I bought a new toy on Friday. One of these little suckers. I know, why get an electric eraser? Does this make me a lazy ass? Well, no. Not entirely. The purpose of the eraser is for highlighting purposes mainly. You know, for hair, eyes, etc, etc. I haven’t really used it yet. Soon hopefully.

I didn’t get a chance to do any work this weekend. I am trying to g et a jump on cleaning the apartment before we move. I know, we aren’t moving until October 31st, but I don’t wanna leave all the hardcore stuff - washing walls, washing windows, washing cupboards - until the last minute when I should be worrying about other shit.

If you are interested in my move ramblings, there is more after the jump.

Thanks to everyone who participated in my education poll! I’ve been giving a lot of consideration and re-consideration to whether or not I really do want to go back to finish my degree in a few years. There are many reasons not to and only a couple valid ones that support returning to school full-time. So its kind of a no brainer.

Really, it comes down to the fact that returning to school to complete my degree won’t necessarily make me a better artist. I can take courses here and there and still grow as an artist, expand my craft and be completely (or mostly) satisfied with my creativity and my skills. I don’t need a piece of paper to prove that. I know, I know, this is something that my peers have been telling me for years. I’m just a little slow on the uptake sometimes.

From a pragmatic point of view, given my current aversion to selling my artwork, the time and financial commitment that I would need to invest in completing my degree could never, ever be recouped so it doesn’t make a whole lotta sense to do it. Especially since I could be perfectly content in taking evening and weekend courses/workshops and having the same type of satisfaction.

Plus, I won’t lie, the idea of returning to art school at the age of - what - 37 or 38 does not appeal to me. I remember how arrogant and annoying art school students can be when I was 18, I can’t imagine how much I would loathe it at almost 40 (gah, did I just type almost 40?! Christ.) No, thanks.

There are other ways to experience creative and artistic community. WetCanvas, for example. And I might even try to join a local group or something.

Unless something outrageous happens, I believe I’m just gonna keep truckin’ and leave the degrees to lawyers, doctors, archaelogists, and all those fancy smart folks.

In other news, I have posted a shiny new poll to the right. It’s directed mostly to those artists who work digitally (or have worked digitally). My pal, Esch, suggested that I give digitally colouring a try for my circus freaks series, which might be kind of appealing to me. But I’d like some suggestions about software packages from those who are more knowledgeable.

Most probably won’t notice, but I have made a bit of a change around here. First of all, the URL. I’ve moved the location of my blog from a sub-directory to the main page on the domain. If anyone is visiting the site via the old link, it will still work because I added a fancy redirect on the file and I’ve also updated my feed so unless you are keeping an eagle eye on your URL field, you probably won’t notice a different.

Unless you are poking through the archives, I’m still figuring how out to move my archive redirects to the root folder. I might have to republish each entry which could take some time.

The only other significant change is that I am considering getting rid of the rest of my website - portfolio, galleries, links, etc. Right now, I just do not see the need for it. I think I’m going through a bit of an open and honest transition with myself. Self-examination if you will.

I’ve come to the realization that my portfolio is weak. Ok, it’s amazingly weak*. The rest of the galleries are purely for self indulgent, ego-boosting purposes. Like my trip photos. But really, my reason is a lot more simple than that. I don’t want to put work on the internets just for the sake of putting work on the internets. Cyberspace is already awash with mediocrity and I don’t want to add to it.

Ultimately, my decision is that until I feel like my portfolio is much, much stronger, I’m going to refrain from having an online portfolio. Plain and simple. Though, I’ll admit that I’m probably in a phase of lower than normal confidence in my abilities and work. Yup, I’m having some issues.

Now the blog will definitely stay. This blog has done wonders for my work ethic over the past year so there is no way I’d wanna give it up. So most of my work will - technically - be online through updates and all that stuff. There just won’t be a portfolio/gallery anymore.

To be honest, I was probably the only one going in those galleries anyway.

ETA: Ok, so my permalinks are bitched. Sorta. When I moved the blog, I didn’t account for my .htaccess file (which I don’t think I have access to). So for right now, my archives are accessible, but the only with an ugly permalink (/?p123 - yuck!). I have sent an email to J begging for assistance. I want my pretty permalinks back, damn it!

*Not saying my work is necessarily weak. It just has no direction so its all over the map. Thus, creating a pretty weak portfolio.

Lookit! An actual photo update! Please try not to fall over.

It doesn’t actually look like I did that much work, but I did. No, really. Just some fine tuning and shading.

