Daylight's Rest

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Friday, July 18, 2008

Make it through the first 5 pages without peeing your pants and I'll give you $1

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Nice paintings...by Ellen Langford. More where these came from at ellenlangford.com

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Yesterday Conner let me take some pics of him. I had so much fun, I wish I could have stayed all week. Thanks for the awesome talks, and hang time. I miss y'all already!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Haiku.

Scab, Thank You Healer!
I don't regret the skateboard
or the hill either.

Grit. Sans Grit.

The grit filter applied, sans the "grain" layer.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Lomo Photoshop Filter.

1) select lasso loop, set feather to 80 px

2) select inverse and choose levels, play with the shadow (middle adjustment arrow) on the edge of the photo

3) deselect, adjust curves of entire photo

4) make a new layer, fill with black, set blending change to "hue", set opacity to 40%, flatten image, and change Image>mode>lab color

5) select the "lightness" channel in your channel mixer

6) select filter>unsharp mask and set top two bars to 50

7) select the "lab" mode under your channel mixer, then reset the image mode to RBG

Just almost finished re-reading this book. And, had forgotten how great it is. The writers philosophy: that creativity is less an act of genius and more a result of disciplined work habits. I highly suggest reading it if you're into tapping your creativity. It's a short but dense book, and a very fun read.

From, "My Utmost for His Highest"

"Enter ye in at the strait gate... because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way..."
Matthew 7:13-14
"If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome. Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?
God saves men by His sovereign grace through the Atonement of Jesus. He works in us to will and to do of His good pleasure; but we have to work out that salvation in practical living. If once we start on the basis of His Redemption to do what He commands, we find that we can do it. If we fail, it is because we have no practiced. The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not. If we obey the Spirit of God and practice in our physical life what God has put in us by His Spirit, then when the crisis comes, we shall find that our own nature as well as the grace of God will stand by us.
Thank God He does give us difficult things to do! His salvation is a glad thing, but it is also a heroic, holy thing. It tests us for all we are worth. Jesus is bringing many "sons" unto glory, and God will not shield us from the requirements of a son. God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to live the noble life of a disciple of Jesus in actual things. It is always necessary to make an effort to be noble."
--Oswald Chambers

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Mom Stuff.

I got a box at work. What an awesome thing! It's just like summer camp...that, "I got a package, and that makes me sooooo special" feeling. And, special it was! New threads for my wardrobe! And, I SO dig them...awesome...hand-made by mom! Amazing the detail, talent and hard work that went into making such beautiful clothes.

Gritty-filter

I tried the grit-filter again on this photo of Mom and Dad. It has a fun illustrative quality. I think it works best on high contrast imagery. That, I will need to take some more pictures that have a higher contrast. Yeah!!!