chrryblssmninja

First, a chocolate report:

http://www.fearlesschocolate.com/about-us/

$5+ but the taste is great and it was my payday so I spent $10 on food/drink for me. The finish isn't as fine as with some other chocolate but that's a minor quibble and probably because it's "raw."

I also got coupons for 3 free bottles of Honest Tea because I emailed them about an odd-tasting batch (marked by a plastic ring around the caps of the glass bottles).

I'm slowly starting to type up my novel draft. I'm changing tenses from past to present for the dreams. I've also got a fractal story idea that's partly written that I might submit to a contest by September 15.

Summer is ending. nooooo

I'm slowly getting back into the job search because my calling job only lasts until the end of this month.

TV-wise, the five-episode cinematic J-drama Shokuzai was pretty good and kept me thinking about it long after the five episodes had finished. Sometimes it was unbearably slow but I also felt that any faster pace would betray the characters. There was also director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's thing of sudden extreme plot twists. The acting was amazing, though. Great to see interesting parts for five female main characters. Some pictures here.

Doctor Who was alright. I've joined the legion of Oswin fans! Also made this graphic. I really like working with transparencies. As for the Ponds...I know that's a realistic problem but on top of everything else they've experienced, it seemed like Moffatt was out of ideas for relationship roadblocks.

Here are reviews I've written recently for YAM-Mag:
the dorama My Little Chef, the sci-fi novel Death Sentences, the anime Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, the Olympics and its US TV coverage, and My Life in Movies.

Newest corkboard collage. Made today.




I've also made various movie graphics, which you can find here at my Tumblr.


Also started watching FLCL on Hulu.


Trying to coax my creative side into finding something to do that might be productive for my job/financial situation.

So I just made a Misfits/Lost crossover quote blog.

Save me, Barry.



I need other people to do the "subtitle" effect, because then it works better. SUBMIT STUFF

ETA:

Ladies and gentlemen:


( I HAVE MADE MY VERY FIRST GIF! )

posted somewhere else on the internets:

ALSO, DO YOU IMAGINE PEOPLE LOOK LIKE THEIR ICON IRL?


I change my default a lot, so I don't know what you guys think of me


but I do think this sometimes


or choice of icon influences how I picture a person


or, more often, I see the icon saying what the person is saying
this can be hilarious

random question

Why are so many icon makers so obsessed with macaroons?

if anyone can make a better version of this, I will be very happy.

so I spent hours trying to look up how to do rotating headers. Even registered for a free site to host files on and all. But that site isn't working...agh I give up.

but this site should help anyone else who wants to try it.


some test headers I made:

GIANT header pics of random big pics I found:
( Star Wars, Le Samouraï, photo of street in Berkeley we drove past yesterday, Arsenal, and a certain...interesting...Spain NT pic )

I think I'll go with the Star Wars one, but I'll check my other comp before I change anything...

Why, self, why? Why is this Lost withdrawal still going on?

Anyways, I was thinking about aspects of film noir and then that mutated and changed past that and all of a sudden it turned into a crazy Lost banner project. I was thinking of making a black-and-white vid with this theme, but I have neither the time nor the computer memory to do the vid justice.

So here it is: ( Lost character/banner preview thing for upcoming seasons speculation. )
Now I wish someone could do a real film noir/Lost crossover...

I am constantly switching trains between The Crazybusy Zephyr and the I-Don't-Even-Want-to-Go-Online Destress Express. But I must dump links from my link document!

via yahtzee63:


hee

oh hey check out the Ned icon above. I'm not all that great at GIMP yet, but this was my first sorta sucess with a Pushing Daisies icon yay! It's not as good as the more pro icon makers out there, but I'm still liking it.

Speaking of Lee Pace, subtle__sarcasm linked to the HD trailer for the fantasy movie The Fall. All I can say for now is, gorgeous cinematography and production. And aww cool Lee Pace in bullfighteresque uniform. More stills and info here.

hey Gossip Girl fans: I stumbled on to The Chuck Bass Experience. Yes, it's a picspam. Of Chuck's clothing. XD
via supersyncspaz7: Production pictures from filming upcoming episodes. Jenny's yellow trench is very nice, aww dogs, and heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Chuck's red...thing.

okay, back to work.