Ready, Aim, Aperature!

I've decided to post a few more images that I have taken and/or redone with the help of digital imaging programs. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed working on them. Thank you for viewing!

Photo-Graphic

If everyone were to see the world through the lens of a camera, they'd either miss everything, or nothing at all.

For the longest time a digital camera was attached to my hand, or at least very near at all times. I've taken pictures of everything from hurricane damage to flowers to people to lizards having sex. There's something special about capturing a moment and freezing it in time with the help of today's technology. In the television show New Amsterdam, the main character takes a picture of Times Square (in New York) every year. He has an entire wall of these photographs and in a way I envy that. Not only do they show how time can change things, but they also reveal his own personal interest, if not awe, at time itself. So here I show a bit of my own 'awe'.

Rear area of my old
apartment in Kentucky
during sunset.

Same sunset, same area.

And then, Me.

Wasn't kidding about
the lizard sex...

Zombie Poetry

In my dreams they come to me
Ugly monsters that dare haunt
My mind can't fathom their hate
Or why their faces are gaunt
They are stricken from my sight
And I feel so much better
Knowing evil will fester

Coffee: Geek Tested, T-shirt Approved

Gevalia. It isn't the most excellent brand of coffees in the world, though the $19.95 membership plus coffeemaker pretty much sealed the deal. This morning the flavor is: Pumpkin Spice, a smooth nutmeg and cinnamon brew with a hint of Thanksgiving. I usually save these types of flavors for the holiday season, but I strangely enough wasn't in the mood for Irish Creme...which happens to be their best flavor, I think. Though, when it comes to coffee, one has to keep a sense of humor in mind when reading the names of certain brews: Costa Rican Peaberry...now that one makes me smirk.

Don't ask.

Instead, smile at this.

I took that picture a few years ago, when I found this hilarious pair at the local Dollar Tree...sometimes, that place has everything. Bought quite a few of these for family and placed them under the tree and in their stockings for Christmas. The flavors were a little bitter, but overall not bad. I don't drink either brand of the alcohol shown above, but a friend told me that the smells were just about the same. Weird, although if you aren't a huge fan of coffee and are a rather huge fan of fun t-shirts, I present this:

Java T-shirt by UniqueMystique
Get this custom shirt
at Zazzle

Damn You, Disney

Well,...perhaps not.

My children had just finished watching Beauty and The Beast for the first time about a month ago. They enjoyed it, and I couldn't help but sit down and watch it with them. We ate popcorn, huddled under a big blanket and watched in awe. This movie, along with Sleeping Beauty, are two of my favorite movies from kid-hood. Other titles such as: E.T., Batteries Not Included, The Princess Bride, and so on have each touched my heart in a different way.

And I'd like to dedicate this blog to Disney/Pixar, for making movies that are watched repeatedly by my children.

Inconceivable!

The Mind Is A Powerful Thing

For the past year or so, every other night I dream about zombies and for the life of me can't figure out their meaning. In most of them I am alone, moving around a large city, helping others when I can and spending my nights alone. I'll have a PSG-1 with nightvision and a silencer, playing games similiar to Whack-A-Mole and others with the walking undead and with other survivors who are also playing along with me. In some dreams I've aged about 3 or 4 years and have my daughters with me. In one particular dream I had a memory of how my right hand was burned, it was bandaged. Dream memory? There's something odd about clearly remembering something that never happened...on that note I won't be grilling in the backyard anytime soon.

Sometimes I dream lucidly, so things get pretty interesting. I could've (and have a few times) shaken my head at the walking undead in my dreams and said, "None of you exist, bye now" and that would be that, they would disappear. It's worked on a few different occasions but on some it hasn't.

Huge fan of dream interpretation/symbol meanings here, maybe I should start writing some of this stuff down...

Inspiration

Tonight, I would like to thank 3 fascinating men who have portrayed awesomeness throughout history:

Gary Gygax
Guy Fawkes
Robert Heinlein

These men have inspired me.


The End