1. I'm rewatching Grey's Anatomy and I'm actually quite impressed! It has that wonderful balance of drama and comedy that I find most shows lack. Buffy will always live on in my mind as the show that did it best, but Grey's is definitely holding its own.

2. ( cut for pictures of my cats )

3. Poll #1425839
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

I'm thinking of doing a voicepost soon, what should I include in it? (Specific words and phrases and answers to questions are all accepted)

4. I've been doing a lot of analysing (to an absurd degree) of what I consider to be the greatest icons of all time and from that analysis I've compiled a list of tips that should be able to bam any icon up a knotch
( icon tips for all! )

5. ( here lies my moodtheme in progress )

1. Funnily enough, unlike usual when I don't post because stuff hasn't been happening, I haven't been posting recently because too much stuff has been happening! And this is despite the fact that I've only got two shows per week now (SYTYCD and Burn Notice) and we're on holidays for three weeks. I've just done a crazy gigantic clean of both of our houses and had a five-hour drama in regards to my brothers appendix and I'm completely exhausted.

2. Check it out you guys, I'm a prophet and I didn't even know it!
No, seriously, I'd like to say I'm with everybody with the grieving and the angst (angst is my favourite emotion afterall. Check out my icons if you don't believe me) but really I've never known any of his songs. I've never known anything of his dance. Up until now all I've known about him are the negative chiches and while I didn't take any of them seriously, they're definitely not enough to make me get up off of my couch and weep.

3. ( wallpapers )

4. ( icons )

5. Surprise! We've spontaneously decided to go on a holiday to New York for a week at the end of September! At first I was nonplussed because I figured a city's a city and I can drive to one in fifteen minutes if I want to. However then I remembered that New York is the fashion capital of the world and I could potentially bump into my favourite models! Or my favourite actors! Actually the whole world I'm obsessed with is based in New York so I've decided to use this week-long trip to decide whether or not I want to move there once I've finished with my photography course and live there forever. :D

1. OH MY GOD, YAY! FUTURAMA IS BACK! :DD
I'm marathoning it now to get in the mood, despite the fact that we've still got a year before it comes out :P

2. ( icon meme )

3. Remember how I was addicted to Plants Vs. Zombies last post? Well I have reached a whole other level of that. Seriously, other than sleeping, eating and going to school I have done almost nothing else since making that last post. It's just really clever and funny and timeless. I feel like it's the kind of game I can pick up in 10 years and still have loads of fun with, but also I could give to my kids in 10 years and feel confident that they'll both enjoy it and learn a little something along the way. Definitely give this a crack if you haven't already, I honestly can't endorse it enough :D

4. I'm so excited about these new Monkey Island games, you guys! I have loads of awesome memories from my childhood of the original ones, it's brilliant that it's being brought back. And it's being brought back in less than a month!! :D
Haha, would you look at me? All of the good TV goes off the air and suddenly this turns into a gaming blog ;P

5.
I'm so crazy about that scene. It's so intense and dramatic, I'm just in awe of it. Natalie is so fantastic and atypically beautiful, I really hope she comes back for season 6, but I get a feeling she won't :(
( some other .gifs )

1. I rewatched Studio 60 and I LOVED it so much. Well, up until Matt became a drug addict and everything got kind of weird but I'll choose to pretend it only ever had 14 episodes. Those first fourteen episodes are so cleverly written, and I've only ever heard good things about the other shows the creator has made: The West Wing and Sports Night, so they're definitely next on my list. Right after I marathon all of So You Think You Can Dance that is ;)

2. ( icons )

3.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V8BDP41Z

another texture (and .psd) made for theskilltester (and if you can't tell by all of my no-so-subtle pimping I want you all to go there and enter)

4. I've only played the demo so far, but I'm already completely addicted to Plants vs Zombies. Damn you Popcap and your ability to make addictive games!

5. ( yes/no meme )

1. YouTube seems to be punishing me for watching this a million times (because it's not on YouTube :P) and it won't let me watch this now, which is incredibly important to me because Kasia Struss is one of about 5 models at the moment who make me absolutely giddy every time I see them and I haven't heard her voice before and I need to hear it.

2. ( tafe photos )

3. There's been a texture challenge running for the past month or so at theskilltester and I made a few entries I'm rather content with:




4. I've been re-watching The Knights of Prosperity and it's as brilliant as I remember it being. Basically for those who've seen Leverage it's a half hour comedy version of that; rediculously well written, but disappointingly average men. It's a shame viewers never gave it a chance.

