Well, today has been a slight bust. I didn't go to my German conversation quiz, but I'm going to just reschedule it. Hopefully my teacher won't mind... My head feels like death and I'm doing my best to be active but it's not working.

I've narrowed my idea for my final photo project down. I think it'll be interesting, now I just have to go through the photos that I took this last week, not nearly enough probably, and get to work on them. If it works, I will either call it 'Story of a House' or 'We Will All Be Ghosts'... I kind of like the second title more, I think it's kind of... well, morbid, but it's me, of course it's morbid. Not in a sad way though, more meditative and reflective I suppose.

The photos I took that stood out the most were some photos of beds at the house... I thought about trying to do a series of those, just beds, in natural light, with lots of shadow, but I'm not sure if I have access to enough places to warrant 20 of those... buh. No biggie though, there are lots of different shots to work with, so I'll keep plugging away and do some editing tonight during class where I can have some distance from home and the internet and things that pull my focus away.

Buh... I'm tired... before long I suppose I should actually get out of bed, but I have potted some plants today and spent time with Mr. Bear, and also transcribed an interview my friend Holger did with Jon Oliva. It was a really nice interview. I feel kind of bad skipping out on his band at Progpower, but eh, it happens. I don't regret leaving though, for so many reasons...

It's going to rain, my bones are letting me know in advance... PEH.

More new images

Ok, here are a few more new ones. I'm not too happy about how this inserts photos, but eh, I'll live.

Some of them might be a bit large, so click on them to get the full effect. This blog program cuts things off at a certain point and it's a bit of a pain... I'm thinking of switching to Wordpress, but I don't really have time at the moment to go through all of that.

First, this is another of the Marie Antoinette series, I'm pretty happy with it. I've been trying to figure out how to get the mottled effect for a while and I think I finally have my own version of something I really like.










After that, I decided to do some messing around on the scanner, just with very simple self-portraits. This is one I did a while after the usual 'smush your face into the glass' type stuff, and I really like the ghostlike effect.








This was the next one, which started out as a face scan, and I messed around with levels and color balance, then remembered some photos that I didn't use in Spring of 2009, so I put one to good use from an iced over pond at Loose Park.










This one is a closer section of the same image, but with different color balancing.









I'm pretty excited about this last one. It started off with a scan where I thought, why not do a rolling scan of my face, sort of like I've seen on some Discovery Channel show about mapping faces. I just rolled my head with the movement of the light bar, which was a lot trickier than I thought it would be, and it turned out insanely weird looking. I messed with the levels and color balance, did some overlapping of the same image in different opacities and blending methods, and then used a photo of a crazy tree trunk to get the wood effect... this kind of reminds me of something like mutant Treebeard, or even The Fountain... which was quite a weird movie...

And as always, thanks for looking, and please leave comments if you have any ideas or suggestions :)