I'm back, finally, from my rather long trip. It wasn't even that long I guess, it just seemed long because of the crazy amounts of travel and also boredom. I will update this more later, for now we just need to go out and buy food for ourselves and our animals. And perhaps start to tackle the massive unpacking project. We got so much crap for Christmas I can't even fathom where we're going to put it all. At least one of the gifts was a set of three metal storage boxes. Woo!

I will be submitting plenty in the coming days, as well as my entry for the Winterdream photography contest, which I'm sure I won't win but it's worth a shot anyway.

Anyhow, my winter break lasts until the 18th. I didn't do so hot this semester (again) but I'm really looking forward to a few of my classes this coming semester so maybe that will help me get my act together more.

Oh, and Napoleon Dynamite is Movie of the Year hands down, people. Brilliant.
I do want to say that I haven't seen The Life Aquatic yet however, and I think I'll actually like that one even more, because Wes Anderson is a damn genius.

My prints arrived from *sayra! Unexpectedly fast, too. I couldn't believe it. Plus, she went and surprised me by ordering me two of them instead of one. Is she not the sweetest thing? I demand you go and favorite her work and +watch her right now.

Anyway, her stuff is very cool, and I'm very lucky to have some real-life representations of her work. Pictured above are the tree stands alone and tequila sunrise. She has many more prints I really like, including a kick-ass flower series of some brightly colored macros.


Second piece of news: I got a new 6"x8" Wacom tablet, courtesy of Ron Konen. That is very cool, because it was a total surprise and I didn't see one coming in my near future. Plus I wanted one quite a bit. I used to draw/paint a lot but I've gotten lazier and I have a lack of horizontal space on which to do these things. This tablet will let me make that whole thing digital, so hopefully I'll start up again. Tablets are awesome.

That's all for now...



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I have created a print account at Zazzle.com. I have heard many good things about Zazzle, and I've even heard of people choosing Zazzle over deviantART for their print sales, so I am sure it is a quality service. I definitely want a deviantART print account but I cannot afford one at the moment, so this will be my prints method in the meantime.
Please visit my print gallery here: lucidtheory's Zazzle gallery.
The prints are all standard sizes for easy framing/use of any sort.
If there are any of my images that you would like me to make available as prints that I have not already, please note me and let me know, and I will do so right away. I can also make them into greeting cards, shirts, etc.
Thank you in advance for visiting.

I have created a print account at Zazzle.com. I have heard many good things about Zazzle, and I've even heard of people choosing Zazzle over deviantART for their print sales, so I am sure it is a quality service. I definitely want a deviantART print account but I cannot afford one at the moment, so this will be my prints method in the meantime.
Please visit my print gallery here: lucidtheory's Zazzle gallery.
The prints are all standard sizes for easy framing/use of any sort.
If there are any of my images that you would like me to make available as prints that I have not already, please note me and let me know, and I will do so right away. I can also make them into greeting cards, shirts, etc.
Thank you in advance for visiting.

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Firstly, I just wanted to publicly thank *sayra for her generosity. She is gifting me a print of hers in celebration of her 1000th pageview (even though I was not officially 1000 or anything... ) She lives in New Zealand, which is an incredible country, especially for its beauty. I hope to move there one day, hopefully to research but mostly just to live there. I'm drawn to that place, I can't help it.



I am so anxious for finals to be over. I know I've complained about that before, but they're just so spread out that I have to spread my worrying over an 8-day period instead of just a few days. Bah.

I have a lot of vague art ideas... things that sort of drift in and out of my mind as incomplete images and concepts. More like pieces of photographs, certain shapes, and flashes of color. It's like an environment in my head... I can see snippets of it but entire entities escape me.
That happens to me all the time with stories. It's always been something I've done, ever since I can really remember. I write stories to myself in my head. I literally narrate situations out word for word, building backstories up for things and describing them all as if I was reading myself a book. It's something I've always done when my mind is idle. I notice I do it more when I'm bored or otherwise unstimulated. It's self-entertainment, basically. And the mind can take you anywhere, so it's unbound by reality.
Backstory is important to me. Games and movies and books are always that much more fascinating if they are only part of a much larger story, a story that cannot be covered by one book alone, or three, or twenty. Like a whole other world. Tolkien's works regarding Middle Earth and its history and races would be an excellent example of this kind of magnificent story. Tolkien spent his life building this complete world, creating all of its legends and history, documenting the lives of various people within it, even creating languages for them to speak. It's bloody fascinating.

Alright, enough for now.

1,000 pageviews! Thanks so much everybody.


Something new full of nothing new = this entry

I'm in 'survive the end of the semester' mode. Finals, studying, final projects. No motivation to really do any of it. It's so easy to just stay home and sit around, isn't it? Yes. Yes it is.



I'm looking forward to that new feeling of the new semester... after a month off, a chance to get yourself organized and pretend like you're going to stay on top of it all this time.

I'm going to North Carolina for a little over a week during winter break. It will be a nice change of scenery, I really need it.
I can't help but wish we were headed somewhere tropical though...

I guess this will have to do ~


<sub>a little box of sea

by... *mere-ambivalence</sub>

I'm getting a new camera for Christmas, I just found out. I can't wait, on account of mine is awful and anything is better. But this is a LOT better. Not the best ever, but pretty good. It's one of those mid-level cameras, a digital SLR type, but not the extreme $800 ones.

Anyway, it's a Fuji FinePix S5100.
Observe the majesty (and stats): [link]
(if you care... )


I'm excited, at least. I'll just have to keep saving for the day I get the ultimate camera.

Oh, and this will mean better things for my watchers to see slathering their inboxes. Hooray for less ugliness! And for nicer equipment!!