Applying Resin to an Acrylic Pour Painting

New Camera!

     Heynow, I got my camera! I actually got it yesterday after work. It cost more than I thought because of the 4GB SDHC card and the card reader. The total was about $190. Not good but I'll get by. Here's a picture:

     It's a very good quality camera. It has a feature on there the detects smiles and it takes a picture every time someone smiles, that's awesome. I took a lot of pictures just by smiling. Sometimes I quickly switched over to a different facial expression. Anyway, as soon as I get my other prop, I'll start shotting which will probably be next week. I went to Walgreens to get some lotion and saw an 8GB SDHC card and had to get it because of the space I need for the camera for videos. Anyway, I don't have that much cash for the rest of the week so I'll search for the prop later. Maybe I'll get someone to hangout with when looking for it. Maybe I'll ask them to be in it too as a bonus video. Just thinking of conversations that I probably won't have. Have you ever done something like that? Leave a comment if you have. I'm listening to "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Bob Dylan on my iTunes. I sent a few replies on twitter and some have responded. Well, the replies I've sent are to YouTuber's I like. Actually I need to edit a video I shot yesterday to test out on YouTube. I finished editing and uploading now, it slows my computer down so I'll go and come back and give you a link. New Camera Test! Well, It's 11:34PM now, so I'm going to bed now. My life is exciting, goodnight. 

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Late Night Hustle

     Heynow. It's 9:15AM and I'm at work. My boss isn't here yet. I hope he doesn't come in and I hope he calls in so I can leave early. When I woke up, my nose was running and it still is. My big toe on my right foot hurts too, I must have slept on it weird. I took some allergy medicine and it hasn't kicked in yet. After my morning shower and getting dressed, I was a bit late for work. Since I was late I didn't get breakfast and I'm really hungry. When I got to work I figured I'd drink some tea to fill my stomach but I had only one teabag. I drank that and now I'm drinking coffee. My boss came in with photo paper for me to print out some old photos that I scanned a few days ago, I got that done. My boss's girlfriend came in, the old photos are hers. I helped out to carry a package / present to her car and I'm guessing she's on her way home. My boss is looking over the specifications again for me to change. There's not a lot of changes but he's still here to my left, I don't think he can see me typing on my blog. My sinuses are cleared up and my big toe doesn't hurt which is great. The morning is becoming better.
     It's past lunch now. I've been working (some work related and some making my custom twitter background page, which is done). I need to work some more on a set of plans I'm working on now but I was going to review my night last night. My boss gave me a lot to do but it's almost the end of the day, so I'll do it tomorrow. Anyway, last night I got in the mood to paint. I got the idea to do a time lapse video again so I set it up and shot it for the first painting. A Painting in Six and a Half Minutes. I painted a total of two paintings that night. The (Spoiler alert) Slash first and then Angus Young for the second. My friend Nick wants to buy both. Now I have two paintings left to do. One for Allison and one for myself which I'll do last. While painting the second painting, my mom called just to check in and talk a while. Dad and her were doing fine. Also while doing the second painting, I uploaded the video. A lot of active activity going on at the same time. I actually painted some while talking to mom. I also told her the video idea I had. After painting, uploading and talking on the phone it was time for bed. Well, I guess I filled you in yet again, I gotta go. My life is exciting, later.

I use words that start with "Some" in front of it all the time. Sorry if that annoys you.

     Heynow. It's been yet another uneventful Saturday. Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't post anything on here because nothing really happened but I'm bored. Listening to my iTunes "Pearl Jam - Just Breathe". I need to learn that song, it's a good one. I have some cold earl grey tea to my left on an old wooden stool. The stool I used to play drums on. Now I use it to prop my feet (sometimes) or put my tea on. I do miss playing drums. It's gets all my anger out. Now I have one less outlet for anger. Sometimes that madness turns to sadness and my apartment is my blanket. I did goto Walgreen's to get some allergy medicine that I ran out of. Today was a cold, gray skied, slushy day. Not all that great. I'm thinking about vlogging again but I'd like to get a better camera. I looked up a few cameras and a really good one costs from $160 to $200. So I guess I won't be getting one soon. Using the camera around public places and everyone looking at me somehow makes me not have so much anxiety. It's weird but it sometimes works. I feel like I need to have something human watching me to make me feel human. I still need to get some ideas for the green screen stuff. Something that's never been done is hard to figure out. I'll think of something when I get into the grove of it. Sometimes when I watch something or see something creative, it'll make me think of different ideas. I just focus on one thing like song writing or painting. I feel like tonight won't be one of those times. It's 11:16PM on a Sat. night. I have send some messages on a dating website so that's something out of the ordinary. The two I send were interesting personally and were physically very cute to me. Hopefully something good will come out of it. I was productive today, I finally fixed this old office chair, one of the wooden legs were loose so I glued it and the chair squeaks so I used some WD-40 to make it lubricated. I just sipped some of my tea and for some reason, it tasted like fruity pebbles cereal. Quite weird, cold earl grey tea tastes like a fruity cereal. Okay, I'm getting sleepy and I'll stop now. My life is exciting, later.