Poll #1408045
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

what was the brilliant short-lived show you loved but apparently nobody else did?

5. ( picspam )

1. I was thinking of doing Judgement Day, but I trust you all to tell me your honest opinions and constructive criticism all the time, not just when someone decides to roll out a meme.

2. ( pow! lots of photography! )

3. ( gifs! )

4. BOO YA! NEW PHOTOSHOP TECHNIQUE!! Did you know that using a gradiented selection you can apply a filter with gradiating levels of effect?

( here's an example of what I mean )

5.
Poll #1401194
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What are your favourite 5 things in the world, excluding family and real life friends?

6. This had me laughing for hours

Real post on its way, but I just couldn't hold back my glee. I had my very first studio photoshoot today and check out one completely random result. HOLY COW! Look at that picture quality! Look at the lighting! Look at the colours! It's like a professional shoot of a celebrity, except I took it!! :DDD

And my favourite part? That's not even the best picture. In fact, it's one of the worst. I'm saving the good ones for later ;)

1. ( GIFS!! )

I've figured out a size/system that works for me so hopefully they won't be a jumbley mess next time :P
I'm really happy with the colours I'm getting because usually ANTM caps are really difficult to work with :D

BAM! Check it out! It took me several hours longer than I should have, but there it is: my first .gif. I'm so proud :P
You'll have to cut me some slack when it comes to colouring and stuff because I was experiementing with a lot of things. It's probably not going to be this wild/small usually (unless for some reason people want it to be :P)

1. Aw, poo. T:TSCC was cancelled :(
Oh well, at least it ended on a fairly epic high *goes off to rewatch the awesome scene in 2x14 in which Weaver kills a whole bunch o' people and then blows up the warehouse*

2. Perhaps to apologise for cancelling several of my shows recently, the universe has given me a present. A present of Leverage, which I shall go on the record as saying is the best show ever. Well... okay, technically I've only seen seven episodes, but they're certainly the best first seven episodes of any show I've ever seen!
It's incredibly well written; the plots are character driven, there are loads of plot twists, it's always very hilarious and intriguing, all of the characters are very well developed and surpringly ALL of them have brains. The one thing it's missing is some sexy male cast (some people have a thing for Christian Kane, but dunno, I really don't see it :/). Luckily Gina Bellman and Beth Riesgraf are amazing enough to make up for it ♥

3. Maybe it's because I just discovered fourfour, but I'm feeling the itch to use animated gifs on a daily basis. ( but first I have a few questions for you guys )

4. ( icons! :D )

5. ( and now for your regularly scheduled picspam of hotness! )

1. okay, I really need to remember to post more often because I build up more and more things to say and then the list gets so long I don't want to post. Damn vicious circles!
Now just to clarify something from last post, I was excited because I'd gotten back into Bond music, that's not James Bond, that was Bond Bond :P

2. I went for my first unassisted drive the other day on my P's. I'd been having a sucky day because of theskilltester and parental dramas so I don't think I was driving the safest I ever have :P It was really weird because all of a sudden I couldn't remember any of the road rules I'd learnt over the past year because apparently I rely on the registered driver sitting next to more more than I thought. However despite my rage and confusion it was actually kind of fun. I just went down to the beach and took some terrible photos for a tafe assignment :P

3. this amazingly coloured picspam has inspired me that it in fact is possible to do a large, well coloured picspam :D

And speaking of picspams, don't forget to check out this incredibly sexy picspam made specifically for me by gigglemonster :DD ♥

4. theskilltester isn't getting loads of entries (a few, but not nearly as many as challenge #1), but that's fine with me because it's inspiring me to try exciting new things. At the moment I feel like if people aren't entering, they're the ones missing out because I honestly think I'm producing some of my best work because of it :D

There were a few accusations of me cheating this week, which left me in a somewhat sour mood. I don't want to go into details because I don't want details to be remembered by me years in the future when I'm re-reading this, but basically I had incredibly few happy thoughts for approximately 2 days this week.

