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Oct. 16th, 2004 @ 01:35 am
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Here is a narrative poem I wrote in high school. I was thinking of reading it at the next Slam Attic open mike. POETRY LINK |
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Oct. 15th, 2004 @ 08:59 pm
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lookie here. made an animated gif with photoshop image ready. new skill aqcuired. yay~! |
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Oct. 15th, 2004 @ 12:25 pm
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okay, so here is an almost finished model of my second version of frogdog. i call this one dogfrog.
I textured him a little yesterday. I put clown makeup on him so he looks a whole lot like that clown in Spawn. I still don't know what sort of skin to give him though. I don't want to give him fur because that will take too long to render. I think it would make sense if he had pig skin, but then again, he's dogfrog-- maybe he should be green. I was also thinking of just giving him a toon shader. Oh well. Next time I'll work on him is sunday, so I have until then to think about it.
Man, I feel guilty about creating such a creature. What if creature we drew or modelled came to life on another planet? When I was little I felt really guilty until I gave my drawing eyes. Like, I felt until that point I was handicapping the creature that I was currently germinating on another planet. Poor dogfrog. Maybe I'll make it up to him by having something good happen in the animation. Like, already I want him to be the god of the clown people. Can't wait 'till I get to the animating phase. Only two weeks left before this is due! SCARY! |
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Oct. 13th, 2004 @ 08:08 am
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Oct. 11th, 2004 @ 04:18 pm
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Okay, here are some pics of the model I'm working on (for the animation due at the end of this month!!!)
Here is my old version of Frogdog:
From the side, however, you can see that his legs aren't really shaped right:
So I started working on a new frogdog I call Dogfrog:
I haven't finished him, obviously!
Yeah, so I have only three weeks left to finish my animation, and I haven't even finished modelling Dogfrog, much less texturing him! :( |
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Yay! Poetry Slam!
OCTOBER 14: Let's meet at 8pm again in the Dobie Mall
food court. From there we'll head over to the 21st street Co-op. If
you can't meet up with the group at 8pm, just catch up with us at the co-op
later on. This event lasts until like, past midnight, so don't worry-- you
won't be late.
Yay #2! Greek Festival!
OCTOBER 17: Greek festival! Sunday there is a
greek festival in San Antonio that I'm going to. If you have nothing
better to do on Sunday, you can totally come along. There's no admission
fee or anything, so it's cheap entertainment. If you're interested, just
let me know.
Oct. 11th, 2004 @ 02:53 pm
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Last night Phil bought me the movie "Hackers" from the bargain bin because I begged him for it. I really like that movie back when it came out and I was like, 15 or something. My sister was hilarious about it. Immediately after watching the movie, she went to her bedroom, opened her hand-me-down laptop, and said in a low, cool voice "Let's hack". Then she proceeded to change her desktop wallpaper. I still laugh my head ass off when I think about that. Maybe Tina is the reason I remembered that movie so fondly. Anyway, last night I watched it again with Phil. It's such a funny movie now. So many things make absolutely no sense. However, Hackers reminded me of how much I want to visit Seattle. Like, the movie took place in New York, but I think Seattle is pretty much the same thing.
By the way, today is another good girl day. I am totally going to finish "Praise of Folly" today. Hopefully I can finish an essay on it by tomorrow.
Oct. 9th, 2004 @ 05:11 pm
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-Philly -Philbert -Phillyberto -Phil -Philipe -Phillypie -Fuzz -Fuzzy -Fuzz Pumpkin -Pumpkin Butt -Beautiful Pumpkin -Lovely Hunny
Oct. 7th, 2004 @ 09:38 pm
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Okay, these are lyrics I wrote back in high school, but I modified them a little for the song I made up on the guitar tonight. The song is a fable I made up about how the oceans got their salt.
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In the dark of the night,
when all was violet,
On a black, placid shore
I stood in the weed.
And I saw in the distance
The great bloom of a lotus
That shone white in the darkness,
Unlike the new moon.
^How great / Has the lily shone / Releasing its purity / Give it to the sea
^Today / Sing la da da di da / To the shimmering waters / Shining under the sun
The lily was vibrant,
A magical beacon,
That was cradled by foliage
In the freshwater sea.
Then the lovely white flower
Burst into a white powder
That like flint or like glitter
Shone luminously.
*No longer a blossom,
crystals road on the sea foam,
making all incandescent;
Pearls thrown into waves.
When by dawn all had settled,
The sun shone on the waters.
The weeds were lacy and crusted
By the salty marine.
^How great / Has the lily shone / Releasing its purity / Give it to the sea
^Today / Sing la da da di da / To the shimmering waters / Shining under the sun
Oct. 6th, 2004 @ 09:54 pm
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I am so bad! So so bad. You know how I have three tests to study for? Well, I've spent the whole night playing guitar and making jam (as in, like jelly).
