A typical weekend

» Written on June 9, 2008 at 11:43 PM «

It sees all, even beautiful stuff.Passes by yet again, rather uneventfully, if I might be so bold as to incline. In fact, the past few weekends have pretty much gone by in this manner, as if my life were slowly, but surely being drained of sorts by forces unknown, perhaps sinister.

Seriously, I was actually hoping to wrap up one of my projects this weekend and start on another, but somehow the enemy most of us have come to embrace as writer’s block (or rather artist’s block) has me fully encircled within its tendrils, and by the beard of Merlin! It will not let go.

I haven’t written as many updates as I would have liked, I suppose; it’s a combination of several things that have contributed to my reluctance towards putting my thoughts to hypertext; namely Team Fortress 2 and GRID, which has only just recently re-ignited my long unrequited love for going around hairpins, tire smoke caressing my unfortunate opponents.

I suppose the difference is lost on people who don’t really get racing games, though. I will say this, however; my weekend was not entirely without artistic benefit.

Saturday evening was spent over at my aunt’s house, who had decided to hold an impromptu buffet of sorts through the modern marvels of catering. The arduous drive there (it’s pretty much a stone’s throw away from my previous institution of corruption learning) offered me opportunity, and I took it.

Shot when entering a tunnel, I guess.Now with added tilt for awesome.

Those two shots were taken in a simple, ordinary tunnel. I tried making each of the shots convey different moods, though, even through all the digital noise and general shitty image quality. I really need to give my lenses a good cleaning one of these days.

Anyway, I also tried a couple of shots using the car’s rear-view mirror, one of which is this post’s titular image. I’m not really happy with the grain, but I think I achieved the general effect of what I wanted to achieve: a quasi-street shot that exuberates a sense of pure, unadulterated speed.

Wow, that sounded really retarded.

So, dinner! It was sustaining, I suppose, though rather unhealthy. Ironic, then, that my aunt, uncle, fuck, the entire family is a bunch of doctors.

Seriously, look at those shades/weird glasses.My sister attempts to get a classic small arcade cabinet going.Along with a few of these babies.My aunt\'s house has pretty cool fixtures.Among the elders.

You can probably see that I’m trying a different style now with the way I present my photos. Previously, I had used WordPress’ auto-gallery feature that they included in the 2.5 release before I realized it was, for lack of a better epithet, totally fucking up my standards-compliant (x)HTML. Whether this is because of a conflict with my own CSS styling or methods of coding, I don’t really care.

I do care, however, about standards-compliance. Besides, I think this really is better; the photos are allowed to shine on their own merit.

I have to say, though, that of all the shots of the night, the one with my grandma wearing those special spectacles is pretty high on the awesome list (even if the focus is off). You wouldn’t know that those weren’t shades without looking closely.

And yeah, my aunt’s house really does have a chandelier. Actually, she has like a dozen of the damn things spread out around the place, like symbolic fixtures of some sort paying homage to the fuckton of cash she has.

I’ll be back again with less filler updates, I promise. At the very least, I’m working on reviewing GRID as I type.

   

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