His mouth is still wrong, but it’s getting better. I think the right (artist right) hand side is just.. wrong. It might be curving upward too much. It’s hard to tell because he’s actually pursing his lips in the photo. Hm. I might have to double-check it in a mirror to be sure. That always seems to help. His forehead has been troublesome as well. He has a forehead crease that is going to be interesting. I’m not used to drawing wrinkles (ha!). But it’s good practice, I suppose.

With any luck, I’ll have this done by my soft deadline of June 1st - especially with my upcoming two days off. That would be swell. Then I should probably work on my show submissions. I hate photographing my work. Loathe it. My light is always shit. I really need to get those lights I was yammering on about a while ago. But I’ll make do. The photos just need to show them the piece and potentially what it would look like hanging in a gallery. Easy, breezy.

Still, I’m taking tonight off. W and I are going to see Indiana Jones . Archaeologist fun always comes first, I’m afraid. And yes, I’m pretty excited!

W, it was a fluke that you waltzed back into my life. But it was kismet that you stayed this time.
I love you. Happy Anniversary.

Don’t let my lack of updates fool you. I have been working on the portrait. Though, admittedly, not as much as I would like. But with the long weekend (!!!), I hope I can get a significant portion of J ’s face completed. Right now, he has pretty, pretty eyes, a nose (sorta), and not much else. I’m sure he would appreciate the rest of his face. I know I would.

Unfortunately, due to mostly to laziness and procrastination, I’ve been spending a lot of time working on site updates and newsletter redesigns for the non-profit organization I volunteer for. The site updates are fine - easy, in fact. But the newsletter has been troublesome. Only because I was - tentatively - using Publisher and now I am using InDesign - two software packages that do not easily communicate with each other. I’ve decided rebuild the newsletter from scratch.

Though, I admit a lot of it is complete analness on my part. I can’t abide ugly. So the newsletter must be pretty and must be nicer. More newsletter-ie. So from scratch. And add in the fact that I just started using InDesign, I’m on a huge learning curve (I still don’t know how to add colours to the damn thing!). Well, it’s just taking some time.

Thankfully, the redesign isn’t really necessary for May. We’re looking at a June launch. But I just want the whole template finished. Once that’s done, updates will be easy peezy.

Speaking of volunteering, I might have volunteered to design the Garden Path website. They don’t have a website and well, I have skills. And with the lack-o-school this summer, I figured its something I can probably do. Especially if it is a pretty simple page. They still need to get back to me with specifics because they don’t even have a place to host it yet. Though, there were some rumblings of the Calgary Horticultural Society hosting it. But we’ll see.

For someone who said she wanted to get away from web-design, I sure am committing myself to a lot of them. Ah well, they are for non-profit, so it’s kind of different. Though, I admit that I feel bad for turning down that other job for another non-profit organization that was inquiring about a website. But I have no vested interest in that one and I’m a selfish whore. Besides, I don’t think I would be maintaining the Garden Path one. Just designing it, which, my friends, is a very important distinction.

Wow, tangent.

Anyway, I’m hoping that I can commit Sunday and Monday to drawing. At least. Saturday is out because it’s C’s birthday and we are having this year’s inaugural CarrieQ! And frankly, with the week I’ve been having, I’d much rather drink beer, play Wii , eat meat, and sit near a firepit than pick up a pencil, thankyewverymuch.

In other news, I have been contemplating oil pastels as of late.

I have no real update for you. Nope. And the only reason? I did no drawing whatsoever yesterday. I do have a valid reasonable really kind of lame excuse. W bought me a present. He bought me….

Hee! How can you tell that he is perfect for me? ;)  After playing it last weekend, I was convinced that we must get it and was thrilled when I found out it came in PS2 format. Woop!

Unfortunately, once we started playing it, we realized that one of the PS2 controllers were all busted up and did not work. So we headed out to get a new one. W really wanted to play with me, rather than just watching me run around. He loathes watching me play, I think. Probably because I talk to my characters. Enroute, we swung by EB Games and as luck would have it, they had this…

Uber, magnificent hee! Of course we snatched it up. It was only $19.99 (as was the other one - yay cheap PS2 games!) and then headed to Future Shop, where W got himself a new controller and was pretty much talked into getting a PS3 in the relatively near future methinks. I’m probably more supportive of him getting a PS3 than I would be a Wii. Yes, I know, I am in the vast minority of people who does not necessarily want a Wii. Shocking, I know.
Now, I’m not opposed to the game system as a whole. I think its kind of awesome and definitely makes for fun parties. But given that we have a PS2 and all of our games are either PS or PS2, it just seems to make more sense to me to get another Playstation. I have never understood the necessity of having ALL of the consoles out there. And it just seems a tad too greedy and self-indulgent to me. I mean, I understand having a tech addiction, after all, I battle a slight one too, but come on.

