April 8th and 9th (Mark):

Philosophy paper, thinking about stuff, writing the draft of the first poem I`ve written since middle school, feeling depressed for the first time in a while. Study party in the GRID room I had confused for the middle classroom lead to not feeling depressed.

And nothing worth noting for today, which kind of sucks but I did not have the energy to seek adventure. Or do work. I got an alright picture though, I`ve actually been liking the shakiness of low iso settings, and thought it would add to the picture.

Forever ago to the present (Mark)

Hello, I bring photos. Screw the bunches, I'm going to go back to one a day. Lisa scolds all of us for being sloths, and the last three pictures and the one of my drawn-on arm weren't actually taken BY me, just with my camera

Hello again

So, I'm back. I realized that I would probably never actually start posting here again if I waited until I got my scattered photos together and figure out their dates. So instead, I'm starting afresh now. Lets just forget that little episode happened, okay?

Today, I went out driving for the second time in my life, then the third. My mother and instructor seem to think I'm doing well. The rest of the day I pretty much just procrastinated on my paper and learned about Tarot. I got this beginners Tarot thing which came with a deck and a book. I'm kind of frustrated with it, the cards don't feel right. A tarot deck should be old, and the cards should be heavy. If I actually get into this I'll shell out some cash for that feeling. I probably won't though, I don't really believe in the psychic or anything like that; I just think the cards are really cool. Besides, it's not like my deck won't get worn eventually. Here is a picture of my slobbish lifestyle, and Tarot cards.

07-13 Feb (Mark): bunches

Ok, I have been taking pictures every day. I just haven't been posting them. I put it off too long this time, but I probably will start posting pictures every few days instead of every day. Easier that way.

Feb 7th: totally forget, that's why I need smaller bunches. But I was playing with shadows and thought this was cool.

Feb 8th: bought textbooks finally, mass effect 2, late for group meeting. I love the optical illusion that indents are sticking out in this picture.

Feb 9th: doctor's appointment, can't really remember. This is a messed up shot with a mirror.

Feb 10th: Wednesday, probably my favourite day of the week. I really like art class. Fun stuff, although we didn't burn my art project yet. Ari in philosophy class. I think I mighta got a couple photos mixed up actually though.

Feb 11th: sat in on a drawing and sketching class because I like working in the art room, I imagine it had a positive effect on my painting outline. Most sketching I've done in my life. Wasted over five hours on photoshop when I meant to spend ten. Late for meeting again and didn't have my part ready because of it.

Feb 12th: Global politics presentation, hung out with Ari, planned my brain project, cleaned my room (!), a bit of photoshop, had a beer and hung out with drunk people. I really like the one on the LEFT. For some reason I wrote right before...

Feb13th: Kinda early to be doing this, but I'll be busy later and I've waited long enough. I finished my laundry. got my prescription, got some sunglasses, did internet stuff, napped, going to Cthulhu tonight :) I took a lot of "shiny" pictures today, it was hard to pick one.

NOTE: I actually tagged so many things I reached a character limit and it won't let me anymore.

06 Feb (Mark):

I witnessed a car accident today, and considering no one got hurt, it was pretty hilarious. We were watching superman one second, and then the next a car going way too fast careens into the snowbank and a huge snow plume explodes out of it. I knew there was a reason we were watching superman. (Allen)

Yesterday's pic was just my two roommates being happy.

01-05 Feb (Mark): photoshop madness

Ditch: as in "Ditch the body", as in an actual ditch. Huh.

Ok, so I left my camera at David and Allen's for a while, so no cameras were available until now. In my defence, the day I forgot it was the day I was trying to take a picture of my brain.

For the first: my brain, which I have been preparing for an art project

For the second, I have a filler picture, because I couldn't actually think of five good pictures for today.

 

3rd: fun with colours on a stark background

4th day: Techno nerd documentation

5th: since this is actually today I saved the one requiring most explanation. I have been thinking of writing up a story based on a roleplaying game I played on the Internet once, and wanted a proper visualization of what my character looked like; it's pretty normal for me to choose or draw an image to represent my main characters. I decided I wanted him to be based on me, but different. Unfortunately, I find it very difficult to have major changes in an image and have it maintain a real life style, so I set out to create a simplified version of me I could work with more easily. I used my webcam to take a sort of stencil style picture of myself, then grafted elements of two other photos I took onto it, then grinded it all up until they looked natural together. Then I fooled around and made a few randoms out of the picture, and took a picture of my computer screen for my photo.

31/01/2010 (Mark): nothin' at all

Boring day, boring photo.