I thought I was going to be good. I thought I'd stay up all night studying and then wake up and go straight to work in the morning, but you know how it is-- the world seems so much more colorful and exciting when you have work to do. I'm like having a super creative spurt, but not for Pirate stuff, not for those drawings I owe this guy, not for homework!!! I'm making up a song, dammit! Tonight is my night to be bad and la di da! I don't want tonight to end. I don't want to go to sleep. I want the Litsa-time to last as long as possible.
As far as my tests go... well, I'm sure when the time comes, my subconscious will unlock all that info I have tucked away somewhere back in there.
As far as Pirate goes... my schedule book says I'm studying for my tests right now, so the way I see it, I'm just wasting time that I never promised pirate to begin with.
Oct. 6th, 2004 @ 09:43 pm
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So far this week I've been such a good girl.
Sunday I worked at Pirate a little, but spent the rest of the day finishing an English essay.
Monday I read for 7 hours straight, trying to catch up on the readings for my American Lit class.
Yesterday I spent 14 hours in front of a computer at Pirate-- all I did the whole time was tutorials. My brain was really hurting by the time I got home. Last night I couldn't sleep well because I kept thinking about the tutorials and about the model I'm working on. When I woke up this morning, my thoughts picked up where they left off.
So now I'm passing time in the hour break I have between classes. I'm not really looking forward to the rest of today. I'm so tired, but I have to bus/walk back to pirate, pick up my bike, and ride it back home. Then I'll have to somehow stay awake long enough to study for the three tests I have on Friday. Just thinking about it makes me want to go to sleep.
Super Bright-Sides:
1) I'm being a good girl-- keeping up with school and work
2) There's nothing to eat at Pirate. Yesterday I didn't get to each much, so today I woke up with a really flat tummy. I celebrated by wearing a low-collar, skin-tight shirt.
3) If I can keep up this pace, two mucho cool things could happen:
-- I might get XSI SoftImage Certified
-- I'd be ahead of my classes, so the end of the semester will be a breeze
Bad side:
1) I never see phillypie!
2) tired
3) No social life. ASG is getting harder and harder to go to.
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TANGENT:
I'm still thinking about my model. After I finish modeling it, I have to texture, rig, and animate it by the end of this month! Eeeeeek! Okay, so it's already the 6th and I haven't even finished modelling. What's worse is that I don't even know how to rig or animate yet. :( I have to learn in a super hury, hence the tutorials. However, the tutorials are freaking LONG! There are 4 of them that I'm trying to get through. They cover a ton of material. But yesterday I spent 14 hours on the first one and I only completed about 80%. On top of that, I was lost on certain parts, so I'll have to look at them again after I've tried to figure out how to do that stuff on my own. Hay carramba! So like, lets say the rest of the tutorials are 15hrs each. That means I have 45 hours of tutorials left to watch before I can go back to working on my model again!!! Ahhhhhhhh! I'm soooo worried that I won't finish my animation by the end of this month. I think I'll cut down on time by giving him a real quickly done texture. I'll just put some cool lights in the scene to cover up my hasty texturing job or something. I don't know where else I can cut corners though. :( Booo hooo hooo!
Oct. 6th, 2004 @ 10:17 am
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Last night I was pretty productive. I finished my English essay and I did my astronomy homework. Yay.
Pirate is getting nuts. Eddie has asked us to give up our lives for the month of october.
Below is a picture of my dad.
Just so my dad won't feel bad about the psycho picture, here's a psycho picture of me:
And here's one of my little sister, Tina:
Oct. 4th, 2004 @ 03:02 pm
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Last night I heard a big crash at about 12:30. I was like, "whatever." But then this morning I went outside and saw that a tree decided to fall on some cars. The tree was alive, but had no roots, so I guess it had been teetering a long time before finally falling over. Weird. Glad no one got hurt. Look at pics \/\/\/ Also I posted a real cute angry sparrow pic.
Oct. 3rd, 2004 @ 01:22 pm
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Like my new avatar? I thought it was funny. Phil was like, "holloween costume? :)" ...Bah!
yay it's october! I LOVE october. I like holloween and I like the fall. October is the month of the 90s. October makes me want to wear brown suade boots and flannel shirts. October makes me want to watch old MTV claymations. I like orange, and I like getting my hands cold and wet for extended periods of time. This morning my kitchen was completely flooded with cold, dirty water because my roof leaks really bad. Bright side: my feet have been cold and wet for hours now and now I have an excuse to go out and buy a mop. October makes me want to shop at JCpenny specifically because October reminds me of that store. And if I were at JCpenny I'd buy orange and purple stuff.
Oct. 2nd, 2004 @ 11:13 am
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Dear Livejournal,
yesterday i worked on my fat pug dog model for 16 hours straight, only get up from the computer long enough to go to the bathroom. Oh, and twice I stopped for mac and cheese.
