12 posts tagged “me”
So, in my imagination, this is really big, right? And the bottom "painty" part is really textured and the top "smoky" part has lots of layers of cloudy, sort of yellowed varnish with slight collaged elements in between layers, see? No? Well, then, you're just going to have to trust me that in my imagination it's supah cool..
I'm not sure I'm even going to upload a link to this there - it was just fun to play around (update: okay - I did). And I've found at least one other Voxxer doing Illustration Friday; here are all her posts with that tag. Neato!
I do wish Vox would let us do a bit of customization... just choose a design, then upload our own background (and bullet, if there is one) and change accent colors. This is what I'd do today:
My pants are too tight. That's the bad news. The good news is, it's because they're my way-old pants, my two-sizes-ago (at least) pants, because my regular clothes are too big now. I'm kinda stuck in the middle; my good-weight clothes are still a little too small, but fit better than my bad weight clothes. But I don't want to buy anything 'til the beginning of the year, since I should be pretty much whatever weight I'm going to be then, and hey, coincidentally, that's when things go on sale. Works for me.
But in the meantime... omg, how do people who wear tight clothes do it? So uncomfortable! Urgh. But now that I'm home, I'm going to put on some nice sloppy sweat pants (that's the good news) and clean house (that's the bad news).
PS: to all the people I told I was going to Athens last week, I didn't go; to all the people I told I was going to Athens this coming week, I'm not going. Now it looks like the middle of the month for going to Athens.
Summary: Pants too tight, not in Athens.
Okay, this kind of blows my mind (yes, it's a small thing, and not that hard to blow, but still...): In Peacay's post about an 1800s photographer, I pointed out this photo (or here for zoom-able Flash version), and said "She's sort of got this Jennifer Anniston thing going on (though she looks like she's about to hurl here)" and peacay said he didn't really see the resemblance... And so I looked some more, and googled up some pix of Jen, and thought, "Hm, yeah. Maybe not, after all". Here's the lady in question:
But then I thought, "okay, though - let's see what she would look like as a modern woman with modern hair, using modern cosmetics". So I started photoshopping - but changing only those things that a normal woman can effect with ordinary makeup. And this is what I ended up with:
I tweezed the tiniest bit from under the inner, thicker part of the brow, and used "eyebrow pencil" to fill in the sparse outer part of the brow. I applied mascara on top and bottom lashes, and eyeliner under the eyes. I used concealer on the outer edges of the eyes where they droop down a bit too much and on the upper inner corners of the eyes, and used eyeshadow a couple tones darker than her skin tone (as per this photo, anyway) on her upper lids. I removed the age flecks from this area of the photo so she wouldn't have spots all over her face, and I gave her a new hairdo.
I didn't touch her facial structure, except that weird bulge on the left outer side of her face, which is an artifact of the photographer's touching up (he did something with the hair on both sides closest to her face, that I noticed in an extreme enlargement). I also gave her an eye color approximate to what it looks like she might have had, and removed the smudge from her chin, which was either more bad touching up, or bad lighting... and anyway, even if she did have a freakishly discolored chin, foundation would take care of that. The only "cheating" I did was to lighten the whites of her eyes, but you gotta give me that one, right?
Anyway - taadaa! Does she not look like Jennifer? (She doesn't have the Jennifer jaw, but to me, her other features seem quite similar.) You may think that that was me, painting Jennifer on to her, but I assure you I don't have the skills for that, and couldn't possibly draw or paint an identifiable portrait of anyone to save my life - quite literally. You may not believe this, and even I admit that maybe I have some heretofore untapped talent, and subconsciously affected the outcome, but check this out: I overlayed the makeover image on top of the original image, and asked photoshop to find the outlines, then I reduced the opacity to make it semi-transparent, and inverted it so that the lines would show up white:
So. Anyway. Yeah. That's how I spent my Saturday morning, what's it to you? Stop looking at me like that.
Amazingly, each 16-panel set can form 20,922,789,888,000 different possible pictures. Wheeeeeee!
Ah! I forgot to say that the geekycool thing on this last one of mine is the pattern design in the background; there are actually three different patterns that tile seamlessly with each other. I really should have done four, to have four panels each of each pattern, but I got exhausted at three.
Says
Feel my ribs
Hear my voices
See my eyes roll
This is like, what? A doll for THE EXORCIST? I love to think of the R&D team who identified a need and filled it with this toy. Sadly, I didn't find any photos of the original dolly. I came across this 1930s ad at dollreference.com, here, where indeed, it is affirmed that in addition to "squeaker voice in legs", one "can feel the doll's ribs".
Speaking of feeling ribs, I've lost almost 20 pounds since the beginning of July, which makes me officially not-overweight. I'd still like to get back to my "favorite weight" range, which is at least 10 pounds away That would be a lovely thing for the new year, and a dramatically different paradigm - beginning the new year with my new year's resolution already resolved. To continue in this fashion, I would need to fail to resolve to start exercising regularly, say, in 2007, and then do it. This appeals to Obtuse Me.
Anyway, as to the weight loss, I knew that I was losing it little by little, because I've been checking the scales (not every day... and for a while now, only about once a week - the last three pounds were a total surprise!), but since it's been gradual, I didn't really feel or seem to look (to my eyes) that much different. Until it got colder. I recently pulled out some of my winter clothes, and found, to my delight, that my old winter trousers now look kind of like clown pants on me... or maybe something worn by an aging hiphopper who really doesn't "get it". These pants I'm wearing right now? I could totally fit a whole other butt in here. Heh.
Here's a photo I took today. The title is a lot more provocative than it should be, considering that this is actually the back of an office suite.
Small magical beings in my camera taking photos I don't know about. Seriously, I uploaded shots from my camera that I took some time ago, and I don't even remember shooting this one. So obviously it deserves some B&W slashing and eccentric framing. No? Oh well.
I'm just posting this here because I like it. I took this photo, sort of as a joke, for a metachat Photo Friday "shoot your bookcase" theme. It's true, though - that's what it looks like, because I've run out of room in my other bookcases..
