*Sits down at computer*

Blah...nothing really new or interesting...

Pretty much been working and not much else...trying to get my resume and video portfolio out there.

I just started drawing again, nothing worth uploading though.

Uploaded a bunch of Fallout 3 screenshots for those who care.

I have just started writing again too, but I doubt I'll have anything to upload soon.

Yeah...that's it.

*Leaves computer*

If you even know what all those abbreviations mean for what I'm listening to, give yourself a cookie.

So...holy crap...I graduate college in a day!

I find it amazing that despite having no final exams as a senior, I've had sooo much crap to do this week that I might as well have had them. I've pretty much spent the past three days in an video editing studio. To me the only frustrating part is when I need the computers to work...they somehow fail me. I burned a video project onto a DVD, only for the audio to cut out half way through watching it. And as the videos are DVD quality...it takes a LOOOOOONG time for these suckers to burn. My 5+ year old computer works so much better than the computers in the editing suites...despite the fact that they technically have the same -if better- specs.

Urgh...

Long story short I wasted all of today...

Nope...definitely not panicking...

I have been wanting to upload something for a month, but the fates have conspired against me. Maybe I'll have something new up here at some point in the next month...

EDIT: Haha...I posted my last journal entry exactly a month ago...

Yep...I'm an Art Thief...

I have reuploaded this [link] which was recently deleted from my gallery for art theft.

Seriously? Art Theft?

Ok, I'll admit I have had a recent problem with most of my screenshots being in the wrong category; considering there was no rule which required them to be in my scraps three years ago when I started uploading them. But whatever, I was clearly wrong there, my screenshots are now in the correct category.

But being accused of art theft for screenshots? Garbage.

For any of my screenshots, I always give credit to the game creators; always. So if I upload a collection of some screenshots from Mass Effect to show other fans of the game, and give Bioware the incredible amount of credit they are due, how in the world is that art theft?

Anyone who knows anything about posting screenshots will obviously know:
a. The person posting the screenshots did not create the game.
b. The person posting the screenshots in no way is claiming credit for creating the game/characters/environment that the screenshot is presenting.

If I take a photograph of a busy street, do I take credit for the creation of the people, the buildings, the vehicles, the clouds in the sky? No, of course not.
Taking screenshots is much like photography, except it exists in the context of a particular game.

I took a bunch of screenshots from my current Mass Effect character and put them together into one thing so I wouldn't have twenty Mass Effect screenshots; how am I stealing art this way?

I mean, you tell me; how is that Art Theft? Has everyone else who has done similar things for Mass Effect been accused of Art Theft as well?
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Should I have just called it a wallpaper instead? Or should I just put a random filter over it and call it art? Yeesh!

So holy crap...I only have like...seven weeks of college left. That of course doesn't mean it will be easy in the slightest; but still...crazy.

Well, I have entered one of those phases where I can't get anything I draw to look right...that's what happens when I get out of practice. Anyways, I should have a drawing I finished before spring break up soon, and I'm currently working on coloring it.

On a random side note, this is hilarious: [link] [link]
I would never be caught dead watching YuGiOh or Digimon, but this awesome.

EDIT: OMG! I actually uploaded some real artwork! I will probably have the colored version up tomorrow.

So I found out yesterday that my mom broke her ankle in three places.
I was asking my dad how it happened, because my mom isn't clumsy and she doesn't fall all the time. Apparently my mom randomly slipped on our back stairs and landed in the worst way possible.
It sucks because I literally can't do anything here at school. All I could say was "Okay, that sucks."

My mom has to get a metal rod put into her leg to stabilize the repaired joint, and will be in surgery for three hours. And then she can't stand on it for three months. Yeesh.
It's just weird, because no one in my family gets seriously injured like this. I'm just concerned about my mom's future health now. I just don't want something like this to cripple her later in life. Gah...I hate not being able to do anything.

I feel bad for my sister too, she teaches in Florida and we were going to visit her during Spring Break. Not happening now...


So yeah...my family could use some prayer.