5. I've been somewhat interested in design and stuff over this past week because I accidentally discovered dustbowl
( here are some of my favourite designs and stuff that I want to buy )

6. It's easter Sunday today! YAY! And... I'm sick :/
We had a family picnic lunch thing today, which was incredibly boring but I'm glad it was because it forced me to take some fun photos to amuse myself. There was a very large ant stealing a piece of cheese from us that I tried to take a photo of, but they were mostly blurry because ants are rediculously quick. However I did manage to make this video of it being surprisingly adorable considering it's an ant

7. I finally figured out the hairstyle I'm always subconciously trying to recreate. It's this!

1. I went shopping with mum the other day. Got some new shoes and shirts and jeans because my old ones were pretty terrible. On the way I saw Brent Van Zant in a perfume shop window, which I thought was pretty hilarious :P

2. I took this the other day and I am really really thrilled with how it turned out. When writing up a draft for this entry I wrote 'mention that you took the greatest photo known to mankind' which is possibly a bit of an exaggeration but it really shows how I felt about after I took it XD
( here it is unretouched )
I think it looks like he's communicating with aliens via his finger :P
It was taken at about 9:30 at night and I lit him by just moving a vibrating and glowing red back massager near his hand/face :P

3. I got to listening my old buffy/angel soundtracks again, and felt the sudden urge to re-watch it all but obviously I can't because a few years ago I banned myself from it because I was a bit too obsessed. Although, I am making this promise to myself now: the week or so after I finish with TAFE (i.e. the last assignment is due or the last exam or whatever the case happens to be at the time) I am going to have a gigantic Jossverse marathon and it will be awesome :D
The irony of the fact that I'm bringing the Buffyverse back into my life on the day Andy Hallet died is not lost on me.

4. these two picspams are not to be missed. So go read/view them right now! I'll probably get into computer games in a few years when the graphics have improved to a level where the only way to have a game stand out is by having a flawless plot/score/etc and as far as buying stuff on the internet; I'm already on it ;)
Since people are being adventurous with their picspammage these days, I was thinking of making a list of reasons why people should love fashion models, but knowing my extreme laziness when it comes to picspams (and, well... everything :P) it's pretty much never gonna happen. I've already got 3 picspams on the backburner at the moment :P

5. I'm currently doing an assignment for TAFE were we have to find a photo that shows the emotion of despair, elation, desire, haste and energy. I can't believe in all of my millions of awesome modelly photos how hard it was to find those! It took me an hour and a half. SERIOUSLY? How did I just lose an hour and a half to this? I am somewhat torn when it comes to 'elation' though. It's hard for me to judge photos of Natalia objectively because she's so friggin' adorable I go into a squirmy fit of delight every time I see her face, which I know sounds ridiculous but what you're imagining right now is disturbingly close to what actually happens :P

1.

I get the feeling nobody's gonna do this, but I figured I'd at give you all the option ;)

2. oh my god, the latest episode of ANTM was so good! I only just finished it and yeah, you can consider my mind officially blown. I can't believe more people don't watch this show!

3. Lots of stuff has been going on lately in my world, but it doesn't really feel notable/interesting enough to be mentioned here. A part of me says 'post it, this journal is about recording your life and you don't need be be upbeat and interesting all the time' but another part says 'don't post it because you don't like to be boring'. So for now I'm just resulting in mentioning my dilemma rather than the actual events which does seem kind of counter-productive but whatever, it's happening :P

4. Check this out if you haven't seen Buffy or need a reason to rewatch it :D

5. I'm not in a morbid mood, this was just a random thing I was curious about the other day :P

Poll #1372317
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

how do you think you're going to die?

1.
a. I’ll respond with something random about you.
b. I’ll challenge you to do/try something.
c. I’ll pick a color that I associate with you.
d. I’ll tell you something I like about you.
e. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of.
f. I’ll ask you something I’ve always wanted to ask you.
g. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.

2. My current favourites on antm: Teyona (who I predict will win), Fo and Celia. It turns out I'm really liking this cycle. Like cycle 11 I finally think Tyra is eliminating the right girls week after week :D

3. The BSG finale was fantastic. I don't really know what I can say that hasn't already been said, but I've been able to think of little else since I watched it this afternoon.

4. ( icons )

5. ( walls )

6. ( a picspam of my favourite photos since ) last picspam

1. I've been rewatching Veronica Mars and I'll tell you what, it's so much better than I remember it being! Although to be fair, it was the first show I ever downloaded and the program I used then had no guarantee the episodes would download chronologically and I watched the whole season out of order :P
I've decided I love all of the characters (except Logan and Duncan) and the season 1 finale is one of the greatest thing of all time.