Anyway, we started playing the first game last night. Hee. It’s pretty awesome, methinks. Cutes! Admittedly though, I stayed completely away from the pod-race and let W complete that level. My hand-eye coordinator needs work - I’m an RPG girl after all! I can kill things, I don’t race things. But, its totally fun and will likely keep me distracted from FFXII for a while, which is kind of ok because I am stuck right now because I keep getting my ass whumped by a big Boss.

I thoroughly and completely blame Smaff for all of this. Thanks, Smaff!

In other news, W is finished school! Well, sorta. He has his biggie big exam tomorrow and then he is finished for the year. He’s a second year now! The apprentice coordinator from his employer called this week and W is going back to the site he was at before - which is good and bad. He was looking forward to a new location (preferably one closer to home) but he really does like his foreman, so that helps. It also looks like he will go back on Monday for three days before our trip to Vegas. Initially his plan was to take some time off until May 6th, but this works good too.

And me? I just really need a vacation.

I managed to slap down graphite for S’s mouth and her teeth. So far, so good. In fact, I’m much more pleased with her teeth/mouth this time than the version I did last time. Improvement, yay!

Still, that said, I think I might need to tweak her teeth slightly. There’s something that’s still bugging me about them. I just can’t put my finger on it quite yet.

Also? I don’t mind saying that I think her labret is awesomesauce. It looks like a labret and not a mole as sometimes happens. Hee. Yay.
I’m still working on this photography thing. I keep trying the tips I learned on the weekend, but they don’t seem to be working out for me. Or rather, I just don’t know what I am doing. The latter is probably more accurate. Heh. I brought my camera manual to work to flip through. Maybe reading the manual will help?! Though, I am finding that a lot of the websites on the internets are geared more towards photographing paintings rather than graphite drawings, which is kind of frustrating because I think paintings are probably easier to photograph. Graphite is pretty nuanced so capturing it accurately is a pretty big freaking challenge.

Maybe someone needs to buy me a large format scanner. Yup, I think that’s a lazy reasonable solution.

ETA: I think I might have a solution to my photography woes - well, aside from the obvious. Lights! I’m looking at some really inexpensive continuous light kits on eBay. Get a couple of light stands and stuff. Something portable. Something easy. Something inexpensive. I’m not going to drop a shitload of coin on something that will only be used as a tool for capturing my artwork. It would be really great if I could have professional looking photographs of my work and I am getting sick of my quasi-setup in the kitchen. The lighting is bad and I just keep getting pissed off. I realize it might be overkill and I should just try and get comfortable with my camera first. But I want! Ok, I want later after we get back from Vegas. But still. Want. And if any of you photographer types are reading this and have any suggestions, please feel free to send ‘em my way!

There was almost camera drama yesterday. After taking the above update photos, I tried to transfer them to my laptop. But no matter what I did, the USB cable/camera was not recognized by my laptop. I switched cables and nothing. I switched computers and nothing. I did a system restore and nothing. I figure the problem is with the camera itself. Although it seems to be transferring images, it just isn’t. So I was in a bit of a panic - especially with our trip to Vegas coming up. But I figured I should probably go to bed - it was starting to becoming exceedingly late.

I woke up this morning and buggered with it some more. Nothing. Then I used W’s camera to see if maybe it was my USB ports. And his camera worked. So needless to say, I was one crabby bitch this morning. So frustrated. Until it dawned on me, my laptop has a built-in card reader. Uhm, duh.

I slapped the card into the card reader and success! I know it doesn’t fix the problem with my camera and I should probably take it in to get looked at. But at least now, I don’t have to be in such a rush. Yay.

In other news, I made some pretty decent headway with my latest piece. S’s face is starting to come together quite nicely. Though, the photos above are probably a bit darker than the original. I’m still figuring out my white balance settings. I think I have decided that if this piece turns out, I am going to submit it to the show. I’m pretty happy with it thus far. I mean, there are a few things that need to be tweaked - namely the rigidity and texture of S’s face. But some decent blending can help to alleviate that.

Saturday was awesome. A bunch of us headed to S† and P’s place for some birthday celebration fun. There was snacks, cake, pizza, Wii, Guitar Hero and more importantly, Lego Star Wars*.

