Here's another example of a challenge we didn't actually submit pictures to, but we took pictures of anyways. I went to the New Boston fireworks show in New Hampshire this 4th of July, which is where these two pictures came from. Because it's pretty ineffective to use a flash when photographing fireworks, longer exposures can yield some pretty neat blurred-light images, similar to the Body (Light) Painting challenge. Anywho, here's the gallery, enjoy!
For those of you who care, we had 3/4 of the blog team reunion this weekend. Jerry graced us with his presence, but unfortunately Tim was off winning national airplane competitions and such, so he missed out on the fun.
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I am not at all up to trying to explain what Minecraft is, cause it sounds stupid when you try, so I'm gonna say just play it. It is still very temporarily free, though he says that he'll probably be getting the server up again today. If you miss the free period, my advice is to pirate it to try it out and buy it later. The free mode is nice, but it isn't as cocaine-y as the full survival mode. Here's a guide and all. Don't use it. I think it's more fun to just figure things out. But if you really need to, go ahead.
So I've been rather bored for the past couple days. I've been spending less and less time on the internet than usual....its scaring me!!!
But THEN! I had a brilliant idea. Why not create a little movie that shows off me killing people? Yaaaaay! I'm good at that, trust me. I then realized that taking WoW and LoL clips from Fraps causes them to have rather low resolution in Windows Movie Maker.
I'm working out the kinks, but this is just a random thing that I wanted to create in my spare time. Plus I've been wanting to learn how to use WMM for some time. What better way to learn than taking clips of something that is REALLY EXPLOSIVE, COMBUSTIBLE, and WTFOMGBBQSLMAO cool?
TL;DR version: I'm learning how to use Windows movie maker so I can create a movie of me Rofl-stomping n00bs in WoW PvP and LoL. Even though the movie will probably be 100% WoW. What? I can't have a moment or nerding out?
YEAH WE TALK LIKE THIS IN THAT GAME. IT'S PRETTY EXCITING!
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They make stuffed animals that have psychological disorders. Wut. That's Depressed Turtle, beeteedubs.
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I wrote before about this competition when it was in the second round.
http://lunchbx.blogspot.com/2010/08/vote-for-your-favorite-game-villain.html
A lot of villains have been knocked out since then and we're getting closer to a victor.
I have to say that I'm disappointed that Darth Malak was knocked out. He was a great villain from one of the best single-player RPG's ever. However he lost to Diablo so I can't say I'm too surprised.
At this point I'm rooting for Kerrigan to win it all.
Even if you've missed previous rounds it's not too late to cast your votes (preferably for Kerrigan).
Click here to vote now!
This guy named Guillaume Reymond is an artist who has recreated several original video games using people sitting in theater seats as pixels. As you can see it's stop motion so the people just change shirts and move around in between pictures. These are Pac-Man and Tetris, but he's also done Pong, Space Invaders, and Pole Positions. If you liked these then be sure to watch the others and check out this site.
http://notsonoisy.com/
In light of certain events, two of our main posters have been, well, not posting things. And Griffin forgets to internet most of the time anyways. So, way to kill the blog guys. Just when I was getting into my photography stuff.
Hello all, I'm gonna start posting pictures from past shooting challenges here, and hopefully catch up to date so I'll only post the weekly current ones. This was the first challenge I attempted, and it was definitely harder than it seems. I waited until the sun was setting for the right lighting, and even then it was hard to have the foreground lit and flare from the sun. And I didn't exactly succeed with lots of flare, but there's definitely some in there.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/41300/
If you don't already have steam then you can also get that for free here:
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
It has both PC and Mac links for the Steam client too.
Sooooo... 2010-2011 is going to be a great year for game releases. So far, we've already had SC2, and it only gets better.
When you're bored and sitting on a couch with your Ipod for the longest time with Internet access and an Amazon.com app... well you see where I'm going with this right?
So the money sink hit me, in about 30mins I pre-ordered: Halo Reach, CoD Black-Ops, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, and now I'm just watching all the lovely Guild Wars 2 trailers and videos.
Way to blow my money.
So this year I was FINALLY able to fit One Voice into my Senior schedule. By being in One Voice, all the men are automatically in Men of Note. Both groups do everything A Capella, but Men of Note is obviously just the men.... lol.
So for anyone who's interested, I'm in New Jersey about to see my second Rush show. They're on the Time Machine tour and their set is really cool and steam-punk themed which I'm quite excited to see. I'll take picture when I'm there but here's a few shots. Woo excitement!
