Apr
11th

Mar
20th

Jan
19th

So someone at work had to remind me of the horrible truth that we had no long weekends until March… and then my employer decides to issue a leap day holiday for us this year so we have a long weekend on 02/29. :cheer: I love it.

Other work updates, we are moving up to the 4th floor. I just got use to our current seating plan too from the last move too. I’m glad I got over my fear of heights because even though it’s only the 4th floor, when you look down it’s friggin’ high.

Anyway, I updated Captured. I honestly forgot about that site for the last couple of months as I’ve been too lazy to take too many pictures. I imported all the albums into WordPress so I can easily enable password protected albums and registered members only viewing for certain albums which I’ll implement later. I have a dozen albums left to upload but I’ll do it next time. I batch process some of the albums but I still do it the old fashioned way most of the time because I like to edit image quality and crop each image if possible so it usually takes quite a bit of time.

It’s kind of sad because I was looking at the album and most of us don’t even talk or see each other anymore; maybe just a couple times a year. But then after highschool ended, we all expected this to happen as we carry on with our own lives but at least the memories are still there. :blush: I guess that’s what the album is suppose capture anyway.

I’ve made my ultimate decision… in a couple months, I will no longer be a “shopaholic” (I say “months” to give myself time). I know I’ve said this a billion times before but I think it’s time to start saving my money and investing it wisely. Hopefully after a big tax return this year my student loans will almost be gone so I can start making some REAL money.

Anyway, nothing interesting to write about today. I have a gazillion things on my to-do list today before Boyfriend and I go out for a late dinner. Cheers.

Oct
31st

Oct
18th

Today at work we had a 2-hour presentation and demo by the wonderfully talented and inspiring concept artist, Andrew Jones. He talked about his life, how he became an artist, what he did, his inspiration, his philosophy and it was super interesting and awe-inspiring with a hint of humor. Then he showed us his demos and tips in Corel Painter. The whole experience was beyond awesome.

He started out as a concept artist for a video game company, then him and his buddies started conceptart.org as a joint portfolio to increase traffic and it exploded into a web phenomom, turning into a major web community. Later on, they started a company called, Massive Black which does concept art, 3D-modeling, animation and a ton of other things for their clients and of course, it became a huge success as well. They also started doing artist workshops because they wanted to travel around Europe but didn’t want to pay for it! It’s funny how something so insignificant like that can blow up to something as big as it is today. Later on, he decided he wanted to do something new and different with his creativity so he started do live paintings for concerts and raves. All I can say is… WOW. I’m high on inspiration. I wish I had ambition like his then I could let my creativity go crazy. Unfortunately, I don’t… yet.

Anyway, their next workshop is in Seattle next year but it’s the same weekend we are going to Big White! I’m not a concept artist nor even an artist, but this is good inspiration and that’s all that matters.

Andrew Jones. Andrew Jones. ANDREW JONES. Don’t forget that name!

Anyway, when I was telling the Boyfriend today, he was like “OOOOH ANDREW JONES!” And I was like “oh, the baseball player?” (trying to sound like a smartass). Little does he know, I googled Andrew Jones earlier and saw him pop up in the results too. HAHA.

If you could travel through time, what era would you visit and why?

Ooh, I would totally travel back to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt when Nefertiti lived or to Cleopatra’s Ptolemaic dynasty. Or I would go back to England in the 17th Century. Hmm. That’s hard. :S