Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Ooh... black and white means artsy


So I got a little assignment at work to take photos documenting the construction of our new addition, which will be taking place over the course of a year or so. I did some that showed progress over time and whatnot, and then a couple random interesting ones too. I filtered colors, toned them and made them grayscale in Photoshop... like this one here:I put the other two on my DeviantArt site. Unless I have updated anything else there recently (ha!) they should still be in the "recent additions" box on my page. wewt.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Henna henna henna

(Whoa! Three hennas! Must be an important one!)
+10
points for anyone who gets that reference.

Anydangway, Amy and I did more henna designs last night. Here's how mine turned out:

Plus another 10 points if you know what it is! Recommendation: when wrapping with medical tape after henna paste is dry on skin, don't wrap all the way around your arm and leave it overnight. Unless you happen to like gross gluey dirt-magnet stickiness. Or if you particularly enjoy pulling out your arm hairs two or three at a time in a futile attempt to remove said sticky glue-ness. You know. One or the other.

UPDATE: So the design definitely got darker over the next night or two. It got a little blotchier, probably due to the fact that I happen to enjoy showering occasionally. Today:

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

I think about stuff like this all the time.

Q: What does an internet-savvy pirate say when he's leaving for a while?
A: Bee ARRRRRRR bee






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sorry, internet.