The evening also afforded S† to give me a few dSLR pointers, which was pretty swell. He also re-introduced me to HDR. So pretty. Not sure if its something I’d do - I tend to be so lazy when it comes to post. But still, very pretty! And let’s face it, I still have no idea what I am doing with my new camera. Really, I think I need a long vacation to help me use my camera better. That’s what happened the last time. When you use it all the time, you get to know it better. I need to get to know my camera. Although, next weekend is the Calgary Expo, so maybe I’ll have some time then.

And yay, W only has one more week of school! Yay!

†Different S, this is the boy S. This is my clever alternative so I can still be sneaky with the capital letters. Uhm, or something.
*We are totally getting it for PS2. Just saying.

At the end of last year, my folks changed their cable TV provider. As part of the promotion, the provider gave my folks a laptop, which my parents (not really having any need of a laptop) gave to yours truly. I was most appreciative because space has become an issue since W moved in with me and a laptop is much smaller than a big, unwieldy desktop. Anyways, I have a lot of love for my laptop, Gustav*.

But that love took a bit of a beating when I discovered that my optical drive was a CD burner and not a DVD burner. This was kind of devastating for me because I like burning my TV shows to watch as well as burning all of my work to DVD which has an infinitely large capacity than a CD. Needless to say, I was sad.

However, yesterday, my parents received a package from the provider. Apparently, there was a big mistake and the laptop was supposed to have the DVD burner. I had no idea, but someone did and someone must have complained. Woo. I guess the package contained a new DVD burner - not sure if its external or not; External would be better - as well as a fancy laptop bag (I kinda needed one) and portable flash drive (for my apparent troubles)! Awesome. I love getting gifts when they aren’t expected. I will get my new goodies tonight when I’m at my folks. Hee. Yay new technology! Yay technology I needed!

On the drawing front, I worked on the J/S portrait some more. I elected to erase most of S’s cheek business. It was just too textured and really picking my ass. I opted to start working on her other eye. So far, so good. Admittedly, I didn’t do a whole heap of work on it because W and I watched AVPR . You can find my review here iffn you are interested. But the plan is to do a decent dent in the drawing tonight. And hey, I might even actually post an update photo.

That might be swell.

*Yup, as in Klimt. I’m such an art nerd. It gets better though. My external hard drive is named Emilie after Emilie Flöge, Gustav’s friend, companion, model and (as some folks believe) his lover. See! Nerd!

Yup, things are looking a lot like they used to around here. Despite loving the previous WP template, I needed to get things back to how they used to be. If only because I am anal about my website looking like my blog and vice versa. Though, I have to admit to a couple pangs of the webdesign bug when I was converting. Pangs, though, nothing more.

Aside from that, I feel like ass. I left work early yesterday and stayed home today. I have a nasty beginning of a cold that I am trying to nip in the bud before it becomes full-blown. So far, the cold is winning. And it kinda sucks because Shan is in Calgary this weekend. We’re picking her up at the airport tonight and hopefully there will be breakfast or something on Sunday Saturday morning.

If the cold hasn’t killed me.

I’ve officially been converted to WordPress. Woop! Josh even managed to salvage my archives and old comments, so even better! The only thing (obviously) is the layout is a temporary pre-packaged template (but it is pretteh!). I’ll convert it to my old template when I have a chance. It doesn’t seem too difficult based on the documentation I have read. Hopefully I’ll take a crack at it this weekend.

I’m just glad all the move shit is over with. Yay. Now I need to play around with this WP business and fine tune it.

But I wanna send a huge, huge thank you to Josh for helping me get converted to WordPress. Not only that, but I was switched over to the Apache server and he helped make sure all my stuff works (namely my gallery) and the switchover was relatively painless. So yay. Yay for a stable blog platform*!

*I do still like Lifetype. I just think it needs a lot of work and a bit more user friendly documentation.

Ok, so my comments are magically working again. WTF?! I did nothing to fix them. Seriously. This thing is freaking sketchy. I’m still going to see about getting Wordpress. But, its a bit of a relief that the comments are working again. Well, for now.

Weird.

The crit went ok. Well, actually, it went better than ok. I think I was harder on myself than my instructor was. I usually am. He did agree that there were some problems compositionally. Still, even with the problems, my eggs were among the best rendered, which I know shouldn’t be important at all. But sometimes, a girl is a bit too competitive for her own good.