Role Playing (Not in that way)

     Heynow! It's Friday night, and I'm at home doing nothing. Sometimes it's nice to do nothing. Currently listening to Abbey Road by the Beatles (My favorite album of ALL time) on vinyl. I got the green posters and I posted them up on the long bare wall on the right when you enter my apartment. No one has really seen it yet but I'm guessing someone will soon. I'm not really expecting anything but a visit would be nice. It's a 3 x 4 posters (or 84" x 88"), with about 6" left on the bottom of the wall. I haven't filmed anything yet. I haven't had any good ideas. What's some good ideas? Leave a comment if you have an idea. I have made a joke if someone says something like "Why do you have a green screen?" I'll reply "I do the local weather". I thought that was a funny smart joke. Maybe I'll do a bit that has a weatherman kinda thing. I have done some painting tonight. I have done one color (yellow) of the Iron Man painting. I'll probably do the other color (red) tomorrow. Maybe I'll start on the John Lennon one tomorrow too. I'm thinking that one and adding in green instead of white because green is John's favorite color. I thought that would be cool to do that. Black and Green color. I'm still not finished with the candle wax sculpture. I might be close to finishing it though.
     Thanksgiving day, I went to my parent house for Thanksgiving lunch at around 1PM. I got there at noon and my brother Casey was late so I talked to Mom and Dad for a while. Then we had lunch and ,of course, it was delicious. I got a lot of leftovers which is good because I haven't been grocery shopping and I don't have that much food in the fridge. I'll probably go shopping tomorrow too. Turkey, ham, sweet potato casserole, corn, rolls, gravy, fruit salad, broccoli casserole (not for me thanks), dressing, pecan pie, pumpkin role, and butterfinger cake. My mom fixes too much but in this case it's good for me.
     I've had song ideas floating in my head all day today. I've written some down and some are not returning to my mind. I wish I had a piano in here. The landlady, Ruthie, has a piano in the office. I haven't seen anyone play it or anything. One day, I'll ask her if I can play around with it and maybe write a song. Probably the next time I pay rent. Ah...it's 11:28PM but it feels like 1:28AM. The day light situation is quite weird, getting dark at 5:15PM. Sometimes I'm not tired when I goto bed. Last night, I went to bed at 1:00AM not really feeling sleeping but knowing to go to bed. I fell asleep though. It's hard sometimes to go to sleep when your mind is flowing with ideas and conversations that you plan out that eventually never happen.
     I find myself stepping into other peoples shoes without wanting to. I don't like that sometimes. I've had the feeling of being paralyzed, been injured in different ways (no eyes, no ears, etc.), and have my mental state altered (example: My mother died when I was 14. My parents divorced when I was 5, things like that, that aren't true but I erase my memory and make new ones). Feeling the pain of no one caring about you when someone does and you don't know it. Having my mind altered in that way makes me feel sorry for those who has lost someone they love or has gone through that experience. In a weird way, it feels like I have gone through what they have but in a few seconds, a quick burst of emotions. Usually sadness, grief, sorrow, and then acceptance. But in a way, it has made me see both sides of the story and see what they are coming from and seeing the positives of both sides. I thought about it and I think I do it because my life is not exciting enough. It's true. I just sit in my apartment and do nothing. Painting, computer, video gaming, video editing, picture editing, and all the other activities. I just need to get the courage to go out and talk to someone new or at least someone old as often as possible. I like meeting new people but then the anxiety kicks in and I retreat. I don't really like taking pills but I'm thinking about somehow getting some anti-depressant / anti-anxiety medicine. It might intensify my good personally (hopefully). I would rather hurt myself than someone else. In a perfect world, the medicine will help me and I wouldn't be dependent on it. Now I have gone into a feeling of being an addict. I've been in those shoes before. I've been an addict of somethings. Mostly smoking but I overcame that. Please don't think I'm crazy, this is how I experience things sometimes. I may not like it but it somehow makes me see things in a different light. I guess that's all for tonight. I've exposed myself too much, that's not like me. Coming from a man that doesn't show emotion to anyone. My life is exciting, later.

