2.1.2011 Winter Zip

Various Photos shot in February, 2011 during the blizzard in Missouri.

These images are available at http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/708605

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few more photos

2019 edit – stopped using winkflash eons ago. Now just use google photos.

 

 

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few more random photos added to http://mastermesh.winkflash.com/

Added a few tablet photos in a new folder tonight. Most of the past folders are family photos and things. If you are a friend/family ask me for the password sometime if you don’t have it yet.

The Tablet sketch folder doesn’t have a password. Not much there… just posting it as a sample of where my skill is now… very bad… will improve over time.

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Organizing…

Going to try to do some organizing going forward.

I’ve been wasting too much time playing video games, and other non-productive things now and then the last few years. I have enjoyed that since it helped me stay away from getting too serious about things, and/or to lower stress from work and other places (or blow off steam from stressful situations at work – what better way to deal with stress at work than going in to a video game to blow things up, go hunting, etc.)

I’m starting to work on an excel database linking blog listings of various images I’ve uploaded here to locations of those images on the hard drive and where they’ve been uploaded online.

It’s a very time consuming project, but eventually, I’m going to try to use this project to help me do several things.

• It’s going to help me figure out what is worthy of being in a ‘real’ portfolio either online on it’s own website, and/or in a printed format.
• It will help me figure out where I need to put my next efforts going forward
• It will help me organize things, get rid of duplicates, etc.
• It will help me organize things in a way that I can group things that are related together better so that I can create ‘collections’ of items to group together to sell as packages on Turbosquid, etc., or to show off in categories in other locations, etc.
• It will help me organize keywords better and figure out what needs new ones, which ones to dump, etc.
• It will give me a chance to look at a lot of great stuff (and some not so great stuff) that I’ve created that I haven’t looked at in a while since it’s been hiding on a hard drive, hidden away from my two eyes

The surgery is scheduled for the week after Thanksgiving. I am going to have to have at least a couple of weeks of recovery time after that before I can get back in to working out too much. I do plan to get back in to that. My goal is to work on this database project, the blog, and possibly creating more artwork as I do that so that I’m developing a bit of a recovery in health as well as mental focus/art focus, etc. I have not been doing the artist’s way writings, and might not except now and then? I actually see this blog and posts like that as sort of doing that without doing that. I don’t want to make it so that the art focus takes away from the exercising focus going forward. However, I don’t want to balance it out the opposite way either and focus too much on working out and not enough on art – I think I may have done that when I was trying to do the two a days…

so… I might just go down to the one a day workouts when I get to where I’m doing the working out again.

I’m not sure if I’ll keep up the 1000 day tracker thing or blog about the exercise so much, but I might since it was helping me stay focused and on goal. I probably will sometimes list some groupings from the database project in the blog here from time to time. I tried something like this a year or three back, but never got too far with it. I think part of that was because I got too off track with various things, including but not limited to the video games, moving to where we are now, etc.

It is very time consuming and difficult to organize thousands of photos and sketches, etc. However, it’s something I think I need to do. Strangely, the video games have somewhat gotten me to realize that a little… Organizing the shop, booth, and apartments in Entropia Universe, and organizing the hundreds of blueprints and other items my avatar owns in there has helped me realize my real world life needs some organization… time to unclutter and CREATE FROM THE CHAOS.

Habit Calendar Tracking idea

Since this whole hernia surgery thing is throwing my 1000 day tracking thing way out of whack… and since it’s been sort of weird trying to figure out a way to do a calendar I’ve been thinking about how to do things a different way… So here’s the new idea… which is sort of an old version of something I’ve been doing anyways but a little different and evolved…

Here’s the idea… Take a 8 and a half x 11 sheet of paper and use a ruler to break it down in to multiple columns… college rule is preferred.. Non-lined paper could work too, but you should have rows and columns… Now in each box you can do dashes in each of them… now work your way through each day of however many days you’ve put down doing one slash in each. Next go back after you complete and have a slash in every box and go through a second round, and continue through it every time like that… If you organize the first four times through as a star, then do have circles around it and edges of a square on the last go through like the following image, you can fit 10 iterations through the one page calendar. If you use a typical ruler, which is about an inch wide or so to break out the columns, there’s over 200 squares in one sheet of paper… 200 times 10 = 2000… in other words, you can fit 2000 days of tracking habits on one sheet of paper! Do this a different sheet for every good habit you want to form and you now have a bunch of years of habit tracking right on one page in front of you. Seeing the marks will tell you where you are doing well, not so well, etc. I’m not sure if I’m going to continue the 1000 day thing since this hernia surgery is probably going to have me on some down time for exercise, but I do plan on restarting something and sticking with it this next go through.. so probably will at very minimum have one tracker for 20 minutes of painting a day and another for a minimum of one workout a day. I might go back to two a day, but really, honestly that might be pushing too hard to do that every blasted day like I was doing before this hernia thing happened…

Old Electric Meter Box

The above link is an old electric meter box that I found in downtown Boonville, Missouri. The aged and weathered look of the paint on it caught my eye as did the contrast of the color of it vs the color of the nearby gutter shown in the image.

Outdoor Metallic Freezer Pattern

The above images are photos I shot of the texture on the side of an outdoor freezer. It is one of the old walk in freezers that are typically stored outside of the building for cafeterias, school lunch programs, restaurants, etc. Some parts of this image might make an interesting bump map or texture map in a 3d modelling software.

Worn Dumpster Texture

The above link is to a photo of an old side panel on a dumpster that I shot a year or two ago. The rust patterns are interesting and might work nicely as a texture map or bump map in a 3d modelling software if cropped to meet your need. Alpha may need to be adjusted so that its not so dark though.

Bent Stop Sign

This is an old stop sign that I found in downtown Boonville, Missouri. This old bent sign sitting at this location seems to tell a story. I like the composition here and the contrast between the bricks, the sky, and the red of the sign vs the pole texture. There is a lot going on texture wise.

Old Stop Sign

This is a photo of an old STOP sign that I shot in Boonville a couple of years ago. I really like the old weathered look that it helps to give the town.

Backside of an old dumpster

This is the backside of a dumpster that has been worn down over time. It looks like the patterns on where the paint has been removed has happened due to rubbing against the collection truck as it is emptied. I find the swirly patterns to be rather interesting.

Rusted Metal Texture vs Plastic

This is a photo of some rusted metal. Notice how it contrasts the plastic texture.

Metallic Walkway Grid Floor Pattern

Above is a link to a photo I took a while back of a floor grid pattern that is typical of industrial construction factory type locations, stairwells, etc.

Rusted and Whethered Metal

The above link is to a photo that I shot of some rusted metal that has some patterns on it where the rain has worn it down over the years.

Rusted Metal

Above is a link to this image of rusted and peeling metal on Turbosquid. Since I’m not able to do much the next few days in the ways of physical activity, it’s back to trying to upload stuff to Turbosquid as my hobby for now.

DAMN IT!

Damn it.  It was a hernia.  Surgery is going to be later this month… sadly, no workouts able to be done til it’s taken care of… 😦

Probably won’t be updating this blog for the next few days.