.
It seems to be the most useful.
-It was a different swing from the kind I know. Useful, nonetheless.
Well, I could let this hijack my guitar article, but I refuse.
So...
Lately I've gone out running/jogging and I'm getting in better shape.
I listen to my iPod during that time.
I'm beginning to think I want to learn a song by Rocket Summer.
I'm just not sure which... I like many of them.
I haven't had too much time for my guitar, with adding on Illustrator to my Photoshop workload. Illustrator is slowing everything down.
Hopefully I'll get what I need learned and accomplished soon, so everything can catch up.
I'm thinking of writing a song for Valentine's day, but I'm not sure when or of what.
I might write it and play it for Sarah when I get the chance.
Today's song of note is "colors" - by - you guessed it - Rocket Summer.
I don't have that album, and I'm waiting for a chance to go buy it.
If I had to choose one artist out of all of them, if I had to throw out all my music except for one, that one, If I could be any of the people who's music I listen to, it would be Bryce Avary aka The Rocket Summer.
I don't "idolize" people , don't get me wrong. But his music relates to me emotionally and by lyric more than any other. I'm not very emotional, either... lol...
If would give almost anything to be able to make music like him.
Not Much New
I'm still working on Illustrator stuff - none of it's finished.
Things are going slow - I have a short attention span for it and I have other things to attend to.
The past few weeks I've been gathering tutorials for Valentine's Day photoshop artwork.
It's all silly abstract focused around a heart.
I'm trying to figure out how to do the shiny part / reflections on objects, so when I finally get off my butt and do it I should learn a lot.
I am thinking of doing multiple things... it just hasn't all come together yet.
There's not anything for today, unfortunately.
Next time is the beginning of the 3-day-V-day marathon of Valentine's Day stuff.
I'll post some related artwork then, for sure, whatever I've done by then.
Things are going slow - I have a short attention span for it and I have other things to attend to.
The past few weeks I've been gathering tutorials for Valentine's Day photoshop artwork.
It's all silly abstract focused around a heart.
I'm trying to figure out how to do the shiny part / reflections on objects, so when I finally get off my butt and do it I should learn a lot.
I am thinking of doing multiple things... it just hasn't all come together yet.
There's not anything for today, unfortunately.
Next time is the beginning of the 3-day-V-day marathon of Valentine's Day stuff.
I'll post some related artwork then, for sure, whatever I've done by then.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Not Much Left...
Today's iKnow sessions had all old stuff. Review is important, though.
I'm stumbling over buy/sell:
売る - uru - sell
買う - kau - buy
I get them switched sometimes...
I dealt with a rather unfavorable
変える - kaeru - to change
帰る - kaeru - return/come home ...this is the homophone I hate most.
I got 22 new ones to 100% !!! That's considering I only study 30. I probably have as little as 14/15 sessions left.
Considering I do at least 3 every time I'm on, I'll be done in week or two.
I do need to produce a chart of kanji to study - I need to learn to write them better.
Part of learning Japanese is learning to write. Reading is far easier. It takes a lot less effort to read than it does to write.
Next time is the last pre-V-Day post.
I'll have Valentine's Day phrases in a few languages, for fun. Be sure to check back after Wed. the 11 - I'll include some Spanish, French, and German, with 日本語, of course.
I'm stumbling over buy/sell:
売る - uru - sell
買う - kau - buy
I get them switched sometimes...
I dealt with a rather unfavorable
変える - kaeru - to change
帰る - kaeru - return/come home ...this is the homophone I hate most.
I got 22 new ones to 100% !!! That's considering I only study 30. I probably have as little as 14/15 sessions left.
Considering I do at least 3 every time I'm on, I'll be done in week or two.
I do need to produce a chart of kanji to study - I need to learn to write them better.
Part of learning Japanese is learning to write. Reading is far easier. It takes a lot less effort to read than it does to write.
Next time is the last pre-V-Day post.
I'll have Valentine's Day phrases in a few languages, for fun. Be sure to check back after Wed. the 11 - I'll include some Spanish, French, and German, with 日本語, of course.
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