Text Island

I thought this was really cool.

haha, and I found this pretty funny.

Nerd time

So, I saw a little icon in the top of my Gmail today, leading to the Gmail Ninja place.  It was pretty exciting for me.  It marvels me how much better gmail is than any other e-mail service, and they are relatively new to the scene.  Google is pretty great in general, but gmail is what takes the gold in my opinion (of the day).  I was also thinking how great it would be if the gmail team would be in charge…one can only imagine.  =P

okay, enough of this ridiculousness. </rant> –haha, another nerdism.

~ Jon

Some things, and what I’ve been up to

Some things that have been catching my attention lately:

• The Emancipastries hit the big time with a blast into the 21st century with their first time on the interweb. Not only that, but they have broken out on the highly known website, Purevolume, which in itself is quite a feat. This clever band happens to include my brother and two other friends of mine. I highly recommend. Be sure to check out my brother’s hit single, Grave Robber.
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a great game. I would call it one of the greatest games ever played. I can’t say that I’ve been much of a gamer lately–things just aren’t the same as the good old days of 2D side-scrolling and DOS games. It takes a whole lot to get my attention now…I even stopped playing PoP for a while. Enough of this nonsense talking, case and point, I started playing again today, and it’s super. Get it, play it. =)
• I had one more thing, but I can’t think of it. It might have been related to photography though. I keep talking myself into wedding photography. I definitely don’t plan on diving straight into wedding photography from college, but I could definitely seeing myself doing that sometime. Who knows? :)

~ Jon

Weird “creepy” before and after picture of haircut

So I had this idea of doing a before and after pictures for when I got a haircut. Here’s what I came up with:

Best version, probably.

This is the best that I came up with. I didn’t put a whole lot of time into it, and when taking self-portraits for it, I kinda got impatient, so I didn’t have too much to work with picture-wise. It was fun to do though. Although it might look a bit creepy, I don’t really mind how it turned out. :-)

The steps:

1. I started off with this (v1), with no editing at all.
2. Then, I color corrected it a bit, and cloned the two together to come up with this, which is the picture that made it to facebook, which I guess makes it the official picture. =P
3. So I know that the eyes are messed up, this is because I didn’t have a haircut picture in which my head was turned the exact same way as the other picture. This made it so that while most everything else lined up, the eyes (which happen to be the most important) were too far apart. My solution to this was to use the eyes from the uncut picture to go onto the haircut picture. While this kinda makes other things not look right, I still like it better. Version 3 (also pictured above).

   In other news, I fail at posting on a regular basis.

   ~ Jon

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Cute and funny