There are no bad ideas in brainstorms they say, I'll just shelf that one for later.
There's a new staff member here onsite today, her name is
chaumag. She's the new developer, so please welcome her, and make her feel right at home.
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Sadly, they don't hire that way around here. The employers want minimum wage "do-alls", people who can run register and sort the stockroom out at the same time. Knowing that doesn't stop me from applying though, but my chances of being hired for that aren't the best. Even the manager at Holiday Inn, who implied I could be hired on and put into a position out of contact with the guests wouldn't take that chance with me.
There have been ads for graphic designers in the paper, but I can't apply for several reasons, they want a person who's experienced on a Mac computer with Adobe Photoshop and Quark software, and has prior design experience. I can't afford a Mac so I've never worked on one, I hate Adobe Photoshop (I proudly use and reccommend the freeware image editor
Pixia for all my major imagine manipulation needs), and just what exactly is Quark anyway? Aside from that, I don't have prior design experience (they were wanting something like 6 months to a year). I applied to a job painting glass at the local art glass factory (paining flowers and trees and the like on glass bowls or something like that), and supposedly they were interested in seeing my art portfolio, but I never even got called in for an interview to show it to them. I doubt they would have appreciated my art style anyway. I don't let the locals ignorance prevent me from trying though, because as the saying goes "nothing ventured nothing gained." Interior design isn't a high demand field here, I've never even seen anyone looking for people in that field, but I"ll keep it open as an option.
Well, because according to the bank, my credit history would make me a liability (they think everyone is cut from the same cloth with regards to money, like I'd waste my time working at a bank to steal money from them). I have somewhere close to $2,000.00 in debt that I can't pay off because I don't have a job, and most of that debt is becase I was stupid enough to be nice guy when my family's bad credit got in the way of basic necessity. I can apply to banks all I want, but they check credit history there so that's out of the question.
The only slang dictionary I've heard of is a US English one, I've actually seen it in my local Waldenbooks once, but I couldn't tell you where, they move that whole store arond so people can't find the same stuff twice, and that annoys me to no end. I hate sotres that rearrange their shelves.
Mamma Vash:
I never even gave that a thought. I do have a couple photography studios around me, and a good camera shop (got my unipod there) so I could give that a go dince I'm no stranger to the camera (granted I don't know all the features of mine yet, but I still take a good photo or two. It would be nice to find someone willing to train me and I would think in that field they would have to do it anyway, I just don't know anymore. I only have two real craft stores around, one doesn't do classes, and not being a people person, I don't know that I would come off as good teacher material for that sort of thing, but I'll keep my eyes open and start asking around anyway. Maybe the Art Center needs someone for something, I'll have to ask there too in the morning.
It'll be one of my all time favorite pieces too.
200DPI shouldn't be small if we're talking and 8.5x11 inch paper. Every time I run a scan like that on the flatbed it comes out somwhere in the neighborhood of 1200xsomething pixels if not bigger in size. Maybe there's another setting to adjust, how about BPP (Bits Per Pixel), that should be in the neighborhood of 24 (In
Irfanview a freeware image viewer and basic editor, you'll see an image size like this 640x480x24 BPP). Some other things to look for are color and contrast settings, you may have to play with those some too, but remember where they're set before you begin so you can restore them when you're done if they don't improve anything. You may be scanning into TIF format by default as well, scan (and save) a picture without changing anything, then check the settings and switch to bitmap if it's anything else, and scan (and save) the same picture again, then look at the difference between the two. If the bitmap version looks better than the default, use that then resave after scanning into JPEG format. Those All-in-one scanners are designed primarly for faxing text, not really doing high res pictures, and they can be very unforgiving of pencil lines. If switching to an uncompressed format, and adjusting color and contrast settings don't clear things up, you'll have to think about investing in a good flatbed scanner.
Normally I ink my art in by hand before I scan it in, I've tried doing digital conversion to line art, and it always comes out looking terrible for me. I was able to find in one of my local art/craft supply stores the Sakura micron pens, and I'm in love with those things for doing the inkwork on my art now. I only have the black, but I intend to get the other colors if I can find them too. I don't have an aversion to pencil art, but being ambidextrous, I tend to smear and blur things when I'm working in left hand mode, so I like to at least solidify some of the lines with ink to ensure they'll be in the finished product. I'm terrible with CG art, I'm trying to learn how to do it, but I've got a long way to go. I knw what you mean by some people being outstanging with CG stuff. There's a few on here I've got my eye on with that regard. I know enough to know I don't know enough, and that's about it. In theory, all art is basically the same, producing shapes, light, and shadow, but getting from that basic concept to "Wow that's quite a picture!" for CG work are two different things. Maybe after I get my latest stint of artwork done I'll give complete CG a go and see what I come up with. I've got the tools I need for it, Pixia is great for that. I linked to the English page earlier, but
Here is the original.
Well, I can't speak from experience with that, I don't get that kind of job offer, or standby offer, well, at all, so I can't really suggest anything. Trust your instincts and weight the elements to decide what's best for yourself. Playing the lottery could be fun in moderation, just don't get addicted to it, and whatever you win over the cost of tickets, set aside for something special. I think I'll help you out with promoting change by posting a
random search query every time I update, just to make things interesting if nothing else.
Here's a crash course in the breathing exercise I do for meditation. To start off, you may need a really cheap timer, and the time to do this:
1) Make sure you're in a quiet place where you will not be distrurbed AT ALL for at least fifteen minutes
2) Sit down in a relaxed position.
3) Close your eyes and clear your mind, block out all distractions as best you can.
4) Take a slow, deep breath, inhaling through the nose, hold it.
5) Slowly let the breat out through the mouth.
6) In your mind, count "1".
7) Repeat steps 4-6 counting up to "4" then start over again at "1"
8) Continue repeating the 1-4 count while breathing for fifteen minutes.
Now, while you're doing that, your mind will try it's hardest to think about everything else, which you don't want. Focus only on the breathing, on the counting, don't let your mind take you anywhere else, don't let it try to solve problems (you'll notice it'll even try that to distract you). Your mind has to be completely blank other than tracking the count. It's hard to do at first, but once you fall into the routine, your mind will be more tuned to focusing on the count later on. Start off doing it once a week, then add a day at a time once you get the hang of it till you find a pattern your comfortable with, and that works to keep your stress levels down.
Anime Dreams!
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- Sanosuke (Rurouni Kenshin), for Caprice
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- Melfina (Outlaw Star), for Outlaw Melfina
- Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing), for kout3uka
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