I finished my first dog model in the morning. But then when I imported it into different software to paint textures on it, I realized how sucky my model was. So I decided to completely start over. My boss discouraged me from doing so cause he liked my first model, but I know I can do so much better. So yeah, all those hours of labor, and my second dog model is still a headless blob with legs. I'm way too slow.
I'll post pics of my two dogs so ya'll can compare. But now I gotta get to class.
I love you, LJ!
xoxo --Litsa
ps: I'm dumb.
Oct. 1st, 2004 @ 12:48 pm
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I went to Kiwi and Goatboy's wedding party last night. It was quite nice. Nice dorky party with game cube and board games and stuff. That's the way I like it.
I broke my year long abstinance from alcohol last night. Last time I drank anything I immediately got really hung over, I was mad at the vodka for making me sick, and I decided to punish it by not drinking alcohol ever again.
Last night my tipsiness was kind of dissappointing though. Like, I just got sleepy and then I couldn't kick any ass at all on Super Smash Brothers. I thought drinks were supposed to make you more social. I just got dumber and found that I was repeating everything the characters in Mario Party were saying. "Yeah" "Yeah" "Alright!" "Alright!" "[sound effect]" "dabo-dabo"
Anyway, excuse my juvenille curiosity about that stuff.
Sep. 25th, 2004 @ 09:11 am
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wanna hear something disgusting? I had a sore throat for the past couple days, and i felt like there was something scratching the back of my throat. I thought maybe it was swollen or something. so finally last night i used a hand mirror to take a look. I couldn't see anything at first, but then I saw white behind my tonsle. so i poked at my tonsle with my finger and behind it was a massive white thing. I was like, holy crap! It's like pussing or something. But then with more prodding the white thing fell out of my mouth. It was a chunk of veggie chicken that got stuck behind my tonsel!!! I don't think I can ever eat veggie chicken again now. I'm so paranoid every time I eat. I think I'm going to get one of those little dental mirrors so I can check behind my tonsels every so often to see if anything's lodged there. EWWWWWWWW!
Sep. 24th, 2004 @ 12:45 pm
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the poetry slam was sooooo amazing that I'm still glowing from the experience. It was like a secular church of hippie green people, and I was totally a congregate. I especially felt that way because one of the guys sounded like a mix of gospel preacher and rap artist, but he was talking about how if we focused more on global issues then maybe we wouldn't have all this racial pain going on. Anyway, it was so cool. The place was covered with amazing murals and everyone there had such a good vibe. Like, I think I've found my religion or something. It makes me wanna wear corderoy and old T-shirts. Like, I totally felt like I was in Seattle and Clare Danes was totally right there with me.
OH MY SWEET LORD!
Yeah, I'm painfully excited about slams now. I was like, man, I'm finally in college. Like, I think until last night I had never actually been a college student. It makes me want to drink or something, but then again, alcohol just gives me headaches so maybe not. Anyway, so now I totally want to live in the 21st street co-op. I wonder if I can live there after I graduate? Then I'd have even more time to relish in the collegeness! Like, AH! The murals! And all the common areas-- kitchens, livingrooms-- had glass walls so there was no privacy. That's the way I like it! I thought I had it good sleeping in the living room, but my little segment in the apartment cannot compete with the beauty that is the 21st street co-op!
hay carramba!
I think Gracia was pretty psyched too. Anyway, the attic slams are a monthly thing, so I will keep ya'll posted.
Sep. 24th, 2004 @ 12:37 pm
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Essay due today. Now I feel under pressure because although my prof gave me a great compliment on my first essay, i think i wrote a good one by mistake. i don't know if i can match it. i think the essay i'm about to turn in is way more insightful, but i had a hard time conveying my thoughts. i think Twombly (my prof) really appreciates organization and simplicity. This one isn't too organized. :(
Yeah, so like both my english classes require 8 two-page papers of us. So that's 16 papers i have to write this semester, which comes out to one paper per week! You're thinking, oh well, at least each essay is only two pages. But no! Length is decieving. Even though the essay only needs to be 2 pages, I still have to put the same amount of work into conceiving my thesis and arguments. That's the evil part, no matter how long the final product is. This essay I'm about to turn in 10 minutes from now took me about 10 hours to write. It was seriously an all day affair.
I hate essay writing. This semester is pretty evil. And I don't have as much time for Pirate either, which sucks because I'm under pressure to catch up with the XSI gods there. School is really hurting my ability to learn 3d animation right now. I graduate in the spring though, so hopefully even if I must neglect 3d for now, I can still get back into it next semester.
Also, I sleep too much. I go to sleep at 11pm and wake up at 7:30am. My roommates go to sleep like, at 1am or later and wake up at like, 6am! And the guys at Pirate just don't sleep. Maybe I sleep too much to get into the animation business. If I slept less, I'd have time to do all my homework, write those essays, and go to Pirate. I hate how much I sleep, but I don't have the will power to resist nodding off.
Anyway, got to go to class.
Sep. 22nd, 2004 @ 12:40 pm
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