Despite the crit, I have decided to redo the assignment. Not because Steven asked me to, but because I am anal and I want it to be in a place where I am happy with it. I know what I need to fix and it would just continue to bother me if I didn’t. I don’t need that aggravation. Plus, the assignment isn’t actually due until next week, so that helps.

Additionally, this week’s assignment isn’t as time-consuming. It will likely be quicker than last weeks and its essentially the same assignment. We have to do eggs again. This time, it’s a monochromatic version using watercolour. Since you can cover more of the paper is a relatively faster time with watercolour, I think it will be speedier. Plus, I’m looser when I’m using watercolour - less meticulous and anal. But, my plan is to do the exact same drawing in graphite and watercolour and make a series (or couplet?!) out of it. I’m kind of excited.

In other news, I think I’m going to buy a drafting table. I think the thing I struggled with the most with the original egg assignment was the awkwardness of the size of the paper. I don’t draw big. I paint big, but I don’t draw big. Which isn’t to say I fear big, I don’t. It was just kinda awkward. I had one a million years ago and loved it. I only got rid of it because I had started painting and wasn’t drawing as much as I used to. Since I have fallen in love with the drawing again, this is the next logical step, methinks. The table I am looking at can easily double as a workstation for my laptop when I am not drawing and it will fit nicely in my office cubby-hole. Now the only question I have is.. how much would they ding me for shipping?

A big thanks to Serena for her kind words and encouragement. Sometimes it helps when someone else tells you what you need to hear. Thank you so much.

And, yeah, the comments were squirrely on yesterday’s post. So if you tried to leave a comment, you might have gotten an error. The code for one of my emoticons (:^) was flaking out my comment script. I’ve fixed it, so you shouldn’t have any more problems. But if you do, please leave me a message to give me a heads up.

Yay, Shan is coming home at the end of this month for a weekend too! I get to see her once a month for the next four months. Weird, but wonderful!

ETA: The ConEd faculty has added a gallery from the show I participated in back in September. You can see my silly mug on the second page, first row, photos two and three. And wow, my hair has grown from September. Just saying.

..but! I managed to puzzle out the worst offending code bugs. Ha-ha!

Up yours, code demons! [upyours]

Ok, now I didn’t fix everything. The date box problem is still happening in IE as well as a small itty, bitty space has appeared between the vertical line and my sidebar content in IE as well. Plus, I was forced to put tables in as a workaround because I was just too frustrated to figure out the CSS fix. But ya know, I don’t think I can be arsed to fix the bloody thing. I’ve spent far too much time* on this thing that I really wanted to anyway. So forget it.

This happily means that I can actually devote this evening to sketching and maybe some guitar business. Woot!

*Which admittedly isn’t a lot, but work with me here.

Welp, here it is. A preview of what the new site design is going to be like! While I’m pleased with it, there are a couple annoying bugs that I still need to fix. Namely the date box appearing above the entry title in IE 7 and Avant.Grr. Why does IE (and I guess Avant) have to be such a fucking sucky browser? I mean, really. Oh, older browsers kinda loathe the design too. But StatCounter tells me that most of my visitors are using Firefox or more recent versions of IE. And it seems to work fine in Opera and Safari. So I guess its not all bad. Not enough to have me worried, I guess.

Either way, I’m glad to have a change. I had the other design up since last April - which is kinda crazy. Overall, I kinda dig the design. Its kinda girlie, simple and it has polka dots! But really, its not overwhelming so that my visitors can actually focus on my portfolio rather than being hit in the head with the high contrast blue, black and white. And it also afforded me the opportunity to reorganize my portfolio. I think I still need to go through it and pull out all the shit. There are a lot of pieces that are, well, crappy and I’m not sure I want them on the internets.

Now, if I could just figure out that fucking IE bug. Ergh. Cuz you know, I’m probably going to chase it until I fix it. I’m a bit obsessive compulsive that way.

I took today off from work. I woke up this morning feeling like loads of ass and elected to stay home. We’re still very quiet on the work front and now was just as good a time as any to rest my body up. So I slept most of the morning and now I am working on the re-design of this site. So the main part of the site and gallery will be offline for a bit.

ETA: I’ve thrown up a temporary layout for the blog as I am working on the code.

In other news, I will soon be a new-to-me owner of this! Shan was gifted* with a swanky, brand-new digital SLR over the holidays and was cool enough to let me co-erce her into selling me her old one. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I can wax poetics about how much I love my film SLR and I really truly do. And I will likely continue to use it on occasion. Especially for slides. But let’s face it, kids, digital is just plain easier. And with our upcoming trip to China, I had been kicking around the idea of getting a digital SLR anyway. I like Will’s digicam well enough, but sometimes it just doesn’t cut the proverbial mustard.

