We're painting the roses red.

Well sort of, we don't exactly have any roses... and we're not painting them red.  However we did dye easter eggs on Friday (yes I know a long, long time ago.)  What does dying eggs have to do with painting roses? well it doesn't really have anything to do with it at first.  Afterwards it does.  After we dyed the eggs we had to get rid of the dye, and pouring it down the sink just wasn't cool enough so we took it outside and splatter painted our flowers with bright egg dye, our flowers are very pale, they needed a splash of color.  This is the result.

blue

okay so that is kinda red

we kinda missed some of the flowers and got leaves

and green

Yes I know I lead a very exciting life.   Happy Tuesday!

Anitmation

Hey look I sorta-kinda learned how to animate in Photoshop! I not too good at it yet but it's a lot of fun here's my first project.

 I know it's not super impressive but it's a start.  The only really tedious part is making every single frame, it takes a long time to get each frame made because of placement, color, and size might need to be changed.  But other than that the tools themselves are so easy to use in Photoshop cs5's animation panel. here's a step by step.
1. open blank document
2. put on first shape
3. make new layer
4. copy that shape onto new layer
5. make adjustments
6. repeat until you have as any frames as you want.
7. under the windows panel in Photoshop, find animation
8. click it (<---Very important step)
9. at the top right of the little animation bar there should be something that looks like and arrow pointing down  with some lines next to it
10. click that
11. choose make frames from layers
12. watch the magic
13. save the magic by going to save for web and devices
14. make sure it saves as a GIF
15. post to your blog and link so I can see (optional)
 so super simple, but tedious if you have to make a long movie.

Japan

Yes, I know I didn't write a post about Japan just after the earthquake.  But (I'm not just a heartless blogger) I really do care.  So, it's been exactly two weeks since this massive 8.9 earthquake that moved the island of Japan 8 feet from it's original location.  Over 10,000 people are dead, and the numbers are still climbing.  The lowest recorded aftershock was registered as a 6.0, the earthquake in that killed at least 65 people in New Zealand was registered at 6.3.  The 2010 earthquake in Haiti, was registered at 7.0.  But even though the earthquake was stronger in Japan, Haiti required more help to get back on it's feet. Why? Well Haiti's economy was rather disorganized.  Over 10,000,000 people live in Haiti, out of that 10,000,000 only about 5,000 are literate, and out of  10,000,000 people one-hundred-thousand of them own almost half the wealth of the country.  In Japan however contains over 127-million people, of all those people 15 and older 99% of them can read and write.  Haiti needed more help to recover because they weren't doing that great to begin with.  But the Japanese are doers, they build, and they invent, and they grow. The Japanese flag is white with a red circle in the middle, commonly red is the color of power, anger, and strength.  While, white is purity.  Like the flag the world is not perfect and pure, sometimes there are spots, but if we choose to let the spots destroy us, it's like wedon't want to try.  The Japanese won't be destroyed by this earthquake, they'll come back stronger, though it may take time.  They'll keep going... Like the Energizer bunny :)

Happy Birthday sissy

Today is the birthday of a very important person.  My sister (as you could probably guess from the title) but seriously... she's the best.  so I've to write a bit about her.
1. she's goofy she always says something funny
2. she's reading me write this and is not minding
3. she says "if I haven't embarrassed myself at least once in every conversation I've failed"
4. funny thing is she usually succeeds at #3
5. she listens to me rant about... well everything
6. she loves to make up words
7. she does the best puppy dog face ever!
8. her nick-name when she was younger was happy go lucky
9. she has about a billion other nick-names
10. she dances randomly
11. she has a strange obsession with small things
12. her friends are crazy
13. one of her favorite foods are green beans
14. she's a health nut
15. she's double jointed in lots of places
16. she listens to weird music
17. she is mostly a willing photography model for me
18. she's very mature for her age, or so she's been told (by people who don't know her) jk
19. she loves to dance is and good great at it
20. PURPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So that's my sister :)

Mood rings

I'm sure that every girl at one time in her life has either had a mood ring or really wanted one.  They're actually pretty fascinating when you think about what's going on with them.  Most modern mood rings are made of the band part (duh) and  strip of liquid crystals covered with some sort of varnish to protect them.  Those crystals respond to temperature changes and when the temperature changes so does the color.  So they can't really tell your emotions but they can tell your body temperature.
Purply-blue- happy
Blue-calm
Green- bored 
Yellow- tense
Brown- nervous
Black- you're dead or your ring is seriously messed up

These are the slandered mood ring colors.  However they have less to do with mood and more with temperature so don't going having an identity crisis when you're super excited and you look at your mood ring to find that you're bored.  It's all temperature, purply-blue is the warmest and black is the coldest (when you're that cold you're dead... Or the old guy who sold it to you on a street corner ripped you off :)
So though they aren't entirely accurate they are pretty nifty.  So sorry Reliant K mood rings will not help you understand the complex infrastructure known as the female mind.  We will not be understood!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP5QvnwIWrI <----- Funny Reliant K song about mood rings

Simplicity

Have you ever looked at a bunch of tubes of paints?  like really looked, I was just recently painting a picture and decided to take a picture of my paints.  It was just a quick shot I'll admit I didn't take much care.  But when I uploaded it to my computer I was shocked, it actually looked decent... and not only decent but good.  So I did some selective coloring to give it more impact.  Then I got a little crazy... I changed the color of the selective color with the hue saturation adjustment in Photoshop.  And this is what I got.

Then I changed the hue to a cobalt blue

Then I tried red

I like the simplicity of the black and white with selective coloring, I might print these out to go on my wall.
Simple shot, simple editing, simple result.  So here are two quotes about simplicity.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.  ~Leonardo DaVinci


Anything simple always interests me.  ~David Hockney

Purple

All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul.  Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking back at you.  ~Uniek Swain


I saw this quote a while ago and wondered if it was true.  I like all the colors and I don't have a favorite but I still wasn't sure.  So right after I saw this quote I drew a small picture on an artist trading card (below), and I liked it but would the feeling of the the picture be different if the iris was a color other than purple? So I conducted an experiment, I photographized (my word for 'took a picture of')  my drawing and photoshopped it to have some different colored irises, what do you think? does the purple one have something the others don't? 

Typical Colors

 Have you ever entered a room with a crib, a dresser, and stuffed animal, but it looked like someone threw bubble gum paint all over?  Well you could automatically assume that someone was having a baby girl.  Over time people have stereotyped colors. Blue is automatically a boy color.  I found this website That actually says that the favorite color of 57% of males is blue and only 9% of females favorite color is red.  This site also shows gender preferences for least favorite color, which I though was very interesting.  The least favorite color for 33% of females is orange.  while for 27% of males it's brown.  look at the site it's really interesting and actually squishes the idea of "boy" and "girl" colors.  So just an interesting thought. 

Keep it colorful! :)