Stormy Weather

We've been having some rainy and windy weather lately... again.
Hopefully it won't get as bad as the storm in January, from which this photo was taken. There was a huge power outage for about two days, and Michael had his out for a week because a tree fell down in his yard. Matthew's fence fell over and there was kelp and sand washed up in his street from the waves.

Placid Lake

This was my latest creation in Adobe Photoshop. I've been really busy with schoolwork (graphing quadratic equations takes ages!), not to mention numerous book reports, research papers, clarinet practice... so I haven't had time to do anything lately in Photoshop. It depicts a lake with large grass-covered hills spilling down into a beach. I was experimenting with the liquify tool to create the reflection of the sun on the water.



View the page on the DAG here.

captainblu

Yann is the latest of my friends who's created a Wetpaint site.




These images, the first labeled I Look Like a Turtle, were obviously created in the Apple iPhoto Booth.

The Best of Flickr v.1

Here are some of my best photos on Flickr:


I took this photo on a 15-second exposure out of a window in the Pacific Grove Art Center.


On a walk at Lovers Point Beach, this seal came up on the beach about 5 feet away from us!


Here are some fried Mexican prawns we had for dinner a while ago.


Creamy pesto noodles, also for dinner around the holidays.


I took this on a trip to Exeter to see my half brother Jesse.


This is a cactus blossom at the Stanford University cactus garden.


A pelican on Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey, CA.

Charles Marion-Lewis, 1989-2007

In memory of Justin's old cat, Chuck.









He was a great cat.

Egg Study

I just updated the Photoshop Lighting Effects plugin, adding an Ambient Light feature so I you can create realistic light, with blue-toned ambient light as well as a yellow-toned spotlight.

To test out this feature, I created this egg. It uses ambient lighting to create a more realistic lighting effect.

I created the realistic egg shape by tone mapping a real egg picture and tracing it. View the tone map here.

Steinbeck Country

A few months ago after reading The Red Pony in English class, we had to make a Steinbeck Country photo journal with sepia-tone photos.



I just posted the original photos on Flickr.
View the entire photo set or view these individual links below:

• Brown Horse near Stable


• Brown Horse near Stable [2]


• Serene Black Horse


• Black Horse Eating


• Close-up of Black Horse


• Salinas Valley Road


• Oak Branch over Hill


• Autumn Road


• Weeds and Strawberry Patch


• Weeds and Strawberry Patch [2]


• Geometric Fields of Salinas


• Dry Brush with Fields


• Oak Tree with Cows


• Cows Grazing near Hillside

Headline Animator

I've created a dynamic headline animator widget to promote this blog.



Grab the code to put it on your own site:

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Fountain of Dreams

Download MP3

Great piece of orchestral music from the Kirby video games:
Fountain of Dreams is a 4-section piece composed by Jun Ishikawa, an acclaimed video game soundtrack composer.

Click the image at the right to view a vector PDF file to print out. The score works best for instruments in Concert Pitch because this way, you can play along with the mp3.

The song Fountain of Dreams was released on the CD Smashing... Live! by Nintendo Power.

Math Joke

i is the imaginary number (not real) and is equal to √-1
π is an irrational number ≈ 3.141592653589793238462643383279502...