Now, I don’t have to fork over copious amounts of cash. Just a little bit of cash. Sufficed to say, she’s giving me an awesome deal cuz Shan rocks my bobby socks, ya know? Hopefully, I’ll have it in my eager little hands by the end of the month. Shan’s checking shipping costs because unfortunately, I suffer from the I-want-what-I-want-when-I-want-it disease and really can’t wait until I see her in May.

Speaking of Shan, we gabbed on Skype last night for like hours. I sure do miss that girl. She’s swell.

*I still haven’t received the notice of my adoption by Shan’s parents. I am eagerly waiting.

As the subject line says, Josh managed to fix my gallery problems. Woo! It was an image conversion thing and after my flip-flopping between GD and ImageMagick. He managed to get the GD library going as apparently my current gallery script doesn’t really work very well under ImageMagick.

So yay. Now, I can stop pulling my hair out. Except only not because I’m looking at a new gallery script anyway. Geez. Yes, I have those pesky masochistic tendencies, thankyewverymuch.

It has comments and is MySQL based. That is the only reason. Though, let’s be honest, my galleries are so big that I could be over this new script thing in like seconds.

To paraphrase Denis Leary.. I’m a fucking dolt.

Apparently, amidst all my recent script drama, I managed to delete the entire directory that housed the Artist Blog Network. But the even more retarded thing is that I don’t have a back-up. Anywhere. I don’t have any of my code buttons or the list of members. Nothing. Notta. Zip. Zilch.

And ya know, after all this computer bullshit, I don’t even care. So I doubt I am going to resurrect it. I mean, it’s kinda sad. Especially since it was really in its infancy stage and I really do think there is a need for it. But I am so disallusioned about computer things and internets shit that I just don’t care. I don’t wanna deal with having to rebuild it from scratch. I mean, if I cared a bit more? Maybe, but I don’t. So I won’t. Someone else will eventually create something like it.

Besides, I should probably be focusing on my work anyway, not distracting myself with computer things.

Thankfully however, I only had three other members. I won’t be disappointing a lot of people - if any at all. That’s good news.

It looks like my script woes aren’t about to end any time soon. I found some old sketches from a couple years ago that I wanted to added to my galleries - which actually includes some geisha drawings that I might actually finish - only to find that I can’t log in anymore. The folks at singapore seem to think it might have something to do with PHP_SELF. So hopefully, Josh will be able to do some webhost magic to resolve it because I really, really, really don’t fancy having to re-do all of my galleries - especially for all of the photography galleries. Ew.

Nonetheless, I have started looking for another script just in case. I found Coppermine, which seems ok, so far. I just need to rectify an ImageMagick issue and honestly, it might be too much gallery for what I need. I’m also looking at Plogger too - which might be perfect. Really, I just want something simple that fits into my layout, allows for sub-directories/albums and creates thumbnails on the fly. Comments would be neat, but aren’t a requirement. I just want one that is stable that I don’t have to worry about it. I hate working on my galleries.

ETA: Ok, its was totally a PHP_SELF issue, which I think I have resolved (if only temporary). Not sure if its is compliant code, but frankly I could give two shits. I just wanted to be able to log in. But then, I figure out that there is no Imagemagick or GD currently working on the server, so I can’t generate thumbnails on the fly - which means, the singapore script is pretty much useless because it usually generates like three or four different sizes for any given image - yeah, its kinda dumb. So right now I just can’t add any new images until the image conversion is fixed. On a happier note, if that gets fixed, I don’t have to worry about getting a new script because as it turns out Coppermine was too much gallery and I need to use GD for Plogger (and I think the server runs (ran) Imagemagick). Ugh, I hate the internets.

Oh, and on a completely different note, I came home to a surprise on Saturday night. Wedged between my outside door and my inside door was a poster tube, and in the poster tube was a limited edition White Stripes silkscreen print* by Rob Jones! I was visited by a Jorsh. It sucked that I wasn’t home though. It would have been nice to see him. But the print is fantastic! I guess Shan and Josh managed to procure one of the first 333 camera orders which meant they received the poster and they are swell kids, and understand my love of the red and white so they gave it to me. I can’t wait to frame it! It will look fabulous near my desk!

*I can’t find a link of the poster. I will post photos once I frame it!