Green Screen Magic Shirt!

     hEYNOW. Damn you work caps lock! Anyway, I'm at work and I have work to do but I am, yes you guessed it, procrastinating. I do want to get it done today so I don't have anything to worry about when on holiday. + (Every time I use this symbol, that means I went back to work and now I have something random to say. 

     + I think my boss thinks I'm a pervert, because I was watching a video and he caught me watching an innocent video. I tried to quickly switch it back to work related stuff but he still caught a video window. He asked "What was that a swivel dance?" (Meaning belly dance, i think) "No, a friend emailed this video of him going around his college campus" (which was true). When he went out, it made me realize how many times he has said something like that to me, being the only male in the work environment most of the time. One other time was when I was applying to a college and I was taking a break and sitting on the couch drawing a tree from outside. When he came in from lunch he looked at me and said something like "What are you drawing, a naked woman?" "No, it's that tree outside". The girl co-workers chuckled and he made me fell like a perv.

     + Woohoo, the last work day this week. Thank you for Pilgrims and Native Americans for eating together on one day in November and then making it a holiday America. I got paid today too! I usually get paid on Thursday but today I got the check in my pocket; at lunch I'm going to cash it. Then I'll have moola!

     + I finally edited that "Magic Shirt!" green screen video. CLICK HERE--->Magic Shirt!. It's short, simple but it took me a while to figure out how to edit and do green screen with two different programs but I know how to do it now! I just need to get a bunch more green posters and make a really good green screen on that wall you saw in the video. Right now I'm calculating how many pieces of green posters I need...3 x 5 posters equal 15 pieces and each piece costs 99 cents which comes to a total of $14.85. Then 6% sales tax which gives me a grand total of $15.74. Thanks math! I might get three more...

     + wOOHOO! Work caps again...my boss is leaving early today! But I'm not going to leave so early. I'm going to try and finish my drawings and then go home, hopefully earlier that regular. + Crap. He gave me something else to do but I'm not going that far today. That's a whole different monster, what he's talking about. It's a section view and I hate section views. Sooo many details and notes to make and repeat, repeat, repeat. Oh well, it's almost lunch time. I ordered me a pizza from Pizza Hut. It's actually been a while since I've eaten pizza. Maybe over three weeks. I'll take leftovers back home. + Okay, I'm back from lunch. I ate about half of my pizza and I'll probably have the other half for supper tonight. Back to work for awhile. + Dang, the computer is slow sometimes. I try to fill something in and it has to wrap around the other parts to fill in the space and it just takes a long time. I should have posted the time when I use the (+). So you can see the procrastination and then the work time. If I can get this "hatch" (filler) stuff done, I can get out of here, but the thing is slow! This hatch is taking forever. So dumb. Stupid thing. I could probably draw in the filler and it would be faster.

     + Yes! Finished with work. It's 2:50PM. I'll watch about two videos on YouTube, then I'll go home. I might go and get green posters :). My life is exciting, later.

"Downright Unimpaired"

     Heynow. I'm at work at the moment and I have kinda finished my work so if the boss comes around, I can just pull it up and work on it. Meaning this not an argent type of work today. I wrote a song using the ukulele and harmonica yesterday. It's a song about the "sipping tea and rainy day" song I was thinking about writing. So I did and it's about a boy meeting a girl for tea on a gloomy day but the boy likes the weather. They go on a walk, then it turns to dark while in the forest. They then have sex in the forest. A good day if I don't say so myself. It might be a perfect day in my book. Like I said before, it's a happy song and I thought of happy things. I'm still not sure what to name the song. As of right now, it's called "Perfect Day". I need to come up with a random yet summary name for the song. Hopefully a single word title. I'm still searching for that certain word. More than likely, I'll stop and search the title now and post it here............"Downright" sounds good to me. "Unimpaired" sounds good too. Ah! I've got it! "Downright Unimpaired" I know I was going for a single word but that sounds like an awesome song title. I need to read the Thesaurus more to find good words to replace simple words. I think I'll buy one the next time I goto Wal-Mart or something. I need to goto Big Lots today to buy three more 12"x12" canvases to paint and sell. I've got until Christmas to finish them. I've got the three pictures sketched out, I just need to transfer them onto the canvas and then paint.
     Anyway, when I record the song, I'll video myself recording it, like I did last time. This time I'll have ukulele, vocals, harmonica, and maybe guitar backup. Maybe bass guitar too. I might have vocals and harmonica on one track. I dunno, it might be a while since I do that. I have another video idea that I have videoed already. I have a green shirt with my name on it and I thought I could do a green screen thing with my shirt. When ever I snap my fingers, the shirt would change colors or pattern. I need to look up colors and patterns now to put in its place. I remember that I need to look up two different patterns of plaid and a tie dye pattern. Other than that it's just random plain colors. I've never done green screen effects so it'll be a learning experience. My life is exciting, later.
  

