december 8th, 2004

thank you everyone for supporting me and sticking by me when i feel physically and mentally "under the weather".
i appreciate it from the bottom and the top of my heart and soul!
you have no idea how much you help me, even tho many of you are silent supporters.
i have deep gratitude.

10:03pm

sometimes pooka and i stare into each other's eyes with total love :)

 

6:14pm

eating something helped a bit.
i feel more solid.
but now i want to go to sleep.

5:29pm

i do think i am coming down with something.
i ache all over, my head hurts, and i can't get my temperature right. i'm either too hot or too cold.
and i have no appetite at all. my stomache is also slightly upset.
i haven't eaten anything today.
i think i may make myself this swedish meatball tv dinner and force myself to eat just a bit if it
because i think eating somehing would maybe make me feel a tiny bit better.

i'm sorry things have been so blah lately. what can i do? life.
fluffy tv shows on on tonight.
i'll try to get to bed early, i hope. and maybe when i wake up tomorrow, this illness will have passed.

i've been trying to wash my hands as much as possible to avoid catching anything.
but perhaps that wasn't enough.

i'll go take some more vitamins, too.
my immune system is always at its lowest when i have my period.


4:21pm

this dpi thing is wayyyy more confusing than i ever thought it would be.
i am more confused about it than i ever was before.
jason tried to explain it to me and he may as well have been speaking in monkey sign language.
i hope he can just help me out with this tomorrow because i don't think i am going to be able to figure out how to make something 4 inches but 300 dpi on my own.
not today, at leeast.
and i'm damn cranky from having a headache for 2 days straight.

in other news, i got my freeform crochet books from australia...
and i'm like, HEY, i could totally make a better book!
i was afraid this book was going to be super professional and glossy with massively excellent photos and i would have to try and top that.
well, it will be EASY to top this book, i think. because i am a way better photographer, and i even think i might make more interesting crochet pieces, on the whole. prudence mapstone, who does this book, is excellent and fancy stitchery, but she only knows how to apply it into things that pretty much end up looking very similiar.
the whole making little patches of things and then connecting them.

maybe my book will not be better, but it most certainly will be different, and i'm really glad for that because i need and want my book to be very different, otherwise there would be no point in making it.

so even tho i am extremely retarded when it comes to DPI.

i know that my crochet book is going to kick major ass, and that makes me happy.

i just wish my head would stop hurting now.


3:08pm

help!

ok, the one bordered in green is a tiff and i know is 300 dpi, but the other 2 are jpegs and i don't know how many dpi those are. can someone tell me what dpi they are?

 

2:58pm

ok, so i have figured out that 300 dpi is big ass huge.
the only thing i can find that is 300 dpi is this photo of a rainbow i took that is a tiff image.
it's 2048 pixels wide and 1536 inches tall.

and other photos i took that are that many pixels wide but are a jpeg it says "dpi unknown" in my paint shop pro. so i just do not know what to do at all.
i am SO FRUSTRATED.

here all this time i was taking huge photos of my hats and they either aren't enough dpi or i don't KNOW what the fuck dpi it is or how to ever know.

i hate this shit!!!

and even tho they said they want the images to be "digitally 4 x 4 on screen"

they can't really mean that. they MUST mean that when you print the photos, they will be 4 inches.
because 4 inches on a screen is damn small!

wtf??????????

i want to rip the hair out of my head and scream.

and i just feel ILL today.

i am really really unhappy. and i don't want to rephotograph my hats. and many of them i CAN'T rephotograh because i've sold them and i just don't understand this DPI thing or the jepeg vs,. tiff thing.
and i DON'T UNDERSTAND why i can't see what dpi my big jpegs are!!!

this sucks!!!!!!!!!!!

i just want to crawl into a ball and die.




2:22pm

i need to get to the stire for cokes and take some aspirin. my head hurts so much.

now dwell magazine is asking for me to submit my images at 300 dpi and 4x4 inches!
i asked them 4 inches printed out?
and they have to be perfectly SQUARE pictures???

augh.

 

2:06pm

ow! my head! gah.
i need a coke.

1:26pm

didn't get to sleep until 7am. drag.
got 6 hours of sleep.i still have a headache that will just not go away and i feel really rundown and my face is still breaking out like there's no tomorrow and i finally got my period.
i'm not feeling up to par.
and the weather remains grey grey grey grey and cold.
my dreams were just busy busy busy nervous dreams.

 

5:47am

i should go to bed now.
was at myheadphones.org for hours relooking at her photos.
she is so amazing :)
i'd have to say from all of photos on the net, hers most closely resembles my style.
it's cool and weird to meet such a similiar person.
she has wayyy more graphics skills than i do, tho.
i really MUST learn photoshop and get to understand dreamweaver better someday so i can do all the nifty things.

3:40am

i'm having a weird interest in deer lately.
1st i took the pictures of the deer target the other day.
then a few nights ago i dreamt i was taking photos of a dead deer that had been killed by a road.
and then, i found an interesying lj community called endeering
and now, i'm thinking about deer even more...
hmmm.

+++

play with your food!


i just started a new lj community called foodplay
where playing with your food is a must!

this a photo community to post photos of food that you have played with and made art out of! this isn't a community for posting photos of just ordinary food. for example, a photo of mashed potatoes would not be ok, but a photo of mashed potatoes sculpted into the devil's tower as in the movie "close encounters of the third kind" would be great! photos of just an ordinary potato would not be ok, but posting a photo of a potato you made in a "mr. potato head" would be great! food that is sexy, obscene, hilarious and even political is encouraged! also arty artful pictures of food are encouraged, such as close ups of food textures or a beautiful well compositioned bowl of fruit, etc. i just don't want to see ordinary photos taken in an nonartful way of food, like an ordinary snapshot of a burger you ate today.
food was meant to be played with!

i will be moderating this community to make sure that posts stay on topic.

i started this community because the picturing_food community sadly does not allow "pictures of food in "suggestive poses", food that doesn't look like food, or food that looks like male or female body parts!" which i think is ridiculous.

food was MEANT to be sexy!

so please go join foodplay!

let the food fights begin!