I thought this was really cool.
haha, and I found this pretty funny.
Text Island
June 29th, 2009Nerd time
June 25th, 2009So, 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
June 5th, 2009Some 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
June 5th, 2009So 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:
- I started off with this (v1), with no editing at all.
- 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
- 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
Cute and funny
June 3rd, 2009
Boring
May 21st, 2009I thought this was an awesome comic. 
Funniest videos, Box slideshow
May 10th, 2009If you like the show America’s Funniest Home Videos, this compilation of different videos by subject will keep you laughing for a while.
A few weeks ago I did a slideshow of the best pictures from this year to show at the formal. I found out that I didn’t have as many group or happy pictures that I wanted (I certainly had enough pictures of sports), but everything worked out okay. I also think that I overdid the sad factor a little too much. The last slideshow that I did was for a week of senior high camp, and the idea there was to make them really happy at the beginning, then go to the sad stuff and try to make everyone cry. ;-) This concept worked well at camp, with the slideshow being the last scheduled thing before everyone goes home.
I think that the exciting-to-melencholy outline for slideshows is still good, but at the formal, I don’t think that it worked as well as at camp. After the slideshow was queen entertainment, which is supposed to be funny. Having some really sad stuff beforehand might have been weird. I’m probably overanalyzing it, but for next time I think that I’ll keep the happy-to-sad method, but make the sad part a little shorter and less intense.
And here are the videos by song:
~ Jon
Well, well, well
May 7th, 2009
Best caption that I’ve seen, ever (unless I’m forgetting one). Have a great day! It’s so nice today in Searcy.
Outtakes and such
May 7th, 2009Here’s the incorrectly labeled “blooper reel” from the previous post that is actually more like outtakes, but I didn’t care to fix it. 
All in all, the “Like a Beau” video was a ton of fun to do. It was my first experience script-writing and brainstorming for lines, even though it was a parody, making it a lot easier. I have also concluded that making things slightly amiturish works a lot better than making the video more professional. I think that if we did a retake on the first introduction scene, redid (or actually) used the scenes toward the end that were according to plan/script. The awkwardness is a lot funnier than an almost-perfectly acted video, and it’s easier to do, since acting is hard. Just a thought.
Beaux Entertainment, PTP
April 27th, 2009Made this for the Pi Theta Phi Spring Formal that was yesterday night. It was a lot of fun to do, and I think that it turned out really well. I have lots more to say about it, but I’ll save that for later.
~ Jon