30/01/2010 (Mark):

Ok, things I did today that WASN'T art- sleeping, eating, listening to music, posting on my other blog, taking a nice long shower in which no purple dye seemed to come out ( :) ), talking in chat windows. The rest was painting, drawing, thinking about art. Which makes this the longest art mood I've ever had. I hope it's a trend :)

29/01/2010 (Mark): Painting

I used my art supplies, made 4 paintings. Justin just joined the army, so I took a photo with his gasmask on. I don't like it, but gasmasks are awesome.

28/01/2010 (Mark): Destruction

Photo/art supply buying expedition with Jessi, nap, endless talk about everything in the caf, drama with Justin, playing in the snow with Steph, Megan, Jonah, and Gingey. A good day overall, a couple not so good spots, but good. I just called it destruction because my last entry was progress, unfortunately I didn't destroy anything today. I'm gonna go and tag all my entries with "Mark post" so it's easier to sort.

I took this in CIBC, it's one of those security monitor things.

27/01/2010 (Mark): Progress

Art, poetry, gym, purple hair really starting to wash out ( :( ), hanging out with people, longlong conversation about just about everything with Amy. The day was pretty good. Here's a photo of someone mixing plaster: my hands were too plaster-y to take a photo of ours.

26/01/2010 (Mark): blargmuffin

Today was... well, I got to see Jessi, which makes me happy, and I snuck into David and Allen's house and successfully blowdarted both while they were playing Mass Effect 2, which makes me feel epic. I took a bunch of pictures today, but my favourite is perhaps one of the most mundane.

25/01/2010 (Mark) Dagnabit!

My forgetfulness gets in the way sometimes. Here's the picture I took yesterday, I left my camera at Allen and David's.

Go accidental light trail thingies!

24/01/2010 (Mark): Concert!

Today was epicness. I went to Fin's, saw Zara, dyed my hair purple and went to a concert with music I liked for the first time ever. It was fun, and really intense. Originally I assumed I would use a picture that featured purple, but the intenseness made a larger impression. This is the last time I'll be using my webcam to take a photo, I got batteries :). The only bad thing is that I'm not sure where my jacket is.

23/01/2010 (Mark): Glitch?

Whatever, I totally told this to post. Anyway. Today was a pretty boring day, and my eyes hurt from my hangover for most of it so I didn't do much. I did catch up on some sleep though. This picture was also taken with my webcam, but I sorta like it. I captured how much the light was annoying me I think.

22/01/2010 (Mark): No batteries = no camera

It's hard contributing to a photo blog without a camera, I must say. I decided to use my cell phone camera to take it, and I did. Except I don't know where my adaptor thing is, so for now it's trapped on my cell phone. So I didn't post here yesterday. I feel bad having an empty day though, so I just used my webcam to take a self portrait: because I'm the only thing around here right now really. I call it: My First Hangover. It's probably not ok to post the next day, but the thought was there.

21/01/2010 (Mark): Boring into boredom

Today was the first in many days that wasn't super full and with lots of excitement. Which is great, because I had homework. Unfortunately, I FELT like adventure today, so I didn't, much... I had class, did some reading, answered some study questions, went to a Strax meeting and eventually went out for a photography walk after the sun was thoroughly down. Which wasn't as long as I would have liked, as the batteries started to die pretty quick. I like Lithium ion cameras better, thanks. But anyway, here's one of the pics:

I'm at Allen's now, things seem like things might get interesting yet.

20/01/2010 (Mark): Poetry?

I'm kinda tired, so I won't go into my day in general. It was another full day though. I ended up tagging along with Frances and Meredith to a poetry workshop thing which didn't really have much in the way of poetry. Still, there were dogs, Ariel was there, and it was interesting. We did this thing that I'll probably post on my blog at some point. Here's a picture:

19/01/2010 (Mark) : Strax and lazyart

So I followed Fin to Strax after he mentioned it and it was great fun. I look forward to it, it's fun. I was the only one with no piercings and I felt a little excluded there, but I figure I'll make up for it with dying my hair purple. After Strax I came to Fin's and made my art project: a cardboard box with sticky notes on it to the theme of militant laziness. I put a fair amount of effort into appearing as lazy as possible. The rest of the day I was tired, but learned and had fun.

I asked the members of Strax to gather up so I could photograph them, they thought I was a conservative spy :P

18/01/2010 (Mark): Frustration and glory

Today was another wondrous day at STU, especially after Philosophy. My attempts at a photo was the one bad aspect of my day however, as my plans were continuously foiled. Originally I had intended to take a picture in Global Politics which had some of our row of friendship. However, I forgot my camera. Then later, remembering interesting pictures I took not long before I joined this blog, I decided to try some stuff involving reflection. This is one of the old ones.

The idea failed, and I had immense trouble trying to focus my camera right. I still have the problem and I don't know why. Anyway, I gave up and instead looked at a little figurine I got in Europe and broke yesterday. After which, I decided I like better this way. Here's the picture, positioned so you can't see the porcelain.