March 18, 2012 – Big Sky over Vancouver
18 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, House and Home, Photos, Weather Tags: panorama, photo, photography, sky, Vancouver, weather
March 18, 2012 | Big Sky over Vancouver
It appears that something tumultuous is going on there, weather-wise, in Vancouver.
Panorama taken with Photosynth for iPhone, edited in Photoshop on my Mac. Photosynth seems to only save low quality versions of files, which is disappointing. I think it would be fun to take a bunch of panorama photos from your neighbours’ balconies, and giclee them to canvas for the living room walls that aren’t windows. Voila! Instant awesome.
*EDIT*: March 19th – I think I may have found something better. Autostitch app for iPhone gives better resolution (check it out if you’ve got one of those godly big monitors like mine…much better than the dinky Photosynth business above!). Here is another version where 3 pictures were taken using the normal iPhone camera (could’ve gotten wider angle but wasn’t thinking of it at the time) then stitched using Autostitch, then edited on-phone for colour using the sunset setting and thick black border using the Camera+ app. You can use the Autostitch app to take pictures too but I didn’t have that app last night, now did I?
March 18, 2012 | Big Sky over Vancouver | Autostitch for iPhone & Camera+
You probably don’t need to be told, but click on the thumbnail to load full size for full effect.
I like it. 
My apartment gets awesome sunsets…many more big sky photos to come this year!
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March 16, 2012 – Pi Day 2012
17 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, Food, Photos Tags: chocolate, day, photo, photography, pi, pie
Pi Day March 16, 2012 | French Silk Pie
Pi Day festivities got cancelled this year, and were made up for only half-heartedly on Friday March 16th. I made the french silk pie on graham cracker crust that was a hit at last year’s party. I didn’t add enough chocolate this year, and had nobody to share it with, so it was highly unsatisfactory on all fronts. The only good thing to come out of it was a nicely textured photo.
There’s still some left if you want some.
March 15, 2012 – More Trapezery
15 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, Circus, Exercise, headache & migraine, Health and Healthy Living, Photos, Rowing Tags: circus, headache, migraine, photography, trapeze
March 15, 2012 | Trapeze Hands
Thus ends another thursday. Another headache, another awesome trapeze day. I don’t know what it is about thursdays that causes migraines! It hit me during my IAT 380 Sound design lecture in the middle of our quiz. And suddenly I couldn’t think. Oh well. Managed to slip out of class to go get my trusty advil, then squinted at the overhead projector while pushing on my left brow ridge to numb the sting, and by the time it was time to leave for trapeze, it had dulled down to a manageable level.
Yes, that photo is of my trapeze hands. Today was the first day I had blisters pop! And more than one, too! Yummy. (eew.) And I don’t really know how to tape up my hands, so this is how they ended up. Worked okay for the most part. The edges roll up and get sticky but it wasn’t too bad.
GODDAMNED KNEE HANG on swinging trapeze. It’s supposed to be like the easiest thing ever but yet i screw it up every week. this week i fell straight into an ankle hang instead. ha.
anyway, sleep. sleep. sleep. now. i want dark, dreamless, quiet, sleep. Which has been hard to come by lately. Some terrific and very wild dreams, but I get so much adventuring done during the night that I wake up exhausted. Perhaps tonight will be the night I won’t dream at all.
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March 13, 2012 – It’s Snowing at #SFU
13 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, Linguistics, Peculiarly Awesome, Photos, Simon Fraser University, Weather Tags: AQ, art, drawing, flowers, gardens, photography, photos, SFU, Simon Fraser University, snow, spring, trees, weather, winter
In class, I looked out the window.
Someone had walked in circles today, around some trees, in a sleepy grey garden dusted with sugary snow.
Who are you? What were you thinking?
It got me daydreaming:
March 13, 2012 - in class (LING 480) doodle inspired by that anonymous person who walked in circles in the snow around the trees in the AQ garden at SFU.
Dear snow walker, I hope you find what you are looking for.
Thank you for inspiring me today.
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March 8, 2012 – 2nd Half Redemption
08 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in Achieving WIN, Acting, art, Being a Woman, Circus, Exercise, headache & migraine, Health and Healthy Living, Linguistics, music, Simon Fraser University, Tech The Crazy Tags: aerial, circus, design, hoop, SFU, sound, static, swinging, trapeze, USRA, VPR
The second half of today redeemed the first half. Most definitely.
Woke up with that vague neck/headache that often foreshadows a migraine. Couldn’t focus. Had that ‘so tired my limbs are going to fall off’ feeling. Showered. Did breakfast. Went back to bed. Read a little bit. Then slept. And I think I must have been trying to scream in my dreams because I woke up with a sore throat of not the sick kind. Huh.
Managed to find some clothes that didn’t match, left the house with no socks and no sweater on top of my tank, beneath my coat.
This is where it gets good.
Got to my class (lab) in surrey. Checked my email. Found out I got the VPR USRA (vice president research undergrad student research award…or something like that) for summer 2012. Which means I’m going to be making some money doing useful stuff over the summer. Which is excellent.
Went shopping at the surrey mall between classes to find some kind of covering shirt because my tank top only thing was ridiculous. Ended up finding an awesome $7 shirt at sirens. one of those loose flowy shirts that’s super loose yet immediately elegant and comfy. Good find.
Went to lecture. They showed my project 2 in sound design class critique as one of the good ones. Highly embarassing and unexpected, but awesome. Although in my opinion that project deserves no more than 12/15 …being generous.
Went to circus. Headache still present. Bought Advil. Took Advil. Bliss ensued.
Static trapeze coach started me on The aerial hoop tonight (thus far i’ve only been on the trapeze) with the Ovo, man on the moon, and two variations on the mermaid. Also learned the inverted planche and straddle mount (as opposed to the pike) on static. Awesome.
Then swinging trapeze class! Coach gave us horse wraps (padding for our feet!) which turned out to be incredibly awesome! No more random rope burns from ankle hangs! Apparently got the jitters out of my system in static class, so swinging was a lot less tense and sweaty than it usually is. Got my hop off on the first try, and learned the full angel sequence. Also worked on releasing into my knee hang because I fell off (we’re harnessed so no biggie) doing it in my first class and since then I’ve had issues letting go (haha)
Then trekked up the hill to SFU Burnaby for the Rowing Team’s no pants pub night. gave $10 instead of $5 at the front door…with the caveat that nobody would try to twist my rubber arm into drinking…(once I start it’s kind of hard to stop) and so stuck with my diet coke and lime. Which is super awesome because I’m going to be totally functional and less fat (so many calories in alcohol) tomorrow!
And now because I’m home and decently caffeinated and well socialized and adrenalized from all that trapezery and headache free to boot, I’m going to go work through a bunch of MAX/MSP tutorials and try to figure out how the hell I’m going to build my final project for sound design class.
12:27am. It has been a really good day, even if the first half of it was wasted feeling ill. This rambling post has been brought to you by WordPress for iPhone.
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