Halloween Weekend Review, Video Editing, Homeowner?, More Paintings

     Heynow. I'm at work yet again. My weekend was not that great. I tried to see who all had parties and no one had any. And if someone did, it was private or something. So I ended up not going to anything. My other friend didn't have a party to goto either so I asked him to either come over or I come to his house and hangout. But he got caught up in something and couldn't do anything. So Saturday I didn't do anything, other than edit this video :) Eric Smith & The Grasshoppers - Listen To What I'm Saying
     I had fun filming, recording, and editing it. I have a new video editing software and I'm testing it out. I can tell you right now that it's better than Windows Movie Maker. I need to figure out how to do green screen on the new software too, if it can. I need to get some more green posters to do the green screen and I need to find the best kind of lights to light the screen properly. That might take awhile because I need to save up my money. I have "low funds" about now. I need to remind myself to write a check today for my rent. I realized that I'm in the "Rent Is Too Damn High" category now.
     My mom called me last Thursday saying that there's a house for sale in Middlesboro and that I might be interested in it. She said that the rent would be lower if I owned it. Of course, it's a fixer-upper. She said, that everybody would help me out fixing it up. I haven't checked out the neighborhood yet so hopefully it's an okay neighborhood. I might check it out today after work. I kinda remember where the location is. I have painted a few things lately. Here are the results:

The Three Stooges 

for my Dad.

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (Four Head Shot)

Sold to ??? (It's a secret)

The Beatles - HELP! (Album Cover)

For Sale!

The Blues Brothers

Sold to Connie Cowan Carroll

Bob Dylan Poster (Updated with more colors)

Sold to Chris Abner

     I guess that's all I'll post today. Until next time, later.

Beatlemania Review

     Heynow. Tuesday night my buddy Dave and I went to Hazard, KY to see Beatlemania. His friend couldn't make it but the trip was still fun. I drove to Barbourville after work in Middlesboro. We meet up at the Wal-Mart and I had to get a couple of things to fix an office chair I got from Casey, Ashley and her family. It's pretty old and I was going to fix it up.
     Anyway, we were on our way to Hazard through Manchester. We got lost a little getting there but when we got there, there were a lot more older people than younger. With the Beatles: Rock Band, I kinda figured that there were going to be a younger crowd. Oh well, so the show started and they go from 1962 to 1969. They were dressed up in nice suits and they had their mannerisms down to a tee. They played the songs and they were great.
     Then it was intermission. We went outside and Dave had a cigarette and made a few phone calls. The ladies that sat to my left walked by and said something like "There's my buddy! Could you save our seats?". I have no idea who that was but I gave them the okay sign. You could tell that they had the scent of whiskey and coke. After the intermission, the show continued and they came out in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band costumes. After that era, three changed costumes while one sang one song then he changed. They were then in Let It Be era clothing. While the second part of the event was going on the yenta next to me was bumping into me and yelling out the wrong lyrics. Around the end of the show, she apologized and I said it was okay but it was still annoying. The over all concert was great. I really wanted to get up on stage and play Taxman or Daytripper.
     So after the concert we headed to the Hazard Wal-Mart. That took a long time to do because we got lost multiple times. When we finally got there we walked around and goofed off. I felt a little car sick but it faded. We had to quickly get out of Wal-Mart but we got some Subway sandwiches. While I was eating my sandwich I had that car sick feeling again. I stopped eating and rolled my window down a little to get some fresh air. It didn't really help. We finally goto Manchester and when Dave had to turn around, I told him to stop. I then threw up my sandwich. After that, I lied down and almost fell asleep.
     When we arrived at Barbourville, I realized I had to drive back home. So that was an hour of driving slow and making sure my eyes wouldn't close for over a second. Luckily, there was no one driving at 12:40am. I finally got home, put up my quarter piece of sandwich in the refrigerator and made a call into work that I wasn't going to come in that day. The next day, I had the day off which was great because I slept late and edited the video link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3-KLsRI9-4
I also edited my music playlist and fixed up that office chair. I ordered five new wheels for the chair because the old wheels are rusty and clogged up.
     I am now at work and reflecting the other night. The after concert stuff sucked besides being in Wal-Mart and goofing around with Dave and the camera. I guess that's the story. I will try to paint some more today when I get home. I also need to go to the grocery store after work. Oh well, later.