2. ( yay! icons! )

3. Remember what I said a few posts back about how I stopped working at the bakery for a bit? Well I'm back now! ... I think :/

4. I loved Dollhouse this week and from now on I am going to take it upon myself to use the term 'man reaction' as much as possible XD

5. Last Thursday my computer decided to go through that time of the month. You know, that time when the computer suddenly decides to go insane and every program breaks and nothing works for a few days. You know that thing, right? That doesn't just happen to me?
Well, luckily everything is all fixed now except for PowerDVD, but it turns out it was all for the best because it forced me to research media players and I discovered GOM! Here, let me tell you all of the great features that GOM has in list form:
-you can adjust the saturation/contrast/brightness/hue/etc of the video as it's playing!
-you can tell it to be on top of all windows, except for when it's paused (very useful for switching between watching and browsing :D)
-shortcut keys are surprisingly easy to assign
-you can add a whole folder to the playlist and modify from there
-if you want you can have several GOMs open at the same time :D

And the GOM cons:
-the logo is ugly

6. You guys like clothes on guys, right? I'm going clothes shopping tomorrow because being at TAFE has made me to realise that I have disturbingly few shirts that are suitable for wearing outside of the house and ONE pair of pants total :/
So tell me (with pictures), what kinds of clothes do you like to see on guys?

1. As you're about to see I'm really really bored and despite having hundreds of people/communities friended, my flist is snailing along like you wouln't believe. Also all of a sudden Gilmore Girls isn't filling me with glee :/

2. Google has been really weird for me this past month or so. Every time I click on one of the links it sends me to a random page and then when I click on the link again it takes me where I wanted to go

Poll #1359374
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

is google being weird for you, too?

3. I'm making a graphics challenge community: theskilltester. Check out the profile for details. I'm really excited about it, I stayed up all night a few days ago thinking of ideas for challenges and so far I've got about 50 :P
I'm a tad worried nobody is going to enter just like getcreative, but not too much because the challenges are REALLY inspiring and if I just read through them whenever I'm feeling particularly uncreative I doubt I'll ever get in an arting rut again :P

4. I've been watching more of Charmed season 5 and I'm concerned with how much I'm in love with Paige. She always looks so perfect and spiffy with her pants and her fashioney frilly shirts! And don't get me started on her lips. Oh and her voice and legs! I don't even like legs, that's how awesome they are! I mean, I like them on humans, but-- ugh, I'm describing her terribly. Just let the record show that I'm currently madly in love :P

5. I was given member challenge at iconplay. It's a challenge I've wanted to do for a while. I get the feeling the same people are going to win that always win, but I'm still interested in seeing how it plays out :D

6. i ship it // my thread

1. I've been pretty indifferent towards the first two episodes, but Dollhouse actually impressed me this week! I'm particularly keen on the last 5 minutes or so, in which we see that Echo is able remember that she was friends with Sienna in her blank form and then later when the two of them are walking down the corridor Echo signals that it's not safe for them to talk. It's almost as if when they're "blank", they're not. Like they're all pretending to be empty. That's really awesome :P
Despite my inital reaction of utter hatred, I've actually grown to love the beginning credits a lot.
Oh and hey, has anybody else noticed that all of the character names are parts of the phonetic alphabet? My brother noticed that yesterday and I think it's pretty hilarious :P I can't wait for 'Golf' and 'Hotel' to show up as Echo's new friends in season 2.

2. Mum's boyfriend of approx. four years moved about a week ago. It's pretty good because he's keen on cooking and he's able to convince mum to clean up the mess she leaves all over the house, which I've been trying to do for years :P

3. According to the Orthodontist I went an saw today; I've finished growing, I'm going to have to have two teeth (on the bottom row) pulled out and braces are going to be put in :/

4. I installed this vista customisation pack and it's turned out to be pretty awesome! :D
Weirdly I installed it on my brothers computer and it has some sounds that mine doesn't have, but his didn't come with any snazzy graphics :/

6. I think this is great! I don't think it's as good as the other Paige icon I made with a similar style, but it's better than a lot of the icons I've made recently. When looking through caps I was really surprised there were so few scenes of the gals wearing these getups.

5. ( poll )

well would you look at this! It's ( all of my favourite pictures since ) last picspam

teasers


( first person to guess who my favourite character is wins a prize )

teasers


( a word of warning: these are 153 of the oldest and randomest icons known to man. And I have no idea what half of these are even of because they were made for challenges/requests. The others are from shows/movies that I have no intention of iconning ever again and therefore probably will never build up enough to make a post for it, but I really need to get them out of my computer and onto the internet already :P )